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SUMMARY:Bearing Witness\, Seeking Justice
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20191009
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SUMMARY:Design and Semantics of Form and Movement
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URL:https://cms.mit.edu/event/design-and-semantics-of-form-and-movement/
LOCATION:Cambridge\, MA\, 02139\, United States
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SUMMARY:Media in Transition 10: A Reprise – Democracy and Digital Media
DESCRIPTION:Save the date! An official call for papers will be distributed in early September 2018. \nIn 1998\, MIT’s Comparative Media Studies program held the first Media in Transition (MiT) conference and inaugurated a related book series. Research from that first MiT conference appeared in Democracy and New Media\, Jenkins & Thorburn\, eds.\, (MIT Press\, 2003). Now\, twenty years later\, we are organizing the 10th iteration of the event. Much has changed over these two decades\, but the theme “democracy and digital media” is as urgent as ever. Twenty years ago there was no Facebook\, Twitter\, or Netflix. iPhones and Samsung Galaxies had not yet hit the shelves. And Siri and Alexa were still in development. Since 1998\, media have undergone major transition. We have witnessed a shift from Napster to Spotify\, from Web 1.0 to 2.0\, from console games to Twitch TV\, and beyond. We have experienced the rise of social media\, civic media\, algorithmic cultures\, and have seen ever greater concentration of media ownership. The events of 9/11 catalyzed intensified state surveillance and privatized security using various media technologies. Undergirding these shifts have been major transformations in global media infrastructure\, the platformization of the Internet\, and the ubiquity of themobile phone. \nIn the US\, we also have seen changes in the news ecosystem with the likes of ProPublica and community engagement journalism. At the same time\, public trust in media has dropped from 55% in 1998 to 32% in 2016\, according to Pew. For better and worse\, a growth of interest in media ritual and a decline in the more familiar transmission paradigm is underway. Given such changes concepts of participation\, trust\, and democracy are increasingly fraught\, essential\, and powerfully repositioned. How will our news media look and sound in the next decade? What can we learn from news media of the past? What can international perspectives reveal about the variability and fluidity of media landscapes? \nWe are interested in how these issues play out across media\, whether as represented in television series and films\, or enacted in rule set and player interactions in games\, or enabled in community media\, social media\, and talk radio. We welcome research that considers these issues in public media and commercial media\, with individual users and collective stakeholders\, across media infrastructures and media texts\, and embedded in various historical eras or cultural settings.
URL:https://cms.mit.edu/event/media-in-transition-10/
LOCATION:Massachusetts Institute of Technology
CATEGORIES:Conference
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SUMMARY:Media in Transition 8: Public Media\, Private Media
DESCRIPTION:Submissions accepted on a rolling basis until Friday\, March 1\, 2013 (evaluations begin in November). Please see the end of this call for papers for submission instructions. \nThe distinction between public and private — where the line is drawn and how it is sometimes inverted\, the ways that it is embraced or contested — says much about a culture. Media have been used to enable\, define and police the shifting line between the two\, so it is not surprising that the history of media change to some extent maps the history of these domains. Media in Transition 8 takes up the question of the shifting nature of the public and private at a moment of unparalleled connectivity\, enabling new notions of the socially mediated public and unequalled levels of data extraction thanks to the quiet demands of our Kindles\, iPhones\, televisions and computers. While this forces us to think in new ways about these long established categories\, in fact the underlying concerns are rooted in deep historical practice. MiT8 considers the ways in which specific media challenge or reinforce certain notions of the public or the private and especially the ways in which specific “texts” dramatize or imagine the public\, the private and the boundary between them. It takes as its foci three broad domains: personal identity\, the civic (the public sphere) and intellectual property. \nRead the full call for papers…
URL:https://cms.mit.edu/event/media-in-transition-8-public-media-private-media/
CATEGORIES:Conference
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20121109
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20121111
DTSTAMP:20260521T160141
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SUMMARY:Futures of Entertainment 6
DESCRIPTION:Futures of Entertainment is an annual event exploring the current state and future of media properties\, brands\, and audiences. This year’s event\, Nov. 9-10 at MIT\, will look at how media producers and audiences are relating to one another in new ways in a spreadable media landscape. \nRegister at the FOE website.
URL:https://cms.mit.edu/event/futures-of-entertainment-6/
LOCATION:MIT Building E51\, Wong Auditorium\, 70 Memorial Drive\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02139\, United States
CATEGORIES:Conference
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SUMMARY:ROFLCon 2012
DESCRIPTION:Sponsored in part by CMS\, ROFLCon is “Two days and two nights of the most epic internet culture conference ever assembled. Informed commentators suggest that this may be the most important gathering of humanity since the fall of the tower of Babel.” \nAbout: roflcon.org \nRegistration: roflcon.org/registration
URL:https://cms.mit.edu/event/roflcon-2012/
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SUMMARY:Media in Transition 7: "Unstable Platforms: The Promise and Peril of Transition"
DESCRIPTION:Call for Papers (PDF) \nHas the digital age confirmed and exponentially increased the cultural instability and creative destruction that are often said to define advanced capitalism? Does living in a digital age mean we may live and die in what the novelist Thomas Pynchon has called “a ceaseless spectacle of transition? The nearly limitless range of design options and communication choices available now and in the future is both exhilarating and challenging\, inciting innovation and creativity but also false starts\, incompatible systems\, planned obsolescence. \nFor this seventh Media in Transition conference we want to focus directly on our core topic – the experience of transition. Our first conference in 1999 considered this subject\, of course. But that was before Facebook\, iPhones\, BitTorrent\, IPTV and many other changes. More…
URL:https://cms.mit.edu/event/media-in-transition-unstable-platforms-promise-peril-transition/
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SUMMARY:ROFLCon
DESCRIPTION:Sponsored in part by CMS\, ROFLCon is “Two days and two nights of the most epic internet culture conference ever assembled. Informed commentators suggest that this may be the most important gathering of humanity since the fall of the tower of Babel.” \nAbout: roflcon.org \nRegistration: roflcon.org/registration
URL:https://cms.mit.edu/event/roflcon/
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20091120
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SUMMARY:Futures of Entertainment 4
DESCRIPTION:Convergence has moved swiftly from buzzword to industry logic. The creation of transmedia storyworlds\, understanding how to appeal to migratory audiences\, and the production of digital extensions for traditional materials are becoming the bread and butter of working in the media. Futures of Entertainment 4 once again brings together key industry leaders who are shaping these new directions in our culture and academic scholars immersed in the investigation the social\, cultural\, political\, economic\, and technological implications of these changes in our media landscape.
URL:https://cms.mit.edu/event/futures-of-entertainment-4/
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SUMMARY:NML Spring Conference - Learning in a Participatory Culture
DESCRIPTION:Comparative Media Studies and Project New Media Literacies will host a one-day conference at MIT\, Building 6-120\, from 8:30 am to 5 pm on Saturday May 2\, 2009. The $35.00 registration fee includes a choice of 4 out of 14 workshops\, 2 presentations\, and breakfast and lunch. Registration is available online at www.newmedialiteracies.org\, and must be submitted by Friday 4/29. \nSummary of conference: At Learning in a Participatory Culture\, we will share our new web-based learning environment\, the Learning Library\, and host a series of conversations and workshops about the integration and implementation of the new media literacies across disciplines. Workshops include “The Complexities of Copyright: Shepard Fairey v. the AP\,” “Mapping in Participatory Culture: Boundaries\,” “Using Wikipedia in the Classroom\,” “21st Century Assessment\,” and more. Henry Jenkins’ closing remarks will address the future of NML and participatory democracy. \nPanelists at this conference will include members of the NML team\, educators who have been working with NML materials in the field\, and educational researchers. The conference is designed to engage anyone with an interest in the future of education\, especially high school teachers and afterschool coordinators. The format itself will be participatory – we hope that attendees will join the conversation\, and leave the conference equipped with new ideas and strategies.
URL:https://cms.mit.edu/event/learning-in-a-participatory-culture-nml-conference/
LOCATION:MIT Building 6\, Room 120\, 182 Memorial Drive (Rear)\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02139\, United States
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20090424
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20090427
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SUMMARY:Media in Transition 6: stone and papyrus\, storage and transmission
DESCRIPTION:Media in Transition 6: stone and papyrus\, storage and transmission \nIn his seminal essay “The Bias of Communication” Harold Innis distinguishes between time-based and space-based media.Time-based media such as stone or clay\, Innis agues\, can be seen as durable\, while space-based media such as paper or papyrus can be understood as portable\, more fragile than stone but more powerful because capable of transmission\, diffusion\, connections across space. \nSpeculating on this distinction\, Innis develops an account of civilization grounded in the ways in which media forms shape trade\, religion\, government\, economic and social structures\, and the arts. Our current era of prolonged and profound transition is surely as media-driven as the historical cultures Innis describes. \nHis division between the durable and the portable is perhaps problematic in the age of the computer\, but similar tensions define our contemporary situation. Digital communications have increased exponentially the speed with which information circulates. Moore’s Law continues to hold\, and with it a doubling of memory capacity every two years; we are poised to reach transmission speeds of 100 terabits per second\, or something akin to transmitting the entire printed contents of the Library of Congress in under five seconds.   \nSuch developments are simultaneously exhilarating and terrifying. They profoundly challenge efforts to maintain access to the vast printed and audio-visual inheritance of analog culture as well as efforts to understand and preserve the immense\, enlarging universe of text\, image and sound available in cyberspace. What are the implications of these trends for historians who seek to understand the place of media in our own culture? \nWhat challenges confront librarians and archivists who must supervise the migration of print culture to digital formats and who must also find ways to preserve and catalogue the vast and increasing range of words and images generated by new technologies? How are shifts in distribution and circulation affecting the stories we tell\, the art we produce\, the social structures and policies we construct? \nWhat are the implications of this tension between storage and transmission for education\, for individual and national identities\, for notions of what is public and what is private? We invite papers from scholars\, journalists\, media creators\, teachers\, writers and visual artists on these broad themes.  Potential topics include: \n\nThe digital archive\nThe future of libraries and museums\nThe past and future of the book\nMobile media\nHistorical systems of communication\nMedia in the developing world\nSocial networks\nMapping media flows\nApproaches to media history\nEducation and the changing media environment\nNew forms of storytelling and expression\nLocation-based entertainment\nHyperlocal media and civic engagement\nNew modes of circulation and distribution\nThe transformation of television — from broadcast to download\nCosmopolitanism backlashes against media change\nVirtual worlds and digital tourism\nThe continuity principle: what endures or resists digital   transformation?\nThe fate of reading
URL:https://cms.mit.edu/event/media-in-transition-stone-papyrus-storage-transmission/
LOCATION:MIT Building E51\, 70 Memorial Drive\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02139\, United States
CATEGORIES:Conference
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20081121
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20081123
DTSTAMP:20260521T160141
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SUMMARY:Futures of Entertainment 3
DESCRIPTION:Futures of Entertainment 3 \nFutures of Entertainment is organized around a “talk-show” style model\, with panelists participating in a moderated discussion. Over the last two years this produced great\, thorough treatments of the subject matter\, getting industry and academic speakers together but avoiding product pitches.  \nThis year’s conference will work to bring together the themes from last year – media spreadability\, audiences and value\, social media\, distribution – with the Consortium’s new projects as we move towards an increasingly global understanding of media convergence and content flows. Topics for this year’s panels include global distribution systems and the challenges of moving content across borders\, transmedia\, franchising\, digital extensions and world building\, comics\, convergence and commerce\, social media and spreadability\, as well as renewed discussion about how and why to measure audience value. \nHead over to the program page to see what we’ll be discussing this year.
URL:https://cms.mit.edu/event/futures-of-entertainment-3/
LOCATION:MIT Media Lab\, Bartos Theater\, 20 Ames Street\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02139\, United States
CATEGORIES:Conference
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20071116
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20071118
DTSTAMP:20260521T160141
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SUMMARY:Futures of Entertainment 2
DESCRIPTION:Futures of Entertainment 2 \nThe logics of convergence culture are quickly becoming ubiquitous within the media world. Audiences are being encouraged to participate in a wider range of sites. Transmedia principles are being adopted by content producers in a broad range of fields. ‘Engagement’ is being discussed as crucial to measurements of success. Futures of Entertainment 2 brings together key industry players who are shaping these new directions in our culture with academics exploring their implications. This year’s conference will consider developments in advertising\, cult media\, metrics\, measurement\, and accounting for audiences\, cultural labor and audience relations.
URL:https://cms.mit.edu/event/futures-of-entertainment-2/
LOCATION:MIT Media Lab\, Bartos Theater\, 20 Ames Street\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02139\, United States
CATEGORIES:Conference
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20070510
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20070511
DTSTAMP:20260521T160141
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SUMMARY:Moby-Dick Performance and Conference
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URL:https://cms.mit.edu/event/moby-dick-performance-and-conference/
LOCATION:Mixed Magic Theatre\, 500 Mineral Spring Avenue\, Pawtucket\, RI\, United States
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20070427
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20070430
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SUMMARY:Media in Transition 5: creativity\, ownership and collaboration in the digital age
DESCRIPTION:Media in Transition 5: creativity\, ownership and collaboration in the digital age \nOur understanding of the technical and social processes by which culture is made and reproduced is being challenged and enlarged by digital technologies. An emerging generation of media producers is sampling and remixing existing materials as core ingredients in their own work. Readers are actively reshaping media content as they personalize it for their own use or customize it for the needs of grassroots and online communities. Of course\, the idea that artists build on earlier traditions or that new texts speak to and about earlier texts is scarcely a new idea. This fifth Media in Transition conference aims to generate a conversation that compares historical forms of cultural expression with contemporary media practices.
URL:https://cms.mit.edu/event/media-in-transition-creativity-ownership-collaboration/
CATEGORIES:Conference
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20061117
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20061119
DTSTAMP:20260521T160141
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SUMMARY:Futures of Entertainment
DESCRIPTION:Futures of Entertainment \nAs advertisers look for new ways to engage audiences\, content creators search for new audiences\, and audiences quest for new ways to connect with culture\, the nature of what counts as “entertainment” is rapidly changing. We are seeing the blurring of aesthetic and technological distinctions between media platforms\, of “advertising” and “content” and of “creator” and “consumer.” Futures of Entertainment brings together key industry leaders who are shaping these new directions in our culture. The conference will consider developments such as user-generated content\, transmedia storytelling\, the rise of mobile media and the emergence of social networking. Speakers include: Chris Anderson (The Long Tail)\, Caterina Fake (Flickr)\, Michael Lebowitz (Big Spaceship)\, Paul Levitz (DC Comics)\, Diane Nelson (Warner Bros. Fan Relations)\, and Robert Tercek (Multimedia Networks). Co-sponsor: Convergence Culture Consortium. \nThis event is open to the public. Please register online.
URL:https://cms.mit.edu/event/futures-of-entertainment/
LOCATION:MIT Media Lab\, Bartos Theater\, 20 Ames Street\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02139\, United States
CATEGORIES:Conference
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20050506
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20050509
DTSTAMP:20260521T160141
CREATED:20140808T154949Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20140808T154949Z
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SUMMARY:Media in Transition 4: The Work of Stories
DESCRIPTION:Some say storytelling is at the heart of social life and personal identity. It is common today to speak of political candidates’ "competing narratives\," or of a group or culture’s need to invent "a new narrative" for changing times. Stories are embedded in our commercials and our newscasts. Ancient narratives of humiliation and revenge are said to drive the lives of millions. New and emerging technologies have given global reach to stories old and new. \nThis fourth Media in Transition conference explores storytelling as a cultural practice\, a social and political activity as well as an art form. \nWe want to talk about why some stories last\, how they migrate across media forms within their own societies as well as other cultures and historical eras. We hope to encourage speculation about the ways in which stories are deployed in periods of media in transition\, and about the way some stories easily inhabit different media simultaneously while other stories seem less adaptable. \nWe aim to stimulate a conversation among scholars\, journalists and media professionals who may often speak only to their own tribal groups.
URL:https://cms.mit.edu/event/media-in-transition-work-of-stories/
LOCATION:MIT Media Lab\, Bartos Theater\, 20 Ames Street\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02139\, United States
CATEGORIES:Conference
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20030502
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20030505
DTSTAMP:20260521T160141
CREATED:20140808T154548Z
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SUMMARY:Media in Transition 3: Television
DESCRIPTION:Media in Transition 3: Television \nWhat is the role of television in specific societies or regions today? How is this role changing? What part are digital technologies and new systems of communication playing in this transition? What are the likely outcomes of present trends? What are the darkest possibilities? What does the history of television in diverse countries and regions tell us about its possible futures? The third Media in Transition conference centers on television’s political and cultural role at the dawn of our new millennium.
URL:https://cms.mit.edu/event/meda-in-transition-television/
CATEGORIES:Conference
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20020510
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20020513
DTSTAMP:20260521T160141
CREATED:20140806T144729Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170316T192707Z
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SUMMARY:Media in Transition 2: Globalization and Convergence
DESCRIPTION:Media in Transition 2: Globalization and Convergence \nWill globalization reduce or expand the world’s cultural diversity? How do we reconcile the competing forces of media convergence and media fragmentation that are shaping the current communications infrastructure? What patterns can we discern among convergent content and audiences across media forms and international borders? These are among the issues to be explored at the Media in Transition 2 international conference on globalization and convergence.
URL:https://cms.mit.edu/event/meda-in-transition-globalization-and-convergence/
CATEGORIES:Conference
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20010427
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20010430
DTSTAMP:20260521T160141
CREATED:20140806T151436Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20140806T151436Z
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SUMMARY:Race in Digital Space
DESCRIPTION:Race in Digital Space: A National Conference on Race and New Media Technologies \nCyberspace has been represented as a race-blind environment\, yet our everyday encounters with race have consequences–both “inside and outside the box.” Although most discussions of the “digital divide” have tended to erase the numerous contributions of minority artists\, activists\, entrepreneurs\, journalists\, and scholars\, this conference celebrates those accomplishments\, while situating them against the backdrop of the challenges we still must confront in order to insure equal access to information technologies. What cultural and social baggage do we carry into the digital domain? How does the “race” for connectivity\, access\, and linkage relate to other races for visibility and equal opportunity? How are communities tackling political and economic inequalities in order to bridge the “digital divide”? How have minority communities deployed digital tools to comment on digital culture\, to reconfigure the history of racism\, and to claim a more powerful voice in shaping the future? Racism affects all Americans and so we are bringing together speakers of many different races and backgrounds to share their experiences and offer their solutions.
URL:https://cms.mit.edu/event/race-in-digital-space/
LOCATION:MIT Building E51\, 70 Memorial Drive\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02139\, United States
CATEGORIES:Conference
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20001103
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20001106
DTSTAMP:20260521T160141
CREATED:20141202T160513Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20141202T162842Z
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SUMMARY:Digital Cinema Conference
DESCRIPTION:Part of an ongoing series of events focused on creativity in the digital age\, the MIT Conference on Digital Cinema brings together filmmakers\, critics\, and media industry leaders to explore the nature of digital cinema and its cultural significance. The conference will combine screenings of significant works in digital cinema with panel discussions centered on such issues as the political consequence of broadening media access\, the shifting status of amateur filmmaking\, the aesthetics of this emerging media form\, the economics of digital film production and distribution\, the historical antecedents of digital cinema\, and the ways in which digital cinema may influence our media future. \nThe MIT Conference on Digital Cinema is sponsored by ALWAYSi.com\, the MIT Comparative Media Studies Program\, and the MIT Communications Forum.
URL:https://cms.mit.edu/event/digital-cinema-conference/
LOCATION:MIT Building E51\, Room 345\, 70 Memorial Drive\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02139\, United States
CATEGORIES:Conference
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20000210
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20000212
DTSTAMP:20260521T160141
CREATED:20141119T185550Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20141119T185751Z
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SUMMARY:Computer and Video Games Come of Age Conference
DESCRIPTION:The computer and video game industry has now completed its first quarter century and has become a strong and vibrant force within the American entertainment industry. There is no question that interactive games are a medium which can already celebrate significant accomplishments and social and cultural contributions. The most exciting developments are surely yet to come. \nThe time has come to take an inventory of today’s game industry and envision tomorrow’s technological innovations and creative implications\, not only from industrial and professional perspectives but from research being explored by cultural and media scholars. In much the same way industry leaders and academics worked together to establish a serious national conversation about the aesthetic and cultural importance of cinema in the 20th century\, we believe that academic and industry exchanges can promote the art of digital entertainment media for the 21st century. \nAs a first step\, the Program in Comparative Media Studies and the Communications Forum at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology\, in cooperation with the Interactive Digital Software Association\, invite you to a national conference to be held in Cambridge\, Massachusetts on Thursday\, 10 February and Friday\, 11 February 2000. Industry insiders and academic researchers will contribute to conversations designed to: \n\nAssess the state of the computer and video game industry;\nEvaluate how the industry has made use of the potentials of digital media;\nDiscuss how it is responding to more diverse consumer tastes and interests;\nSpeculate where games may go as a genre in the next decade.
URL:https://cms.mit.edu/event/computer-and-video-games-come-of-age/
LOCATION:MIT Building 26\, Room 100\, Access Via 60 Vassar Street\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02139\, United States
CATEGORIES:Conference
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:19991008
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:19991011
DTSTAMP:20260521T160141
CREATED:20140811T131712Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20140811T131712Z
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SUMMARY:Media in Transition Conference
DESCRIPTION:Media in Transition Conference \nTo celebrate the launch of the graduate program in Comparative Media Studies at MIT\, this final event of the Media in Transition Project aims to establish a broad-gauged discussion of our emerging computer culture in the perspective of ancestor technologies and older media. The conference will include some 75 presentations on many aspects of this subject\, a series of multi-media demonstrations and films offered in parallel with the presentations\, and three plenary “conversations” in which distinguished panelists will speak briefly and then participate in extended dialogue with the audience. Among the panelists: Phil Agre\, Robert Darnton\, Henry Jenkins\, Elaine Kamarck\, Adam Powell\, Mitchel Resnick\, Paul Starr\, Bob Stein\, Maria Tatar\, Sherry Turkle.
URL:https://cms.mit.edu/event/media-in-transition/
CATEGORIES:Conference
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