How Bay 12 Games gave players the tools to craft their own kinds of tellable moments in the game Dwarf Fortress.
Imaginaries of the Asian Modern
Within East Asia, a booming TV program trade circulates television texts, both as programs and as formats for re-making within the native culture industry.
Boston Phoenix highlights Media Lab work, including Center for Future Civic Media
Alyssa Wright in the Boston Phoenix: “We really don’t have a sense of what it’s like in someone else’s shoes, but technology can bridge that gap.”
Indian Comics as Public Culture
How the Amar Chitra Katha (ACK) series of comic books function as public culture, creating a platform around which groups and individuals negotiate and re-negotiate their identities.
Stepping Your Game Up: Technical Innovation Among Young People of Color in Hip-Hop
Hip-hop culture through media technologies, historical examination of the hip-hop mixtape economy, and analysis of the “Crank Dat” online dance craze.
CMS/NML’s Jenna McWilliams elsewhere in UK media, this time with BBC
Jenna McWilliams, of Project New Media Literacies and recently a columnist for the Guardian, was interviewed on BBC World Service last Friday.
CMS/NML’s Jenna McWilliams writing for The Guardian (UK)
Jenna McWilliams, education researcher and curriculum specialist at Project New Media Literacies, recently picked up a new side-gig: columnist for The Guardian online.
