MIT Graduate Program in Comparative Media Studies
Studying Media and Making Media
A first-person anthropological report on a dive to the seafloor in the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution's three-person submersible, Alvin.
Clara Fernández-Vara, a Comparative Media Studies alumna, explains her journey from researching Shakespeare in performance to studying and developing videogames.
As newspapers continue their mutation into digital formats and as news and information are available from a seeming infinity of websites, what do we actually know about the dynamics of news-consumption online?
John Ellis will argue that "Films are now seen as documents of interactions rather than expositions of fact."
Sherry Turkle, eminent MIT professor and author most recently of Alone, Together, discusses her darkening view of our digitizing world.
In the Age of Always Connect, are we witnessing a plague of oversharing? Are social networks its vectors of transmission? Is this the "Death of Shame"?
An honored tradition returns this Spring when CMS presents the thirteenth annual Media Spectacle.
Richard Rogers proposes a research practice that grounds claims about cultural change and societal conditions in online dynamics.
What kind of popular culture is made in the context of war? How do notions of civil rights shift in a post-Civil Rights era?
Has the digital age confirmed and exponentially increased the cultural instability and creative destruction that are often said to define advanced capitalism?
This Forum will assess the state of local journalism, paying special attention to the changing environment for news in New England.
An information session for the graduate program in Comparative Media Studies.
Attendees will learn about a variety of game mechanisms through discussions of exemplar games and see how these games relate.
Hye Jean Chung’s talk will explore how digital effects are not only used to mediate the real but to replace or enhance human capabilities via cyborgian hybrids.
Join us at 10am on October 10, 2011, here at cms.mit.edu! RSVP not required, but sign up for a reminder.
