MIT Graduate Program in Comparative Media Studies
Studying Media and Making Media
Alexandra To will describe some of the game design opportunities present in centering the experiences of people of color from the beginning
Samantha N. Sheppard examines how Nottage’s play and paratexts produce a speculative fiction and archive about Black women’s media histories, staging what she calls a phantom cinema.
Are the MetaHuman Creator and similar simplified building tools democratizing the field of digital content creation? Are they fostering more diverse representations and narratives, and supporting the free play of identity in playable media?
Jorge Caraballo will draw from experience as the former Growth Editor at Radio Ambulante – Latin America's most popular documentary podcast – and highlight different ways in which storytelling can be the starting point of new collective identities.
Chute highlights what Spiegelman’s comics narrative, which is about history, reveals about the form’s capacity both to register the continuousness of history and also to function in today’s context as a text of resistance to fascism.
How MIT radio station WMBR, with a license held by an independent non-profit corporation, built a meaningful community institution despite transformations within the university, its student body and organizations, as well as regulatory changes.
Gates considers the history of her own research on Van Peebles’s films, and details the pleasures — and challenges — of trying to create a bridge between the worlds of academic film studies and more public facing consumer film culture.
Analyzing the discussion about a German anti-hate speech law called the Network Enforcement Act and the debate about a reform of Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act in the United States.
Recognizing the popularity of television, politicians learned how to use (and abuse) television entertainment to win votes, to fundraise, to promote their agenda, and to push for legislation.
Martha Minow presents what's needed if the First Amendment guarantee of freedom of the press continues to hold meaning in the twenty-first century.
Acclaimed photographer Mary Beth Meehan and Silicon Valley historian and media scholar Fred Turner discuss their recently published and award-winning book Seeing Silicon Valley: Life inside a Fraying America.
A conference for diverse constituencies to express their views and to showcase findings on videography as a creative tool in the quest for social justice.
