News
The latest news from Comparative Media Studies/Writing at MIT.
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3 Questions: Alan Lightman’s new novel about Cambodia and family
MIT writer’s new work, “Three Flames,” explores the fractures and bonds among kin in a rebuilding society.
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October 17: Vivek Bald, “If I Could Reach the Border…”
Vivek Bald, Associate Professor of Writing and Digital Media, will read from a new essay that uses a teenage encounter with police and the justice system to explore questions of immigrant acceptability, racialization, and the South Asians American embrace of model minority status.
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Angles 2019
Congratulations to this year’s students published in Angles, a collection of the best pieces from introductory writing courses at MIT.
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Game Changer: Christopher Weaver and the history of video games and game studies at MIT
“Sometimes not having a lot of knowledge about an area can be a good very useful thing,” Christopher Weaver says. “It forces you to look at it with untutored or naive eyes.”
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Integrating documentary and medical technology to produce new perceptions of reproductive health
“It was only through working concretely with the Calla campaign that I truly learned of the challenges of communicating between researchers and artists.”
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Megawatt, Professor Nick Montfort’s 2014 computer-generated book, now in German translation
Recently, literary scholar Hannes Bajohr brought Megawatt another interesting step forward, by modifying the code to output the text in German.
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Collective Wisdom: Co-Creating Media within Communities, across Disciplines and with Algorithms
First-of-its-kind field study of the media industry highlights trends, opportunities, and challenges to help advance the understanding and recognition of co-created works and practices
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Transmedia Storytelling Initiative launches with $1.1 million gift
Launched by the School of Architecture and Planning, the Initiative will partner with faculty across MIT, including those at CMS/W — a leader in transmedia storytelling studies going back to its founding in 1999.
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Video: 2019 Science Writing Thesis Presentations
Our Graduate Program in Science Writing students read from their culminating works as they finish up they one-year program.
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Cultural Curator
Comparative Media Studies graduate student and New York City DJ Rekha Malhotra draws inspiration from the intersection of art and activism.
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Civic Arts Series, “Do-it Yourself Cinema: Portable Film Projectors as Media History”
On April 17, Haidee Wasson will explore the long and vibrant place of portable film devices in the history of small media, repositioning the “movie theatre” as the singular or even central figuration of film presentation and viewing.
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Machine Visions
Machine Visions is a grad student-run event series focused on developing cross-department connections around topics related to computer vision at MIT.
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MIT Open Learning launches Center for Advanced Virtuality
The new center will explore how MIT can use virtual reality and artificial intelligence and other technologies to better serve human needs.
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Professor Lisa Parks awarded MacArthur Fellowship — the “Genius Grant”
MIT health care economist Amy Finkelstein and CMS/W media studies scholar Parks are the latest MIT faculty to nab prestigious “genius grants.”
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Angles 2018
Congratulations to this year’s students published in Angles, a collection of the best pieces from introductory writing courses at MIT.
