MIT Graduate Program in Comparative Media Studies
Studying Media and Making Media
Siva Vaidhyanathan asks, what are we really gaining and losing by inviting Google to be the lens through which we view the world?
Angela Ndalianis analyze how Las Vegas -- a city-as-monument to entertainment and leisure culture -- has appropriated tropes and modes of engagement taken from pre-20th Century high culture traditions of the Church and aristocracy.
Stephen Duncombe asks, does the traditional truth-revealing role of critical media practice still have any political relevance?
How can media studies be both in and of the emergent media forms, and yet retain a creative and critical distance from them?
If virtual world users' claims to citizenship and sovereignty within those worlds are to be taken seriously, so too must the question of "gray collar" or semi-legal virtual laborers.
