“Henry Jenkins’s approachable prose reaches out to both media scholars and non-specialized audiences alike.”
Video and podcast: “The Emergence of Citizens’ Media”
The Emergence of Citizen’s Media features Alex Beam of the Boston Globe, Ellen Foley from the Wisconsin State Journal and Dan Gillmor, founder of the Center for Citizen Media.
Podcast: Futures of Entertainment 2006: “Television Futures”
The panelists featured in this recording are Andy Hunter, a Planning Director at GSD&M; Mark Warshaw, founder of FlatWorld Entertainment, Inc; and Josh Bernoff, a vice president at Forrester
Podcast: Futures of Entertainment 2006: “Henry Jenkins’ Opening Remarks”
The first in a series of six podcasts, recorded during the Futures of Entertainment Conference.
Futures of Entertainment
The conference will consider developments such as user-generated content, transmedia storytelling, the rise of mobile media and the emergence of social networking.
Podcast: Timothy Stoneman, “Media Evangelism in the Global South”
Timothy Stoneman, National Science Foundation Postdoctoral Fellow in the Science, Technology, and Society Program at MIT, discusses his research on missionary and evangelical radio in America from an historical perspective.
Podcast: “The Rise of Citizen Journalism”
Convergence is a buzzword in which Comparative Media Studies is heavily invested, and we are spending a significant amount of time this term examining what effects that convergence is having on newsgathering and journalism in America. These research questions are driven, in part, by a three-part series of the MIT Communication Forum entitled “Will Newspapers Survive?”
