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Thurs., Sept. 25 5-7 pm Bartos Theater | | Forum: The Campaign & the Media Tom Rosenstiel, Project for Excellence in Journalism others TBA |
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Thurs., Oct. 9 5-7 pm Bartos Theater | | Forum: Literature/ History/ Biography Stephen Greenblatt, Harvard University |
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Thurs., Oct. 16 5-7 pm Bartos Theater | | Forum: Books and Libraries in the Digital Age Robert Darnton, Harvard University Library |
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Thurs., Nov. 13 5-7 pm Bartos Theater | | Forum: The Campaign & the Media, Part 2 Ian Rowe, MTV others TBA |
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| | | spring 2008 |
Thurs., March 6 5-7 pm Bartos Theater | | Forum: Prime Time in Transition John Romano, Third Watch, Party of Five, Hill Street Blues |
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Thurs., March 13 5-7 pm Bartos Theater | | Forum: Global Television Eggo Muller, Utrech University Roberta Pearson, University of Nottingham William Uricchio, MIT |
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Thurs., April 10 5-7 pm Bartos Theater | | Forum: Our World Digitized: The Good, the Bad and the Ugly Yochai Benkler, Harvard Law School Cass Sunstein, University of Chicago Law School |
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Thurs., April 24 5-7 pm Bartos Theater | | Forum: Youth and Civic Engagement Lance Bennett, University of Washington Ingebord Endter, MIT Center for Future Civic Media Alan Khazei, City Year |
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| | | fall 2007 |
Thurs., Sept. 20 5-7 pm Bartos Theater | | Forum: What Is Civic Media? Chris Csikszentmihalyi, Media Lab Henry Jenkins, Comparative Media Studies (CMS) Beth Noveck, New York Law School Ethan Zuckerman, Berkman Center for Internet and Society |
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Thurs., Oct. 4 5-7 p.m. Bartos Theater | | Forum: Collective Intelligence Karim Lakhani, Harvard Business School Thomas Malone, MIT Sloan School of Management Alex (Sandy) Pentland, MIT Media Lab |
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Thurs., Nov. 8 5-7 pm Bartos Theater | | Forum: Games and Civic Engagement Mario Armstrong, NPR technology reporter Ian Bogost, Persuasive Games: The Expressive power of Videogames Moderator: Eric Klopfer, MIT Teacher Education Program |
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Thurs., Nov. 15 5-7 pm Bartos Theater | | Forum: NBC's Heroes: From "Appointment TV " to "Engagement TV "? Heroes producers Jesse Alexander and Mark Warshaw Moderator: Henry Jenkins, MIT Comparative Media Studies |
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| | | spring 2007 |
Thurs., Feb. 15 5-7 pm 3-270 | | Forum: Remixing Shakespeare Peter Donaldson, MIT Diana Henderson, MIT Moderator: Mary Fuller, MIT |
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Thurs., March 1 5-7 pm 3-270 | | Forum: What's New at the Media Lab? Frank Moss, MIT Media Lab Henry Jenkins, MIT CMS |
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Thurs., April 5 5-7 pm 3-270 | | Forum: Evangelicals and the Media Rev. Amy McCreath, MIT Gary Schneeberger, Focus on the Family Jon Walker, Purpose Driven Life Diane Winston, USC |
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| April 27-29 | | Conference: MiT5: creativity, ownership and collaboration in the digital age |
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| | | fall 2006 |
Tues., Sept 19 [note day] 5-7 pm Bartos Theater | | Forum: The Emergence of Citizens' Media Alex Beam, Boston Globe Ellen Foley, Wisconson State Journal Dan Gillmor, Center for Citizen Media |
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Thurs., Sept. 21 5-7 pm 3-270 | | Forum: News, Information and the Wealth of Networks Yochai Benkler, Yale Law School Henry Jenkins, MIT William Uricchio, MIT |
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Thurs., Oct. 5 tba Bartos Theater | | Forum: Why Newspapers Matter Jerome Armstrong, Crashing the Gate Pablo Boczkowski, Northwestern Univ. Tom Rosenstiel, Project for Excellence in Journalism David Thorburn, MIT |
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Thurs., Nov. 16 5-7 pm Bartos Theater | | Forum: The Craft of Science Fiction Joe Haldeman, The Forever War |
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| | | spring 2006 |
Thurs., Feb. 23 2-2:30 pm Bartos Theater | | Screening: Death and the Powers Tod Machover, MIT Media Lab, presents a 15-minute fragment of his opera-in-progress on which he is collaborating with former Poet Laureate Robert Pinsky. Brief discussion follows the screening. |
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Thurs., Feb. 23 3-3:30 pm Bartos Theater | | Screening: Death and the Powers Tod Machover, MIT Media Lab, presents a 15-minute fragment of his opera-in-progress on which he is collaborating with former Poet Laureate Robert Pinsky. Brief discussion follows the screening. |
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Thurs., Feb. 23 5:30-7:30 pm Bartos Theater
| | Forum: A Conversation with Robert Pinsky The former poet laureate discusses his new book The Life of David and reads his poetry. [Pinsky's BU Web page] |
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Wed., March 8 [note day] 5-7 pm Bartos Theater | | Forum: TV's New Economics David Poltrack, CBS Television Jorge Schement, Penn. State |
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Thurs., April 6 5-7 pm Bartos Theater | | Forum: TV News in Transition Juju Chang, ABC News Neal Shapiro, former president, NBC News |
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Thurs., April 20 5-7 pm Bartos Theater | | Forum: TV's Great Writer David Milch, Deadwood, NYPD Blue, Hill Street Blues |
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| | | fall 2005 |
Thurs., Sept. 22 5-7 pm 32-155 | | Forum: The Future of the Digital Commons Nancy Kranich, former president, American Library Association Steven Pinker, Harvard University Ann Wolpert, director, MIT Libraries |
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Thurs. Oct. 6 5-7 pm Bartos Theater | | Forum: Is Popular Culture Good for You? Steven Johnson, author Everything Bad Is Good For You Jason Mittell, Middlebury College |
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Thurs., Oct. 20 5-7 pm 3-270 | | Forum: Spinners and Bloggers: Political Communications in the Digital Age Deborah Hayes, PEW Charitable Trusts Rebecca MacKinnon, Berkman Center for Internet & Society Brian Reich, Campaign Web Review |
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Thurs., Nov. 17 5-7 pm Bartos Theater | | Forum: Cell Phone Culture James Katz, Rutgers Univ. Jing Wang, MIT
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| | | spring 2005 |
Thurs., Feb. 17 5-7 pm Bartos Theater | | Forum: Election 2004 and Beyond: Did the Media Fail? Terence Smith, PBS NewsHour Cathy Young, Boston Globe, Reason magazine |
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| Thurs., March 31 5-7 pm Bartos Theater | | Forum: What's New at the MIT Media Lab?: Technologies for the Young and the Restless Chris Csikszentmihályi Mitchel Resnick |
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Thurs., April 21 5-7 pm 6-120 | | Forum: Branding and the Urban Landscape Jon Cropper, Young & Rubicam Thomas Ryan, EMI Music North America Jesse Shapins, Yellow Arrow , Counts Media |
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| May 6-8 | | Conference: MiT4: the work of stories
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| | | fall 2004 |
Thurs., Sept. 23 5-7 pm Bartos Theater | | Forum: MIT OpenCourseWare: a Status Report Steven Lerman, Center for Educational Computing Initiatives Anne Margulies, OCW Executive Director |
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Thurs., Oct. 14 5-6:45 pm Bartos Theater | | Forum: New Media, Old Politics? Henry Jenkins, MIT Comparative Media Studies Garret Loporto, TrueMajority.org Joe Trippi, The Revolution Will Not Be Televised co-sponsor: The Technology & Culture Forum at MIT |
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Thurs., Oct. 21 5-7 pm E25-111 | | Forum: Media Literacy: Learning and Understanding in the Digital Age Roberto Aparici, MIT Comparative Media Studies Robyn Quin, Edith Cowan University (Australia) Alycia Scott-Hiser, TechBoston Academy Kim Slack, HOME Inc. Moderator: Alan Michel, HOME Inc. |
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Thurs., Oct. 28 5-7 pm Bartos Theater | | Forum: New Roles for Established Media? Alex Jones, Shorentstein Center on the Press, Politics, and Public Policy, Harvard University Mark Jurkowitz, Boston Globe Amy Mitchell, Project for Excellence in Journalism Moderator: Stephen Van Evera, MIT Political Science co-sponsor: The Technology & Culture Forum at MIT |
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Thurs., Nov. 18 5-7 pm E25-111 | | Forum: Copyright Wars Donna Ferullo, Purdue University Copyright Office Michael Meurer, BU School of Law |
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| | | spring 2004 |
Thurs., Feb. 19 5-7 pm Bartos Theater | | Forum: Writing and Producing in Prime Time Writer and producer John Romano, Hill Street Blues, Third Watch, American Dreams |
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Thurs., March 11 5-7 pm Bartos Theater | | Forum: Interactive Television Josh Bernoff, Forrester Research Dale Herigstad, Schematic TV |
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Thurs., March 18 5-7 pm 4-237 | | Forum: The Emerging Mediascape Jeffrey Dvorkin, National Public Radio Mark Jurkowitz, Boston Globe |
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Thurs., April 1 5-7 p.m. Bartos Theater | | Forum: Changing Media, Changing Audiences Betsy Frank (interview), MTV Moderator: Henry Jenkins, MIT |
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Thurs., April 8 5-7 p.m. Bartos Theater | | Forum: Movies and Digital Piracy Jack Valenti, (interview), Motion Picture Association of America Moderator: Thomas Doherty, Brandeis University |
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| | | fall 2003 |
Thurs., Sept. 25 5-7 pm Bartos Theater
| | Forum: Pinker's Farewell Steven Pinker, Harvard Univ. Moderator: S. J. Keyser, MIT |
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Thurs., Oct. 30 5-7 pm 4-237
| | Forum: Are National Television Systems Obsolete? James Carey, Columbia Univ. Elihu Katz, Hebrew Univ. and Univ. of Pennsylvania William Uricchio, MIT |
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Thurs., Nov. 13 5-7 pm Wong Aud., E51 | | Forum: Covering Iraq: American Media vs. the World? Alex Jones, Shorentstein Center on the Press, Politics, and Public Policy Danny Schechter, Journalist and Media Critic |
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Fri., Nov. 21 4-6 pm Bartos Theater | | Special Forum: E-topia/ Designing Cambridge: 21st Century Communications for our Community William Mitchell, School of Architecture and Planning, Program in Media Arts and Sciences |
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Sat., Nov. 22 10-11 am 6-120 | | Special Forum: E-topia/ Designing Cambridge: How Can Information Technologies Serve Cambridge? |
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Sat., Nov. 22 11:15am-12:15pm 6-120 | | Special Forum: E-topia/ Designing Cambridge: How Well Does Media Serve Cambridge Citizens? |
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| | | spring 2003 |
Thurs. Feb. 27 5-7 pm 3-133 | | Forum: Is TV Drama Obsolete? Jimmie L. Reeves, Texas Tech Univ. Robert J. Thompson, Syracuse Univ. |
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| Thurs., April 3 5-7 pm Bartos Theater | | Forum: Writing and Producing in Prime Time John Romano, writer and producer, American Dreams |
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Thurs., April 17 5-7 pm 3-270 | | Forum: Demographic Vistas Thomas Streeter, Univ. of Vermont Susan Whiting, CEO, Nielsen Media Research |
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| | | fall 2002 |
Thurs., Sept 19 5-7pm Bartos Theater | | Forum: Who Owns Research and Teaching? Hal Abelson, MIT EECS, co-founder Creative Commons Ann Wolpert, Director of MIT Libraries |
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Thurs., Oct 3 5-7pm Bartos Theater | | Forum: Creativity/Markets/Copyright Rosemary Coombe, author The Cultural Life of Intellectual Properties Mark Lloyd, Civil Rights Forum on Communication Policy Respondent: W. Curtiss Priest, Center for Information, Technology & Society |
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| Tues., Oct 22 5-7 pm 26-100 | | Smart Mobs: The Next Social Revolution Howard Rheingold co-sponsor: authors@mit |
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| Mon., Nov 4 5-7 pm Bartos Theater
| | America at War? A Conversation With Helen Thomas Respondents: Henry Jenkins, CMS Charles Stewart, MIT Political Science |
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| Wed., Nov 6 5-7 pm Bartos Theater | | Forum: Copyright and Culture Siva Vaidhyanathan, NYU, author Copyrights and Copywrongs Jonathan Zittrain, Berkman Center for Internet & Society |
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| Thurs., Nov 14 5-7 pm Bartos Theater | | Forum: Culture Talk on Public Radio Ellen Kushner, WGBH |
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| | | spring 2002 |
| Thurs., Feb 21 5-8pm Bartos Theater | | Forum: Children's Culture and New Media Special, two-part forum Howard Blumenthal, Where in the World Is Carmen Sandiego? Gerard Jones, author of Killing Monsters: Why Children Need Fantasy, Superheroes and Make Believe Violence Craig Walker, The Magic School Bus Alan Kay, Squeak.org Mitchel Resnick, Lifelong Kindergarten |
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| Thurs., March 7 5-7pm Bartos Theater | | Forum: Transformations of the Book Jason Epstein, author of Book Business: Publishing: Past, Present, and Future Steven Pinker, MIT |
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| Thurs., April 4 5-7 p.m. Bartos Theater | | Forum: Humor on the Web John Aboud, Modern Humorist Michael Colton, Modern Humorist Tim Harrod, The Onion |
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| Thurs., April 18 5-7pm Bartos Theater | | Forum: Religion and the Internet Charles Henderson, The First Church of Cyberspace Elena Larson, PEW Internet & American Life Project Scott Thumma, Hartford Institute for Religious Studies |
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Thurs., April 25 5-7pm Bartos Theater | | Forum: Alternative Media David Goodman, Boston Community Reporters Project Marc Stern, Bentley College |
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| Thurs., May 9 5-7pm E51-145 | | Forum: World Media and Monopoly John Hartley, Queensland University of Technology (Australia) Danny Schechter, MediaChannel.org Respondent: Ingrid Volkmer, Kennedy School of Government |
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| Fri.-Sun. May 10-12 Bldg. E51 Tang Ctr. | | Conference: Media in Transition 2: globalization and convergence http://cms.mit.edu/conf/mit2/index.html |
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