Futures of Entertainment 2
MIT Media Lab, Bartos Theater 20 Ames Street, Cambridge, MADevelopments in advertising, cult media, metrics, measurement, and accounting for audiences, cultural labor and audience relations.
MIT Graduate Program in Comparative Media Studies
Studying Media and Making Media
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Futures of Entertainment 3
MIT Media Lab, Bartos Theater 20 Ames Street, Cambridge, MAThis year's conference will work to bring together the themes from last year -- media spreadability, audiences and value, social media, distribution -- with the Consortium's new projects as we move towards an increasingly global understanding of media convergence and content flows.
How Documentary Went Digital: the Implications of Informal Filming and Skeptical Audiences
MIT Building 2, Room 105 182 Memorial Drive, Cambridge, MAJohn Ellis will argue that "Films are now seen as documents of interactions rather than expositions of fact."
Ryan Cordell: “Melville in the First Age of Viral Media”
MIT Building 4, Room 231 Cambridge, MARyan Cordell, co-director of the Viral Texts project, will speak about his work uncovering pieces that “went viral” in nineteenth-century newspapers and magazines.
Music Fandom and the Shaping of Online Culture
MIT Building 56, Room 114 Access via 21 Ames Street, Cambridge, MANancy Baym: "By the time musicians and industry figures realized they could use the internet to reach audiences directly, those audiences had already established their presences and social norms online, putting them in unprecedented positions of power."
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