“It has been a long time since I left CMS, and I’ve been busy and active every moment of the journey since I left. You need to do that to succeed in any career. At the same time, though, this is just as true: every day, at every step, I have drawn upon and, in the process, relived my days at CMS.”
Podcast: Heather Chaplin, “Games and Journalism”
Heather Chaplin discusses emerging thinking on ideas about game literacies and the acceptance of games as facilitators of transformative experiences.
Faculty Profile: Ian Condry
Ian Condry’s research has taken him from underground genba hip-hop nightclubs to Tokyo anime studios, but his interest in Japan was sparked here, in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
Podcast: Konstantin Mitgutsch, “Tracing Playographies: Methods and Approaches to Research Transformative Experiences in Video Games”
What methods are appropriate for researching how players put meaning into their games and how their biographies reflect these experiences?
Podcast: Clara Fernández-Vara, “Performing Videogame Narratives in Space: Indexical Storytelling”
Clara Fernández-Vara compares and contrasts videogames with theatre to understand how they can incorporate narratives as part of the performance.
Podcast: Otto Santa Anna, “Contemporary Network Television News Reporting About Latinos: Successes, Failures, and a Range of Proposals to Correct Its Limitations”
Otto Santa Anna presents findings from his forthcoming book, Juan in a Hundred: Faces and Stories of Latinos on the Network News.
The Visual Life of Occupy Wall Street
Many visual tropes have accompanied Occupy Wall Street’s rise to public prominence. In the beginning, there was the ethereal image of a ballerina poised delicately on the back of the Wall Street bull which graced the original posters and calls-for-action. There were photos of Zuccotti Park crammed with tents and blue tarps. The iconic “I am the 99%” stance, a photo of a single person, holding a handwritten sign dense with text, became a form in and of itself, attracting spinoffs, parodies, and rebuttals.
