GAMBIT Videogame Lecture Series
MIT Building 2, Room 151 182 Memorial Drive, Cambridge, MAMembers of Comparative Media Studies' GAMBIT Research Staff will deliver from 2-3PM each day a different videogame-based lecture.
MIT Graduate Program in Comparative Media Studies
Studying Media and Making Media
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Jaroslav Švelch: “Czech Underground Rock Music: Forbidden Fandom”
MIT Building 1, Room 132 33 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge, MAAn account of Czech underground rock music of the 60s, 70s and 80s when rock music was considered suspicious and counterrevolutionary.
Qualitative Research Workshop
MIT Building 2, Room 135 182 Memorial Drive, Cambridge, MAWorking in small teams, students will design and conduct a qualitative project designed to propose strategy for media and cultural organizations.
GAMBIT Game Lab Tour
GAMBIT Game Lab 5 Cambridge Center, Cambridge, MAThe tour concludes with our weekly Friday Games at GAMBIT where you will have a chance to play some of the newest videogames.
18th Annual Salute to Dr. Seuss
You will hear Prof. Henry Jenkins read from his works and talk about Seuss's relationship to Modern Art and popular culture.
Board Game Workshop
GAMBIT Game Lab 5 Cambridge Center, Cambridge, MAIn each session established board games will be played and modifications based on game play will be made.
Beowulf – a FREE screening!
MIT Building 26, Room 100 Access Via 60 Vassar Street, Cambridge, MASony Imageworks in conjunction with MIT's Comparative Media Studies Program and LSC present a screening of the 2007 Robert Zemeckis/Neil Gaiman scripted film: BEOWULF! Attendance is FREE!
Is This On? (Learn To Be a College DJ)
MIT Building 50, Room 030 142 Memorial Drive, Cambridge, MAGet to know your campus radio station (WMBR) as DJ Generoso teaches you various skills of doing a radio show.
From Film to Videogames
MIT Building 4, Room 237 182 Memorial Drive, Cambridge, MADiscussion of adaptation with Matthew Weise: How film genres get translated into videogames.
Making Deep Games: An inspirational workshop about harnessing the power of metaphors for experience design
MIT Building N25, Room 373 5 Cambridge Center, Cambridge, MAIn this workshop, attendees will learn how to become more conscious about the mechanisms of complex abstract concepts, to pin down their evasive elements, to translate them into concrete rule sets and to make them tangible via procedural metaphors.
GAMBIT: Videogame Company Tours
GAMBIT Game Lab 5 Cambridge Center, Cambridge, MAPhilip Tan, the executive director of US operations for GAMBIT will be leading tours of local video game companies to help you understand the day to day goings on of the rapidly growing video game industry.
Designing Serious Video Games for Autism Research and Therapy
GAMBIT Game Lab 5 Cambridge Center, Cambridge, MAMy research group is answering this challenge by embedding experiments in a video game which we use to study autism.
Experience Design Workshop: Taught by Razorfish
MIT Building 1, Room 134 33 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge, MAWhether you are an engineer or designer, this course will challenge you to start work by studying users – not technology – first.
Mystery Science Theater 3000 — Jason and Generoso Fav Episodes
MIT Building 6, Room 120 182 Memorial Drive (Rear), Cambridge, MAComparative Media Studies' Jason Begy and Generoso Fierro will be showing their favorite episodes and clips of Mystery Science Theater 3000. The Sunday session is FREE.
A short, practical course on Focus Group Research in Academic and Corporate Settings: The Whys and Hows
MIT Building 26, Room 142 60 Vassar Street, Cambridge, MACheryl K. Olson, Sc.D., will use her own focus group studies with teens and parents about video games as teaching examples.
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