Individual Consultations at the Writing and Communication Center
MIT Building 12, Room 132 60 Vassar Street, Cambridge, MAThe Writing and Communications Center will offer free consultation on oral presentations and any writing problem.
MIT Graduate Program in Comparative Media Studies
Studying Media and Making Media
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Alchemists and Mad Scientists: from Faust to Dr. Strangelove
MIT Building 3, Room 133 33 Massachusetts Ave, Cambridge, MAWe will trace the development in mass media of the evolution of alchemists into mad scientists, using the films "Faust," "Metropolis," "The Bride of Frankenstein," and "Dr. Strangelove" as our texts.
Integrating Communication Instruction in CI Subjects: A Writing Across the Curriculum IAP Workshop
MIT Building 12, Room 134 Cambridge, MAWe'll explore how instructors can break down assignments to demystify research, writing, and presentation in their fields.
Powerful Feedback: Strategies for Responding to Student Writing: A Writing Across the Curriculum IAP Workshop
MIT Building 12, Room 134 Cambridge, MAWhat kind of feedback will help students understand how to revise their essays, reports or articles, or to write their next assignment more effectively?
Oral Presentations and the Academic Conversation: A Writing Across the Curriculum IAP Workshop
MIT Building 12, Room 134 Cambridge, MAThis interactive workshop is geared to instructors across the disciplines who are interested in integrating oral presentation into their classes
Annotation Studio Workshop
MIT Building 56, Room 180 Access via 21 Ames Street, Cambridge, MAIn this hands-on workshop you'll learn how to create, tag, link, and share annotations in web-based environments.
Nostalgia for a Not-So-Distant Youth: Digital Games and Affect in Urban China
MIT Media Lab, Room 633 75 Amherst St., Cambridge, MAMarcella Szablewicz: "Are games the imagined utopia they are made out to be in these nostalgic accounts or might these affective attachments prove to be a form of what Lauren Berlant has called cruel optimism?"
Convergence Journalism? Emerging Documentary and Multimedia Forms of News
MIT Media Lab, Room 633 75 Amherst St., Cambridge, MAHow is new access to the power of the visual changing our journalism? What current projects are particularly significant?
Gregory Crane: “Automated Methods, Human Understanding, and Digital Libraries of Babel”
MIT Media Lab, Room 633 75 Amherst St., Cambridge, MAThe challenges and opportunities of a hyperlingual dialogue among civilizations, where humans work with machines and with each other to communicate and where books do talk to each other.
A Conversation with Nate Silver
MIT Media Lab, Bartos Theater 20 Ames Street, Cambridge, MAStatistician and political polling analyst Nate Silver will discuss his career -- from student journalist to baseball prognosticator to the creator of FiveThirtyEight.com.
Angels of Death: David Foster Wallace and the Battle against Irony, Letterman and Leyner?
MIT Media Lab, Room 633 75 Amherst St., Cambridge, MAD.T. Max, staff writer at the New Yorker, looks at David Foster Wallace and irony, with an eye especially on his 1990's attacks on David Letterman and the novelist Mark Leyner.
MOOCs and the Emerging Digital Classroom
MIT Media Lab, Room 633 75 Amherst St., Cambridge, MAIn this Communications Forum, Anant Argawal, Alison Byerly, and Daphne Koller look at how digital technologies are transforming teaching and learning both on and off campus.
The Cultural Feedback of Noise
MIT Building 4, Room 231 Cambridge, MADavid Novak on the "cultural feedback" of noise music through its recorded forms, technologies of live performance, and creative practices of musicians and listeners.
News or Entertainment? The Press in Modern Political Campaigns
MIT Media Lab, Room 633 75 Amherst St., Cambridge, MAMark McKinnon and Ta-Nehisi Coates discuss whether our political journalism is serving democratic and civic ideals.
The Future of Print in the Digital Age
MIT Building 6, Room 120 182 Memorial Drive (Rear), Cambridge, MACo-sponsored by Comparative Media Studies/Writing, its Graduate Program in Science Writing, and the MIT Program in Science Technology and Society. David Carr writes the Media Equation column for the Monday […]
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