Content tagged "industry"
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Posted by Andrew Whitacre
Podcast: Hiromu Nagahara, “Hierarchy And Democracy In Modern Japan’s Mass Media Revolution”
Hiromu Nagahara on the life and career of Horiuchi Keizō, an MIT grad who found himself in the center of Japan’s “mass media revolution” in the 1920s and ’30s as a prominent composer, critic, radio broadcaster, and publisher.
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Event: Thursday, October 1, 2015 @ 5:00 pm
Hierarchy and Democracy in Modern Japan’s Mass Media Revolution
Hiromu Nagahara explores Japan’s first “mass media revolution”, in the 1920s and ’30s, when technology expanded the number of media product consumers.
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Posted by Jesse Sell S.M., Comparative Media Studies, 2015
Topics: broadcasting, e-sports, industry, media, play, sportsE-Sports Broadcasting
A look at e-sports broadcasting within the larger sports media industrial complex, e-sportscasters, and the economics behind the growing e-sports industry.
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Posted by Andrew Whitacre and Marjorie Liu
Podcast: “The State of the Comic Book Medium” with Bobbie Chase and Marjorie Liu
Bobbie Chase, Editorial Director of DC Comics, and comic book writer Marjorie Liu (Monstress, Astonishing X-Men, Black Widow) discuss the current and future state of the comic book medium.
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Posted by Eduardo Marisca S.M., Comparative Media Studies, 2014
Topics: culture, games, industry, Peru, technology, video gamesDeveloping Game Worlds: Gaming, Technology, and Innovation in Peru
This relatively unknown industry has been able to introduce complex skills and work around structural gaps and obstacles to create the foundations for a potentially viable technology and creative industry.
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Posted by Andrew Whitacre and Eduardo Marisca
Podcast: The Creative Industries Prototyping Lab
Eduardo Marisca: “But the need was not for technologies themselves. It’s something that they can get their hands on. The biggest problem was process.”
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Posted by Andrew Whitacre
Podcast: Susan Murray, “‘Natural Vision vs. Tele-Vision’: Defining and Managing Electronic Color in the Post-War Era”
The discourses that framed and managed color use and reception not only in the standardization period, but also during RCA and NBC’s early attempts to sell color to consumers, sponsors, and critics.
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Event: Thursday, April 10, 2014 @ 5:00 pm - 7:00 pm
Susan Murray, “‘Natural Vision vs. Tele-Vision’: Defining and Managing Electronic Color in the Post-War Era”
Susan Murray on the discourses that framed and managed color use and reception not only in the standardization period, but also during RCA and NBC’s early attempts to sell color to consumers, sponsors, and critics.
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Event: Thursday, February 6, 2014 @ 5:00 pm - 7:00 pm
Vicki Mayer: “Where ‘Home’ Is: Film Production Economies and the Privatization of Space”
Vicki Mayer speaks on the impacts of regional policies for film production on ordinary people’s understandings of time, space and place.
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Event: Thursday, January 30, 2014 @ 5:00 pm - 7:00 pm
Michael Curtin: “The Burdens of Official Aspiration: National Policy in the Age of Global Media”
UCSB’s Michael Curtin explores the implications of national cultural policy within the broader context of media globalization.
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Posted by Andrew Whitacre
Podcast: “MIT Alumni in the Game Industry”
The MIT Game Lab has invited a number of local MIT alumni in the game industry to talk about their experiences entering the industry.
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Event: Monday, November 25, 2013 @ 5:00 pm - 6:30 pm
MIT Alumni in the Game Industry
The MIT Game Lab has invited a number of local MIT alumni in the game industry to talk about their experiences entering the industry.
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Posted by Abe Stein S.M., Comparative Media Studies, 2013
Topics: fans, genre, industry, sports, televisionTelevisual Sports Videogames
Abe Stein’s thesis on how these videogames are situated in the sports media industrial complex of North America and how their design is meaningful for fans.
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Posted by Aswin Punathambekar S.M., Comparative Media Studies, 2003
From Bombay to Bollywood: The Making of a Global Media Industry
The transformation of the national film industry in Bombay into a transnational and multi-media cultural enterprise, which has come to be known as Bollywood.
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Posted by Andrew Whitacre
Video: “New Media in West Africa”
How has Nigerian cinema in particular influenced local television and film markets in other countries across West Africa, and across the continent?