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Futures of Entertainment

MIT Media Lab, Bartos Theater 20 Ames Street, Cambridge, MA

The conference will consider developments such as user-generated content, transmedia storytelling, the rise of mobile media and the emergence of social networking.

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MIT Media Lab, Bartos Theater 20 Ames Street, Cambridge, MA

Developments in advertising, cult media, metrics, measurement, and accounting for audiences, cultural labor and audience relations.

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MIT Media Lab, Bartos Theater 20 Ames Street, Cambridge, MA

This 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.

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Futures of Entertainment 4 once again brings together key industry leaders and academic scholars who are shaping these new directions in our culture.

Cities and the Future of Entertainment

MIT Media Lab, Bartos Theater 20 Ames Street, Cambridge, MA

As a prologue to the Futures of Entertainment conference, this Forum will focus on the emergence of powerful new production cultures in such cities as Mumbai, Shanghai, and Rio de Janeiro.

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Cities and the Future of Entertainment

MIT Media Lab, Bartos Theater 20 Ames Street, Cambridge, MA

What is the likely impact on audiences and on the international media landscape of such cities as Mumbai, Shanghai, and Rio de Janeiro?

Derrick Ashong

New Media in West Africa

MIT Building E25, Room 111 45 Carleton Street, Cambridge, MA

How has Nigerian cinema in particular influenced local television and film markets in other countries across West Africa, and across the continent?

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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.