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Studying Media and Making Media

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Push Button Game Jam

MIT Building 32 (Stata Center), Room 124 32 Vassar Street, Cambridge, MA

Students who attend will form teams and create design and technical prototypes that will eventually become full fledged games by the end of the month.

Global Game Jam 2014 at MIT

The Global Game Jam is the world’s largest game jam event taking place around the world at physical locations, a 48-hour a hackathon focused on game development.

Disney Fairies Film Series

MIT Building 2, Room 105 182 Memorial Drive, Cambridge, MA

The mostly-female cast is generally portrayed as being extremely competent and working collectively to solve problems, even as the films fall back on formulaic personality conflicts.

A Conversation about Digital Humanities: What’s It All About?

MIT Building 14N, Room 217 160 Memorial Drive, Cambridge, MA

Let's talk about the impact of computation on the humanities, about where it can takes us, and about what it means to use this lens on our scholarship. And who's doing what where in DH at MIT?

Photo of knitting and balls of yarn

Knitting for Programmers

Comparative Media Studies: MIT Building E15, Room 335 20 Ames St., Cambridge, MA

"A knitting pattern is actually a more or less complex algorithm with the difference being that the output is directly wearable like 3D printing."

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“Theory” and its Quotation Marks

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The aim of this course is to provide an opportunity to explore (and a community with which to do so) the longstanding dialogue in the humanities commonly known as "theory," using inroads offered by certain modifiers (queer theory, feminist theory, media theory, critical race theory, affect theory and so forth).

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Global Game Jam 2016

MIT Building 32 (Stata Center) 32 Vassar Street, Cambridge, MA

The Global Game Jam (GGJ) is the world's largest game jam event taking place around the world at physical locations. Think of it as a hackathon focused on game development. The GGJ encourages people with all kinds of backgrounds to participate and contribute to this global spread of game development and creativity.

Independent Activities Period

What Playfulness Can Change

Location To Be Determined

Exploring playfulness and its business applications. Three workshops on January 12, 19, and 26.

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IAP 2017: “Wikipedia 101: How to be a media literate citizen”

MIT Building 4, Room 251 182 Memorial Drive (Rear), Cambridge, MA

Cultivate a greater understanding of how to evaluate a range of sources, from the popular news media, to institutional archives, to peer reviewed journals.

Global Game Jam 2016 logo

IAP 2017: Global Game Jam

MIT Building 32 (Stata Center), Room 123 32 Vassar Street, Cambridge, MA

"Come together, be creative, share experiences and express ourselves in a multitude of ways using video games."

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“Hands On” Workshop and Demo

MIT Building 4, Room 145 182 Memorial Drive (Rear), Cambridge, MA

Learn how to draw the hand and why you couldn’t do it before.

Much Ado About Knotting screen image

India and Indianisms: Documentary Master Classes

Open area opposite E15-320 20 Ames Street, Cambridge, MA

Come attend screenings of documentary films followed by discussions on a few things that define India today – love, innovation and spies.

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Imagining Prototypes: Writing about Design

MIT Building 56, Room 169 Access Via 21 Ames Street, Cambridge, MA

An activity-based writing workshop for anyone who builds anything at MIT and beyond, or who dreams of doing so. The workshop will introduce techniques in writing for designers who rely on written or oral communication to generate interest in a design idea or prototype.