MIT Graduate Program in Comparative Media Studies
Studying Media and Making Media
John 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.
This talk by Marina Bers will focus on digital spaces to support positive youth development.
As 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, cultural anthropologist, discusses how this once marginalized popular culture came to play a major role in Japan’s identity at home and abroad.
By 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 became an influential prototype of the immersive, multi-media environments of the 1960s – and of our own multiply mediated social world today.
Otto Santa Anna presents findings from his book, Juan in a Hundred: Faces and Stories of Latinos on the Network News.
Heather Chaplin on "emerging thinking on ideas about game literacies and the acceptance of games as facilitators of transformative experiences."
Sasha Costanza-Chock investigates media practices in the Occupy movement and develops an analytical framework of social movement media culture.
Kelley 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.
The 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.
Johanna Drucker tells us how designers have a major role to play in the collaborative envisioning of new formats and processes.
Dave Tompkins' How To Wreck A Nice Beach is about hearing things, from a misunderstood technology which in itself often spoke under conditions of anonymity.
Yves Citton: "While machines can 'read' data, only human subjectivities can 'interpret' them."
Everything we learn, know and understand is physical — a matter of brain circuitry. This basic fact has deep implications for how politics is understood, how campaigns are framed, why conservatives and progressives talk past each other, and why progressives have more problems framing messages than conservatives do — and what they can do about it.
