MIT Graduate Program in Comparative Media Studies
Studying Media and Making Media
At Bell Labs, America's wealthiest and most influential industrial research center, Claude Shannon began theorizing, writing about, and building automata.
An honored tradition returns on April 28th at 7PM when CMS presents the tenth 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 […]
Questions of genre and secondary world construction in The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao and the Caribbean, and the failure of realism as a narrative strategy.
Lawrence Kutner and Cheryl Olson present their book, Grand Theft Childhood: The Surprising Truth About Violent Video Games and What Parents Can Do.
John Bell examines the nature and implications of object performance both as a global cultural tradition and as a contemporary medium that dominates our culture.
Is it true, as many have suggested, that the influence of newspapers and television has declined in the digital era? Have the media become more partisan and polarized?
Robert Darnton on the history of the book, the future of books and reading, and his vision of how new and old media can reinforce each other.
Diana Tamblyn, Ho Che Anderson, and Jeet Heer on the unique opportunities comics allow for critiquing and revising dominant historical narratives.
Sharon Ghamari-Tabrizi will talk about the various meanings of what counts as a "compelling experience" for military simulation -- and how this phrase “compelling experience” can be used as a thematic marker for differentiating the present moment from cold war-era immersive simulations.
Lev Manovich is the author of The Language of New Media, which is hailed as "the most suggestive and broad ranging media history since Marshall McLuhan."
This year's conference will work to bring together the themes from last year -- media spreadability, audiences and value, social media, distribution -- with the Consortium's new projects as we move towards an increasingly global understanding of media convergence and content flows.
In this workshop, attendees will learn how to become more conscious about the mechanisms of complex abstract concepts, to pin down their evasive elements, to translate them into concrete rule sets and to make them tangible via procedural metaphors.
Philip Tan, the executive director of US operations for GAMBIT will be leading tours of local video game companies to help you understand the day to day goings on of the rapidly growing video game industry.
My research group is answering this challenge by embedding experiments in a video game which we use to study autism.
Whether you are an engineer or designer, this course will challenge you to start work by studying users – not technology – first.
