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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
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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
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20100318T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20100318T190000
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CREATED:20150107T192355Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20150107T192355Z
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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
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20091008T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20091008T170000
DTSTAMP:20260513T020124
CREATED:20161026T192226Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20161026T192352Z
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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
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20090226T170000
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CREATED:20160818T174212Z
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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
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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
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20080925T170000
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CREATED:20141113T141317Z
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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
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20070405T170000
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CREATED:20141208T161955Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20141208T162007Z
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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
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20070215T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20070215T170000
DTSTAMP:20260513T020124
CREATED:20161027T191020Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20200928T133501Z
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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
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20061026T170000
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CREATED:20150325T183745Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20151113T200843Z
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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
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20060921T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20060921T190000
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CREATED:20150326T141641Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20150326T141641Z
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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
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20060919T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20060919T170000
DTSTAMP:20260513T020124
CREATED:20170530T233059Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170609T124545Z
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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
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20060420T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20060420T190000
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CREATED:20141201T181907Z
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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
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20060406T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20060406T170000
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CREATED:20170530T233059Z
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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
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20060308T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20060308T190000
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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
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