MIT Graduate Program in Comparative Media Studies
Studying Media and Making Media
D.T. Max, staff writer at the New Yorker, looks at David Foster Wallace and irony, with an eye especially on his 1990's attacks on David Letterman and the novelist Mark Leyner.
David Novak on the "cultural feedback" of noise music through its recorded forms, technologies of live performance, and creative practices of musicians and listeners.
Mary L. Gray Recent provocations (boyd and Crawford, 2011) about the role of "big data" in human communication research and technology studies deserve an outline of the value of anthropology, as a particular kind of "big data". Mary L. Gray, Senior Researcher at Microsoft Research New England and Associate Professor of Communication and Culture at […]
Much of the general public in fact believes that every film and television program ever made has already been digitized and is now available in Netflix’s catalog. That is hardly the case.
Co-authors will discuss the nature of their collaboration facilitated by structured conversations and writing done online and in person.
September 19th, hear from Hong Qu on Keepr, a tool that makes sense of social media news bursts with natural language processing and network analysis.
By examining perspectives we are exposed to and insulated from, we may be able to design tools and approaches that help readers increase their cognitive diversity and prepare themselves to tackle transnational challenges.
UNC's Zeynep Tufekci discusses social media-fueled protests and their boom and bust cycle, drawing on the Gezi protests, Arab Spring, Occupy, and others.
Coco Fusco New York-based interdisciplinary artist and writer Coco Fusco will consider the critical responses to the original Planet of the Apes films, focusing in particular on the interpretation of the films as critiques of American race relations during the 1960's and '70's. She will also discuss her interest in exploring the strategies used in […]
A talk on the fighting game community, its spiritual and physical roots in the arcade, common practices, and how issues of ethnicity and gender collide.
Sonia Livingstone will examine how powerful forces of social reproduction result in missed opportunities for many youth in the risk society.
November 14, we hear from Hilary Sargent of ChartGirl.com -- one of TIME's 50 Best Websites -- where she makes charts to describe complicated news stories.
Pushing the boundaries of medium and genre across writing, visual arts, and design to innovate in these fields with a critical play centered approach.
Games scholar Miguel Sicart of the IT University of Copenhagen looks at the culture, aesthetics, and technological implications of play in the age of computers.
McGill's Jonathan Sterne gives a cultural history of auto-tune as a form of signal processing, drawing on patent documents, interviews, operational protocols, tuning standards and competing acoustemologies.
