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November 2011
Cities and the Future of Entertainment
As a prologue to the Futures of Entertainment conference, this Forum will focus on the emergence of powerful new production cultures in such cities as Mumbai, Shanghai, and Rio de Janeiro.
Find out more »Cities and the Future of Entertainment
What is the likely impact on audiences and on the international media landscape of such cities as Mumbai, Shanghai, and Rio de Janeiro?
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Documentary Film and New Technologies
Emerging digital technologies are opening powerful new ways to create and even to reconceptualize the documentary film.
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Adapting Journalism to the Web
How can professional reporters and editors help to assure that quality journalism will be recognized and valued in our brave new digital world?
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Electronic Literature and Future Books
How has electronic literature influenced other media, including the Web and the book? What are the implications of having literary projects in the digital sphere alongside other forms of communication and art?
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Digitizing the Culture of Print: The Digital Public Library of America and Other Urgent Projects
What urgent initiatives are underway to assure universal access to our print inheritance and to the digital communication forms of the future?
Find out more »New Media in West Africa
How has Nigerian cinema in particular influenced local television and film markets in other countries across West Africa, and across the continent?
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Convergence Journalism? Emerging Documentary and Multimedia Forms of News
How is new access to the power of the visual changing our journalism? What current projects are particularly significant?
Find out more »A Conversation with Nate Silver
Statistician and political polling analyst Nate Silver will discuss his career -- from student journalist to baseball prognosticator to the creator of FiveThirtyEight.com.
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MOOCs and the Emerging Digital Classroom
In this Communications Forum, Anant Argawal, Alison Byerly, and Daphne Koller look at how digital technologies are transforming teaching and learning both on and off campus.
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News or Entertainment? The Press in Modern Political Campaigns
Mark McKinnon and Ta-Nehisi Coates discuss whether our political journalism is serving democratic and civic ideals.
Find out more »September 2013
The Phoenix Burns Out: Remembering a Boston Institution
When the Phoenix announced its closing, the city lost a powerful cultural force and a vibrant source of information. We'll discuss the Phoenix's legacy.
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Born Digital
On Oct. 10, John Palfrey and Ethan Zuckerman discuss whether those born digital likely to have different notions of privacy, community, identity itself.
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Long-form Journalism: Inside The Atlantic
James Fallows and Corby Kummer of The Atlantic chart the journey of a major feature story from conception to publication and speculate about the future of long-form journalism in the digital age.
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Henry Jenkins Returns
Legendary former MIT professor and housemaster Henry Jenkins returns to the Forum for a conversation about his time at the Institute and the founding of CMS as well as his path-breaking scholarship on contemporary media.
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Science in Fiction
Hanya Yanagihara, Alan Lightman, and Rebecca Goldstein discuss the unique challenges of respecting the exacting standards of science in fictional texts.
Find out more »August 2014
A Conversation with former Poet Laureate Robert Pinsky
In this wide-ranging conversation, the former Poet Laureate Robert Pinsky will discuss his collaboration on an opera with Tod Machover of the Media Lab.
Find out more »October 2014
Documentaries, Journalism, and the Future of Reality-Based Storytelling
Raney Aronson of FRONTLINE, documentary director Katerina Cizek, Jason Spingarn-Koff of the New York Times' Op-Docs, and the Guardian's multimedia editor Francesca Panetta.
Find out more »Ultimate Truths: Comparing Science and the Humanities
This Communications Forum special event will explore the differences and similarities in the kinds of knowledge available through inquiry in the science and humanities, and the ways that knowledge is obtained.
Find out more »December 2014
Making Computing Strange: Cultural Analytics and Phantasmal Media
With Lev Manovich, author of the seminal The Language of New Media, and MIT's Fox Harrell and Nick Montfort.
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