[Mitworld] New: Sunstein and Benkler on the Digitized World, Davis on the Neurobiology of Fear

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MIT World - Newsletter - Volume 7 | Number 52 | July 16, 2008
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[OUR WORLD DIGITIZED: THE GOOD, THE BAD, THE UGLY]

In conversation with Henry Jenkins, Cass Sunstein and Yochai Benkler
share their hopes and fears for the emergence of online democracy.

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

PANELISTS:
Cass Sunstein
Karl N. Llewellyn Distinguished Service Professor of Jurisprudence,
Law School and Department of Political Science, University of Chicago

Yochai Benkler
Berkman Professor of Entrepreneurial Legal Studies
Co-director, Berkman Center for Internet and Society,
Harvard University


PLAY NOW: <http://mitworld.mit.edu/video/575/>

[QUOTE]
"We need a new model of human cooperation, of understanding human
behavior and action that builds in imperfections, that doesn't imagine
utopian altruism, that understands people are different from each other,
that some people are more generous under some conditions, some people
have more trust and reciprocity, and others have more commitment to the
collective good and doing something well."
-- Yochai Benkler


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

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[Neurobiology of Fear, Anxiety and Extinction:
 Implications for Psychotherapy]

In his talk, Davis describes the meticulous experiments he and others
have conducted over many years on fear and anxiety, exploring what
neural mechanisms underlie the startle reflex, and how fear plays a part
in the response.

SPEAKER:
Michael Davis
Robert W. Woodruff Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences,
Emory University School of Medicine


PLAY NOW: <http://mitworld.mit.edu/video/576/>

[QUOTE]
"It's a very exciting time. We are really not trying to treat symptoms
or reduce anxiety. We're trying to improve the learning process we think
is inherent to psychotherapy, namely the extinction process."
-- Michael Davis


EVENT HOST: McGovern Institute for Brain Research at MIT
<http://web.mit.edu/mcgovern/>

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MIT List Visual Arts Center presents

Chantal Akerman: Moving through Time and Space

A conversation with Giuliana Bruno, Terrie Sultan, and Chantal Akerman

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