Converging Media: Games, Literacy and Culture Research Fair

Stata Center, 1st Floor 32 Vassar Street, Cambridge, MA

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.

Caroline Jack: “How Facts Survive in Public Service Media”

MIT Building 56, Room 114 Access via 21 Ames Street, Cambridge, MA

When the Ad Council bombarded television viewers with messages on economic literacy, was it information or propaganda? One way to answer that question is to look at corporate managers and executives as consequential social actors.