2009 Julius Schwartz Lecture with J. Michael Straczynski
MIT Building 10, Room 250 222 Memorial Drive, Cambridge, MAThe second annual Julius Schwartz Lecture brings J. Michael Straczynski, the creator of the cult science fiction hit Babylon 5.
MIT Graduate Program in Comparative Media Studies
Studying Media and Making Media
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Fantasy Freaks and Gaming Geeks
MIT Building 4, Room 231 Cambridge, MAEthan Gilsdorf will discuss some of the themes of his new book, Fantasy Freaks and Gaming Geeks: An Epic Quest for Reality Among Role Players, Online Gamers, and Other Dwellers of Imaginary Realms.
How Not to Be Seen
MIT Building 4, Room 231 Cambridge, MAHannah Rose Shell screens and discusses her film-in-progress, called Blind, about the phenomenology of camouflage.
Race, Politics and American Media
MIT Media Lab, Bartos Theater 20 Ames Street, Cambridge, MAThe election of an African-American president in Nov. 2008 has been hailed as a transforming event. But has Obama's ascension transformed anything?
Political Remix Video: A Participatory Post-Modern Critique of Popular Culture
MIT Building 4, Room 231 Cambridge, MAElisa Kreisinger is a video remix artist, hacktivst and writer. She co-edits the blog, PoliticalRemixVideo.com.
Richard Rouse, “Cinematic Games”
MIT Building 4, Room 231 Cambridge, MARichard Rouse on the ways cinematic techniques can be used in gameplay to create even more stimulating experiences for gamers.
Booklife: The Private and the Public in Transmedia Storytelling and Self-Promotion
MIT Building 4, Room 231 Cambridge, MAWhat 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
Futures of Entertainment 4 once again brings together key industry leaders and academic scholars who are shaping these new directions in our culture.
Comparative Media Insights: “The Googlization of Everything”
MIT Building 14N, Room 313 160 Memorial Drive, Cambridge, MASiva Vaidhyanathan asks, what are we really gaining and losing by inviting Google to be the lens through which we view the world?
Comparative Media Insights: “Viva Las Vegas: a Neo-Baroque Conception of the World”
MIT Building 14N, Room 313 160 Memorial Drive, Cambridge, MAAngela 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.
Comparative Media Insights: “Art of the Impossible: Utopia, Imagination, and Critical Media Practice”
MIT Building 14E, Room 310 160 Memorial Drive, Cambridge, MAStephen Duncombe asks, does the traditional truth-revealing role of critical media practice still have any political relevance?
Comparative Media Insights: “From Gamer Theory to Critical Practice”
MIT Building 14E, Room 310 160 Memorial Drive, Cambridge, MAHow can media studies be both in and of the emergent media forms, and yet retain a creative and critical distance from them?
Comparative Media Insights: “Race, Rights, and Virtual Worlds: Digital Games as Spaces of Labor Migration”
MIT Building 14E, Room 310 160 Memorial Drive, Cambridge, MAIf 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.
Board/Card Game Design – Expansions
MIT Building 2, Room 135 182 Memorial Drive, Cambridge, MAEver played a board game and thought it was missing something? That you could make it better?
Button Mash: Gender and Gaming at MIT
MIT Building N25, Room 373 5 Cambridge Center, Cambridge, MAIssues around gender and gaming, as well as an opportunity for female MIT students who play digital games to come together to talk and play.
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