MIT Graduate Program in Comparative Media Studies
Studying Media and Making Media
CMS is delighted to host a special screening of the documentary video Quest for Home: Gaybombay, by former CMS alum and colleague Parmesh Shahani.
What is the likely impact on audiences and on the international media landscape of such cities as Mumbai, Shanghai, and Rio de Janeiro?
Instead of a narrow emphasis on political effects, Aswin Punathambekar draws on a range of cases across India, China, and the Middle East to ask: what happens when such phases of participation fade away?
Kate Crawford is a Principal Researcher at Microsoft Research (Social Media Collective) and a Visiting Professor at the MIT Center for Civic Media. She is currently working on a new book.
Three Comparative Media Studies alums -- Sam Ford, Rekha Murthy, and Parmesh Shahani -- return to discuss their post-graduate lives.
Brian Larkin and Stefan Andriopoulos: "It is clear that future media centers will emerge in places far outside their traditional Western centers."
Come attend screenings of documentary films followed by discussions on a few things that define India today – love, innovation and spies.
