Professional Play and the E-sports Industry
Comparative Media Studies: MIT Building E15, Room 335 20 Ames St., Cambridge, MAT.L. Taylor on the issues around the ownership of e-sports playing fields, and the status of player action within them.
MIT Graduate Program in Comparative Media Studies
Studying Media and Making Media
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Mary Flanagan, “Humanist Inquiry Through Critical Play: Designing and Enacting our Enduring Questions”
MIT Media Lab, Room 633 75 Amherst St., Cambridge, MAIn this talk, Dartmouth's Mary Flanagan reveals how games can be sources of deep human inquiry and introspection.
Aswin Punathambekar: “Media, Sociability, and Political Potentials in Contemporary India”
MIT Media Lab, Room 633 75 Amherst St., Cambridge, MAInstead of a narrow emphasis on political effects, Aswin Punathambekar draws on a range of cases across India, China, and the Middle East to ask: what happens when such phases of participation fade away?
Michael Curtin: “The Burdens of Official Aspiration: National Policy in the Age of Global Media”
MIT Media Lab, Room 633 75 Amherst St., Cambridge, MAUCSB's Michael Curtin explores the implications of national cultural policy within the broader context of media globalization.
Jason Mittell: “Strategies of Storytelling in Transmedia Television”
MIT Media Lab, Room 633 75 Amherst St., Cambridge, MAMiddlebury's Jason Mittell on how television narratives have expanded and been complicated through transmedia extensions, including video games, novelizations, websites, online video, and alternate reality games.
Vicki Mayer: “Where ‘Home’ Is: Film Production Economies and the Privatization of Space”
MIT Media Lab, Room 633 75 Amherst St., Cambridge, MAVicki Mayer speaks on the impacts of regional policies for film production on ordinary people’s understandings of time, space and place.
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