Radhika Gajjala
MIT Building 32 (Stata Center), Room 144 32 Vassar Street, Cambridge, MAConsuming/Producing/Inhabiting South Asian Digital Diasporas with Radhika Gajjala.
MIT Graduate Program in Comparative Media Studies
Studying Media and Making Media
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Loyalty in Brand and Fan Cultures
MIT Media Lab, Bartos Theater 20 Ames Street, Cambridge, MAWith Convergence Culture Consortium faculty advisors Ian Condry and Robert Kozinets, associate professor of marketing at the Schulich School of Business, York University, Toronto.
May Irwin’s Kiss
MIT Building 2, Room 105 182 Memorial Drive, Cambridge, MAMay Irwin's Kiss: The Beginnings of Cinema and the Transformation of American Culture with Charles Musser, co-chair of the Film Studies Program and professor of American Studies, Film Studies and Theater Studies at Yale.
Comics: An Art Form in Transition
MIT Building 2, Room 105 182 Memorial Drive, Cambridge, MAPrint comics have struggled toward maturity through the literate graphic novel movement. Now, it's experiencing a vastly different set of growing pains on the web.
Re-Inventing Television: Podcasting and the Future of Media
MIT Building 2, Room 105 182 Memorial Drive, Cambridge, MAChris Boebel and David Tamés will discuss the production of ZigZag, MIT’s video podcast and reflect on the evolution of broadcast media and the rise of video on the web.
Marketing in the Age of Consumer Empowerment
MIT Building 2, Room 105 182 Memorial Drive, Cambridge, MAScott Donaton, associate publisher and editorial director of the Ad Age Group and author of Madison & Vine, will talk about why user-empowerment is the key trend in business.
Media Evangelism in the Global South
MIT Building 2, Room 105 182 Memorial Drive, Cambridge, MATimothy Stoneman outlines the historical origins, systemic achievements, and interpretive implications of the American missionary radio broadcasting enterprise in Africa, Asia, and Latin America during its formative era, 1945 to 1970.
Mimesis, Sacrifice, and Victimhood
MIT Building 3, Room 133 33 Massachusetts Ave, Cambridge, MARey Chow's talk will be based on her latest book, The Age of the World Target: Self-Referentiality in War, Theory, and Comparative Work.
Men Imagining a Girl Revolution
MIT Building 3, Room 270 33 Massachusetts Ave (Rear), Cambridge, MASharon Kinsella examines the media constructions of a teenage female revolt in contemporary Japan drawing from her current book project Girls as Energy: Fantasies of Social Rejuvenation.
Converging Media: Games, Literacy and Culture Research Fair
Stata Center, 1st Floor 32 Vassar Street, Cambridge, MAJoin us to explore the many facets of research on cutting-edge digital games, media literacy, innovative humanities databases, and redefined corporate/consumer relations now underway in MIT's Comparative Media Studies program.
Many Eyes: A Site for Social Data Analysis
MIT Building 2, Room 105 182 Memorial Drive, Cambridge, MAIBM's Visual Communication Lab recently launched Many Eyes, a website devoted to a new social style of data analysis and visualization.
Old World, New World: How Communities, Culture, Connectivity, and Commerce are Changing How We Create Culture, Media, Education and Politics
MIT Building 2, Room 105 182 Memorial Drive, Cambridge, MAAlan Moore, co-author of Communities Dominate Brands, believes that community-based engagement initiatives will replace the traditional media orthodoxies.
“This One’s Gonna Be a Slobberknocker”: A Q&A with WWE’s “Good Ol’ J.R.” Jim Ross
MIT Building 4, Room 370 182 Memorial Drive (Rear), Cambridge, MAJim Ross, the longtime voice of World Wrestling Entertainment, joins CMS graduate student Sam Ford to discuss the unique blend of reality and fiction in the world of American professional wrestling.
Michael Cuthbert: “Ambiguity, Process, and Information Content in Minimal Music”
MIT Building 2, Room 105 182 Memorial Drive, Cambridge, MAOur ability to understand and be interested in the compositions at the extremes has kept pace.
Love May Not Be in the Afternoon Anymore: A Q&A with Soap Opera Writer Kay Alden About How the Genre Is (and/or Should Be) Changing with the Times
MIT Building 2, Room 146 182 Memorial Drive, Cambridge, MALongtime soap opera writer Kay Alden will talk with about her decades in the industry with CMS graduate student Sam Ford.
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