MIT Graduate Program in Comparative Media Studies
Studying Media and Making Media
McGill's Jonathan Sterne gives a cultural history of auto-tune as a form of signal processing, drawing on patent documents, interviews, operational protocols, tuning standards and competing acoustemologies.
In this presentation, Meredith Schweig explores the gender politics and practices of the Taiwan rap scene.
Legendary former MIT professor and housemaster Henry Jenkins returns to the Forum for a conversation about his time at the Institute and the founding of CMS as well as his path-breaking scholarship on contemporary media.
Kate Crawford is a Principal Researcher at Microsoft Research (Social Media Collective) and a Visiting Professor at the MIT Center for Civic Media. She is currently working on a new book.
Barry Werth's most recent book, The Antidote: Inside the World of Big Pharma, gives an unprecedented behind-the-scenes look at how a cash-starved startup became one of the great triumphs of American bio-tech innovation.
Hanya Yanagihara, Alan Lightman, and Rebecca Goldstein discuss the unique challenges of respecting the exacting standards of science in fictional texts.
Join CMS/W for thesis presentations by students in the Comparative Media Studies masters program. Free and open to the public.
Susan Murray on the discourses that framed and managed color use and reception not only in the standardization period, but also during RCA and NBC's early attempts to sell color to consumers, sponsors, and critics.
A reading and discussion with authors Gaiutra Bahadur and Vivek Bald.
Using the tools of online textual annotation, readers can collaborate on annotating or interpreting a work, make their annotations public, and respond to interpretations by others.
Showcasing video projects created by MIT students, staff, faculty and affiliates. Entry deadline: April 21.
In this talk Tarleton Gillespie will highlight one particular dimension of these algorithms, their production of calculated publics: algorithmically produced snapshots of the “public” around us and what most concerns it.
The new documentary "The Internet's Own Boy" follows the story of programming prodigy and information activist Aaron Swartz.
Gaming in Color is a full length documentary of the story of the queer gaming community, gaymer culture and events, and the rise of LGBTQ themes in video games.
Hear what happened when six Comparative Media Studies graduate students went to Lima in April to work with some of Peru's most promising entrepreneurs in the creative industries.
