[Mitworld] Ellen Hume on the News Business, Boris Groys on Religion

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MIT World Newsletter

Volume 8, Number 26 |  February 17, 2009

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The Future of the News
November 18, 2008

Ellen Hume and the MIT Museum Soap Box audience discuss the dire situation facing newspapers and other traditional forms of journalism, acknowledging that the business model for newspapers, big and small, and other mainstream media is deeply broken.

http://mitworld.mit.edu/video/641

Speaker:
Ellen Hume
Research Director
MIT Center for Future Civic Media


Event Host:
MIT Museum

"Journalism at its best, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalism that holds the powerful accountable to the public, requires a culture around it to support it."
-Ellen Hume

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The Medium Religion
November 15, 2008

Noted philosopher, critic and essayist Boris Groys, who has previously delved into the Soviet post-modernist and 
Russian avant-garde art scene, turns his attention now to the recent and dangerous marriage of religion and 
digital media.

http://mitworld.mit.edu/video/640

Speaker:
Boris Groys
Global Distinguished Professor of Russian and Slavic Studies, New York University


Event Host:
MIT List Visual Arts Center

"Digital images have the ability to originate, multiply and distribute themselves through the open fields of the 
contemporary means of communication like climbing out of nowhere, like being divine."
-Boris Groys

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In The Pipeline:

Challenges to the Global Economy

Presented By:
MIT Center for International Studies
Starr Forum

Speakers:
Martin Feldstein and Simon Johnson


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