MIT Graduate Program in Comparative Media Studies
Studying Media and Making Media
What are the benefits and dangers of a confusion between the private creativity and the public career elements of a writer's life?
Futures of Entertainment 4 once again brings together key industry leaders and academic scholars who are shaping these new directions in our culture.
Siva Vaidhyanathan asks, what are we really gaining and losing by inviting Google to be the lens through which we view the world?
Angela Ndalianis analyze how Las Vegas -- a city-as-monument to entertainment and leisure culture -- has appropriated tropes and modes of engagement taken from pre-20th Century high culture traditions of the Church and aristocracy.
Stephen Duncombe asks, does the traditional truth-revealing role of critical media practice still have any political relevance?
How can media studies be both in and of the emergent media forms, and yet retain a creative and critical distance from them?
If virtual world users' claims to citizenship and sovereignty within those worlds are to be taken seriously, so too must the question of "gray collar" or semi-legal virtual laborers.
Ever played a board game and thought it was missing something? That you could make it better?
Issues around gender and gaming, as well as an opportunity for female MIT students who play digital games to come together to talk and play.
Joel Burges and Wayne Marshall will contribute to the rethinking of media studies at MIT by taking up the shared metaphor of fashion.
Combining music documentary and social documentary, Mutiny: Asians Storm British Music charts the meteoric rise of South Asian music in 1990's Britain. Featuring: Asian Dub Foundation, Talvin Singh, State of Bengal, Fun-Da-Mental, Anjali, DJ Ritu, Black Star Liner and many others.
This talk will describe how looking at the code and platform levels can enhance our comparative media studies of computational works.
Participants will independently seek sponsorship on a dollar/hour basis with all proceeds going directly to relief efforts in Haiti.
The New England premiere of the anime feature film "Summer Wars" (2009, Director Mamoru Hosoda, Madhouse / Kadokawa). The director and producer of the film, both based in Japan, will be present at the screening and will participate in a Q&A/discussion after the film.
