Race in Digital Space
MIT Building E51 70 Memorial Drive, Cambridge, MACyberspace has been represented as a race-blind environment, yet our everyday encounters with race have consequences--both "inside and outside the box."
Cyberspace has been represented as a race-blind environment, yet our everyday encounters with race have consequences--both "inside and outside the box."
How do we reconcile the competing forces of media convergence and media fragmentation that are shaping the current communications infrastructure?
A visual lecture and intensive hands-on workshop with Scott McCloud in the art of making comics. Strong emphasis will be given to developing clarity, storytelling skills and personal expression.
Cartoonist Scott McCloud discusses recent developments in comics and graphic novels and the recently accelerated evolution of comics on the Web.
Rediscover the magic and pep of this delightfully elastic medium. Work with award-winning animator and designer Pell Osborn.
Learn fansubbing--the process of adding subtitles to Japanese animation.
The third Media in Transition conference centers on television's political and cultural role at the dawn of our new millennium.
Henry Jenkins asks, does The Matrix phenomenon represent the future of entertainment?
A workshop hosted by Pell Osborn, participants' finished animations will screen at the Made-at-MIT Spectacular in May.
Japan's cell phone (or keitai) culture is the most developed in the world today, with new uses, marketing strategies, and social relationships increasingly transforming the ways people communicate and experience their own identity.
Between the Lines is the first event of its kind to be organized in the Boston/Cambridge area.
Back for a second year, this is a workshop hosted by Pell Osborn, participants' finished animations will screen at the Made-at-MIT Spectacular in May.
This fourth Media in Transition conference explores storytelling as a cultural practice, a social and political activity as well as an art form.
Innovation in Video Games: A French-American Dialogue