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Recent Posts
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UK Guardian: Birth of a Medium
Jack Schofield talks to Henry Jenkins to find out why games are the new Goya.
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Thesis by Qi Wang S.M., Comparative Media Studies, 2002
Topics: 1960s, 1990s, China, film, filmmaking, realism, the WestNegotiating Realists: The Sixth Generation of Chinese Filmmakers
By illuminating Sixth Generation Cinema, I aim to provide a glimpse into 1990s China where reforms have brought heartening as well as disturbing changes.
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Thesis by Michelle Woodward S.M., Comparative Media Studies, 2002
Topics: 9/11, magnum photos, photography, photojournalism, postmodernismThe Construction of Photojournalism: Visual Style and Branding in the Magnum Photos Agency
The visual style of photographic representation developed by the Magnum Photos agency, the most prestigious international agency for photojournalists.
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Thesis by Sophie Ormerod S.M., Comparative Media Studies, 2002
Topics: authoritarianism, control, cyber-libertarians, determinism, Europe, Internet, liberalization, politics, SingaporeThe Medium Still Isn’t the Message: Revisiting the Link Between Communication Technologies and Political Liberalization
Questioning the claims presently being made on behalf of the Internet as a unidirectional causal agent in socio-political liberalisation.
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Thesis by Margaret Weigel S.M., Comparative Media Studies, 2002
Topics: 19th century, 20th century, advertising, audience, lights, Manhattan, New York City, postmodernism, signageThe Commoditable Block Party: Electric Signs in Manhattan, 1881-1917
The form and content of the electric bulb sign in Manhattan from 1892 to 1917 — and how this unique medium engaged with its environment and audience.
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Thesis by Candis Callison S.M., Comparative Media Studies, 2002
Topics: data, digital assemblage, Stikine River WatershedA Digital Assemblage: Diagramming the Social Realities of the Stikine River Watershed
The landscape of the Stikine River Watershed through varied perspectives and heterogeneous data sets, using landscape as a condition for relating factors of knowledge, discourse, and power.
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MIT News Office on ‘BollySpace’
The MIT News Office has an article entitled “‘BollySpace’ melds Indian film traditions with digital media”, about an initiative by CMS graduate students Aswin Punathambekar, Zhan Li and Sangita Shresthova.