MIT Communications Forum

Sep 25, 2003

32 videos

MIT Communications Forum

About the Host - MIT Communications Forum

For more than thirty years the Communications Forum has played a unique role at MIT and beyond as a site for cutting-edge discussion of the cultural, political, economic and technological impact of communications, with special emphasis on emerging technologies.

Leading scholars, journalists, media producers, political figures and corporate executives have appeared at conferences and panels sponsored by the Forum.

Translating specialized or technical perspectives into a discourse accessible to non-specialists is a defining ambition of the Forum. When engineers, scientists, other academics or media practitioners address the Forum, they accept a responsibility to speak in a common language that must be understood and used by literate citizens and professionals in many fields.

The Forum's founding director was the late Ithiel de Sola Pool of the MIT Political Science Department, a pioneer in the study of communications.

The Forum is funded by contributions from members of the MIT Industrial Liaison Program, other corporations and foundation grants.

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Steven Pinker,

Ann Wolpert

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TV News in Transition

Juju Chang,

Neal Shapiro

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The Craft of Science Fiction

Joe Haldeman

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New Media, Civic Media

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Ellen Hume,

Dean Jansen,

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Games and Civic Engagement

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Ian Bogost

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Youth and Civic Engagement

Alan Khaze,

Ingeborg Endter,

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Politics and Popular Culture

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Summary Perspectives

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Fred Turner,

Jose van Dijck

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What is Civic Media?

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Ethan Zuckerman

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What’s New at the MIT Center for Future Civic Media?

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Wendy Gordon

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The Emerging Mediascape

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David Thorburn,

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What’s New at the Media Lab?

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Henry Jenkins,

Frank Moss

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Collective Intelligence

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Thomas W. Malone

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Television's Great Writer

David Milch

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Andres Laracuente,

Tony Cokes

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Folk Cultures and Digital Cultures

Lewis Hyde,

Thomas Pettitt,

S. Craig Watkins

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Pinker's Farewell

Steven Pinker

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A Conversation with Robert Pinsky

Robert Pinsky

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TV’s New Economics

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Global Media

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Trebor Scholz

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Cass Sunstein

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Global Television

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