Media
Channel | updated April 25, 2013
Videos from MIT's units looking into media and its impact on society, including the MIT Media Lab, the Center for Civic Media, Comparative Media Studies, and more.
Communications Forum: Henry Jenkins Farewell
Communications Forum: Henry Jenkins Farewell
Henry Jenkins' 20-year presence at MIT was formative for him and profoundly valuable for MIT. A year after his departure for USC, Jenkins returned to talk with long-time colleagues about his pioneering scholarship on digital culture, his work as the founding director ...
Computer Animation
Computer Animation
Luis Blackaller, Gina Kamentsky, and Frank Espinosa discuss computer-aided animation, and where it intersects with live action film, simulation, and even puppetry.
Connecting the stories in Moby-Dick: Then and Now
Connecting the stories in Moby-Dick: Then and Now
An illustrative video that shows how Pitts-Wiley connects the two stories together in the play, Moby-Dick: Then and Now.
Costume Design in Moby-Dick: Then and Now
Costume Design in Moby-Dick: Then and Now
An interview with Susan Bergeron, the costume designer/coordinator of the play Moby-Dick: Then and Now.
CPTS StarLogo TNG Intro Unit
CPTS StarLogo TNG Intro Unit
This screencast shows the finished project of a unit that introduces students to programming using several tools (Scratch, Etoys and StarLogo TNG). A project is "passed" from one tool to another to illustrate the theme "from one to many" and also to illustrate some similarities and differences ...
Craig Watkins: "The Digital Edge"
Craig Watkins: "The Digital Edge: Exploring the Digital Practices of Black ...
A Civic Media Session and Comparative Media Studies Colloquium
Creating with the Crowd: Crowdsourcing for Funding, ...
Creating with the Crowd: Crowdsourcing for Funding, Producing and ...
Beyond the buzzword and gimmicks using the concept, crowdsourcing is emerging as a new way in which creators are funding media production, inviting audiences into the creation process and exploring new and innovative means of circulating media content. What are some ...
Creativity and Collaboration in the Digital Age
Creativity and Collaboration in the Digital Age
Five former CMS students discuss their personal experiences within the program and the impact it has had on their understanding, interpretation and implementation of creativity in the digital age.
Designing Big Games
Designing Big Games
Game designer Mattia Romeo describes the unique process of designing games that take place in real world spaces. Also featuring Ian Bogost, Jason Kauffman, and Philip Tan.
Discovery and Security in Social Network Models: ...
Discovery and Security in Social Network Models: Graph-Theoretic ...
Sandip Roy of the School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at Washington State University
Distribution in Animation
Distribution in Animation
How the internet has exploded the distribution possibilities for animators. Featuring Gina Kamentsky and Juan Ospina.
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