MIT Graduate Program in Comparative Media Studies
Studying Media and Making Media
A five-time nominee and three-time Emmy Award winning production designer, Seidman has designed many historic drama-documentaries for PBS, the History Channel and the Discovery Channel.
Gaming, as a medium often outside conversations on Blackness and digital praxis, is one that is becoming more visible, viable, and legible in making sense of Black technoculture.
Visiting Professor Eric Gordon will discuss a recent project in Boston, MA in collaboration with the Boston Mayor’s Office of New Urban Mechanics, called Beta Blocks, that uses meaningful inefficiency as a structuring logic for sourcing, questioning and making decisions about public realm technologies.
The politics behind categories we take for granted such as spam and noise, and what it means to our broader understanding of, and engagement with media.
Lana Swartz, '09, is joined by Aswin Punathambekar, '03, to discuss Swartz's new book, framing money as a media technology, one in major transition.
Patricia Saulis will feature clips of Mikmaq Elders speaking and provide some perspective on how their work could be brought forward in discussions of Environmental Justice and Media.
Hear from Adam Charles Hart about what's in the George A. Romero archives, from Dawn of the Dead to Romero's unpublished projects.
BORDERx: A Crisis In Graphic Detail is a comic anthology that examines the border crisis from a variety of points of view and narrative formats.
Presenters include creative director and i-doc pioneer Jeff Soyk and the project directors, anthropologist Chris Walley and filmmaker Chris Boebel.
L’Pree discusses the role of interdisciplinary research and how she has maneuvered a wide variety of methodologies, including quantitative, qualitative, critical, and applied, in order to answer life’s questions.
A 2015 participatory project around Turkish pop star Zeki Müren became a sensation. Now it's been turned into an interactive experience pairing the project's nostalgic messages with vignettes from Müren's life and legacy.
As K-12 schools increasingly reckon with our country long history of racist teaching practices, digital simulations may provide ways to help teachers name, re-examine, and reflect on their own practice and move toward anti-racist teaching.
Alex Rivera is a filmmaker who has been telling new, urgent, and visually adventurous Latino stories for more than twenty years.
The refusal to define women of color's work creating the material infrastructure for digital media as "real" work set the stage for our contemporary moment's hostility against women of color’s work witnessing and documenting racism online and moderating digital environments.
As the English did with colonial “promotional literature”, how do you persuade people to leave their indigenous communities to start new ones in a foreign and sometimes hostile place?
