[Mitworld] New: Where do Morals Come From and What is Civic Media

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MIT World - Newsletter - Volume 7 | Number 9 | October 31, 2007
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[WHERE MORALS COME FROM - AND WHY IT MATTERS]

MODERATOR:
Christopher Moore
Investigator, McGovern Institute for Brain Research at MIT Mitsui CD
Chair, Assistant Professor of Neuroscience, Department of Brain and
Cognitive Sciences

PANELISTS:
Beatriz Luna
Associate Professor of Psychiatry, School of Medicine, University of
Pittsburgh

John Mikhail
Associate Professor, Law Center and Philosophy Department, Georgetown
University

Patrick Byrne
Professor of Philosophy, Boston College


PLAY NOW: <http://mitworld.mit.edu/video/485/>

[QUOTE]
"I don't like people thinking adolescence is a disease. It's the last
stop we have to influence what the brain is going to look like."
-- Beatriz Luna


EVENT HOST: Technology and Culture Forum <http://web.mit.edu/tac/www/>

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[WHAT IS CIVIC MEDIA?]

MODERATOR:
Henry Jenkins
Peter de Florez Professor of Humanities and Director of Comparative
Media Studies Program

PANELISTS:
Chris Csikszentmihalyi
Muriel R. Cooper Career Development Professor of Media Arts and
Sciences, MIT Media Lab

Beth Noveck
Professor of Law, New York Law School
Director, Institute for Information Law and Policy

Ethan Zuckerman
Fellow, the Berkman Center for Internet and Society, Harvard
University Law School


PLAY NOW: <http://mitworld.mit.edu/video/486/>

[QUOTE]
"Technologies are inherently political devices: They allow the world to
get a bit easier for a set of people and at the same time, they might or
might not make it more difficult to maneuver for the other set."
-- Chris Csikszentmihalyi


EVENT HOST: MIT Communications Forum <http://web.mit.edu/comm-forum/>

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Program in Science, Technology, and Society (STS)
2007 Arthur Miller Lecture on Science and Ethics presents

Charles Perrow
Research Scholar and Emeritus Professor of Sociology
Yale University

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