For Those Who Live in Boston...
Henry Jenkins is the Provost's Professor of Communication, Journalism, and Cinematic Arts at the University of Southern California. He arrived at USC in Fall 2009 after spending the past decade as the Director of the MIT Comparative Media Studies Program and the Peter de Florez Professor of Humanities. He is the author and/or editor of twelve books on various aspects of media and popular culture, including Textual Poachers: Television Fans and Participatory Culture, Hop on Pop: The Politics and Pleasures of Popular Culture and From Barbie to Mortal Kombat: Gender and Computer Games. His newest books include Convergence Culture: Where Old and New Media Collide and Fans, Bloggers and Gamers: Exploring Participatory Culture. He is currently co-authoring a book on "spreadable media" with Sam Ford and Joshua Green. He has written for Technology Review, Computer Games, Salon, and The Huffington Post.
For Those Who Live in Boston...
MIT COMMUNICATIONS FORUM
Why Newspapers Matter
Thursday, October 5, 5-7 pm, Bartos Theater, MIT Media Lab
Jerome Armstrong (Crashing the Gate), Pablo Boczkowski (Digitizing the News), Danta
Chinni (Project for Excellence in Journalism), David Thorburn, (MIT)
Working journalists, media critics and digital visionaries discuss the ongoing transformation and apparent decline of American newspapers. Topics to be addressed: the aging of the newspaper reader, the emergence of citizens' media and the blogosphere, the fate of local news and the local newspaper, news and information in the networked future.
This is the third in a series of forums that asks Will Newspapers Survive? Also in the
series: The Emergence of Citizens' Media (Sept. 19), News, Information and the Wealth of Networks (Sept. 21).
Series co-sponsor: Ethics and Excellence in Journalism Foundation
Forums are free and open to the public.
More information: http://web.mit.edu/comm-forum
A reception in the lower atrium of the Media Lab follows the forum.
