The Center for Advanced Media Studies

The Center for Advanced Media Studies (CAMS) is a Johns Hopkins based center that organizes workshops, lecture series, and screenings/gallery installations in the field of media studies. It is generally geared toward graduate students with an interest in media studies, but open to the JHU community and the Baltimore community at large.

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Spring 2012

Undergraduate

Documentary Film: this undergraduate class is an overview of the history of the documentary film format and its attempt at telling the “truth:” we will examine documentaries from different historical moments (e.g., New Realism, Direct Cinema, Cinema Verite) and cultures (e.g., U.S., Indian, French), and asks theoretical and philosophical questions about the construction of argument, and documentaries’ use of reality, ethnography, and storytelling.(Click for syllabus)

Graduate

# internet: this seminar addresses the history of the internet as participatory platform from such social media as facebook and twitter to blogs and forums of political or activist nature, as well as online gaming environments; the questions raised will regard the social change these platforms produce, the legal implications of sharing information, the political and economical issues around “digital labor” (Scholz), as well as the broader ethical questions about identity and the construction of self in participatory online environments. This class will include a hands-on dimension combining media theory & practice. (Click for syllabus)

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