“While I find myself using the work of media scholars for a theoretical framework and methodology, I inevitably turn to book historians for a more detailed sociology of the bound and printed word.”
William Uricchio to give keynote at European Network for Cinema and Media Studies conference
William Uricchio will speak about new directions in archiving — social tagging, access, recycling and the broader implications for the interaction between history and memory.
From YouTube to YouNiversity: Henry Jenkins’ Chronicle of Higher Education essay about networked culture, adhocracies, media studies and CMS
How might media studies, the field most committed to mapping these changes as they affect modern life, be taught in a YouNiversity?
Comparative Media Studies in the age of YouTube and Wikipedia
In the latest Chronicle of Higher Education, CMS Director Henry Jenkins writes about the need for media studies to evolve from separate disciplines into something resembling our own program’s current mode
Comparative Media Studies program getting off the ground
MIT is now accepting applications for the new Program in Comparative Media Studies (CMS), the first program of its kind in the United States. The new SM degree program was approved by the faculty last May.