The annual Julius Schwartz Lecture, being held at MIT on May 22nd, now has tickets available for sale online.
Henry Jenkins and the Washington Post on Susan Boyle
Henry Jenkins: “‘Viral’ suggests people are unknowingly transmitting it, as if they had no choice. That’s not really what’s going on with Susan Boyle.”
Podcast: Chris Claremont, “Opening Doors, Building Worlds: The Origins of the X-Men”
Chris Claremont is returning to world-building, with a new comics series titled X-Men Forever. This time, the rules are different.
CMS grad students Kevin Driscoll and Josh Diaz’s chiptunes study featured on BoingBoing’s Offworld
“Transformative Works has devoted its latest issue to the subject of games, and chief amongst its best pieces is MIT students Kevin Driscoll and Joshua Diaz’s exhaustive look at the history and rise of the chiptune genre.”
Podcast: “On the WOW Pod: A Design for Extimacy and Fantasy-Fulfillment for the World of Warcraft Addict”
A discussion about the inducement of pleasure, fantasy fulfillment, and the mediation of intimacy in a socially-networked gaming paradigm such as World of Warcraft.
Ed Arcade’s Osterweil quoted in “High-Tech Simulations Linked to Learning”
“From our perspective, the goal was to come up with something the teacher can adopt without taking a big risk.”
Video and podcast: “Film Music and Digital Media”
The widespread adoption of computer-based methods of digital recording technology has profoundly changed film scoring practices around the globe, not least in Hollywood.
