Media
Channel | updated April 25, 2013
Videos from MIT's units looking into media and its impact on society, including the MIT Media Lab, the Center for Civic Media, Comparative Media Studies, and more.
Bosnobo: Primate Change - Artificial Intelligence Research
Bosnobo: Primate Change - Artificial Intelligence Research
In Bosnobo: Primate Change, your bosnobos are thinking agents capable of learning from each other. Learning can be a random process, or forced by assigning a bosnobo as a teacher. By controlling the learning of your bosnobos and the priority in which they perform ...
Building a Challenge from Scratch
Building a Challenge from Scratch
How you and your students can create your own challenges in the Learning Library
Case Study: Transmedia Design and Conceptualization - The ...
Case Study: Transmedia Design and Conceptualization - The Making of ...
A collaboration between Free Scott (Ridley and Tony Scott's newly launched entertainment division) and Ag8 (an independent studio based in the United Kingdom), Purefold is an upcoming transmedia narrative extension of the Ridley Scott classic Blade Runner. Set in the ...
Cetology Scene
Cetology Scene
A Scene from Moby-Dick: Then and Now, that uses the Cetology chapter of Moby-Dick.
"Twilight of the Elites"
Chris Hayes and Ta-Nahisi Coates: "Election Year 2012 and the Twilight of ...
Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Visiting Scholar Ta-Nehisi Coates speaks with journalist and MSNBC host Chris Hayes about his new book, Twilight Of The Elites.
Civic Media Lunch: "Digital Initiatives at The Boston Globe"
Civic Media Lunch: "Digital Initiatives at The Boston Globe"
Jeff Moriarty is responsible for strategy, design and development of digital products at The Boston Globe, including Boston.com and the recent launch of BostonGlobe.com in 2011.
Jake Shapiro and Public Radio Exchange
Civic Media Lunch: "Jake Shapiro and Public Radio Exchange"
Shapiro talks about the latest developments with PRX, including their recently announced Public Media Accelerator and more broadly about public media's opportunity in the networked world.
Civic Media Lunch: "ZUMIX" (full version)
Civic Media Lunch: "ZUMIX" (full version)
ZUMIX is an East Boston-based nonprofit organization dedicated to building our community through music and the arts. A core belief is that music is the most powerful means of developing adolescent self-identity. Our award-winning music and creative technology ...
Civic Media Session: "Civic Games"
Civic Media Session: "Civic Games"
This session brings together innovative game designers, theorists, and activists in a conversation about the possibilities of and challenges for civic games.
"What's Your Information Diet?"
Civic Media Session: "What's Your Information Diet?"
If we are what we eat, does it hold that we are also what we read and watch? You've made a New Year's Resolution to eat healthy, but do you ever consider what you feed your brain?
Civic Media, with Audubon Dougherty
Civic Media, with Audubon Dougherty
"It's never about the technology. Ever." Audubon Dougherty of the MIT Center for Civic Media (part of the Comparative Media Studies program) talks about her work on M-Generations, in which communities employ familiar mobile devices to document their own stories.
Collaboration and Skills for the Future
Collaboration and Skills for the Future
Game designer Jane McGonigal talks about the "skills for the future" participants can develop while playing big games. Gaming expert Philip Tan of the GAMBIT Singapore-MIT Game Lab stresses the value of being able to judge information.
Collaboration? Emerging Models for Audiences to Participate ...
Collaboration? Emerging Models for Audiences to Participate in ...
In an era where fans are lobbying advertisers to keep their favorite shows from being cancelled, advertisers are shunning networks to protest on the fans' behalf and content creators are launching web ventures in conversation with their audiences, there appears to be ...
Adapting Journalism to the Web
Communications Forum - Adapting Journalism to the Web
New communications technologies are revolutionizing our experience of news and information. How can professional reporters and editors assure that quality journalism will be recognized and valued in our brave new digital world?
Documentary Film and New Technologies
Communications Forum - Documentary Film and New Technologies
Emerging digital technologies are opening powerful new ways to create and even to reconceptualize the documentary film. How will handheld video cameras and ubiquitous open-source computing change the nature of documentaries?
Communications Forum: A Conversation with Sherry Turkle
Communications Forum: A Conversation with Sherry Turkle
The eminent MIT professor, author most recently of Alone, Together, discusses her darkening view of our digitizing world, her sense of the culture of MIT and its students, and her own career with Communications Forum Director David Thorburn, a longtime colleague. ...
Electronic Literature and Future Books
Communications Forum: Electronic Literature and Future Books
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
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