[Mitworld] MIT150 Panel on Minorities in the US, Communications Forum on Online News

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Volume 10, Number 38 |  April 6, 2011

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Minorities in the United States
February 24, 2011

Panelists attest to the long and tortuous journey that minority groups have undertaken for 
citizenship and full inclusion in U.S. society, a journey that is far from over.

http://mitworld.mit.edu/video/886

Moderator:
Leon Trilling
Professor of Aeronautics and Astronautics and STS, Emeritus

Event Host:
MIT150 Inventional Wisdom

"While you couldn’t legislate love, or amicability between races, you could legislate behavior if you 
were willing to do it, and progressively, behavior would impact the heart."
-Willard Johnson

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Online News: Public Sphere or Echo Chamber?
February 24, 2011

Two panelists debate whether journalism in a digital age amounts to feast or famine, and differ on 
even basic questions: Are people just snacking on the news equivalent of junk food, and starving 
for the kind of information they need to be informed citizens? 

http://mitworld.mit.edu/video/890

Moderator:
Jason Spingarn-Koff
Documentary and feature film director and producer

Event Host:
MIT Communications Forum

"A combination of a far more competitive environment and massive technological changes, not only 
in distribution and promotion but in production and consumption over 15-20 years, have decoupled 
the marriage between being public institutions and businesses, forcing more and more news 
organizations to go niche or downstream."
-Pablo Boczkowski

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In The Pipeline:

Data-driven Traffic Modeling, Prediction, and Planning

Presented By:
Transportation at MIT

Speaker:
Daniela Rus
Professor Electrical Engineering and Computer Science 
Associate Director, CSAIL

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