MIT Graduate Program in Comparative Media Studies
Studying Media and Making Media
As 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?
Sherry Turkle, eminent MIT professor and author most recently of Alone, Together, discusses her darkening view of our digitizing world.
This Forum will assess the state of local journalism, paying special attention to the changing environment for news in New England.
As 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.
What is the likely impact on audiences and on the international media landscape of such cities as Mumbai, Shanghai, and Rio de Janeiro?
How can professional reporters and editors help to assure that quality journalism will be recognized and valued in our brave new digital world?
How 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?
What urgent initiatives are underway to assure universal access to our print inheritance and to the digital communication forms of the future?
How has Nigerian cinema in particular influenced local television and film markets in other countries across West Africa, and across the continent?
How is new access to the power of the visual changing our journalism? What current projects are particularly significant?
Statistician and political polling analyst Nate Silver will discuss his career -- from student journalist to baseball prognosticator to the creator of FiveThirtyEight.com.
In this Communications Forum, Anant Argawal, Alison Byerly, and Daphne Koller look at how digital technologies are transforming teaching and learning both on and off campus.
Mark McKinnon and Ta-Nehisi Coates discuss whether our political journalism is serving democratic and civic ideals.
When the Phoenix announced its closing, the city lost a powerful cultural force and a vibrant source of information. We'll discuss the Phoenix's legacy.
On Oct. 10, John Palfrey and Ethan Zuckerman discuss whether those born digital likely to have different notions of privacy, community, identity itself.
