A research-focused course, and concerned with the narratives that have been constructed around these figures and with the dominant readings that have been deployed in making sense of them.
Preserving Our Digital Heritage
William Uricchio: “UNESCO, long concerned with world heritage sites such as the Taj Mahal, extended its remit to include something far more ephemeral.”
Connecting the Future: The MIT Center for Future Civic Media
In May 2007, MIT had emerged as the top winner in the first Knight News Challenge, with CMS and the Media Lab together receiving $5 million to fund a Center for Future Civic Media.
Podcast: “Cult Media”
Is it profitable to build a franchise on the intense interest of the few and relying on Long Tail economics?
Podcast: Futures of Entertainment 2: “Advertising and Convergence Culture”
Does the agency structure need to be rethought? What are effective ways to collaborate with creative audiences?
Futures of Entertainment 2
Developments in advertising, cult media, metrics, measurement, and accounting for audiences, cultural labor and audience relations.
Podcast and video: “What Is Civic Media?”
A collaboration between the MIT Media Lab and Comparative Media Studies (CMS) program and is the first in a series of events designed to focus attention on the relationship between emerging media and civic engagement.
