MIT Graduate Program in Comparative Media Studies
Studying Media and Making Media
Professor of Comparative Media Studies T.L. Taylor will explore the ways game live streamers are transforming their otherwise private play into public entertainment.
Matthew Berland on how we can create environments where learners are supported in developing creative agency, and how we might assess or evaluate success.
Desmond Upton Patton introduces a critical systematic approach for extracting culture, context and nuance in social media data. The Contextual Analysis of Social Media (CASM) approach considers and critiques the gap between inadequacies in natural language processing tools and differences in geographic, cultural, and age-related variance of social media use and communication.
Prof. Marina Bers will describe current research on a pedagogical approach for early childhood computer science education called “Coding as Another Language”.
"The best way to understand the immense influence of this relatively small business is through a political economic analysis. Specifically, she will discuss industrial infrastructure—the aspects of our media environment that often lack public visibility."
Recasting the phenomenon of "media convergence" as a matter of aesthetic form fundamental to the biopolitical imaginary of liberalism and neoliberalism but to the idea of governmental "technology".
Featuring Stephanie Dick, UPenn; Paul Dourish, UC-Irvine; Kate Klonick, St. John's University; and Safiya Noble, UCLA. Moderated by MIT professor Fox Harrell.
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.
“The goal of this work is to transform scholarship into action – to operationalize feminism in order to imagine more ethical and more equitable data practices.”
CMS alum Lily Bui on the ways in which warning and planning are interrelated, as well as how planning and warning processes take place over time.
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.
