Media in Transition 5: creativity, ownership and collaboration in the digital age
Our understanding of the technical and social processes by which culture is made and reproduced is being challenged and enlarged by digital technologies.
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Books and Libraries in the Digital Age with Robert Darnton
MIT Media Lab, Bartos Theater (Room 070) 20 Ames Street, Cambridge, MA, United StatesRobert Darnton on the history of the book, the future of books and reading, and his vision of how new and old media can reinforce each other.
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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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Civic Tools: The Latest from the Center for Future Civic Media
MIT Building 32 (Stata Center), Room 141 32 Vassar Street, Cambridge, MA, United StatesSee open-to-the-public demos of the latest, greatest civic media tools from researchers at the MIT Center for Future Civic Media, the leader in cutting-edge community-based technology.
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A Conversation with Sherry Turkle
MIT Building 66, Room 110 25 Ames Street, Cambridge, MA, United StatesSherry Turkle, eminent MIT professor and author most recently of Alone, Together, discusses her darkening view of our digitizing world.
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Design for Vulnerable Populations
MIT Media Lab, Room 633 75 Amherst St., Cambridge, MA, United StatesWhat can designers do to better connect with the communities and individuals they wish to serve? How can design projects avoid patronizing attitudes and economic colonialization? How can a designer be effective in promoting social change while following their conscience?
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Federico Casalegno: “Designing Connections”
MIT Building 4, Room 231 Cambridge, MA, United StatesMIT Mobile Experience Lab's Federico Casalegno on innovative ways to design creative new media and digital interactions to foster connections between people, information, and places.
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Out of the Playpen into the Playground: The Design of Digital Experiences for Positive Youth Development
MIT Media Lab, Room 633 75 Amherst St., Cambridge, MA, United StatesMarina Bers discusses how the Positive Technological Development framework may offer a possible path to help children out of the playpens into the playgrounds of this technological era.
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Creative Industries, Micro-productivity and Social Learning: A Cultural Science Approach to Cultural and Media Studies
MIT Media Lab, Room 633 75 Amherst St., Cambridge, MA, United StatesJohn Hartley on recent developments in the field of cultural and media studies, including an account of changes in the economy, culture and technology, and consequent initiatives in educational provision for the creative industries.
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How To Wreck A Nice Speech: Hearing Things With The Vocoder, From World War II To Hip-Hop
MIT Media Lab, Room 633 75 Amherst St., Cambridge, MA, United StatesDave Tompkins' How To Wreck A Nice Beach is about hearing things, from a misunderstood technology which in itself often spoke under conditions of anonymity.
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Cultural Production and Social Media as Capture Platforms: How the Matrix Has You
Comparative Media Studies: MIT Building E15, Room 335 20 Ames St., Cambridge, MA, United StatesHector Postigo's presentation develops a framework for understanding how social media’s technical feature-sets create a system of capture and conversion.