Online Information Session, CMS Graduate Program
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MIT Graduate Program in Comparative Media Studies
Studying Media and Making Media
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Online Information Session
cms.mit.eduJoin us at 2pm on October 31, 2013, here at cms.mit.edu!
Todd Harper: “Fight Like Gentlemen: The Culture of Fighting Games”
MIT Building 4, Room 231 Cambridge, MAA talk on the fighting game community, its spiritual and physical roots in the arcade, common practices, and how issues of ethnicity and gender collide.
Sonia Livingstone: “The Class: Living and Learning in the Digital Age”
MIT Media Lab, Room 633 75 Amherst St., Cambridge, MASonia Livingstone will examine how powerful forces of social reproduction result in missed opportunities for many youth in the risk society.
Nelly Rosario: “Noble Strains: Thoughts on a Hybridized Identity”
Boston College, Devlin Hall, Room 101 Boston College Campus, Chestnut Hill, MANelly Rosario’s hybrid talk presents a mash-up of genres to explore the benefits and pitfalls of hybridity as identity in these “post-racial” times.
Visualizing Information: ChartGirl on an Alternate Route to Understanding and Explaining Complicated Information
MIT Building 4, Room 231 Cambridge, MANovember 14, we hear from Hilary Sargent of ChartGirl.com -- one of TIME's 50 Best Websites -- where she makes charts to describe complicated news stories.
Mary Flanagan
MIT Building 4, Room 231 Cambridge, MAPushing the boundaries of medium and genre across writing, visual arts, and design to innovate in these fields with a critical play centered approach.
MIT Alumni in the Game Industry
MIT Building 32 (Stata Center), Room 155 32 Vassar Street, Cambridge, MAThe MIT Game Lab has invited a number of local MIT alumni in the game industry to talk about their experiences entering the industry.
Long-form Journalism: Inside The Atlantic
MIT Building 66, Room 110 25 Ames Street, Cambridge, MAJames Fallows and Corby Kummer of The Atlantic chart the journey of a major feature story from conception to publication and speculate about the future of long-form journalism in the digital age.
Push Button Game Jam
MIT Building 32 (Stata Center), Room 124 32 Vassar Street, Cambridge, MAStudents who attend will form teams and create design and technical prototypes that will eventually become full fledged games by the end of the month.
Global Game Jam 2014 at MIT
The Global Game Jam is the world’s largest game jam event taking place around the world at physical locations, a 48-hour a hackathon focused on game development.
Mary Flanagan, “Humanist Inquiry Through Critical Play: Designing and Enacting our Enduring Questions”
MIT Media Lab, Room 633 75 Amherst St., Cambridge, MAIn this talk, Dartmouth's Mary Flanagan reveals how games can be sources of deep human inquiry and introspection.
Aswin Punathambekar: “Media, Sociability, and Political Potentials in Contemporary India”
MIT Media Lab, Room 633 75 Amherst St., Cambridge, MAInstead of a narrow emphasis on political effects, Aswin Punathambekar draws on a range of cases across India, China, and the Middle East to ask: what happens when such phases of participation fade away?
Gregory Heyworth: “Textual Science and the Future of the Past”
MIT Building 3, Room 133 33 Massachusetts Ave, Cambridge, MATextual Science, as Gregory Heyworth argues, is poised to change the established order of things. With images of recovered works, many previously unseen, this talk will chart the way ahead in theory and praxis.
Michael Curtin: “The Burdens of Official Aspiration: National Policy in the Age of Global Media”
MIT Media Lab, Room 633 75 Amherst St., Cambridge, MAUCSB's Michael Curtin explores the implications of national cultural policy within the broader context of media globalization.
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