Jenkins’ Farewell
MIT Media Lab, Bartos Theater 20 Ames Street, Cambridge, MAHenry Jenkins returns to talk about his scholarship on digital culture, founding Comparative Media Studies, and experiences as a teacher and housemaster.
MIT Graduate Program in Comparative Media Studies
Studying Media and Making Media
Loading view.
CMS 10th Anniversary Symposium
MIT Media Lab, Room 633 75 Amherst St., Cambridge, MAWe're hosting a day-long celebration looking back over the history of the program, featuring alumni, current students and researchers, and even former director Henry Jenkins.
12th Annual Media Spectacle
MIT Building 32 (Stata Center), Room 123 32 Vassar Street, Cambridge, MAThe event, founded by late CMS program administrator Chris Pomiecko, celebrates his love for filmmaking by showcasing the finest video projects created by MIT students, staff and faculty.
ROFLCon
Sponsored in part by CMS, ROFLCon is "Two days and two nights of the most epic internet culture conference ever assembled."
Graphical Expressions of Humanistic Interpretation in Digital Environments
MIT Media Lab, Bartos Theater 20 Ames Street, Cambridge, MAJohanna Drucker asks, "Are the standard metrics and conventions developed for analysis of empirical inquiries fundamentally at odds with tenets of traditional humanistic interpretation?"
The Imagination, Computation, and Expression Lab: Phantasmal Media
MIT Media Lab, Room 633 75 Amherst St., Cambridge, MAProfessor Fox Harrell's research group -- the Imagination, Computation, and Expression (ICE) Lab -- builds computational systems for expressing imaginative stories and concepts -- "phantasmal media" systems. In particular, his research uses artificial intelligence/cognitive science-based techniques to understanding the human imagination to invent and better understand new forms of computational narrative, identity, games, and related […]
Francisco Ricardo, “The Aesthetics of Projective Spatiality: New Media as Critical Objects”
MIT Building 4, Room 231 Cambridge, MAUsing physical and virtual examples, Ricardo examines the strange tension between unanimous acceptance of new media and materials and the frequent rejection of new forms and structures they have made possible.
Online Migration of Newspapers
MIT Media Lab, Bartos Theater 20 Ames Street, Cambridge, MADavid Carr and Dan Kennedy discuss the best and the worst examples of news on the net, online-only news sites, hyperlocal news and collaborative journalism, business models for online newspapers, and the impact of social media on journalism.
NGO2.0: When Social Action Meets Social Media
MIT Building 4, Room 231 Cambridge, MAProfessor Jing Wang will discuss the genesis and implementation of a civic media project, NGO2.0, that she conceptualized and launched in China in May 2009.
Humanities in the Digital Age
MIT Building 32 (Stata Center), Room 141 32 Vassar Street, Cambridge, MAWith Alison Byerly and Steven Pinker, we ask how digital tools and systems have already begun to transform humanistic education.
Civic Media and the Law
MIT Media Lab, Room 633 75 Amherst St., Cambridge, MAMicah Sifry and Daniel Schuman address the question: "What are the legal dangers for publishing secrets in the crowdsourced era?"
Public Communications in Slow-Moving Crises
MIT Building 4, Room 231 Cambridge, MAWhat new media tools and strategies can be used to help everyone better prepare for the unique communications challenges of slow-moving crises?
Amsterdam and New York: Transnational Photographic Exchange in the Era of Globalization
MIT Building 32 (Stata Center), Room 141 32 Vassar Street, Cambridge, MAChristoph Lindner is Professor of Literature and Director of the Amsterdam School for Cultural Analysis (ASCA) at the University of Amsterdam in the Netherlands.
Yves Citton: “The Humanities’ Choice: Knowledge Economy or Culture of Interpretation?”
MIT Building E40, Room 496 1 Amherst Street, Cambridge, MAA first-person anthropological report on a dive to the seafloor in the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution's three-person submersible, Alvin.
From Elsinore to Monkey Island: Theatre and Videogames as Performance Activities
MIT Building 2, Room 105 182 Memorial Drive, Cambridge, MAClara Fernández-Vara, a Comparative Media Studies alumna, explains her journey from researching Shakespeare in performance to studying and developing videogames.
Footer
The CMS graduate program has its home in Comparative Media Studies/Writing
Part of MIT's School of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences