Convergence Journalism? Emerging Documentary and Multimedia Forms of News
MIT Media Lab, Room 633 75 Amherst St., Cambridge, MAHow is new access to the power of the visual changing our journalism? What current projects are particularly significant?
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A Conversation with Nate Silver
MIT Media Lab, Bartos Theater 20 Ames Street, Cambridge, MAStatistician and political polling analyst Nate Silver will discuss his career -- from student journalist to baseball prognosticator to the creator of FiveThirtyEight.com.
MOOCs and the Emerging Digital Classroom
MIT Media Lab, Room 633 75 Amherst St., Cambridge, MAIn 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.
News or Entertainment? The Press in Modern Political Campaigns
MIT Media Lab, Room 633 75 Amherst St., Cambridge, MAMark McKinnon and Ta-Nehisi Coates discuss whether our political journalism is serving democratic and civic ideals.
The Phoenix Burns Out: Remembering a Boston Institution
MIT Media Lab, Room 633 75 Amherst St., Cambridge, MAWhen 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.
Born Digital
MIT Media Lab, Room 633 75 Amherst St., Cambridge, MAOn Oct. 10, John Palfrey and Ethan Zuckerman discuss whether those born digital likely to have different notions of privacy, community, identity itself.
Long-form Journalism: Inside The Atlantic
MIT Building 66, Room 110 25 Ames Street, Cambridge, MAJames Fallows and Corby Kummer of The Atlantic chart the journey of a major feature story from conception to publication and speculate about the future of long-form journalism in the digital age.
Henry Jenkins Returns
MIT Building 4, Room 370 182 Memorial Drive (Rear), Cambridge, MALegendary former MIT professor and housemaster Henry Jenkins returns to the Forum for a conversation about his time at the Institute and the founding of CMS as well as his path-breaking scholarship on contemporary media.
Science in Fiction
MIT Stata Center, Room 155 32 Vassar Street, Cambridge, MAHanya Yanagihara, Alan Lightman, and Rebecca Goldstein discuss the unique challenges of respecting the exacting standards of science in fictional texts.
Documentaries, Journalism, and the Future of Reality-Based Storytelling
MIT Building 66, Room 110 25 Ames Street, Cambridge, MARaney Aronson of FRONTLINE, documentary director Katerina Cizek, Jason Spingarn-Koff of the New York Times' Op-Docs, and the Guardian's multimedia editor Francesca Panetta.
Making Computing Strange: Cultural Analytics and Phantasmal Media
MIT Building 66, Room 110 25 Ames Street, Cambridge, MAWith Lev Manovich, author of the seminal The Language of New Media, and MIT's Fox Harrell and Nick Montfort.
Women in Science
MIT Building 66, Room 110 25 Ames Street, Cambridge, MAComputational geneticist Pardis Sabeti and energy studies expert Jessika Trancik will discuss their careers and the outlook for women in science in the 21st century.
Coming of Age in Dystopia: The Darkness of Young Adult Fiction
MIT Building 66, Room 110 25 Ames Street, Cambridge, MAKristin Cashore and Kenneth Kidd on why dystopias, devastating apocalyptic visions, and tales of personal trauma are such a staple of young adult literature.
The Spooky Science of the Southern Reach: An Evening with Jeff VanderMeer
MIT Building 32 (Stata Center), Room 123 32 Vassar Street, Cambridge, MAJeff VanderMeer will discuss his role as one of the leading practitioners of “weird fiction,” the environmental and ecological concerns that inform his work, and his massive crossover success.
Jim Crow and the Legacy of Segregation Outside of the South
MIT Building 3, Room 270 33 Massachusetts Ave (Rear), Cambridge, MAIs the de facto segregation that exists in many Northern cities a result of the lack of forced integration of the type that took place in the South?
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