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.

Politics and Popular Culture

David Carr,

Stephen Duncombe,

Johanna Blakley

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Reproduction, Mimicry, Critique and Distribution Systems in Visual Art

Michael Mittelman,

Andres Laracuente,

Tony Cokes

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Film Music and Digital Media

Dan Carlin,

Paul Seiko Chihara

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Prime Time in Transition

John Romano

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Books and Libraries in the Digital Age

Robert Darnton

Mar 20, 2014 3255 views

Global Media

Carolina Acosta-Alzuru,

Jonathan Gray,

Abderrahmane Sissako,

Aswin Punathambekar

Mar 20, 2014 2235 views

Learning Through Remixing

Juan Devis,

Renee Hobbs,

Alice J. Robison,

Ricardo Pitts-Wiley,

Erik Blankinship

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NBC’s Heroes: Appointment TV to Engagement TV

Mark Warshaw,

Jesse Alexander

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Pinker's Farewell

Steven Pinker

Mar 20, 2014 1727 views

The Craft of Science Fiction

Joe Haldeman

Mar 20, 2014 2372 views

TV News in Transition

Juju Chang,

Neal Shapiro

Mar 20, 2014 1755 views

Youth and Civic Engagement

Alan Khaze,

Ingeborg Endter,

Lance Bennett

Mar 20, 2014 1844 views

TV’s New Economics

Jorge Schement,

David F. Poltrack

Mar 20, 2014 1539 views

Global Television

Eggo Muller,

Roberta Pearson,

William C. Uricchio

Mar 20, 2014 2045 views

What is Civic Media?

Beth Noveck,

Chris Csikszentmihalyi,

Ethan Zuckerman

Mar 20, 2014 1952 views

Copyright, Fair Use, and the Cultural Commons

Gordon Quinn,

Pat Aufderheide,

Hal Abelson,

Wendy Gordon

Mar 20, 2014 4739 views

Remixing Shakespeare

Peter Donaldson,

Diana E. Henderson

Mar 20, 2014 2092 views

Folk Cultures and Digital Cultures

Lewis Hyde,

Thomas Pettitt,

S. Craig Watkins

Mar 20, 2014 1839 views

Our World Digitized: The Good, the Bad, the Ugly

Yochai Benkler,

Cass Sunstein

Mar 20, 2014 1812 views

Television's Great Writer

David Milch

Mar 20, 2014 1773 views

New Media, Civic Media

Jake Shapiro,

Persephone Miel,

Ellen Hume,

Dean Jansen,

Jessica Clark

Mar 20, 2014 2101 views

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

Chris Csikszentmihalyi

Mar 20, 2014 1819 views

A Conversation with Robert Pinsky

Robert Pinsky

Mar 20, 2014 1949 views

What’s New at the Media Lab?

Adam Boulanger,

Ryan Chin,

Hartmut Geyer,

Henry Jenkins,

Frank Moss

Mar 20, 2014 1971 views

Evangelicals and the Media

Gary Schneeberger,

Diane Winston,

Jon Walker

Mar 20, 2014 1747 views

The Future of Digital Commons

Nancy Kranich,

Steven Pinker,

Ann Wolpert

Mar 20, 2014 1766 views

Race, Politics and American Media

Juan Williams,

David Thorburn,

J. Phillip Thompson

Mar 20, 2014 2000 views

Games and Civic Engagement

Mario Armstrong,

Ian Bogost

Mar 20, 2014 2010 views

Summary Perspectives

Siva Vaidhyanathan,

Suzanne de Castell,

Fred Turner,

Jose van Dijck

Mar 20, 2014 1652 views

Collaboration and Collective Intelligence

Mizuko (Mimi) Ito,

Cory Ondrejka,

Trebor Scholz

Mar 20, 2014 1638 views

The Emerging Mediascape

Jeffrey Dvorkin,

David Thorburn,

Mark Jurkowitz

Mar 20, 2014 1601 views

Collective Intelligence

Alex (Sandy) Pentland,

Karim R. Lakhani,

Thomas W. Malone

Mar 20, 2014 1923 views

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