MIT Graduate Program in Comparative Media Studies
Studying Media and Making Media
Jesper Juul: "Video game players are neither rational solvers of abstract problems, nor daydreamers in fictional worlds, but both of these things with shifting emphasis."
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.
Please contact the CMS office at cms@mit.edu or 617-253-3599 to reserve a space.
MiT5: "creativity, ownership and collaboration in the digital age", will be held April 27-29, 2007. The deadline for submissions is Jan. 5.
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.
Transferring narratives from one medium to another is often either likened to the process of translation or just plainly called translation.
This is a two-hour single session designed to discuss the parallel relationships between the American music and poetry from the 1950s to 70s.
Join 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.
Get to know your campus radio station (WMBR) as DJ Generoso teaches you various skills of doing a radio show.
Our 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.
New technologies are enabling forms of borrowing, appropriation and "remixing" of media materials in exciting, provocative ways.
Join 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.
IBM's Visual Communication Lab recently launched Many Eyes, a website devoted to a new social style of data analysis and visualization.
Papermint's success is based on its practical realisation of Barbara Lippe's research on Japanese gaming and girl culture.
Alan Moore, co-author of Communities Dominate Brands, believes that community-based engagement initiatives will replace the traditional media orthodoxies.
