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Conference: We Wired the Classroom, Now What?
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CANCELLED This Forum has been cancelled owing to the recent court decision involving Napster. We hope to reschedule this event.
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Forum: The Digital Museum
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Forum: Intellectual Property in a Digital Era:
Consumption and Politics on the World Wide Web
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Forum: Copyright and Globalization in the Age of
Computer Networks
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Conference: Race in Digital Space | |
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Forum: Female Entrepreneurs and Cyberspace
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Forum: Public Intellectuals:
The Cyberspace Generation Jeff Bates, editor of Slashdot Stephen Duncombe, author of Notes from Underground: Zines and ... Alternative Culture Annalee Newitz, editor of The Bad Subjects Anthology |
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Forum: New Media and the
Elections Stephen Ansolabehere, Political Science, MIT Chappell Lawson, Political Science, MIT Anna Greenberg, Kennedy School of Government, Harvard |
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Conference: Digital
Cinema |
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Forum: Monopoly Control,
Media Access Speaker: William McChesney, author of Rich Media, Poor Democracy [Sponsors: Technology & Culture Forum, authors@mit] |
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Forum: Journalism and Cyberspace Steven Johnson, editor in chief, FEED magazine Rich Meislin, editor in chief, New York Times Digital |
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1999-2000
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10-11 Feb |
Conference: Video
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Forum: Real Artists Don't
Go to MIT Speaker: John Maeda, MIT Media Lab |
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Forum: Youth in a Digital
Era Speakers: Jon Katz, Author of Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho Henry Jenkins, Co-editor of From Barbie to Mortal Kombat: Gender and Computer Games |
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Media and Imagination:
Science Fiction Readings Nalo Hopkinson, author of Midnight Robber Connie Willis, author of The Doomsday Book |
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Media and Imagination:
Science Fiction Readings Ben Bova, author of Return to Mars |
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Media and Imagination:
Science Fiction Readings Greg Bear, author of Darwin's Radio Gregory Benford, author of Cosm |
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Thur |
Forum: The Digital Library Clifford A. Lynch, Coalition for Networked Information Deanna Marcum, Council on Library and Information Resources |
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Forum: The Science in Science
Fiction Speakers: Athena Andreadis, author of To Seek Out New Life : The Biology of Star Trek Anne Simon, author of The Real Science Behind the X Files: Microbes, Meteorites, and Mutants |
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Forum: The Power of Images
in Communicating Science and Technology Felice Frankel, Artist in Residence, MIT Respondent: Boyce Rensberger, Director, Knight Journalism Fellowships |
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Forum: Undergraduate
Writing Nancy Sommers, Director of Expository Writing, Harvard Respondents: Steven Pinker and David Thorburn, MIT |
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Forum: Cultural Studies
Today: Australian Perspectives Leading Australian scholars on new directions in cultural interpretation. Speakers: John Hartley, Cardiff University; Andrew Jakubowicz, The University of Technology, Sydney, Australia; Alan McKee, Edith Cowan University, Australia; Virginia Nightingale, University of Western Sydney, Nepean, Australia |
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8-10 Oct |
Conference: Media in Transition
Closing event of the Media in Transition Project agenda abstracts speakers registration |
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Thur |
Forum: Cinema of Outsiders: The New American Independent Film Movement Emanuel Levy, Arizona State University Respondent: Bruce Jenkins, Curator, Harvard Film Archive |
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Forum: Beyond the Ivory
Tower: Academic Discourse and the Public Intellectual Alan Lightman, author of Einstein's Dreams Steven Pinker, author of The Language Instinct Gerald Early, author of The Culture of Bruising
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1998-1999
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Thur |
Forum: Beyond the Ivory
Tower: Academic Discourse in the Age of Popular Media Stephen J. Gould, Harvard Lester Thurow, MIT Alan Lightman, MIT William Calvin, University of Washington Organizer: Saleem Ali, MIT |
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Media and Imagination:
Science Fiction Readings Future Boston series Alex Jablakov, Steven Popkas, David Alexander Smith, Sarah Smith |
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Lecture in Comparative Media: Paris again or Prag: Who will save lit from com? Michael Joyce |
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Lecture in Comparative Media: The Future of the Past James O'Donnell, Univ. of Pennsylvania, author of Avatars of the World |
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Lecture in Comparative Media: Film Sound -- All of It Rick Altman, author of The American Film Musical |
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Media and Imagination:
Science Fiction Readings Neil Gaiman, The Sandman series Craig Shaw Gardner, Cineverse series |
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Thur |
Forum: Stealth Bombers:
Invisible Information? Speaker: Robert Zalisk, writer and co-producer of Stealth: Flying Invisible, has produced programs for television, mainly PBS, for over a decade. An award-winning producer at NOVA for several years, he is a former Knight Science Journalism Fellow at the Institute, and has also worked in radio and print. |
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Thur |
Media and Imagination:
Science Fiction Readings Lois McMaster Bujold, Vorkosigan series Melissa Scott, Shapes of Their Hearts |
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Conference: Wiring the
Classroom: Moving Beyond Access in K-12 Education
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Media and Imagination: Science Fiction
Readings Hal Clement, Mission of Gravity Jeffrey A. Carver, The Chaos Chronicles |
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Symposium: Digital Cities Urban Environments and Interactive Technologies Commentary from urban planners and other scholars as well as hypermedia demos that recreate city spaces. Among the speakers: Theresa Duncan, designer of Zero Zero; Bruce Joffe, co-designer of SimCity; Linda Stone, Microsoft; Malcolm McCullough, Carnegie Mellon; William Mitchell, MIT. Agenda |
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Forum: Hypertext in Historical
Context: Vannevar Bush and Ted Nelson Revisited Organizer and Moderator: Mary Hopper, MIT Commentary: Mark Bernstein, Eastgate Systems, Inc. |
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Fri-Sun |
International Symposium: Internet
Governance Annual Conference: Computer Professionals for Social Responsibility |
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Media and Imagination:
Science Fiction Readings Pat Cadigan, Mindplayers |
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Thur |
Forum: Journalism and
Cyberspace 1 "Covering Cyberspace" Hiawatha Bray, Boston Globe Julian Dibbell, author of My Tiny Life Amy Harmon, New York Times Moderator: John Driscoll, MIT Media Lab |
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Forum: Journalism and
Cyberspace 2 "Digital Journalism" Reid Ashe, Tampa Tribune Ingrid Volkmer, Univ. of Augsburg (Germany) Rob Fixmer, New York Times Moderator: James Carey, Columbia University |
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Media and Imagination:
Science Fiction Readings Michael Resnick, Kirinyaga series Alexander Jablokov, Nimbus |
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Conference: Next
Generation Internet Co-sponsor: MIT Industrial Liaison Program [For registration and other information: 617-258-9419] |
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1997-1998 Calendar |
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The
Aesthetics of Transition: 1 Symposium: Art and Entertainment in Periods of Transition David Jay Bolter, Georgia Tech Scott Bukatman, Stanford Richard Grusin, Georgia Tech Henry Jenkins, MIT David Thorburn, MIT |
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Media and
Imagination: Science Fiction Readings Samuel Delany Octavia Butler |
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Tue-Thu |
The
Aesthetics of Transition: 2 Tom Gunning, University of Chicago Three Lectures: The Cinema and Other Media at the Turn of the Century |
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Martin
Marks, MIT A program of music and early silent films |
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The
Aesthetics of Transition: 3 Aesthetics, Identitites, Information Thryza Goodeve, NYU Steven Johnson, Feed Magazine |
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Media and
Imagination: Science Fiction Readings Bruce Sterling |
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Forum:
"Futures That Never Arrived" Jeff Hecht, New Scientist Magazine Lisa Gitelman, Rutgers University |
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Forum:
"The On-Line Bookstore" Jeffrey Rayport, Harvard Business School |
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Wed |
Media and
Imagination: Science Fiction Readings Michael Burstein Nancy Kress |
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Symposium:
"Race and Cyberspace" co-sponsor: MIT Women's Studies Program Tara McPherson, Univ. of Southern California Glenn Kaino, Los Angeles Center for Photographic Studies Brenda Cotto-Escalera, MIT. Moderator/Respondent. |
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Forum:
"Democratainment": TV, Popular Journalism and
Citizenship. John Hartley, Cardiff University, Wales. |
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Media and
Imagination: Science Fiction Readings J. Michael Straczynski Alexander Jablokov |
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Fri-Sat |
National
Conference: Democracy and Digital Media How are the new media affecting American democracy? A conversation among scholars, media professionals and political insiders about old and new media and the democratic process. |
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Media and
Imagination: Science Fiction Readings Frederik Pohl, the prolific shaper of American science fiction, will join James Patrick Kelly, author of Wildlife, to inaugurate a series of readings and discussions by major science fiction writers who have given special attention to problems of media in transition. Each session will pair a distinguished established writer with an emerging younger one, and each will aim for lively interaction with the audience. Readings will normally be held on third Thursday of each month. |
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| Wed 15 Oct 7-10 pm Room 34-101 |
Science Fiction
Readings Gregory Benford, Univ of California, Timescape Joe Haldeman, The Forever War |
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| Fri-Sat 24-25 Oct |
Transformations of the Book A national conference on the ways in which digital technologies are transforming traditional literary and humanistic materials. Leading scholars and designers will demonstrate hypertext and web-based projects that are enhancing and reconfiguring the landmark texts and materials of humanist culture. |
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| Thu 6 Nov 4 pm Bartos Theater |
Virtual
Communities: Questions, Theories, Opportunities Communications Forum A panel discussion, followed by dialogue with the audience. Among the speakers: Amy Bruckman, founder of MediaMOO,a virtual site for media researchers, and MOOSE Crossing, designed as a learning environment for children; Marc A. Smith, co-editor, Communities in Cyberspace; Barry Wellman, Professor of Sociology, University of Toronto; and Howard Rheingold, author of The Virtual Community: Homesteading on the Electronic Frontier. Rheingold writes: "Before our societies can make intelligent decisions about deploying and regulating computer-mediated communication technologies, we need a base of knowledge. We need to make systematic inquiries into the way e-mail, virtual communities, MUDs, chat, websurfing affect us as individuals and as a society. We need to design a multidisciplinary research program for anthropologists, psychiatrists, social psychologists, sociologists, political scientists, in order to understand the way living in cyberspace is likely to shape the way we think, feel, behave, communicate, govern ourselves." |
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Science Fiction
Readings Orson Scott Card, Ender's Game. Allen Steele,Orbital Decay |
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Science Fiction
Readings Ellen Kushner, Thomas The Rhymer Sarah Zettel, Fools War
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