The News as a Social Process for Improving Society
MIT Media Lab, Room 633 75 Amherst St., Cambridge, MAYves Citton: "While machines can 'read' data, only human subjectivities can 'interpret' them."
MIT Graduate Program in Comparative Media Studies
Studying Media and Making Media
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Games by the Book: An Exhibit
Hayden Memorial Library 160 Memorial Drive, Cambridge, MAThe games showcased in this exhibit demonstrate that there is a wide variety of approaches one can follow in adapting literary works into games.
George Lakoff, “The Brain’s Politics: How Campaigns Are Framed and Why”
MIT Media Lab, Bartos Theater 20 Ames Street, Cambridge, MAEverything we learn, know and understand is physical — a matter of brain circuitry. This basic fact has deep implications for how politics is understood, how campaigns are framed, why conservatives and progressives talk past each other, and why progressives have more problems framing messages than conservatives do — and what they can do about it.
Artist-Audience Relations in the Age of Social Media
MIT Building 4, Room 231 Cambridge, MANancy Baym asks, "How does direct access to fans change what it means to be an artist? What rewards are there that weren't before?"
On-Campus Information Session
Comparative Media Studies: MIT Building E15, Room 335 20 Ames St., Cambridge, MASeptember 20, 2012. If you would like to attend an on-campus info session, please RSVP to cms-admissions@mit.edu.
Jim Bizzocchi, “Close-Reading Media Poetics”
MIT Media Lab, Room 633 75 Amherst St., Cambridge, MAClose reading requires that the scholar immerse herself in the experience of the text on its own terms, and at the same time maintain a critical distance.
Games in Everyday Life and Why That Matters to You
Tang Center 70 Memorial Drive, Cambridge, MAWhat can finance, health care, philanthropy, and education learn from cutting-edge games and game theory?
Script as Image
MIT Media Lab, Room 633 75 Amherst St., Cambridge, MAJeffrey Hamburger surveys the many aspects of medieval script as a pictorial form, using examples from Late Antiquity to the late Middle Ages and beyond.
Online Information Session
cms.mit.eduJoin us at 10am on October 4, 2012, here at cms.mit.edu!
Gediminas Urbonas
MIT Building 4, Room 231 Cambridge, MAGediminas Urbonas is artist and educator, and co-founder of Urbonas Studio, an interdisciplinary research program that advocates for the reclamation of public culture.
On-Campus Information Session
Comparative Media Studies: MIT Building E15, Room 335 20 Ames St., Cambridge, MAIf you would like to attend an on-campus info session, please RSVP to cms-admissions@mit.edu.
Online Information Session
cms.mit.eduJoin us at 10am on November 1, 2012, here at cms.mit.edu!
Digitizing the Culture of Print: The Digital Public Library of America and Other Urgent Projects
MIT Media Lab, Room 633 75 Amherst St., Cambridge, MAWhat urgent initiatives are underway to assure universal access to our print inheritance and to the digital communication forms of the future?
New Media in West Africa
MIT Building E25, Room 111 45 Carleton Street, Cambridge, MAHow has Nigerian cinema in particular influenced local television and film markets in other countries across West Africa, and across the continent?
Futures of Entertainment 6
MIT Building E51, Wong Auditorium 70 Memorial Drive, Cambridge, MAThis year's event, Nov. 9-10 at MIT, will look at how media producers and audiences are relating to one another in new ways in a spreadable media landscape.
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