CMS Alumni Panel
MIT Building 4, Room 231 Cambridge, MAThree Comparative Media Studies alums -- Sam Ford, Rekha Murthy, and Parmesh Shahani -- return to discuss their post-graduate lives.
MIT Graduate Program in Comparative Media Studies
Studying Media and Making Media
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Online Information Session, CMS Graduate Program
Join us at 9am on October 24th, here at cmsw.mit.edu! RSVP not required, but sign up for a reminder.
On-campus Information Session, CMS Graduate Program
MIT Building E51, Room 095 70 Memorial Drive, Cambridge, MAIf you would like to attend this on-campus information session, please register at Eventbrite (http://mitsha.re/1pU0Eup).
Town Meeting
MIT Building 4, Room 231 Cambridge, MAFor the CMS/W family only, this is the annual discussion between the program's community members and directors.
Online Information Session, CMS Graduate Program
Join us at 3pm on November 21, here at cmsw.mit.edu! RSVP not required, but sign up for a reminder.
Making Computing Strange: Cultural Analytics and Phantasmal Media
MIT Building 66, Room 110 25 Ames Street, Cambridge, MAWith Lev Manovich, author of the seminal The Language of New Media, and MIT's Fox Harrell and Nick Montfort.
Documentaries, Journalism, and the Future of Reality-Based Storytelling
With Raney Aronson of FRONTLINE, the Guardian's multimedia special projects editor Francesca Panetta, documentary filmmaker Katerina Cizek, and Jason Spingarn-Kopf of the New York Times' Op-Docs.
Disney Fairies Film Series
MIT Building 2, Room 105 182 Memorial Drive, Cambridge, MAThe mostly-female cast is generally portrayed as being extremely competent and working collectively to solve problems, even as the films fall back on formulaic personality conflicts.
A Conversation about Digital Humanities: What’s It All About?
MIT Building 14N, Room 217 160 Memorial Drive, Cambridge, MALet's talk about the impact of computation on the humanities, about where it can takes us, and about what it means to use this lens on our scholarship. And who's doing what where in DH at MIT?
Knitting for Programmers
Comparative Media Studies: MIT Building E15, Room 335 20 Ames St., Cambridge, MA"A knitting pattern is actually a more or less complex algorithm with the difference being that the output is directly wearable like 3D printing."
Collaborative Insights through Digital Annotation: A Workshop
MIT Building 66, Room 110 25 Ames Street, Cambridge, MADigitally based knowledge has reevaluate their existing pedagogical methods. In this workshop, we investigate one possible solution to this challenge: digital annotation.
Bobbie Chase and Marjorie Liu on the State of the Comic Book Medium
MIT Building 4, Room 231 Cambridge, MAJoin Bobbie Chase, Editorial Director of DC Comics, and comic book writer Marjorie Liu (Monstress, Astonishing X-Men, Black Widow) as they discuss the current and future state of the comic book medium.
Illuminated Bodies: Kat Von D, LA Ink, and the Borderlands of Tattoo Culture
MIT Building 4, Room 231 Cambridge, MATheresa Rojas examines the prolific, heavily tattooed Kat Von D, who offers an aesthetic that challenges tattoo culture and notions of the “monstrous body”.
Gonzalo Frasca: “Play, Videogames and Education Reform”
MIT Building 32 (Stata Center), Room 141 32 Vassar Street, Cambridge, MAokidOkO's Gonzalo Frasca shows us how we should create games that are both useful and effective inside and outside the classroom.
Women in Science
MIT Building 66, Room 110 25 Ames Street, Cambridge, MAComputational geneticist Pardis Sabeti and energy studies expert Jessika Trancik will discuss their careers and the outlook for women in science in the 21st century.
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