MIT Graduate Program in Comparative Media Studies
Studying Media and Making Media
Cheryl K. Olson, Sc.D., will use her own focus group studies with teens and parents about video games as teaching examples.
We'll screen his remarkable live action feature film, 5000 Fingers of Dr. T. An MIT Tradition marches forward. No need to enroll!
Get to know your campus radio station (WMBR) as DJ Generoso teaches you various skills of doing a radio show.
Celia Pearce will use Uru Diaspora, a game community from the defunct massively multiplayer game Uru: Ages Beyond Myst, which immigrated into other games.
Nick Montfort on a new interactive fiction system that draws on narrative theory and computational linguistics to allow the transformation of the narrating.
With 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.
Jennifer Roberston explores and interrogates the gendering of humanoid robots manufactured today in Japan for use in the home and workplace.
John 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'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 of X-Men fame will address thoughts and considerations that go into building a world that can support years of use.
MIT'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.
What 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?
An honored tradition returns on April 27th at 7PM when CMS presents the eleventh annual Media Spectacle. The event, founded by Chris Pomiecko, celebrates his love for filmmaking by showcasing the finest video projects created by MIT students, staff and faculty. Historically, the event has received submissions of every genre from experimental to documentary to […]
Tucker Eskew explores the permanent campaign(s) of the last ten years. What is "message discipline" in an era of atomized opinion leadership -- a necessity or a fool's errand?
Comparative Media Studies and Project New Media Literacies will host a one-day conference at MIT, Building 6-120, from 8:30 am to 5 pm on Saturday May 2, 2009.
