A Phantasmal Media Approach to Empowerment, Identity and Computation

Courtesy of the Pacific Centre for Technology and Culture Part of Digital Inflections: Visions for the Posthuman Future Dr. Fox Harrell, Associate Professor of Digital Media in the Comparative Media Studies Program and Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence ...

An interview with Neil Gaiman

The bestselling author, screenwriter and comics luminary was interviewed by Henry Jenkins as part of the Julius Schwartz Memorial Lecture in 2008.

Applied Humanities: Transforming Humanities Education

04/23/2010 10:00 AM e14"633William Uricchio, Professor of Comparative Media Studies; ; Peter Donaldson, Ann Fetter Friedlaender Professor of Humanities and Head of the Literature Faculty, MIT. Director, Shakespeare Interactive Archive; Kurt Fendt; Scot Osterweil; ...

Common Threads: The Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences at MIT

Part of the "Common Threads" video, produced for the MIT 150th celebration, this clip features the vital role of humanities, arts, and social sciences at MIT.

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.

Dean Deborah Fitzgerald, Introductory Statement: CMS 10th Anniversary

Engaging Neighborhoods - Berliner sehen

The contemporary video core of Berliner sehen consists of 18 hours of natural conversations with Berlin residents from different social backgrounds. Spoken in authentic German, they acquaint students with the many facets of individual lives. Together with the extensive archive of texts, ...

Excerpt from "Playhouse"

MIT Festival Jazz Ensemble Frederick Harris, Music Director with Herb Pomeroy and the MIT Alumni Jazz Band James O'Dell, guest conductor

Fiction Writer Junot Díaz: 2012 MacArthur Fellow | MacArthur Foundation

Pulitzer Prize-winning author and writing professor receives unrestricted $500,000 prize.

Heather Paxson Lectures on Interview Techniques for DLab Students

Assoc. Prof. Heather Paxson from Anthropology provides DLab students a background on interviewing and other qualitative research techniques. Recorded December 7, 2012.

How to Read 1,000,000 Manga Pages: Visualizing Patterns in Games, Comics, ...

05/21/2010 6:45 PM e14"638Lev Manovich, Professor, Visual Arts, University of California, San Diego; ; Director, Software Studies Initiative, California Institute for Telecommunications and Information Technology (Calit2); Description: In his introduction, moderator ...

Humanistic Approaches to the Graphical Expression of Interpretation

05/20/2010 3:00 PM Bartos theaterKurt Fendt; Johanna Drucker; Amber Frid"Jimenez; Nick Montfort, SM '98, Assistant professor of Digital Media in MIT Program in Writing and Humanistic Studies Description: The session begins with brief introductory remarks by moderator ...

J. Michael Straczynski: The Julius Schwartz Lecture

This year's Julius Schwartz Lecture speaker was transmedia creator J. Michael Straczynski, who has most recently entered the motion picture arena, writing the period drama Changeling for Clint Eastwood and Angelina Jolie, adapting such books as Lensman for Ron Howard, ...

J.Locke, Op.Cit: Invocations of Law on Snowy Streets

John Crespi, Picturing the Purge: Chinese Cartoon Imagery from the 1930s ...

MIT Visualizing CulturesPicturing the Purge: Chinese Cartoon Imagery from the 1930s to the 1950sPresented by John Crespi, Luce Associate Professor of Chinese; Director of Asian Studies, Colgate UniversityVisualizing Cultures was launched at MIT in 2002 to ...