Jesper Juul: 'Half-Real: A Video Game in the Hands of a Player'

Jesper Juul offered this lecture on Nov. 28, 2006. Juul is a video game theorist and assistant professor in video game theory and design at the Centre for Computer Game Research Copenhagen, where he also earned his PhD.

Media in Transition 8 - Summing Up, Looking Ahead

Recorded on May 5, 2013 Moderator: James Paradis, MIT Panelist: Roderick Coover, Temple University Theo Hug, University of Innsbruck Molly Sauter, MIT Dan Whaley, hypothes.is

Media in Transition 8 - Counterpublics: Self-Fashioning and Alternate ...

Recorded on May 4, 2013 Moderator: Noel Jackson, MIT. Panelists: Cristobal Garcia, P. Universidad Catolica (Chile); Eric Gordon, Emerson College; Henry Jenkins, USC; Maria San Filippo, Harvard University.

Media in Transition 8 - Introduction

Speaker: David Thorburn, MIT Recorded on May 3, 2013 in the Bartos Theater at the beginning of the "Media in Transition 8: public media, private media" conference. Visit the conference website at web.mit.edu/comm-forum/mit8/.

Media in Transition 8 - Surveillance: Big Data and other Watchers

Recorded on May 4, 2013 Moderator: Ethan Zuckerman, MIT. Panelists: Goran Bolin, Sodertorn University (Sweden); Kelly Gates, University of California, San Diego; Jose van Dijck, University of Amsterdam.

MIT Communications Forum: News or Entertainment – Press and Modern ...

Opening Remarks: Noel JacksonModerator: Seth MnookinPanelists: Ta-Nehisi Coates and Mark MckinnonRecorded April 11, 2013

Developing New Tools for Leveraging Data

Economic Complexity Expanding Concepts of Development

A brief discussion by César Hidalgo, the Asahi Broadcast Corporation Career Development Professor of Media Arts and Sciences.

Measuring Perceptions and Building Bridges Between Theory and Observation

A brief discussion by César Hidalgo, the Asahi Broadcast Corporation Career Development Professor of Media Arts and Sciences.

A Phantasmal Media Approach to Empowerment, Identity and Computation

Courtesy of the Pacific Centre for Technology and Culture Part of Digital Inflections: Visions for the Posthuman Future Dr. Fox Harrell, Associate Professor of Digital Media in the Comparative Media Studies Program and Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence ...

A Conversation with Nate Silver

The statistician and political polling analyst Nate Silver discussed his career and the ways in which statistics are changing the face of journalism.

Francis Steen: "The News as a Social Process for Improving Society"

Francis Steen is associate professor of communication studies at UCLA and director of the UCLA Library Communication Studies Archive, a multimodal research corpus of some 200,000 television news programs automatically annotated by two billion words from closed ...

Ros Gray: 'The Militant Image: A Cine-Geography'

Ros Gray, Lecturer, Critical Studies, Goldsmiths University of London Within the context of cinematographic traditions and different liberation movements on the African continent, Ros Gray’s research focuses on revolutionary cinema and its global networks; the ...

Experimenting, Tinkering and Failing

Jonathan Harris and Katie Salen discuss the merits of experimentation in both creativity and learning.

2012 MIT Game Lab Symposium Part One: Introduction to the MIT Game Lab ...

Part One: The 2012 MIT Game Lab Symposium: "Games In Everyday Life and Why That Matters To You" An annual symposium to discuss the role of games throughout our lives today and the potential for collaboration and development with games research at the MIT Game Lab.A ...