MIT Graduate Program in Comparative Media Studies
Studying Media and Making Media
Celia Pearce will use Uru Diaspora, a game community from the defunct massively multiplayer game Uru: Ages Beyond Myst, which immigrated into other games.
Ethan Gilsdorf will discuss some of the themes of his new book, Fantasy Freaks and Gaming Geeks: An Epic Quest for Reality Among Role Players, Online Gamers, and Other Dwellers of Imaginary Realms.
Richard Rouse on the ways cinematic techniques can be used in gameplay to create even more stimulating experiences for gamers.
How can media studies be both in and of the emergent media forms, and yet retain a creative and critical distance from them?
Ever played a board game and thought it was missing something? That you could make it better?
Attendees will learn about a variety of game mechanisms through discussions of exemplar games and see how these games relate.
A new trend of designing video games intended to fulfill a serious purpose through impacting the players in real life contexts has emerged.
During this workshop, groups of students will develop an ARG for the MIT Libraries to use as an orientation activity.
T.L. Taylor on the issues around the ownership of e-sports playing fields, and the status of player action within them.
Clara Fernández-Vara compares and contrasts videogames with theatre to understand how they can incorporate narratives as part of the performance.
Heather Chaplin on "emerging thinking on ideas about game literacies and the acceptance of games as facilitators of transformative experiences."
The games showcased in this exhibit demonstrate that there is a wide variety of approaches one can follow in adapting literary works into games.
What can finance, health care, philanthropy, and education learn from cutting-edge games and game theory?
A workshop exploring the role of space in storytelling and how artists can use the tools of game design to construct complex narratives.
Modit is currently in private beta but in this workshop, we will showcase our HTML5 game development.
