Marina Bers, “The Design of Digital Experiences for Positive Youth Development”
MIT Media Lab, Room 633 75 Amherst St., Cambridge, MAThis talk by Marina Bers will focus on digital spaces to support positive youth development.
MIT Graduate Program in Comparative Media Studies
Studying Media and Making Media
Loading view.
Nostalgia for a Not-So-Distant Youth: Digital Games and Affect in Urban China
MIT Media Lab, Room 633 75 Amherst St., Cambridge, MAMarcella 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?"
Sonia Livingstone: “The Class: Living and Learning in the Digital Age”
MIT Media Lab, Room 633 75 Amherst St., Cambridge, MASonia Livingstone will examine how powerful forces of social reproduction result in missed opportunities for many youth in the risk society.
The Turn to “Tween”: An Age Category and its Cultural Consequences
MIT Building 3, Room 270 33 Massachusetts Ave (Rear), Cambridge, MAHow are “tweens” represented in popular culture, including music, television, and YA literature? And how does this relatively new age category intersect with--or elide--issues pertaining to race, class, and gender identity?
Marina Bers, “Coding in Early Childhood: Storytelling or Puzzle Solving?”
MIT Building E15, Room 318 (Common Area) 20 Ames Street, Cambridge, MAProf. Marina Bers will describe current research on a pedagogical approach for early childhood computer science education called “Coding as Another Language”.
Civic Media Insights: Rogelio Alejandro Lopez, “Rebels with a Cause: Youth, Social Movements, and Media”
Using a mixed-methods, and multi-framework approach — social movements and participatory politics — Rogelio Lopez examines notable instances of youth protest and contextualizes them within broader movements to center and prioritize generational and intersectional social justice claims and grievances.
Footer
The CMS graduate program has its home in Comparative Media Studies/Writing
Part of MIT's School of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences