MIT Graduate Program in Comparative Media Studies
Studying Media and Making Media
Watch live! Thesis Presentations of the Comparative Media Studies Graduate Class of 2015 April 3, 2014 MIT Student Center Mezzanine Lounge 9:00 Coffee and Conversation 9:15 Presentations by: Chelsea Barabas Mirror Mirror on the Wall: A Study of Bias and Perceptions of Merit in the High-tech Labor Market Desiree Gonzalez Museum Making: Creating with […]
Kevin Driscoll presents how the history of bulletin-board systems reveals the popular origins of computer-mediated social life.
Jeff VanderMeer will discuss his role as one of the leading practitioners of “weird fiction,” the environmental and ecological concerns that inform his work, and his massive crossover success.
Thomas DeFranz "wonders at the intertwining of African American social dances and political leadership, conceived as the bodies of elected officials."
Ryan Cordell, co-director of the Viral Texts project, will speak about his work uncovering pieces that “went viral” in nineteenth-century newspapers and magazines.
Danielle Keats Citron exposes the startling extent of personal cyber-attacks and proposes practical, lawful ways to prevent and punish online harassment.
L. Shane Greene presents a theoretical overview of various situations – particularly their political, aesthetic, and media dimensions - that arose in the production of a book about the history of anarchism and punk rock during Peru’s war with the Maoist-inspired armed group known as the Shining Path.
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.
