Wrapping up Media in Transition 6, with Mary Bryson, University of British Columbia; Marlene Manoff, MIT Libraries; John Durham Peters, University of Iowa; Thomas Pettitt, University of Southern Denmark.
Podcast: Media in Transition 6: “Institutional Perspectives on Storage”
At this moment of transition in the archive, we face many choices, from redundancy and maintaining double systems to all-out conversion to digital formats. What strategies make sense as you look forward?
Podcast: Media in Transition 6: “Archives and History”
How has oral composition survived so many changes? Are there parallels between the ancient oral traditions and the emerging internet culture?
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.
Henry Jenkins, the “Mud-Wrestling Media Maven from MIT”
CMS co-director Henry Jenkins is the subject of an extensive profile in the latest issue of The Chronicle of Higher Education.
Podcast and video: “What’s New at the Media Lab?”
A conversation between Frank Moss, new director of the Media Lab, and CMS Director Henry Jenkins about ongoing projects and inventive digital applications at MIT’s legendary laboratory. Demonstrations were also shown and discussed.
Colloquium Examines Podcasting, Television’s Future
Podcasting may not be the newest technology on the block, but it continues to generate a powerful impact on both grassroots and large-scale content production and distribution.
