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This is the seventh in a series of seven podcasts, recorded during the Futures of Entertainment Conference hosted by the Convergence Culture Consortium and Comparative Media Studies at MIT.
Not the Real World Anymore was the fifth session of the conference. The panelists featured in this recording are John Lester, from Linden Lab; Ron Meiners, Developer Relations Manager at Multiverse.net; and Todd Cunningham and Eric Gruber, from MTV Networks. The moderator was Joshua Green.
Futures of Entertainment 2006 - Fan Cultures - Recorded Nov. 18, 2006 (Video/Quicktime, 2hr16min / 275MB)
This is the seventh in a series of seven podcasts, recorded during the Futures of Entertainment Conference hosted by the Convergence Culture Consortium and Comparative Media Studies at MIT.
Not the Real World Anymore was the fifth session of the conference. The panelists featured in this recording are John Lester, from Linden Lab; Ron Meiners, Developer Relations Manager at Multiverse.net; and Todd Cunningham and Eric Gruber, from MTV Networks. The moderator was Joshua Green.
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This is the sixth in a series of seven podcasts, recorded during the Futures of Entertainment Conference hosted by the Convergence Culture Consortium and Comparative Media Studies at MIT.
Fan Cultures was the fourth session of the conference. The panelists featured in this recording are Diane Nelson, president of Warner Premiere; danah boyd, a doctoral candidate in the School of Information at the University of California-Berkeley; and Molly Chase, Executive Producer of Cartoon Network New Media. The moderator was Henry Jenkins.
Updated: the files have been fixed and are now downloadable.
Futures of Entertainment 2006 - Fan Cultures - Recorded Nov. 18, 2006 (Video/H.264, 2hr47min / 272.9MB)
This is the fifth in a series of seven podcasts, recorded during the Futures of Entertainment Conference hosted by the Convergence Culture Consortium and Comparative Media Studies at MIT.
This particular recording is of the opening presentation for the second day, Viscerality and Web 2.0, given by Joshua Green, Research Manager for C3.
Futures of Entertainment 2006 - Viscerality and Web 2.0 - Recorded Nov. 18, 2006 (Video/H.264, 29min / 98.4MB)
This is the fourth in a series of seven podcasts, recorded during the Futures of Entertainment Conference hosted by the Convergence Culture Consortium and Comparative Media Studies at MIT.
Transmedia Properties was the third session of the conference. The panelists featured in this recording are Paul Levitz, president and publisher of DC Comics; Michael Lebowitz, co-founder and CEO of Big Spaceship; and Alex Chisholm, ounder of [ICE]3 Studios. The moderator was Henry Jenkins.
Futures of Entertainment 2006 - Transmedia Properties - Recorded Nov. 17, 2006 (Video/H.264, 2hr13min / 263MB)
This is the third in a series of six podcasts, recorded during the Futures of Entertainment Conference hosted by the Convergence Culture Consortium and Comparative Media Studies at MIT.
User-Generated Content was the second session of the conference. The panelists featured in this recording are Caterina Fake, Director of Tech Development at Yahoo! Inc; Ji Lee, founder of the Bubble Project; Rob Tercek, President and Co Founder of MultiMedia Networks; and Kevin Barrett, the Director of Design at BioWare Corp. The moderator was Joshua Green.
Futures of Entertainment 2006 - User-Generated Content - Recorded Nov. 17, 2006 (Video/H.264, 2hr29min / 299MB)
This is the first in a series of six podcasts, recorded during the Futures of Entertainment Conference hosted by the Convergence Culture Consortium and Comparative Media Studies at MIT.
In this first podcast, we present Henry Jenkins' opening remarks. As we post these, please check Henry's weblog for further commentary.
Futures of Entertainment 2006 - Opening Remarks - Recorded Nov. 17, 2006 (Video/MPEG4, 24min / 49.1MB)
In this recent interview with Forbes writer David Ewalt, CMS Director Henry Jenkins talks about gaming culture and its participatory nature.
Game culture, whether it's Machinima or skins or online tips, creates strong incentives for people to become active participants in the community, to create something and to give something back. Games are a beautiful illustration of where we are as a society. A participatory culture is one where there are incentives for people to participate and create, and to share with others--and where there is strong social support for each person taking their first steps into becoming a creative artist.
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This is the sixth in a series of seven podcasts, recorded during the Futures of Entertainment Conference hosted by the Convergence Culture Consortium and Comparative Media Studies at MIT.
Fan Cultures was the fourth session of the conference. The panelists featured in this recording are Diane Nelson, president of Warner Premiere; danah boyd, a doctoral candidate in the School of Information at the University of California-Berkeley; and Molly Chase, Executive Producer of Cartoon Network New Media. The moderator was Henry Jenkins.
Updated: the files have been fixed and are now downloadable.
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This is the fifth in a series of seven podcasts, recorded during the Futures of Entertainment Conference hosted by the Convergence Culture Consortium and Comparative Media Studies at MIT.
This particular recording is of the opening presentation for the second day, Viscerality and Web 2.0, given by Joshua Green, Research Manager for C3.
Download Here!
Continue reading "Podcast: Futures of Entertainment 2006: "Viscerality and Web 2.0 (Audio)"" »
This is the fourth in a series of seven podcasts, recorded during the Futures of Entertainment Conference hosted by the Convergence Culture Consortium and Comparative Media Studies at MIT.
Transmedia Properties was the third session of the conference. The panelists featured in this recording are Paul Levitz, president and publisher of DC Comics; Michael Lebowitz, co-founder and CEO of Big Spaceship; and Alex Chisholm, ounder of [ICE]3 Studios. The moderator was Henry Jenkins.
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Continue reading "Podcast: Futures of Entertainment 2006: "Transmedia Properties (Audio)"" »
This is the third in a series of six podcasts, recorded during the Futures of Entertainment Conference hosted by the Convergence Culture Consortium and Comparative Media Studies at MIT.
User-Generated Content was the second session of the conference. The panelists featured in this recording are Caterina Fake, Director of Tech Development at Yahoo! Inc; Ji Lee, founder of the Bubble Project; Rob Tercek, President and Co Founder of MultiMedia Networks; and Kevin Barrett, the Director of Design at BioWare Corp. The moderator was Joshua Green.
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This is the second in a series of six podcasts, recorded during the Futures of Entertainment Conference hosted by the Convergence Culture Consortium and Comparative Media Studies at MIT.
Television Futures was the first session of the conference. The panelists featured in this recording are Andy Hunter, a Planning Director at GSD&M; Mark Warshaw, founder of FlatWorld Intertainment, Inc; and Josh Bernoff, a vice president at Forrester. The moderator was Henry Jenkins.
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This is the first in a series of six podcasts, recorded during the Futures of Entertainment Conference hosted by the Convergence Culture Consortium and Comparative Media Studies at MIT.
In this first podcast, we present Henry Jenkins' opening remarks. As we post these, please check Henry's weblog for further commentary.
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Foreign Languages and Literatures visiting professor Sharon Kinsella examines the media constructions of a teenage female revolt in contemporary Japan drawing from her current book project Girls as Energy: Fantasies of Social Rejuvenation.
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The Thursday, Nov. 16 installment of the MIT Communications Forum series, entitled “The Craft of Science Fiction,” featured a conversation between CMS Director Henry Jenkins and Joe Haldeman, the four-time Nebula Award winner who penned The Forever War and who teaches writing courses at MIT.
The conversation included a reading by Haldeman of his work, followed by a discussion about the art of science fiction and the relationship between science, religion, and the massive rate of technological change in the current society.
Haldeman and Jenkins discussed the ways in which scientific knowledge plays into science fiction as well as the interaction between science and religion in terms of the sci-fi genre.
One of Haldeman’s observations was that the Sept. 11, 2001 terrorist attacks was a “faith-based initiative.”
“Calling 9/11 a faith-based initiative is just a way of putting Bush’s religiosity into perspective,” he said. “It was an effective act of war, in terms of kill ratio—the number of enemy Americans killed per terrorist death.”
The relationship between religion and science aside, Haldeman also discussed the writing process for him, joking that 110 percent of his writing from the first draft usually makes it to the final draft, as he writes very economically the first time around.
However, he said that’s not necessarily what he recommends to students.
“On one’s own, the best way to improve one’s fiction writing is to write every day,” he said. “Set a time limit or a word limit and work that long every day, in the same time and place, if possible, without setting impossible goals. Write a story; rewrite it; send it out to a magazine; start another.”
Haldeman also suggested that aspiring writers should join a roundtable workshop.
The audio version of the forum is available in full as a downloadable podcast or as a Real Audio stream. A more detailed summary is available from the Communications forum Web site.
The latest MIT Communications Forum, The Craft of Science Fiction, featured Joe Haldeman, four-time Nebula Award winner and author of The Forever War, his forthcoming novel The Accidental Time Machine and many other books.
This forum was moderated by CMS Director Henry Jenkins.
A detailed summary, as well as a Real Audio-formated audio stream, can be found at the MIT Communication Forum's website.
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CMS Director Henry Jenkins recently sat down for an in-depth interview with Gamasutra. Topics ranged from the public's perception of video games as art, to the recently announced Singapore MIT International Game Lab. The interview also explored the benefits of using video games as teaching tools, and the concept of media convergence. Jenkins evens hints at which games he enjoys, and why.
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The Futures of Entertainment Conference, (held November 17th and 18th) drew network executives, game designers, academics, and the general public, and the MIT News Office was there to cover the event. The conference was sponsored by the Comparative Media Studies Program and the Convergence Culture Consortium. Read on to find out more about what industry experts had to say about the future of televison, transmedia storytelling, and other forms of media we consume today.
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