BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//MIT Graduate Program in Comparative Media Studies - ECPv5.16.1//NONSGML v1.0//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN METHOD:PUBLISH X-WR-CALNAME:MIT Graduate Program in Comparative Media Studies X-ORIGINAL-URL:https://cms.mit.edu X-WR-CALDESC:Events for MIT Graduate Program in Comparative Media Studies REFRESH-INTERVAL;VALUE=DURATION:PT1H X-Robots-Tag:noindex X-PUBLISHED-TTL:PT1H BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/New_York BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT DTSTART:20060402T070000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:EST DTSTART:20061029T060000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT DTSTART:20070311T070000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:EST DTSTART:20071104T060000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT DTSTART:20080309T070000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:EST DTSTART:20081102T060000 END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20080121T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20080121T210000 DTSTAMP:20260403T185149 CREATED:20140804T194141Z LAST-MODIFIED:20140804T194207Z UID:21426-1200942000-1200949200@cms.mit.edu SUMMARY:18th Annual Salute to Dr. Seuss DESCRIPTION:Gather around\, boys and girls of all ages\, for a celebration of the sublime and wacky world of Doctor Seuss. You will hear Prof. Henry Jenkins read from his works and talk about Seuss’s relationship to Modern Art and popular culture. We will also screen his remarkable live action feature film\, 5000 Fingers of Dr. T. An MIT Tradition marches forward. URL:https://cms.mit.edu/event/18th-annual-salute-to-dr-seuss/ CATEGORIES:Independent Activities Period END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20080118T173000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20080118T173000 DTSTAMP:20260403T185149 CREATED:20141217T154809Z LAST-MODIFIED:20141217T154809Z UID:21433-1200677400-1200677400@cms.mit.edu SUMMARY:GAMBIT Game Lab Tour DESCRIPTION:This event is a guided tour of the new MIT-GAMBIT videogame laboratory. Interested participants are asked to gather in the lobby of 5 Cambridge Center at 3:30PM on Friday January 18th 2008 when they will be escorted to the 3rd floor. The tour concludes with our weekly Friday Games at GAMBIT where you will have a chance to play some of the newest videogames available and meet GAMBIT staff and students. Refreshments will be served. URL:https://cms.mit.edu/event/gambit-game-lab-tour/ LOCATION:GAMBIT Game Lab\, 5 Cambridge Center\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02139\, United States CATEGORIES:Independent Activities Period ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://cms.mit.edu/wp/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/gambit_logo_color_white.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20080116T180000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20080131T180000 DTSTAMP:20260403T185149 CREATED:20161025T180255Z LAST-MODIFIED:20161025T180255Z UID:21435-1200506400-1201802400@cms.mit.edu SUMMARY:Qualitative Research Workshop DESCRIPTION:Joshua Green and Grant McCracken \nThis course will provide students with an introduction to qualitative research. Working in small teams\, students will design and conduct a qualitative project designed to propose strategy for media and cultural organizations – an indicative project would look at ways to revitalize PBS to keep pace with participatory culture. Students will receive an intensive introduction to planning and conducting qualitative research including ethnographic and participant observation methods based on real world case studies. URL:https://cms.mit.edu/event/qualitative-research-workshop/ LOCATION:MIT Building 2\, Room 135\, 182 Memorial Drive\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02139\, United States CATEGORIES:Independent Activities Period ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://cms.mit.edu/wp/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/Joshua-Green.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20080114T170000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20080114T170000 DTSTAMP:20260403T185149 CREATED:20141201T180524Z LAST-MODIFIED:20141201T180524Z UID:21429-1200330000-1200330000@cms.mit.edu SUMMARY:Jaroslav Švelch: "Czech Underground Rock Music: Forbidden Fandom" DESCRIPTION:Jaroslav Švelch\nAccount of Czech underground rock music of the 60s\, 70s and 80s when rock music was considered suspicious and counterrevolutionary by the communist government. The bands and fans were operating illegally or semi-illegally which gave rise to specific models of fan communities. Features rare audio and historical documentation to show the cultural context of media during that period. URL:https://cms.mit.edu/event/jaroslav-svelch-czech-underground-rock-music-forbidden-fandom/ LOCATION:MIT Building 1\, Room 132\, 33 Massachusetts Avenue\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02139\, United States CATEGORIES:Independent Activities Period ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://cms.mit.edu/wp/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/Jaroslav-Svelch.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20080114 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20080119 DTSTAMP:20260403T185149 CREATED:20141217T160538Z LAST-MODIFIED:20141217T160618Z UID:21432-1200268800-1200700799@cms.mit.edu SUMMARY:GAMBIT Videogame Lecture Series DESCRIPTION:Members of Comparative Media Studies’ GAMBIT Research Staff will deliver from 2-3PM each day a different videogame-based lecture. \nMonday 14 Jan Storytelling in Games: The Adventure Game Genre \nTuesday 15 Jan Once More With Meaning: Expanding the Emotional and Thematic Scope of Digital Games \nWednesday 16 Jan Bringing commercial videogames into the classrooms \nThursday 17 What is the Casual in Casual Games? \nFriday 18 Jan We’re Swimming in Blood and We Feel Fine: Czech Gaming Culture of the Early 90’s \nContact: Philip Tan\, NE25-367\, x4-9129\, philip@mit.edu \nClara Fernandez-Vara\nStorytelling in Games: The Adventure Game Genre\nMon Jan 14\, 02-03:00pm\, 2-151 \nDoris Rusch\nOnce More With Meaning: Expanding the Emotional and Thematic Scope of\nDigital Games\nTue Jan 15\, 02-03:00pm\, 2-151 \nPilar Lacasa\nBringing commercial videogames into the classrooms\nWed Jan 16\, 02-03:00pm\, 2-151 \nJesper Juul\nWhat is the Casual in Casual Games?\nThu Jan 17\, 02-03:00pm\, 2-151 \nJaroslav Svelch\nWe’re Swimming in Blood and We Feel Fine: Czech Gaming Culture of the Early 90’s\nFri Jan 18\, 02-03:00pm\, 2-151 URL:https://cms.mit.edu/event/gambit-video-game-lecture-series/ LOCATION:MIT Building 2\, Room 151\, 182 Memorial Drive\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02139\, United States CATEGORIES:Independent Activities Period ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://cms.mit.edu/wp/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/jesper-juul.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20071116 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20071118 DTSTAMP:20260403T185149 CREATED:20140813T175828Z LAST-MODIFIED:20140813T175856Z UID:21497-1195171200-1195343999@cms.mit.edu SUMMARY:Futures of Entertainment 2 DESCRIPTION:Futures of Entertainment 2 \nThe logics of convergence culture are quickly becoming ubiquitous within the media world. Audiences are being encouraged to participate in a wider range of sites. Transmedia principles are being adopted by content producers in a broad range of fields. ‘Engagement’ is being discussed as crucial to measurements of success. Futures of Entertainment 2 brings together key industry players who are shaping these new directions in our culture with academics exploring their implications. This year’s conference will consider developments in advertising\, cult media\, metrics\, measurement\, and accounting for audiences\, cultural labor and audience relations. URL:https://cms.mit.edu/event/futures-of-entertainment-2/ LOCATION:MIT Media Lab\, Bartos Theater\, 20 Ames Street\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02139\, United States CATEGORIES:Conference ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/gif:https://cms.mit.edu/wp/wp-content/uploads/2007/12/foe2007_splash_art2.gif END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20070510 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20070511 DTSTAMP:20260403T185149 CREATED:20150324T154108Z LAST-MODIFIED:20150324T154139Z UID:21279-1178755200-1178841599@cms.mit.edu SUMMARY:Moby-Dick Performance and Conference DESCRIPTION: URL:https://cms.mit.edu/event/moby-dick-performance-and-conference/ LOCATION:Mixed Magic Theatre\, 500 Mineral Spring Avenue\, Pawtucket\, RI\, United States CATEGORIES:Conference END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20070502T170000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20070502T170000 DTSTAMP:20260403T185149 CREATED:20150213T200457Z LAST-MODIFIED:20150213T200457Z UID:21275-1178125200-1178125200@cms.mit.edu SUMMARY: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 DESCRIPTION:Kay Alden\nLongtime soap opera writer Kay Alden will talk with about her decades in the industry with CMS graduate student Sam Ford ’07 who is writing his thesis about soap operas. Alden worked for more than 30 years on The Young and the Restless\, the top-rated daytime drama that she served as head writer for from 1998 to 2006. Recently\, she took on a consulting position with ABC Daytime and continues working with the genre during what is seen as a period of substantial change for the daytime television industry. Ford’s thesis\, “As the World Turns in a Convergence Environment\,” focuses on the shifting technologies and cultural patterns that are affecting daytime television. URL:https://cms.mit.edu/event/kay-alden/ LOCATION:MIT Building 2\, Room 146\, 182 Memorial Drive\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02139\, United States CATEGORIES:Colloquium ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://cms.mit.edu/wp/wp-content/uploads/2007/05/Kay-Alden.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20070427 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20070430 DTSTAMP:20260403T185149 CREATED:20140811T125959Z LAST-MODIFIED:20170316T192756Z UID:21263-1177632000-1177891199@cms.mit.edu SUMMARY:Media in Transition 5: creativity\, ownership and collaboration in the digital age DESCRIPTION:Media in Transition 5: creativity\, ownership and collaboration in the digital age \nOur understanding of the technical and social processes by which culture is made and reproduced is being challenged and enlarged by digital technologies. An emerging generation of media producers is sampling and remixing existing materials as core ingredients in their own work. Readers are actively reshaping media content as they personalize it for their own use or customize it for the needs of grassroots and online communities. Of course\, the idea that artists build on earlier traditions or that new texts speak to and about earlier texts is scarcely a new idea. This fifth Media in Transition conference aims to generate a conversation that compares historical forms of cultural expression with contemporary media practices. URL:https://cms.mit.edu/event/media-in-transition-creativity-ownership-collaboration/ CATEGORIES:Conference ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://cms.mit.edu/wp/wp-content/uploads/2007/04/mit5_logo.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20070423T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20070423T190000 DTSTAMP:20260403T185149 CREATED:20141104T164557Z LAST-MODIFIED:20141104T164557Z UID:21262-1177354800-1177354800@cms.mit.edu SUMMARY:CMS Media Spectacle DESCRIPTION:In honor of Chris Pomiecko\, the former program administrator of Comparative Media Studies. \nThe event showcases films\, videos\, video podcasts\, and mobisodes produced by MIT (and Wellesley) affiliates\, staff\, students and faculty. In a multitude of styles\, subjects\, and duration. \nAt the end of the evening the best undergraduate submission will receive the Chris Pomiecko prize. \nFree and open to the general public! \nPUNCH AND PIE! \nFor more information\, contact:\nGeneroso Fierro\n617 53 5038\ngeneroso AT mit DOT edu URL:https://cms.mit.edu/event/cms-media-spectacle/ LOCATION:MIT Stata Center\, Room 155\, 32 Vassar Street\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02139\, United States END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20070419T170000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20070419T190000 DTSTAMP:20260403T185149 CREATED:20140828T184830Z LAST-MODIFIED:20140828T184851Z UID:21273-1177002000-1177009200@cms.mit.edu SUMMARY:Michael Cuthbert: "Ambiguity\, Process\, and Information Content in Minimal Music" DESCRIPTION:Michael Cuthbert\nRecent trends in music composition push bounds by creating pieces which are either more complex or simpler than works of the past. And yet\, our ability to understand and be interested in the compositions at these extremes has kept pace. In this talk\, Michael Cuthbert will show how simple minimalist processes give rise to highly ambiguous structures\, while many of the most complex moments are reducible to easier to comprehend processes. The effect of potentially endless works–including sections of Beethoven symphonies–will generalize the talk to other musical styles and other media. Cuthbert\, visiting assistant professor of music at MIT\, has worked extensively on fourteenth-century music and on music of the past 40 years. A recipient of the Rome Prize of the American Academy\, Cuthbert earned his Ph.D. from Harvard in 2006. URL:https://cms.mit.edu/event/michael-cuthbert-ambiguity-process-information-content-minimal-music/ LOCATION:MIT Building 2\, Room 105\, 182 Memorial Drive\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02139\, United States CATEGORIES:Colloquium ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://cms.mit.edu/wp/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/Michael-Cuthbert.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20070418T170000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20070418T190000 DTSTAMP:20260403T185149 CREATED:20140731T125531Z LAST-MODIFIED:20140731T125633Z UID:21278-1176915600-1176922800@cms.mit.edu SUMMARY:10 Things You Won't Like About Professional Game Development DESCRIPTION:Matthew Weise is an MIT/Comparative Media Studies alum who has been working since his 2004 graduation in the mobile games industry. \nThere will be a Q & A Session with Matt Weise after the lecture. URL:https://cms.mit.edu/event/10-things-you-wont-like-about-professional-game-development/ LOCATION:MIT Building 14E\, Room 304\, 160 Memorial Drive\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02139\, United States ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://cms.mit.edu/wp/wp-content/uploads/2013/06/Yui_Drawing_Me.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20070413 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20070416 DTSTAMP:20260403T185149 CREATED:20150309T174450Z LAST-MODIFIED:20150309T174524Z UID:21277-1176422400-1176681599@cms.mit.edu SUMMARY:MIT European Short Film Festival 2007 DESCRIPTION:MIT’s Third 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. This year’s topics are: \n\nNew Identities/Social Realities\nTransformations\nMitteleuropa/Central Europe\n\nThe festival is co-sponsored by Foreign Languages and Literatures\, Comparative Media Studies\, and several European cultural institutions. The films for the festival are selected by a group of humanities faculty and CMS graduate students. \nAll films will be shown in Room 10-250\, the programs start at 7:00 pm. \nFree Admission – All films with English subtitles. \nWe look forward to seeing you at the festival. \nFor further information please see the festival website or contact the festival organizer\, Kurt Fendt. URL:https://cms.mit.edu/event/mit-european-short-film-festival-2007/ LOCATION:MIT Building 10\, Room 250\, 222 Memorial Drive\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02139\, United States END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20070405T170000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20070405T170000 DTSTAMP:20260403T185149 CREATED:20141208T161955Z LAST-MODIFIED:20141208T162007Z UID:21271-1175792400-1175792400@cms.mit.edu SUMMARY:Evangelicals and the Media DESCRIPTION:American evangelicals have a long history of engagement with the media\, dating back to Great Awakening of the late eighteenth century. Today evangelical groups are active in all media\, from the Internet and cellular telephones to print journalism\, broadcasting\, film\, and multi-media entertainment. In this Forum\, our speakers discuss the social and political impact of the evangelical movement’s use of media technologies. Gary Schneeberger is special assistant for media relations to James Dobson\, founder and chairman of the evangelical group Focus on the Family (www.family.org). Diane Winston is the Knight Chair in Media and Religion in the USC Annenberg School for Communication and author of Red-Hot and Righteous: The Urban Religion of the Salvation Army. The Forum will be moderated by the Rev. Amy McCreath\, MIT’s Episcopal chaplain and coordinator of the Technology and Culture Forum at MIT (web.mit.edu/tac). URL:https://cms.mit.edu/event/evangelicals-and-media/ LOCATION:MIT Building 3\, Room 270\, 33 Massachusetts Ave (Rear)\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02319\, United States CATEGORIES:Communications Forum ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://cms.mit.edu/wp/wp-content/uploads/2007/01/mit-comm-forum_logo_square.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20070322T170000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20070322T190000 DTSTAMP:20260403T185149 CREATED:20140730T144517Z LAST-MODIFIED:20200928T175002Z UID:21270-1174582800-1174590000@cms.mit.edu SUMMARY:"This One's Gonna Be a Slobberknocker": A Q&A with WWE's "Good Ol' J.R." Jim Ross DESCRIPTION:“Good Ol’ J.R.” Jim Ross\nJim Ross\, the longtime voice of World Wrestling Entertainment\, joins CMS graduate student Sam Ford to discuss the unique blend of reality and fiction in the world of American professional wrestling. Ross will talk about how WWE’s distribution across multiple media platforms creates an interesting storytelling atmosphere\, and he will share experiences from his many years in the television industry as wrestling has moved from broadcast to cable and pay-per-view and now to DVD distribution\, on-demand\, and the Web. See Ross’s Web site at www.jrsbarbq.com. \nNOTE: This is the first of two colloquia about American professional wrestling being organized this term by Sam Ford ’07. Ford is teaching a spring class on the pro wrestling industry and is a researcher for the Convergence Culture Consortium. He is a weekly columnist for the Ohio County Times-News in Hartford\, Ky.\, and performs in pro wrestling events on occasion. A third colloquium on April 26 with Sharon Mazer will also examine aspects of wrestling. URL:https://cms.mit.edu/event/jim-ross-wwe-q-and-a/ LOCATION:MIT Building 4\, Room 370\, 182 Memorial Drive (Rear)\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02139\, United States CATEGORIES:Colloquium ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://cms.mit.edu/wp/wp-content/uploads/2007/06/Jim+Ross.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20070315T170000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20070315T170000 DTSTAMP:20260403T185149 CREATED:20150327T135222Z LAST-MODIFIED:20170224T181805Z UID:21269-1173978000-1173978000@cms.mit.edu SUMMARY:Old World\, New World: How Communities\, Culture\, Connectivity\, and Commerce are Changing How We Create Culture\, Media\, Education and Politics DESCRIPTION:Alan Moore\nAlan Moore\, CEO of engagement marketing company SMLXL and co-author of Communities Dominate Brands\, believes that community-based engagement initiatives and the enabling of peer-to-peer flows of communication within organizations\, and those that engage with them\, will replace the traditional media orthodoxies of government\, management\, business\, media distribution and marketing. URL:https://cms.mit.edu/event/alan-moore-changing-how-we-create-culture-media-education-politics/ LOCATION:MIT Building 2\, Room 105\, 182 Memorial Drive\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02139\, United States CATEGORIES:Colloquium ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://cms.mit.edu/wp/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/Alan-Moore.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20070313T170000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20070313T170000 DTSTAMP:20260403T185149 CREATED:20150106T202112Z LAST-MODIFIED:20150625T134329Z UID:21276-1173805200-1173805200@cms.mit.edu SUMMARY:Girls-Games-Japan: Why it is different to be a female gamer in Japan and how we can make a change in the West. DESCRIPTION:Barbara Lippe\nWomen’s culture has existed for centuries in Japan. Today\, it extensively shapes Japan’s popular culture – even its game industry. Gender-blending\, androgyny and the challenging of gender roles lie at the core of specific game genres produced by and for females in Japan. Whereas in the West most professional attempts to address a larger number of female gamers and to engage a greater female workforce in the game industry have failed\, Avaloop – an independent game development studio in Austria – is about to change this profoundly. By taking the global de-disneyfication into account and employing female creative leads\, its game Papermint has not only already gained a large fanbase of non-traditional gamers but even manages to blend games with the notion of bourgeois “high culture”. Papermint’s success is based on its practical realisation of Barbara’s research on Japanese gaming and girl culture\, as well as the game’s wholly original artistic concept created by a diverse team. \nAbout the Speaker\nDr. Barbara Lippe is the lead artist at the Vienna-based game development studio Avaloop Ltd\, currently working on Austria's first virtual world. Barbara previously worked as a character artist at the Tokyo-based design company FuriFuri Co. Her unique characters were published in the character design encyclopedia Pictoplasma by Die Gestalten Verlag. Her art has been exhibited in London\, Damascus\, Budapest\, Seoul\, Singapore and San Francisco. She was a juror for the Golden Nica Award of the Ars Electronica Festival in 2002 and a columnist for CONSOL.AT\, the leading Austrian video game magazine. Recently\, she has been elected into the organising committee of the Nordic Game\, the largest game developers' conference in Scandinavia. Barbara holds a Master’s degree in multimedia art and a PhD in cultural studies with a doctoral dissertation on girls\, video games and Japan titled "Game Boys for Play Girls!". She hosts discussions and workshops in Austria\, Sweden\, Denmark\, the Netherlands and the UK. Her academic and job-related interests include virtual characters\, fan cultures\, user-generated content\, global youth scenes\, leisure behaviour and gender\, as well as game scenes and markets in Asia. URL:https://cms.mit.edu/event/barbara-lippe-girls-games-japan/ LOCATION:MIT Building 14E\, Room 304\, 160 Memorial Drive\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02139\, United States ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://cms.mit.edu/wp/wp-content/uploads/2015/01/Barbara-Lippe.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20070308T170000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20070308T190000 DTSTAMP:20260403T185149 CREATED:20140819T173348Z LAST-MODIFIED:20140819T173348Z UID:21268-1173373200-1173380400@cms.mit.edu SUMMARY:Many Eyes: A Site for Social Data Analysis DESCRIPTION:While visualization is traditionally viewed as an efficient way of transferring a large amount of information from a database into an individual’s head\, we believe that visualizations become far more powerful when multiple people access them for collaborative sense-making. To test this hypothesis\, IBM’s Visual Communication Lab recently launched Many Eyes\, a website devoted to a new social style of data analysis and visualization. Fernanda Viegas and Martin Wattenberg will discuss the design goals behind the site and provide a preliminary report on the usage patterns we have seen. Viegas is a research scientist in IBM's Visual Communication Lab where her work focuses on social and collaborative aspects of data visualization. Previous projects explored e-mail archives\, newsgroup conversations\, chat-room interactions\, and the editing history of wiki pages. Her visualization-based artwork has been exhibited in galleries in New York\, Los Angeles\, and Boston. Wattenberg\, also a research scientist in IBM's Visual Communication Lab\, focuses on information visualization and its application to collaborative computing\, journalism\, and art. Wattenberg’s visualization artwork has been exhibited in venues ranging from Ars Electronica to the Whitney Museum of American Art. URL:https://cms.mit.edu/event/many-eyes-site-for-social-data-analysis/ LOCATION:MIT Building 2\, Room 105\, 182 Memorial Drive\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02139\, United States CATEGORIES:Colloquium ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://cms.mit.edu/wp/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/Many-Eyes.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20070222T170000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20070222T170000 DTSTAMP:20260403T185149 CREATED:20141121T153128Z LAST-MODIFIED:20141121T153205Z UID:21264-1172163600-1172163600@cms.mit.edu SUMMARY:Converging Media: Games\, Literacy and Culture Research Fair DESCRIPTION:What do Yahoo!\, Shakespeare\, GPS\, Bullet time\, Spacewar and MIT have in common? \nCMS! \nYahoo! … along with MTV\, GSDM\, Turner Broadcasting and Fidelity with the Convergence Culture Consortium respond to the demands of a new media landscape and an empowered client base; \nShakespeare … early comics\, modern dance and the citizens of Berlin are among the many topics explored in the rich multi-media data bases of MetaMedia and Repertory \nGPS … is one of many technologies that we us in handheld gaming applications\, all part of our exploration of computer games for education in the Education Arcade \nBullet time… and other special film effects\, comic book production\, dj-ing\, graffiti\, and other media expressions come into focus in Project New Media Literacies. \nSpacewar … is where computer gaming all began at MIT\, and now it moves into a new generation with the Singapore-MIT GAMBIT Game Lab \nJoin us to explore the many facets of research on cutting-edge digital games\, media literacy\, innovative humanities databases\, and redefined corporate/consumer relations now underway in MIT’s Comparative Media Studies program. Faculty\, staff and students will be on hand to showcase their work and answer questions about their latest findings. Refreshments will be served. URL:https://cms.mit.edu/event/games-literary-culture-research-fair/ LOCATION:Stata Center\, 1st Floor\, 32 Vassar Street\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02319\, United States CATEGORIES:Colloquium,Information Session ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://cms.mit.edu/wp/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/poster-2007-02-22-convergingmedia-high.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20070215T170000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20070215T170000 DTSTAMP:20260403T185149 CREATED:20161027T191020Z LAST-MODIFIED:20200928T133501Z UID:21266-1171558800-1171558800@cms.mit.edu SUMMARY:Remixing Shakespeare DESCRIPTION:New technologies are enabling forms of borrowing\, appropriation and “remixing” of media materials in exciting\, provocative ways. In this Forum\, two MIT scholars who have studied and written about the remixing of Shakespeare will describe their research\, show some salient audio-visual examples and discuss the implications of their work for contemporary culture. Literature Professor Peter Donaldson is director of the Shakespeare Electronic Archive which since 1992 has used computers to develop new ways of studying the text\, image and film records of Shakespearean publication and production. Literature Professor Diana Henderson is the author of Collaborations with the Past: Reshaping Shakespeare Across Time and Media and A Concise Companion to Shakespeare on Screen. She is an active participant in MIT’s partnership with the Royal Shakespeare Company. The forum will be moderated by Mary Fuller of the Literature Faculty. URL:https://cms.mit.edu/event/remixing-shakespeare/ LOCATION:MIT Building 3\, Room 270\, 33 Massachusetts Ave (Rear)\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02319\, United States CATEGORIES:Communications Forum ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://cms.mit.edu/wp/wp-content/uploads/2007/03/bill-s.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20070202T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20070202T190000 DTSTAMP:20260403T185149 CREATED:20150121T153843Z LAST-MODIFIED:20161019T193529Z UID:21265-1170442800-1170442800@cms.mit.edu SUMMARY:International Blogging Breakfast DESCRIPTION:Join our discussion with Chinese Students through MSN IMS. Please email team researchers Jin Liwen or Shi Song if you would like to participate. \nGoal:\nOur goal is to get to know new friends and learn more about each other. Also we hope to study the media communication tools and the style of conversation on MSN IMS. \nSee Project GoodLuck for more information URL:https://cms.mit.edu/event/international-blogging-breakfast/ LOCATION:Tan Hall Lounge\, 550 Memorial Drive\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02139\, United States END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20070131T180000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20070131T180000 DTSTAMP:20260403T185149 CREATED:20150123T192121Z LAST-MODIFIED:20150123T192121Z UID:21419-1170266400-1170266400@cms.mit.edu SUMMARY:Is This On? (Learn To Be a College DJ) DESCRIPTION:Checking levels\, making a segue\, cueing vinyl (vinyl-what’s that?) \nGet to know your campus radio station (WMBR) as DJ Generoso teaches you various skills of doing a radio show. Then\, learn some history of WMBR (the first punk rock radio show in the USA)\, have a tour of the station and obtain membership information. \nFreshly baked cookies and milk will be provided because Andy would’ve wanted it that way. URL:https://cms.mit.edu/event/learn-to-be-college-dj-2007/ LOCATION:MIT Building 50\, Room 030\, 142 Memorial Drive\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02139\, United States CATEGORIES:Independent Activities Period ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://cms.mit.edu/wp/wp-content/uploads/2015/01/WMBR.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20070123T180000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20070123T180000 DTSTAMP:20260403T185149 CREATED:20150302T194716Z LAST-MODIFIED:20150302T194716Z UID:21420-1169575200-1169575200@cms.mit.edu SUMMARY:Make Zombie Madness! DESCRIPTION:Grab your friends\, practice your growling and prepare yourself for making ZOMBIE MADNESS. Join award-winning independent filmmakers Kristina Drzaic and Neal Grigsby as they lead you through scripting\, makeup\, learn how to make special f/x gore and shooting your very own zombie movie. This will be a hands-on make-a-film-in-a-day class. URL:https://cms.mit.edu/event/make-zombie-madness/ LOCATION:MIT Building 1\, Room 246\, 33 Massachusetts Avenue\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02139\, United States CATEGORIES:Independent Activities Period END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20070122T170000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20070122T170000 DTSTAMP:20260403T185149 CREATED:20160822T174044Z LAST-MODIFIED:20160822T174044Z UID:21421-1169485200-1169485200@cms.mit.edu SUMMARY:PULSE: American Music and Poetry from 1950 to 1970 DESCRIPTION:This is a two-hour single session designed to discuss the parallel relationships between the American music and poetry from the 1950s to 70s. \nBy the early fifties\, as part of the postwar development of consumer society\, a strange pulse had set in the music scene to bring about muzak or elevator music. As if to reflect this new trend\, poets such as Robert Lowell and John Berryman started to write\, almost on the same pulse\, quasi-sonnet sequences. \nIn the late sixties\, a more experimental type of pulse music was invented by such composers as Terry Riley and Steve Reich to be later labeled as minimalism. Again\, the poetry caught up due to the efforts of John Ashbery and A. R. Ammons who wrote deliberately monotonous and distinctly open-ended sequences. \nSome excerpts of poems will be read\, some parts of music heard. URL:https://cms.mit.edu/event/pulse-america-music-poetry-1950-1970/ LOCATION:MIT Building 1\, Room 246\, 33 Massachusetts Avenue\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02139\, United States CATEGORIES:Independent Activities Period ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://cms.mit.edu/wp/wp-content/uploads/2015/12/Independent-Activities-Period.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20070122T130000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20070122T150000 DTSTAMP:20260403T185149 CREATED:20140730T143456Z LAST-MODIFIED:20140730T143456Z UID:21417-1169470800-1169478000@cms.mit.edu SUMMARY:"Translation" in Transmediation: Exploring the Metaphor DESCRIPTION:Transferring narratives from one medium to another is often either likened to the process of translation or just plainly called translation\, the latter being used as a synonym to “transmediation”. During this two-hour class with Ksenia Prassolova\, we will concentrate on further exploring this metaphor; by looking at the key translation techniques we will try to understand how to better tell our stories across media. URL:https://cms.mit.edu/event/translation-in-transmediation-exploring-metaphor/ LOCATION:MIT Building 1\, Room 132\, 33 Massachusetts Avenue\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02139\, United States CATEGORIES:Independent Activities Period END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20070111T180000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20070111T180000 DTSTAMP:20260403T185149 CREATED:20141205T191303Z LAST-MODIFIED:20141205T191303Z UID:21418-1168538400-1168538400@cms.mit.edu SUMMARY:Documentary Filmmaking: A One Day Survival Guide DESCRIPTION:Documentary filmmaker Generoso Fierro takes you through a one time class where you will learn the basics of shooting a documentary film on mini dv\, editing and getting it seen. Learn how to navigate through the murky waters of copyright issues regarding still images and music to creating a release. Learn quick editing techniques\, dvd mastering and an easy festival submission process so that your work can be seen. URL:https://cms.mit.edu/event/documentary-filmmaking-survival-guide/ LOCATION:MIT Building 32 (Stata Center)\, Room 124\, 32 Vassar Street\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02139\, United States CATEGORIES:Independent Activities Period ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://cms.mit.edu/wp/wp-content/uploads/2010/03/Generoso-Fierro.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20070105 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20070106 DTSTAMP:20260403T185149 CREATED:20150407T132628Z LAST-MODIFIED:20170316T192815Z UID:21246-1167955200-1168041599@cms.mit.edu SUMMARY:Paper and panel proposal deadline for fifth Media in Transition conference! DESCRIPTION:The fifth Media in Transition conference\, MiT5: creativity\, ownership and collaboration in the digital\nage\, will be held April 27-29\, 2007 at MIT. \nThe deadline for submitting a paper or panel proposal is Jan. 5\, 2007. \nSee the call for papers at http://web.mit.edu/comm-forum/mit5. URL:https://cms.mit.edu/event/deadline-media-in-transition-5/ ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://cms.mit.edu/wp/wp-content/uploads/2007/04/mit5_logo.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20061213T100000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20061213T100000 DTSTAMP:20260403T185149 CREATED:20141104T195102Z LAST-MODIFIED:20200917T172853Z UID:21258-1166004000-1166004000@cms.mit.edu SUMMARY:CMS Online Information Session DESCRIPTION:Fall 2006 CMS Information Sessions \nPlease contact the CMS office at cms@mit.edu or 617-253-3599 to reserve a space. \nFrequently asked questions about CMS URL:https://cms.mit.edu/event/cms-online-information-session/ CATEGORIES:Information Session ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://cms.mit.edu/wp/wp-content/uploads/2010/02/cms_logo.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20061129T170000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20061129T170000 DTSTAMP:20260403T185149 CREATED:20150303T191723Z LAST-MODIFIED:20150303T191723Z UID:21253-1164819600-1164819600@cms.mit.edu SUMMARY:Men Imagining a Girl Revolution DESCRIPTION:Men Imagining a Girl Revolution with Sharon Kinsella. At various points in the twentieth century\, male novelists\, journalists\, intellectuals\, artists\, editors and cultured men have become fascinated by the lives and characters of single women and their potential for prostitution and revolution. In this presentation\, Foreign Languages and Literatures visiting professor Sharon Kinsella examines the media constructions of a teenage female revolt in contemporary Japan drawing from her current book project Girls as Energy: Fantasies of Social Rejuvenation. URL:https://cms.mit.edu/event/sharon-kinsella-men-imagining-girl-revolution/ LOCATION:MIT Building 3\, Room 270\, 33 Massachusetts Ave (Rear)\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02319\, United States CATEGORIES:Colloquium ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://cms.mit.edu/wp/wp-content/uploads/2006/12/sharon10.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20061128T170000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20061128T170000 DTSTAMP:20260403T185149 CREATED:20150112T194954Z LAST-MODIFIED:20150112T194954Z UID:21259-1164733200-1164733200@cms.mit.edu SUMMARY:Half-Real: A Video Game in the Hands of a Player DESCRIPTION:What happens when a player picks up video game\, learns to play it\, masters it\, and leaves it? Using concepts from my book on video games\, Half-Real: Video Games between Real Rules and Fictional Worlds\, I will argue that video game players are neither rational solvers of abstract problems\, nor daydreamers in fictional worlds\, but both of these things with shifting emphasis. The unique quality of video games is to be located in their intricate interplay of rules and fictions\, which I will examine across genres\, from casual games to massively multiplayer games. \nJesper Juul is a video game theorist and assistant professor in video game theory and design at the Centre for Computer Game Research Copenhagen where he also earned his Ph.D. His book Half-Real on video game theory was published by MIT Press in 2005. Additionally\, he works as a multi-user chat systems and casual game developer. He is currently a visiting scholar at Parsons School of Design in New York. \nThis lecture is free and open to the public and is sponsored by the Comparative Media Studies Program and the Project New Media Literacies. URL:https://cms.mit.edu/event/half-real-video-game-in-the-hands-of-a-player/ LOCATION:MIT Building 1\, Room 136\, 33 Massachusetts Avenue\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02139\, United States ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://cms.mit.edu/wp/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/jesper-juul.jpg END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR