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.
MIT Graduate Program in Comparative Media Studies
Studying Media and Making Media
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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.
Jason Mittell: “Strategies of Storytelling in Transmedia Television”
MIT Media Lab, Room 633 75 Amherst St., Cambridge, MAMiddlebury's Jason Mittell on how television narratives have expanded and been complicated through transmedia extensions, including video games, novelizations, websites, online video, and alternate reality games.
Vicki Mayer: “Where ‘Home’ Is: Film Production Economies and the Privatization of Space”
MIT Media Lab, Room 633 75 Amherst St., Cambridge, MAVicki Mayer speaks on the impacts of regional policies for film production on ordinary people’s understandings of time, space and place.
Miguel Sicart: “Play in the Age of Computing Machinery”
MIT Media Lab, Room 633 75 Amherst St., Cambridge, MAGames scholar Miguel Sicart of the IT University of Copenhagen looks at the culture, aesthetics, and technological implications of play in the age of computers.
Jonathan Sterne, “Who Tunes Whom?: Auto-Tune, the Earth, and the Politics of Frequency”
MIT Media Lab, Room 633 75 Amherst St., Cambridge, MAMcGill'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.
Meredith Schweig and Rebecca Dirksen: “Taiwanese Rap and Haitian Music and Reconstruction”
MIT Media Lab, Room 633 75 Amherst St., Cambridge, MAIn this presentation, Meredith Schweig explores the gender politics and practices of the Taiwan rap scene.
Henry Jenkins Returns
MIT Building 4, Room 370 182 Memorial Drive (Rear), Cambridge, MALegendary 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, “Squeaky Dolphin to Normcore: Anxiety and Big Data Culture”
MIT Building 4, Room 231 Cambridge, MAKate 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 and The Antidote: Reporting from Inside the World of Big Pharma
MIT Media Lab, Room 633 75 Amherst St., Cambridge, MABarry 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.
Science in Fiction
MIT Stata Center, Room 155 32 Vassar Street, Cambridge, MAHanya Yanagihara, Alan Lightman, and Rebecca Goldstein discuss the unique challenges of respecting the exacting standards of science in fictional texts.
Comparative Media Studies Thesis Day
MIT Student Center Room 407 84 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge, MAJoin CMS/W for thesis presentations by students in the Comparative Media Studies masters program. Free and open to the public.
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