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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
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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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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/
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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/
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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
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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
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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
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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/
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