Content tagged "culture"
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Jaroslav Švelch: “Czech Underground Rock Music: Forbidden Fandom”
An account of Czech underground rock music of the 60s, 70s and 80s when rock music was considered suspicious and counterrevolutionary.
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Podcast: Media in Transition 5: “Learning through Remixing”
Can young people also learn how culture works by sampling and remixing the materials of their culture?
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Podcast: Media in Transition 5: “Folk Cultures and Digital Cultures”
Are we witnessing the appearance of a new or revitalized folk culture? Are there lessons or cautions for digital culture in the near or distant past?
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Media in Transition 5: creativity, ownership and collaboration in the digital age
Our understanding of the technical and social processes by which culture is made and reproduced is being challenged and enlarged by digital technologies.
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Converging Media: Games, Literacy and Culture Research Fair
Join us to explore the many facets of research on cutting-edge digital games, media literacy, innovative humanities databases, and redefined corporate/consumer relations now underway in MIT’s Comparative Media Studies program.
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From YouTube to YouNiversity: Henry Jenkins’ Chronicle of Higher Education essay about networked culture, adhocracies, media studies and CMS
How might media studies, the field most committed to mapping these changes as they affect modern life, be taught in a YouNiversity?
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CMS Director Henry Jenkins on participatory culture and participatory democracy
CMS Director Henry Jenkins is featured in this podcast at ThoughtCast, discussing “the path from ‘participatory culture’ to ‘participatory democracy.'”
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Open Invitation to Converging Media: Games, Literacy and Culture Research Fair
Explore the many facets of research on cutting-edge digital games, media literacy, innovative humanities databases, and redefined corporate/consumer relations now underway in MIT’s Comparative Media Studies program.
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Convergence Culture Wins 2007 Kovacs Book Award
“Henry Jenkins’s approachable prose reaches out to both media scholars and non-specialized audiences alike.”
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Video: Futures of Entertainment 2006: “Fan Cultures”
Diane Nelson, president of Warner Premiere; danah boyd, a doctoral candidate in the School of Information at the University of California-Berkeley; and Molly Chase, Executive Producer of Cartoon Network New Media.
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Henry Jenkins on Gaming Communities as reported on by Forbes Online
In an interview with Forbes writer David Ewalt, CMS Director Henry Jenkins talks about gaming culture and its participatory nature.
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Futures of Entertainment Conference Examines the Entertainment Landscape
MIT’s Comparative Media Studies program co-hosted Futures of Entertainment with the Convergence Culture Consortium, one of the program’s research groups.
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Ian Condry Examines Japan’s Hip Hop
Hip Hop Japan: Rap and the Paths of Cultural Globalization is the realization of many years of work for Ian Condry, an associate professor of Japanese cultural studies in MIT Foreign Languages and Literatures and a CMS faculty affiliate.
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Communicative 2.0: Video Games and Digital Culture in the Foreign Language Classroom
Two core concepts in youth entertainment that will increasingly become central in future attempts to design affordable foreign language learning materials.
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In Medias Res, Summer 2006
From the start, Philip Khoury encouraged us to think big, to develop a graduate program worthy of MIT, one that would help to define future directions for our field.
