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Energy Innovation at Scale Channel: MIT World Length: 0 Date: October 16, 2010 The United States urgently needs a transformation of its energy supply both to address climate change and for reasons of energy security. To meet t...

TV or Not TV: That’s Not the Question Channel: MIT World Length: 0 Date: October 13, 2010 While Alice Cahn cites evidence that traditional TV viewing is alive and well, her panelists line up to describe a TV industry under siege by digi...

Participatory Culture: The Culture of Democracy and Education in a Hypermediated Society Channel: MIT World Length: 0 Date: October 12, 2010 Even back in the early days of Comparative Media Studies (CMS), when Henry Jenkins and colleagues met in the basement of the Media Lab, there was ...

Washington Rules: America's Path to Permanent War Channel: MIT World Length: 0 Date: October 05, 2010 Washington stubbornly sticks to national security policies that don’t work, are devoid of moral considerations, sap the Treasury and rob future ge...

Disrupting Class: How Disruptive Innovation Will Change the Way the World Learns Channel: MIT World Length: 0 Date: October 04, 2010 Can a theory that explains why successful organizations fail and newcomers prevail help turn around America’s public schools? Michael B. Horn descr...

International Media Flows: Global Media and Culture Channel: MIT World Length: 0 Date: September 29, 2010 Ian Condry introduces five graduates of the Comparative Media Studies Program—Aswin Punathambekar, Xiaochang Li, Jing Wang, Orit Kuritsky, Ana Dom...

Innovation Spotlight: Bringing Children’s Media off the Screen Channel: MIT World Length: 0 Date: September 28, 2010 Working with motors, sensors, sophisticated algorithms and fuzzy puppets, Cynthia Breazeal may finally realize one of childhood’s fondest dreams: ...

The Medium Doesn’t Matter Channel: MIT World Length: 0 Date: September 15, 2010 In an era of packaged toys and online games, have our children lost the knack of creative play? While American kids may never again prefer sticks ...

Autonomous Vehicles and Urban Mobility Channel: MIT World Length: 0 Date: September 14, 2010 If you had half a million dollars, would you opt for a passenger car that could drive itself (called an autonomous vehicle) or would you choose a ...

Toying with Transmedia: The Future of Entertainment is Child’s Play Channel: MIT World Length: 0 Date: September 14, 2010 In what could be the ultimate twist on Toy Story, Henry Jenkins suggests that action figures — those Star Wars and Masters of the Un...

Network-Driven Transportation Channel: MIT World Length: 0 Date: September 10, 2010 Today, cell phones are a menace to safe driving, as they distract operators who should otherwise focus on the road. Tomorrow, cell phones could ac...

From Relief to Reconstruction — Practical and Policy Challenges Channel: MIT World Length: 0 Date: September 05, 2010 As the United Nations and worldwide NGOs face the challenges of providing basic services to the survivors of the January 2010 Haitian earthquake, ...

Lunch with a Laureate: Robert Merton Channel: MIT World Length: 0 Date: September 05, 2010 As an MIT Museum audience peppers him with queries ranging from the barter system to development, trade relations, and the role of intuition in ec...

The Interaction Between Poverty, Growth and Democracy Channel: MIT World Length: 0 Date: September 05, 2010 Alejandro Toledo has remained a passionate advocate of reform since departing the presidency of Peru in 2006. In his home country, he embodied the...

Bill Porter in Conversation with Howard Anderson Channel: MIT World Length: 0 Date: September 05, 2010 Some of the lessons Bill Porter picked up as a 13-year-old ranch hand in Colorado seem to have lasted a lifetime. When his boss told him to drive o...

Lunch with a Laureate: Richard Schrock Channel: MIT World Length: 0 Date: September 05, 2010 Growing up in Indiana, exploring the local woods and pit where fossils were found, Richard Schrock early on became interested in the natural world...

Rusnano: Fostering Nanotechnology Innovation in Russia Channel: MIT World Length: 0 Date: September 05, 2010 In both lecture format and conversation with Sloan Senior Lecturer Noubar Afeyan, RUSNANO CEO Anatoly Chubais presents an ambitious plan to create...

Denialism: Media in the Age of Disinformation Channel: MIT World Length: 0 Date: September 05, 2010 A few hundred years after the Enlightenment, western civilization is rushing back to the Dark Ages. The causes are debatable, but, argue these sci...

Jenkins’ Farewell: Reflections on a Career at MIT Channel: MIT World Length: 0 Date: September 05, 2010 In conversation with William Uricchio, Henry Jenkins returns to reflect on his time at MIT and offers insights into MIT’s culture, his new life at...

Capitalism 3.0: An Institutional Revolution In the Making Channel: MIT World Length: 0 Date: September 05, 2010 Otto Scharmer describes his theory of capitalism 3.0. More details about the lecture coming soon.

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