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."
MIT Graduate Program in Comparative Media Studies
Studying Media and Making Media
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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?
How To Wreck A Nice Speech: Hearing Things With The Vocoder, From World War II To Hip-Hop
MIT Media Lab, Room 633 75 Amherst St., Cambridge, MADave Tompkins' How To Wreck A Nice Beach is about hearing things, from a misunderstood technology which in itself often spoke under conditions of anonymity.
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."
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.
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