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.
Online Migration of Newspapers
MIT Communucations Forum: Online Migration of Newspapers
Two seasoned media observers map out shifting terrain in the news industry, as digital forces shake up print journalism.
MIT IAP Science Journalism Panel 1 of 5: Intro
MIT IAP Science Journalism Panel 1 of 5: Intro
Introductory remarks to the 2009 IAP Science Journalism Panel at MIT, organized by the MIT Careers Office. Part 1 of 5.
MIT IAP Science Journalism Panel 2 of 5: Jonathan Fildes
MIT IAP Science Journalism Panel 2 of 5: Jonathan Fildes
Talk by Jonathan Fildes, BBC News Science and Technology reporter. Part 2 of 5 of the MIT IAP Science Journalism Panel.
MIT IAP Science Journalism Panel 3 of 5: Karen Weintraub
MIT IAP Science Journalism Panel 3 of 5: Karen Weintraub
Talk by Karen Weintraub, deputy editor of health and science at the Boston Globe. Part 3 of 5 of the IAP Science Journalism Panel organized by the MIT careers office.
MIT IAP Science Journalism Panel 4 of 5: Trisha Gura
MIT IAP Science Journalism Panel 4 of 5: Trisha Gura
Talk by Trisha Gura, freelance science and medical journalist and author of the book, "Lying in Weight" (http://www.trishagura.com/). Part 4 of 5 of the IAP Science Journalism panel organized by the MIT careers office. NOTE: Part 5 is the question and answer session ...
Narratives of Science
Narratives of Science
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?"
New Media, Civic Media
New Media, Civic Media
As old media die, new forms are emerging, but it's not clear they will serve such vital civic functions as "helping people form publics," as Pat Aufderheide puts it.
New Roles for Established Media
New Roles for Established Media
Stephen W. van Evera, Professor of Political Science; Amy Mitchell, Director, Project for Excellence in Journalism; Alex Jones, Laurence M. Lombard Lecturer in the Press and Public Policy , Kennedy School of Government; Mark Jurkowitz, Media Writer, The Boston Globe These panelists purvey grim ...
David Carr on digitial communications in the 2008 election
New York Times writer David Carr discusses the use of digital ...
From "Politics and Popular Culture"
News, Information and the Wealth of Networks
News, Information and the Wealth of Networks
09/21/2006 5:00 PM 3-270Yochai Benkler, Berkman Professor of Entrepreneurial Legal Studies, Harvard; Henry Jenkins, Provost's Professor of Communication, Journalism, and Cinematic Arts at the University of Southern California; ; William Uricchio, Professor of ...
Online News: Public Sphere or Echo Chamber?
Online News: Public Sphere or Echo Chamber?
The digital age has been heralded but also pilloried for its impact on journalism. As newspapers continue their mutation into digital formats and as news and information are available from a seeming infinity of websites, what do we actually know about the dynamics of ...
How Many Manufacturing Jobs Can U.S. Realistically Maintain?
PBS Newshour: How Many Manufacturing Jobs Can U.S. Realistically Maintain?
As President Obama and GOP presidential candidates talk about reviving the U.S. manufacturing sector in hopes of creating jobs, how realistic is that goal in the face of continued outsourcing and machines filling jobs once held by humans?
Peace Meals
Peace Meals
10/19/2010 4:30 PM 66"110Anna Badkhen, Author, "Peace Meals"; Fotini Christia, Assistant Professor in Political ScienceDescription: While breaking bread around the world with friends and families suffering through war and deprivation, Anna Badkhen managed to compile not just a vivid chronicle ...
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 ...
Reporter's Notebook: The U.S. in Iraq
Reporter's Notebook: The U.S. in Iraq
10/03/2006 5:00 PM BartosBarbara Bodine, Visiting Scholar at the MIT Center for International Studies (CIS) former U.S. Ambassador to Yemen ; George Packer, Staff Writer, The New Yorker; Rajiv Chandrasakaran, Author, Imperial Life in the Emerald City; Inside Iraq's Green Zone; Description: As ...
So Wrong for So Long: How the Press, the Pundits and the ...
So Wrong for So Long: How the Press, the Pundits and the President Failed ...
05/07/2008 6:00 PM 32"141Greg Mitchell, Editor, Editor and Publisher MagazineDescription: Greg Mitchellhas found both comedy and tragedy in the shameless and near"universal complicity between the American press and the Bush Administration around the Iraq war and ...
Starr Forum: Reclaiming the Moral Life of Philanthropy
Starr Forum: Reclaiming the Moral Life of Philanthropy
The bottom-line mentality that swept American life in the last few decades, often overriding considerations of principle and professionalism in business, politics, the arts, higher education, journalism and other spheres, left its mark on philanthropy and the ...
Why science should be a story
TEDxBeaconStreet: Science Should Be a Story — Tyler DeWitt
PhD candidate Tyler DeWitt discusses how scientists could better focus on communicating their main ideas through appealing narratives.
Telling the Stories of Science Panel 1
Telling the Stories of Science Panel 1
Attention and Memory: How the Brain Does What It Does