MIT Graduate Program in Comparative Media Studies
Studying Media and Making Media
Timothy 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.
Rey Chow's talk will be based on her latest book, The Age of the World Target: Self-Referentiality in War, Theory, and Comparative Work.
Sharon 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.
Join 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.
IBM's Visual Communication Lab recently launched Many Eyes, a website devoted to a new social style of data analysis and visualization.
Alan Moore, co-author of Communities Dominate Brands, believes that community-based engagement initiatives will replace the traditional media orthodoxies.
Jim 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.
Our ability to understand and be interested in the compositions at the extremes has kept pace.
Longtime soap opera writer Kay Alden will talk with about her decades in the industry with CMS graduate student Sam Ford.
Questions of genre and secondary world construction in The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao and the Caribbean, and the failure of realism as a narrative strategy.
Lawrence Kutner and Cheryl Olson present their book, Grand Theft Childhood: The Surprising Truth About Violent Video Games and What Parents Can Do.
John Bell examines the nature and implications of object performance both as a global cultural tradition and as a contemporary medium that dominates our culture.
Diana Tamblyn, Ho Che Anderson, and Jeet Heer on the unique opportunities comics allow for critiquing and revising dominant historical narratives.
Sharon Ghamari-Tabrizi will talk about the various meanings of what counts as a "compelling experience" for military simulation -- and how this phrase “compelling experience” can be used as a thematic marker for differentiating the present moment from cold war-era immersive simulations.
Lev Manovich is the author of The Language of New Media, which is hailed as "the most suggestive and broad ranging media history since Marshall McLuhan."
