Included were Henry Jenkins’ Confessions of an Aca-Fan, Project New Media Literacies, and Nick Montfort’s Grand Text Auto.
From the CMS archive: “New Media Has New Impact on Campaign”
Bloggers’ unprecedented participation and the 2004 campaign’s huge virtual audience represents a quiet yet astounding change at the intersection of information, politics, culture and society.
Henry Jenkins follows up Obama/Spock connection in interview with Salon
“In many ways,” says CMS director Henry Jenkins, “my commitment to social justice was shaped in reality by Martin Luther King and in fantasy by ‘Star Trek.'”
From the archives, Henry Jenkins on digital culture and violence
Via @henryjenkins comes this video featured in an MIT course “Media, Education and the Marketplace” just after the Columbine shootings.
NML Spring Conference – Learning in a Participatory Culture
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.
CMS: Born for Collaboration
From its early days the Comparative Media Studies program has worked with partners from all over MIT. It has collaboration written in its genes.
Jenkins in “Yes, more thoughts on Susan Boyle” in the Boston Globe
“[Jenkins] says the reaction might have been smaller without Twitter, a new way of spreading news more quickly than ever.”
