This is the first in a series of seven audio podcasts, recorded during the Futures of Entertainment 2 conference, hosted by the Convergence Culture Consortium and Comparative Media Studies at MIT.
Podcast: Futures of Entertainment 2: “NBC’s Heroes: Appointment TV to Engagement TV?”
What steps are networks taking to prolong and enlarge the viewer’s experience of a weekly series?
Podcast and video: “Games and Civic Engagement”
For a growing generation of activists and researchers, games may also represent a resource for engaging young people with the political process.
Podcast and video: Thomas W. Malone, “Collective Intelligence”
A conversation with Thomas Malone about the theory and practice of collective intelligence, with emphasis on Wikipedia, other instances of aggregated intellectual work.
Podcast: “Television Branding: Lee Hunt’s New Best Practices for 2007”
Media strategist and author of Fundamentals of Television Branding and Marketing Lee Hunt presents recent innovations in television branding and discusses some of the struggles being faced by networks in the era of convergence and transmedia.
Podcast and video: “What Is Civic Media?”
A collaboration between the MIT Media Lab and Comparative Media Studies (CMS) program and is the first in a series of events designed to focus attention on the relationship between emerging media and civic engagement.
Podcast: B. Joseph Pine II, “Technology & Media in the Experience Economy”
Author and management advisor B. Joseph Pine II discusses how ideas outlined in his book The Experience Economy fit within the context of digital technologies, virtual worlds, and convergence culture.
