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.
MIT Graduate Program in Comparative Media Studies
Studying Media and Making Media
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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.
A Conversation with Junot Díaz
MIT Building 2, Room 105 182 Memorial Drive, Cambridge, MAQuestions 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.
The Myths and Politics of Media Violence Research
MIT Building 2, Room 105 182 Memorial Drive, Cambridge, MALawrence Kutner and Cheryl Olson present their book, Grand Theft Childhood: The Surprising Truth About Violent Video Games and What Parents Can Do.
Playing with Stuff: The Material World in Performance
MIT Building 2, Room 105 182 Memorial Drive, Cambridge, MAJohn Bell examines the nature and implications of object performance both as a global cultural tradition and as a contemporary medium that dominates our culture.
Comics and Social Conflict
MIT Building 2, Room 105 182 Memorial Drive, Cambridge, MADiana Tamblyn, Ho Che Anderson, and Jeet Heer on the unique opportunities comics allow for critiquing and revising dominant historical narratives.
Military Training and Compelling Experience
MIT Building E51, Room 095 70 Memorial Drive, Cambridge, MASharon 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
MIT Building 2, Room 105 182 Memorial Drive, Cambridge, MALev 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."
Identity-as-Place: Fictive Ethnicities in Online Games & Virtual Worlds
MIT Building 2, Room 105 182 Memorial Drive, Cambridge, MACelia Pearce will use Uru Diaspora, a game community from the defunct massively multiplayer game Uru: Ages Beyond Myst, which immigrated into other games.
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