Born Digital
MIT Media Lab, Room 633 75 Amherst St., Cambridge, MAOn Oct. 10, John Palfrey and Ethan Zuckerman discuss whether those born digital likely to have different notions of privacy, community, identity itself.
MIT Graduate Program in Comparative Media Studies
Studying Media and Making Media
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Zeynep Tufekci: “The Boom-Bust Cycle of Social Media-Fueled Protests”
MIT Media Lab, Room 633 75 Amherst St., Cambridge, MAUNC's Zeynep Tufekci discusses social media-fueled protests and their boom and bust cycle, drawing on the Gezi protests, Arab Spring, Occupy, and others.
On-campus Information Session, CMS Graduate Program
MIT Building E51, Room 095 70 Memorial Drive, Cambridge, MAOctober 24, 2013. If you would like to attend an on-campus information session, please RSVP to cms-admissions@mit.edu.
Coco Fusco: “A Performance Approach to Primate Politics”
MIT Media Lab, Room 633 75 Amherst St., Cambridge, MACoco Fusco New York-based interdisciplinary artist and writer Coco Fusco will consider the critical responses to the original Planet of the Apes films, focusing in particular on the interpretation of the films as critiques of American race relations during the 1960's and '70's. She will also discuss her interest in exploring the strategies used in […]
Online Information Session, CMS Graduate Program
http://irc.lc/freenode/cmsinfoRSVP not required for online sessions. To participate, simply come to this page during session hours.
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.
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