A long lifetime of developing electronic consumer products has taken Ralph Baer from vacuum tube through microprocessor designs.
Podcast: Tucker Eskew, “The Discipline of Political Messages in an Unruly Era”
Political adviser Tucker Eskew explores the permanent campaign of the last ten years. What is “message discipline” in an era of atomized opinion leadership – a necessity or a fool’s errand?
Podcast: Media in Transition 6: “Summary Perspectives”
Wrapping up Media in Transition 6, with Mary Bryson, University of British Columbia; Marlene Manoff, MIT Libraries; John Durham Peters, University of Iowa; Thomas Pettitt, University of Southern Denmark.
Podcast: Media in Transition 6: “The Future of Publishing”
How has the rise of new publishing and promotion technologies affected how titles are acquired, produced and publicized? How have your experiments with new technologies and practices made conducting business easier, and how have they made conducting business more challenging?
Podcast: Media in Transition 6: “Institutional Perspectives on Storage”
At this moment of transition in the archive, we face many choices, from redundancy and maintaining double systems to all-out conversion to digital formats. What strategies make sense as you look forward?
Podcast: Media in Transition 6: “New Media, Civic Media”
How are new media tools enabling a new kind of civic/ public culture?
Podcast: Media in Transition 6: “Archives and History”
How has oral composition survived so many changes? Are there parallels between the ancient oral traditions and the emerging internet culture?
