MIT Graduate Program in Comparative Media Studies
Studying Media and Making Media
Clara Fernández-Vara, a Comparative Media Studies alumna, explains her journey from researching Shakespeare in performance to studying and developing videogames.
John Ellis will argue that "Films are now seen as documents of interactions rather than expositions of fact."
In the Age of Always Connect, are we witnessing a plague of oversharing? Are social networks its vectors of transmission? Is this the "Death of Shame"?
Richard Rogers proposes a research practice that grounds claims about cultural change and societal conditions in online dynamics.
What kind of popular culture is made in the context of war? How do notions of civil rights shift in a post-Civil Rights era?
Attendees will learn about a variety of game mechanisms through discussions of exemplar games and see how these games relate.
Hye 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.
MIT 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.
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.
