BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//MIT Graduate Program in Comparative Media Studies - ECPv5.16.1//NONSGML v1.0//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN METHOD:PUBLISH X-WR-CALNAME:MIT Graduate Program in Comparative Media Studies X-ORIGINAL-URL:https://cms.mit.edu X-WR-CALDESC:Events for MIT Graduate Program in Comparative Media Studies REFRESH-INTERVAL;VALUE=DURATION:PT1H X-Robots-Tag:noindex X-PUBLISHED-TTL:PT1H BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/New_York BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT DTSTART:20100314T070000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:EST DTSTART:20101107T060000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT DTSTART:20110313T070000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:EST DTSTART:20111106T060000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT DTSTART:20120311T070000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:EST DTSTART:20121104T060000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT DTSTART:20130310T070000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:EST DTSTART:20131103T060000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT DTSTART:20140309T070000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:EST DTSTART:20141102T060000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT DTSTART:20150308T070000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:EST DTSTART:20151101T060000 END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20151008T170000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20151008T170000 DTSTAMP:20260513T005422 CREATED:20150820T142022Z LAST-MODIFIED:20150820T183646Z UID:26039-1444323600-1444323600@cms.mit.edu SUMMARY:From the Neolithic Era to the Apocalypse: How to Prepare for the Future by Studying the Past DESCRIPTION:For thousands of years\, humans have experienced cycles of empire building and retreat\, from the neolithic settlers of Levant and the Indus Valley to the ancient Cahokia and Maya civilizations. What can new discoveries teach us about how to plan our next thousand years as a global civilization? Authors Charles C. Mann and Annalee Newitz will talk about how ancient civilizations shed light on current problems with urbanization\, food security\, and environmental change. \nCharles C. Mann is the author\, most recently\, of 1493\, a New York Times best-seller\, and 1491\, winner of the National Academies of Science’s Keck award for best book of the year. His next project\, The Wizard and the Prophet\, is a book about the future that makes no predictions. An early version of the introductory chapter was a finalist for a National Magazine Award. \nAnnalee Newitz writes science nonfiction and science fiction. She’s editor-in-chief of Gizmodo.com and founding editor of io9.com. She’s the author of Scatter\, Adapt\, and Remember: How Humans Will Survive a Mass Extinction\, which was a finalist for a Los Angeles Times Book Award. Her work has appeared in publications from The New Yorker and Technology Review to 2600 and Lightspeed Magazine. Her next book is a novel about robots\, pirates\, and the future of property laws. URL:https://cms.mit.edu/event/prepare-for-future-by-studying-past/ LOCATION:MIT Building 3\, Room 270\, 33 Massachusetts Ave (Rear)\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02319\, United States CATEGORIES:Communications Forum ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://cms.mit.edu/wp/wp-content/uploads/2007/01/mit-comm-forum_logo_square.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20150924T170000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20150924T170000 DTSTAMP:20260513T005422 CREATED:20150820T141213Z LAST-MODIFIED:20150910T170711Z UID:26036-1443114000-1443114000@cms.mit.edu SUMMARY:Jim Crow and the Legacy of Segregation Outside of the South DESCRIPTION:Police shootings and the Black Lives Matter campaign have shone a spotlight on how different the everyday experiences are of white Americans and Americans of color. While much attention has been paid to these seemingly daily occurrences\, the historical forces that led to our current situation have been less discussed: Is 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? And is the mass incarceration of and police brutality inflicted on black Americans a result of these same forces? \nMelissa Nobles is the Kenan Sahin Dean of the School of Humanities\, Arts\, and Social Sciences and Professor of Political Science at MIT. She is also a collaborator and advisory board member of Northeastern Law School’s Civil Rights and Restorative Justice clinic.  Her current research is focused on constructing a database of racial murders in the American South between 1930 and 1954. She is the author of two books: Shades of Citizenship: Race and Census in Modern Politics (2000) and The Politics of Official Apologies (2008)\, and related book chapters and articles. \nTracey Meares is the Walton Hale Hamilton Professor of Law at Yale Law School. Before coming to Yale\, she was the Max Pam Professor of Law and Director of the Center for Studies in Criminal Justice at the University of Chicago; she was the first African-American woman granted tenure at both institutions’ law schools. She’s worked extensively with the federal government\, and since December 2014 she has a been a member of President Obama’s Task Force on 21st Century Policing. \nModerator: Seth Mnookin is the director of the Communications Forum and the associate director of the Graduate Program of Science Writing at MIT. His most recent book is The Panic Virus: The True Story of the Vaccine-Autism Controversy. URL:https://cms.mit.edu/event/jim-crow-legacy-of-segregation-outside-south/ LOCATION:MIT Building 3\, Room 270\, 33 Massachusetts Ave (Rear)\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02319\, United States CATEGORIES:Communications Forum ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://cms.mit.edu/wp/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/Black-Lives-Matter.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20150416T170000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20150416T190000 DTSTAMP:20260513T005422 CREATED:20150128T201340Z LAST-MODIFIED:20200902T220830Z UID:25008-1429203600-1429210800@cms.mit.edu SUMMARY:The Spooky Science of the Southern Reach: An Evening with Jeff VanderMeer DESCRIPTION:(Join our mailing list for an event reminder.) \nJeff VanderMeer\nJeff VanderMeer\, author of the New York Times bestselling Southern Reach Trilogy (Annihilation\, Authority\, and Acceptance)\, will join G. Eric Schaller\, Professor of Biological Sciences at Dartmouth\, for a broad-ranging discussion about the scientific and philosophical ideas that inspired the series. The two friends and occasional collaborators will discuss conservation science\, VanderMeer’s relationship with the natural world\, and the theme of extinction in “slow apocalypse” fiction\, as well as the role of real-world science in science fiction. Moderator: Seth Mnookin. URL:https://cms.mit.edu/event/jeff-vandermeer-spooky-science-of-the-southern-reach/ LOCATION:MIT Building 32 (Stata Center)\, Room 123\, 32 Vassar Street\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02139\, United States CATEGORIES:Communications Forum ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://cms.mit.edu/wp/wp-content/uploads/2015/01/Jeff-VanderMeer.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20150319T170000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20150319T190000 DTSTAMP:20260513T005422 CREATED:20150128T200217Z LAST-MODIFIED:20200902T220830Z UID:25007-1426784400-1426791600@cms.mit.edu SUMMARY:Coming of Age in Dystopia: The Darkness of Young Adult Fiction DESCRIPTION:(Join our mailing list for an event reminder.) \nWhy are brutal dystopias\, devastating apocalyptic visions\, and tales of personal trauma such a staple of young adult literature? Kristin Cashore\, author of the award-winning Graceling Realm trilogy\, and the University of Florida’s Kenneth Kidd will explore the history and current preoccupations of one of the most popular forms of fiction today. Marah Gubar\, an associate professor in MIT’s Literature department\, will moderate. URL:https://cms.mit.edu/event/coming-age-dystopia-darkness-young-adult-fiction/ LOCATION:MIT Building 66\, Room 110\, 25 Ames Street\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02139\, United States CATEGORIES:Communications Forum ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://cms.mit.edu/wp/wp-content/uploads/2015/01/Kristin-Cashore.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20150226T170000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20150226T190000 DTSTAMP:20260513T005422 CREATED:20150128T195653Z LAST-MODIFIED:20200902T220829Z UID:25006-1424970000-1424977200@cms.mit.edu SUMMARY:Women in Science DESCRIPTION:(Join our mailing list for an event reminder.) \nComputational geneticist Pardis Sabeti and energy studies expert Jessika Trancik will discuss their careers and the outlook for women in science in the 21st century. Sabeti\, an associate professor at Harvard and a senior associate member of the Broad Institute\, and Trancik\, an assistant professor in MIT’s Engineering Systems Division\, are both rising stars in the research world. They will be in discussion with Rosalind Williams\, the Bern Dibner Professor of the History of Science and Technology at MIT. URL:https://cms.mit.edu/event/women-in-science-pardis-sabeti-jessika-trancik/ LOCATION:MIT Building 66\, Room 110\, 25 Ames Street\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02139\, United States CATEGORIES:Communications Forum ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://cms.mit.edu/wp/wp-content/uploads/2015/01/Pardis-Sabeti.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20141204T170000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20141204T190000 DTSTAMP:20260513T005422 CREATED:20140820T123101Z LAST-MODIFIED:20200902T221004Z UID:23917-1417712400-1417719600@cms.mit.edu SUMMARY:Making Computing Strange: Cultural Analytics and Phantasmal Media DESCRIPTION:Lev Manovich\, the author of the seminal The Language of New Media\, MIT’s Fox Harrell\, who recently published Phantasmal Media: An Approach to Imagination\, Computation\, and Expression\, and MIT’s Nick Montfort will examine the ways in which computational models can be used in cultural contexts for everything from analyzing media to imagining new ways to represent ourselves. URL:https://cms.mit.edu/event/cultural-analytics-and-phantasmal-media/ LOCATION:MIT Building 66\, Room 110\, 25 Ames Street\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02139\, United States CATEGORIES:Communications Forum ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://cms.mit.edu/wp/wp-content/uploads/2007/01/mit-comm-forum_logo_square.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20141009T170000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20141009T190000 DTSTAMP:20260513T005422 CREATED:20140926T125721Z LAST-MODIFIED:20190426T152416Z UID:24213-1412874000-1412881200@cms.mit.edu SUMMARY:Documentaries\, Journalism\, and the Future of Reality-Based Storytelling DESCRIPTION:Documentary and journalism have a complicated relationship. They share commitments to reality-based storytelling\, yet have distinctive legacies and institutional histories. They share technologies\, vocabularies and modes of address\, yet have different notions of time\, from the ‘now’ of breaking news to the ‘timeless’ status of classic documentaries. At a moment when the Internet has emerged as a platform common to print and broadcast journalism as well as new forms of interactive and participatory documentary\, complication seems more like confusion. One might try to clarify the situation by disambiguating these genres\, solidifying their boundaries. We seek instead to make productive use of the situation by taking advantage of their commonalities\, finding ways to re-invent and re-invigorate both documentary and journalism\, in the process expanding their audiences and enhancing their relevance. Documentaries have demonstrated the advantages of synergistic thinking\, finding a new place and new publics through digital journalism portals. But what can new forms of documentary contribute back to journalism? To answer that question\, we have to think critically and creatively about the affordances of these different traditions in light of their new ecosystem. \n\nRaney Aronson\, deputy executive producer\, FRONTLINE\nKaterina Cizek\, documentary director\, National Film Board of Canada\nJason Spingarn-Koff\, New York Times Op-Docs editor\nFrancesca Panetta\, Guardian multimedia special projects editor\nModerator: William Uricchio\, MIT URL:https://cms.mit.edu/event/documentaries-journalism-future-reality-based-storytelling/ LOCATION:MIT Building 66\, Room 110\, 25 Ames Street\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02139\, United States CATEGORIES:Communications Forum ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://cms.mit.edu/wp/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/A-Short-History-of-the-Highrise-Part-1-Video-NYTimes.com_.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20140403T171500 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20140403T191500 DTSTAMP:20260513T005422 CREATED:20140107T154953Z LAST-MODIFIED:20200902T221040Z UID:7689-1396545300-1396552500@cms.mit.edu SUMMARY:Science in Fiction DESCRIPTION:Hanya Yanagihara’s first book\, the widely celebrated The People In The Trees\, is loosely based on the life and work of Nobel Prize-winner physician and researcher D. Carleton Gajdusek. She’ll join author and physicist Alan Lightman\, who was the first professor at MIT to receive a joint appointment in the sciences and the humanities\, to discuss the unique challenges of respecting the exacting standards of science in fictional texts. Forum Co-Director Seth Mnookin\, author of The Panic Virus\, will moderate. \nHanya Yanagihara is an Editor-At-Large at Conde Nast Traveler and author of The People In The Trees\, a novel the New York Times called "suspenseful" and "exhaustingly inventive." \nAlan Lightman is currently Professor of the Practice of the Humanities at MIT and author of the international bestseller Einstein’s Dreams. His most recent novel\, Mr g\, was published in January 2012. \nSeth Mnookin is Co-Director of the Communications Forum and Associate Director of MIT’s Graduate Program in Science Writing. His most recent book is The Panic Virus: The True Story Behind the Vaccine-Autism Controversy. \nLoading… URL:https://cms.mit.edu/event/science-fiction/ LOCATION:MIT Stata Center\, Room 155\, 32 Vassar Street\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02139\, United States CATEGORIES:Communications Forum ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://cms.mit.edu/wp/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/Hanya-Yanagihara.jpg ORGANIZER;CN="MIT%20Communications%20Forum":MAILTO:couch@mit.edu END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20140306T170000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20140306T190000 DTSTAMP:20260513T005422 CREATED:20140107T153522Z LAST-MODIFIED:20160817T183033Z UID:7688-1394125200-1394132400@cms.mit.edu SUMMARY:Henry Jenkins Returns DESCRIPTION:Legendary former MIT professor and housemaster Henry Jenkins\, now the Provost’s Professor of Communications\, Journalism\, Cinematic Arts and Education at the University of Southern California\, 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. Forum Director David Thorburn\, Jenkins’ longtime friend and colleague\, will moderate the discussion. \nHenry Jenkins is Provost’s Professor of Communication\, Journalism\, Cinematic Arts and Education at the University of Southern California. He taught at MIT from 1990-2009 and was the founding director of the Comparative Media Studies program at the Institute. He has written many books on film\, popular culture and media\, including Convergence Culture: Where Old and New Media Collide (2008). \nDavid Thorburn is a professor of Literature and Director of the MIT Communications Forum. He is the author of a critical study of the novelist Joseph Conrad and many essays on literature and media. Among his publications: Rethinking Media Change (2007)\, co-edited with Henry Jenkins. URL:https://cms.mit.edu/event/henry-jenkins-returns/ LOCATION:MIT Building 4\, Room 370\, 182 Memorial Drive (Rear)\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02139\, United States CATEGORIES:Communications Forum ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://cms.mit.edu/wp/wp-content/uploads/2013/06/HenryJenkins.jpg ORGANIZER;CN="MIT%20Communications%20Forum":MAILTO:couch@mit.edu END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20131205T170000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20131205T190000 DTSTAMP:20260513T005422 CREATED:20130819T133741Z LAST-MODIFIED:20131205T153511Z UID:5610-1386262800-1386270000@cms.mit.edu SUMMARY:Long-form Journalism: Inside The Atlantic DESCRIPTION:September 2013 cover of The Atlantic\nSome have called long-form journalism an endangered species. But ground-breaking articles requiring months of research and writing continue to appear. Why is such work important? How is it created? James Fallows and Corby Kummer of The Atlantic will chart the journey of a major feature story from conception to publication and speculate about the future of long-form writing in the digital age. \nTom Levenson\, Professor of Writing at MIT\, will moderate. URL:https://cms.mit.edu/event/long-form-journalism-inside-the-atlantic/ LOCATION:MIT Building 66\, Room 110\, 25 Ames Street\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02139\, United States CATEGORIES:Communications Forum ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://cms.mit.edu/wp/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/The-Atlantic.jpg ORGANIZER;CN="MIT%20Communications%20Forum":MAILTO:couch@mit.edu END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20131010T170000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20131010T190000 DTSTAMP:20260513T005422 CREATED:20130819T132855Z LAST-MODIFIED:20130819T134430Z UID:5607-1381424400-1381431600@cms.mit.edu SUMMARY:Born Digital DESCRIPTION:How is the generation born in the digital age different from its analog ancestors? Are those born digital likely to have different notions of privacy\, community\, identity itself? How do educators approach this generation to help prepare them for scholarship and for citizenship? \nSpeakers: John Palfrey\, Head of School at Phillips Academy and author of Born Digital: Understanding the First Generation of Digital Natives; and Ethan Zuckerman\, director of the Center for Civic Media\, a collaboration between the MIT Media Lab and Comparative Media Studies/Writing. URL:https://cms.mit.edu/event/born-digital/ LOCATION:MIT Media Lab\, Room 633\, 75 Amherst St.\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02139\, United States CATEGORIES:Communications Forum ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://cms.mit.edu/wp/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/Born-Digital.jpg ORGANIZER;CN="MIT%20Communications%20Forum":MAILTO:couch@mit.edu END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20130912T170000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20130912T190000 DTSTAMP:20260513T005422 CREATED:20130813T191455Z LAST-MODIFIED:20150414T193512Z UID:5155-1379005200-1379012400@cms.mit.edu SUMMARY:The Phoenix Burns Out: Remembering a Boston Institution DESCRIPTION:Featuring essayist Anita Diamant\, former staff writing Charles Pierce\, music critic Lloyd Schwartz\, and Phoenix editor Carly Carioli.Moderated by Seth Mnookin.\nA generation of great journalists cut their teeth at alt-weeklies\, and The Boston Phoenix produced some of the best of them. When the Phoenix announced it was closing last March\, the city lost a powerful cultural force and a vibrant source of information. \nWe’ll discuss the Phoenix‘s legacy and the ways in which its loss will affect Boston. \nPanelists will be author and essayist Anita Diamant\, who started out answering the editor’s phone in the mid-1970s; Charles Pierce of Esquire and NPR\, and a staff writer with the Phoenix in the 1980s and ’90s; poet and classical music critic Lloyd Schwartz\, who won a Pulitzer Prize with the Phoenix; and Carly Carioli\, who started as an intern and rose to become the paper’s editor. \nSeth Mnookin will moderate. URL:https://cms.mit.edu/event/the-phoenix-burns-out-remembering-a-boston-institution/ LOCATION:MIT Media Lab\, Room 633\, 75 Amherst St.\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02139\, United States CATEGORIES:Communications Forum ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://cms.mit.edu/wp/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/Boston-Phoenix-final-issue.jpg ORGANIZER;CN="MIT%20Communications%20Forum":MAILTO:couch@mit.edu END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20130411T170000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20130411T190000 DTSTAMP:20260513T005422 CREATED:20150326T141159Z LAST-MODIFIED:20161221T201056Z UID:21613-1365699600-1365706800@cms.mit.edu SUMMARY:News or Entertainment? The Press in Modern Political Campaigns DESCRIPTION:In the 2012 presidential campaign\, a handful of media outlets deployed “fact-checking” divisions which reported the lies and distortions of the candidates. Some commentators have argued that these truth-squads exposed the inadequacy of standard print and broadcast coverage\, much of which seems more like entertainment than news. This forum will examine the changing role of the political media in the U.S. Is our political journalism serving democratic and civic ideals? What do emerging technologies and the proliferation of news sources mean for the future? \nTa-Nehisi Coates is a senior editor at The Atlantic where he writes about culture\, politics\, and social issues for TheAtlantic.com and the magazine. He is the author of the memoir The Beautiful Struggle. \nMark McKinnon is a senior advisor of Hill & Knowlton Strategies\, an international communications consultancy\, a weekly columnist for The Daily Beast and The London Telegraph\, and is a co-founder of the bipartisan group No Labels. As a political advisor\, he has worked for many causes\, companies and candidates including former President George W. Bush\, 2008 Republican presidential candidate Senator John McCain\, late former Texas Governor Ann Richards and Congressman Charlie Wilson. URL:https://cms.mit.edu/event/news-or-entertainment-press-modern-political-campaigns/ LOCATION:MIT Media Lab\, Room 633\, 75 Amherst St.\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02139\, United States CATEGORIES:Communications Forum ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://cms.mit.edu/wp/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/coates-mckinnon.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20130321T170000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20130321T190000 DTSTAMP:20260513T005422 CREATED:20150324T154947Z LAST-MODIFIED:20210113T175133Z UID:21611-1363885200-1363892400@cms.mit.edu SUMMARY:MOOCs and the Emerging Digital Classroom DESCRIPTION:MOOCs and other forms of online learning have the potential to disrupt traditional classroom education — or to help us better understand how to exploit the many learning spaces students now inhabit. This forum examines the ongoing migration of our analog practices into digital forms\, looking at the ways in which digital technologies are transforming teaching and learning both on and off campus. What gaps in our curricula\, or in our students’ experience\, can be filled through technology? What elements of teaching practice can be effectively translated into new media\, and what aspects of “teaching” must be redefined? \nAnant Agarwal the president of edX\, a worldwide\, online learning initiative of MIT and Harvard University\, and a professor in MIT’s electrical engineering and computer science department. \nAlison Byerly holds an interdisciplinary appointment as College Professor at Middlebury College and\, during 2012-2013\, she is a visiting scholar in the Literature Section at MIT. \nDaphne Koller is the Rajeev Motwani Professor in the computer science department at Stanford University. Koller will join the conversation live from the west coast. URL:https://cms.mit.edu/event/moocs-emerging-digital-classroom/ LOCATION:MIT Media Lab\, Room 633\, 75 Amherst St.\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02139\, United States CATEGORIES:Communications Forum ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://cms.mit.edu/wp/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/Anant-Argawal.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20130228T170000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20130228T190000 DTSTAMP:20260513T005422 CREATED:20140814T170011Z LAST-MODIFIED:20140814T170011Z UID:21610-1362070800-1362078000@cms.mit.edu SUMMARY:A Conversation with Nate Silver DESCRIPTION:Nate Silver at MIT. Photo by Greg Peverill-Conti\nThe statistician and political polling analyst Nate Silver will discuss his career — from student journalist to baseball prognosticator to the creator of FiveThirtyEight.com\, perhaps the most influential political blog in the world — and the ways in which statistics are changing the face of journalism in a conversation with Seth Mnookin\, a former baseball and political writer who co-directs MIT’s Graduate Program in Science Writing. URL:https://cms.mit.edu/event/nate-silver-conversation/ LOCATION:MIT Media Lab\, Bartos Theater\, 20 Ames Street\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02139\, United States CATEGORIES:Communications Forum ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://cms.mit.edu/wp/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/Nate-Silver-GPC.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20130219T170000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20130219T190000 DTSTAMP:20260513T005422 CREATED:20141121T151725Z LAST-MODIFIED:20190426T152431Z UID:21615-1361293200-1361300400@cms.mit.edu SUMMARY:Convergence Journalism? Emerging Documentary and Multimedia Forms of News DESCRIPTION:Co-sponsored by the MIT Open Documentary Lab. \nHybrid forms of multimedia\, combining aspects of newspapers\, documentary film and digital video are a notable feature of today’s online journalism. How is this access to the power of the visual changing our journalism? What current projects are particularly significant? What will this convergence mean in the future? \nJason Spingarn-Koff\nJason Spingarn-Koff is the series producer and curator of Op-Docs\, a new initiative at the New York Times for short opinionated documentaries by independent filmmakers and artists. He directed the feature documentary “Life 2.0”\, which premiered at the 2010 Sundance Film Festival and was acquired by OWN: Oprah Winfrey Network’s Documentary Club\, and his work has appeared on PBS\, BBC\, MSNBC\, Time.com and Wired News. In 2010-2011\, he was a Knight Science Journalism Fellow at MIT. \n\nAlexandra Garcia\nAlexandra Garcia is a multimedia journalist for The Washington Post. She reports\, shoots and edits video stories on topics ranging from health care and immigration to fashion and education. Awarded an Edward R. Murrow award\, eight regional Emmy awards and named 2011 Video Editor of the Year by the White House News Photographers Association\, Garcia is currently a fellow at the Nieman Foundation for Journalism at Harvard University. \nModerator: Sarah Wolozin\, director of the MIT Open Documentary Lab\, has produced documentaries and educational media for a variety of media outlets including PBS\, History Channel\, Learning Channel and NPR. URL:https://cms.mit.edu/event/convergence-journalism-emerging-documentary-multimedia-forms-of-news/ LOCATION:MIT Media Lab\, Room 633\, 75 Amherst St.\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02139\, United States CATEGORIES:Communications Forum ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://cms.mit.edu/wp/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/Jason-Spingarn-Koff-9-of-9.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20121108T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20121108T210000 DTSTAMP:20260513T005422 CREATED:20150326T140517Z LAST-MODIFIED:20201206T214104Z UID:21571-1352401200-1352408400@cms.mit.edu SUMMARY:New Media in West Africa DESCRIPTION:(Note time.) \nThis forum launches the Futures of Entertainment 6 conference at MIT. Despite many infrastructural and economic hurdles\, entertainment media industries are burgeoning in West Africa. Today\, the Nigerian cinema market–“Nollywood”–is the second largest in the world in terms of the annual volume of films distributed behind only the Indian film industry. And an era of digital distribution has empowered content created in Lagos\, or Accra\, to spread across geographic and cultural boundaries. New commercial models for distribution as well as international diasporic networks have driven the circulation of this material. But so has rampant piracy and the unofficial online circulation of this content. What innovations are emerging from West Africa? How has Nigerian cinema in particular influenced local television and film markets in other countries across West Africa\, and across the continent? What does the increasing visibility of West African popular culture mean for this region–especially as content crosses various cultural contexts\, within and outside the region? And what challenges does West Africa face in continuing to develop its entertainment industries? \n \nDerrick N. Ashong leads the band Soulfège\, a group that produces an eclectic blend of hip-hop\, reggae\, funk\, world beat and West African highlife music and has been featured in such major media as MTV Africa and NPR. Also known as DNA\, which is the name of his blog\, Ashong hosted Oprah Radio’s The Derrick Ashong Experience and Al-Jazeera English’s social media TV show The Stream. \nFadzi Makanda is a business development manager in the New York office for iROKO Partners\, a distributor of African—and particularly Nollywood—entertainment. Makanda leads the development and execution of U.S. advertising sales strategies for the company. \nColin M. Maclay is the managing director of the Berkman Center for Internet & Society at Harvard Law School. Both as co-founder of Harvard’s International Technologies Group and at Berkman\, Maclay’s research pairs hands-on multi-stakeholder collaborations with the generation of data that reveal trends\, challenges and opportunities for the integration of communications technologies in developing communities. \nRalph Simon is founder of the Mobilium Advisory Group\, which studies innovation in mobile usage in such countries as Nigeria\, Kenya\, Uganda and South Africa. He has served as an executive at Capitol Records\, Blue Note Records\, and EMI Music\, and he co-founded the Zomba Group with Clive Calder of South Africa. Simon earned the title “Father of the Ring Tone” when he created the first ring tone company in 1997. URL:https://cms.mit.edu/event/media-media-in-west-africa/ LOCATION:MIT Building E25\, Room 111\, 45 Carleton Street\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02139\, United States CATEGORIES:Communications Forum ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://cms.mit.edu/wp/wp-content/uploads/2012/11/DNA-Head-no-H2O.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20121101T170000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20121101T190000 DTSTAMP:20260513T005422 CREATED:20141202T160818Z LAST-MODIFIED:20150611T154457Z UID:21567-1351789200-1351796400@cms.mit.edu SUMMARY:Digitizing the Culture of Print: The Digital Public Library of America and Other Urgent Projects DESCRIPTION:The role of the library in the digital age is one of the compelling questions of our era. How are libraries coping with the promise and perils of our impending digital future? What urgent initiatives are underway to assure universal access to our print inheritance and to the digital communication forms of the future? How is the very idea of the library changing? These and related questions will engage our distinguished panelists\, who represent both research and public libraries and two of whom serve on the steering committee for the Digital Public Library of America. \nRobert Darnton is Carl H. Pforzheimer University Professor at Harvard\, Director of the Harvard University Library and one of America’s most distinguished historians. He serves on the steering committee of the Digital Public Library of America and has been a trustees of the New York Public Library since 1995. In a recent essay in the New York Review of Books\, Darnton defended a NYPL plan to liquidate some branches in the system while renovating the main Fifth Avenue branch. The essay sparked a number of responses. In November of last year\, Darnton provided a status report on the DPLA. Darnton is the author of many influential books including The Case for Books\, Past\, Present\, and Future and The Great Cat Massacre. \nSusan Flannery is director of libraries for the City of Cambridge and past president of the Massachusetts Library Association. URL:https://cms.mit.edu/event/digital-public-library-of-america-digitizing-culture-of-print/ LOCATION:MIT Media Lab\, Room 633\, 75 Amherst St.\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02139\, United States CATEGORIES:Communications Forum ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://cms.mit.edu/wp/wp-content/uploads/2008/10/artworks-000049284438-l2bc6u-t200x200.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20120504T170000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20120504T190000 DTSTAMP:20260513T005422 CREATED:20141205T193244Z LAST-MODIFIED:20170803T193014Z UID:21541-1336150800-1336158000@cms.mit.edu SUMMARY:Electronic Literature and Future Books DESCRIPTION:Mainstream and avant-garde poets and fiction writers have been exploring the literary potential of the computer for decades\, creating work that goes far beyond today’s e-books. The creators of electronic literature have developed new interface methods\, new techniques for collaboration\, and new ways of linking language\, computing\, and other media elements. 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? \nKatherine Hayles is professor in the literature program at Duke University. Her books include Electronic Literature: New Horizons for the Literary (2008) and My Mother Was a Computer: Digital Subjects and Literary Texts (2005). \nRita Raley is associate professor of English at the University of California at Santa Barbara where she directs Transcriptions\, an online publication covering digital humanities. Her most recent publications include the co-edited Electronic Literature Collection\, volume 2. URL:https://cms.mit.edu/event/electronic-literature-future-books/ LOCATION:MIT Media Lab\, Bartos Theater\, 20 Ames Street\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02139\, United States CATEGORIES:Communications Forum ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://cms.mit.edu/wp/wp-content/uploads/2013/06/Rotterdam2012.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20120405T170000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20120405T190000 DTSTAMP:20260513T005422 CREATED:20140827T202814Z LAST-MODIFIED:20211123T131559Z UID:21546-1333645200-1333652400@cms.mit.edu SUMMARY:Adapting Journalism to the Web DESCRIPTION:Co-sponsored by the Center for Civic Media; Comparative Media Studies; Science\, Technology\, and Society; and the Program in Writing and Humanistic Studies \nNew communications technologies are revolutionizing our experience of news and information. The avalanche of news\, gossip\, and citizen reporting available on the web is immensely valuable but also often deeply unreliable. How can professional reporters and editors help to assure that quality journalism will be recognized and valued in our brave new digital world? \nJay Rosen is director of NYU’s Studio 20\, a master’s level journalism program which uses projects to teach innovation in journalism. He is the author of the blog PressThink\, and of the book What are Journalists For? \nEthan Zuckerman is director of the Center for Civic Media at MIT\, and a principal research scientist at the Media Lab. He blogs at ethanzuckerman.com/blog. \nA Knight Science Journalism event. URL:https://cms.mit.edu/event/adapting-journalism-to-the-web/ LOCATION:MIT Media Lab\, Room 633\, 75 Amherst St.\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02139\, United States CATEGORIES:Communications Forum ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://cms.mit.edu/wp/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/i-f3a913a4b360bfe218ffa2d28ef4417c-jay-rosen-headshot.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20111110T170000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20111110T190000 DTSTAMP:20260513T005422 CREATED:20140929T181816Z LAST-MODIFIED:20140929T181816Z UID:21287-1320944400-1320951600@cms.mit.edu SUMMARY:Cities and the Future of Entertainment DESCRIPTION: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 do these developments portend for the international flow of media content? How does the nature of these cities shape the entertainment industries they are fostering? At the same time\, new means of media production and circulation now permit individuals to produce content from suburban or rural areas. How do these apparently opposed trends co-exist? What is their likely impact on audiences and on the international media landscape? \nSpeakers include Sérgio Sá Leitão\, president of RioFilme; 2005 CMS graduate Parmesh Shahani\, now at the University of Pennsylvania and of Godrej India Culture Club — and who previously worked for Mahindra & Mahindra\, one of India’s largest business conglomerates; and Ernest James Wilson III\, dean of the Annenberg School for Communication & Journalism at the University of Southern California. \nThe Forum will be moderated by Mauricio Mota\, a co-founder and Chief Storytelling Officer of the Alchemists Transmedia Storytelling Co. URL:https://cms.mit.edu/event/cities-and-the-future-of-entertainment/ LOCATION:MIT Media Lab\, Bartos Theater\, 20 Ames Street\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02139\, United States CATEGORIES:Communications Forum ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://cms.mit.edu/wp/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/Mumbai.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20111110T170000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20111110T190000 DTSTAMP:20260513T005422 CREATED:20131114T175602Z LAST-MODIFIED:20131114T175602Z UID:6881-1320944400-1320951600@cms.mit.edu SUMMARY:Cities and the Future of Entertainment DESCRIPTION: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 do these developments portend for the international flow of media content? How does the nature of these cities shape the entertainment industries they are fostering? At the same time\, new means of media production and circulation now permit individuals to produce content from suburban or rural areas. How do these apparently opposed trends co-exist? What is their likely impact on audiences and on the international media landscape? \nSpeakers include Sérgio Sá Leitão\, president of RioFilme; 2005 CMS graduate Parmesh Shahani\, now at the University of Pennsylvania and of Godrej India Culture Club — and who previously worked for Mahindra & Mahindra\, one of India’s largest business conglomerates; and Ernest James Wilson III\, dean of the Annenberg School for Communication & Journalism at the University of Southern California. \nThe Forum will be moderated by Mauricio Mota\, a co-founder and Chief Storytelling Officer of the Alchemists Transmedia Storytelling Co. URL:https://cms.mit.edu/event/cities-future-entertainment/ LOCATION:MIT Media Lab\, Bartos Theater\, 20 Ames Street\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02139\, United States CATEGORIES:Colloquium,Communications Forum ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://cms.mit.edu/wp/wp-content/uploads/2007/01/mit-comm-forum_logo_square.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20110922T170000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20110922T190000 DTSTAMP:20260513T005422 CREATED:20150213T200000Z LAST-MODIFIED:20150213T200000Z UID:21283-1316710800-1316718000@cms.mit.edu SUMMARY:Local News in the Digital Age DESCRIPTION:Is local news a casualty of the digital age? A recent report from the Federal Communications Commission suggests that although the broad media landscape is more vibrant than ever\, many state and local communities face a shortage of professional reporting\, undermining journalism’s watchdog role at the local level. This Forum will assess the state of local journalism\, paying special attention to the changing environment for news in New England. \nOur speakers\, drawn from traditional as well as online media\, include Callie Crossley\, host of her own talk show on WGBH; David Dahl\, who oversees local news initiatives for the Boston Globe; and Adam Gaffin of the online news site Universal Hub. Dan Kennedy\, a media analyst who teaches at Northeastern University\, will moderate the discussion. URL:https://cms.mit.edu/event/local-news-digital-age/ LOCATION:MIT Media Lab\, Bartos Theater\, 20 Ames Street\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02139\, United States CATEGORIES:Communications Forum ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://cms.mit.edu/wp/wp-content/uploads/2011/09/local11a.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20110412T170000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20110412T190000 DTSTAMP:20260513T005422 CREATED:20140814T171110Z LAST-MODIFIED:20140814T171110Z UID:21365-1302627600-1302634800@cms.mit.edu SUMMARY:A Conversation with Sherry Turkle DESCRIPTION:Sherry Turkle\nThe eminent MIT professor\, author most recently of Alone\, Together\, discusses her darkening view of our digitizing world\, her sense of the culture of MIT and its students\, and her own career with Communications Forum Director David Thorburn\, a longtime colleague. \nSherry Turkle is Abby Rockefeller Mauzé Professor of the Social Studies of Science and Technology in the Program in Science\, Technology\, and Society at MIT and the founder (2001) and current director of the MIT Initiative on Technology and Self. \nDavid Thorburn is Professor of Literature at MIT and director of the Communications Forum. \nCo-sponsor: Technology and Culture Forum at MIT. URL:https://cms.mit.edu/event/sherry-turkle-conversation/ LOCATION:MIT Building 66\, Room 110\, 25 Ames Street\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02139\, United States CATEGORIES:Communications Forum ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://cms.mit.edu/wp/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/turkle.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20110224T170000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20110224T190000 DTSTAMP:20260513T005422 CREATED:20150407T125956Z LAST-MODIFIED:20161221T201425Z UID:21363-1298566800-1298574000@cms.mit.edu SUMMARY:Online News: Public Sphere or Echo Chamber? DESCRIPTION:The digital age has been heralded but also pilloried for its impact on journalism. 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? What does the public do with online news? How influential are traditional news outlets in framing the news we get online? \nPablo Boczkowski\nPablo Boczkowski is a Professor of Communications Studies at Northwestern Univeresity where he leads a research program that studies the transition from print to digital media. He is the author of Digitizing the News: Innovation in Online Newspapers (2004) and News at Work: Imitation in an Age of Information Abundance (2010). \n\nJoshua Benton\nJoshua Benton is the founding director of the Nieman Journalism Lab at Harvard University — an effort to help the news business make the radical changes required by the Internet age. Before that\, he was an investigative reporter\, columnist\, foreign correspondent and rock critic for two newspapers\, The Dallas Morning News and The Toledo Blade. \n \n\nJason Spingarn-Koff\nModerator: Jason Spingarn-Koff\, a 2010-11 Knight Journalism Fellow at MIT\, is a documentary filmmaker specializing in the intersection of science\, technology\, and society. His feature documentary Life 2.0\, about a group of people whose lives are transformed by the virtual world “Second Life\,” premiered at the 2010 Sundance Film Festival and will be featured on Oprah Winfrey’s documentary film club in 2011. He served as producer of NOVA’s The Great Robot Race\, and the development producer for PBS’s Emmy-winning Rx for Survival\, as well as documentaries for Frontline and Time magazine. He is a graduate of Brown University and the UC Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism. URL:https://cms.mit.edu/event/online-news-public-sphere-or-echo-chamber/ LOCATION:MIT Building 3\, Room 270\, 33 Massachusetts Ave (Rear)\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02319\, United States CATEGORIES:Communications Forum ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://cms.mit.edu/wp/wp-content/uploads/2011/02/JoshuaBenton.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20101118T170000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20101118T170000 DTSTAMP:20260513T005422 CREATED:20160822T173709Z LAST-MODIFIED:20160822T173813Z UID:21359-1290099600-1290099600@cms.mit.edu SUMMARY:Public Communications in Slow-Moving Crises DESCRIPTION:Governments\, corporations\, and communities plan for sudden crises: the White House drafts strong responsive rhetoric for the next terrorist attack; Toyota runs reassuring national TV spots within hours of a product recall; and 32 Massachusetts towns successfully publicize water distribution sites following a water main rupture. \nHowever\, like the housing collapse or the recent Gulf oil spill\, some crises are complex\, difficult to warn of\, and don’t cleanly fit traditional media frames. They are slow moving\, and the media still struggles to rhetorically or technologically cover these simmering\, rather than boiling\, dramas. \nWith government regulators weak\, corporations still focused on the bottom line\, and communities adapting to structural change\, this Communications Forum asks: What new media tools and strategies can be used to help everyone better prepare for the unique communications challenges of slow-moving crises? \nAndrea Pitzer is editor of Nieman Storyboard\, a project of the Nieman Foundation for Journalism at Harvard University that looks at how storytelling works in every medium. Storyboard’s mission is to feature the best examples of visual\, audio and multimedia narrative reporting. \nAn investigative reporter for ProPublica\, Abrahm Lustgarten’s recent work has focused on oil and gas industry practices. He is a former staff writer and contributor for Fortune\, and has written for Salon\, Esquire\, the Washington Post and the New York Times since receiving his master’s in journalism from Columbia University in 2003. He is the author of the book China’s Great Train: Beijing’s Drive West and the Campaign to Remake Tibet\, a project that was funded in part by a grant from the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation. \nRosalind Williams is a historian who uses imaginative literature as a source of evidence and insight into the history of technology. She has taught at MIT since 1982 and currently serves as the Dibner Professor for the History of Science and Technology in the Program in Science\, Technology\, and Society. She has also served as head of the STS Program and Dean for Undergraduate Education and Student Affairs at the Institute\, as well as president of the Society for the History of Technology. She has written three books as well as essays and articles about the emergence of a predominantly human-built world and its implications for human life. Her forthcoming book extends this theme to examine consciousness of the condition of “human empire” as expressed in the writings of Jules Verne\, William Morris\, and Robert Louis Stevenson in the late l9th century. \nModerated by Tom Levenson\, who is Head and of the MIT Program in Writing and Humanistic Studies as well as Director of its graduate program. Professor Levenson is the winner of Walter P. Kistler Science Documentary Film Award\, Peabody Award (shared)\, New York Chapter Emmy\, and the AAAS/Westinghouse award. His articles and reviews have appeared in The Atlantic Monthly\, The Boston Globe\, Discover\, The Sciences\, and he is winner of the 2005 National Academies Communications Award for Origins. \nCo-sponsor: The MIT Center for Future Civic Media. URL:https://cms.mit.edu/event/public-communications-slow-moving-crises/ LOCATION:MIT Building 4\, Room 231\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02139\, United States CATEGORIES:Communications Forum ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://cms.mit.edu/wp/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/deepwater-horizon.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20101104T170000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20101104T190000 DTSTAMP:20260513T005422 CREATED:20141006T175825Z LAST-MODIFIED:20141006T175825Z UID:21358-1288890000-1288897200@cms.mit.edu SUMMARY:Civic Media and the Law DESCRIPTION:What do citizens need to know when they publicly address legally challenging or dangerous topics? Journalists have always had the privilege\, protected by statute\, of not having to reveal their sources. But as more investigative journalism is conducted by so-called amateurs and posted on blogs or websites such as Wikileaks\, what are the legal dangers for publishing secrets in the crowdsourced era? We convene an engaging group law scholars to help outline the legal challenges ahead\, suggest policies that might help to protect citizens\, and describe what steps every civic media practitioner should take to protect themselves and their users. \nMicah Sifry is a co-founder and editor of the Personal Democracy Forum. \nDaniel Schuman is the policy counsel at the Sunlight Foundation\, where he helps develop policies that further Sunlight’s mission of catalyzing greater government openness and transparency. \nCo-sponsor: The MIT Center for Future Civic Media URL:https://cms.mit.edu/event/civic-media-and-the-law/ LOCATION:MIT Media Lab\, Room 633\, 75 Amherst St.\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02139\, United States CATEGORIES:Communications Forum ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://cms.mit.edu/wp/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/Micah-Sifry.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20101020T170000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20101020T190000 DTSTAMP:20260513T005422 CREATED:20150115T201444Z LAST-MODIFIED:20150115T201926Z UID:21355-1287594000-1287601200@cms.mit.edu SUMMARY:Humanities in the Digital Age DESCRIPTION:Alison Byerly\nSteven Pinker\nWhat is happening to the intellectual field called the humanities? Powerful political and corporate forces are encouraging\, even demanding science and math-based curricula to prepare for a globalized and technological world; the astronomical rise in the cost of higher education has resulted in a drumbeat of complaints\, some which question the value of the traditional liberal arts and humanities. And of course\, and far more complexly\, the emerging storage and communications systems of the digital age are transforming all fields of knowledge and all knowledge industries. \nHow has and how will the humanities cope with these challenges? How have digital tools and systems already begun to transform humanistic education? How may they do so in the future? More broadly\, is there a significant role for the humanities in our digital future? Our panelists will explore these and related questions in what is expected to be the first in a continuing series on this subject. \nAlison Byerly is provost and executive vice president and professor of English at Middlebury College. \nSteven Pinker is the Johnstone Family Professor of Psychology at Harvard University and previously taught at MIT. He is the author of many essays and books including The Blank Slate: The Modern Denial of Human Nature and How the Mind Works. URL:https://cms.mit.edu/event/humanities-in-the-digital-age/ LOCATION:MIT Building 32 (Stata Center)\, Room 141\, 32 Vassar Street\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02139\, United States CATEGORIES:Communications Forum ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://cms.mit.edu/wp/wp-content/uploads/2015/01/Alison-Byerly.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20101007T170000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20101007T190000 DTSTAMP:20260513T005422 CREATED:20150327T142357Z LAST-MODIFIED:20150327T142357Z UID:21353-1286470800-1286478000@cms.mit.edu SUMMARY:Online Migration of Newspapers DESCRIPTION:The fate of newspapers is an ongoing subject for the Forum. This conversation explores the migration of newspapers to the internet and what that means for traditional concepts of journalism. Amid the emergence of citizens’ media and the blogosphere\, newspapers are adapting to a changing mediascape in which print readership is in steady decline. David Carr\, culture reporter and media columnist for the New York Times\, and Dan Kennedy\, professor of journalism at Northeastern University and author of the Media Nation blog\, explore these developments with Forum Director David Thorburn. \nAmong their topics: 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. URL:https://cms.mit.edu/event/online-migration-of-newspapers/ LOCATION:MIT Media Lab\, Bartos Theater\, 20 Ames Street\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02139\, United States CATEGORIES:Communications Forum END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20100520T170000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20100520T190000 DTSTAMP:20260513T005422 CREATED:20150107T195340Z LAST-MODIFIED:20150109T161409Z UID:21350-1274374800-1274382000@cms.mit.edu SUMMARY:Graphical Expressions of Humanistic Interpretation in Digital Environments DESCRIPTION:Humanists have adopted visualization techniques with enthusiasm in recent years\, borrowing display formats from quantitative approaches rooted in social and natural sciences. But are the standard metrics and conventions developed for analysis of empirical inquiries fundamentally at odds with tenets of traditional humanistic interpretation? How are complexity\, contradiction\, uncertainty\, ambiguity\, and other basic features of interpretative activity to be given graphical expression? Does the introduction of affect into visual displays simply shift all visualization towards idiosyncratic and subjective approaches that lack clear legibility? Or can we imagine conventions that might introduce some of the necessary qualifications and variables essential to creating graphical expressions of humanistic interpretation? \nFeatured speaker: Johanna Drucker is the Martin and Bernard Breslauer Professor in the Department of Information Studies at UCLA where her research focuses in modeling interpretation for electronic scholarship\, digital aesthetics\, and the history of visual information design. Her teaching interests include the history of the book and print culture\, history of information\, and critical studies in visual knowledge representation. \nModerator: Kurt Fendt is director of HyperStudio\, MIT̢ URL:https://cms.mit.edu/event/johanna-drucker-graphical-expressions-of-humanistic-interpretations-in-digital-environments/ LOCATION:MIT Media Lab\, Bartos Theater\, 20 Ames Street\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02139\, United States CATEGORIES:Communications Forum ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://cms.mit.edu/wp/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/Johanna-Drucker_Credit-Stephanie-Gross.jpg END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR