How Bay 12 Games gave players the tools to craft their own kinds of tellable moments in the game Dwarf Fortress.
Imaginaries of the Asian Modern
Within East Asia, a booming TV program trade circulates television texts, both as programs and as formats for re-making within the native culture industry.
Indian Comics as Public Culture
How the Amar Chitra Katha (ACK) series of comic books function as public culture, creating a platform around which groups and individuals negotiate and re-negotiate their identities.
Stepping Your Game Up: Technical Innovation Among Young People of Color in Hip-Hop
Hip-hop culture through media technologies, historical examination of the hip-hop mixtape economy, and analysis of the “Crank Dat” online dance craze.
Computers, Cut-ups and Combinatory Volvelles: An Archaeology of Text-Generating Mechanisms
If we accept physically cutting paper or spinning a volvelle as a readerly and writerly act, then we must also erase the boundaries we have drawn between “the book” as a material form and “the digital” as an epistemology, reconsidering the various literacies each facilitates or forecloses.
In Medias Res, Spring 2009
The CMS ideal moves outward through alums as they work in industry, education, the arts, journalism, policy making, and academia.
In Medias Res, Fall 2008
Junot Díaz has long been a supporter of CMS, and we are all justly proud of the extraordinary critical response to the novel, which won the Pulitzer Prize.
