MIT Graduate Program in Comparative Media Studies
Studying Media and Making Media
Join us for this year's alumni panel, when we hear from four alums of the graduate program in Comparative Media Studies as they discuss their experience at MIT and what their careers have looked like in the fields a CMS degree prepared them for.
Science Writing Admissions Information Session Come meet faculty, learn about the program and ask questions. Light refreshments provided. November 17, 2017 2-4PM 14E-304 Can't make it in person? Participate via live stream on our YouTube Channel. We'll have a chat window open, so you can participate as if you were in the room.
Author Noam Cohen, technology critic Sara M. Watson, and technology journalist Christina Couch discuss the rise of Silicon Valley and whether the drive for innovation degrades our humanity.
Anjali Vats: "The everdayness and banality of piratical trauma fuels desires for intellectual property maximalism and intellectual property criminalization, which reproduce the very conditions which gave rise to the trauma."
Come attend screenings of documentary films followed by discussions on a few things that define India today – love, innovation and spies.
What is it that makes watching so-called “trashy TV” so fun? What does it mean for a film to be “so bad it’s good?”
Eric Klopfer asks, what theories and evidence can we generate and build upon to provide a foundation for using augmented and virtual reality technologies productively for learning?
Carleen Maitland introduces the terms "digital refugee" and "digital humanitarian brokerage" as she previews her new edited volume Digital Lifeline? ICTs for Refugees and Displaced Persons.
University of North Carolina's Deen Freelon will explain how he and his collaborators are addressing challenges to analyzing Russian political influence operations and present key preliminary findings from their ongoing project focused on this campaign.
Sometimes simple changes can significantly expand accessibility to people who have neurological differences like autism, dyslexia, ADHD, or epilepsy, but designers and policymakers frequently aren’t aware of issues affecting this neurodiverse community.
andré carrington's research on the cultural politics of race in science fiction radio drama aims to expand the repertoire of literary adaptation studies by reintegrating critical perspectives from marginal and popular sectors of the media landscape into the advancing agendas of Afrofuturism and decolonization.
Jenny Korn uses critical race theories and intersectional feminist theories to analyze the visual and textual content of the blog #IfTheyGunnedMeDown to reveal constructions of social justice, respectability politics, media biases, racial stereotypes, viral popularity, and hashtag activism on Tumblr.
Some say sound is 50% of immersion in VR but also AR and XR. How does it translate to new platforms? How should we think of music, sound, audio and texture in immersive media productions? With its patented sound design, HeadSpace Studio has been designing sound spaces and 360 environments for pioneering experiences.
CMS/W Professor Lisa Parks presents what keeps low-income Tanzanians from accessing broadband services despite four undersea cable landings and an innovative regulatory regime.
Nancy Baym: "By the time musicians and industry figures realized they could use the internet to reach audiences directly, those audiences had already established their presences and social norms online, putting them in unprecedented positions of power."
