CMS Co-Director Henry Jenkins last month joined the likes of Madeleine Albright, Craig Newmark, and Former U.S. Solicitor General Theodore Olson for a panel on how public policy and private initiatives can better meet the public’s information needs.
“Fun from ‘political oppression’?”: GAMBIT Game Lab in the Singapore Straits Times
“Use the cheery pink power of bubblegum to convince your fellow citizens to join a popular revolt against a repressive government.”
From the Boston Phoenix: “Junot Díaz reads a new short story at the Brattle Theater”
“Junot Díaz, a man, it appeared from listening to the women’s chatter, with many charms.”
From the School Library Journal: “Hero Reports”
“Move over Batman and Spidey, Gotham has a new hero: average New Yorkers whose random acts of civic courage are being logged on a new Web site called Hero Reports.”
In Medias Res, Fall 2008
Junot Díaz has long been a supporter of CMS, and we are all justly proud of the extraordinary critical response to the novel, which won the Pulitzer Prize.
The Business of Broadband and the Public Interest: Media Policy for the Network Society
Media policy in the United States has, since its inception, been governed by the principle that infrastructure providers should serve “the public interest.”
Transformational Tales: Media, Makeovers, and Material Culture
American makeover culture, thorough detailed case studies that represent an increasing confluence of commerce, entertainment, and, at times, spirituality.
