Content tagged "industry"
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When to Start Freaking Out: Audience Engagement on Social Media During Disease Outbreaks
Sensationalism, gatekeeping, and media figurations mean audience engagement is not merely a journalistic, revenue‐oriented concern — it is a public health concern too.
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Podcast, Nancy Baym: “Music Fandom and the Shaping of Online Culture”
Nancy Baym: “By the time musicians and industry figures realized they could use the internet to reach audiences directly, those audiences had already established their presences and social norms online, putting them in unprecedented positions of power.”
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Music Fandom and the Shaping of Online Culture
Nancy Baym: “By the time musicians and industry figures realized they could use the internet to reach audiences directly, those audiences had already established their presences and social norms online, putting them in unprecedented positions of power.”
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What Playfulness Can Change
Exploring playfulness and its business applications. Three workshops on January 12, 19, and 26.
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Kara Keeling and Wendy Chun speak as part of “Racial Regimes, Digital Economies” symposium
With 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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Podcast: Christine Walley, “The Exit Zero Project: A Transmedia Exploration of Family and Class in Postindustrial Chicago”
Christine Walley talks about her research into the traumatic effects of the loss of the steel industry in Southeast Chicago and how it found expression in a book, website, and documentary film.
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The Exit Zero Project: A Transmedia Exploration of Family and Class in Postindustrial Chicago
Christine Walley, Professor of Anthropology at MIT, will present an overview of the Exit Zero Project, which “seeks to recapture the stories of a region traumatized by de-industrialization.”
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Podcast: “Innovation” and “Engagement” – Experiments with What Industry Buzzwords Can Mean in Practice
Alum Sam Ford and Fusion colleague Federico Rodriguez Tarditi discuss what they have learned from their experiments exploring new ways of telling stories, new approaches to building relationships with key publics, new ways of working internally, and new types of roles/positions in the company.
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“Innovation” and “Engagement”: Experiments with What Industry Buzzwords Can Mean in Practice
Sam Ford and Federico Rodriguez Tarditi discuss Fusion Media Group’s experiments with exploring new ways of telling stories, relationships with key publics, and new types of roles/positions in the company.
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Towards a Better Inclusivity: Online Comments and Community at News Organizations
One of the key focus areas for news organizations as they move forward with engagement should be to develop policies and internal guidelines for how to handle some of the risks of engagement.
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Podcast, Nick Seaver: “What Do People Do All Day?”
“If we want to make sense of new algorithmic industries, we’ll need to understand how they make sense of themselves.”
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Nick Seaver: “What Do People Do All Day?”
Drawing on years of fieldwork with the developers of algorithmic music recommenders, Seaver describes how people make sense of new kinds of jobs.
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Amanda Lotz: “Television Didn’t Die: But Broadband Distribution Revolutionized It”
Amanda Lotz on what transpired when the long anticipated face off between “new media” and television finally took place in 2010.
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Podcast: Hiromu Nagahara, “Hierarchy And Democracy In Modern Japan’s Mass Media Revolution”
Hiromu Nagahara on the life and career of Horiuchi Keizō, an MIT grad who found himself in the center of Japan’s “mass media revolution” in the 1920s and ’30s as a prominent composer, critic, radio broadcaster, and publisher.
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Hierarchy and Democracy in Modern Japan’s Mass Media Revolution
Hiromu Nagahara explores Japan’s first “mass media revolution”, in the 1920s and ’30s, when technology expanded the number of media product consumers.
