MIT Communications Forum

Games and Civic Engagement
Mario Armstrong
November 8, 2007
01:59:56
Eric Klopfer, director of the teacher education program at MIT, moderates a discussion about how videogames might encourage public awareness and citizenship.
Collaboration and Collective Intelligence
Mizuko Ito
April 27, 2007
01:29:30
An MIT Communications Forum panel discusses how buzz phrases like "collective intelligence" and "the wisdom of crowds" have become central in recent discussions of networked culture, and what they actually mean.
Folk Cultures and Digital Cultures
Lewis Hyde
April 27, 2007
01:51:28
An MIT Communications Forum panel discusses the emergence of a new networked culture in which participants with differing intentions and professional credentials coexist and cooperate in a complex media ecology. Are we witnessing the appearance of a new or revitalized folk culture?
Learning Through Remixing
Henry Jenkins
March 28, 2007
01:32:59
This panel is itself a remix. Each contributor has a unique project example to share, but in the end there is convergence.
Remixing Shakespeare
Diana E. Henderson
February 15, 2007
01:42:13
Professors Diana Henderson and Peter Donaldson sing Shakespeare's praises as an inspiration for crossover and convergence art, and discourse on the endless reworking of his oeuvre. Mary Fuller moderates.
Public Debate on the Limits of Intelligent Machines
David Gelernter
November 30, 2006
00:59:08
David Gelernter and Ray Kurzweil come together to celebrate the 70th anniversary of Alan Turing's seminal paper "On Computable Numbers".
Transformation: From Newspapers to the New Newsmakers
Alex Beam
September 19, 2006
01:56:34
Working journalists, media critics and digital visionaries discuss the ongoing transformation and apparent decline of American newspapers.
Television's Great Writer, David Milch
David Milch
April 20, 2006
02:04:57
David Milch discusses his career as a writer with historian David Thorburn and shows clips distilled from some of his best work. David Milch has been called television's first artistic genius, its great writer.