For the past year or so these hard-working and clever individuals have been working towards their Masters at MIT’s Comparative Media Studies Department. They’ve been developing their theories on TV, videogames, digital media, animation, museums, transmedia and convergence and now they’re online:
IVAN ASKWITH
TV 2.0: Turning Television into an Engagement Medium
ALEC AUSTIN
Expectations Across Entertainment MediaLISA BIDLINGMEYER
Agent + Image: How the Television Image Destabilizes Identity in TV Spy SeriesKRISTINA DRZAIC
Oh No I’m Toast! Mastering Videogame Secrets in Theory and PracticeAMANDA FINKELBERG
Models and Simulations: Digital Cartography in the Networked EnvironmentSAM FORD
As the World Turns in a Convergence EnvironmentNEAL GRIGSBY
Ceaseless Becoming: Narratives of Adolescence Across MediaRENA HE HUANG
Journey to the East: the (Re)Make of Chinese AnimationGEOFFREY LONG
Transmedia Storytelling: Business, Aesthetics and Production at the Jim Henson CompanyPETER RAUCH
Playing with Good and Evil: Videogames and Moral PhilosophyDAN ROY
Mastery and the Mobile Future of Massively Multiplayer GamesKAREN VERSCHOOREN
.art: situating internet art in the modern museum
Check them out: http://cms.mit.edu/research/theses.php
Hey, Christy — thanks for the link! We’ve been posting a number of older theses over the last couple of weeks — if you’ve checked out the page before, you might want to revisit it to see some of the other cool research that’s been done here in CMS.