Online Information Session
cms.mit.eduJoin us at 10am on October 10, 2011, here at cms.mit.edu! RSVP not required, but sign up for a reminder.
MIT Graduate Program in Comparative Media Studies
Studying Media and Making Media
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Federico Casalegno: “Designing Connections”
MIT Building 4, Room 231 Cambridge, MAMIT Mobile Experience Lab's Federico Casalegno on innovative ways to design creative new media and digital interactions to foster connections between people, information, and places.
Revision, Culture, and the Machine: How Digital Makes Us Human
MIT Building 4, Room 231 Cambridge, MAJohn Bryant will draw upon examples from revision studies, adaptation, and translation in order to highlight the elements of creativity, appropriation, and cultural difference that are at stake in dealing with the ethics and editing of revision.
Sandra Braman: “Frames, Fractures, and Skins: Internet Design as Social Policy”
MIT Building E51, Room 275 70 Memorial Drive, Cambridge, MASandra Braman on how "those responsible for technical design of the Internet have found they must think through a number of social policy issues along the way."
Marina Bers, “The Design of Digital Experiences for Positive Youth Development”
MIT Media Lab, Room 633 75 Amherst St., Cambridge, MAThis talk by Marina Bers will focus on digital spaces to support positive youth development.
Graduate Program Information Session
CMS/W Headquarters (E15-331) 20 Ames Street, Cambridge, MA
Cities and the Future of Entertainment
MIT Media Lab, Bartos Theater 20 Ames Street, Cambridge, MAAs a prologue to the Futures of Entertainment conference, this Forum will focus on the emergence of powerful new production cultures in such cities as Mumbai, Shanghai, and Rio de Janeiro.
Cities and the Future of Entertainment
MIT Media Lab, Bartos Theater 20 Ames Street, Cambridge, MAWhat is the likely impact on audiences and on the international media landscape of such cities as Mumbai, Shanghai, and Rio de Janeiro?
Mimi Ito, “Fandom Unbound: Otaku Culture in a Connected World”
MIT Media Lab, Room 633 75 Amherst St., Cambridge, MAMimi Ito, cultural anthropologist, discusses how this once marginalized popular culture came to play a major role in Japan’s identity at home and abroad.
Fandom Unbound: Otaku Culture in a Connected World
MIT Media Lab, Room 633 75 Amherst St., Cambridge, MABy exploring the rich variety of otaku culture from multiple perspectives, Mimi Ito will provide fascinating insights into the present and future of cultural production and distribution in the digital age.
Online Information Session
cms.mit.eduJoin us at 10am on November 21, 2011, here at cms.mit.edu!
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.
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