
Description: he CMS Colloquium Series is intended to provide an intimate and informal exchange between a visiting speaker and CMS faculty, students, visiting scholars and friends. Subjects relate to the various media we create and consume each day: film, TV, comics, videogames, the internet, and the vast body of emerging media that's being created as you read this.
The election of an African-American president in November 2008 has been hailed as a transforming event. But has Obama's ascension transformed anything? Many people's answer to that question changed this summer when a famous Harvard professor was arrested at his home in Cambridge. Are the harsh realities of race and class in the U.S. clearer now or murkier, following the media tsunami of Gatesgate? And has this polarizing event given greater visibility to racial minorities in the media's coverage of politics? How are race issues and racial politics covered in our national media, and what are the implications of the demise of major city newspapers for the coverage of race and politics? Juan Williams of NPR and Fox News discussed these and related questions in a candid conversation with Phillip Thompson, associate professor of urban politics in the Department of Urban Studies and Planning at MIT, and David Thorburn, Professor of Literature and Director of the MIT Communications Forum. This forum is the first of two this term in our ongoing civic media series, a collaboration of the Communications Forum and the Media Lab's Center for Future Civic Media.
Audio|Fri, 9 Oct 2009
|high schoolfound at10:50, 25:50
“…could I break through now I was the editor of my junior high school paper editor my high school paper. I worked when I went off to a prep school I worked as a journalist covering things like. NAACP. Meetings or …”
“…out of that era and then I had taken over as host. James Brown who does CBS football was another host it for awhile. And so we waited and do stories -- issues and concerned major …”
Hanna Rose Shell, a historian and media artist, is as Assistant Professor in the Program on Science, Technology and Society at MIT. This was a talk about camouflage framed by the question of "how not to be seen"--in film, on film, as film. In the first part, Shell introduced "how not to be seen" in terms of the aspiration for, and actualization of concealment in both filmic and natural ecologies through mixed-media practices that simultaneously incorporate and subvert the photographic media of reconnaissance. In the second part, Shell screened and discussed her film-in-progress, called Blind , about the phenomenology of camouflage. Blind as in blindness, and blind as in that actively constructed structure intended for the concealment of a hunter from her game. Shell's book Hide and Seek: Camouflage and the Media of Reconnaissance will be published by Zone Books.
Audio|Thu, 1 Oct 2009
|new zealandfound at35:11, 2:41
“…the approach than usual background educational film making. By the time in New Zealand born director began working in live action documentary in 1941. I gained acclaim for his direct cinema -- used in conjunction with Islam right about that have a kind dean and John Pearson. For which she is known for painting scratching and canceling directly on to found. Here on the left. He is a single stealth from the animated film he made called trade -- In which she had begun incorporating documentary outtakes which is to say live action footage. And -- …”
“…were duels with the topic she's talking about tonight -- camouflage. Her new book. . I assume from -- talk is gonna come from network. Is called hide and seek camouflage and the media of reconnaissance. It's …”
Ethan Gilsdorf discussed some of the themes of his new book, Fantasy Freaks and Gaming Geeks: An Epic Quest for Reality Among Role Players, Online Gamers, and Other Dwellers of Imaginary Realms , a blend of travelogue, pop culture analysis, and memoir as forty-year-old former D&D addict Gilsdorf crisscrosses America, the world, and other worlds--from Boston to Wisconsin, France to New Zealand, and Planet Earth to the realm of Aggramar. He asks: Who are these gamers and fantasy fans? What explains the irresistible appeal of such "escapist" adventures? How do the players balance their escapist urges with the kingdom of adulthood? Gilsdorf talked about the culture's discomfort with the geek/nerd/gamer stereotype and looked at society's ambivalent relationship with gaming and fantasy play, and the origins of that prejudice, as well as the author's own past misgivings and final acceptance of his "geek" identity.
Audio|Fri, 18 Sep 2009
|high schoolfound at1:57, 5:23
“…was not. A science -- he's about -- Ergonomic tree. High school and it's the end of my career the map and -- that happen in my senior year right to sort of didn't …”
“…meant to people and cost him the -- on on online gaming World of Warcraft. . It happen -- an -- that went around and traveled across the country and also went to England France and and human. …”
The entire video is available for download (.m4v, 305mb). Also viewable in three parts, viewable online: Part 1: The lecture Part 2: Conversation between JMS and Henry Jenkins Part 3: Audience Q&A All videos, including clips, are available at the CMS page at TechTV: http://techtv.mit.edu/collections/cms This year's Julius Schwartz Lecture speaker was transmedia creator J. Michael Straczynski, who has most recently entered the motion picture arena, writing the period drama Changeling for Clint Eastwood and Angelina Jolie, adapting such books as Lensman for Ron Howard, World War Z for Brad Pitt's company, and They Marched Into Sunlight for Tom Hanks and Paul Greengrass, as well as reviving Forbidden Planet for Warner Bros. and selling two new original movies, The Flickering Light and Proving Ground to Universal and Tom Cruise's United Artists, respectively. He has also begun work on Last Words, a pilot for a new TV series for the TNT network.
Video|Thu, 3 Sep 2009
|ron howardfound at22:18, 14:54
“…the doing not the result. And it went that we later to Ron Howard who bought it. And individually that we can start it. And then to Clint Eastwood which -- And suddenly I've got him Mr. T V guy. To mr. it was filled rider but overnight. And knowing who …”
“…for the UN human rights who was bigger and radio age -- Orson Wells are told to put together. Who was well -- our nation's finest writers got realistic in the fifties period off the edge …”
A long lifetime of developing electronic consumer products has taken Ralph Baer from vacuum tube through microprocessor designs. Although the technology has undergone vast changes, the underlying motivation for, and execution of, the process has not changed radically. Baer cited numerous examples of specific product designs that made it all the way through the process to a successful product and drew some conclusions from that experience that shed some light on the continuum of invention, development, and marketing novel product ideas.
Audio|Fri, 29 May 2009
|back to schoolfound at18:42, 21:49
“…effective shape. Which racist to smuggle them. That's about two months went back to school and I graduated with a degree in television -- your theory. During my time as they -- in Chicago. Area and a …”
“…that next story here -- was him -- achievement in terms of consumer electronics RC. Packed at that time -- went into the army I knew the Osce to Manuel tried to review that was the …”
Presidential elections are considered decisions on politicians' virtues and reflections of public values. On an ongoing basis, polling data and snap punditry engorge the body politic between elections. Taken together, these judgments on leadership and partisanship - on statecraft and stagecraft - lie at the core of democracy today. Tucker Eskew explores the permanent campaign of the last ten years. What is "message discipline" in an era of atomized opinion leadership - a necessity or a fool's errand? Are the parties inevitably devoted to different styles of communication, and is this era's favored approach inextricably the domain of the new Administration? Can unfettered dialogue, as an expression of freedom, be a pure benefit to society, or is "Fire!" being texted in a crowded coffee house? Consistent with his conservatism, Eskew will have firm answers to some of these and other questions. Reflecting his consulting firm ViaNovo's "new ways", he welcomed dialogue on all.
Audio|Mon, 4 May 2009
|white house press corpsfound at1:15:37, 25:13
“…the office of media affairs. Media affairs is basically. Everything outside the white house press corps. . It is largely focused on regional press. And this is an institution great decline by mainstream press -- newspaper reporters more specifically. But eight years ago there -- many of them and it was a fairly thriving sort of practice of journalists. It was fair to say it was easier to tell. Stories to them that were. Less filtered. Sort of prism of Washington insider mainstream white house press corps since bill. What does that mean. We've got more of our message through in regional. News. And on certainly on conservative talk …”
“…far as we sort of slavish consistency. At this okay I'm standing Joe Biden says today. He spends about the food I swear I flew -- into. -- where were encouraged to call it and it's …”
MiT6 Plenary 5 Panelists: Mary Bryson, University of British Columbia Marlene Manoff, MIT Libraries John Durham Peters, University of Iowa Thomas Pettitt, University of Southern Denmark Moderator: James Paradis, MIT Writing and Humanistic Studies
Audio|Tue, 28 Apr 2009
|john edwardfound at13:04, 1:51
“…is populism publics and FaceBook that gave us proposition eight in California. John Edward Campbell's new month discussion of race. Kate Tennessee and Nancy bend light and -- in did you Nady. And Adam -- of the white power movement racism and hate speech in the race nationality and digital technology session. Provided an excellent example. Of methodologies. As TU ET into the complexities of public's fears. In the YouTube session this morning Henry Jenkins brilliant critical history of YouTube temper -- Reminded us of the risks and decoupling self expression. And and built options to act. …”
“…social and political implications of building library collections and the impact of digital technologies. . On both humanities scholarship and the role of libraries. Several of her published essays are available through MI t.'s. Our third speaker …”
MiT6 Plenary 4 | Panel Questions Panelists: Gavin Grant, Small Bear Press Jennifer Jackson, Donald Maass Literary Agency Robert Miller, HarperCollins Bob Stein, Institute for the Future of the Book Moderator: Geoff Long, MIT
Audio|Tue, 28 Apr 2009
|best sellerfound at1:57, 11:33
“…includes among others -- times bestselling fantasy writer Jim butcher USA today best seller and bishop and Hugo nominee jay lake. She works closely with their clients to developers strategies -- a frequent speaker at -- workshops and conferences and a dedicated advocate for authors. Bob Miller. In April 2008 Bob Miller joined harpercollins publishers as president of our studio. This new division intends to address on the more vexing issues facing the book industry today including -- returns an online readership. The new unit will publish books in multiple physical and digital formats combining best practices of trade publishing while leveraging Internet based strategies for sales marketing and distribution …”
“…what you would like as of they know that if they -- best seller that you you'll probably just buy those -- Instead so what am hoping that the future of publishing will bring is somebody …”
MiT6 Plenary 3 | Panel Questions Panelists: Claude Mussou, INA France Pelle Snickars, Swedish National Archive Richard Wright, BBC Research and Information Moderator: William Uricchio, MIT and Utrecht University
Audio|Tue, 28 Apr 2009
|book publishedfound at6:42, 11:09
“…early history of of movies. And among his recent publications is a book. . Published in 2006 called media cultures. Responses to post 9/11 in Germany and the United States. . Andy has a forthcoming book titled we Europeans media. New call activities and Europe. He's leading media theorist and -- patent and …”
“…that -- Burgess is in will be the book that chambers is Josh green wrote press which of these YouTube books will be out first. LA's head of research at the Swedish national wipers and that …”
MiT6 Plenary 2 | Panel Questions Panelists: Jessica Clark, Center for Social Media (American University) Ellen Hume, Center for Future Civic Media (MIT) Persephone Miel, Media Re:public and Internews Network Respondents: Dean Jansen, Participatory Culture Foundation Jake Shapiro, Public Radio Exchange (PRX) Moderator: Pat Aufderheide, American University
Audio|Fri, 24 Apr 2009
|open sourcefound at14:05, 19:12
“…Al-Jazeera. And dynamic content so this is -- local bishop TD it's. Open source and it's portable different site can install. What are -- to do is report in from their mobile phones so during the …”
“…something that we've created it's actually a dot com rather than an open source. . Project which is what we specialize. In but seek quick fixes the kind of example of what I'm excited about and it's. …”