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Recent Posts
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Gamasutra on MIT Games Conference
The Computer and Video Games Come of Age conference opened today, giving Massachusetts Institute of Technology students the chance to hear an impressive list of guest speakers.
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Media in Transition symposium examines ‘wiring’ K-12 classrooms
From the MIT News Office: “Media in Transition symposium examines ‘wiring’ K-12 classrooms”.
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Comparative Media Studies program getting off the ground
MIT is now accepting applications for the new Program in Comparative Media Studies (CMS), the first program of its kind in the United States. The new SM degree program was approved by the faculty last May.
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Two forums will explore journalism in cyberspace
How has American journalism been affected by digital technologies? What new skills and new knowledge are needed by reporters and editors assigned to cover the “cyber-beat”?
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By Jing Wang
High Culture Fever: Politics, Aesthetics, and Ideology in Deng’s China
“Jing Wang offers the first overview of the feverish 1980s in China, from early reexaminations of Maoism through the crackdown in Tiananmen Square.”
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The Serpent’s Gift
“Helen Elaine Lee’s supremely assured The Serpent’s Gift, a first novel that gives to us — with the fullest emotional resonance, humor, and exultation in the novelist’s art — the intertwined stories of two families from early in this century to our own times. “