Featuring a number of journalists, advocates, and programmers who utilize new technologies to gather information in contentious geographic regions.
Video and podcast: Thomas Pettitt, “The Gutenberg Parenthesis: Oral Tradition and Digital Technologies”
Is our emerging digital culture a return to practices and ways of thinking that were central to human societies before the advent of the printing press?
CMS and MIT commemorate program’s 10th anniversary with publication and symposium on April 23
To commemorate the anniversary, CMS has produced a beautiful 60-page booklet on Comparative Media Studies at MIT.
Hack outside our office this morning
The latest MIT latest was set up right outside the CMS offices, a full living room–curled up cat ‘n all–suspended upsidedown.
“Towards an Aesthetic of Presence in 3D Avatar-driven Computer Games”: The latest GAMBIT video podcast
The new episode of the GAMBIT video podcast series featuring Teun Dubbelman from Utrecht University, who visited our GAMBIT Game Lab back in February.
Video: Thesis Presentations 2010. M. Flourish Klink: “Laugh Out Loud in Real Life: Twilight, Women’s Humor, and Fan Identity”
Flourish Klink explores the topics of Twilight, lulz humor, and female fan culture.
Video: Thesis Presentations 2010. Sheila Seles: “Audience Research for Fun and Profit: Rediscovering the value of television audiences”
Sheila Seles’ work for CMS and the Convergence Culture Consortium examines the television industry with a special focus on its changing business.
