MIT Graduate Program in Comparative Media Studies
Studying Media and Making Media
How has electronic literature influenced other media, including the Web and the book? What are the implications of having literary projects in the digital sphere alongside other forms of communication and art?
The games showcased in this exhibit demonstrate that there is a wide variety of approaches one can follow in adapting literary works into games.
In this hands-on workshop you'll learn how to create, tag, link, and share annotations in web-based environments.
D.T. Max, staff writer at the New Yorker, looks at David Foster Wallace and irony, with an eye especially on his 1990's attacks on David Letterman and the novelist Mark Leyner.
Co-authors will discuss the nature of their collaboration facilitated by structured conversations and writing done online and in person.
Kristin Cashore and Kenneth Kidd on why dystopias, devastating apocalyptic visions, and tales of personal trauma are such a staple of young adult literature.
Jeff VanderMeer will discuss his role as one of the leading practitioners of “weird fiction,” the environmental and ecological concerns that inform his work, and his massive crossover success.
