MIT Graduate Program in Comparative Media Studies
Studying Media and Making Media
To celebrate the launch of the graduate program in Comparative Media Studies at MIT, this final event of the Media in Transition Project aims to establish a broad-gauged discussion of our emerging computer culture in the perspective of ancestor technologies and older media.
The time has come to take an inventory of today's game industry and envision tomorrow's technological innovations and creative implications.
Part of an ongoing series of events focused on creativity in the digital age, the MIT Conference on Digital Cinema brings together filmmakers, critics, and media industry leaders to explore the nature of digital cinema and its cultural significance.
Cyberspace has been represented as a race-blind environment, yet our everyday encounters with race have consequences--both "inside and outside the box."
How do we reconcile the competing forces of media convergence and media fragmentation that are shaping the current communications infrastructure?
The third Media in Transition conference centers on television's political and cultural role at the dawn of our new millennium.
This fourth Media in Transition conference explores storytelling as a cultural practice, a social and political activity as well as an art form.
The conference will consider developments such as user-generated content, transmedia storytelling, the rise of mobile media and the emergence of social networking.
