This year’s Julius Schwartz Lecture speaker was transmedia creator J. Michael Straczynski.
From the archives, Henry Jenkins on digital culture and violence
Via @henryjenkins comes this video featured in an MIT course “Media, Education and the Marketplace” just after the Columbine shootings.
Video: Media in Transition 6: “Summary Perspectives”
At the end of the three-day Media in Transition conference, panelists swap impressions and reactions, offering some notional themes for future symposia.
Video: Media in Transition 6: “The Future of Publishing”
Nostalgia, anxiety and optimism mix in this panel devoted to imagining what lies ahead for the book, as publishing professionals and others discuss the impact of digital technology on the business.
Video: Media in Transition 6: “Institutional Perspectives on Storage”
European archivists grapple with the legal obligations, civic responsibilities and future prospects of their collections, which, thanks to the Internet and other new technologies, are increasingly awash in image and sound.
Video: “Communications Forum: Global Media”
This “Global Media” panel explored theoretical, methodological, and practical issues surrounding the study of media circulation in an age of connectivity.
Video and podcast: “Film Music and Digital Media”
The widespread adoption of computer-based methods of digital recording technology has profoundly changed film scoring practices around the globe, not least in Hollywood.









