MIT Graduate Program in Comparative Media Studies
Studying Media and Making Media
This presentation by Rutgers' Philip Napoli will focus on ongoing research that seeks to define and assess the field of media impact assessment.
Georgetown's Caetlin Benson-Allott on how the technical and design evolution of remote controls reveal how the seemingly most inconsequential of media devices have shaped the way users cohabit with mass media, consumer electronics, and each other.
Helen Nissenbaum: "Obfuscation is a compelling 'weapon-of-the-weak,' which deserves to be developed and strengthened, its moral challenges countered and mitigated."
Doris Sommer's new book "The Work of Art in the World: Civic Agency and Public Humanities" revives the collaboration between aesthetic philosophy and democratic development.
Three Comparative Media Studies alums -- Sam Ford, Rekha Murthy, and Parmesh Shahani -- return to discuss their post-graduate lives.
For the CMS/W family only, this is the annual discussion between the program's community members and directors.
Join Bobbie Chase, Editorial Director of DC Comics, and comic book writer Marjorie Liu (Monstress, Astonishing X-Men, Black Widow) as they discuss the current and future state of the comic book medium.
Theresa Rojas examines the prolific, heavily tattooed Kat Von D, who offers an aesthetic that challenges tattoo culture and notions of the “monstrous body”.
Catherine E. Clark on how "the utopian rhetoric that accompanied the Vidéothèque’s creation helps illuminate and call into question the utopian promises of the much more recent revolution in digital history."
Coco Fusco explores the work of performance artists from the 1980s to the present and examines how the Cuban state has wielded influence over performance.
The argument that culture empties out as it becomes ever more pivotal in the creative economy has, George Yúdice thinks, been borne out.
Kevin Driscoll presents how the history of bulletin-board systems reveals the popular origins of computer-mediated social life.
Thomas DeFranz "wonders at the intertwining of African American social dances and political leadership, conceived as the bodies of elected officials."
Ryan Cordell, co-director of the Viral Texts project, will speak about his work uncovering pieces that “went viral” in nineteenth-century newspapers and magazines.
Danielle Keats Citron exposes the startling extent of personal cyber-attacks and proposes practical, lawful ways to prevent and punish online harassment.
