Content tagged "Futures of Entertainment"
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Futures of Entertainment 3
This year’s conference will work to bring together the themes from last year — media spreadability, audiences and value, social media, distribution — with the Consortium’s new projects as we move towards an increasingly global understanding of media convergence and content flows.
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In Medias Res, Spring 2008
The undergraduate curriculum has increasingly turned to cross-disciplinary, trans-disciplinary and even multi-disciplinary approaches to education.
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Podcast: “Cult Media”
Is it profitable to build a franchise on the intense interest of the few and relying on Long Tail economics?
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Podcast: Futures of Entertainment 2: “Opening Remarks (Day Two)”
With Jason Mittell, Middlebury College; Jonathan Gray, Fordham University; and Lee Harrington, Miami University
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Podcast: Futures of Entertainment 2: “Fan Labor”
What do we gain by applying a theory of labor to think about the invisible work performed by fans and other consumers within the new media economy?
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Podcast: Futures of Entertainment 2: “Metrics and Measurement”
Nobody is quite clear how you can “count” engaged consumers or how you can account for various forms and qualities of engagement.
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Podcast: Futures of Entertainment 2: “Opening Comments”
This is the first in a series of seven audio podcasts, recorded during the Futures of Entertainment 2 conference, hosted by the Convergence Culture Consortium and Comparative Media Studies at MIT.
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Futures of Entertainment 2
Developments in advertising, cult media, metrics, measurement, and accounting for audiences, cultural labor and audience relations.
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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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Podcast: Futures of Entertainment 2006: “Not the Real World Anymore “
As we move closer to the cyberpunk vision of a wholly parallel ‘metaverse’, questions of power, community, and property are coming to the fore.
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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.
