Whether it’s pro wrestling or your nana’s “stories,” CMS graduate Sam Ford is reporters’ go-to guy for understanding the nuts and bolts of TV drama.
Podcast: Ethan Gilsdorf, “Fantasy Freaks and Gaming Geeks”
Ethan Gilsdorf discussed some of the themes of his new book, Fantasy Freaks and Gaming Geeks: An Epic Quest for Reality Among Role Players, Online Gamers, and Other Dwellers of Imaginary Realms, a blend of travelogue, pop culture analysis, and memoir as forty-year-old former D&D addict Gilsdorf crisscrosses America, the world, and other worlds–from Boston to Wisconsin, France to New Zealand, and Planet Earth to the realm of Aggramar.
CMS job opening for tenured faculty position
The deadline for application to this tenured faculty position is November 1, 2009.
You know you’re doing something right when FoxNews lists you as one of the “11 Wackiest College Courses of Fall 2009”
We take great pride in FoxNews’s acknowledgment, aimed squarely at the GAMBIT Game Lab.
Video: “J. Michael Straczynski: The Julius Schwartz Lecture”
This year’s Julius Schwartz Lecture speaker was transmedia creator J. Michael Straczynski.
Comic-Con Is Serious Business
It’s a continent away from Comparative Media Studies headquarters in Cambridge, but the CMS spirit was palpable at Comic-Con in San Diego this year.
YouTube in the Amazon: Rural Peru’s Transition to the Internet
We found communities that embraced internet implementation and its potential for education and development, but who had not received enough training.
