A conversation between Frank Moss, new director of the Media Lab, and CMS Director Henry Jenkins about ongoing projects and inventive digital applications at MIT’s legendary laboratory. Demonstrations were also shown and discussed.
Podcast and video: “Remixing Shakespeare”
New technologies are enabling forms of borrowing, appropriation and “remixing” of media materials in exciting, provocative ways. In this Forum, two MIT scholars who have studied and written about the remixing of Shakespeare will describe their research, show some salient audio-visual examples and discuss the implications of their work for contemporary culture.
Podcast and video: “Why Newspapers Matter”
The third and final forum in the Will Newspapers Survive? series presented by the MIT Communications Forum.
Video and podcast: “The Emergence of Citizens’ Media”
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.
Podcast: Jesper Juul, “Half-Real: A Video Game in the Hands of a Player”
Jesper Juul on what happens when a player picks up a video game, learns to play it, masters it, and leaves it.
Podcast: Futures of Entertainment 2006: “Not the Real World Anymore “
As we move closer to the cyberpunk vision of a wholly parallel ‘metaverse’, questions of power, community, and property are coming to the fore.
Podcast: Futures of Entertainment 2006: “Fan Cultures”
How is the increasing importance of fan behavior re-writing the media landscape? What kinds of accountability should media companies have to their most committed consumers?
