MIT Graduate Program in Comparative Media Studies
Studying Media and Making Media
To celebrate the launch of the graduate program in Comparative Media Studies at MIT, this final event of the Media in Transition Project aims to establish a broad-gauged discussion of our emerging computer culture in the perspective of ancestor technologies and older media.
How do we reconcile the competing forces of media convergence and media fragmentation that are shaping the current communications infrastructure?
The third Media in Transition conference centers on television's political and cultural role at the dawn of our new millennium.
This fourth Media in Transition conference explores storytelling as a cultural practice, a social and political activity as well as an art form.
MiT5: "creativity, ownership and collaboration in the digital age", will be held April 27-29, 2007. The deadline for submissions is Jan. 5.
Our understanding of the technical and social processes by which culture is made and reproduced is being challenged and enlarged by digital technologies.
What are the implications of the tension between storage and transmission for education, for individual and national identities, for notions of what is public and what is private?
Has the digital age confirmed and exponentially increased the cultural instability and creative destruction that are often said to define advanced capitalism?
Submissions accepted on a rolling basis until Friday, March 1, 2013.
Concepts of participation, trust, and democracy are increasingly fraught, essential, and powerfully repositioned. How will our news media look and sound in the next decade? What can we learn from news media of the past? What can international perspectives reveal about the variability and fluidity of media landscapes?
