MIT Graduate Program in Comparative Media Studies
Studying Media and Making Media
Ian Condry on the prevalence of giant robots in anime and Cynthia Breazeal on how science fiction has influenced the development of real robotic systems.
Limited to CMS faculty, students, and invitees, this is CMS's semesterly forum to discuss candidly the successes, challenges, and direction of the program.
Minnesota Public Radio's Linda Fantin and Sunlight Foundation's Ellen Miller discuss how new ways of gathering and presenting information are evolving from a nexus of government openness and digital connectedness.
Is our emerging digital culture partly a return to practices and ways of thinking that were central to human societies before the advent of the printing press?
Filmmakers Chris Boebel and Chris Walley on the making of Exit Zero, an in-progress documentary film about deindustrialization, community, class, and family in a former steel mill region in southeast Chicago.
Henry Jenkins returns to talk about his scholarship on digital culture, founding Comparative Media Studies, and experiences as a teacher and housemaster.
We'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.
The 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.
Sponsored in part by CMS, ROFLCon is "Two days and two nights of the most epic internet culture conference ever assembled."
Johanna Drucker asks, "Are the standard metrics and conventions developed for analysis of empirical inquiries fundamentally at odds with tenets of traditional humanistic interpretation?"
Professor 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 […]
Using 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.
David 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.
Professor 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.
With Alison Byerly and Steven Pinker, we ask how digital tools and systems have already begun to transform humanistic education.
