CMS/W (cms-technologist@mit.edu)
MIT Comparative Media Studies/Writing offers an innovative academic program that applies critical analysis, collaborative research, and design across a variety of media arts, forms, and practices.
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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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The 2019 Karmel Writing Prizes Winners
Working in every genre, from fiction to technical writing, 36 MIT students win 2019 Ilona Karmel Writing Prizes.
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Video, podcast, and summary: An Evening with Comedienne Cameron Esposito
As part of MIT’s Communications Forum, a short comedy set with Cameron Esposito followed by Q&A about Rape Jokes, her standup comedy special about sexual assault from a survivor’s perspective.
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Podcast: Jaroslav Švelch, “Gaming the Iron Curtain: Computer Games in Communist Czechoslovakia as Entertainment and Activism”
The idiosyncratic and surprising ways computer hobbyists in Czechoslovakia challenged the power of the oppressive political regime and harnessed early microcomputer technology for both entertainment 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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Video and podcast: Dispatches From the Golden Age of Audio
Cynthia Graber and Al Letson on how podcasting struggles to create gold standards for building shows that will be popular and financially sustainable.
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Video and podcast, “Brian Michael Bendis: The 2018 Julius Schwartz Lecture”
We welcomed award-winning comics creator Brian Michael Bendis, New York Times bestseller and one of the most successful writers working in mainstream comics.
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William Uricchio takes a hard look at VR’s promise
“The uncertainty regarding what VR is can easily lead to disappointment.”
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Video: William Uricchio on Virtual Reality and the Myth of Total Cinema
Professor William Uricchio talks to Amsterdam’s EYE Film Institute.
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Save the Date: “Media in Transition 10: A Reprise – Democracy and Digital Media”
May 17-18, 2019. Call for papers to come in September 2018.
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In Praise of Wasting Time
In his new book, Professor Alan Lightman investigates the creativity born from allowing our minds to freely roam, without attempting to accomplish anything and without any assigned tasks
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Seth Mnookin on the fallacy of “both sides” journalism
“We’ve seen too many journalists confuse not taking sides with not calling out liars and frauds.”
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Video and podcast: Has Silicon Valley Lost Its Humanity?
Author Noam Cohen, technology critic Sara M. Watson, and technology journalist Christina Couch discuss the rise of Silicon Valley and whether the drive for innovation degrades our humanity.
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GDC video with T.L. Taylor: “How Game Communities Built an eSport Scene from the Ground Up”
“In this 2017 GDC talk, MIT professor TL Taylor explains why developers hoping to break into the esports scene can benefit from understanding and integrating expert and enthusiast communities into their initiatives.”
