If you haven’t already experienced the thousand reasons why it’s great to be a part of Comparative Media Studies, here’s the latest, courtesy of Abe Stein.
Podcast: Sasha Costanza-Chock, “Se Ve, Se Siente: Transmedia Mobilization in the Los Angeles Immigrant Rights Movement”
Sasha Costanza-Chock is a scholar and mediamaker who works in areas including social movements, participatory technology design, and participatory research.
Podcast: Gabriella Coleman, “‘I did it for the Lulz! but I stayed for the outrage:’ Anonymous, the Politics of Spectacle, and Geek Protests against the Church of Scientology”
Gabriella Coleman examines the ethics of online collaboration/institutions and the role of the law and digital media in sustaining forms of activism.
Application deadline to CMS master’s program extended to January 18
The long weekend and blizzard has obliged us to push our 2011 master’s program application deadline back to Tuesday, January 18.
Podcast: Nitin Sawhney, “Media and Resilience: Creative DIY Cultures and Civic Agency among Marginalized Youth”
Nitin Sawhney on youth digital storytelling in the West Bank and Gaza and participatory media for resilience and civic agency among youth in conflict.
Lucasfilm hires CMS alum Ivan Askwith as head of digital media
Big Spaceship director of strategy and CMS ’07 alum, Ivan Askwith, has left the Brooklyn-based digital shop for a position at Lucasfilm
“Piracy is the Future of Television”
Online piracy is the preferred means of acquiring television for large numbers of people not because it is free, but because it is the best means.
