MIT Graduate Program in Comparative Media Studies
Studying Media and Making Media
Transferring narratives from one medium to another is often either likened to the process of translation or just plainly called translation.
Developments in advertising, cult media, metrics, measurement, and accounting for audiences, cultural labor and audience relations.
What are the benefits and dangers of a confusion between the private creativity and the public career elements of a writer's life?
Ian Condry on the prevalence of giant robots in anime and Cynthia Breazeal on how science fiction has influenced the development of real robotic systems.
Middlebury's Jason Mittell on how television narratives have expanded and been complicated through transmedia extensions, including video games, novelizations, websites, online video, and alternate reality games.
Christine Walley, Professor of Anthropology at MIT, will present an overview of the Exit Zero Project, which "seeks to recapture the stories of a region traumatized by de-industrialization."
In conversation with MIT Professor Vivek Bald, critically-acclaimed filmmaker and artist Thomas Allen Harris will reveal his process, experiences, and unexpected outcomes working with communities in online and offline shared spaces and places. Livestream starting at 5pm.
