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Project Good Luck invites you to join us for our first international blogger breakfast.
Come talk about the issues that concern you. Make new friends!

Time Friday 8-9pm (Cambridge)
Address Lounge of Tan Hall 550 Memorial Drive, Cambridge

Join our discussion with Chinese Students through MSN IMS. Please email team researchers Jin Liwen <liwenjin(at)MIT.EDU> or Shi Song <shisong_73(at)yahoo.com> if you would like to participate.

Goal:
Our goal is to get to known new friends and learn more about each other. Also we hope to study the media communication tools and the style of conversation on MSN IMS.

See Project GoodLuck for more information

Posted by CMS Webmaster at 2:49 PM in Announcements | Permalink

Henry Jenkins’s Convergence Culture: Where Old and New Media Collide has been awarded the 2007 Katherine Singer Kovacs Book Award by the Society for Cinema and Media Studies.

The award selection committee members, Greg Smith (chair), Pam Wojcik, and Daniel Bernardi, reviewed 87 books for this year’s competition. They drafted the following citation for Convergence Culture:

Convergence Culture: Where Old and New Media Collide reclaims the new media buzzword ‘convergence’ as a productive but not quite predictable interaction among synergistic corporations, migratory audiences, and multiple technological platforms.

He discusses how this unruly process is redefining public culture through popular culture, and Jenkins's approachable prose reaches out to both media scholars and non-specialized audiences alike. The terms he uses (‘participatory culture,’ ‘collective intelligence,’ ‘affective economics,’ ‘transmedia storytelling’) are already reconfiguring the way we think about the contemporary media environment.

The award will be announced on Thursday evening, March 8 at the SCMS conference in Chicago.

Posted by CMS Webmaster at 2:40 PM in Accomplishments | Permalink

Confronting the Challenges of Participatory Culture has been nominated as a finalist for the 2006 Edublog Awards for Best Research Paper! The whitepaper is part of a grant by the John and Catherine MacArthur Foundation for use by Project NML (New Media Literacies). The white paper was written by CMS director and NML Primary Investigator Henry Jenkins; Ravi Purushotma, 2006 graduate of MIT Comparative Media Studies; Katherine Clinton, education consultant for NML; Margaret Weigel, Research Manager for NML; and Alice J. Robison, postdoctoral fellow in the Comparative Media Studies program.

Read about the white paper, and the other finalists for the award here.

Posted by CMS Webmaster at 11:43 AM in Accomplishments | Permalink

As reported by Dean Takahashi in his blog for the San Jose Mercury Times, CMS director Henry Jenkins is one of a number of interviewees for Spencer Halpin's documentary Moral Kombat, a documentary about the controversy and dialogue surrounding the issue of video game violence. Halpin includes commentary from people involved with the issue from the gaming industry, academia, the legal profession, journalists, as well as government and the military.

The trailer has been posted to YouTube.

Posted by CMS Webmaster at 10:29 AM in Media Appearances | Permalink

Henry Jenkins recently published a short op-ed piece for the Boston Globe editorial page about Congress and the pending Deleting Online Predators Act.

Time Magazine may have celebrated the new realm of user-generated content with its Person of the Year cover story. That doesn't mean Congress is comfortable with young people's participation in the online world.

Read "Congress wigs out over MySpace", here.

Posted by CMS Webmaster at 9:39 AM in Publications | Permalink

This is the third and final forum in the Will Newspapers Survive? series presented by the MIT Communications Forum. Why Newspapers Matter, features Jerome Armstrong of Netroots.com and MyDD.com; Pablo Boczkowski, associate professor in the Department of Communication Studies at Northwestern University; Dante Chinni from the Christian Science Monitor; and David Thorburn, professor of literature and director of the Communications Forum at MIT.

The MIT Communications Forum hosts a summary of the event.

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This is the first forum in the Will Newspapers Survive? series presented by the MIT Communications Forums. The Emergence of Citizen's Media features Alex Beam of the Boston Globe, Ellen Foley from the Wisconsin State Journal and Dan Gillmor, founder of the Center for Citizen Media.

The MIT Communications Forum hosts a summary of the event and our own Sam Ford wrote an article for the CMS page in October.

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