The first Media in Transition conference was held in 1999 and marked the launch of the MIT graduate program in Comparative Media Studies. Since then, six biennial conferences have been held, co-sponsored by CMS and the MIT Communications Forum, with each new conference generating a more internationally diverse audience than its predecessor. 

Previous conferences:

Media in Transition inaugural conference (1999)

MiT2: globalization and convergence (2002)

MiT3: television (2003)

MiT4: the work of stories (2005)

MiT5: creativity, ownership and collaboration in the digital age (2007)

MiT6: stone and papyrus, storage and transmission (2009)

MiT7: unstable platforms -- the promise and peril of transition (2011)