Fansubbing
MIT Building 1, Room 150 33 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge, MALearn fansubbing--the process of adding subtitles to Japanese animation.
MIT Graduate Program in Comparative Media Studies
Studying Media and Making Media
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Men Imagining a Girl Revolution
MIT Building 3, Room 270 33 Massachusetts Ave (Rear), Cambridge, MASharon Kinsella examines the media constructions of a teenage female revolt in contemporary Japan drawing from her current book project Girls as Energy: Fantasies of Social Rejuvenation.
Girls-Games-Japan: Why it is different to be a female gamer in Japan and how we can make a change in the West.
MIT Building 14E, Room 304 160 Memorial Drive, Cambridge, MAPapermint's success is based on its practical realisation of Barbara Lippe's research on Japanese gaming and girl culture.
MIT/Harvard Cool Japan Project presents “Summer Wars”
MIT Building 26, Room 100 Access Via 60 Vassar Street, Cambridge, MAThe New England premiere of the anime feature film "Summer Wars" (2009, Director Mamoru Hosoda, Madhouse / Kadokawa). The director and producer of the film, both based in Japan, will be present at the screening and will participate in a Q&A/discussion after the film.
Mimi Ito, “Fandom Unbound: Otaku Culture in a Connected World”
MIT Media Lab, Room 633 75 Amherst St., Cambridge, MAMimi Ito, cultural anthropologist, discusses how this once marginalized popular culture came to play a major role in Japan’s identity at home and abroad.
Fandom Unbound: Otaku Culture in a Connected World
MIT Media Lab, Room 633 75 Amherst St., Cambridge, MABy exploring the rich variety of otaku culture from multiple perspectives, Mimi Ito will provide fascinating insights into the present and future of cultural production and distribution in the digital age.
Hierarchy and Democracy in Modern Japan’s Mass Media Revolution
MIT Building 4, Room 231 Cambridge, MAHiromu Nagahara explores Japan's first “mass media revolution”, in the 1920s and '30s, when technology expanded the number of media product consumers.
Ian Condry, “Sound, Learning and Democracy: The Curvature of Social Space-Time through Japanese Music, from Underground Techno to Pop Idols”
MIT Building E15, Room 318 (Common Area) 20 Ames Street, Cambridge, MAProfessor Ian Condry explores contemporary Japanese music, with a comparison of diverse examples, such as female Japanese rappers, underground techno festivals, the virtual idol Hatsune Miku, and the pop idol group AKB48.
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