New Media in West Africa
MIT Building E25, Room 111 45 Carleton Street, Cambridge, MAHow has Nigerian cinema in particular influenced local television and film markets in other countries across West Africa, and across the continent?
MIT Graduate Program in Comparative Media Studies
Studying Media and Making Media
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Futures of Entertainment 6
MIT Building E51, Wong Auditorium 70 Memorial Drive, Cambridge, MAThis year's event, Nov. 9-10 at MIT, will look at how media producers and audiences are relating to one another in new ways in a spreadable media landscape.
Cultural Production and Social Media as Capture Platforms: How the Matrix Has You
Comparative Media Studies: MIT Building E15, Room 335 20 Ames St., Cambridge, MAHector Postigo's presentation develops a framework for understanding how social media’s technical feature-sets create a system of capture and conversion.
Minding the News
MIT Media Lab, Room 633 75 Amherst St., Cambridge, MAMark Turner's research on the cognitive underpinnings of network news, with an emphasis on blended joint attention, story-telling, counterfactuality, and hypotheticals.
GO ASK A.L.I.C.E: A Panel Discussion
Harvard University Science Center, Room 469 1 Oxford St, Cambridge, MAGO ASK A.L.I.C.E explores the strange afterlife of the Turing Test as it has circulated in popular, scientific, and commercial cultures.
New Forms, New Markets for Independent Film
MIT Building 4, Room 231 Cambridge, MAIndependent film-maker Andrew Silver will discuss emerging forms of hybrid media, some promising new pathways for distributing films and his career as a director and producer.
[For Credit] 21W.794: Graduate Technical Writing Workshop
MIT Building 2, Room 147 182 Memorial Drive, Cambridge, MADraft a thesis proposal, thesis chapter, journal article, progress report, or specification, and review basics of engineering writing.
[For Credit] CMS.S98: Special Subject: Comparative Media Studies Qualitative Data Analysis
Comparative Media Studies: MIT Building E15, Room 335 20 Ames St., Cambridge, MAThe goal of this class is to provide frameworks and hands on experience in analyzing data collected through interviews, observations and other qualitative methods.
Reading Programming Code as a Cultural Object
MIT Building 14E, Room 311 160 Memorial Drive, Cambridge, MALet's talk about what it means to start reading code differently, as cultural objects and statements. Let's raise the questions that need to be raised.
Create a Web Series!
You're invited to get in on the ground floor of developing an MIT-themed web series for debut in 2014!
Building Story Worlds: Space, Time, Rules, and Narrative in Game Design
MIT Building 56, Room 180 Access via 21 Ames Street, Cambridge, MAA workshop exploring the role of space in storytelling and how artists can use the tools of game design to construct complex narratives.
How to Write a Great Abstract
MIT Building 12, Room 132 60 Vassar Street, Cambridge, MAIn this workshop, we'll analyze sample abstracts from different fields, learn editing strategies, and practice revising abstracts.
ModIT Workshop: Online HTML Game Engine/Creation Tool
MIT Building 32 (Stata Center), Room 124 32 Vassar Street, Cambridge, MAModit is currently in private beta but in this workshop, we will showcase our HTML5 game development.
Festival of Learning
MIT Building E14 75 Amherst Street, Cambridge, MAThe Festival of Learning is a two-day festival, where anyone from MIT's Media Lab buildings (E14 and E15) can teach, learn, and collaborate!
Best of the 2012 European Short Film Festival at MIT
MIT Building 3, Room 133 33 Massachusetts Ave, Cambridge, MAA glimpse into contemporary short film productions from European film schools, young and established independent filmmakers, and European festivals.
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