Designing Serious Video Games for Autism Research and Therapy
GAMBIT Game Lab 5 Cambridge Center, Cambridge, MAMy research group is answering this challenge by embedding experiments in a video game which we use to study autism.
MIT Graduate Program in Comparative Media Studies
Studying Media and Making Media
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Experience Design Workshop: Taught by Razorfish
MIT Building 1, Room 134 33 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge, MAWhether you are an engineer or designer, this course will challenge you to start work by studying users – not technology – first.
Mystery Science Theater 3000 — Jason and Generoso Fav Episodes
MIT Building 6, Room 120 182 Memorial Drive (Rear), Cambridge, MAComparative Media Studies' Jason Begy and Generoso Fierro will be showing their favorite episodes and clips of Mystery Science Theater 3000. The Sunday session is FREE.
A short, practical course on Focus Group Research in Academic and Corporate Settings: The Whys and Hows
MIT Building 26, Room 142 60 Vassar Street, Cambridge, MACheryl K. Olson, Sc.D., will use her own focus group studies with teens and parents about video games as teaching examples.
19th Annual Salute to Dr. Seuss
MIT Building 6, Room 120 182 Memorial Drive (Rear), Cambridge, MAWe'll screen his remarkable live action feature film, 5000 Fingers of Dr. T. An MIT Tradition marches forward. No need to enroll!
Is This On? (Learn To Be a College DJ)
MIT Building 50, Room 030 142 Memorial Drive, Cambridge, MAGet to know your campus radio station (WMBR) as DJ Generoso teaches you various skills of doing a radio show.
Identity-as-Place: Fictive Ethnicities in Online Games & Virtual Worlds
MIT Building 2, Room 105 182 Memorial Drive, Cambridge, MACelia Pearce will use Uru Diaspora, a game community from the defunct massively multiplayer game Uru: Ages Beyond Myst, which immigrated into other games.
Curveship: Interactive Fiction + Interactive Narration
GAMBIT Game Lab 5 Cambridge Center, Cambridge, MANick Montfort on a new interactive fiction system that draws on narrative theory and computational linguistics to allow the transformation of the narrating.
Politics and Popular Culture
MIT Media Lab, Bartos Theater 20 Ames Street, Cambridge, MAWith Johanna Blakley, deputy director of the Norman Lear Center at USC; David Carr, media and culture writer for the New York Times; and Stephen Duncombe, associate professor at NYU.
Gendering Robots: Posthuman Sexism in Japan
MIT Building 32 (Stata Center), Room 155 32 Vassar Street, Cambridge, MAJennifer Roberston explores and interrogates the gendering of humanoid robots manufactured today in Japan for use in the home and workplace.
Authorship, Appropriation, and the Fluid Text: Versions of the Law
MIT Building 2, Room 105 182 Memorial Drive, Cambridge, MAJohn Bryant and Wendy Seltzer ask, how does technology abet appropriation? How might it assist the useful designation of boundaries? Is the law keeping up?
MIT European Short Film Festival 2008
MIT Building 32 (Stata Center), Room 123 32 Vassar Street, Cambridge, MAMIT's 4th European Short Film Festival offers a unique glimpse into the most recent short-film productions from Europe, with a special focus on productions from European film schools and award-winning films from recent Festivals in Europe.
Chris Claremont: “Opening Doors, Building Worlds”
MIT Building 2, Room 105 182 Memorial Drive, Cambridge, MAChris Claremont of X-Men fame will address thoughts and considerations that go into building a world that can support years of use.
MIT European Short Film Festival 2009
MIT Building 10, Room 250 222 Memorial Drive, Cambridge, MAMIT's European Short Film Festival -- now in its 5th year -- offers a unique glimpse into the most recent short-film productions from Europe, with a special focus on productions from European film schools and award-winning films from recent Festivals in Europe.
Media in Transition 6: stone and papyrus, storage and transmission
MIT Building E51 70 Memorial Drive, Cambridge, MAWhat are the implications of the tension between storage and transmission for education, for individual and national identities, for notions of what is public and what is private?
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