Media in Transition 2: Globalization and Convergence
How do we reconcile the competing forces of media convergence and media fragmentation that are shaping the current communications infrastructure?
MIT Graduate Program in Comparative Media Studies
Studying Media and Making Media
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“Searching for the Origami Unicorn”: The Matrix and Transmedia Storytelling
MIT Building 6, Room 120 182 Memorial Drive (Rear), Cambridge, MAHenry Jenkins asks, does The Matrix phenomenon represent the future of entertainment?
Comparative Media Insights: “Race, Rights, and Virtual Worlds: Digital Games as Spaces of Labor Migration”
MIT Building 14E, Room 310 160 Memorial Drive, Cambridge, MAIf 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.
Michael Curtin: “The Burdens of Official Aspiration: National Policy in the Age of Global Media”
MIT Media Lab, Room 633 75 Amherst St., Cambridge, MAUCSB's Michael Curtin explores the implications of national cultural policy within the broader context of media globalization.
On the Politics of Punk Media and Peru
MIT Building 4, Room 231 Cambridge, MAL. Shane Greene presents a theoretical overview of various situations – particularly their political, aesthetic, and media dimensions - that arose in the production of a book about the history of anarchism and punk rock during Peru’s war with the Maoist-inspired armed group known as the Shining Path.
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