TV News in Transition
MIT Media Lab, Bartos Theater 20 Ames Street, Cambridge, MANo aspect of television has changed more decisively in recent years than its news programming.
MIT Graduate Program in Comparative Media Studies
Studying Media and Making Media
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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.
The News as a Social Process for Improving Society
MIT Media Lab, Room 633 75 Amherst St., Cambridge, MAYves Citton: "While machines can 'read' data, only human subjectivities can 'interpret' them."
Convergence Journalism? Emerging Documentary and Multimedia Forms of News
MIT Media Lab, Room 633 75 Amherst St., Cambridge, MAHow is new access to the power of the visual changing our journalism? What current projects are particularly significant?
Philip Napoli, “Media Impact Assessment and Beyond: Thoughts on the Treacherous Task of Quantifying Journalistic Performance”
MIT Media Lab, Room 633 75 Amherst St., Cambridge, MAThis presentation by Rutgers' Philip Napoli will focus on ongoing research that seeks to define and assess the field of media impact assessment.
The City Talks: Storytelling at the New York Times’s Metro Desk
MIT Building 56, Room 114 Access via 21 Ames Street, Cambridge, MAEmily Rueb, a reporter for The New York Times, will share insights gained in bursting boundaries of traditional storytelling for The New York Times's Metro desk -- weaving video, audio, illustrations and text across multiple platforms.
Bunk and the History of Hoaxes with Kevin Young
MIT Building 3, Room 270 33 Massachusetts Ave (Rear), Cambridge, MABefore fake news dominated headlines, Kevin Young was tracking down its roots.
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.
Laura Partain, “Race and Representation of Syrian, Palestinian, and Norwegian Refugees in the News”
A talk about nationalism and national belonging, as well as the ways in which social-expectations placed on displaces peoples can limit their access to civic, medical, and everyday resources.
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