Online News — Public Sphere or Echo Chamber?
MIT Communications Forum: Online News — Public Sphere or Echo Chamber?
Two panelists debate whether journalism in a digital age amounts to feast or famine, and differ on even basic questions.
An Engineering Career - 50 Years Out
An Engineering Career - 50 Years Out
12/01/2010 4:45 PM 10"250Kent Kresa, '59, '61 MS, '66 EAA, Chairman Emeritus, Northrop Grumman CorporationDescription: Returning to his freshman physics classroom after half a century, Kent Kresa still feels passionate about MIT: "It's a place I love; I feel good when I come back, and it's ...
Civic Media and the Law
Civic Media and the Law
11/04/2010 5:00 PM E14-633Micah Sifry, Founder, Editor, Personal Democracy Forum; Daniel Schuman, Policy Counsel, Sunlight Foundation; David Ardia, Fellow, Berkman CenterDescription: While these panelists diverge on the precise metaphor -- 'picking through a minefield,' 'hacking through the ...
From Experimental Physics to Internet Entrepreneurship: One ...
From Experimental Physics to Internet Entrepreneurship: One Scientist's ...
10/07/2010 4:45 PM 10"250Dr. Charles C"Y Zhang, Ph.D. 94, Founder, Chairman CEO SOHU.COMDescription: Few better personify the vitality and ambition fueling China's economic surge than Charles C"Y Zhang. In this energetic and revelatory talk, Zhang relates his personal ...
Leading through Change
Leading through Change
Tom Glocer says the financial information company Thomson Reuters has been determined to deploy the latest technology in the service of information-hungry customers
National Academies Press
National Academies Press
"Pricing Digital Content Product Lines: A Model and Application for the National Academies Press"by P K Kannan of the University of Maryland, Barbara Kline Pope of the National Academies Press and Sanjay Jain of Texas A&M University. This work involves a specialist publisher, the National ...
Innovation Spotlight: Bringing Children's Media off the ...
Innovation Spotlight: Bringing Children's Media off the Screen
05/18/2010 11:00 AM Bartos theaterCynthia Breazeal, SM '93, SCD '00, Professor, Program in Media Arts and SciencesDescription: Working with motors, sensors, sophisticated algorithms and fuzzy puppets, Cynthia Breazeal may finally realize one of childhood's fondest ...
Bill Porter in Conversation with Howard Anderson
Bill Porter in Conversation with Howard Anderson
04/28/2010 12:00 PM Wong AuditoriumWilliam A. Porter, SF '67, Co"Founder & Chairman Emeritus, E"Trade Financial Corporation; Howard Anderson, William Porter Distinguished Senior Lecturer of Entrepreneurship, MIT SloanDescription: Some of the lessons Bill Porter picked ...
Jenkins' Farewell: Reflections on a Career at MIT
MIT Commnuications Forum: Jenkins' Farewell — Reflections on a Career at ...
04/22/2010 5:00 PM Bartos theaterHenry Jenkins, Provost's Professor of Communication, Journalism, and Cinematic Arts at the University of Southern California; William Uricchio, Professor of Comparative Media StudiesDescription: In conversation with William Uricchio, ...
Civics in Difficult Places
MIT Communications Forum: Civics in Difficult Places
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.
Death of the News?
Death of the News?
A Starr Forum event presented on March 2, 2010 A discussion with Maria Balinska, Jason Pontin, and Susan GlasserFirle Davies, the Center's Elizabeth Neuffer Fellow, introduced the event About the event and speakers:Journalism is in a crisis. Newspapers are going out of business; editors and ...
Death of the News?
Death of the News?
03/02/2010 5:30 PM Wong AuditoriumMaria Balinska, Nieman Fellow, Harvard University (on leave from BBC); Susan Glasser, Executive Editor, Foreign Policy; Jason Pontin, Editor in Chief and Publisher, Technology ReviewDescription: While not dead, the U.S. news industry is severely depleted and ...
The Future of Civic Engagement in a Broadband"Enabled World
The Future of Civic Engagement in a Broadband"Enabled World
03/01/2010 4:00 PM Wong AuditoriumEugene J. Huang, Government Operations Director, National Broadband Task Force, Federal Communications CommissionDescription: The digital revolution that brought us Facebook, Twitter and YouTube could help revive participatory ...
The Future of Government"Citizen Engagement
The Future of Government"Citizen Engagement
03/01/2010 4:45 PM Wong AuditoriumJerry Mechling, Lecturer in Public Policy, Kennedy School; Nick Grossman, Director of Civic Works, The Open Planning Project; Laurel Ruma, Editor, O'Reilly Media; John Wonderlich, Policy Director, Sunlight Fndtn; Chris ...
Leading through Adversity
Leading through Adversity
02/18/2010 12:00 PM Wong AuditoriumPaul Sagan, President & CEO, Akamai TechnologiesDescription: Few companies have endured such hardship, or risen to such heights in a brief span of time as Akamai Technologies. Paul Sagantells how he became the CEO of this young firm, and helped it survive ...
Back-Button to the Future
Back-Button to the Future
Mira Dontcheva, a researcher at Adobe Systems, explains how Zoetrope can be used to browse back through a Web page's history. She demonstrates a few advanced techniques for looking at historic data and shows how to compare several Web pages over time.
Liberty by Design
Liberty by Design
Alan Davidson returns to the questions of the impact of public policy on the way technology is evolving in the Internet space.
What's New at the MIT Center for Future Civic Media?
MIT Communications Forum: What's New at the MIT Center for Future Civic ...
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.
Race, Politics and American Media
Race, Politics and American Media
10/08/2009 5:00 PM Juan Williams, News analyst, NPR; J. Phillip Thompson, Associate Professor of Urban Politics, Department of Urban Studies and Planning, MIT; David Thorburn, MIT Professor of Literature, MacVicar Faculty FellowDescription: The collapse of print and other traditional news and ...
Energy Entrepreneurship and Innovation: Today's Challenges, ...
Energy Entrepreneurship and Innovation: Today's Challenges, Tomorrow's ...
05/07/2009 4:30 PM Sheraton BostonWilliam Aulet, SM '94, Senior Lecturer, MIT Sloan School of Management; Jacques Beaudry"Losique, SM '92, Deputy Assistant Secretary for Renewable Energy; U.S. Department of Energy; ; Christina Lampe"Onnerud, Founder and CEO, ...