American evangelicals have a long history of engagement with the media, dating back to Great Awakening of the late eighteenth century. Today evangelical groups are active in all media, from the Internet and cellular telephones to print journalism, broadcasting, film, and multi-media entertainment.
Video: Futures of Entertainment 2006: “Not the Real World Anymore”
Panelists featured John Lester, Linden Lab; Ron Meiners, Multiverse.net; and Todd Cunningham and Eric Gruber, MTV Networks.
Futures of Entertainment Conference Examines the Entertainment Landscape
MIT’s Comparative Media Studies program co-hosted Futures of Entertainment with the Convergence Culture Consortium, one of the program’s research groups.
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
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.
The Medium is the Medium: The Convergence of Video, Art and Television at WGBH (1969)
“What happens when artists explore television?”
Jenkins on Virtual Laguna Beach
“These older writers have been joined by a generation of new contributors, who found fan fiction (while) surfing the Internet and decided to see what they could produce.”
