Futures of Entertainment
MIT Media Lab, Bartos Theater 20 Ames Street, Cambridge, MAThe conference will consider developments such as user-generated content, transmedia storytelling, the rise of mobile media and the emergence of social networking.
MIT Graduate Program in Comparative Media Studies
Studying Media and Making Media
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Media in Transition 5: creativity, ownership and collaboration in the digital age
Our understanding of the technical and social processes by which culture is made and reproduced is being challenged and enlarged by digital technologies.
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.
Communications Forum: “The Campaign and the Media 1
MIT Media Lab, Bartos Theater 20 Ames Street, Cambridge, MAIs it true, as many have suggested, that the influence of newspapers and television has declined in the digital era? Have the media become more partisan and polarized?
Lev Manovich
MIT Building 2, Room 105 182 Memorial Drive, Cambridge, MALev Manovich is the author of The Language of New Media, which is hailed as "the most suggestive and broad ranging media history since Marshall McLuhan."
Media in Transition 6: stone and papyrus, storage and transmission
MIT Building E51 70 Memorial Drive, Cambridge, MAWhat are the implications of the tension between storage and transmission for education, for individual and national identities, for notions of what is public and what is private?
Race, Politics and American Media
MIT Media Lab, Bartos Theater 20 Ames Street, Cambridge, MAThe election of an African-American president in Nov. 2008 has been hailed as a transforming event. But has Obama's ascension transformed anything?
Futures of Entertainment 4
Futures of Entertainment 4 once again brings together key industry leaders and academic scholars who are shaping these new directions in our culture.
Online Migration of Newspapers
MIT Media Lab, Bartos Theater 20 Ames Street, Cambridge, MADavid Carr and Dan Kennedy discuss the best and the worst examples of news on the net, online-only news sites, hyperlocal news and collaborative journalism, business models for online newspapers, and the impact of social media on journalism.
Local News in the Digital Age
MIT Media Lab, Bartos Theater 20 Ames Street, Cambridge, MAThis Forum will assess the state of local journalism, paying special attention to the changing environment for news in New England.
Cities and the Future of Entertainment
MIT Media Lab, Bartos Theater 20 Ames Street, Cambridge, MAAs 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.
Henry Jenkins Returns
MIT Building 4, Room 370 182 Memorial Drive (Rear), Cambridge, MALegendary former MIT professor and housemaster Henry Jenkins returns to the Forum for a conversation about his time at the Institute and the founding of CMS as well as his path-breaking scholarship on contemporary media.
Cultural Studies and The Expediency of Culture, Rethought in Relation to Internet Platforms and Megadata
MIT Building 4, Room 231 Cambridge, MAThe argument that culture empties out as it becomes ever more pivotal in the creative economy has, George Yúdice thinks, been borne out.
Imperial Arrangements: South African Apartheid and the Force of Photography
MIT Building 56, Room 114 Access via 21 Ames Street, Cambridge, MAKimberly Juanita Brown will focus on US news media coverage of apartheid in the last year of its existence, and the images that anchored viewers' interpretation of the event.
Media in Transition 10: A Reprise – Democracy and Digital Media
Massachusetts Institute of TechnologyConcepts of participation, trust, and democracy are increasingly fraught, essential, and powerfully repositioned. How will our news media look and sound in the next decade? What can we learn from news media of the past? What can international perspectives reveal about the variability and fluidity of media landscapes?
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