C4FCM this Fall

This semester we are expanding with a combination of Wednesday research discussions, community dinners, forums, bull sessions, films and brown bag lunches.

RESEARCH DISCUSSIONS: MIT students and researchers are welcome to join our Wednesday research discussions, which are from 3:30 to 5:30 in the Media Lab, except as noted on some days, when they are in 14E. These Wednesday meetings also serve as labs for Henry Jenkins’ class 21L.715/CMS.871. Students registered for this class are obligated to attend only from 3:30 to 5 p.m., although the discussions normally will continue for other participants until 5:30. These lab sessions will be in the Media Lab, Building 15, 20 Ames St., except as noted below on Sept. 10, Oct. 22 and Dec. 3, when they are in 14E 310.

Here is the rundown:

Sept. 10: (14E-310) Hub2: Using Second Life for Civic Engagement and Urban Planning, Gene Koo and Eric Gordon
Sept. 17: (E15-209) Research update, Walter Bender, former director of the Media Lab
Sept. 24: (E15-209) Henry Jenkins: Civic Engagement
Oct. 1: (E15-209) TimeLab: Games for Civic Engagement
Oct. 8: (E15-209) Civic Media in the Pakistan Emergency, Huma Yusuf
Oct. 15: (E15-209) Fighting Hate Crime with Civic Media, filmmaker Patrice ONeill of The Working Group
Oct. 22 (14E-310) Street Media, Rekha Murthy
Oct. 29 (E15-209) Wikipedia, Wikinews and Collective Intelligence, Benjamin Mako Hill
Nov. 5 (E15-209) Henry Jenkins: Expression and Participation
Nov. 12 (E15-209 Mapping the U.S. Political Blogosphere, John Kelly
Nov. 19 (E15-209) Black Community Civic Engagement, Dayna Cunningham, COLAB
Nov. 26 (E15-209) Tracking Year One, Jon Greenburg, New Hampshire Public Radio
Dec. 3 (14E-310) STUDENT PRESENTATIONS
Dec. 10 (E15-209) STUDENT PRESENTATIONS

COMMUNITY DINNERS: Come and bring someone from outside MIT who is interested in our work. Let us know if you are coming so we can have enough dinner for you.

Sept. 30: Community Dinner "YouTube and Civic Engagement" with Joshua Green: our first C4FCM monthly community dinner of the semester, 6 p.m. in Wiesner. If you want to come, email ehume@media.mit.edu

BRING-YOUR-OWN-LUNCHES: Come talk about the relationship between media and politics during this campaign season. Bring your own topics, examples and ideas. And...bring your own lunch. Meeting places TBA.

Sept. 19: (Room TBA): Politics and Media Lunch 12-1
Sept. 26: (Room TBA) Politics and Media Lunch 12-1

FORUMS: Big public gatherings in Bartos Auditorium, followed by a student-speaker reception at CMS.

Sept. 25: Communications Forum: (E15 Bartos) "A Report Card on the Media Coverage of the Election," with Tom Rosenstiel of the Project for Excellence in Journalism, John Carroll of Boston University, with Ellen Hume moderating, Bartos Auditorium 5-7 p.m.
Nov. 13: Communications Forum: (E15 Bartos) "The Impact of New Media on the Election," with Ian Rowe of MTV, Marc Ambinder of the Atlantic, Cyrus Krohn of the Republican Party, moderated by Henry Jenkins, Bartos from 5-7 p.m

FILM:
Nov. 6: Film: "Election Day" time and place TBA.