Eminent MIT professor Sherry Turkle, author most recently of Alone, Together, discusses her darkening view of our digitizing world.
Not Just in It to Win It: Inclusive Game Play in an MIT Dorm
Focusing on a group of undergraduates in an MIT dorm who have created a community that plays digital and non-digital games together and includes women.
Jenkins’ Farewell
Henry Jenkins returns to talk about his scholarship on digital culture, founding Comparative Media Studies, and experiences as a teacher and housemaster.
Hack outside our office this morning
The latest MIT latest was set up right outside the CMS offices, a full living room–curled up cat ‘n all–suspended upsidedown.
Video: Thesis Presentations 2010. Hillary Kolos: “Not in it just to win it: Inclusive gaming in an MIT dorm”
Hillary Kolos describes her ethnographic study of gamers who live together in a dorm at MIT.
Video: Thesis Presentations 2010. Rocket Lee: “Designing Game Ethics: A Pervasive Game Adaptation of The Count of Monte Cristo”
Rocket Lee describes her research around running a 7-day game on the MIT campus.
Button Mash: Gender and Gaming at MIT
Issues around gender and gaming, as well as an opportunity for female MIT students who play digital games to come together to talk and play.
