Videos
Videos of Comparative Media Studies events and projects.
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Podcast and video: “Evangelicals and the Media”
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.
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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.
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Podcast and video: “Remixing Shakespeare”
New technologies are enabling forms of borrowing, appropriation and “remixing” of media materials in exciting, provocative ways. In this Forum, two MIT scholars who have studied and written about the remixing of Shakespeare will describe their research, show some salient audio-visual examples and discuss the implications of their work for contemporary culture.
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Podcast and video: “Why Newspapers Matter”
The third and final forum in the Will Newspapers Survive? series presented by the MIT Communications Forum.
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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.
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Half-Real: A Video Game in the Hands of a Player (Video)
What happens when a player picks up a video game, learns to play it, masters it, and leaves it?
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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.
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Video: Futures of Entertainment 2006: “Fan Cultures”
Diane Nelson, president of Warner Premiere; danah boyd, a doctoral candidate in the School of Information at the University of California-Berkeley; and Molly Chase, Executive Producer of Cartoon Network New Media.
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Video: Futures of Entertainment 2006, “Viscerality and Web 2.0”
The opening presentation for the second day, Viscerality and Web 2.0, given by Joshua Green, Research Manager for the Convergence Culture Consortium.
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Video: Futures of Entertainment 2006, “Transmedia Properties”
How are storytellers taking advantage of the “expanded canvas” such an approach offers? How do transmedia strategies impact the new integration between brands and entertainment properties? What new expectations do transmedia properties place on consumers?
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Video: Futures of Entertainment 2006, “User-Generated Content”
What challenges does greater user-participation pose to both producers and audiences? What corporate policies enable or retard the growth of user-generated content?
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Video: Futures of Entertainment 2006, “Henry Jenkins’ Opening Remarks”
This is the first in a series of six podcasts, recorded during the Futures of Entertainment Conference hosted by the Convergence Culture Consortium and Comparative Media Studies at MIT.
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Podcast and video: Joe Haldeman, “The Craft of Science Fiction”
The latest MIT Communications Forum, The Craft of Science Fiction, featured Joe Haldeman, four-time Nebula Award winner and author of The Forever War, his forthcoming novel The Accidental Time Machine and many other books.
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Video and podcast: “News, Information, and the Wealth of Networks”
Yochai Benkler teaches communication and information law at Yale Law School. He is the author of The Wealth of Networks: How Social Production Transforms Markets and Freedom.
