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.
MIT Graduate Program in Comparative Media Studies
Studying Media and Making Media
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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.
Mapping the Urban Database Documentary
MIT Media Lab, Room 633 75 Amherst St., Cambridge, MAThe urban database documentary is a mode of media art practice that uses structural systems as generative processes and organizational frameworks to explore the lived experience of place.
Adapting Journalism to the Web
MIT Media Lab, Room 633 75 Amherst St., Cambridge, MAHow can professional reporters and editors help to assure that quality journalism will be recognized and valued in our brave new digital world?
Designing Digital Humanities
MIT Building 2, Room 105 182 Memorial Drive, Cambridge, MAJohanna Drucker tells us how designers have a major role to play in the collaborative envisioning of new formats and processes.
14th Annual CMS Media Spectacle
MIT Building 32 (Stata Center), Room 155 32 Vassar Street, Cambridge, MAMedia Spectacle prizes include the Chris Pomiecko Award for Best Undergraduate Entry, as well as awards for Best Non-undergraduate Entry, Animation, and more.
ROFLCon 2012
"Informed commentators suggest that this may be the most important gathering of humanity since the fall of the tower of Babel."
Electronic Literature and Future Books
MIT Media Lab, Bartos Theater 20 Ames Street, Cambridge, MAHow has electronic literature influenced other media, including the Web and the book? What are the implications of having literary projects in the digital sphere alongside other forms of communication and art?
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