Recent Posts
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CMS Director Henry Jenkins on participatory culture and participatory democracy
CMS Director Henry Jenkins is featured in this podcast at ThoughtCast, discussing “the path from ‘participatory culture’ to ‘participatory democracy.’” Listen to the podcast.
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CMS and the Singapore-MIT International Games Lab profiled about Game Design and Creation
Henry Jenkins and Singapore-MIT International Game Lab Executive Director Philip Tan recently talked to Wired’s Chris Kohler about the Game Lab and the games industry.
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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
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Open Invitation to First MIT Videogame Theorists Colloquium session this Monday!
The MIT Videogame Theorists Colloquium is a series of short, informal classes and discussions about videogames and their relationship to academic study.
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Open Invitation to Converging Media: Games, Literacy and Culture Research Fair
Explore the many facets of research on cutting-edge digital games, media literacy, innovative humanities databases, and redefined corporate/consumer relations now underway in MIT’s Comparative Media Studies program.