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Showing 1 to 20 of 184 for “"Comparative Media Studies."”.
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Roguelife : digital death in videogames and its design consequences
Thesis: S.M. in Comparative Media Studies, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Department of Comparative Media Studies/Writing, 2019
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Remaking English literature : editors at work between media
… Institute of Technology, Dept. of Comparative Media Studies, 2013.
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The tangible map : designing the user interface for a public installation
The Mobile Experience Lab in the MIT Comparative Media Studies Department is developing the Tangible Map in order to determine the potential of three-dimensional digital displays as a medium of providing information about the physical world. The Tangible Map is a three-dimensional digital map …
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The management of transmedia production in an era of media and digital convergence
As the digital and media convergence era hits its full stride and media companies struggle to maintain profitability in sectors of the entertainment industry, the production of transmedia experiences is becoming more commonplace with the coordination of film, home video, gaming, merchandising, and …
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Technology against technocracy : toward design strategies for critical community technology
This thesis develops an intersectional, critical analysis of the field of practice known as Civic Tech and highlights other relevant community-organizing and activist practices that utilize technology as a central component. First, I develop critiques of Civic Tech as a dominant technocratic, …
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Civic crowdfunding : participatory communities, entrepreneurs and the political economy of place
Crowdfunding, the raising of capital from a large and diverse pool of donors via online platforms, has grown exponentially in the past five years, spurred by the rise of Kickstarter and IndieGoGo. While legislative attention in the US has turned to the potential to use crowdfunding as a means of …
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Orson Welles' intermedial versions of Shakespeare in theatre, radio and film
… will provide the guiding thread of this intermedial exploration. Close reading of these texts will show the recurrence of intermediality in Welles' work, namely, the way techniques from one medium feed into the other two. Borrowing conventions and devices that are proper to other media and …
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From physical to virtual : extending the gallery experience online
This thesis is an exploration of the ways in which interactive features in the virtual space can be developed to complement physical museum exhibitions, as well as create opportunities for museums to reach broader audiences. I provide a critical analysis of current online museum exhibition features …
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Designing game ethics : a pervasive game adaptation of The Count of Monte Cristo
… MIT campus. Supported through a variety of media, including a website, audio podcasts, physical props, hidden tupperware boxes, and a variety of paper documents, Civilité transformed the players' everyday campus environment into an imaginary nineteenth century Paris on the eve of Napoléon's …
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Heike, Jike, Chuangke : creativity in Chinese technology community
… magazines; it explored topics discussed in Jike media, or Chinese geek media, using text mining (a type of data mining) methods including co-occurrence analysis, TF-IDF analysis and topic models (based on LDA); this thesis also includes a field study of Chuangke, seeing how Chinese Chuangke …
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Decloaking disability : images of disability and technology in science fiction media
… non-normative bodies. This work uses a cultural studies approach to explore the intersections between disability and technology. Additionally, memoir is often included to illustrate some of the complexities regarding how experiences with disability and technological prosthetics can influence …
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Sex, drugs, and women's desire
Low desire is the most common sexual dysfunction in women. Pharmaceuticals are being developed to treat it, most notably Flibanserin, owned by Sprout Pharmaceuticals. Sometimes inaccurately referred to as "female Viagra," Flibanserin actually treats an entirely different problem. Viagra allows men …
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Expectations across entertainment media
… franchises brought up by these initial case studies are examined in further detail through the collectible card game Magic: the Gathering, and the complexity of the interactions between different types of expectations are demonstrated via a study of the superhero comics serials 52 and Civil …
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Hybrid cinematics : rethinking the role of filmmakers of color in American cinema
This thesis explores the practices of filmmakers of color in the United States who employ strategies to circumvent industrial, financial and cultural barriers to production and distribution. To overcome these barriers, many filmmakers of color in the United States operate as independents, which can …
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Knock-offs, fakes, replicas, and reals : a cultural supply chain of counterfeit fashion
This thesis attempts to uncover the emotional and cultural economics of material culture. What does it mean for material good to be "fake"? What are the salient aspects that are being copied and are those aspects purely material? How does counterfeit branded fashion function as craft, as commodity, …
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Distributed denial of service actions and the challenge of civil disobedience on the Internet
This thesis examines the history, development, theory, and practice of distributed denial of service actions as a tactic of political activism. DDOS actions have been used in online political activism since the early 1990s, though the tactic has recently attracted significant public attention with …
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You smell : the mysterious science of scent
The sense of smell is a mystery-and the human sense of smell is a particularly inscrutable one. Only in the last 25 years have scientists identified the molecules in our noses responsible for detecting odors, and since then, the unexpected discovery of a new family of olfactory detection molecules …
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Poetics of the videogame setpiece
… poetics approach that relates practices of media exhibitionism to the perpetual innovation economy of digital games, this thesis argues that the setpiece is a meaningful site of fluid agency play within games, enabling complex narrative expression as well as self-reflexive comment about a …
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Neon signs, underground tunnels and Chinese American identity : the many dimension of visual Chinatown
… or the space as it has been conceived by media makers including photographers, writers and filmmakers. By looking at these through the lens of tourism, I create a framework for analyzing the many cinematic depictions of the neighborhood. In the last chapter, I return to the actual spaces …
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Chinese online BBS sphere : what BBS has brought to China
… what has BBS brought to China where traditional media primarily serve as the mouthpiece of the government? And, why are Chinese netizens, especially younger generation, particularly enthusiastic about this online platform? Through a full- dimensional view into BBS'S information communication …
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