BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//MIT Graduate Program in Comparative Media Studies - ECPv5.16.1//NONSGML v1.0//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN METHOD:PUBLISH X-WR-CALNAME:MIT Graduate Program in Comparative Media Studies X-ORIGINAL-URL:https://cms.mit.edu X-WR-CALDESC:Events for MIT Graduate Program in Comparative Media Studies REFRESH-INTERVAL;VALUE=DURATION:PT1H X-Robots-Tag:noindex X-PUBLISHED-TTL:PT1H BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/New_York BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT DTSTART:20080309T070000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:EST DTSTART:20081102T060000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT DTSTART:20090308T070000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:EST DTSTART:20091101T060000 END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20091008T170000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20091008T170000 DTSTAMP:20260403T184807 CREATED:20161026T192226Z LAST-MODIFIED:20161026T192352Z UID:21322-1255021200-1255021200@cms.mit.edu SUMMARY:Race\, Politics and American Media DESCRIPTION:The election of an African-American president in Nov. 2008 has been hailed as a transforming event. But has Obama’s ascension transformed anything? Many people’s answer to that question changed this summer when a famous Harvard professor was arrested at his home in Cambridge. Are the harsh realities of race and class in the U.S. clearer now or murkier\, following the media tsunami of Gatesgate? And has this polarizing event given greater visibility to racial minorities in the media’s coverage of politics? How are race issues and racial politics covered in our national media\, and what are the implications of the demise of major city newspapers for the coverage of race and politics? \nJuan Williams of NPR and Fox News will discuss these and related questions in a candid conversation with Phillip Thompson\, associate professor of urban politics in the Department of Urban Studies and Planning at MIT\, and David Thorburn\, professor of literature and director of the MIT Communications Forum. URL:https://cms.mit.edu/event/race-politics-american-media/ LOCATION:MIT Media Lab\, Bartos Theater\, 20 Ames Street\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02139\, United States CATEGORIES:Communications Forum ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://cms.mit.edu/wp/wp-content/uploads/2009/10/juanwilliams2.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20090924T170000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20090924T190000 DTSTAMP:20260403T184807 CREATED:20150112T195744Z LAST-MODIFIED:20150112T195845Z UID:21320-1253811600-1253818800@cms.mit.edu SUMMARY:How Not to Be Seen DESCRIPTION:Hanna Rose Shell\nHanna Rose Shell\, a historian and media artist\, is as Assistant Professor in the Program on Science\, Technology and Society at MIT. This is a talk about camouflage framed by the question of “how not to be seen”–in film\, on film\, as film. In the first part\, Shell introduces “how not to be seen” in terms of the aspiration for\, and actualization of concealment in both filmic and natural ecologies through mixed-media practices that simultaneously incorporate and subvert the photographic media of reconnaissance. In the second part\, Shell screens and discusses her film-in-progress\, called Blind\, about the phenomenology of camouflage. Blind as in blindness\, and blind as in that actively constructed structure intended for the concealment of a hunter from her game. URL:https://cms.mit.edu/event/hanna-rose-shell-how-not-to-be-seen/ LOCATION:MIT Building 4\, Room 231\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02139\, United States CATEGORIES:Colloquium ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://cms.mit.edu/wp/wp-content/uploads/2009/10/Hanna-Rose-Shell.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20090917T170000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20090917T170000 DTSTAMP:20260403T184807 CREATED:20141210T161412Z LAST-MODIFIED:20141210T161412Z UID:21319-1253206800-1253206800@cms.mit.edu SUMMARY:Fantasy Freaks and Gaming Geeks DESCRIPTION:Ethan Gilsdorf will discuss some of the themes of his new book\, Fantasy Freaks and Gaming Geeks: An Epic Quest for Reality Among Role Players\, Online Gamers\, and Other Dwellers of Imaginary Realms\, a blend of travelogue\, pop culture analysis\, and memoir as forty-year-old former D&D addict Gilsdorf crisscrosses America\, the world\, and other worlds–from Boston to Wisconsin\, France to New Zealand\, and Planet Earth to the realm of Aggramar. He asks: Who are these gamers and fantasy fans? What explains the irresistible appeal of such “escapist” adventures? How do the players balance their escapist urges with the kingdom of adulthood? \nGilsdorf will talk about the culture’s discomfort with the geek/nerd/gamer stereotype and will look at society’s ambivalent relationship with gaming and fantasy play\, and the origins of that prejudice\, as well as the author’s own past misgivings and final acceptance of his “geek” identity. URL:https://cms.mit.edu/event/ethan-gilsdorf-fantasy-freak-gaming-geeks/ LOCATION:MIT Building 4\, Room 231\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02139\, United States CATEGORIES:Colloquium ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://cms.mit.edu/wp/wp-content/uploads/2009/09/fantasy-freaks.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20090522T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20090522T220000 DTSTAMP:20260403T184807 CREATED:20140804T195041Z LAST-MODIFIED:20170905T190246Z UID:21318-1243018800-1243029600@cms.mit.edu SUMMARY:2009 Julius Schwartz Lecture with J. Michael Straczynski DESCRIPTION:J. Michael Straczynski\nThe second annual Julius Schwartz Lecture brings J. Michael Straczynski\, the creator of the cult science fiction hit Babylon 5. The Julius Schwartz Lecture is an annual event held to honor an individual who has made significant contributions to the culture\, creativity and community of comics and popular entertainment. \nThe lecture is hosted by the Comparative Media Studies program at MIT and was founded to honor the memory of longtime DC Comics editor Julius “Julie” Schwartz\, whose contributions to our culture include co-founding the first science fiction fanzine in 1932\, the first science fiction literary agency in 1934\, and the first World Science Fiction Convention in 1939. Schwartz went on to launch a career in comics that would last for well over 42 years\, during which time he helped launch the Silver Age of Comics\, introduced the idea of parallel universes\, and had a hand in the reinvention of such characters as Batman\, Superman\, the Flash\, Green Lantern\, Hawkman and the Atom. \nThe event is typically structured as a short lecture presented by the honored speaker\, followed by a question-and-answer discussion between the speaker and the head of the Comparative Media Studies program\, media scholar Henry Jenkins III. This will be followed by an open question-and-answer session between the lecturer and the audience. The inaugural speaker for the series was New York Times bestselling author Neil Gaiman. URL:https://cms.mit.edu/event/j-michael-straczynski-2009-julius-schwartz-lecture/ LOCATION:MIT Building 10\, Room 250\, 222 Memorial Drive\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02139\, United States CATEGORIES:Julius Schwartz Lecture ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://cms.mit.edu/wp/wp-content/uploads/2009/09/jms.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20090507T170000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20090507T170000 DTSTAMP:20260403T184807 CREATED:20161026T193204Z LAST-MODIFIED:20161026T193204Z UID:21316-1241715600-1241715600@cms.mit.edu SUMMARY:Ralph Baer\, Baer Consultants DESCRIPTION:Ralph Baer\nA long lifetime of developing electronic consumer products has taken Ralph Baer from vacuum tube through microprocessor designs. Although the technology has undergone vast changes\, the underlying motivation for\, and execution of\, the process has not changed radically. Baer cites numerous examples of specific product designs that made it all the way through the process to a successful product and draws some conclusions from that experience that shed some light on the continuum of invention\, development\, and marketing novel product ideas. URL:https://cms.mit.edu/event/ralph-baer/ LOCATION:MIT Building 2\, Room 105\, 182 Memorial Drive\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02139\, United States CATEGORIES:Colloquium ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://cms.mit.edu/wp/wp-content/uploads/2009/05/pong_1349732147_300x200.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20090502 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20090503 DTSTAMP:20260403T184807 CREATED:20150326T145501Z LAST-MODIFIED:20150326T145501Z UID:21315-1241222400-1241308799@cms.mit.edu SUMMARY:NML Spring Conference - Learning in a Participatory Culture DESCRIPTION:Comparative Media Studies and Project New Media Literacies will host a one-day conference at MIT\, Building 6-120\, from 8:30 am to 5 pm on Saturday May 2\, 2009. The $35.00 registration fee includes a choice of 4 out of 14 workshops\, 2 presentations\, and breakfast and lunch. Registration is available online at www.newmedialiteracies.org\, and must be submitted by Friday 4/29. \nSummary of conference: At Learning in a Participatory Culture\, we will share our new web-based learning environment\, the Learning Library\, and host a series of conversations and workshops about the integration and implementation of the new media literacies across disciplines. Workshops include “The Complexities of Copyright: Shepard Fairey v. the AP\,” “Mapping in Participatory Culture: Boundaries\,” “Using Wikipedia in the Classroom\,” “21st Century Assessment\,” and more. Henry Jenkins’ closing remarks will address the future of NML and participatory democracy. \nPanelists at this conference will include members of the NML team\, educators who have been working with NML materials in the field\, and educational researchers. The conference is designed to engage anyone with an interest in the future of education\, especially high school teachers and afterschool coordinators. The format itself will be participatory – we hope that attendees will join the conversation\, and leave the conference equipped with new ideas and strategies. URL:https://cms.mit.edu/event/learning-in-a-participatory-culture-nml-conference/ LOCATION:MIT Building 6\, Room 120\, 182 Memorial Drive (Rear)\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02139\, United States CATEGORIES:Conference ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://cms.mit.edu/wp/wp-content/uploads/2007/01/Project-New-Media-Literacies.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20090430T170000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20090430T170000 DTSTAMP:20260403T184807 CREATED:20170530T233059Z LAST-MODIFIED:20170612T140447Z UID:30273-1241110800-1241110800@cms.mit.edu SUMMARY:The Discipline of Political Messages in an Unruly Era DESCRIPTION:Tucker Eskew\nPresidential elections are considered decisions on politicians’ virtues and reflections of public values. On an ongoing basis\, polling data and snap punditry engorge the body politic between elections. Taken together\, these judgments on leadership and partisanship — on statecraft and stagecraft — lie at the core of democracy today. Tucker Eskew explores the permanent campaign(s) of the last ten years. What is “message discipline” in an era of atomized opinion leadership — a necessity or a fool’s errand? Are the parties inevitably devoted to different styles of communication\, and is this era’s favored approach inextricably the domain of the new Administration? Can unfettered dialogue\, as an expression of freedom\, be a pure benefit to society\, or is “Fire!” being texted in a crowded coffee house? Consistent with his conservatism\, Eskew will have firm answers to some of these and other questions. Reflecting his consulting firm ViaNovo’s “new ways”\, he will welcome dialogue on all. URL:https://cms.mit.edu/event/tucker-eskew-discipline-political-messages-unruly-era/ LOCATION:MIT Building 2\, Room 105\, 182 Memorial Drive\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02139\, United States CATEGORIES:Colloquium ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://cms.mit.edu/wp/wp-content/uploads/2009/05/skew.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20090429T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20090429T190000 DTSTAMP:20260403T184807 CREATED:20170530T233059Z LAST-MODIFIED:20200310T183228Z UID:30250-1241031600-1241031600@cms.mit.edu SUMMARY:The 11th Annual CMS Media Spectacle DESCRIPTION:An honored tradition returns on April 27th at 7PM when CMS presents the eleventh annual Media Spectacle. The event\, founded by Chris Pomiecko\, celebrates his love for filmmaking by showcasing the finest video projects created by MIT students\, staff and faculty. \nHistorically\, the event has received submissions of every genre from experimental to documentary to narrative works created on every conceivable platform and device (mobisode anyone?). Since the dawning of YouTube and other user-generated video websites\, the number of submissions has increased substantially.\nThe event is hosted by Professor Henry Jenkins and judged by esteemed members of the CMS community as well as Cathy Pomiecko\, the sister of the late CMS program administrator Chris Pomieicko. After all of this year’s selected pieces are screened\, the undergraduate winner for best film will receive a cash prize and the Chris Pomiecko Trophy followed by the Claude Berry Award for the best non-undergraduate entry. URL:https://cms.mit.edu/event/11th-annual-cms-media-spectacle/ LOCATION:MIT Building 32 (Stata Center)\, Room 155\, 32 Vassar Street\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02139\, United States END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20090424 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20090427 DTSTAMP:20260403T184807 CREATED:20140811T130405Z LAST-MODIFIED:20170316T192759Z UID:21494-1240531200-1240790399@cms.mit.edu SUMMARY:Media in Transition 6: stone and papyrus\, storage and transmission DESCRIPTION:Media in Transition 6: stone and papyrus\, storage and transmission \nIn his seminal essay “The Bias of Communication” Harold Innis distinguishes between time-based and space-based media.Time-based media such as stone or clay\, Innis agues\, can be seen as durable\, while space-based media such as paper or papyrus can be understood as portable\, more fragile than stone but more powerful because capable of transmission\, diffusion\, connections across space. \nSpeculating on this distinction\, Innis develops an account of civilization grounded in the ways in which media forms shape trade\, religion\, government\, economic and social structures\, and the arts. Our current era of prolonged and profound transition is surely as media-driven as the historical cultures Innis describes. \nHis division between the durable and the portable is perhaps problematic in the age of the computer\, but similar tensions define our contemporary situation. Digital communications have increased exponentially the speed with which information circulates. Moore’s Law continues to hold\, and with it a doubling of memory capacity every two years; we are poised to reach transmission speeds of 100 terabits per second\, or something akin to transmitting the entire printed contents of the Library of Congress in under five seconds. \nSuch developments are simultaneously exhilarating and terrifying. They profoundly challenge efforts to maintain access to the vast printed and audio-visual inheritance of analog culture as well as efforts to understand and preserve the immense\, enlarging universe of text\, image and sound available in cyberspace. What are the implications of these trends for historians who seek to understand the place of media in our own culture? \nWhat challenges confront librarians and archivists who must supervise the migration of print culture to digital formats and who must also find ways to preserve and catalogue the vast and increasing range of words and images generated by new technologies? How are shifts in distribution and circulation affecting the stories we tell\, the art we produce\, the social structures and policies we construct? \nWhat are the implications of this tension between storage and transmission for education\, for individual and national identities\, for notions of what is public and what is private? We invite papers from scholars\, journalists\, media creators\, teachers\, writers and visual artists on these broad themes.  Potential topics include: \n\nThe digital archive\nThe future of libraries and museums\nThe past and future of the book\nMobile media\nHistorical systems of communication\nMedia in the developing world\nSocial networks\nMapping media flows\nApproaches to media history\nEducation and the changing media environment\nNew forms of storytelling and expression\nLocation-based entertainment\nHyperlocal media and civic engagement\nNew modes of circulation and distribution\nThe transformation of television — from broadcast to download\nCosmopolitanism backlashes against media change\nVirtual worlds and digital tourism\nThe continuity principle: what endures or resists digital   transformation?\nThe fate of reading URL:https://cms.mit.edu/event/media-in-transition-stone-papyrus-storage-transmission/ LOCATION:MIT Building E51\, 70 Memorial Drive\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02139\, United States CATEGORIES:Conference ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://cms.mit.edu/wp/wp-content/uploads/2009/04/mit6_front.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20090417 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20090420 DTSTAMP:20260403T184807 CREATED:20150309T173619Z LAST-MODIFIED:20150309T173619Z UID:21312-1239926400-1240185599@cms.mit.edu SUMMARY:MIT European Short Film Festival 2009 DESCRIPTION:MIT’s European Short Film Festival — now in its 5th year — offers a unique glimpse into the most recent short-film productions from Europe\, with a special focus on productions from European film schools and award-winning films from recent Festivals in Europe. URL:https://cms.mit.edu/event/mit-european-short-film-festival-2009/ LOCATION:MIT Building 10\, Room 250\, 222 Memorial Drive\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02139\, United States END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20090416T170000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20090416T170000 DTSTAMP:20260403T184807 CREATED:20150407T130519Z LAST-MODIFIED:20161221T201500Z UID:21311-1239901200-1239901200@cms.mit.edu SUMMARY:Chris Claremont: "Opening Doors\, Building Worlds" DESCRIPTION:Chris Claremont is best known for his 17 year unbroken run on the X-Men comic series — a feat in world building that has supported many uses\, from comics to movies to video games and more. Now Chris is returning to that world\, with a new comics series titled X-Men Forever. This time\, the rules are different. Claremont will address thoughts and considerations that go into building a world that can support years of use\, and variations. How has the concept of world-building changed over time? What is the purpose of continuity? Multiplicity? How to take into account growth and risk\, and play outside the rules. Questions and answers to follow. URL:https://cms.mit.edu/event/chris-claremont-opening-doors-building-worlds/ LOCATION:MIT Building 2\, Room 105\, 182 Memorial Drive\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02139\, United States CATEGORIES:Colloquium ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://cms.mit.edu/wp/wp-content/uploads/2009/04/claremont2.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20090411 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20090414 DTSTAMP:20260403T184807 CREATED:20150309T174126Z LAST-MODIFIED:20211123T131535Z UID:21465-1239408000-1239667199@cms.mit.edu SUMMARY:MIT European Short Film Festival 2008 DESCRIPTION:MIT’s 4th European Short Film Festival offers a unique glimpse into the most recent short-film productions from Europe\, with a special focus on productions from European film schools and award-winning films from recent Festivals in Europe. \nThe MIT European Short Film Festival caters to a diverse audience drawn from many local universities and a rich mix of international communities from the larger Boston area. The festival is co-sponsored by a variety of MIT departments and European cultural institutions located in Boston. \nTopics for this year’s festival include: Migration\, Anxiety\, Media Culture\, Food (Culture)\, Toys and Games. \nAll films will be shown in Room 32-123 (Stata Center)\, all programs start at 7:00 pm. \nFree Admission — All films with English subtitles. \nThe Festival is co-sponsored by: \n\nThe Foreign Languages and Literatures Section (MIT)\nThe Comparative Media Studies Program (MIT)\nThe Goethe-Institute\, Boston\n\nThe Festival is presented in conjunction with Dr. Kurt Fendt’s course “20th/21st Century German Literature – Grenzgänge” (21F.416) \nFor further information please visit http://web.mit.edu/shortfilm/ or contact the Festival Team: URL:https://cms.mit.edu/event/mit-european-short-film-festival-2008/ LOCATION:MIT Building 32 (Stata Center)\, Room 123\, 32 Vassar Street\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02139\, United States END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20090319T170000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20090319T190000 DTSTAMP:20260403T184807 CREATED:20140905T161040Z LAST-MODIFIED:20140905T161040Z UID:21310-1237482000-1237489200@cms.mit.edu SUMMARY:Authorship\, Appropriation\, and the Fluid Text: Versions of the Law DESCRIPTION:A fluid text is any work that exists in multiple versions. What are the ethics and legality in the creation\, sharing\, and ownership of textual versions? What are the boundaries of textual appropriation? How does technology abet appropriation; how might it assist in the useful designation of boundaries? Is the law keeping up? \nHofstra University professor John Bryant explores the larger applications of the notion of fluid text to culture\, and in particular identity formation in a multicultural democracy. Wendy Seltzer is a Fellow at Harvard University’s Berkman Center for Internet and Society and is a visiting professor at American University. She founded and leads the Chilling Effects Clearinghouse\, helping Internet users to understand their rights in response to cease-and-desist threats\, and to research the effects of these threats on free expression. URL:https://cms.mit.edu/event/authorship-appropriation-and-the-fluid-text/ LOCATION:MIT Building 2\, Room 105\, 182 Memorial Drive\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02139\, United States CATEGORIES:Colloquium ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://cms.mit.edu/wp/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/8588406207_d48127e5f8.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20090305T170000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20090305T190000 DTSTAMP:20260403T184807 CREATED:20150105T212537Z LAST-MODIFIED:20150105T212537Z UID:21309-1236272400-1236279600@cms.mit.edu SUMMARY:Gendering Robots: Posthuman Sexism in Japan DESCRIPTION:Jennifer Roberston \nIn humans\, gender–femininity\, masculinity–is an array of performed behaviors\, from dressing in certain clothes to walking and talking in certain ways. These behaviors are both socially and historically shaped\, but are also contingent upon many situational influences\, including individual choices. Female and male bodies alike can perform a variety of femininities and masculinities. What can human gender(ed) practices and performances tell us about how humanoid robots are gendered\, and vice versa? Jennifer Roberston explores and interrogates the gendering of humanoid robots manufactured today in Japan for use in the home and workplace. She shows that Japanese roboticists assign gender to their creations based on rigid assumptions about female and male sex and gender roles. Thus\, humanoid robots can productively be understood as the vanguard of a “posthuman sexism\,” and are being developed in a socio-political climate of reactionary conservatism. \nCo-Sponsored by Cool Japan and Foreign Languages and Literature. URL:https://cms.mit.edu/event/gendering-robots-posthuman-sexism-in-japan/ LOCATION:MIT Building 32 (Stata Center)\, Room 155\, 32 Vassar Street\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02139\, United States CATEGORIES:Colloquium END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20090226T170000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20090226T170000 DTSTAMP:20260403T184807 CREATED:20160818T174212Z LAST-MODIFIED:20160818T174212Z UID:21308-1235667600-1235667600@cms.mit.edu SUMMARY:Politics and Popular Culture DESCRIPTION:Robert Putnam has suggested that the political consciousness and civic engagement of the post- World War II generation may have taken shape in bowling alleys and other spaces where community members gathered. Might the political consciousness of the new generation be taking shape in and around popular culture? Are we seeing a blurring of the roles of citizen and consumer? Is this fusion between entertainment and news a good or a bad thing? What links exist between our cultural and our political preferences? How are activists and political leaders utilizing metaphors from popular culture as resources to mobilize their supporters? Is it possible that aspects of our popular culture may generate utopian visions that fuel political change? These and other questions will be explored by panelists Johanna Blakley\, deputy director of the Norman Lear Center at USC; David Carr\, media and culture writer for the New York Times; and Stephen Duncombe\, associate professor at NYU and author of Dream: Re-Imagining Progressive Politics in an Age of Fantasy. Henry Jenkins will moderate. URL:https://cms.mit.edu/event/politics-popular-culture/ LOCATION:MIT Media Lab\, Bartos Theater\, 20 Ames Street\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02139\, United States CATEGORIES:Communications Forum ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://cms.mit.edu/wp/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/carr-new-headshot-articleInline-v4.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20090220T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20090220T120000 DTSTAMP:20260403T184807 CREATED:20141121T160548Z LAST-MODIFIED:20141121T160548Z UID:21307-1235131200-1235131200@cms.mit.edu SUMMARY:Curveship: Interactive Fiction + Interactive Narration DESCRIPTION:Interactive fiction (often called "IF") is a venerable\, well-defined category of computer programs that includes the canonical Adventure and Zork as well as some work by established literary authors and recent independent developers. These programs are often correctly referred to as games\, but they can also be rich forms of text-based computer simulation\, dialog systems\, and examples of literary art. \nUnlike many other new media forms\, interactive fiction computationally simulates a world underlying the textual exchange between computer and user. Theorists of narrative have long distinguished between the level of underlying content or story (which can usefully be seen as corresponding to the simulated world in interactive fiction) and that of expression or discourse (corresponding to the textual exchange between computer and user). \nWhile IF development systems have offered a great deal of power and flexibility to author/programmers\, they have not systematically distinguished between the telling and what is told. Developers have not been able to use separate modules to control the content and expression levels independently\, so there has been no easy\, general way to control narrative style and create variation in the narrative discourse. \nNick Montfort will discuss a new interactive fiction system\, called Curveship\, which draws on narrative theory and computational linguistics to allow the transformation of the narrating. \nNick Montfort is Assistant Professor of Digital Media in the Program in Writing & Humanistic Studies at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Nick is on leave Spring 2009. More information at http://nickm.com URL:https://cms.mit.edu/event/curveship-interactive-fiction-interactive-narration/ LOCATION:GAMBIT Game Lab\, 5 Cambridge Center\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02139\, United States ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://cms.mit.edu/wp/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/nm_e14.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20090205T170000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20090205T190000 DTSTAMP:20260403T184808 CREATED:20150115T202403Z LAST-MODIFIED:20150115T202403Z UID:21305-1233853200-1233860400@cms.mit.edu SUMMARY:Identity-as-Place: Fictive Ethnicities in Online Games & Virtual Worlds DESCRIPTION:Celia Pearce\nThis talk\, with Celia Pearce\, Asst. Professor of Digital Media at Georgia Tech and Director and the Emergent Game Group and Experimental Game Lab\, explores the connection of identity to virtual place\, referencing in particular anthropology\, humanist and socio-geography and Internet studies to look at the construction and performance of “fictive ethnicity” tied to a specific\, though virtual and fictional\, locality. To illustrate\, Pearce will use the example of the Uru Diaspora\, a game community from the defunct massively multiplayer game Uru: Ages Beyond Myst (based on the Myst series)\, which immigrated into other games and virtual worlds\, adopting the collective fictive ethnicity of “Uru Refugees”\, and referring to Uru as their “homeland”. URL:https://cms.mit.edu/event/celia-pearce-fictive-ethnicities-in-online-games/ LOCATION:MIT Building 2\, Room 105\, 182 Memorial Drive\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02139\, United States CATEGORIES:Colloquium ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://cms.mit.edu/wp/wp-content/uploads/2009/02/artworks-000049340390-qq4n35-t200x200.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20090128T180000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20090128T180000 DTSTAMP:20260403T184808 CREATED:20150123T192626Z LAST-MODIFIED:20150123T192626Z UID:21442-1233165600-1233165600@cms.mit.edu SUMMARY:Is This On? (Learn To Be a College DJ) DESCRIPTION:Checking levels\, making a segue\, cueing vinyl (vinyl-what’s that?). \nGet to know your campus radio station (WMBR) as DJ Generoso teaches you various skills of doing a radio show. Then\, learn some history of WMBR (the first punk rock radio show in the USA)\, have a tour of the station and obtain membership information. \nFreshly baked cookies and milk will be provided because Andy would’ve wanted it that way. URL:https://cms.mit.edu/event/learn-to-be-college-dj-2009/ LOCATION:MIT Building 50\, Room 030\, 142 Memorial Drive\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02139\, United States CATEGORIES:Independent Activities Period ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://cms.mit.edu/wp/wp-content/uploads/2015/01/WMBR.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20090126T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20090126T210000 DTSTAMP:20260403T184808 CREATED:20140804T194429Z LAST-MODIFIED:20140804T194429Z UID:21303-1232996400-1233003600@cms.mit.edu SUMMARY:19th Annual Salute to Dr. Seuss DESCRIPTION:Gather around\, boys and girls of all ages\, for a celebration of the sublime and wacky world of Doctor Seuss. You will hear Prof. Henry Jenkins read from his works and talk about Seuss’s relationship to Modern Art and popular culture. We will also screen his remarkable live action feature film\, 5000 Fingers of Dr. T. An MIT Tradition marches forward. No need to enroll! All are welcome. URL:https://cms.mit.edu/event/19th-annual-salute-to-dr-seuss/ LOCATION:MIT Building 6\, Room 120\, 182 Memorial Drive (Rear)\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02139\, United States CATEGORIES:Independent Activities Period END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20090119T140000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20090119T160000 DTSTAMP:20260403T184808 CREATED:20140819T172526Z LAST-MODIFIED:20140819T172603Z UID:21439-1232373600-1232380800@cms.mit.edu SUMMARY:A short\, practical course on Focus Group Research in Academic and Corporate Settings: The Whys and Hows DESCRIPTION:Instructor: Cheryl K. Olson\, Sc.D.\, who is co-director of the Center for Mental Health and Media at MGH\, and splits her time between academic research and real-world consulting. She’ll use her own focus group studies with teens and parents about video games as teaching examples. \nContent includes: \n\nWhen and why to consider focus groups (qualitative studies) in academic or corporate research.\nUsing focus groups for media research.\nPlanning your research (from research questions to human subjects paperwork).\nDesigning a focus group protocol (questions and procedures).\nBudgets and practical concerns.\nRecruiting participants. URL:https://cms.mit.edu/event/focus-group-research-in-academic-and-corporate-settings/ LOCATION:MIT Building 26\, Room 142\, 60 Vassar Street\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02139\, United States CATEGORIES:Independent Activities Period END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20090118T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20090118T190000 DTSTAMP:20260403T184808 CREATED:20150325T182640Z LAST-MODIFIED:20150325T182640Z UID:21445-1232305200-1232305200@cms.mit.edu SUMMARY:Mystery Science Theater 3000 -- Jason and Generoso Fav Episodes DESCRIPTION:Comparative Media Studies’ Jason Begy and Generoso Fierro will be showing their favorite episodes and clips of Mystery Science Theater 3000. The Sunday session is FREE. URL:https://cms.mit.edu/event/mst3k-jason-generoso-fav-episodes/ LOCATION:MIT Building 6\, Room 120\, 182 Memorial Drive (Rear)\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02139\, United States CATEGORIES:Independent Activities Period END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20090112 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20090115 DTSTAMP:20260403T184808 CREATED:20141210T160031Z LAST-MODIFIED:20141210T160031Z UID:21440-1231718400-1231977599@cms.mit.edu SUMMARY:Experience Design Workshop: Taught by Razorfish DESCRIPTION:Nadya Direkova MIT Alum\, Senior Information Architect\, Razorfish; Generoso Fierro \nBuying e-tickets\, downloading a song\, chatting with friends on Facebook… you live through digital experiences every day. We invite you to learn how these experiences can be designed so that you can easily find and do what you want. Whether you are an engineer or designer\, this course will challenge you to start work by studying users – not technology – first. We’ll talk about user personas\, their moment-by-moment decisions and their full lifecycle relationship with your design. In the first part of the course\, we’ll present classic design practices\, digital trends and analyze experiences that work well and those that don’t. In the second part\, you will create a design document for a website of digital campaign. The class will end with a design competition. URL:https://cms.mit.edu/event/experience-design-workshop-razorfish/ LOCATION:MIT Building 1\, Room 134\, 33 Massachusetts Avenue\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02139\, United States CATEGORIES:Independent Activities Period ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://cms.mit.edu/wp/wp-content/uploads/2013/06/nadya.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20090111T130000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20090111T130000 DTSTAMP:20260403T184808 CREATED:20141202T155927Z LAST-MODIFIED:20141202T155927Z UID:21430-1231678800-1231678800@cms.mit.edu SUMMARY:Designing Serious Video Games for Autism Research and Therapy DESCRIPTION:Matthew Belmonte \nWhy use video games to do science? Well\, if you’ve ever participated in a psychology experiment\, you probably don’t remember it as being particularly entertaining! This is bad for all concerned\, the scientist isn’t going to get good data unless the subject is engaged with the task. My research group is answering this challenge by embedding experiments in a video game which we use to study autism. I’ll discuss the player-centred\, event-driven design philosophy behind the game\, talk about how neuroscientists and game designers work interactively to make the game relevant to people with autism spectrum conditions\, and describe our goals for making the game a platform not only to measure autistic cognitive skills\, but also to facilitate autistic cognitive skills by removing barriers to their expression. URL:https://cms.mit.edu/event/designing-serious-video-games-for-autism-research/ LOCATION:GAMBIT Game Lab\, 5 Cambridge Center\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02139\, United States CATEGORIES:Independent Activities Period END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20090109 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20090124 DTSTAMP:20260403T184808 CREATED:20141218T150741Z LAST-MODIFIED:20141218T150741Z UID:21441-1231459200-1232755199@cms.mit.edu SUMMARY:GAMBIT: Videogame Company Tours DESCRIPTION:GAMBIT\, a collaboration between the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and the government of Singapore created to explore new directions for the development of games as a medium. Philip Tan\, the executive director of US operations for GAMBIT will be leading tours of local video game companies to help you understand the day to day goings on of the rapidly growing video game industry. URL:https://cms.mit.edu/event/gambit-videogame-company-tours/ LOCATION:GAMBIT Game Lab\, 5 Cambridge Center\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02139\, United States CATEGORIES:Independent Activities Period ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://cms.mit.edu/wp/wp-content/uploads/2013/06/6311761004_549101914b_b.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20090108T100000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20090108T100000 DTSTAMP:20260403T184808 CREATED:20150302T195137Z LAST-MODIFIED:20150302T195137Z UID:21444-1231408800-1231408800@cms.mit.edu SUMMARY:Making Deep Games: An inspirational workshop about harnessing the power of metaphors for experience design DESCRIPTION:In this workshop\, attendees will learn how to become more conscious about the mechanisms of complex abstract concepts\, to pin down their evasive elements\, to translate them into concrete rule sets and to make them tangible via procedural metaphors. This workshop aims at demystifying complex abstract ideas such as HONOR\, REGRET\, LOYALTY or JUSTICE by teaching a methodology to analyse and dissect them. It is a step-by-step tutorial to foster awareness\, reflection\, inspiration and a systematic approach to the purposeful design of deep games. URL:https://cms.mit.edu/event/making-deep-games/ LOCATION:MIT Building N25\, Room 373\, 5 Cambridge Center\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02139\, United States CATEGORIES:Independent Activities Period END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20081121 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20081123 DTSTAMP:20260403T184808 CREATED:20140813T180640Z LAST-MODIFIED:20140813T180713Z UID:21495-1227225600-1227398399@cms.mit.edu SUMMARY:Futures of Entertainment 3 DESCRIPTION:Futures of Entertainment 3 \nFutures of Entertainment is organized around a “talk-show” style model\, with panelists participating in a moderated discussion. Over the last two years this produced great\, thorough treatments of the subject matter\, getting industry and academic speakers together but avoiding product pitches. \nThis year’s conference will work to bring together the themes from last year – media spreadability\, audiences and value\, social media\, distribution – with the Consortium’s new projects as we move towards an increasingly global understanding of media convergence and content flows. Topics for this year’s panels include global distribution systems and the challenges of moving content across borders\, transmedia\, franchising\, digital extensions and world building\, comics\, convergence and commerce\, social media and spreadability\, as well as renewed discussion about how and why to measure audience value. \nHead over to the program page to see what we’ll be discussing this year. URL:https://cms.mit.edu/event/futures-of-entertainment-3/ LOCATION:MIT Media Lab\, Bartos Theater\, 20 Ames Street\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02139\, United States CATEGORIES:Conference ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://cms.mit.edu/wp/wp-content/uploads/2009/01/Futures-of-Entertainment-3.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20081106T170000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20081106T190000 DTSTAMP:20260403T184808 CREATED:20150204T153418Z LAST-MODIFIED:20150204T153418Z UID:21297-1225990800-1225998000@cms.mit.edu SUMMARY:Lev Manovich DESCRIPTION:Lev Manovich\nLev Manovich is the author of Soft Cinema: Navigating the Database\, Black Box – White Cube\, and The Language of New Media\, which is hailed as “the most suggestive and broad ranging media history since Marshall McLuhan.” He has written 90+ articles which have been reprinted over 300 times in many countries. \nHe is a Professor in Visual Arts Department\, University of California-San Diego\, a Director of the Software Studies Initiative at California Institute for Telecommunications and Information Technology (CALIT2)\, and a Visiting Researcher at Godsmith College (London) and College of Fine Arts\, University of New South Wales (Sydney). He is much in demand to lecture around the world\, having delivered 270+ lectures\, seminars and workshops during the last 10 years. URL:https://cms.mit.edu/event/lev-manovich/ LOCATION:MIT Building 2\, Room 105\, 182 Memorial Drive\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02139\, United States CATEGORIES:Colloquium ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://cms.mit.edu/wp/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/Lev-Manovich.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20081103T170000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20081103T170000 DTSTAMP:20260403T184808 CREATED:20150303T192138Z LAST-MODIFIED:20150303T192138Z UID:21296-1225731600-1225731600@cms.mit.edu SUMMARY:Military Training and Compelling Experience DESCRIPTION:In this lecture\, Sharon Ghamari-Tabrizi will talk about the various meanings of what counts as a “compelling experience” for military simulation — and how this phrase “compelling experience” can be used as a thematic marker for differentiating the present moment from cold war-era immersive simulations. Ms. Ghamari-Tabrizi is an independent scholar currently living in Altamonte Springs\, Florida. She is the author of The Worlds of Herman Kahn: The Intuitive Science of Thermonuclear War (Harvard University Press\, 2005). \nCo-sponsored by the STS Colloquium. URL:https://cms.mit.edu/event/sharon-ghamari-tabrizi-military-training-compelling-experience/ LOCATION:MIT Building E51\, Room 095\, 70 Memorial Drive\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02139\, United States CATEGORIES:Colloquium END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20081023T170000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20081023T190000 DTSTAMP:20260403T184808 CREATED:20141106T203408Z LAST-MODIFIED:20141106T203408Z UID:21294-1224781200-1224788400@cms.mit.edu SUMMARY:Comics and Social Conflict DESCRIPTION:Comics have emerged as a key means of interpreting and disseminating controversial and contested histories: Chester Brown’s Louis Riel\, Keiji Nakazawa’s Barefoot Gen\, Joe Sacco’s Palestine\, and Marjane Satrapi’s Persepolis are just some of the works that take definitive social and political conflict as their topic. Why has historical material become so important for comics art? What unique opportunities does comics allow for critiquing and revising dominant historical narratives? These are the questions our speakers discussed\, in relation to their own work and to the comics world in general. \nDiana Tamblyn is writing a biography of Canadian arms trader and weapons engineer Gerald Bull; Ho Che Anderson authored King\, a 3-volume biography of MLK; and Jeet Heer is a historian and a leading comics scholar. URL:https://cms.mit.edu/event/comics-and-social-conflict/ LOCATION:MIT Building 2\, Room 105\, 182 Memorial Drive\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02139\, United States CATEGORIES:Colloquium ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://cms.mit.edu/wp/wp-content/uploads/2008/10/artworks-000049286921-l8jbkk-t200x200.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20081016T170000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20081016T190000 DTSTAMP:20260403T184808 CREATED:20140917T194554Z LAST-MODIFIED:20140917T194554Z UID:21293-1224176400-1224183600@cms.mit.edu SUMMARY:Books and Libraries in the Digital Age with Robert Darnton DESCRIPTION:Robert Darnton\nA pioneering scholar of the Enlightenment and of the history of the book\, Robert Darnton is the director of the University Library and the Carl H. Pforzheimer University Professor at Harvard. A former Rhodes Scholar and MacArthur Fellow\, his books include The Business of the Enlightenment: A Publishing History of the Encyclopedie\, The Great Cat Massacre: And Other Episodes in French Cultural History\, and The Forbidden Best-Sellers of Prerevolutionary France. He has written extensively on the impact of digital technologies on the culture of print and on the responsibilities of libraries in the computer age. \nIn this Forum\, Darnton discusses the emergence of the discipline of the history of the book\, the future of books and reading\, and his own vision of the ways in which new and old media can reinforce each other\, strengthening and transforming the world of learning. URL:https://cms.mit.edu/event/robert-darnton-books-and-libraries-in-the-digital-age/ LOCATION:MIT Media Lab\, Bartos Theater\, 20 Ames Street\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02139\, United States CATEGORIES:Communications Forum ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://cms.mit.edu/wp/wp-content/uploads/2008/10/artworks-000049284438-l2bc6u-t200x200.jpg END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR