MIT Graduate Program in Comparative Media Studies
Studying Media and Making Media
Hector Postigo's presentation develops a framework for understanding how social media’s technical feature-sets create a system of capture and conversion.
Mark Turner's research on the cognitive underpinnings of network news, with an emphasis on blended joint attention, story-telling, counterfactuality, and hypotheticals.
GO ASK A.L.I.C.E explores the strange afterlife of the Turing Test as it has circulated in popular, scientific, and commercial cultures.
Independent film-maker Andrew Silver will discuss emerging forms of hybrid media, some promising new pathways for distributing films and his career as a director and producer.
Draft a thesis proposal, thesis chapter, journal article, progress report, or specification, and review basics of engineering writing.
Join other writers to get advice about your own writing, to help other writers, or to get inspiration to write something to share with the group.
The Writing and Communications Center will offer free consultation on oral presentations and any writing problem.
The goal of this class is to provide frameworks and hands on experience in analyzing data collected through interviews, observations and other qualitative methods.
Let's talk about what it means to start reading code differently, as cultural objects and statements. Let's raise the questions that need to be raised.
We will trace the development in mass media of the evolution of alchemists into mad scientists, using the films "Faust," "Metropolis," "The Bride of Frankenstein," and "Dr. Strangelove" as our texts.
You're invited to get in on the ground floor of developing an MIT-themed web series for debut in 2014!
A workshop exploring the role of space in storytelling and how artists can use the tools of game design to construct complex narratives.
In this workshop, we'll analyze sample abstracts from different fields, learn editing strategies, and practice revising abstracts.
Modit is currently in private beta but in this workshop, we will showcase our HTML5 game development.
The Festival of Learning is a two-day festival, where anyone from MIT's Media Lab buildings (E14 and E15) can teach, learn, and collaborate!
