Media In Transition

media and imagination:
science fiction readings

april 15, 1998
7-10 pm
room 6-120
Michael Burstein
Nancy Kress

may 4, 1998
7-10 pm
Kresge Auditorium
J. Michael Straczynski
Alexander Jablokov

democracy and digital media

a national conference
free and open to the public

may 8-9, 1998

How are new media affecting American democracy? A conversation among scholars, media professionals and political insiders about old and new media and the democratic process. aesthetics, identities, information agenda

speakers

registration





	peter donaldson: a parent reads GeekCereal shelley jackson: stitch bitch: the patchwork girl henry jenkins: contacting the past michael joyce: forms of future



	new web, old metaphors

This site is an experiment in using the web itself as one element in an investigation of the significance of emerging communications media. The project will include lectures, panel discussions, and a range of virtual events.

A collaboration of the Markle Foundation, the MIT Communications Forum and the MIT Comparative Media Studies Program, the Media in Transition project hopes to encourage a conversation that crosses intellectual, professional and cultural boundaries -- a citizenly conversation that is historically aware, uncontaminated by jargon, rigorous, accessible.


		director: david thorburn webdesign: phillip hallam-baker