Susan Murray on the discourses that framed and managed color use and reception not only in the standardization period, but also during RCA and NBC’s early attempts to sell color to consumers, sponsors, and critics.
The Paradoxical Arts of CMS/W
“One of the great things about MIT is that, even in the arts, it manages to be an exception to the rule.”
Jason Mittell: “Strategies of Storytelling in Transmedia Television”
Middlebury’s Jason Mittell on how television narratives have expanded and been complicated through transmedia extensions, including video games, novelizations, websites, online video, and alternate reality games.
Michael Curtin: “The Burdens of Official Aspiration: National Policy in the Age of Global Media”
UCSB’s Michael Curtin explores the implications of national cultural policy within the broader context of media globalization.
Televisual Sports Videogames
Abe Stein’s thesis on how these videogames are situated in the sports media industrial complex of North America and how their design is meaningful for fans.
Video: Francis Steen, “The News as a Social Process for Improving Society”
Steen examines the global media coverage of the July 22, 2011, attack in Norway, demonstrating that the news is not primarily about reporting what happened but about constructing narratives, performing event surgery, and assigning responsibility.
Futures of Entertainment 6
This year’s event, Nov. 9-10 at MIT, will look at how media producers and audiences are relating to one another in new ways in a spreadable media landscape.
