SCHEDULE--C4FCM Meetings

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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.

Spring 2009
Jan. 27 research dinner (invitation only) with Ethan Zuckerman and Steve Schulze talking about the "Media Cloud" project.

Fall 2008

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 (14 E310) Screening of Election Day

Nov. 5 (E15-209) Henry Jenkins: Expression and Participation

Nov. 12 (E15-209 Mapping the U.S. Political Blogosphere, John Kelly NOTE: This starts at 4 p.m. and is followed by a dinner with John Kelly

Nov. 19 (E15-209) Black Community Civic Engagement, Dayna Cunningham, COLAB

Nov. 26 (E15-209) MEETING CANCELLED!!! Enjoy the Thanksgiving weekend

Dec. 3 (14E-310) STUDENT PRESENTATIONS

Dec. 10 (E15-209) STUDENT PRESENTATIONS

ALSO NOTE:

Nov. 12: Community Dinner with John Kelly, Morningstar Analystics: Mapping the Blogospheres, 6-8 Wiesner

Nov. 13: MIT Communications Forum: (E15 Bartos) 5-7 "The Impact of New Media on the Election," with Marc Ambinder, Ian Rowe, Cyrus Krohn, with Henry Jenkins moderating

Dec. 10: The Berkman Center Comes to C4FCM (by invitation) Dinner 6:30-8:30 p.m. TBA. If you are interested, contact ehume@media.mit.edu