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Note: This Media in Transition logo was co-designed by David Thorburn and Mary Hopper.

Communications Forum, Comparative Media Studies, MIT

Directed by David Thorburn

Purpose:
The Media in Transition Project Mission: "The goal is to sharpen our awareness of the NewMedia as a thing which emerged from history. Historically informed perspective that maps a sensible middle ground between the euphoria and the panic surrounding new media. Such an understanding of emerging communications technologies, at once skeptical and moderate is the goal of the Media in Transition Project."

Note: These summaries were written by Mary Hopper while she was Managing Editor of Media in Transition.
 
There is also an archive of home pages co-edited by David Thorburn and Mary Hopper on the MIT server.
http://web.mit.edu/m-i-t/archive/

The Digital Library, April 20, 2000
Clifford Lynch, Deanna Marcum, Ann Wolpert, Marlene Manoff

"Real Artists Don't Go to MIT", February 24, 2000
John Maeda

Media in Transition Conference Plenary Sessions, October 8-10, 1999

• Childhood and Adolescence in a Mediated Culture, Moderated by Steven Lerman
  Fairy Tales Across Media, Maria Tatar
  Children, Toys, Media, Mitch Resnick
  New Media and Children's Identity, Sherry Turkle
  Historical Views: Children, Technology, Play, Henry Jenkins
  
• Democracy and New Media, Moderated by Hal Abelson
  Growing a Democratic Culture, Phil Agre
  Citizenship and the Internet, Elaine Kamarck
  Global Perspectives, Adam Powell
  Internet Democracy: American Prospects, Paul Starr
  
• Digital Books, Digital Teaching, Moderated by Peter Donaldson
  Empowering Authors in the Digital Age, Bob Stein
  New Media Design, John Maeda
  

Wiring the Classroom Conference Sessions, May 1, 1999

• Online Inquiry: From Classroom Curriculum to
  District Adoption and Everything In Between, Elliot Soloway
• New Media in the Classroom Panel,
  Henry Jenkins, Mitchel Resnick and Lynn Moore-Bensen
  
• Questions and Answers/Open Discussion
• Language and Culture Demonstrations,
  Shigeru Miyagawa, Mary Rudder, Maria D'Itria and Gilberte Furstenberg
• De-briefing, Audience and Elliot Soloway

Stealth Bombers: Invisible Information?, April 15, 1999
Robert Zalisk

The Dark Side of Information Technology, March 15, 1999
Kenneth Keniston and Venkatesh Hariharan

Beyond the Ivory Tower: Academic Discourse in the Age of Popular Media, February 18, 1999
William Calvin, Stephen J. Gould, Alan Lightman and Lester Thurow

Covering Cyberspace, Moderated by John Driscoll, November 5, 1998

• Harmon's Presentation, Amy Harmon
• Bray's Presentation, Hiawatha Bray
• Audience Discussion

Digital Journalism, Moderated by James Carey, November 12, 1998

• Ashe's Presentation, Reid Ashe
• Fixmer's Presentation, Rob Fixmer
• Audience Discussion

Digital Cities:Urban Environments and Interactive Technologies, Sept 25, 1998

• Welcome and Introduction, William Mitchell
• Emerging Cultural Geographies of Cyberspace,
  Malcolm McCullough, Thomas Campanella and Anne Beamish
• Designing Interactive Virtual Worlds, Bruce Joffe and Linda Stone
• General Discussion - Morning Session, Moderated by Bernard Frieden
• Four Visions of the Digital City and Panel Discussion,
  Theresa Duncan, Shigeru Miyagawa, Glorianna Davenport, Kurt Fendt and Ellen Crocker
• General Discussion - Afternoon Session, Moderated by William Mitchell

Democracy and Digital Media Conference, May 8-9, 1998

• Bearings, David Thorburn and Lloyd Morrisett
• Changing Conceptions of Democracy, Lawrence Grossman and Michael Schudson
• On-line Tools and Democracy, Eric Loeb, David Winston and Ellen Hume
• Democracy and Cyberspace,Ira Magaziner, Benjamin Barber and Joshua Cohen
• The New Media and the Old Regime, Paul Starr and Yaron Ezrahi
• Media Access and Media Power, Doug Schuler and Nolan Bowie
• The Agenda-Setting Function of Media, Christopher Harper and Benjamin Barber
• Summary Views, Roger Hurwitz, Henry Jenkins and Michael Schudson

Race and Cyberspace, April 23, 1998
Glenn Kaino, Tara McPherson, Erika Muhammad and Brenda Cotto-Escalera

© Mary E. Hopper [MEHopper] | MEHopper@TheWorld.com [posted 01/01/01 | revised 02/02/02]