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Robert Kanigel poses the central question of this panel: "The storytelling express is leaving the station. Do we want to jump aboard, or under some circumstances, stay where we are?"
Muhammad Yunus, Founder and Managing Director, Grameen Bank; 2006 Nobel Peace Prize Laureate; Ambassador for the Joint United Nations Program on HIV/AIDS Imagine a bank that loans money based on a borrower's desperate circumstances -- where, as Muhammad Yunus says, "the less you have, the ...
MIT150 Symposium Economics and Finance: From Theory to Practice to Policy Welcome Deborah K. Fitzgerald - Kenan Sahin Dean, MIT School of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences Moderator Ricardo Caballero PhD '88 - Ford Professor of Economics and Department Head, MIT ...
The Future of American Higher Education in the Global Knowledge Marketplace: Dr. Joseph E. Aoun, PhD '82, and President of Northeastern University, delivers the Robert A. Muh Alumni Award Lecture in the Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences. -- Recorded at MIT Bartos ...
MIT CAST visiting artist Mark Stewart, Glass Lab faculty and students experiment with the acoustic properties of glass on Oct, 23rd, 2012. Filmed by Erik Demaine and Nicole Teeny.http://arts.mit.edu/cast/artist/stewart/
Two seasoned media observers map out shifting terrain in the news industry, as digital forces shake up print journalism.
With the right tools and backing, children of the 21st century are set to make their mark on the world.
Based on this roster of speakers, the MIT Center for Future Civic Media exists in a constant state of productive ferment, if not adrenaline rush.
Should we view the last 500 years or so of Western culture as a strange interlude, defined by printed page and other artifacts that once dominated the landscape but are now fading in relevance?
Fear not, fans of character-based TV fiction: reality shows will not obliterate tales featuring "transactions between human beings — the Jane Austen end of things," as John Romano puts it.
In conversation with Henry Jenkins, these speakers don't so much square off as share their hopes and fears for the emergence of online democracy.
Two panelists debate whether journalism in a digital age amounts to feast or famine, and differ on even basic questions.
Opening Remarks: Noel JacksonModerator: Seth MnookinPanelists: Ta-Nehisi Coates and Mark MckinnonRecorded April 11, 2013
There's a lot that seems familiar on TV in other countries, and indeed, there's been a flow across borders of TV content and style nearly as long as the medium's been around
Just as digital technology has expanded the means of producing media, so has it increased the geographic range new media may travel.
What's a journalist to do when a major story must be coaxed reluctantly into public view, or emerges on what seems like a geological time scale?
In a live demonstration of globe-straddling communication technologies like Skype, this forum connects to citizen journalists and activists around the world, some of whom frequently test the limits of governmental authority.
Perhaps because he is a historian rather than librarian by training, Robert Darnton regards the vast ocean of digital information that civilization has begun accumulating with relish rather than anxiety.
There's anxiety, outrage, and some wistfulness in this panel devoted to weighing the strengths and weaknesses of political reporting during the current campaign season.
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."