Traditional social networks fueled Twitter’s spread
Site’s U.S. growth relied primarily on media attention, geographic proximity of users.
How to get the message across on climate change
As the science of climate change gets clearer, the public gets more confused. Are there ways to fix that?
Ethan Zuckerman, cyberscholar and activist, to lead MIT Center for Civic Media
He will direct MIT's influential group of technologists and academics committed to empowering communities around the globe by inventing and testing civic media tools and practices.
Denialism: Media in the Age of Disinformation
Panel discussion presented by the MIT Museum and the Cambridge Science Festival
Tom Pettitt on the Gutenberg Parenthesis
Presented by the MIT Communications Forum — hosted by James Paradis with respondent Peter Donaldson
Video production studio opens in Building 24
New facility offers the latest video production technology to the MIT community.
MIT Comparative Media Studies celebrates 10th anniversary
With a day-long symposium, CMS marked 10 years of leading higher education's move toward applied humanities.
Guerrilla reporting in ‘difficult places’
Activists describe their experiences using new technology to build free media networks in countries with scant resources or oppressive regimes.
FCC's Eugene Huang on a National Broadband Policy
Presented by the Center for Future Civic Media and the MIT Communications Forum
Communications Forum on The Culture Beat and New Media
Featuring Bill Marx, Douglas McLennan, moderated by David Thorburn
Media Lab Complex formally opens this week
MIT community is invited to a free open house on Friday, followed by a public conference with architect Fumihiko Maki the following day.