CMS Colloquium Podcast
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Podcast: "The Harry Potter Alliance: How the Myth of Harry Potter Is Changing the World"
Andrew Slack, founder of The HP Alliance, an organization seeking ...
Andrew Slack, founder of The HP Alliance, an organization seeking to engage Harry Potter fans in social and political activism, discusses the origins and motivations behind the group and their current project to raise awareness about the genocide in Darfur. Download Here!
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Podcast: "This One's Gonna Be a Slobberknocker": A Q&A with WWE's "Good Ol' J.R." Jim Ross
Jim Ross, the longtime voice of World Wrestling Entertainment, joins ...
Jim Ross, the longtime voice of World Wrestling Entertainment, joins CMS graduate student Sam Ford to discuss the unique blend of reality and fiction in the world of American professional wrestling. Ross will talk about how WWE’s distribution across multiple media platforms creates an interesting storytelling atmosphere, and he will share experiences from his many years in the television industry as wrestling has moved from broadcast to cable and pay-per-view and now to DVD distribution, on-demand, and the Web. See Ross’s Web site at www.jrsbarbq.com. NOTE: This was the first of two colloquia about American professional wrestling organized this term by Sam Ford ’07. Ford taught a spring class on the pro wrestling industry and is a researcher for the Convergence Culture Consortium. He is a weekly columnist for the Ohio County Times-News in Hartford, Ky., and performs in pro wrestling events on occasion. Download Here!
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Podcast: "Love May Not Be in the Afternoon Anymore: A Q&A with Soap Opera Writer Kay Alden About How the Genre Is (and/or Should Be) Changing with the Times"
Longtime soap opera writer Kay Alden talks about her decades ...
Longtime soap opera writer Kay Alden talks about her decades in the industry with CMS graduate student Sam Ford ’07 who is writing his thesis about soap operas. Alden worked for more than 30 years on The Young and the Restless, the top-rated daytime drama that she served as head writer for from 1998 to 2006. Recently, she took on a consulting position with ABC Daytime and continues working with the genre during what is seen as a period of substantial change for the daytime television industry. Ford’s thesis, “"As the World Turns in a Convergence Environment",” focuses on the shifting technologies and cultural patterns that are affecting daytime television. Download Here!
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Podcast: Media in Transition 5: "Summary Perspectives"
What have we learned? What have we accomplished? Where do ...
What have we learned? What have we accomplished? Where do we go from here? The full speaker list can be found at this sessions' website as well as a RealAudio stream. The Media in Transitions conference is a joint effort of MIT Comparative Media Studies and the MIT Communications Forum Download Here!
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Podcast: Media in Transition 5: "Reproduction, Mimicry, Critique and Distribution Systems in Visual Art"
Today, artists working in new media, including video, web projects ...
Today, artists working in new media, including video, web projects and music confront contested and conceptually confusing terrain in which reproduction can be as perfect as the artist desires and endless copies theoretically possible. Yet many find the lack of clarity stimulating and a compelling space in which to break new ground. Why are so many artists today mimicking new forms of visual culture and their distribution systems -- even at the risk of confusion with their popular sources? How are artists debating the value of tightly controlling distribution of media art versus allowing its wider reproduction? What are the tradeoffs artists make between creating artificial scarcity to increase a work's unique value and increasing its visibility through broader reproduction? How are the needs of those who teach and write on video going to be met in the face of hyper-commodification? Download Here! The full speaker list can be found at this sessions' website as well as a RealAudio stream. The Media in Transitions conference is a joint effort of MIT Comparative Media Studies and the MIT Communications Forum
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Podcast: What's Live Got To Do With It?
It is possible that live performance is not so live ...
It is possible that live performance is not so live any more. In this talk, Sharon Mazer looked at the ways that audience “performances” may be seen to challenge the live-ness of the onstage action in the Road to Wrestlemania 23, which the WWE takes to New Zealand in early 2007, and in Te Matatini, the National Kapa Haka Festival, a biennial Maori cultural performance competition happening that same weekend. Mazer is head of the Department of Theatre and Film Studies at the University of Canterbury (Christchurch, New Zealand). Her book Professional Wrestling: Sport and Spectacle was published by the University Press of Mississippi, and her current research is focused on Maori performance. Download Here!
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Podcast: Media in Transition 5: "Learning through Remixing"
Historically, engineers learned by taking machines apart and putting them ...
Historically, engineers learned by taking machines apart and putting them back together again. Can young people also learn how culture works by sampling and remixing the materials of their culture? Might this ability to appropriate and transform valued cultural materials be recognized as an important new kind of cultural competency, what some people are calling the new media literacies? How might we meaningfully incorporate this fascination with mash-ups into our pedagogical practices and what values should we place on the kinds of new content which young people produce by working on and working over existing cultural materials? In this program, we will showcase a range of contemporary projects that embrace a hands-on approach to contemporary and classical media materials as a means of getting young people to think critically about their own roles as future media producers and consumers. Download Here! The full speaker list can be found at this sessions' website as well as a RealAudio stream. The Media in Transitions conference is a joint effort of MIT Comparative Media Studies and the MIT Communications Forum
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Podcast: Media in Transition 5: "Copyright, Fair Use and the Cultural Commons
How has the American tradition of intellectual property law understood ...
How has the American tradition of intellectual property law understood the relationship between originality and tradition? What rights do artists and educators have to draw inspiration from or comment on existing works in existing media? What habits, beliefs, legal and policy decisions threaten the emergence of a more participatory culture? What have people done, and what can we do to protect the Fair Use rights of artists, educators, and amateurs so that explore the opportunities created by new media and a networked society? The full speaker list can be found at this sessions' website as well as a RealAudio stream. Download Here! The Media in Transitions conference is a joint effort of MIT Comparative Media Studies and the MIT Communications Forum
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Podcast: Media in Transition 5: "Collaboration and Collective Intelligence"
"Collective Intelligence" and "the wisdom of crowds" have become central ...
"Collective Intelligence" and "the wisdom of crowds" have become central buzz phrases in recent discussions of networked culture. But what do they really mean? What do we know about the new forms of collaboration that is emerging as people work together across geographic distances online? Are we working, learning, socializing, creating, consuming, and playing in new ways as a result of the emergence of our participation in online communities? What have we learned over the past decade that may help us to design more powerful communities in the real world? What lessons can we carry from our Second Lives into our First? The full speaker list can be found at this sessions' website as well as a RealAudio stream. The Media in Transitions conference is a joint effort of MIT Comparative Media Studies and the MIT Communications Forum Download Here!
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Podcast: Media in Transition 5: "Folk Cultures and Digital Cultures"
Digital visionaries such as Yochai Benkler have described the emergence ...
Digital visionaries such as Yochai Benkler have described the emergence of a new networked culture in which participants with differing intentions and professional credentials co-exist and cooperate in a complex media ecology. Are we witnessing the appearance of a new or revitalized folk culture? Are there older traditions and practices from print culture or oral societies that resemble these emerging digital practices? What sort of amateur or grassroots creativity have been studied or documented by literary scholars, anthropologists, and students of folklore? How were creativity and collaboration understood in earlier cultures? Are there lessons or cautions for digital culture in the near or distant past? The full speaker list can be found at this sessions' website as well as a RealAudio stream. The Media in Transitions conference is a joint effort of MIT Comparative Media Studies and the MIT Communications Forum Download Here!
