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-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:20060402T070000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:EST DTSTART:20061029T060000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT DTSTART:20070311T070000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:EST DTSTART:20071104T060000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT DTSTART:20080309T070000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:EST DTSTART:20081102T060000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT DTSTART:20090308T070000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:EST DTSTART:20091101T060000 END:STANDARD 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 END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20130219T170000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20130219T190000 DTSTAMP:20260513T012635 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:20260513T012635 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:20260513T012635 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:20260513T012635 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:20260513T012635 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:20260513T012635 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:20260513T012635 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:20260513T012635 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:20260513T012635 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:20260513T012635 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:20260513T012635 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:20260513T012635 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:20260513T012635 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:20260513T012635 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:20260513T012635 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 BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20100422T170000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20100422T170000 DTSTAMP:20260513T012635 CREATED:20150204T152855Z LAST-MODIFIED:20150204T152855Z UID:21349-1271955600-1271955600@cms.mit.edu SUMMARY:Jenkins' Farewell DESCRIPTION:Henry Jenkins\nHenry Jenkins’ 20-year presence at MIT was formative for him and profoundly valuable for MIT. A year after his departure for USC\, Jenkins returns to talk with long-time colleagues about his pioneering scholarship on digital culture\, his work as the founding director of Comparative Media Studies\, and his experiences as a teacher and housemaster at MIT. \nModerated by William Uricchio. URL:https://cms.mit.edu/event/jenkins-farewell/ 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/HenryJenkins.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20100401T170000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20100401T190000 DTSTAMP:20260513T012635 CREATED:20170530T233059Z LAST-MODIFIED:20170717T174106Z UID:30286-1270141200-1270148400@cms.mit.edu SUMMARY:The Gutenberg Parenthesis: Oral Tradition and Digital Technologies DESCRIPTION:Is our emerging digital culture partly a return to practices and ways of thinking that were central to human societies before the advent of the printing press? This question has been posed with increasing force in recent years by anthropologists\, folklorists\, historians and literary scholars\, among them Thomas Pettitt\, who has contributed significantly to elaborating and communicating the version of this question named in the title of today’s forum. \nThe concept of a “Gutenberg Parenthesis” — formulated by Prof. L. O. Sauerberg of the University of Southern Denmark — offers a means of identifying and understanding the period\, varying between societies and subcultures\, during which the mediation of texts through time and across space was dominated by powerful permutations of letters\, print\, pages and books. Our current transitional experience toward a post-print media world dominated by digital technology and the internet can be usefully juxtaposed with that of the period — Shakespeare’s — when England was making the transition into the parenthesis from a world of scribal transmission and oral performance. \nMIT professors Peter Donaldson and James Paradis will join Pettitt in a discussion of the value of historical perspectives on our technologizing human present. URL:https://cms.mit.edu/event/gutenberg-parenthesis-oral-tradition-digital-technologies/ 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/2010/04/jumbo.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20100318T170000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20100318T190000 DTSTAMP:20260513T012635 CREATED:20150107T192355Z LAST-MODIFIED:20150107T192355Z UID:21345-1268931600-1268938800@cms.mit.edu SUMMARY:Government Transparency and Collaborative Journalism DESCRIPTION:In December\, the Obama administration directed federal agencies and departments to implement “principles of transparency\, participation\, and collaboration\,” including deadlines for providing government information online. At the same time\, citizens and journalists are developing new technologies to manage and analyze the exponential increase in data about our civic lives available from governmental and other sources. What new ways of gathering and presenting information are evolving from this nexus of government openness and digital connectedness? Our speakers Linda Fantin\, director of public insight journalism at Minnesota Public Radio and Ellen Miller\, executive director of the Washington-based Sunlight Foundation\, will explore this and related questions. Chris Csikszentmihalyi\, director of MIT’s Center for Future Civic Media\, moderates the discussion. \nCo-Sponsor: MIT Center for Future Civic Media. URL:https://cms.mit.edu/event/government-transparency-collaborative-journalism/ 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/2015/01/Capitol-on-black.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20091008T170000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20091008T170000 DTSTAMP:20260513T012635 CREATED:20161026T192226Z LAST-MODIFIED:20161026T192352Z UID:21322-1255021200-1255021200@cms.mit.edu SUMMARY:Race\, Politics and American Media DESCRIPTION:The election of an African-American president in Nov. 2008 has been hailed as a transforming event. But has Obama’s ascension transformed anything? Many people’s answer to that question changed this summer when a famous Harvard professor was arrested at his home in Cambridge. Are the harsh realities of race and class in the U.S. clearer now or murkier\, following the media tsunami of Gatesgate? And has this polarizing event given greater visibility to racial minorities in the media’s coverage of politics? How are race issues and racial politics covered in our national media\, and what are the implications of the demise of major city newspapers for the coverage of race and politics? \nJuan Williams of NPR and Fox News will discuss these and related questions in a candid conversation with Phillip Thompson\, associate professor of urban politics in the Department of Urban Studies and Planning at MIT\, and David Thorburn\, professor of literature and director of the MIT Communications Forum. URL:https://cms.mit.edu/event/race-politics-american-media/ 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/2009/10/juanwilliams2.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20090226T170000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20090226T170000 DTSTAMP:20260513T012635 CREATED:20160818T174212Z LAST-MODIFIED:20160818T174212Z UID:21308-1235667600-1235667600@cms.mit.edu SUMMARY:Politics and Popular Culture DESCRIPTION:Robert Putnam has suggested that the political consciousness and civic engagement of the post- World War II generation may have taken shape in bowling alleys and other spaces where community members gathered. Might the political consciousness of the new generation be taking shape in and around popular culture? Are we seeing a blurring of the roles of citizen and consumer? Is this fusion between entertainment and news a good or a bad thing? What links exist between our cultural and our political preferences? How are activists and political leaders utilizing metaphors from popular culture as resources to mobilize their supporters? Is it possible that aspects of our popular culture may generate utopian visions that fuel political change? These and other questions will be explored by panelists Johanna Blakley\, deputy director of the Norman Lear Center at USC; David Carr\, media and culture writer for the New York Times; and Stephen Duncombe\, associate professor at NYU and author of Dream: Re-Imagining Progressive Politics in an Age of Fantasy. Henry Jenkins will moderate. URL:https://cms.mit.edu/event/politics-popular-culture/ 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/2010/10/carr-new-headshot-articleInline-v4.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20081016T170000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20081016T190000 DTSTAMP:20260513T012635 CREATED:20140917T194554Z LAST-MODIFIED:20140917T194554Z UID:21293-1224176400-1224183600@cms.mit.edu SUMMARY:Books and Libraries in the Digital Age with Robert Darnton DESCRIPTION:Robert Darnton\nA pioneering scholar of the Enlightenment and of the history of the book\, Robert Darnton is the director of the University Library and the Carl H. Pforzheimer University Professor at Harvard. A former Rhodes Scholar and MacArthur Fellow\, his books include The Business of the Enlightenment: A Publishing History of the Encyclopedie\, The Great Cat Massacre: And Other Episodes in French Cultural History\, and The Forbidden Best-Sellers of Prerevolutionary France. He has written extensively on the impact of digital technologies on the culture of print and on the responsibilities of libraries in the computer age. \nIn this Forum\, Darnton discusses the emergence of the discipline of the history of the book\, the future of books and reading\, and his own vision of the ways in which new and old media can reinforce each other\, strengthening and transforming the world of learning. URL:https://cms.mit.edu/event/robert-darnton-books-and-libraries-in-the-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/2008/10/artworks-000049284438-l2bc6u-t200x200.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20080925T170000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20080925T190000 DTSTAMP:20260513T012635 CREATED:20141113T141317Z LAST-MODIFIED:20141113T141317Z UID:21290-1222362000-1222369200@cms.mit.edu SUMMARY:Communications Forum: "The Campaign and the Media 1 DESCRIPTION:How have American news media responded to this historic presidential campaign? Is it true\, as many have suggested\, that the influence of newspapers and television has declined in the digital era? Have the media become more partisan and polarized? More preoccupied with polls and campaign strategy than with substantive issues? Has the coverage by traditional media been qualitatively different from that by online news sources? In this first of two forums on the campaign and the media\, noted journalists Tom Rosenstiel\, who directs the Project for Excellence in Journalism in Washington D.C.\, and John Carroll\, a local reporter and media critic who teaches at Boston University\, will offer report cards on the current state of American political journalism. \nCo-sponsored by the Center for Future Civic Media and the Technology and Culture Forum. URL:https://cms.mit.edu/event/campaign-and-the-media-1/ 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/2008/10/artworks-000049272611-zhnjac-t200x200.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20070405T170000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20070405T170000 DTSTAMP:20260513T012635 CREATED:20141208T161955Z LAST-MODIFIED:20141208T162007Z UID:21271-1175792400-1175792400@cms.mit.edu SUMMARY:Evangelicals and the Media DESCRIPTION:American evangelicals have a long history of engagement with the media\, dating back to Great Awakening of the late eighteenth century. Today evangelical groups are active in all media\, from the Internet and cellular telephones to print journalism\, broadcasting\, film\, and multi-media entertainment. In this Forum\, our speakers discuss the social and political impact of the evangelical movement’s use of media technologies. Gary Schneeberger is special assistant for media relations to James Dobson\, founder and chairman of the evangelical group Focus on the Family (www.family.org). Diane Winston is the Knight Chair in Media and Religion in the USC Annenberg School for Communication and author of Red-Hot and Righteous: The Urban Religion of the Salvation Army. The Forum will be moderated by the Rev. Amy McCreath\, MIT’s Episcopal chaplain and coordinator of the Technology and Culture Forum at MIT (web.mit.edu/tac). URL:https://cms.mit.edu/event/evangelicals-and-media/ 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:20070215T170000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20070215T170000 DTSTAMP:20260513T012635 CREATED:20161027T191020Z LAST-MODIFIED:20200928T133501Z UID:21266-1171558800-1171558800@cms.mit.edu SUMMARY:Remixing Shakespeare DESCRIPTION:New technologies are enabling forms of borrowing\, appropriation and “remixing” of media materials in exciting\, provocative ways. In this Forum\, two MIT scholars who have studied and written about the remixing of Shakespeare will describe their research\, show some salient audio-visual examples and discuss the implications of their work for contemporary culture. Literature Professor Peter Donaldson is director of the Shakespeare Electronic Archive which since 1992 has used computers to develop new ways of studying the text\, image and film records of Shakespearean publication and production. Literature Professor Diana Henderson is the author of Collaborations with the Past: Reshaping Shakespeare Across Time and Media and A Concise Companion to Shakespeare on Screen. She is an active participant in MIT’s partnership with the Royal Shakespeare Company. The forum will be moderated by Mary Fuller of the Literature Faculty. URL:https://cms.mit.edu/event/remixing-shakespeare/ 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/2007/03/bill-s.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20061026T170000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20061026T190000 DTSTAMP:20260513T012635 CREATED:20150325T183745Z LAST-MODIFIED:20151113T200843Z UID:21248-1161882000-1161889200@cms.mit.edu SUMMARY:New Media and Art DESCRIPTION:This roundtable is made up of leading figures in the field of media art curators\, authors\, network directors\, and innovative developers who will address the current issues on art in the age of digital reproduction. Speakers: Lauren Cornell\, director of Rhizome.org; Jon Ippolito\, media artist\, curator\, author; and Mark Tribe\, founder of Rhizome and professor of media arts at Brown University. URL:https://cms.mit.edu/event/new-media-and-art/ LOCATION:MIT Building 2\, Room 105\, 182 Memorial Drive\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02139\, United States CATEGORIES:Communications Forum ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://cms.mit.edu/wp/wp-content/uploads/2006/10/LaurenCornell_2010.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20060921T170000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20060921T190000 DTSTAMP:20260513T012635 CREATED:20150326T141641Z LAST-MODIFIED:20150326T141641Z UID:21242-1158858000-1158865200@cms.mit.edu SUMMARY:News\, Information and the Wealth of Networks DESCRIPTION:MIT Communications Forum. \nNews\, Information and the Wealth of Networks\, featuring speakers Yochai Benkler\, Henry Jenkins \, William Uricchio. \nThis is part of a series of forums that ask the question\, Will Newspapers Survive? Also in the series: The Emergence of Citizens’ Media\, andWhy Newspapers Matter. URL:https://cms.mit.edu/event/news-information-wealth-of-networks/ 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/2015/03/Yochai-Benkler.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20060919T170000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20060919T170000 DTSTAMP:20260513T012635 CREATED:20170530T233059Z LAST-MODIFIED:20170609T124545Z UID:30275-1158685200-1158685200@cms.mit.edu SUMMARY:The Emergence of Citizens' Media DESCRIPTION:This is the first forum in the Will Newspapers Survive? series presented by the MIT Communications Forum. The Emergence of Citizen’s Media features Alex Beam of the Boston Globe\, Ellen Foley from the Wisconsin State Journal and Dan Gillmor\, founder of the Center for Citizen Media. \nThe MIT Communications Forum hosts a summary of the event and our own Sam Ford wrote an article for the CMS page in October. URL:https://cms.mit.edu/event/emergence-citizens-media/ 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/2017/05/print_readers2.jpg ORGANIZER;CN="MIT%20Communications%20Forum":MAILTO:couch@mit.edu END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20060420T170000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20060420T190000 DTSTAMP:20260513T012635 CREATED:20141201T181907Z LAST-MODIFIED:20141201T181907Z UID:21232-1145552400-1145559600@cms.mit.edu SUMMARY:David Milch\, TV's Great Writer DESCRIPTION:David Milch has been called television’s first artistic genius\, its great writer. His powerful dramas have troubled the censors in the networks and in Congress and have explored human weakness and violence in disturbing and artful ways. One of television’s most honored writers\, his credits include Hill Street Blues\, NYPD Blue (co-created with Steven Bochco) and the pioneering HBO series Deadwood. In this Forum\, Milch will discuss his career as a writer and creator with Forum Director David Thorburn\, a historian of television who knew Milch as a Yale student. The session will include clips distilled from Milch’s best work. URL:https://cms.mit.edu/event/david-milch-tvs-great-writer/ 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/2014/12/David-Milch.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20060406T170000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20060406T170000 DTSTAMP:20260513T012635 CREATED:20170530T233059Z LAST-MODIFIED:20170718T150255Z UID:30315-1144342800-1144342800@cms.mit.edu SUMMARY:TV News in Transition DESCRIPTION:No aspect of television has changed more decisively in recent years than its news programming. The proliferation of news channels\, the passing of the last generation of news anchors bred in the era of the broadcast networks\, the appearance of partisan outlets such as Fox News\, the fragmentation of the audience\, the relative indifference of the digital generation to television news programming of any sort – these powerful and perhaps disturbing changes will be among the topics discussed at this Forum. Our speakers have extensive first-hand experience of the recent history of television journalism. \nSpeakers\nJuju Chang has worked in television news since 1991 as a producer and on-air correspondent. She is currently based in New York as a correspondent for ABC’s 20/20. \nNeal Shapiro joined NBC News in 1993 after 13 years as a producer and executive at ABC News. At NBC he served as director of news operations of MSNBC where he helped to shape its cable programming and its innovative web site. He was named president of NBC News in 2001\, a post he held until September\, 2005. \nModerator: Stuart N. Brotman is a visiting scholar in Comparative Media Studies at MIT. Previously\, he was president and CEO of The Museum of Television & Radio. An attorney\, Brotman is the author of several books\, including Communications Law and Practice\, now in its 20th printing. URL:https://cms.mit.edu/event/tv-news-transition/ 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/2017/05/Neal-Shapiro-and-Juju-Chang.jpg ORGANIZER;CN="MIT%20Communications%20Forum":MAILTO:couch@mit.edu END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20060308T170000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20060308T190000 DTSTAMP:20260513T012635 CREATED:20170530T233059Z LAST-MODIFIED:20200325T165605Z UID:30316-1141837200-1141844400@cms.mit.edu SUMMARY:TV's New Economics DESCRIPTION:Though younger technologies such as Ipods and cell phones signify the emerging digital era in the popular imagination\, the transformation of television from a broadcast medium offering limited channels to a digitally enhanced environment of (apparently) infinite choice may be far more significant in social and historical terms. Today’s Forum will examine the changing economic base of American television\, the role of audiences and audience-measurement\, the broader role of consumption and advertising in the evolution of American television. Our speakers are renowned for their mastery of this complex economic and demographic history. \nDavid Poltrack\, one of the media industry’s most respected experts on audiences and audience measurement\, was recently named president of CBS Vision\, CBS’ new research unit. Since 1994\, Poltrack has been executive vice president for research and planning at CBS Television\, overseeing all television research activities encompassing audience measurement\, market research\, program testing and advertising research. \nJorge Schement is perhaps the leading academic scholar of the statistical matrices of consumption and information exchange. He is distinguished professor and co-director of the Institute for Information Policy\, Penn State University. URL:https://cms.mit.edu/event/tvs-new-economics/ LOCATION:MIT Media Lab\, Bartos Theater\, 20 Ames Street\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02139\, United States CATEGORIES:Communications Forum ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://cms.mit.edu/wp/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/mit-comm-forum_logo.png END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR