Jenkins’ Farewell
MIT Media Lab, Bartos Theater 20 Ames Street, Cambridge, MAHenry Jenkins returns to talk about his scholarship on digital culture, founding Comparative Media Studies, and experiences as a teacher and housemaster.
MIT Graduate Program in Comparative Media Studies
Studying Media and Making Media
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Graphical Expressions of Humanistic Interpretation in Digital Environments
MIT Media Lab, Bartos Theater 20 Ames Street, Cambridge, MAJohanna Drucker asks, "Are the standard metrics and conventions developed for analysis of empirical inquiries fundamentally at odds with tenets of traditional humanistic interpretation?"
Online Migration of Newspapers
MIT Media Lab, Bartos Theater 20 Ames Street, Cambridge, MADavid Carr and Dan Kennedy discuss the best and the worst examples of news on the net, online-only news sites, hyperlocal news and collaborative journalism, business models for online newspapers, and the impact of social media on journalism.
Humanities in the Digital Age
MIT Building 32 (Stata Center), Room 141 32 Vassar Street, Cambridge, MAWith Alison Byerly and Steven Pinker, we ask how digital tools and systems have already begun to transform humanistic education.
Civic Media and the Law
MIT Media Lab, Room 633 75 Amherst St., Cambridge, MAMicah Sifry and Daniel Schuman address the question: "What are the legal dangers for publishing secrets in the crowdsourced era?"
Public Communications in Slow-Moving Crises
MIT Building 4, Room 231 Cambridge, MAWhat new media tools and strategies can be used to help everyone better prepare for the unique communications challenges of slow-moving crises?
Online News: Public Sphere or Echo Chamber?
MIT Building 3, Room 270 33 Massachusetts Ave (Rear), Cambridge, MAAs newspapers continue their mutation into digital formats and as news and information are available from a seeming infinity of websites, what do we actually know about the dynamics of news-consumption online?
A Conversation with Sherry Turkle
MIT Building 66, Room 110 25 Ames Street, Cambridge, MASherry Turkle, eminent MIT professor and author most recently of Alone, Together, discusses her darkening view of our digitizing world.
Local News in the Digital Age
MIT Media Lab, Bartos Theater 20 Ames Street, Cambridge, MAThis Forum will assess the state of local journalism, paying special attention to the changing environment for news in New England.
Cities and the Future of Entertainment
MIT Media Lab, Bartos Theater 20 Ames Street, Cambridge, MAAs a prologue to the Futures of Entertainment conference, this Forum will focus on the emergence of powerful new production cultures in such cities as Mumbai, Shanghai, and Rio de Janeiro.
Cities and the Future of Entertainment
MIT Media Lab, Bartos Theater 20 Ames Street, Cambridge, MAWhat is the likely impact on audiences and on the international media landscape of such cities as Mumbai, Shanghai, and Rio de Janeiro?
Adapting Journalism to the Web
MIT Media Lab, Room 633 75 Amherst St., Cambridge, MAHow can professional reporters and editors help to assure that quality journalism will be recognized and valued in our brave new digital world?
Electronic Literature and Future Books
MIT Media Lab, Bartos Theater 20 Ames Street, Cambridge, MAHow has electronic literature influenced other media, including the Web and the book? What are the implications of having literary projects in the digital sphere alongside other forms of communication and art?
Digitizing the Culture of Print: The Digital Public Library of America and Other Urgent Projects
MIT Media Lab, Room 633 75 Amherst St., Cambridge, MAWhat urgent initiatives are underway to assure universal access to our print inheritance and to the digital communication forms of the future?
New Media in West Africa
MIT Building E25, Room 111 45 Carleton Street, Cambridge, MAHow has Nigerian cinema in particular influenced local television and film markets in other countries across West Africa, and across the continent?
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