Futures of Entertainment
MIT Media Lab, Bartos Theater 20 Ames Street, Cambridge, MAThe conference will consider developments such as user-generated content, transmedia storytelling, the rise of mobile media and the emergence of social networking.
The conference will consider developments such as user-generated content, transmedia storytelling, the rise of mobile media and the emergence of social networking.
Our understanding of the technical and social processes by which culture is made and reproduced is being challenged and enlarged by digital technologies.
Developments in advertising, cult media, metrics, measurement, and accounting for audiences, cultural labor and audience relations.
Is it true, as many have suggested, that the influence of newspapers and television has declined in the digital era? Have the media become more partisan and polarized?
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.
This Forum will assess the state of local journalism, paying special attention to the changing environment for news in New England.
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.
The argument that culture empties out as it becomes ever more pivotal in the creative economy has, George Yúdice thinks, been borne out.
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?