MIT Graduate Program in Comparative Media Studies
Studying Media and Making Media
What separates a good teacher from a great one? Former poet laureate Robert Pinsky, Weisskopf Professor of Physics Alan Guth and MIT biology professor Hazel Sive--all honored teachers--will explore these issues with Literature professor and Communications Forum director emeritus David Thorburn.
In a conversation with William Uricchio, Maddin will discuss why we should bother digging up filmic and narrative memories from oblivion.
Is media archaeology a (viable) disciplinary subject or a (valuable) symptom also of changes in our ideas of history, causality and contingency?
Merrimack College's Lisa Perks draws from discourse gathered from over 100 marathoners to describe some of marathoners’ most common emotional experiences, including anger, empathy, parasocial mourning, nostalgia, and regret.
An adventure story involving social energy + art + Emile Durkheim’s “take” on Mauss + Hubert’s “take” on mana + the creativity of gossip.
Cambridge City Councilman Nadeem Mazen and Wise Systems co-founder Layla Shaikley--both MIT alumni--join engineering student Abubakar Abid to explore how hateful, discriminatory rhetoric influences public opinion, discuss its impact on the lives of Muslim-Americans, and examine strategies to combat it.
Thesis presentations by the CMS Graduate Class of 2016. Topics range from interactive livestreaming to comics to gender in video games. Open to the public.
Drawing on years of fieldwork with the developers of algorithmic music recommenders, Seaver describes how people make sense of new kinds of jobs.
Closed to the public.
On April 23, 2016, MIT hosts a campus-wide open house, welcoming the public into every department to check out the coolest of the Institute's work.
The CMS Media Spectacle showcases video projects of all genres created by MIT students, staff, faculty and affiliates. Submit yours by April 20!
Fox Harrell presents outcomes from his National Science Foundation-supported Advanced Identity Representation project, which helped reveal social biases in existing systems and implements systems to respond to those biases with greater nuance and expressive power.
A panel with some of the leading creators in virtual reality -- Raney Aronson-Rath, Jessica Brillhart, Nonny de la Peña, and Caspar Sonnen -- to better understand VR’s potentials and implications for documentary and journalism.
Sam Ford and Federico Rodriguez Tarditi discuss Fusion Media Group’s experiments with exploring new ways of telling stories, relationships with key publics, and new types of roles/positions in the company.
Sun-ha Hong on how "big" data and surveillance are not just about privacy and security but also redistribution of authority, credibility and responsibility.
