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Opening Remarks: Noel JacksonModerator: Seth MnookinPanelists: Ta-Nehisi Coates and Mark MckinnonRecorded April 11, 2013
The statistician and political polling analyst Nate Silver discussed his career and the ways in which statistics are changing the face of journalism.
Hybrid forms of multimedia, combining aspects of newspapers, documentary film and digital video are a notable feature of today's on-line journalism. How is this changing our journalism?
Recorded 12/6/12
From "Surveillance and Citizenship" held Oct. 27, 2011. Panel consisted of Sandra Braman, Susan Landau and Marcos Novak and was moderated by Ethan Zuckerman. Full video at http://video.mit.edu/watch/surveillance-and-citizenship-8466
Smith, manager of strategic business planning for the U.S. Postal Service, speaks during "The Future of the Post Office"
From "Politics and Popular Culture"
A clip from "Books and Libraries in the Digital Age," a conversation between Robert Darnton and David Thorburn held October 16, 2008.A pioneering scholar of the Enlightenment and of the history of the book, Robert Darnton has written extensively on the impact of ...
Unbound: Speculations on the Future of the BookReshaping the BookParticipants: Gita Manaktala (MIT Press), Christian Bök (University of Calgary), Bob Stein (SocialBook) Moderator: Amaranth Borsuk (MIT Writing and Humanistic Studies and Comparative Media ...
Unbound: Speculations on the Future of the BookThe Xenotext, So Far with Christian BökWe started the event with a kick-off reading, co-sponsored with Purple Blurb, featuring experimental poet Christian Bök, who has striven for ten years to engineer an ...
Unbound: Speculations on the Future of the BookUnbinding the BookParticipants: Bonnie Mak (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign), James Reid-Cunningham (Boston Athenaeum), Wyn Kelley (MIT Literature), Mary Fuller (MIT Literature)Moderator: Gretchen Henderson (MIT ...
How has electronic literature influenced other media, including the Web and the book? What are the implications of having literary projects in the digital sphere alongside other forms of communication and art
The American postal service has an impressive history, but an uncertain future. What are its prospects in the digital age?
Marcos Novak - Director, transLAB MAT/UCSB
This Communication Forum event was held on September 22, 2011, in Bartos Theater at the MIT Media Lab Is local news a casualty of the digital age? A recent report from the Federal Communications Commission suggests that although the broad media landscape is more vibrant than ever, many state ...
What Turkle worries about are people who are inseparable from their devices, who can't enjoy, as she does, "a solitary walk across the dunes."
Two panelists debate whether journalism in a digital age amounts to feast or famine, and differ on even basic questions.
(Full event video available at http://techtv.mit.edu/collections/c4fcm:1502/videos/9524-communications-forum-public-communications-in-slow-moving-crises- ) Governments, corporations, and communities plan for sudden crises: the White House drafts strong responsive ...
