Television’s future will rely on a model better suited to a multi platform media environment and to attention and experience economies.
Agent + Image: How the Television Image Estabilizes Identity in TV Spy Series
The television image and the presentation of self-identity, via two TV series in the spy genre — Alias and The Prisoner.
Podcast: WWE’s “Good Ol’ J.R.” Jim Ross, “This One’s Gonna Be a Slobberknocker”
Jim Ross, the longtime voice of World Wrestling Entertainment, joins CMS graduate student Sam Ford to discuss the unique blend of reality and fiction in the world of American professional wrestling.
CMS, Media Lab Take Top Prize in Knight News Challenge
CMS and the MIT Media Lab were awarded a $5 million Knight News Challenge Grant to fund a Center for Future Civic Media, where researchers will experiment with new technologies to empower community news. Read the Boston Globe story.
Space, Place, and Database: Layers of Digital Cartography
Cybercartography, an emergent system of maps, mapmaking tools, and mapmakers, forces a rethinking of spatial representations.
.art: Situating Internet Art in the Traditional Institution for Contemporary Art
A solid ground for extrapolation and predictions for Internet art’s future as an art world in its relation to the traditional art institutions.
A Ceaseless Becoming: Narratives of Adolescence Across Media
The broad appeal of narratives with adolescent protagonists across a variety of media, including literature, film, and video games.
