MIT Graduate Program in Comparative Media Studies
Studying Media and Making Media
The time has come to take an inventory of today's game industry and envision tomorrow's technological innovations and creative implications.
The conference will consider developments such as user-generated content, transmedia storytelling, the rise of mobile media and the emergence of social networking.
Matthew Weise is an MIT/Comparative Media Studies alum who has been working since his 2004 graduation in the mobile games industry.
This year's conference will work to bring together the themes from last year -- media spreadability, audiences and value, social media, distribution -- with the Consortium's new projects as we move towards an increasingly global understanding of media convergence and content flows.
Philip Tan, the executive director of US operations for GAMBIT will be leading tours of local video game companies to help you understand the day to day goings on of the rapidly growing video game industry.
Futures of Entertainment 4 once again brings together key industry leaders and academic scholars who are shaping these new directions in our culture.
