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.
MIT Graduate Program in Comparative Media Studies
Studying Media and Making Media
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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.
Gendering Robots: Posthuman Sexism in Japan
MIT Building 32 (Stata Center), Room 155 32 Vassar Street, Cambridge, MAJennifer Roberston explores and interrogates the gendering of humanoid robots manufactured today in Japan for use in the home and workplace.
Authorship, Appropriation, and the Fluid Text: Versions of the Law
MIT Building 2, Room 105 182 Memorial Drive, Cambridge, MAJohn Bryant and Wendy Seltzer ask, how does technology abet appropriation? How might it assist the useful designation of boundaries? Is the law keeping up?
Chris Claremont: “Opening Doors, Building Worlds”
MIT Building 2, Room 105 182 Memorial Drive, Cambridge, MAChris Claremont of X-Men fame will address thoughts and considerations that go into building a world that can support years of use.
The Discipline of Political Messages in an Unruly Era
MIT Building 2, Room 105 182 Memorial Drive, Cambridge, MATucker Eskew explores the permanent campaign(s) of the last ten years. What is "message discipline" in an era of atomized opinion leadership -- a necessity or a fool's errand?
Ralph Baer, Baer Consultants
MIT Building 2, Room 105 182 Memorial Drive, Cambridge, MARalph Baer on the continuum of invention, development, and marketing novel product ideas.
Fantasy Freaks and Gaming Geeks
MIT Building 4, Room 231 Cambridge, MAEthan Gilsdorf will discuss some of the themes of his new book, Fantasy Freaks and Gaming Geeks: An Epic Quest for Reality Among Role Players, Online Gamers, and Other Dwellers of Imaginary Realms.
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