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MIT Graduate Program in Comparative Media Studies
Studying Media and Making Media
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Paper and panel proposal deadline for fifth Media in Transition conference!
MiT5: "creativity, ownership and collaboration in the digital age", will be held April 27-29, 2007. The deadline for submissions is Jan. 5.
Documentary Filmmaking: A One Day Survival Guide
MIT Building 32 (Stata Center), Room 124 32 Vassar Street, Cambridge, MADocumentary 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.
“Translation” in Transmediation: Exploring the Metaphor
MIT Building 1, Room 132 33 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge, MATransferring narratives from one medium to another is often either likened to the process of translation or just plainly called translation.
PULSE: American Music and Poetry from 1950 to 1970
MIT Building 1, Room 246 33 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge, MAThis is a two-hour single session designed to discuss the parallel relationships between the American music and poetry from the 1950s to 70s.
Make Zombie Madness!
MIT Building 1, Room 246 33 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge, MAJoin award-winning independent filmmakers Kristina Drzaic and Neal Grigsby as they lead you through scripting, makeup, learning how to make special f/x gore, and shooting your very own zombie movie.
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.
International Blogging Breakfast
Tan Hall Lounge 550 Memorial Drive, Cambridge, MAOur 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.
Remixing Shakespeare
MIT Building 3, Room 270 33 Massachusetts Ave (Rear), Cambridge, MANew technologies are enabling forms of borrowing, appropriation and "remixing" of media materials in exciting, provocative ways.
Converging Media: Games, Literacy and Culture Research Fair
Stata Center, 1st Floor 32 Vassar Street, Cambridge, MAJoin 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.
Many Eyes: A Site for Social Data Analysis
MIT Building 2, Room 105 182 Memorial Drive, Cambridge, MAIBM's Visual Communication Lab recently launched Many Eyes, a website devoted to a new social style of data analysis and visualization.
Girls-Games-Japan: Why it is different to be a female gamer in Japan and how we can make a change in the West.
MIT Building 14E, Room 304 160 Memorial Drive, Cambridge, MAPapermint's success is based on its practical realisation of Barbara Lippe's research on Japanese gaming and girl culture.
Old World, New World: How Communities, Culture, Connectivity, and Commerce are Changing How We Create Culture, Media, Education and Politics
MIT Building 2, Room 105 182 Memorial Drive, Cambridge, MAAlan Moore, co-author of Communities Dominate Brands, believes that community-based engagement initiatives will replace the traditional media orthodoxies.
“This One’s Gonna Be a Slobberknocker”: A Q&A with WWE’s “Good Ol’ J.R.” Jim Ross
MIT Building 4, Room 370 182 Memorial Drive (Rear), Cambridge, MAJim 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.
Evangelicals and the Media
MIT Building 3, Room 270 33 Massachusetts Ave (Rear), Cambridge, MAToday evangelical groups are active in all media, from the Internet and cellular telephones to print journalism, broadcasting, film, and multi-media entertainment
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