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."
Lev 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."
What 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?
The election of an African-American president in Nov. 2008 has been hailed as a transforming event. But has Obama's ascension transformed anything?
Futures of Entertainment 4 once again brings together key industry leaders and academic scholars who are shaping these new directions in our culture.
David 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.
Our 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.
This Forum will assess the state of local journalism, paying special attention to the changing environment for news in New England.
How do we understand, map, visualize, and ultimately shape the flow of texts across an increasingly diverse and complex media ecosystem?
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.
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.
How to think with computation, how computation and media interact, and how computing is part of culture.
The argument that culture empties out as it becomes ever more pivotal in the creative economy has, George Yúdice thinks, been borne out.
With USC's Kara Keeling on "Black Futures and the Queer Times of Life" and Brown University's Wendy Chun on "Racial Infrastructure".
Kimberly 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.
Concepts 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?
