MIT Graduate Program in Comparative Media Studies
Studying Media and Making Media
Marcella Szablewicz: "Are games the imagined utopia they are made out to be in these nostalgic accounts or might these affective attachments prove to be a form of what Lauren Berlant has called cruel optimism?"
The MIT Game Lab has invited a number of local MIT alumni in the game industry to talk about their experiences entering the industry.
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.
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.
In this talk, Dartmouth's Mary Flanagan reveals how games can be sources of deep human inquiry and introspection.
Games scholar Miguel Sicart of the IT University of Copenhagen looks at the culture, aesthetics, and technological implications of play in the age of computers.
okidOkO's Gonzalo Frasca shows us how we should create games that are both useful and effective inside and outside the classroom.
Join us and Harvard Book Store as it hosts Jane McGonigal to discuss "SuperBetter" with our own Scot Osterweil of The Education Arcade.
Sarah Zaidan is a game designer, artist and researcher whose work explores how video games and comic books can engage in a dialogue with identity, gender and civic awareness.
The Global Game Jam (GGJ) is the world's largest game jam event taking place around the world at physical locations. Think of it as a hackathon focused on game development. The GGJ encourages people with all kinds of backgrounds to participate and contribute to this global spread of game development and creativity.
On April 23, 2016, MIT hosts a campus-wide open house, welcoming the public into every department to check out the coolest of the Institute's work.
Exploring playfulness and its business applications. Three workshops on January 12, 19, and 26.
"Come together, be creative, share experiences and express ourselves in a multitude of ways using video games."
The idiosyncratic and surprising ways computer hobbyists in Czechoslovakia challenged the power of the oppressive political regime and harnessed early microcomputer technology for both entertainment and activism.
Professor Christopher Weaver, Founder of Bethesda Softworks, will discuss how games work and why they are such potent tools in areas as disparate as military simulation, childhood education, and medicine.
