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Recent Posts
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Scot Osterweil Gives Highest Rated Presentation at Serious Games Summit
The Education Arcade Project Manager Scot Osterweil’s “The Road From Zoombiniville” was the top rated presentation at this year’s Serious Games Summit.
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WWE’s Jim Ross excited to guest lecture at MIT
Jim Ross: “I’m really interested and excited to see what questions these very bright men and women have after studying sports-entertainment all semester.”
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Jenkins interviewed for PBS’ Frontline on the future of news
Henry Jenkins: “Each of these moments fundamentally altered pretty much everything in the culture, touching every major institution, impacting all aspects of everyday life, and fundamentally reshaping our understanding of what it meant to be human.”
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CMS Clicks for Lensman/Alum Dan Bersak
Competing with thousands of other photographers for that one shot that no one else could get, says Dan Bersak, is what makes the job worth doing.
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Henry Jenkins on Ninjas, Politics, and the future of Democracy
CMS Director Henry Jenkins’ keynote speech at this year’s Beyond Broadcast conference held last week at MIT and co-hosted by Comparative Media Studies.
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Remixing Shakespeare
The Feb. 15 “Remixing Shakespeare” Communications Forum looked at how interpretations of Shakespeare reflect and are reflected by contemporary culture.
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Podcast and video: “Remixing Shakespeare”
New technologies are enabling forms of borrowing, appropriation and “remixing” of media materials in exciting, provocative ways. In this Forum, two MIT scholars who have studied and written about the remixing of Shakespeare will describe their research, show some salient audio-visual examples and discuss the implications of their work for contemporary culture.
