Futures of Entertainment 6

MIT Building E51, Wong Auditorium 70 Memorial Drive, Cambridge, MA

This year's event, Nov. 9-10 at MIT, will look at how media producers and audiences are relating to one another in new ways in a spreadable media landscape.

Sinan Aral, “Social Influence and The Dynamics of Online Reputation”

MIT Media Lab, Room 633 75 Amherst St., Cambridge, MA

MIT Sloan's Sinan Aral will argue that a new science of online identity could help guide our business, platform design, and social policy decisions in light of the rising importance of online reputation and social influence.

CMS Alumni Panel

MIT Building 4, Room 231 Cambridge, MA

Three Comparative Media Studies alums -- Sam Ford, Rekha Murthy, and Parmesh Shahani -- return to discuss their post-graduate lives.