Online Information Session
cms.mit.eduJoin us at 10am on November 21, 2011, here at cms.mit.edu!
MIT Graduate Program in Comparative Media Studies
Studying Media and Making Media
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The Family of Man and the Politics of Attention in Cold War America
MIT Media Lab, Room 633 75 Amherst St., Cambridge, MAThe Family of Man became an influential prototype of the immersive, multi-media environments of the 1960s – and of our own multiply mediated social world today.
Creative Industries, Micro-productivity and Social Learning: A Cultural Science Approach to Cultural and Media Studies
MIT Media Lab, Room 633 75 Amherst St., Cambridge, MAJohn Hartley on recent developments in the field of cultural and media studies, including an account of changes in the economy, culture and technology, and consequent initiatives in educational provision for the creative industries.
Designing Culture: The Technological Imagination at Work
MIT Media Lab, Room 633 75 Amherst St., Cambridge, MADrawing on her experiences working as part of collaborative research-design teams that combine art/science/design/engineering, Anne Balsamo will describe her new research on public interactives and the infrastructures of public intimacy.
Before Fox News: Right-Wing Broadcasting, Cold War America, and the Conservative Movement
MIT Media Lab, Room 633 75 Amherst St., Cambridge, MARight-wing broadcasting was reborn when Reagan suspended the Fairness Doctrine in 1987, enabling the rise of Rush Limbaugh, and Fox News shortly thereafter.
Hacker Movies!
MIT Building E15, Room 344 20 Ames Street, Cambridge, MAWe'll be watching some classic (and not so classic) examples from the genre, looking at how the depiction of hacker characters has changed.
Introduction to Knitting
MIT Building E15, Room 320 20 Ames Street, Cambridge, MAStart a hat and keep warm in January! The basic knitting stitches will be taught during the mandatory first session.
Konstantin Mitgutsch: “Purposeful Games: Research & Design”
Comparative Media Studies: MIT Building E15, Room 335 20 Ames St., Cambridge, MAA new trend of designing video games intended to fulfill a serious purpose through impacting the players in real life contexts has emerged.
Alternate Reality Game (ARG) Creation Workshop
During this workshop, groups of students will develop an ARG for the MIT Libraries to use as an orientation activity.
Professional Play and the E-sports Industry
Comparative Media Studies: MIT Building E15, Room 335 20 Ames St., Cambridge, MAT.L. Taylor on the issues around the ownership of e-sports playing fields, and the status of player action within them.
Contemporary Network Television News Reporting About Latinos: Successes, Failures, and a Range of Proposals to Correct Its Limitations
MIT Media Lab, Bartos Theater 20 Ames Street, Cambridge, MAOtto Santa Anna presents findings from his book, Juan in a Hundred: Faces and Stories of Latinos on the Network News.
Performing Videogame Narratives in Space: Indexical Storytelling
Comparative Media Studies: MIT Building E15, Room 335 20 Ames St., Cambridge, MAClara Fernández-Vara compares and contrasts videogames with theatre to understand how they can incorporate narratives as part of the performance.
Games and Journalism
MIT Media Lab, Room 633 75 Amherst St., Cambridge, MAHeather Chaplin on "emerging thinking on ideas about game literacies and the acceptance of games as facilitators of transformative experiences."
Media Culture in the Occupy Movement: from the People’s Mic to GlobalRevolution.tv
MIT Building 2, Room 105 182 Memorial Drive, Cambridge, MASasha Costanza-Chock investigates media practices in the Occupy movement and develops an analytical framework of social movement media culture.
The Color of Seawater Through a Picture Window
MIT Media Lab, Room 633 75 Amherst St., Cambridge, MAKelley will show selections of his recent projects and related narrative and ethnographic films, as well as rehearse a lecture/performance about architectural morphology and global tourism.
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