Timothy Stoneman, National Science Foundation Postdoctoral Fellow in the Science, Technology, and Society Program at MIT, discusses his research on missionary and evangelical radio in America from an historical perspective.
Podcast: “New Media and Art Roundtable”
Featured speakers included Lauren Cornell, director of Rhizome.org; Jon Ippolito, media artist, curator, author; and our own Beth Coleman, Assistant Professor of Comparative Media Studies and of Writing and Humanistic Studies, co-founder of the SoundLab Cultural Alchemy project.
Podcast: Scott Donaton, “Marketing in the Age of Consumer Empowerment”
Why user-empowerment is the key trend in business and the ways marketers are adapting to it.
Podcast: “The Rise of Citizen Journalism”
Convergence is a buzzword in which Comparative Media Studies is heavily invested, and we are spending a significant amount of time this term examining what effects that convergence is having on newsgathering and journalism in America. These research questions are driven, in part, by a three-part series of the MIT Communication Forum entitled “Will Newspapers Survive?”
Podcast: “MIT’s ZigZag on Podcasting and the Future of Media”
Chris Boebel and David Tamés gave us an overview of the production of ZigZag, MIT’s new video podcast/magazine, as well as a look into the future of media production, distribution, and consumption.
Video and podcast: “News, Information, and the Wealth of Networks”
Yochai Benkler teaches communication and information law at Yale Law School. He is the author of The Wealth of Networks: How Social Production Transforms Markets and Freedom.
Podcast: Scott McCloud, “Making Comics”
Scott McCloud, author of Understanding Comics and Reinventing Comics, spoke on his latest, Making Comics, as a part of his Making Comics Fifty States tour.
