From Settlers to Quarriors: Breaking up the Monopoly with Modern Board Game Design
MIT Building 4, Room 231 Cambridge, MAAttendees will learn about a variety of game mechanisms through discussions of exemplar games and see how these games relate.
MIT Graduate Program in Comparative Media Studies
Studying Media and Making Media
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Marks of Materiality in Digital Bodies
MIT Media Lab, Room 633 75 Amherst St., Cambridge, MAHye Jean Chung’s talk will explore how digital effects are not only used to mediate the real but to replace or enhance human capabilities via cyborgian hybrids.
Federico Casalegno: “Designing Connections”
MIT Building 4, Room 231 Cambridge, MAMIT Mobile Experience Lab's Federico Casalegno on innovative ways to design creative new media and digital interactions to foster connections between people, information, and places.
Revision, Culture, and the Machine: How Digital Makes Us Human
MIT Building 4, Room 231 Cambridge, MAJohn Bryant will draw upon examples from revision studies, adaptation, and translation in order to highlight the elements of creativity, appropriation, and cultural difference that are at stake in dealing with the ethics and editing of revision.
Marina Bers, “The Design of Digital Experiences for Positive Youth Development”
MIT Media Lab, Room 633 75 Amherst St., Cambridge, MAThis talk by Marina Bers will focus on digital spaces to support positive youth development.
Cities and the Future of Entertainment
MIT Media Lab, Bartos Theater 20 Ames Street, Cambridge, MAAs a prologue to the Futures of Entertainment conference, this Forum will focus on the emergence of powerful new production cultures in such cities as Mumbai, Shanghai, and Rio de Janeiro.
Mimi Ito, “Fandom Unbound: Otaku Culture in a Connected World”
MIT Media Lab, Room 633 75 Amherst St., Cambridge, MAMimi Ito, cultural anthropologist, discusses how this once marginalized popular culture came to play a major role in Japan’s identity at home and abroad.
Fandom Unbound: Otaku Culture in a Connected World
MIT Media Lab, Room 633 75 Amherst St., Cambridge, MABy exploring the rich variety of otaku culture from multiple perspectives, Mimi Ito will provide fascinating insights into the present and future of cultural production and distribution in the digital age.
The Family of Man and the Politics of Attention in Cold War America
MIT Media Lab, Room 633 75 Amherst St., Cambridge, MAThe Family of Man became an influential prototype of the immersive, multi-media environments of the 1960s – and of our own multiply mediated social world today.
Contemporary Network Television News Reporting About Latinos: Successes, Failures, and a Range of Proposals to Correct Its Limitations
MIT Media Lab, Bartos Theater 20 Ames Street, Cambridge, MAOtto Santa Anna presents findings from his book, Juan in a Hundred: Faces and Stories of Latinos on the Network News.
Games and Journalism
MIT Media Lab, Room 633 75 Amherst St., Cambridge, MAHeather Chaplin on "emerging thinking on ideas about game literacies and the acceptance of games as facilitators of transformative experiences."
Media Culture in the Occupy Movement: from the People’s Mic to GlobalRevolution.tv
MIT Building 2, Room 105 182 Memorial Drive, Cambridge, MASasha Costanza-Chock investigates media practices in the Occupy movement and develops an analytical framework of social movement media culture.
The Color of Seawater Through a Picture Window
MIT Media Lab, Room 633 75 Amherst St., Cambridge, MAKelley will show selections of his recent projects and related narrative and ethnographic films, as well as rehearse a lecture/performance about architectural morphology and global tourism.
Mapping the Urban Database Documentary
MIT Media Lab, Room 633 75 Amherst St., Cambridge, MAThe urban database documentary is a mode of media art practice that uses structural systems as generative processes and organizational frameworks to explore the lived experience of place.
Designing Digital Humanities
MIT Building 2, Room 105 182 Memorial Drive, Cambridge, MAJohanna Drucker tells us how designers have a major role to play in the collaborative envisioning of new formats and processes.
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