[Sci-tech-public] Communications Forum this week: "Cities and the Future of Entertainment" on Thursday, Nov. 10, 5-7 p.m. in Bartos Theater (kicks off Futures of Entertainment conference)

[Brad Seawell]

Cities and the Future of Entertainment

Thursday, Nov. 10, 2011
5-7 pm. 
Bartos Theater <http://whereis.mit.edu/?go=E15> 
MIT Media Lab
20 Ames Street

As a prologue to the CMS conference on the future of entertainment, this
Forum will focus on the emergence of powerful new production cultures in
such cities as Mumbai, Shanghai, and Rio de Janeiro. What do these
developments portend for the international flow of media content? How does
the nature of these cities shape the entertainment industries they are
fostering? At the same time, new means of media production and circulation
now permit individuals to produce content from suburban or rural areas. How
do these apparently opposed trends co-exist?  What is their likely impact on
audiences and on the international media landscape? 

Speakers include
<http://translate.google.com/translate?hl=en&sl=pt&u=http://www.filmeb.com.b
r/quemequem/html/QEQ_profissional.php%3Fget_cd_profissional%3DPE726&ei=qNaBT
tmqA-nZ0QHO1uCqAQ&sa=X&oi=translate&ct=result&resnum=3&ved=0CDcQ7gEwAg&prev=
/search%3Fq%3DS%25C3%25A9rgio%2BS%25C3%25A1%2BLeit%25C3%25A3o%26hl%3Den%26rl
z%3D1B3GGLL_en___US427%26prmd%3Dimvns> Sergio Sa Leitao, president of
RioFilme;  <http://parmesh.net/> Parmesh Shahani, a doctoral student in the
Annenberg School for Communication at the University of Pennsylvania who
previously worked for Mahindra & Mahindra, one of India's largest business
conglomerates;
<http://annenberg.usc.edu/en/Faculty/Communication%20and%20Journalism/Wilson
E.aspx> Ernest James Wilson III, Chair in Communication and dean of the
Annenberg School for Communication & Journalism at the University of
Southern California; and moderator
<http://www.thealchemists.com/blog/en/quem-somos/> Mauricio Mota, a
co-founder and chief storytelling officer of the Alchemists Transmedia
Storytelling Co. Shahani is a 2005 graduate of MIT Comparative Media Studies
(CMS).   

Co-sponsor: Futures of Entertainment 5 conference at MIT
<http://convergenceculture.org/futuresofentertainment/2011/> 

Forums are free and open to the public. 

More information: http://web.mit.edu/comm-forum/

 

 

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Brad Seawell, Program Coordinator
MIT Communications Forum
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Massachusetts Institute of Technology
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voice 617-253-3521
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