Push Button Game Jam
Students who attend will form teams and create design and technical prototypes that will eventually become full fledged games by the end of the month.
MIT Graduate Program in Comparative Media Studies
Studying Media and Making Media
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Global Game Jam 2014 at MIT
The Global Game Jam is the world’s largest game jam event taking place around the world at physical locations, a 48-hour a hackathon focused on game development.
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Mary Flanagan, “Humanist Inquiry Through Critical Play: Designing and Enacting our Enduring Questions”
Mary Flanagan, “Humanist Inquiry Through Critical Play: Designing and Enacting our Enduring Questions”
In this talk, Dartmouth's Mary Flanagan reveals how games can be sources of deep human inquiry and introspection.
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Aswin Punathambekar: “Media, Sociability, and Political Potentials in Contemporary India”
Aswin Punathambekar: “Media, Sociability, and Political Potentials in Contemporary India”
Instead of a narrow emphasis on political effects, Aswin Punathambekar draws on a range of cases across India, China, and the Middle East to ask: what happens when such phases of participation fade away?
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Gregory Heyworth: “Textual Science and the Future of the Past”
Gregory Heyworth: “Textual Science and the Future of the Past”
Textual Science, as Gregory Heyworth argues, is poised to change the established order of things. With images of recovered works, many previously unseen, this talk will chart the way ahead in theory and praxis.
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Michael Curtin: “The Burdens of Official Aspiration: National Policy in the Age of Global Media”
Michael Curtin: “The Burdens of Official Aspiration: National Policy in the Age of Global Media”
UCSB's Michael Curtin explores the implications of national cultural policy within the broader context of media globalization.
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