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Podcast: "Communications Forum: Surveillance and Citizenship" Updated: 2011-10-28 21:13:49 Description: Digital technologies have exponentially expanded the power of government and corporations to keep tabs on citizens. But citizens in turn are exploiting new technologies to expose the activities of governments, companies and even each other. How doe...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Video: "Communications Forum: Local News in the Digital Age" Updated: 2011-10-07 15:39:09 Description: Is local news a casualty of the digital age? A recent report from the Federal Communications Commission suggests that although the broad media landscape is more vibrant than ever, many state and local communities face a shortage of professional repo...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Podcast: "Communications Forum: Local News in the Digital Age" Updated: 2011-09-23 20:56:25 Description: Is local news a casualty of the digital age? A recent report from the Federal Communications Commission suggests that although the broad media landscape is more vibrant than ever, many state and local communities face a shortage of professional repo...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Podcast: Scott Nicholson, "From Settlers to Quarriors: Breaking up the Monopoly with Modern Board Game Design" Updated: 2011-09-09 21:04:11 Description: Over the last 15 years, there has been an explosion of innovation in board game styles and mechanisms. The Settlers of Catan was the game that crossed the ocean from Germany to the U.S. in the late 1990's and kicked off this new era in board gaming. ...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Podcast: "Media in Transition 7: Summing Up, Looking Ahead" Updated: 2011-05-17 19:31:32 Description: The closing plenary from Media in Transition 7: Unstable Platforms: Goran Bolin, Sodderton University, Sweden Pat Brereton, Dublin City University Jennifer Holt, University of California, Santa Barbara Lana Swartz, USC Moderator: James Paradis...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Podcast: "Media in Transition 7: Power and Empowerment" Updated: 2011-05-15 14:00:00 Description: New technologies and media systems have been deployed for new distributions of power, knowledge and social organization. What do you see as the most compelling shifts in these sectors? What are the greatest dangers and opportunities, and with what im...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Podcast: "Media in Transition 7: Archives and Cultural Memory" Updated: 2011-05-15 01:28:41 Description: "Web 2.0" has been shaped by startup corporations and systems (such as Wikipedia) that employ large-scale collaboration and crowdsourcing. How do these two forces relate to the project of preserving our cultural memory? A genuine anxiety of many c...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Podcast: "Media in Transition 7: Unstable Platforms" Updated: 2011-05-14 23:42:44 Description: The fate of narrative. What is happening to our culture's stories and story-tellers? What has been the impact, what is the future import of the proliferation of audiences, creators and of ways to communicate on unstable platforms? Public spheres. ...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Podcast: Richard Rogers, "The End of the Virtual: Digital Methods" Updated: 2011-05-03 17:24:06 Description: There is an ontological distinction between the natively digital and the digitized, that is, the objects, content, devices and environments that are "born" in the new medium, as opposed to those that have "migrated" to it. Should the current methods...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Video: "Communications Forum: A Conversation with Sherry Turkle" Updated: 2011-04-27 15:34:30 Description: The eminent MIT professor, author most recently of Alone, Together, discusses her darkening view of our digitizing world, her sense of the culture of MIT and its students, and her own career with Communications Forum Director David Thorburn, a longti...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Podcast: Mark Dery, "(Face)book of the Dead" Updated: 2011-04-26 21:19:50 Description: In the Age of Always Connect, are we witnessing a plague of oversharing? If so, are social networks its vectors of transmission? Does this much-discussed phenomenon mark the Death of Shame, perhaps even a return to pre-modern notions of public and...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Podcast: Communications Forum: "A Conversation with Sherry Turkle" Updated: 2011-04-13 20:36:14 Description: The eminent MIT professor, author most recently of Alone, Together, discusses her darkening view of our digitizing world, her sense of the culture of MIT and its students, and her own career with Communications Forum Director David Thorburn, a longti...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Podcast: "How Documentary Went Digital: the Implications of Informal Filming and Skeptical Audiences" Updated: 2011-03-18 19:24:43 Description: John Ellis Digital filming has transformed documentary, offering new potentials to filmmakers and at the same time transforming audience attitudes. Filmmakers have been able to work more informally with their subjects, giving rise to the fusion form...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Scot Osterweil receives MIT Excellence Award Updated: 2011-03-15 12:37:45 Description: We're so proud to share the news that Education Arcade research director Scot Osterweil was recently presented with an MIT Excellence Award. Scot received an award in the "Bringing Out the Best" category. His CMS colleagues were there to cheer him o...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Video: Communications Forum: "Online News: Public Sphere or Echo Chamber?" Updated: 2011-03-10 17:13:45 Description: 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 abou...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Podcast: "From Elsinore to Monkey Island: Theatre and Videogames as Performance Activities" Updated: 2011-02-24 14:47:49 Description: Clara Fernández-Vara What do Shakespeare and videogames have in common? Clara Fernández-Vara, a Comparative Media Studies alumna, explains her journey from researching Shakespeare in performance to studying and developing videogames. Apply...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Video: From Cities, Code, and Civics: "Enhanced serendipity" Updated: 2011-02-17 18:37:04 Description: Max Ogden of Code for America discusses taking "treasure troves" of government datasets to bring citizens and friends together. From "Cities, Code, and Civics", a Civic Media Session of the MIT Center for Future Civic Media. Download!...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Video: From Cities, Code, and Civics, "Customizing tools from city to city?" Updated: 2011-02-17 18:31:53 Description: Nick Grossman of OpenPlans, Nigel Jacob of the City of Boston Mayor's Office of New Urban Mechanics, and Max Ogden of Code for America respond to questions about how civic tools do (or need to) vary from city to city. From "Cities, Code, and Civics"...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Video: Civic Media Session, "Bustling with Information: Cities, Code, and Civics" Updated: 2011-02-17 18:21:50 Description: Nick Grossman, Nigel Jacob, and Max Ogden Moderator: Center director Chris Csikszentmihályi Cities are vibrant, complicated organisms. A still-working 200 year old water pipe might rest underground next to a brand new fiber optic cable, and ...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Podcast: Christoph Lindner, "Amsterdam and New York: Transnational Photographic Exchange in the Era of Globalization Updated: 2011-02-10 18:32:29 Description: This lecture examines the impact of globalization on the urban imaginary in relation to a recent art exhibition, commissioned by the Dutch government in 2009, in which a group of contemporary New York artists were invited to photograph Amsterdam to m...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Podcast: Sasha Costanza-Chock, "Se Ve, Se Siente: Transmedia Mobilization in the Los Angeles Immigrant Rights Movement" Updated: 2011-01-24 20:56:33 Description: Sasha Costanza-Chock is a scholar and mediamaker who works in areas including: social movements and ICTs; participatory technology design and community based participatory research; the transnational movement for media justice and communication right...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Podcast: Gabriella Coleman, "'I did it for the Lulz! but I stayed for the outrage:' Anonymous, the Politics of Spectacle, and Geek Protests against the Church of Scientology" Updated: 2011-01-24 20:39:36 Description: Trained as an anthropologist, Gabriella (Biella) Coleman examines the ethics of online collaboration/institutions as well as the role of the law and digital media in sustaining various forms of political activism. Between 2001-2003 she conducted ethn...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Podcast: Nitin Sawhney, "Media and Resilience: Creative DIY Cultures and Civic Agency among Marginalized Youth" Updated: 2011-01-11 20:13:39 Description: Nitin Sawhney, Ph.D. is a Research Fellow and Lecturer with the Program in Art, Culture and Technology (ACT) in the School of Architecture and Planning at MIT. His ongoing research, teaching and creative practice engages the critical role of arts int...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Video: Rosalind Williams: "Communications Forum: Public Communications in Slow-Moving Crises" Updated: 2010-12-09 13:35:47 Description: Rosalind Williams is a historian who uses imaginative literature as a source of evidence and insight into the history of technology. She has taught at MIT since 1982 and currently serves as the Dibner Professor for the History of Science and Technolo...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Video: Abrahm Lustgarten: "Communications Forum: Public Communications in Slow-Moving Crises" Updated: 2010-12-08 14:40:24 Description: Abrahm Lustgarten is an investigative reporter for ProPublica -- his recent work has focused on oil and gas industry practices. He is a former staff writer and contributor for Fortune, and has written for Salon, Esquire, the Washington Post and the N...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Video: Andrea Pitzer: "Communications Forum: Public Communications in Slow-Moving Crises" Updated: 2010-12-06 20:31:01 Description: Andrea Pitzer is editor of Nieman Storyboard, a project of the Nieman Foundation for Journalism at Harvard University that looks at how storytelling works in every medium. Storyboard's mission is to feature the best examples of visual, audio and mult...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Video: "Communications Forum: Public Communications in Slow-Moving Crises" Updated: 2010-12-02 19:07:45 Description: Governments, corporations, and communities plan for sudden crises: the White House drafts strong responsive rhetoric for the next terrorist attack; Toyota runs reassuring national TV spots within hours of a product recall; and 32 Massachusetts town...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Podcast: "Communications Forum: Public Communications in Slow-Moving Crises" Updated: 2010-11-19 15:42:44 Description: Governments, corporations, and communities plan for sudden crises: the White House drafts strong responsive rhetoric for the next terrorist attack; Toyota runs reassuring national TV spots within hours of a product recall; and 32 Massachusetts town...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Podcast: MST3K and Cinematic Titanic Updated: 2010-11-08 21:26:41 Description: Trace Beaulieu and Mary Jo Pehl In December of 2007, Joel Hodgson and Trace Beaulieu, two of the creators of Mystery Science Theater 3000, assembled many of the original members of that cult TV phenomenon to form Cinematic Titanic, a live and DVD ve...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Podcast: "Communications Forum: Civic Media and the Law" Updated: 2010-11-05 16:49:03 Description: David Ardia, Daniel Schuman, and Micah Sifry What do citizens need to know when they publicly address legally challenging or dangerous topics? Journalists have always had the privilege, protected by statute, of not having to reveal their sources. Bu...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Podcast: Eric Gordon, "She's Got LEGs and She Knows How To Use Them: How Neighborhoods Can Use Local Engagement Games to Build Community and Plan for the Future" Updated: 2010-11-05 13:39:40 Description: There are a growing number of games that are location-based. They use mobile devices and locative technologies to turn physical space into a game board. Games like Foursquare get people moving from place to place, exploring the world around them an...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Podcast: "Communications Forum: Humanities in the Digital Age" Updated: 2010-10-22 21:41:51 Description: Alison Byerly and Steven Pinker What is happening to the intellectual field called the humanities? Powerful political and corporate forces are encouraging, even demanding science and math-based curricula to prepare for a globalized and technological...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Podcast: Jing Wang, "NGO2.0: When Social Action Meets Social Media" Updated: 2010-10-22 21:01:26 Description: Professor Wang discusses the genesis and implementation of a civic media project that she conceptualized and launched in China in May 2009. The project, titled NGO2.0, is a social experiment that introduces Web 2.0 thinking and social media tools to ...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Podcast: Communications Forum: "The Online Migration of Newspapers" Updated: 2010-10-08 16:15:57 Description: David Carr and Dan Kennedy The fate of newspapers is an ongoing subject for the Forum. This conversation explores the migration of newspapers to the internet and what that means for traditional concepts of journalism. Amid the emergence of citizens'...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Podcast: Francisco Ricardo, "The Aesthetics of Projective Spatiality: New Media as Critical Objects" Updated: 2010-10-05 20:28:08 Description: One theme in the contemporary use of space involves the shift from production modeled around a physical, centralized "locus" to new virtual, extended and multi-axial modes of "projective" organization. We see this in new sculpture, new architecture,...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Podcast: Fox Harrell and the Imagination, Computation, and Expression Lab Updated: 2010-09-27 19:37:59 Description: Professor Fox Harrell's research group -- the Imagination, Computation, and Expression (ICE) Lab -- builds computational systems for expressing imaginative stories and concepts -- "phantasmal media" systems. In particular, his research uses artifici...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD "Making a GAMBIT Game" Series Episode One Premieres Today! Updated: 2010-09-07 17:43:25 Description: Download! From Generoso, over at our GAMBIT Game Lab: After months of filming and editing I am very happy to announce that "Making a GAMBIT Game" Episode One (in 3 parts) is up today! Check out the videos at gambit.mit.edu!...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Center for Future Civic Media hosts announcement of 2010 Knight News Challenge winners Updated: 2010-06-29 14:40:51 Description: The John S. and James L. Knight Foundation--sponsor of the MIT Center for Future Civic Media--in June 2010 announced their 2010 Knight News Challenge winners. Together, these winners form another ground-breaking, visionary class of civic media develo...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Video: Participatory Culture: The Culture of Democracy and Education in a Hypermediated Society, moderated by Henry Jenkins Updated: 2010-05-26 16:16:36 Description: The third panel from the Comparative Media Studies 10th anniversary symposium. Erin Reilly is Research Director for Project New Media Literacies, a past CMS project now housed at the University of Southern California. Karen Schrier, a CMS grad, i...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Video: Creativity and Collaboration in the Digital Age, moderated by Jim Paradis Updated: 2010-05-25 18:45:36 Description: The second panel from the Comparative Media Studies 10th anniversary symposium. Beth Coleman is Assistant Professor of Writing and New Media in the Program in Writing and Humanistic Studies and Comparative Media Studies. Her fields of research int...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Video: Applied Humanities: Transforming Humanities Education, moderated by William Uricchio Updated: 2010-05-25 17:01:06 Description: The first panel from the Comparative Media Studies 10th anniversary symposium. Pete Donaldson is a Professor in the MIT Literature section, which he headed from 1990 until 2005. Kurt Fendt is Research Director in Foreign Languages and Literatures...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Video: William Uricchio, Introductory Statement: CMS 10th Anniversary Updated: 2010-05-07 20:10:13 Description: Download!...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Video: Dean Deborah Fitzgerald, Introductory Statement: CMS 10th Anniversary Updated: 2010-05-07 20:07:48 Description: Download!...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Video: Communications Forum: "Henry Jenkins' Farewell" Updated: 2010-04-30 01:48:44 Description: Henry Jenkins' 20-year presence at MIT was formative for him and profoundly valuable for MIT. A year after his departure for USC, Jenkins returned to talk with long-time colleagues about his pioneering scholarship on digital culture, his work as the ...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Podcast: CMS 10th Anniversary: "International Media Flows: Global Media and Culture" Updated: 2010-04-28 20:07:01 Description: Panelists: Aswin Punathambekar, Xiaochang Li, Ana Domb, Orit Kuritsky, and Jing Wang Aswin Punathambekar is an Assistant professor in the Department of Communication Studies at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor. He teaches and writes about m...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Podcast: CMS 10th Anniversary: "Participatory Culture: The Culture of Democracy and Education in a Hypermediated Society" Updated: 2010-04-28 18:44:42 Description: Panelists: Erin Reilly, Karen Schrier, Sangita Shresthova, Pilar Lacasa, and Mitch Resnick Erin Reilly is Research Director for Project New Media Literacies, a past CMS project now housed at the University of Southern California. Karen Schrier, a...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Podcast: CMS 10th Anniversary: "Creativity and Collaboration in the Digital Age" Updated: 2010-04-27 21:56:45 Description: Panelists: Beth Coleman, Philip Tan, Ivan Askwith, Clara Fernandez-Vara Beth Coleman is Assistant Professor of Writing and New Media in the Program in Writing and Humanistic Studies and Comparative Media Studies. Her fields of research interest in...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Podcast: CMS 10th Anniversary: "Applied Humanities: Transforming Humanities Education" Updated: 2010-04-27 21:19:44 Description: Panelists: Pete Donaldson, Kurt Fendt, Scot Osterweil, Rekha Murthy, Matthew Weise Pete Donaldson is a Professor in the MIT Literature section, which he headed from 1990 until 2005. Kurt Fendt is Research Director in Foreign Languages and Literat...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Podcast: CMS 10th Anniversary: "William Uricchio's Introductory Remarks" Updated: 2010-04-26 20:50:45 Description: CMS director William Uricchio discusses the history of the program, some of the challenges it has faced, as well as the unique role it has assumed at MIT and within higher education when it comes to a new vision of the humanities. Download!...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Podcast: CMS 10th Anniversary: "Dean Deborah Fitzgerald's Introductory Remarks" Updated: 2010-04-26 20:45:04 Description: Deborah Fitzgerald, Dean of MIT's School of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences, opens the CMS 10th Anniversary symposium with her remarks on the role of CMS at MIT and the essence of applied humanities education within the MIT mission. Download!...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Podcast: Communications Forum: "Jenkins' Farewell" Updated: 2010-04-23 03:07:29 Description: Henry Jenkins' 20-year presence at MIT was formative for him and profoundly valuable for MIT. A year after his departure for USC, Jenkins returns to talk with long-time colleagues about his pioneering scholarship on digital culture, his work as the f...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Podcast: Communications Forum: "Civics in Difficult Places" Updated: 2010-04-16 13:58:26 Description: This global call-in show, hosted by MIT Center for Future Civic Media fellow Ethan Zuckerman, featured a number of journalists, advocates and programmers who utilize new technologies to gather information in contentious geographic regions: Came...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Podcast: Communications Forum: "The Gutenberg Parenthesis: Oral Tradition and Digital Technologies" Updated: 2010-04-14 15:44:32 Description: Is our emerging digital culture partly a return to practices and ways of thinking that were central to human societies before the advent of the printing press? This question has been posed with increasing force in recent years by anthropologists, fol...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Podcast: Communications Forum: "Government Transparency and Collaborative Journalism" Updated: 2010-03-19 17:45:13 Description: Linda Fantin and Ellen Miller, with moderator Chris Csikszentmihalyi In December, the Obama administration directed federal agencies and departments to implement "principles of transparency, participation, and collaboration," including deadlines for...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD GAMBIT staff video podcasts from GDC Updated: 2010-03-12 13:51:42 Description: The GAMBIT Game Lab is closed this week as the staff attends the 2010 Game Developers Conference in San Francisco--but they haven't been out of touch with MIT, as events coordinator Generoso Fierro keeps uploading great conversations by Gambit staff ...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Podcast: "Robots and Media: Science Fiction, Anime, Transmedia, and Technology" Updated: 2010-03-09 20:51:29 Description: Ian Condry, Associate Director of MIT Comparative Media Studies and Associate Professor of Foreign Languages and Literatures, will discuss the prevalence of giant robots in anime (Japanese animated films and TV shows). From the sixties to the present...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Podcast: "Code and Platform in Computational Media" Updated: 2010-03-03 16:59:00 Description: Computing plays an important role in some types of media, such as video games, digital art, and electronic literature. It seems evident that an understanding of programming and computing systems may help us learn more about these productions and thei...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Podcast: "Old-fashioned Futures and Re-fashionable Media" Updated: 2010-02-05 19:56:52 Description: Joel Burges and Wayne Marshall, MIT's Mellon Fellows in the Humanities (2009-11), will contribute to the rethinking of media studies at MIT by taking up the shared metaphor of fashion—the fashionable, the old-fashioned, the re-fashioned. Burges...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Podcast: Comparative Media Insights: "Race, Rights, and Virtual Worlds: Digital Games as Spaces of Labor Migration" Updated: 2009-12-18 20:13:32 Description: As ICT's become available to new groups of users, notably those from the global South, new social formations of virtual labor, race, nation, and gender are being born. And if virtual world users' claims to citizenship and sovereignty within them are ...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Video: Comparative Media Insights: "Western Otaku: Games Crossing Cultures" Updated: 2009-12-17 21:06:07 Description: From Nintendo's first Famicom system, Japanese consoles and videogames have played a central role in the development and expansion of the digital game industry. Players globally have consumed and enjoyed Japanese games for many reasons, and in a vari...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Podcast: Comparative Media Insights: "From Gamer Theory to Critical Practice" Updated: 2009-12-14 18:05:54 Description: How might the critical tradition in media studies respond to the wildly proliferating media phenomena of today? In this presentation, Ken Wark starts with his own experience writing Gamer Theory as a 'networked book', mediating between Plato, Wordpre...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Podcast: Comparative Media Insights: "Art of the Impossible: Utopia, Imagination, and Critical Media Practice" Updated: 2009-12-09 17:53:26 Description: In an economy of informational abundance, does the traditional truth-revealing role of critical media practice still have any political relevance? Or are there other, perhaps more politically potent, ways of thinking about the liberatory possibilitie...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Podcast: Comparative Media Insights: "Western Otaku: Games Crossing Cultures" Updated: 2009-12-08 18:47:16 Description: From Nintendo's first Famicom system, Japanese consoles and videogames have played a central role in the development and expansion of the digital game industry. Players globally have consumed and enjoyed Japanese games for many reasons, and in a vari...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Podcast: Comparative Media Insights: "Viva Las Vegas: a Neo-Baroque Conception of the World" Updated: 2009-12-04 15:28:41 Description: Emerging in the mid 20th century (when Disneyland opened its doors in 1955), the theme park created the ultimate in trompe l'oeil effects by extending the fictional world of Disney animation into the social sphere. In doing so, Disney produced a netw...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Podcast: Comparative Media Insights: "The Googlization of Everything" Updated: 2009-12-02 15:11:30 Description: Google seems omniscient, omnipotent, and omnipresent. It also claims to be benevolent. It's no surprise that we hold the company to almost deific levels of awe and respect. But what are we really gaining and losing by inviting Google to be the lens t...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Podcast: "Booklife: The Private and the Public in Transmedia Storytelling and Self-Promotion" Updated: 2009-11-24 21:36:44 Description: Fictional experiments in emerging media like Twitter and Facebook are influencing traditional printed novels and stories in interesting ways, but another intriguing new narrative is also emerging: the rise of "artifacts" that, although they support a...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Podcast: Communications Forum: "The Culture Beat and New Media: Arts Journalism in the Internet Era" Updated: 2009-11-13 21:26:36 Description: Newspapers and magazines are reducing their critical coverage of the arts, but the human appetite to evaluate culture, to debate reactions and opinions, remains as vibrant as ever. Panelists Doug McLennan (editor of ArtsJournal.com) and Bill Marx (ed...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Podcast: "Skinny Jeans and Fruity Loops: the Networked Publics of Global Youth Culture" Updated: 2009-11-13 20:38:32 Description: What can we learn about contemporary culture from watching dayglo-clad teenagers dancing geekily in front of their computers in such disparate sites as Brooklyn, Buenos Aires, Johannesburg, and Mexico City? How has the embrace of "new media" by so-ca...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Podcast: "Cinematic Games" Updated: 2009-11-02 21:35:54 Description: Many people talk about "cinematic" games, but what does this really mean? Over their century of existence, films have been using a range of techniques to create specific emotional responses in their audience. Instead of simply using more cut-scenes, ...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Podcast: "Transatlantic Acousmatics" Updated: 2009-11-02 17:18:32 Description: In 1897, the year H.G. Wells's The Invisible Man was published, Marconi filed his patent and established the first station for wireless telegraphy, what would become radio. Wells's novel reads as if it were an instruction manual for the uses and abus...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Podcast: "Political Remix Video: A Participatory Post-Modern Critique of Popular Culture" Updated: 2009-10-16 19:47:48 Description: Remixers are on the front lines of the battle between new media technologies and impeding copyright laws that threaten to obstruct the public discursive space for critiquing popular culture. These spaces are abundant with meticulously crafted and art...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Podcast: "Communications Forum: Race, Politics, and American Media" Updated: 2009-10-09 20:08:53 Description: The election of an African-American president in November 2008 has been hailed as a transforming event. But has Obama's ascension transformed anything? Many people's answer to that question changed this summer when a famous Harvard professor was arre...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Podcast: "How Not to Be Seen" Updated: 2009-10-01 16:16:28 Description: Hanna Rose Shell, a historian and media artist, is as Assistant Professor in the Program on Science, Technology and Society at MIT. This was a talk about camouflage framed by the question of "how not to be seen"--in film, on film, as film. In the fi...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Podcast: "Fantasy Freaks and Gaming Geeks" Updated: 2009-09-18 04:00:00 Description: Ethan Gilsdorf discussed some of the themes of his new book, Fantasy Freaks and Gaming Geeks: An Epic Quest for Reality Among Role Players, Online Gamers, and Other Dwellers of Imaginary Realms, a blend of travelogue, pop culture analysis, and memoir...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Video: "J. Michael Straczynski: The Julius Schwartz Lecture" Updated: 2009-09-03 14:50:00 Description: The entire video is available for download (.m4v, 305mb). This year's Julius Schwartz Lecture speaker was transmedia creator J. Michael Straczynski, who has most recently entered the motion picture arena, writing the period drama Changeling for Clin...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Podcast: "Anecdotes from a Lifetime of Electronic Product Creation" Updated: 2009-05-29 16:38:48 Description: A long lifetime of developing electronic consumer products has taken Ralph Baer from vacuum tube through microprocessor designs. Although the technology has undergone vast changes, the underlying motivation for, and execution of, the process has not ...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Podcast: "The Discipline of Political Messages in an Unruly Era" Updated: 2009-05-04 20:53:14 Description: Presidential elections are considered decisions on politicians' virtues and reflections of public values. On an ongoing basis, polling data and snap punditry engorge the body politic between elections. Taken together, these judgments on leadership an...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Podcast: Media in Transition 6: "Summary Perspectives" Updated: 2009-04-28 18:34:22 Description: MiT6 Plenary 5 Panelists: Mary Bryson, University of British Columbia Marlene Manoff, MIT Libraries John Durham Peters, University of Iowa Thomas Pettitt, University of Southern Denmark Moderator: James Paradis, MIT Writing and Humanistic Studies D...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Podcast: Media in Transition 6: "The Future of Publishing" Updated: 2009-04-28 18:31:40 Description: MiT6 Plenary 4 | Panel Questions Panelists: Gavin Grant, Small Bear Press Jennifer Jackson, Donald Maass Literary Agency Robert Miller, HarperCollins Bob Stein, Institute for the Future of the Book Moderator: Geoff Long, MIT Download Here! ...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Podcast: Media in Transition 6: "Institutional Perspectives on Storage" Updated: 2009-04-28 18:28:10 Description: MiT6 Plenary 3 | Panel Questions Panelists: Claude Mussou, INA France Pelle Snickars, Swedish National Archive Richard Wright, BBC Research and Information Moderator: William Uricchio, MIT and Utrecht University Download Here!...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Podcast: Media in Transition 6: "New Media, Civic Media" Updated: 2009-04-25 02:45:42 Description: MiT6 Plenary 2 | Panel Questions Panelists: Jessica Clark, Center for Social Media (American University) Ellen Hume, Center for Future Civic Media (MIT) Persephone Miel, Media Re:public and Internews Network Respondents: Dean Jansen, Participatory Cu...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Podcast: Media in Transition 6: "Archives and History" Updated: 2009-04-24 20:42:41 Description: MiT6 Plenary 1 | Panel Questions Panelists: John Miles Foley, Univ. of Missouri Lisa Gitelman, Harvard Univ. Rick Prelinger, Prelinger Archives Ann Wolpert, MIT Libraries Moderator: Peter Walsh, Andover Newton Theological School Download Here!...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Podcast: "Communications Forum: Global Media" Updated: 2009-04-24 03:55:49 Description: This panel explored theoretical, methodological, and practical issues surrounding the study of media circulation in an age of increasing global connectivity. "Global media" often serves as a placeholder for media outside Anglo-American academic setti...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Podcast: "Opening Doors, Building Worlds": The Origins of the X-Men Updated: 2009-04-21 14:41:51 Description: Chris Claremont is best known for his 17 year unbroken run on the X-Men comic series -- a feat in world building that has supported many uses, from comics to movies to video games and more. Now Chris is returning to that world, with a new comics seri...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Podcast: "On the WOW Pod: A Design for Extimacy and Fantasy-Fulfillment for the World of Warcraft Addict" Updated: 2009-04-16 17:06:06 Description: A discussion about the inducement of pleasure, fantasy fulfillment, and the mediation of intimacy in a socially-networked gaming paradigm such as World of Warcraft (WOW) this event was held in conjunction with the exhibition SHADA/JAHN/VAUCELLE, "Ho...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Podcast: Communications Forum: "Film Music and Digital Media" Updated: 2009-04-03 20:43:00 Description: The widespread adoption of computer-based methods of digital recording technology has profoundly changed film scoring practices around the globe, not least in Hollywood. This panel will explore those changes with attention to current techniques compa...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Podcast: "Authorship, Appropriation, and the Fluid Text: Versions of the Law" Updated: 2009-03-23 20:57:24 Description: A fluid text is any work that exists in multiple versions. What are the ethics and legality in the creation, sharing, and ownership of textual versions? What are the boundaries of textual appropriation? How does technology abet appropriation; how mig...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Podcast: "Gendering Robots: Posthuman Sexism in Japan" Updated: 2009-03-06 21:13:15 Description: Jennifer Robertson, Professor of Anthropology University of Michigan In humans, gender--femininity, masculinity--is an array of performed behaviors, from dressing in certain clothes to walking and talking in certain ways. These behaviors are both so...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Podcast: Communications Forum: "Popular Culture and the Political Imagination" Updated: 2009-02-27 04:00:00 Description: Robert Putnam has suggested that the political consciousness and civic engagement of the post- World War II generation may have taken shape in bowling alleys and other spaces where community members gathered. Might the political consciousness of the ...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Podcast: "Telling Stories In Print, Online and Onscreen: Walden Media and Family Audiences" Updated: 2009-02-17 18:33:27 Description: Randy Testa, Vice-President of Education and Professional Development, Walden Media, LLC will discuss what it means to create educational content in tandem with commercially released family films, film adaptations of children's literature. He will al...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Podcast: "Identity-as-Place: Fictive Ethnicities in Online Games & Virtual Worlds" Updated: 2009-02-09 13:54:06 Description: This talk, with Celia Pearce, Assistant Professor of Digital Media at Georgia Tech and Director and the Emergent Game Group and Experimental Game Lab, explored the connection of identity to virtual place, referencing in particular anthropology, human...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Podcast: "Transnational, U.S.-Asian Cinema: The Case of Tekkon Kinkreet (2006)" with Christina Klein Updated: 2008-12-08 18:12:30 Description: Globalization is eroding the notion of national cinema. As foreign-language remakes, globalized labor pools, and international co-productions become ever more common, distinct national cinemas are being replaced by a variety of transnational cinemas....more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Podcast: "The Authoring Challenge for Interactive Storytelling" Updated: 2008-12-01 20:40:42 Description: Michael Mateas is an associate professor of computer science at the University of California, Santa Cruz where his research focuses on artificial intelligence (AI)-based art and entertainment. As head of the Expressive Intelligence Studio at Santa Cr...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Podcast: Communications Forum: "The Campaign & the Media 2" Updated: 2008-11-14 01:15:00 Description: The Obama campaign's extensive deployment of digital media, especially its tech-savvy outreach to the young, was widely reported before the election. Some predicted that this digital advantage would make a decisive difference. Did it? What role did ...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Podcast: "Tracking Secret Asian Man" Updated: 2008-11-03 20:50:45 Description: Tak Toyoshima's comic strip Secret Asian Man has brought to light the challenges of being Asian American in America. Challenges like not being able to find his name on a key chain at souvenir shops, being asked where he was delivering the Chinese foo...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Podcast: "Comics and Social Conflict" with Ho Che Anderson, Jeet Heer and Diana Tamblyn Updated: 2008-10-30 15:50:00 Description: Comics have emerged as a key means of interpreting and disseminating controversial and contested histories: Chester Brown's Louis Riel, Keiji Nakazawa's Barefoot Gen, Joe Sacco's Palestine, and Marjane Satrapi's Persepolis are just some of the work...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Podcast: Communications Forum: "Books and Libraries in the Digital Age with Robert Darnton" Updated: 2008-10-16 16:57:41 Description: A pioneering scholar of the Enlightenment and of the history of the book, Robert Darnton is the director of the University Library and the Carl H. Pforzheimer University Professor at Harvard. A former Rhodes Scholar and MacArthur Fellow, his books in...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Podcast: Stephen Greenblatt Updated: 2008-10-15 15:24:22 Description: With respondent Diana Henderson, Greenblatt speaks on the transformation of literary study in America and his own career as a teacher and writer. Download Here! ...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Podcast: "Submarine Media: Sounding the Sea with Cyborg Anthropology" Updated: 2008-10-07 17:08:22 Description: This presentation delivers a first-person anthropological report on a dive to the seafloor in the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution's three-person submersible, Alvin. Meditating on the sounds rather that the sights of the dive, Helmreich explores ...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Podcast: Communications Forum: "The Campaign and the Media 1" Updated: 2008-10-02 15:56:43 Description: How have American news media responded to this historic presidential campaign? Is it true, as many have suggested, that the influence of newspapers and television has declined in the digital era? Have the media become more partisan and polarized? Mor...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Podcast: "Playing with Stuff: The Material World in Performance" Updated: 2008-10-02 15:53:44 Description: This presentation / lecture / infomercial examines the nature and implications of object performance both as a global cultural tradition and as a contemporary medium that dominates our culture. While performing objects traditionally include puppets, ...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Podcast: "The Myths and Politics of Media Violence Research" Updated: 2008-09-15 22:09:02 Description: Lawrence Kutner and Cheryl Olson will present findings from their book, Grand Theft Childhood: The Surprising Truth About Violent Video Games and What Parents Can Do (Simon & Schuster, 2008), including the complex ways in which video games may benefi...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Podcast: "A Conversation with Junot Diaz" Updated: 2008-09-15 22:04:34 Description: A conversation with Junot Díaz, regarding questions of genre and secondary world construction in The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao and the Caribbean, and the failure of realism as a narrative strategy to describe the deep history of the New...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Podcast: "Remembering Los Angeles in the Digital Age: Pat O'Neill's The Decay of Fiction" Updated: 2008-05-17 11:00:00 Description: Los Angeles artist and special effects virtuoso Pat O'Neill filmed The Decay of Fiction (2002) in the landmark Ambassador Hotel, once the center of Hollywood celebrity culture. His film blurs the boundaries between architectural investigation, urban ...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Podcast: Communications Forum: "Youth and Civic Engagement" Updated: 2008-05-16 11:00:00 Description: The current generation of young citizens is growing up in an age of unprecedented access to information. Will this change their understanding of democracy? What factors will shape their involvement in the political process?Lance Bennett is Ruddick C....more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Podcast: Communications Forum: "Our World Digitized: The Good, the Bad, the Ugly" Updated: 2008-05-15 11:15:00 Description: Much discussion of our impending digital future is insular and without nuance. Skeptics talk mainly among themselves, while utopians and optimists also keep company mainly within their own tribal cultures. This forum challenges this unhelpful divisi...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Podcast: "The Show Business High Wire Act: Walking the Tightrope Between Studio Filmmaking and Independent Production" Updated: 2008-05-14 11:00:00 Description: In the year 2008, artists and businesspersons navigate the vast divide between the world of independent filmmaking and the Hollywood studio system as the lines between the two become increasingly more blurred. As pop culture integration - the fusing ...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Podcast: "Slightly More Than Expected from a Band of Novelists: On How and Why a Group of Writers Called Wu Ming Set to Disrupt Italian (nay, European) Literature and Popular Culture (and then Came to Boston to Brag About It)" Updated: 2008-05-13 19:54:18 Description: Wu Ming 1 is a founding member and representative of the Wu Ming Foundation, a collective of writers from Italy. Most members of the collective were deeply involved in the Luther Blissett Project, an international experiment in culture jamming, radic...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Podcast: Denis Dyack Updated: 2008-03-21 00:20:00 Description: Denis Dyack is the founder and president of Silicon Knights. In this capacity, he oversees the creation and development of games, and continues to further the growth of the company. Dyack is a noted authority on interactive software development and o...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Podcast: Communications Forum: "Global Television" Updated: 2008-03-14 00:30:00 Description: A salient feature of contemporary TV has been the appearance of programs that appeal more widely across national boundaries than many earlier television shows. Examples include a range of reality shows such as Big Brother or Survivor as well as fic...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Podcast: Communications Forum: "Prime Time in Transition" Updated: 2008-03-07 00:20:00 Description: The prime-time series has been a central narrative form in America for the last half-century, as the Hollywood movie had been in a previous era. Are the radical transformations of television in recent years challenging this domination? How has serie...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Podcast: "Viral Media: How's and Why's" Updated: 2008-02-22 17:45:16 Description: Non-traditional and viral marketing campaigns raise questions about the content status of advertising and the authenticity of commercial art. This panel discussion will consider the challenges of engaging audiences in non-conventional ways, looking a...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Podcast: Futures of Entertainment 2: "Cult Media" Updated: 2007-12-12 21:48:58 Description: This is the sixth in a series of seven audio podcasts, recorded during the Futures of Entertainment 2 Conference hosted by the Convergence Culture Consortium and Comparative Media Studies at MIT. A video version of this and all other available sessi...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Podcast: Futures of Entertainment 2: "Opening Remarks (Second Day)" Updated: 2007-12-12 21:47:14 Description: This is the fourth in a series of seven audio podcasts, recorded during the Futures of Entertainment 2 Conference hosted by the Convergence Culture Consortium and Comparative Media Studies at MIT. A video version of this and all other available sess...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Podcast: Futures of Entertainment 2: "Fan Labor" Updated: 2007-12-07 19:22:28 Description: This is the third in a series of seven audio podcasts, recorded during the Futures of Entertainment 2 Conference hosted by the Convergence Culture Consortium and Comparative Media Studies at MIT. A video version of this and all other available sessi...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Podcast: Futures of Entertainment 2: "Metrics and Measurement" Updated: 2007-12-07 19:19:04 Description: This is the second in a series of seven audio podcasts, recorded during the Futures of Entertainment 2 Conference hosted by the Convergence Culture Consortium and Comparative Media Studies at MIT. Download Here! ...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Podcast: Futures of Entertainment 2: "Opening Comments" Updated: 2007-12-07 14:47:43 Description: This is the first in a series of seven audio podcasts, recorded during the Futures of Entertainment 2 Conference hosted by the Convergence Culture Consortium and Comparative Media Studies at MIT. This first podcast presents the opening remarks by He...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Podcast: Communications Forum: "NBC's Heroes: Appointment TV to Engagement TV?" Updated: 2007-11-21 05:31:22 Description: The fragmenting audiences and proliferating channels of contemporary television are changing how programs are made and how they appeal to viewers and advertisers. Some media and advertising spokesman are arguing that smaller, more engaged audiences a...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Podcast: Communications Forum: "Games and Civic Engagement" Updated: 2007-11-20 21:28:37 Description: A generation of scholars, critics and political leaders has denounced videogames as a best a distraction and at worst a negative influence on society. Yet for a significant and growing minority of activists and researchers, games may also represent a...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Podcast: Communications Forum: "Collective Intelligence" Updated: 2007-10-09 18:40:27 Description: A conversation about the theory and practice of collective intelligence, with emphasis on Wikipedia, other instances of aggregated intellectual work and on recent innovative applications in product development for both large and small businesses. Tho...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Podcast: Communications Forum: "What is Civic Media?" Updated: 2007-09-24 15:49:42 Description: This forum marks the launch of the new MIT Center for Future Civic Media, a collaboration between the MIT Media Lab and Comparative Media Studies (CMS) program and is the first in a series of events designed to focus attention on the relationship bet...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Podcast: "Technology & Media in the Experience Economy" Updated: 2007-09-22 01:55:39 Description: Author and management advisor B. Joseph Pine II discusses how ideas outlined in his book The Experience Economy fit within the context of digital technologies, virtual worlds, and convergence culture. Download Here! ...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Podcast: "The Harry Potter Alliance: How the Myth of Harry Potter Is Changing the World" Updated: 2007-09-22 01:38:11 Description: Andrew Slack, founder of The HP Alliance, an organization seeking to engage Harry Potter fans in social and political activism, discusses the origins and motivations behind the group and their current project to raise awareness about the genocide in ...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Podcast: "This One's Gonna Be a Slobberknocker": A Q&A with WWE's "Good Ol' J.R." Jim Ross Updated: 2007-06-13 19:38:12 Description: Jim Ross, the longtime voice of World Wrestling Entertainment, joins CMS graduate student Sam Ford to discuss the unique blend of reality and fiction in the world of American professional wrestling. Ross will talk about how WWE’s distribution a...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Podcast: "Love May Not Be in the Afternoon Anymore: A Q&A with Soap Opera Writer Kay Alden About How the Genre Is (and/or Should Be) Changing with the Times" Updated: 2007-05-07 21:18:30 Description: Longtime soap opera writer Kay Alden talks about her decades in the industry with CMS graduate student Sam Ford ’07 who is writing his thesis about soap operas. Alden worked for more than 30 years on The Young and the Restless, the top-rated day...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Podcast: Media in Transition 5: "Summary Perspectives" Updated: 2007-04-30 02:05:36 Description: What have we learned? What have we accomplished? Where do we go from here? The full speaker list can be found at this sessions' website as well as a RealAudio stream. The Media in Transitions conference is a joint effort of MIT Comparative Med...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Podcast: Media in Transition 5: "Reproduction, Mimicry, Critique and Distribution Systems in Visual Art" Updated: 2007-04-30 02:00:54 Description: Today, artists working in new media, including video, web projects and music confront contested and conceptually confusing terrain in which reproduction can be as perfect as the artist desires and endless copies theoretically possible. Yet many find ...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Podcast: What's Live Got To Do With It? Updated: 2007-04-29 12:52:10 Description: It is possible that live performance is not so live any more. In this talk, Sharon Mazer looked at the ways that audience “performances” may be seen to challenge the live-ness of the onstage action in the Road to Wrestlemania 23, which th...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Podcast: Media in Transition 5: "Learning through Remixing" Updated: 2007-04-29 12:42:43 Description: Historically, engineers learned by taking machines apart and putting them back together again. Can young people also learn how culture works by sampling and remixing the materials of their culture? Might this ability to appropriate and transform valu...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Podcast: Media in Transition 5: "Copyright, Fair Use and the Cultural Commons Updated: 2007-04-28 23:18:00 Description: How has the American tradition of intellectual property law understood the relationship between originality and tradition? What rights do artists and educators have to draw inspiration from or comment on existing works in existing media? What habits,...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Podcast: Media in Transition 5: "Collaboration and Collective Intelligence" Updated: 2007-04-28 16:37:03 Description: "Collective Intelligence" and "the wisdom of crowds" have become central buzz phrases in recent discussions of networked culture. But what do they really mean? What do we know about the new forms of collaboration that is emerging ...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Podcast: Media in Transition 5: "Folk Cultures and Digital Cultures" Updated: 2007-04-27 23:09:44 Description: Digital visionaries such as Yochai Benkler have described the emergence of a new networked culture in which participants with differing intentions and professional credentials co-exist and cooperate in a complex media ecology. Are we witnessing the a...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Podcast: Ambiguity, Process, and Information Content in Minimal Music Updated: 2007-04-20 20:33:03 Description: Recent trends in music composition push bounds by creating pieces which are either more complex or simpler than works of the past. And yet, our ability to understand and be interested in the compositions at these extremes has kept pace. In this tal...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Podcast: "The Real World''s Faker than Wrestling: Former WWE Champion and Best-Selling Author Mick Foley Updated: 2007-04-17 14:53:46 Description: Mick Foley, one of the top wrestling performers of the past decade, alked about his experiences as an entertainer and bestselling author who has written three memoirs (including Foley Is Good: And the Real World is Faker Than Wrestling) two novels, ...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Podcast: Communications Forum: "Evangelicals and the Media" Updated: 2007-04-17 14:49:22 Description: American evangelicals have a long history of engagement with the media, dating back to Great Awakening of the late eighteenth century. Today evangelical groups are active in all media, from the Internet and cellular telephones to print journalism, br...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Podcast: "Old World, New World: How Communities, Culture, Connectivity, and Commerce are Changing How We Create Culture, Media, Education and Politics" Updated: 2007-04-10 20:20:37 Description: Alan Moore, CEO of engagement marketing company SMLXL and co-author of Communities Dominate Brands, believes that community-based engagement initiatives and the enabling of peer-to-peer flows of communication within organizations, and those that eng...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Podcast: Communications Forum: "What's New at the Media Lab?" Updated: 2007-04-02 20:17:55 Description: A conversation between Frank Moss, new director of the Media Lab, and CMS Director Henry Jenkins about ongoing projects and inventive digital applications at MIT's legendary laboratory. Demonstrations were also shown and discussed. The MIT Communicat...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Podcast: Communications Forum: "Remixing Shakespeare" Updated: 2007-03-01 17:15:50 Description: New technologies are enabling forms of borrowing, appropriation and "remixing" of media materials in exciting, provocative ways. In this Forum, two MIT scholars who have studied and written about the remixing of Shakespeare will describe their rese...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Podcast: Communications Forum: "Why Newspapers Matter?" Updated: 2007-01-03 20:19:29 Description: This is the third and final forum in the Will Newspapers Survive? series presented by the MIT Communications Forum. Why Newspapers Matter, features Jerome Armstrong of Netroots.com and MyDD.com; Pablo Boczkowski, associate professor in the Department...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Podcast: Communications Forum: "The Emergence of Citizens' Media" Updated: 2007-01-03 20:07:12 Description: This is the first forum in the Will Newspapers Survive? series presented by the MIT Communications Forums. The Emergence of Citizen's Media features Alex Beam of the Boston Globe, Ellen Foley from the Wisconsin State Journal and Dan Gillmor, founder ...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Podcast: "Half-Real: A Video Game in the Hands of a Player (Audio)" Updated: 2006-12-21 21:34:16 Description: This is an audio recording of a lecture Jesper Juul gave to us on November 28, 2006. (A video recording of the same event will follow). This lecture ties into his recent book, Half-Real: Video Games between Real Rules and Fictional Worlds. Download...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Podcast: Futures of Entertainment 2006: "Not the Real World Anymore (Video)" Updated: 2006-12-21 21:26:31 Description: This is the seventh in a series of seven podcasts, recorded during the Futures of Entertainment Conference hosted by the Convergence Culture Consortium and Comparative Media Studies at MIT. Not the Real World Anymore was the fifth session of the conf...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Podcast: Futures of Entertainment 2006: "Not the Real World Anymore (Audio)" Updated: 2006-12-21 21:26:23 Description: This is the seventh in a series of seven podcasts, recorded during the Futures of Entertainment Conference hosted by the Convergence Culture Consortium and Comparative Media Studies at MIT. Not the Real World Anymore was the fifth session of the conf...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Podcast: Futures of Entertainment 2006: "Fan Cultures (Video)" Updated: 2006-12-21 17:44:49 Description: This is the sixth in a series of seven podcasts, recorded during the Futures of Entertainment Conference hosted by the Convergence Culture Consortium and Comparative Media Studies at MIT. Fan Cultures was the fourth session of the conference. The pan...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Podcast: Futures of Entertainment 2006: "Viscerality and Web 2.0 (Video)" Updated: 2006-12-21 17:42:34 Description: This is the fifth in a series of seven podcasts, recorded during the Futures of Entertainment Conference hosted by the Convergence Culture Consortium and Comparative Media Studies at MIT. This particular recording is of the opening presentation for t...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Podcast: Futures of Entertainment 2006: "Transmedia Properties (Video)" Updated: 2006-12-21 17:24:21 Description: This is the fourth in a series of seven podcasts, recorded during the Futures of Entertainment Conference hosted by the Convergence Culture Consortium and Comparative Media Studies at MIT. Transmedia Properties was the third session of the conference...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Podcast: Futures of Entertainment 2006: "User-Generated Content (Video)" Updated: 2006-12-21 17:22:57 Description: This is the third in a series of six podcasts, recorded during the Futures of Entertainment Conference hosted by the Convergence Culture Consortium and Comparative Media Studies at MIT. User-Generated Content was the second session of the conference....more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Podcast: Futures of Entertainment 2006: "Henry Jenkins' Opening Remarks (Video)" Updated: 2006-12-21 17:20:26 Description: This is the first in a series of six podcasts, recorded during the Futures of Entertainment Conference hosted by the Convergence Culture Consortium and Comparative Media Studies at MIT. In this first podcast, we present Henry Jenkins' opening remark...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Podcast: Futures of Entertainment 2006: "Fan Cultures (Audio)" Updated: 2006-12-21 00:33:41 Description: This is the sixth in a series of seven podcasts, recorded during the Futures of Entertainment Conference hosted by the Convergence Culture Consortium and Comparative Media Studies at MIT. Fan Cultures was the fourth session of the conference. The pan...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Podcast: Futures of Entertainment 2006: "Viscerality and Web 2.0 (Audio)" Updated: 2006-12-20 20:54:59 Description: This is the fifth in a series of seven podcasts, recorded during the Futures of Entertainment Conference hosted by the Convergence Culture Consortium and Comparative Media Studies at MIT. This particular recording is of the opening presentation for t...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Podcast: Futures of Entertainment 2006: "Transmedia Properties (Audio)" Updated: 2006-12-19 18:24:21 Description: This is the fourth in a series of seven podcasts, recorded during the Futures of Entertainment Conference hosted by the Convergence Culture Consortium and Comparative Media Studies at MIT. Transmedia Properties was the third session of the conference...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Podcast: Futures of Entertainment 2006: "User-Generated Content (Audio)" Updated: 2006-12-19 13:43:41 Description: This is the third in a series of six podcasts, recorded during the Futures of Entertainment Conference hosted by the Convergence Culture Consortium and Comparative Media Studies at MIT. User-Generated Content was the second session of the conference....more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Podcast: Futures of Entertainment 2006: "Television Futures" Updated: 2006-12-13 15:06:22 Description: This is the second in a series of six podcasts, recorded during the Futures of Entertainment Conference hosted by the Convergence Culture Consortium and Comparative Media Studies at MIT. Television Futures was the first session of the conference. Th...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Podcast: Futures of Entertainment 2006: "Henry Jenkins' Opening Remarks (Audio)" Updated: 2006-12-13 14:47:32 Description: This is the first in a series of six podcasts, recorded during the Futures of Entertainment Conference hosted by the Convergence Culture Consortium and Comparative Media Studies at MIT. In this first podcast, we present Henry Jenkins' opening remark...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Podcast: "Men Imagining a Girl Revolution" Updated: 2006-12-11 14:27:49 Description: Foreign Languages and Literatures visiting professor Sharon Kinsella examines the media constructions of a teenage female revolt in contemporary Japan drawing from her current book project Girls as Energy: Fantasies of Social Rejuvenation. Download ...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Podcast: Communications Forum: "The Craft of Science Fiction" Updated: 2006-12-06 18:53:18 Description: The latest MIT Communications Forum, The Craft of Science Fiction, featured Joe Haldeman, four-time Nebula Award winner and author of The Forever War, his forthcoming novel The Accidental Time Machine and many other books. This forum was moderated...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Podcast: "Media Evangelism in the Global South" Updated: 2006-11-06 15:43:54 Description: Timothy Stoneman, National Science Foundation Postdoctoral Fellow in the Science, Technology, and Society Program at MIT, discusses his research on missionary and evangelical radio in America from an historical perspective. Download Here! ...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Podcast: "New Media and Art roundtable" Updated: 2006-10-30 14:28:23 Description: Featured speakers included Lauren Cornell, director of Rhizome.org; Jon Ippolito, media artist, curator, author; and our own Beth Coleman, Assistant Professor of Comparative Media Studies and of Writing and Humanistic Studies, co-founder of the Sound...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Podcast: Scott Donaton, "Marketing in the Age of Consumer Empowerment" Updated: 2006-10-19 18:31:40 Description: Scott Donaton, associate publisher and editorial director of the Ad Age Group and author of Madison & Vine talked about why user-empowerment is the key trend in business, and the ways marketers are adapting to it, including the rise of branded entert...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Podcast: "MIT's ZigZag on Podcasting and the Future of Media" Updated: 2006-10-04 21:01:08 Description: Chris Boebel and David Tamés gave us an overview of the production of ZigZag, MIT's new video podcast/magazine, as well as a look into the future of media production, distribution, and consumption. Download Here! ...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Podcast: Communications Forum: "News, Information, and the Wealth of Networks" Updated: 2006-09-22 21:25:00 Description: This entry in the MIT Communications Forum series, Will Newspapers Survive?, hosted Yochai Benkler, author of The Wealth of Networks: How Social Production Transforms Markets and Freedom, and included our directors, Henry Jenkins and William Uricchi...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Podcast: "Making Comics by Scott McCloud" Updated: 2006-09-18 16:49:34 Description: Scott McCloud, author of Understanding Comics (1993) and Reinventing Comics (2001) graced us with an excellent talk about his latest book, Making Comics, as a part of his Making Comics Fifty States tour, which he is also blogging. Download Here! ...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Podcast: "Rocketo by Frank Espinosa" Updated: 2006-09-05 14:42:03 Description: Our first speaker for the Fall semester, newly appointed MLK scholar Frank Espinosa, leads a discussion of his Eisner-award nominated graphic novel, Rocketo. Download Here! ...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Podcast: "Sex in Games with Brenda Brathwaite" Updated: 2006-08-30 21:42:26 Description: Sex in Games with Brenda Brathwaite, Professor of Game Design, Savannah College of Art & Design, whose book Sex in Video Games will be published this September. Download Here!...more... 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