unstable platforms

MIT 7 Unstable Platforms

Summary and Podcast here

Day 1: Forum 1

David Thorborn – Moderator: Emergence of technology are challenging our perceptions of art, academia, etc/ We are entering a disorienting future – mobile technology, understanding authors and the works they make is challenged by virtual technology. Profound forms of transformation created by technology. Edison envisioned ways for use of film before film appeared and this is instructive and comforting. There is a ceaseless transformation with rise and fall of technology that profoundly transform what is being transmitted. Printed book itself refined by generations and developed over decades of work and stability. Emergence of profoundly new ways and new systems for artistic and other forms of imaginative expression is remarkable in this world.

What’s the future impact on audiences and ways to communicate on unstable platforms.

The future of narrative. Public spheres. Visions and nightmares. Read More …

The UNESCO Global Forum

The UNESCO Global Forum: Rankings and Accountability in Higher Education: Uses and Misuses (16 -17 May 2011) .  The Forum will address University rankings in light of their impact on policy and decision-making at institutional, national and regional levels. Organized in cooperation with the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) and the World Bank.

If you’re not familiar with UNESCO’s education portal, please visit it.

http://www.unesco.org/new/en/education/themes/strengthening-education-systems/higher-education/

ethics by no other name

When he was young, her husband, she said, who loves to tell the story of how it all began for him,  lied to newspapers and told them he wrote for other newspapers  and they never checked. Eventually because he was good, he was hired by one and is now a happily ever after journalist.

This was the message at a commencement speech of a reputable university.  Because it is a commencement speech, many believed students were not really paying attention in their celebratory mode.  The problem, however, is that this particular speaker was much closer to their age and was an ‘artist’ who was recognized by quite a few of them. Read More …

ncmr2011: wikileaks panel

At National conference for media reform – Boston April 8th
Panel: Wikileaks, Journalism and Modern-Day Muckraking

Glenn Greenwald: talking about how some journalists were actually livid and furious over release of cables. A journalist was outraged that the gov did not do a better job of ‘concealing’ this info from him.  I did lots of shows on Wikileaks and in every single show the journalist and the opposing person were saying the same thing. The idea that a journalist thought exactly as the powers that be is surprising to me. Wikileaks discloses the deceitful things that happen in our names and I am surprised that journalists were angry about the disclosure and not about what the powers that be are doing. Read More …