Is This On? (Learn To Be a College DJ)

MIT Building 50, Room 030 142 Memorial Drive, Cambridge, MA

Get to know your campus radio station (WMBR) as DJ Generoso teaches you various skills of doing a radio show.

Noir: The Shorthand Guide…

MIT Building 2, Room 105 182 Memorial Drive, Cambridge, MA

This session will briefly look at Film Noir's roots in German Romanticism and Expressionism, its relationships with contemporary arts, and its successors in contemporary film culture.

Down and Out at MIT, with Cory Doctorow

MIT Media Lab, Bartos Theater 20 Ames Street, Cambridge, MA

Lecture/booksigning by Cory Doctorow, activist, writer, public speaker, blogger and European Affairs Coordinator for the Electronic Frontier Foundation.

TV’s New Economics

MIT Media Lab, Bartos Theater 20 Ames Street, Cambridge, MA

Examining the changing economic base of American television, the role of audiences and audience-measurement, the broader role of consumption and advertising in the evolution of American television.

Road Trip!

5 Wits 186 Brookline Avenue, Boston, MA

For the last colloquium before break, join CMS for a road trip with Matt DuPlessie, founder of 5W!TS, a provider of immersive, interactive experiences.

TV News in Transition

MIT Media Lab, Bartos Theater 20 Ames Street, Cambridge, MA

No aspect of television has changed more decisively in recent years than its news programming.

Media Spectacle Call for Works: Deadline

CMS is looking for films, videos, video podcasts and mobisodes produced by MIT and Wellesley students, faculty, staff and affiliates for its 2006 Media Spectacle.

Radhika Gajjala

MIT Building 32 (Stata Center), Room 144 32 Vassar Street, Cambridge, MA

Consuming/Producing/Inhabiting South Asian Digital Diasporas with Radhika Gajjala.

Comics: Form and Content

MIT Building 4, Room 237 182 Memorial Drive, Cambridge, MA

Jessica Abel and Matt Madden will be showing examples of their work and talking about different aspects of comics, visual narrative, and creativity in general.

David Milch, TV’s Great Writer

MIT Media Lab, Bartos Theater 20 Ames Street, Cambridge, MA

David Milch will discuss his career as a writer and creator, including of Hill Street Blues, NYPD Blue (co-created with Steven Bochco), and the pioneering HBO series Deadwood.

CMS Media Spectacle 2006

MIT Building 32 (Stata Center), Room 123 32 Vassar Street, Cambridge, MA

The event showcases films/videos/video podcasts/mobisodes produced by MIT (and Wellesley) affiliates, staff, students and faculty.

Loyalty in Brand and Fan Cultures

MIT Media Lab, Bartos Theater 20 Ames Street, Cambridge, MA

With Convergence Culture Consortium faculty advisors Ian Condry and Robert Kozinets, associate professor of marketing at the Schulich School of Business, York University, Toronto.

May Irwin’s Kiss

MIT Building 2, Room 105 182 Memorial Drive, Cambridge, MA

May Irwin's Kiss: The Beginnings of Cinema and the Transformation of American Culture with Charles Musser, co-chair of the Film Studies Program and professor of American Studies, Film Studies and Theater Studies at Yale.

Comics: An Art Form in Transition

MIT Building 2, Room 105 182 Memorial Drive, Cambridge, MA

Print comics have struggled toward maturity through the literate graphic novel movement. Now, it's experiencing a vastly different set of growing pains on the web.

The Emergence of Citizens’ Media

MIT Media Lab, Bartos Theater 20 Ames Street, Cambridge, MA

The aging of the newspaper reader, the emergence of citizens' media and the blogosphere, the fate of local news and the local newspaper, news and information in the networked future.