MIT Graduate Program in Comparative Media Studies
Studying Media and Making Media
Jesper Juul: "Video game players are neither rational solvers of abstract problems, nor daydreamers in fictional worlds, but both of these things with shifting emphasis."
Members of Comparative Media Studies' GAMBIT Research Staff will deliver from 2-3PM each day a different videogame-based lecture.
The tour concludes with our weekly Friday Games at GAMBIT where you will have a chance to play some of the newest videogames.
My research group is answering this challenge by embedding experiments in a video game which we use to study autism.
This talk will describe how looking at the code and platform levels can enhance our comparative media studies of computational works.
Clara Fernández-Vara, a Comparative Media Studies alumna, explains her journey from researching Shakespeare in performance to studying and developing videogames.
A new trend of designing video games intended to fulfill a serious purpose through impacting the players in real life contexts has emerged.
Clara Fernández-Vara compares and contrasts videogames with theatre to understand how they can incorporate narratives as part of the performance.
What can finance, health care, philanthropy, and education learn from cutting-edge games and game theory?
A talk on the fighting game community, its spiritual and physical roots in the arcade, common practices, and how issues of ethnicity and gender collide.
The Global Game Jam is the world’s largest game jam event taking place around the world at physical locations, a 48-hour a hackathon focused on game development.
Gaming in Color is a full length documentary of the story of the queer gaming community, gaymer culture and events, and the rise of LGBTQ themes in video games.
Join us and Harvard Book Store as it hosts Jane McGonigal to discuss "SuperBetter" with our own Scot Osterweil of The Education Arcade.
Sarah Zaidan is a game designer, artist and researcher whose work explores how video games and comic books can engage in a dialogue with identity, gender and civic awareness.
Professor Christopher Weaver, Founder of Bethesda Softworks, will discuss how games work and why they are such potent tools in areas as disparate as military simulation, childhood education, and medicine.
