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The Imagination, Computation, and Expression Lab: Phantasmal Media

MIT Media Lab, Room 633 75 Amherst St., Cambridge, MA

Professor Fox Harrell's research group -- the Imagination, Computation, and Expression (ICE) Lab -- builds computational systems for expressing imaginative stories and concepts -- "phantasmal media" systems. In particular, his research uses artificial intelligence/cognitive science-based techniques to understanding the human imagination to invent and better understand new forms of computational narrative, identity, games, and related […]

Online Migration of Newspapers

MIT Media Lab, Bartos Theater 20 Ames Street, Cambridge, MA

David Carr and Dan Kennedy discuss 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.

Jing Wang

NGO2.0: When Social Action Meets Social Media

MIT Building 4, Room 231 Cambridge, MA

Professor Jing Wang will discuss the genesis and implementation of a civic media project, NGO2.0, that she conceptualized and launched in China in May 2009.

Alison Byerly

Humanities in the Digital Age

MIT Building 32 (Stata Center), Room 141 32 Vassar Street, Cambridge, MA

With Alison Byerly and Steven Pinker, we ask how digital tools and systems have already begun to transform humanistic education.

Micah Sifry

Civic Media and the Law

MIT Media Lab, Room 633 75 Amherst St., Cambridge, MA

Micah Sifry and Daniel Schuman address the question: "What are the legal dangers for publishing secrets in the crowdsourced era?"

Public Communications in Slow-Moving Crises

MIT Building 4, Room 231 Cambridge, MA

What new media tools and strategies can be used to help everyone better prepare for the unique communications challenges of slow-moving crises?

Joshua Benton

Online News: Public Sphere or Echo Chamber?

MIT Building 3, Room 270 33 Massachusetts Ave (Rear), Cambridge, MA

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?

Sherry Turkle

A Conversation with Sherry Turkle

MIT Building 66, Room 110 25 Ames Street, Cambridge, MA

Sherry Turkle, eminent MIT professor and author most recently of Alone, Together, discusses her darkening view of our digitizing world.

(Face)book of the Dead

MIT Building 2, Room 105 182 Memorial Drive, Cambridge, MA

In the Age of Always Connect, are we witnessing a plague of oversharing? Are social networks its vectors of transmission? Is this the "Death of Shame"?

Media Spectacle 2011 poster

13th Annual Media Spectacle

MIT Building 32 (Stata Center), Room 155 32 Vassar Street, Cambridge, MA

An honored tradition returns this Spring when CMS presents the thirteenth annual Media Spectacle.