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Podcast: "Communications Forum: Humanities in the Digital Age"
Alison Byerly and Steven Pinker What is happening to the ...
Alison Byerly and Steven Pinker What is happening to the intellectual field called the humanities? Powerful political and corporate forces are encouraging, even demanding science and math-based curricula to prepare for a globalized and technological world; the astronomical rise in the cost of higher education has resulted in a drumbeat of complaints, some which question the value of the traditional liberal arts and humanities. And of course, and far more complexly, the emerging storage and communications systems of the digital age are transforming all fields of knowledge and all knowledge industries. How has and how will the humanities cope with these challenges? How have digital tools and systems already begun to transform humanistic education? How may they do so in the future? More broadly, is there a significant role for the humanities in our digital future? Our panelists will explore these and related questions in what is expected to be the first in a continuing series on this subject. Alison Bylerly is provost and executive vice president and professor of English at Middlebury College. Steven Pinker is the Johnstone Family Professor of Psychology at Harvard University and previously taught at MIT. He is the author of many essays and books including The Blank Slate: The Modern Denial of Human Nature and How the Mind Works. Download!
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Podcast: Jing Wang, "NGO2.0: When Social Action Meets Social Media"
Professor Wang discusses the genesis and implementation of a civic ...
Professor Wang discusses the genesis and implementation of a civic media project that she conceptualized and launched in China in May 2009. The project, titled NGO2.0, is a social experiment that introduces Web 2.0 thinking and social media tools to the grassroots NGOs in the underdeveloped regions of China. How has new media complicated social action and civic engagement? What are the evolving stakes for social change proponents? How are change agents coping with governmental intervention in a country where social media is held suspect? Professor Wang speculates on the emergence of a new field of inquiry -- social media action research -- while sharing insights and findings about her involvement in shaping an NGO 2.0 culture in China. Download!
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Podcast: Communications Forum: "The Online Migration of Newspapers"
David Carr and Dan Kennedy The fate of newspapers is ...
David Carr and Dan Kennedy The fate of newspapers is an ongoing subject for the Forum. This conversation explores the migration of newspapers to the internet and what that means for traditional concepts of journalism. Amid the emergence of citizens' media and the blogosphere, newspapers are adapting to a changing mediascape in which print readership is in steady decline. David Carr, culture reporter and media columnist for the New York Times, and Dan Kennedy, professor of journalism at Northeastern University and author of the Media Nation blog, explore these developments with Forum Director David Thorburn. Among their topics: the best and the worst examples of news on the net, online-only news sites, hyperlocal news and collaborative journalism, business models for online newspapers, and the impact of social media on journalism. Download!
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Podcast: Francisco Ricardo, "The Aesthetics of Projective Spatiality: New Media as Critical Objects"
One theme in the contemporary use of space involves the ...
One theme in the contemporary use of space involves the shift from production modeled around a physical, centralized "locus" to new virtual, extended and multi-axial modes of "projective" organization. We see this in new sculpture, new architecture, and, in electronic art, an expressive embrace of geographic dispersal. Although new materials, methods, and media have been central to modernist optimism, many of their resulting physical and actual constructions have been dismissed, discredited, misunderstood, or attacked. Using physical and virtual examples, Ricardo examines the strange tension between unanimous acceptance of new media and materials and the frequent rejection of new forms and structures they have made possible. Francisco Ricardo is media and contemporary art theorist. A Research Associate at the University Professors Program and co-director of the Digital Video Research Archive at Boston University, he also teaches digital media theory at the Rhode Island School of Design. His research examines historical, conceptual, and computational intersections between contemporary art and architecture, on one hand,and new media art and literature, on the other. Recent publications include Cyberculture and New Media (Rodopi, 2009) and Literary Art in Digital Performance (Continuum, 2009). Download!
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Podcast: Fox Harrell and the Imagination, Computation, and Expression Lab
Professor Fox Harrell's research group -- the Imagination, Computation, and ...
Professor Fox Harrell's research group -- the Imagination, Computation, and Expression (ICE) Lab -- builds computational systems for expressing imaginative stories and concepts -- "phantasmal media" systems. In particular, his research uses artificial intelligence/cognitive science-based techniques to understanding the human imagination to invent and better understand new forms of computational narrative, identity, games, and related types of expressive digital media. In this talk, he will discuss his recent works and collaborations including the "Living Liberia Fabric," an AI-based interactive video documentary produced in affiliation with the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Liberia to memorialize 14 years of civil war, "Generative Visual Renku," an AI-based form of generative animation, and several other projects. Harrell received the National Science Foundation (NSF) CAREER Award for his project "Computing for Advanced Identity Representation." He is currently completing a book, Phantasmal Media: An Approach to Imagination, Computation, and Expression, for the MIT Press. Harrell is Associate Professor of Digital Media at MIT in the Program in Writing and Humanistic Studies, Comparative Media Studies, and Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Lab (CSAIL). Download!
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"Making a GAMBIT Game" Series Episode One Premieres Today!
Download! From Generoso, over at our GAMBIT Game Lab: After ...
Download! From Generoso, over at our GAMBIT Game Lab: After months of filming and editing I am very happy to announce that "Making a GAMBIT Game" Episode One (in 3 parts) is up today! Check out the videos at gambit.mit.edu!
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Center for Future Civic Media hosts announcement of 2010 Knight News Challenge winners
The John S. and James L. Knight Foundation--sponsor of the ...
The John S. and James L. Knight Foundation--sponsor of the MIT Center for Future Civic Media--in June 2010 announced their 2010 Knight News Challenge winners. Together, these winners form another ground-breaking, visionary class of civic media developers, inventors, and entrepreneurs. This is video of the announcement by Knight Foundation president Alberto Ibarguen, as introduced by the Center's director Chris Csikszentmihalyi. Please join us in congratulating the winners: CityTracking, by Eric Rodenbeck, Stamen Design $400,000 To make municipal data easy to understand, CityTracking will allow users to create embeddable data visualizations that are appealing enough to spread virally and that are as easy to share as photos and videos. The Cartoonist, by Ian Bogost and Michael Mateas, Georgia Tech $378,000 To engage readers in the news, this project will create a free tool that produces cartoon-like current event games -- the game equivalent of editorial cartoons. Local Wiki, by Philip Newstrom and Mike Ivanov $350,000 Based on the successful DavisWiki.org in Davis, Calif., this project will create enhanced tools for local wikis, a new form of media that makes it easy for people to learn and share their own unique community knowledge. WindyCitizen's Real Time Ads, by Brad Flora, WindyCitizen.com $250,000 As a way to help online startups become sustainable, this project will develop an improved software interface to help sites create and sell what are known as real-time ads. GoMap Riga, by Marcis Rubenis and Kristofs Blaus, GoMap Riga $250,000 To inspire people to get involved in their community, this project will create a live, online map with local news and activities. Order in the Court 2.0, by John Davidow, WBUR $250,000 To foster greater access to the judicial process, this project will create a laboratory in a Boston courtroom to help establish best practices for digital coverage that can be replicated and adopted throughout the nation. Front Porch Forum, by Michael Wood-Lewis, Front Porch Forum $220,000 To help residents connect with others and their community, this grant will help rebuild and enhance a successful community news site, expand it to more towns and release the software so other organizations, anywhere can use it. One-Eight, by Teru Kuwayama $202,000 Broadening the perspectives that surround U.S . military operations in Afghanistan, this project will chronicle a battalion by combining reporting from embedded journalists with user-generated content from the Marines themselves. Stroome, by Nonny de la Peña and Tom Grasty, Stroome $200,000 To simplify the production of news video, Stroome will create a virtual video-editing studio. CitySeed, by Retha Hill and Cody Shotwell, Arizona State University $90,000 To inform and engage communities, CitySeed will be a mobile application that allows users to plant the "seed" of an idea and share it with others. PRX StoryMarket, by Jake Shapiro, PRX $75,000 Building on the software created by 2008 challenge winner Spot.us, this project will allow anyone to pitch and help pay to produce a story for a local public radio station. Tilemapping, by Eric Gundersen, Development Seed $74,000 To inspire residents to learn about local issues, Tilemapping will help local media create hyper-local, data-filled maps for their websites and blogs. Download!
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Video: Participatory Culture: The Culture of Democracy and Education in a Hypermediated Society, moderated by Henry Jenkins
The third panel from the Comparative Media Studies 10th anniversary ...
The third panel from the Comparative Media Studies 10th anniversary symposium. Erin Reilly is Research Director for Project New Media Literacies, a past CMS project now housed at the University of Southern California. Karen Schrier, a CMS grad, is the Director of Interactive Media and Technology at ESI Design and a part-time doctoral student at Columbia University in games and learning. Sangita Shresthova is a Czech/Nepali international development specialist, filmmaker, media scholar, and dancer, who currently manages Henry Jenkins new project on participatory culture and civic engagement at USC. Pilar Lacasa is a researcher at Alcalá University in Spain. She also works on a project for Electronic Arts in Spain about how to use commercial games in education. Mitch Resnick is Professor of Learning Research at the MIT Media Laboratory. He develops new technologies that engage children in creative learning experiences and is a principal investigator with the MIT Center for Future Civic Media, a CMS-partnered project. Download!
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Video: Creativity and Collaboration in the Digital Age, moderated by Jim Paradis
The second panel from the Comparative Media Studies 10th anniversary ...
The second panel from the Comparative Media Studies 10th anniversary symposium. Beth Coleman is Assistant Professor of Writing and New Media in the Program in Writing and Humanistic Studies and Comparative Media Studies. Her fields of research interest include new media, contemporary aesthetics, electronic music, critical theory and literature, and race theory. Philip Tan is a CMS grad who now directs the Singapore-MIT GAMBIT Game Lab, a partnership between MIT/CMS and the government of Singapore to explore new directions for the development of games as a medium. Brett Camper is a 2005 graduate of the CMS master's program, where he conducted research in part with The Education Arcade. He now works at Kickstarter, a website for social fundraising of creative ideas. Ivan Askwith is a CMS grad working in New York City as Director of Strategy at Big Spaceship, a digital creative agency. Clara Fernández-Vara is a Postdoctoral Researcher at the Singapore-MIT GAMBIT Game Lab and a graduate of the CMS master's program. Download!
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Video: Applied Humanities: Transforming Humanities Education, moderated by William Uricchio
The first panel from the Comparative Media Studies 10th anniversary ...
The first panel from the Comparative Media Studies 10th anniversary symposium. Pete Donaldson is a Professor in the MIT Literature section, which he headed from 1990 until 2005. Kurt Fendt is Research Director in Foreign Languages and Literatures and the Comparative Media Studies Graduate Program and directs the HyperStudio, a CMS research project. Scot Osterweil leads several Education Arcade projects promoting learning in math, literacy, history, science and foreign language. Rekha Murthy, CMS '05, works at the intersection of public radio and digital media, currently overseeing distribution and content strategy initiatives for PRX, an online distributor of audio programs to public radio networks, stations, and audio platforms including mobile, internet, and satellite radio. Matthew Weise, CMS '04, is Lead Game Designer at the Singapore-MIT GAMBIT Game Lab. Download!
