For those of us who miss Henry Jenkins’ familiar figure around the MIT campus, last night’s Farewell at the MIT Communications Forum was a delight. For those of you who missed it you’ll just have to wait until the audio and video appear on the Communications Forum website. It’s worth […]
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MIT Communications Forum, April 24, 2008 Speakers: Lance Bennett, Ingeborg Endter, Alan Khazei, moderated by Mitchel Resnick The current generation of young citizens is growing up in an age of unprecedented access to information. Will this change their understanding of democracy? What factors will shape their involvement in the political […]
MIT Communications Forum, April 10, 2008 Speakers: Yochai Benkler and Cass Sunstein, moderated by Henry Jenkins Much discussion of our impending digital future is insular and without nuance. Skeptics talk mainly among themselves, while utopians and optimists also keep company mainly within their own tribal cultures. The forum challenges this […]
A new type of generation gap was in evidence at this year’s Online News Association conference in Toronto last week. The gap was not defined by age in years, but by attitudes toward journalism in a digital age–particularly among experienced (mostly print) journalists who viewed the transition to online news […]