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.
MIT Graduate Program in Comparative Media Studies
Studying Media and Making Media
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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.
19th Annual Salute to Dr. Seuss
MIT Building 6, Room 120 182 Memorial Drive (Rear), Cambridge, MAWe'll screen his remarkable live action feature film, 5000 Fingers of Dr. T. An MIT Tradition marches forward. No need to enroll!
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.
Board/Card Game Design – Expansions
MIT Building 2, Room 135 182 Memorial Drive, Cambridge, MAEver played a board game and thought it was missing something? That you could make it better?
Button Mash: Gender and Gaming at MIT
MIT Building N25, Room 373 5 Cambridge Center, Cambridge, MAIssues around gender and gaming, as well as an opportunity for female MIT students who play digital games to come together to talk and play.
Online Information Session
cms.mit.eduJoin us at 10am on November 21, 2011, here at cms.mit.edu!
Hacker Movies!
MIT Building E15, Room 344 20 Ames Street, Cambridge, MAWe'll be watching some classic (and not so classic) examples from the genre, looking at how the depiction of hacker characters has changed.
Introduction to Knitting
MIT Building E15, Room 320 20 Ames Street, Cambridge, MAStart a hat and keep warm in January! The basic knitting stitches will be taught during the mandatory first session.
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