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Showing 1 to 3 of 3 for “"MIT Comparative Media Studies/Writing."”.
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To create live treatments of actuality : an investigation of the emerging field of live documentary practice
… Documentary. The former is situated in the media category of live theater and performance, and the second, the author will argue, is an instantiation of television in its earliest configuration as a device for two-way audio-visual communications and not just unidirectional broadcasting. The …
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Fake the dawn : digital game mechanics and the construction of gender in fictional worlds
… via literary theory, as informed by game studies, media studies methodologies, and feminist epistemologies. Game mechanics are analyzed both across and within primary texts (consisting of Japanese-developed games from the action and role-playing genres) in relation to characters' …
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From enclosure to embrace : punitive isolation and network culture
Cultural theorists such as Henry Jenkins¹, Lawrence Lessig², Yochai Benkler³ , Robert Hassan⁴, and Manuel Castells⁵, have written extensively on the role of network communications technologies in reconfiguring contemporary culture. While the penetration of the "information society" is now …