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)

Vivek Bald

Frederico Casalegno

Sasha Costanza-Chock

Fox Harrell

Heather Hendershot
Graduate Director

Nick Montfort

Ed Schiappa, Head

T.L. Taylor
Interim Graduate Director

William Urrichio

CMS graduate program faculty

Ian Condry

Jim Paradis

Jing Wang

Our research labs

Creative Communities

Initiative

Frederico Casalegno
Mobile Experience Lab

Eric Klopfer (Urban Studies)

Education Arcade

Ian Condry
CCI

Nick Montfort
Trope Tank

Kurt Fendt
Hyperstudio

Scot Osterweil
Education Arcade

Fox Harrell
ICE Lab

Philip Tan
Game Lab

CMS lab directors

Sarah Wolozin
Open Doc

Ethan Zuckerman
Center for Civic Media

Visiting scholars and postdocs

The 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.

Coco Fusco
artist and writer

Katerina Cizek
documentary filmmaker

Chris Weaver
founder, Bethesda Softworks

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

Curriculum

Thesis
(sample from last year)

Creative Industries Prototyping Lab,

student project 2014

Creating the first prototype sketches

Eduardo Marisca at the Creative Industries Prototyping Lab

Creative Industries Prototyping Lab,

featuring fellow CMS students Lingyuxiu Zhong
and Julie Fischer, at front

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
Bloomsbury Press, forthcoming

Alumni (full list online)

Eduardo Marisca, 14
Digital Innovation @ La Victoria Lab

Flourish Klink, 10
Chief Participation Officer, The Alchemists
Transmedia Storytelling Co.

Audubon Dougherty, 10
Digital Director at Adult Swim

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

Sam Ford, 07
Director of Audience Engagement,
Peppercomm

Kevin Driscoll, 09
Post-doc Microsoft Research

Weekly colloquium series

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

cmsw.mit.edu