How has the American tradition of intellectual property law understood the relationship between originality and tradition? What rights do artists and educators have to draw inspiration from or comment on existing works in existing media?
Podcast: Joel Burges and Wayne Marshall, “Old-fashioned Futures and Re-fashionable Media”
Joel Burges and Wayne Marshall, MIT’s Mellon Fellows in the Humanities (2009-11), will contribute to the rethinking of media studies at MIT by taking up the shared metaphor of fashion—the fashionable, the old-fashioned, the re-fashioned.
CMS undergrad named a 2010 Burchard Scholar
Congrats to Sara Drakeley ’12, a double-major in Comparative Media Studies and Applied Mathematics, upon being named a 2010 Burchard Scholar!
CMS now located in MIT Media Lab, Building E15
Our expanded, more-open space at last puts us physically alongside our research colleagues from the Education Arcade, the Center for Future Civic Media, and–as we were in Building 14–the Convergence Culture Consortium.
Wired Magazine speaks with CMS grad Lauren Silberman on sports video games
Lauren Silberman wrote her master’s thesis on athletes who use them to enhance their physical play.
GAMBIT Game Lab announces “Complete Game-Completion Marathon for Haiti”
February 26-28th, GAMBIT will be hosting the 2010 Complete Game-Completion Marathon to raise money for relief efforts in Haiti.
Digital Humanities and the Case for Critical Commons
Via friends of CMS at a local television archive, “Yet another Downfall detournement with Bruno Ganz holding the line against digital scholarship and fair use”.
