MIT Graduate Program in Comparative Media Studies
Studying Media and Making Media
Join us and Harvard Book Store as it hosts Jane McGonigal to discuss "SuperBetter" with our own Scot Osterweil of The Education Arcade.
Is the de facto segregation that exists in many Northern cities a result of the lack of forced integration of the type that took place in the South?
Hiromu Nagahara explores Japan's first “mass media revolution”, in the 1920s and '30s, when technology expanded the number of media product consumers.
Featuring social scientists, media theorists, writers, artists, activists, this unconference asks: "How can we dissolve the structures of power that produce today’s inequalities?"
Authors Charles C. Mann and Annalee Newitz will talk about how ancient civilizations shed light on current problems with urbanization, food security, and environmental change.
Sarah Zaidan is a game designer, artist and researcher whose work explores how video games and comic books can engage in a dialogue with identity, gender and civic awareness.
Film screening and discussion with Charif Kiwan, Spokesperson, Abounaddara, Syrian Film Collective. Hosted by MIT Global Studies and Languages.
How did political TV and radio move from honest intellectual combat to become a vast echo chamber? Heather Hendershot will answer this difficult question.
Unlike other comparative studies that rank countries quantitatively based on a simplistic assessment of broadband speeds, Stuart Brotman's Net Vitality Index measures countries qualitatively to determine how well they are performing in a global competitive environment.
Women are chronically underrepresented in U.S. politics. Yet TV shows, fictions, and films have leapt ahead of the electoral curve. Political consultant Mary Anne Marsh and children/teens book author Ellen Emerson White look at the connections (if any) we can draw between representation and reality.
Come join us for snacks, ask questions, and learn about the CMS Master's Program. Slots are limited. Register now at Eventbrite! This program will be livestreamed, with a moderated chat room at: http://www.ustream.tv/channel/cEyEXhb4ryX.
On the heels of the day's graduate program information session, join us for our annual colloquium featuring five alumni of CMS, discussing their lives from MIT to their careers today.
Vivek Bald discusses his transmedia project documenting the lives of Bengali Muslim ship workers and silk peddlers who entered the United States at the height of the Asian Exclusion Era and quietly settled and intermarried within African American and Puerto Rican neighborhoods from Harlem to Tremé in New Orleans and Black Bottom, Detroit.
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).
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.
