Lev Manovich
MIT Building 2, Room 105 182 Memorial Drive, Cambridge, MA, United StatesLev Manovich is the author of The Language of New Media, which is hailed as "the most suggestive and broad ranging media history since Marshall McLuhan."
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Media in Transition 6: stone and papyrus, storage and transmission
MIT Building E51 70 Memorial Drive, Cambridge, MA, United StatesWhat are the implications of the tension between storage and transmission for education, for individual and national identities, for notions of what is public and what is private?
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Race, Politics and American Media
MIT Media Lab, Bartos Theater (Room 070) 20 Ames Street, Cambridge, MA, United StatesThe election of an African-American president in Nov. 2008 has been hailed as a transforming event. But has Obama's ascension transformed anything?
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Futures of Entertainment 4
Futures of Entertainment 4 once again brings together key industry leaders and academic scholars who are shaping these new directions in our culture.
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Online Migration of Newspapers
MIT Media Lab, Bartos Theater (Room 070) 20 Ames Street, Cambridge, MA, United StatesDavid Carr and Dan Kennedy discuss the best and the worst examples of news on the net, online-only news sites, hyperlocal news and collaborative journalism, business models for online newspapers, and the impact of social media on journalism.
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National Conference for Media Reform
Seaport World Trade Center 200 Seaport Blvd, Boston, MA, United StatesOur Center for Future Civic Media is a proud member of the local host committee for the National Conference for Media Reform (April 8-10, here in Boston). We'll be staffing a table if you'd like to hang with us.
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Local News in the Digital Age
MIT Media Lab, Bartos Theater (Room 070) 20 Ames Street, Cambridge, MA, United StatesThis Forum will assess the state of local journalism, paying special attention to the changing environment for news in New England.
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Mapping Media Ecosystems
MIT Media Lab, Room 633 75 Amherst St., Cambridge, MA, United StatesHow do we understand, map, visualize, and ultimately shape the flow of texts across an increasingly diverse and complex media ecosystem?
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Cities and the Future of Entertainment
MIT Media Lab, Bartos Theater (Room 070) 20 Ames Street, Cambridge, MA, United StatesAs 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.
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Henry Jenkins Returns
MIT Building 4, Room 370 182 Memorial Drive (Rear), Cambridge, MA, United StatesLegendary 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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Beginning Exploratory Programming
Comparative Media Studies: MIT Building E15, Room 335 20 Ames St., Cambridge, MA, United StatesHow to think with computation, how computation and media interact, and how computing is part of culture.
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Cultural Studies and The Expediency of Culture, Rethought in Relation to Internet Platforms and Megadata
MIT Building 4, Room 231 Cambridge, MA, United StatesThe argument that culture empties out as it becomes ever more pivotal in the creative economy has, George Yúdice thinks, been borne out.
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Kara Keeling and Wendy Chun speak as part of “Racial Regimes, Digital Economies” symposium
MIT Building 3, Room 133 33 Massachusetts Ave, Cambridge, MA, United StatesWith USC's Kara Keeling on "Black Futures and the Queer Times of Life" and Brown University's Wendy Chun on "Racial Infrastructure".
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Imperial Arrangements: South African Apartheid and the Force of Photography
MIT Building 56, Room 114 Access via 21 Ames Street, Cambridge, MA, United StatesKimberly Juanita Brown will focus on US news media coverage of apartheid in the last year of its existence, and the images that anchored viewers' interpretation of the event.
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Media in Transition 10: A Reprise – Democracy and Digital Media
Massachusetts Institute of TechnologyConcepts of participation, trust, and democracy are increasingly fraught, essential, and powerfully repositioned. How will our news media look and sound in the next decade? What can we learn from news media of the past? What can international perspectives reveal about the variability and fluidity of media landscapes?