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During the "Counterpublics" panel at the Media in Transition 8 conference held May 3-5, 2013 at MIT, conference series co-founder Henry Jenkins discussed Muslim youth and their use of social media in the aftermath of the Boston Marathon bombings. MiT8 website: ...
Recorded on May 5, 2013 Moderator: James Paradis, MIT Panelist: Roderick Coover, Temple University Theo Hug, University of Innsbruck Molly Sauter, MIT Dan Whaley, hypothes.is
Recorded on May 4, 2013 Moderator: Noel Jackson, MIT. Panelists: Cristobal Garcia, P. Universidad Catolica (Chile); Eric Gordon, Emerson College; Henry Jenkins, USC; Maria San Filippo, Harvard University.
Recorded on May 3, 2013 Moderator: Nick Montfort, MIT Panelists: Feona Attwood, Middlesex University (UK); David Rosen, Author; Jonathan Zittrain, Harvard University.
Speaker: David Thorburn, MIT Recorded on May 3, 2013 in the Bartos Theater at the beginning of the "Media in Transition 8: public media, private media" conference. Visit the conference website at web.mit.edu/comm-forum/mit8/.
Recorded on May 4, 2013 Moderator: Ethan Zuckerman, MIT. Panelists: Goran Bolin, Sodertorn University (Sweden); Kelly Gates, University of California, San Diego; Jose van Dijck, University of Amsterdam.
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?
