MIT Graduate Program in Comparative Media Studies
Studying Media and Making Media
An activity-based writing workshop for anyone who builds anything at MIT and beyond, or who dreams of doing so. The workshop will introduce techniques in writing for designers who rely on written or oral communication to generate interest in a design idea or prototype.
Join us every Friday afternoon for discotheque history and classic grooves!
An activity-based writing workshop for anyone who builds anything at MIT and beyond, or who dreams of doing so. The workshop will introduce techniques in writing for designers who rely on written or oral communication to generate interest in a design idea or prototype.
Join us every Friday afternoon for discotheque history and classic grooves!
Join us every Friday afternoon for discotheque history and classic grooves!
Join us every Friday afternoon for discotheque history and classic grooves!
Matthew Berland on how we can create environments where learners are supported in developing creative agency, and how we might assess or evaluate success.
Desmond Upton Patton introduces a critical systematic approach for extracting culture, context and nuance in social media data. The Contextual Analysis of Social Media (CASM) approach considers and critiques the gap between inadequacies in natural language processing tools and differences in geographic, cultural, and age-related variance of social media use and communication.
Prof. Marina Bers will describe current research on a pedagogical approach for early childhood computer science education called “Coding as Another Language”.
"The best way to understand the immense influence of this relatively small business is through a political economic analysis. Specifically, she will discuss industrial infrastructure—the aspects of our media environment that often lack public visibility."
Recasting the phenomenon of "media convergence" as a matter of aesthetic form fundamental to the biopolitical imaginary of liberalism and neoliberalism but to the idea of governmental "technology".
Featuring Stephanie Dick, UPenn; Paul Dourish, UC-Irvine; Kate Klonick, St. John's University; and Safiya Noble, UCLA. Moderated by MIT professor Fox Harrell.
The politics behind categories we take for granted such as spam and noise, and what it means to our broader understanding of, and engagement with media.
Join us as we host our class of '20 Comparative Media Studies graduate students as they present their master's theses (virtually this year, sigh).
“The goal of this work is to transform scholarship into action – to operationalize feminism in order to imagine more ethical and more equitable data practices.”
