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November 2019
2019 Comparative Media Studies Graduate Admissions Information Session
Please RSVP. Meet faculty and research managers, learn about the program, and ask questions. Followed by our weekly colloquium, featuring CMS/W Head Eric Klopfer.
Find out more »Eric Klopfer, “Design Based Research on Participatory Simulations”
CMS/W Professor Eric Klopfer and The Education Arcade are currently working on a set of “Participatory Simulations”: mobile collaborative systems-based games.
Find out more »Graduate Program in Science Writing Fall Information Session
On Friday November 15, 2019, come meet faculty, learn about the program, and ask questions at our fall information session. The event will be held in room 14E-304 on MIT campus from 3pm til 5pm. If you can’t join in person, you can participate via the live stream on our YouTube channel. Please RSVP right over here if you can make it in person.
Find out more »Paloma Duong, “Portable Postsocialisms [postsocialismos de bolsillo]”
Assistant Professor Paloma Duong on "how revisiting our assumptions about digital media and cultural agency, both in Cuba and in the broader hemispheric context, can speak to the dreams and demands of constituencies that operate between, beneath, and beyond the pressures of global markets and the nation-state."
Find out more »December 2019
T.L. Taylor, “Play as Transformative Work”
Professor of Comparative Media Studies T.L. Taylor will explore the ways game live streamers are transforming their otherwise private play into public entertainment.
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