Media in Transition 5: creativity, ownership and collaboration in the digital age
Our understanding of the technical and social processes by which culture is made and reproduced is being challenged and enlarged by digital technologies.
MIT Graduate Program in Comparative Media Studies
Studying Media and Making Media
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Books and Libraries in the Digital Age with Robert Darnton
MIT Media Lab, Bartos Theater 20 Ames Street, Cambridge, MARobert Darnton on the history of the book, the future of books and reading, and his vision of how new and old media can reinforce each other.
Media in Transition 6: stone and papyrus, storage and transmission
MIT Building E51 70 Memorial Drive, Cambridge, MAWhat are the implications of the tension between storage and transmission for education, for individual and national identities, for notions of what is public and what is private?
A Conversation with Sherry Turkle
MIT Building 66, Room 110 25 Ames Street, Cambridge, MASherry Turkle, eminent MIT professor and author most recently of Alone, Together, discusses her darkening view of our digitizing world.
Federico Casalegno: “Designing Connections”
MIT Building 4, Room 231 Cambridge, MAMIT Mobile Experience Lab's Federico Casalegno on innovative ways to design creative new media and digital interactions to foster connections between people, information, and places.
Creative Industries, Micro-productivity and Social Learning: A Cultural Science Approach to Cultural and Media Studies
MIT Media Lab, Room 633 75 Amherst St., Cambridge, MAJohn Hartley on recent developments in the field of cultural and media studies, including an account of changes in the economy, culture and technology, and consequent initiatives in educational provision for the creative industries.
How To Wreck A Nice Speech: Hearing Things With The Vocoder, From World War II To Hip-Hop
MIT Media Lab, Room 633 75 Amherst St., Cambridge, MADave Tompkins' How To Wreck A Nice Beach is about hearing things, from a misunderstood technology which in itself often spoke under conditions of anonymity.
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