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.
MIT Graduate Program in Comparative Media Studies
Studying Media and Making Media
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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.
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.
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