Media in Transition 5: creativity, ownership and collaboration in the digital age
Our understanding of the technical and social processes by which culture is made and reproduced is being challenged and enlarged by digital technologies.
MIT Graduate Program in Comparative Media Studies
Studying Media and Making Media
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Love May Not Be in the Afternoon Anymore: A Q&A with Soap Opera Writer Kay Alden About How the Genre Is (and/or Should Be) Changing with the Times
MIT Building 2, Room 146 182 Memorial Drive, Cambridge, MALongtime soap opera writer Kay Alden will talk with about her decades in the industry with CMS graduate student Sam Ford.
Moby-Dick Performance and Conference
Mixed Magic Theatre 500 Mineral Spring Avenue, Pawtucket, RI
Futures of Entertainment 2
MIT Media Lab, Bartos Theater 20 Ames Street, Cambridge, MADevelopments in advertising, cult media, metrics, measurement, and accounting for audiences, cultural labor and audience relations.
GAMBIT Videogame Lecture Series
MIT Building 2, Room 151 182 Memorial Drive, Cambridge, MAMembers of Comparative Media Studies' GAMBIT Research Staff will deliver from 2-3PM each day a different videogame-based lecture.
Jaroslav Švelch: “Czech Underground Rock Music: Forbidden Fandom”
MIT Building 1, Room 132 33 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge, MAAn account of Czech underground rock music of the 60s, 70s and 80s when rock music was considered suspicious and counterrevolutionary.
Qualitative Research Workshop
MIT Building 2, Room 135 182 Memorial Drive, Cambridge, MAWorking in small teams, students will design and conduct a qualitative project designed to propose strategy for media and cultural organizations.
GAMBIT Game Lab Tour
GAMBIT Game Lab 5 Cambridge Center, Cambridge, MAThe tour concludes with our weekly Friday Games at GAMBIT where you will have a chance to play some of the newest videogames.
18th Annual Salute to Dr. Seuss
You will hear Prof. Henry Jenkins read from his works and talk about Seuss's relationship to Modern Art and popular culture.
Board Game Workshop
GAMBIT Game Lab 5 Cambridge Center, Cambridge, MAIn each session established board games will be played and modifications based on game play will be made.
Beowulf – a FREE screening!
MIT Building 26, Room 100 Access Via 60 Vassar Street, Cambridge, MASony Imageworks in conjunction with MIT's Comparative Media Studies Program and LSC present a screening of the 2007 Robert Zemeckis/Neil Gaiman scripted film: BEOWULF! Attendance is FREE!
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.
From Film to Videogames
MIT Building 4, Room 237 182 Memorial Drive, Cambridge, MADiscussion of adaptation with Matthew Weise: How film genres get translated into videogames.
Katie Jacobs: “It’s Never Lupus! Fox’s House, M.D. and the New Procedural Drama”
MIT Building E51, Room 325 70 Memorial Drive, Cambridge, MAKatie Jacobs is co-showrunner of the hit NBC series House, M.D., nominated for two consecutive seasons for the Emmy Award for Best Drama Series.
CMS Class of 2008 Thesis Presentations
MIT Building 35, Room 225 127 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge, MAThe event is open to the public; CMS students, faculty, associates and friends of the program are all warmly welcomed to attend.
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