MIT Graduate Program in Comparative Media Studies
Studying Media and Making Media
Siva Vaidhyanathan asks, what are we really gaining and losing by inviting Google to be the lens through which we view the world?
Angela Ndalianis analyze how Las Vegas -- a city-as-monument to entertainment and leisure culture -- has appropriated tropes and modes of engagement taken from pre-20th Century high culture traditions of the Church and aristocracy.
Stephen Duncombe asks, does the traditional truth-revealing role of critical media practice still have any political relevance?
How can media studies be both in and of the emergent media forms, and yet retain a creative and critical distance from them?
If virtual world users' claims to citizenship and sovereignty within those worlds are to be taken seriously, so too must the question of "gray collar" or semi-legal virtual laborers.
John Hartley on recent developments in the field of cultural and media studies, including an account of changes in the economy, culture and technology, and consequent initiatives in educational provision for the creative industries.
Drawing on her experiences working as part of collaborative research-design teams that combine art/science/design/engineering, Anne Balsamo will describe her new research on public interactives and the infrastructures of public intimacy.
Right-wing broadcasting was reborn when Reagan suspended the Fairness Doctrine in 1987, enabling the rise of Rush Limbaugh, and Fox News shortly thereafter.
T.L. Taylor on the issues around the ownership of e-sports playing fields, and the status of player action within them.
In this talk, Dartmouth's Mary Flanagan reveals how games can be sources of deep human inquiry and introspection.
Instead 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?
UCSB's Michael Curtin explores the implications of national cultural policy within the broader context of media globalization.
Middlebury'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 speaks on the impacts of regional policies for film production on ordinary people’s understandings of time, space and place.
