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The second Media in Transition conference at MIT brings together scholars, artists and critics from around the globe to discuss globalization and convergence and their relationship to film, television, the Internet and journalism.
There is something here for anyone who thinks about culture, media, technology, science, art and communications.
Some subjects include:
Some subjects being covered:
Television
· 9/11 and Domestic Television Programming
· Evolution of Digital Television
· Arab satellite TV
· Italian TV
· Television in the Context of Psychological Warfare, Public Opinion Polling and Science Policy
· BBC v. Channel 4
· Myth, Image and the Ideology of Television
· TV Sports and Cultural Change
· Indian Television
· “McTelevision”
· Globalization and Television Documentary
· Reality TV in Hungary
· American-Canadian TV Production
Film
· World Horror Cinema
· The Jesus Film
· Japanese Adult Videos in Hong Kong
· Bombay Cinema
· Hollywood and Germany
· Hollywood as Instrument of European Integration
· Matricidal Cinema: Peter Jackson’s Heavenly Creatures
· Cinema Cultures of South India
· Resisting the Nation: John Sayles' Men with Guns
Internet
· Internet Opening Up China?
· Electronic-Age Literacy
· Vietnamese Diaspora Online
· Online Community for Latino/a Visual Artists
· Web Aesthetics
· “How I Found an Online Adda”
· Use of the Internet in Japanese-Korean Textbook Controversy
· A Case Study of the Yam Web site
· Digital Citizenship
· African Computer-Based Narratives
· Commodification of Domain-Name Space
· The Construction of Slashdot.com
· Antidepressants, Advertising, and Agency: The Internet and Sociomedical Identity
· Cultures in Webs
See the Web site at http://cms.mit.edu/conf/mit2 for a complete list of speakers and a full agenda.
Brad Seawell, 617-253-3521
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