Comics and Social Conflict
MIT Building 2, Room 105 182 Memorial Drive, Cambridge, MADiana Tamblyn, Ho Che Anderson, and Jeet Heer on the unique opportunities comics allow for critiquing and revising dominant historical narratives.
MIT Graduate Program in Comparative Media Studies
Studying Media and Making Media
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Military Training and Compelling Experience
MIT Building E51, Room 095 70 Memorial Drive, Cambridge, MASharon 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
MIT Building 2, Room 105 182 Memorial Drive, Cambridge, MALev 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."
Futures of Entertainment 3
MIT Media Lab, Bartos Theater 20 Ames Street, Cambridge, MAThis 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.
Making Deep Games: An inspirational workshop about harnessing the power of metaphors for experience design
MIT Building N25, Room 373 5 Cambridge Center, Cambridge, MAIn 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.
GAMBIT: Videogame Company Tours
GAMBIT Game Lab 5 Cambridge Center, Cambridge, MAPhilip 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.
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.
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.
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