MIT Graduate Program in Comparative Media Studies
Studying Media and Making Media
Drawing 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.
Right-wing broadcasting was reborn when Reagan suspended the Fairness Doctrine in 1987, enabling the rise of Rush Limbaugh, and Fox News shortly thereafter.
We'll be watching some classic (and not so classic) examples from the genre, looking at how the depiction of hacker characters has changed.
Start a hat and keep warm in January! The basic knitting stitches will be taught during the mandatory first session.
A new trend of designing video games intended to fulfill a serious purpose through impacting the players in real life contexts has emerged.
During this workshop, groups of students will develop an ARG for the MIT Libraries to use as an orientation activity.
T.L. Taylor on the issues around the ownership of e-sports playing fields, and the status of player action within them.
Otto Santa Anna presents findings from his book, Juan in a Hundred: Faces and Stories of Latinos on the Network News.
Clara Fernández-Vara compares and contrasts videogames with theatre to understand how they can incorporate narratives as part of the performance.
Heather Chaplin on "emerging thinking on ideas about game literacies and the acceptance of games as facilitators of transformative experiences."
Sasha Costanza-Chock investigates media practices in the Occupy movement and develops an analytical framework of social movement media culture.
Kelley 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.
The 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.
How can professional reporters and editors help to assure that quality journalism will be recognized and valued in our brave new digital world?
Johanna Drucker tells us how designers have a major role to play in the collaborative envisioning of new formats and processes.
