CMS graduate program info session

@ CMS

We address the challenges brought about by ongoing and fundamental changes in the technologies and practices of media production, distribution, and consumption. Rather than focus on medium-specific silos, we explore the dynamics of media change through a comparative, historical, and multidisciplinary lens.

@ CMS

trans-media (computational media, the book, games, computational media, film & video, etc.)

trans-historical (across historical periods, particularly those marked by media change)

trans-cultural (seeking cultural variations in media deployment, organization and use)

trans-disciplinary (drawing on theories and methods from the humanities, social & computational sciences)

CMS graduate program faculty

Heather HendershotGraduate Director Jim Paradis

Ed Schiappa, Head

Vivek Bald Ian Condry

Jing Wang

Sasha Costanza-Chock

William UrrichioT.L. TaylorInterim Graduate Director

Nick MontfortFox Harrell

Frederico Casalegno

Our research labs

Creative Communities

Initiative

CMS lab directors

Kurt Fendt Hyperstudio

Scot OsterweilEducation Arcade

Philip TanGame Lab

Sarah WolozinOpen Doc

Eric Klopfer (Urban Studies)Education Arcade

Fox HarrellICE Lab

Ian CondryCCI

Nick MontfortTrope Tank

Ethan ZuckermanCenter for Civic Media

Frederico CasalegnoMobile Experience Lab

Visiting scholars and postdocsThe Program typically has up to ten visitors in residence, with stays ranging from one semester to several years. Most work on CMS research projects; some pursue their own individual research; and some also teach.

Katerina Cizekdocumentary filmmaker

Coco Fuscoartist and writer

full list @

http://cmsw.mit.edu/people/visitors-postdoctoral-associates/

Chris Weaverfounder, Bethesda Softworks

Curriculum

Thesis (sample from last year)

Creative Industries Prototyping Lab, student project 2014

Eduardo Marisca at the Creative Industries Prototyping LabCreating the first prototype sketches

Creative Industries Prototyping Lab, featuring fellow CMS students Lingyuxiu Zhong and Julie Fischer, at front

Bloomsbury Press, forthcoming

From thesis to book

Molly Sauter, CMS 13

Thesis: Distributed Denial of Service Actions and the Challenge of Civil Disobedience on the Internet

currently a McGill PhD student

Alumni (full list online)

Kevin Driscoll, 09Post-doc Microsoft Research

Audubon Dougherty, 10Digital Director at Adult Swim

Clara Fernandez-Vara, 04Associate Arts Professor, NYU Game Center

Sam Ford, 07Director of Audience Engagement,

Peppercomm

Flourish Klink, 10Chief Participation Officer, The Alchemists

Transmedia Storytelling Co.

Eduardo Marisca, 14Digital Innovation @ La Victoria Lab

Weekly colloquium series

http://web.mit.edu/comm-forum/mit9/

cmsw.mit.edu