The Role of Civic Media in the 2008 U.S. Presidential ...
The Role of Civic Media in the 2008 U.S. Presidential Election
10/22/2008 6:00 PM MuseumHenry Jenkins, Provost's Professor of Communication, Journalism, and Cinematic Arts at the University of Southern California; Description: In World of Warcraft, online 'clans' form whose members, while dispersed geographically, exhibit fierce ...
The Electoral College Experts Debate and Audience Dialogue
The Electoral College Experts Debate and Audience Dialogue
10/17/2008 1:15 PM Bartos theaterArnold Barnett, PhD '73, George Eastman Professor of Management Science, MIT Sloan; Vikram Amar, Professor of Law UC Davis Law School; Dr. Alexander S. Belenky, Visiting Scholar, MIT Center for Engineering Systems Fundamentals; Robert ...
How Democracy Resolves Conflict in Difficult Games
How Democracy Resolves Conflict in Difficult Games
05/13/2008 8"404Steven Brams '62, SB '62, Professor of Politics, New York UniversityDescription: Using game theory, and with some help from the Bible, Steven Bramsargues that voting can resolve certain kinds of conflicts. He explores in detail the classic game ...
Our World Digitized: The Good, the Bad, the Ugly
MIT Communications Forum: Our World Digitized — The Good, the Bad, the ...
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.
Consolidating Iraqi Democracy: The Institutional Context
Consolidating Iraqi Democracy: The Institutional Context
Noah Feldman, Professor, New York University School of Law; and Kanan Makiya, The Sylvia K. Hassenfeld Professor of Islamic and Middle Eastern Studies, Brandeis University; Founder, Iraq Memory Foundation Can constitutional democracy unfold in Iraq? Noah Feldman ...
Democratizing Innovation
Democratizing Innovation
If you have ever come up with a work-around or improvement for a balky product only to find that it performs better than the original, you are not alone.
Constructing a New Liberal Iraq
Constructing a New Liberal Iraq
Robert E. Looney, Professor of National Security Affairs, and Associate Chairman of Instruction, Naval Postgraduate School; John Tirman, Executive Director, Center for International Studies, MIT Iraq's oil reserves are the second largest in the world, yet according to both colloquium speakers, ...
Islam and the Challenge of Democracy
Islam and the Challenge of Democracy
05/12/2003 11:00 AM Wong AuditoriumTom Ashbrook, Host, WBUR's "On Point"; ; Fawaz Gerges, Christiain A. Johnson Chair holder in International Affairs and Middle Eastern Studies, Sarah Lawrence College ; Khaled Abou El Fadl, Professor of Law, UCLA ; Jack Beatty, Senior Editor The Atlantic ...