MiT6, April 2009

jmaxsfu #mit6 twitter stream archive: http://thinkubator.ccsp.sfu.ca/mit6 30 minutes ago

jmaxsfu Back in my office in the land of flowers. Thanks to everyone at #mit6 for a fantastic conference. about 2 hours ago

geoffreylong Back in the office, catching up on emails and following up on connections after #mit6. If I owe you something, I'm probably working on it! about 3 hours ago

d_kompare RT @j_l_r: closing question for #mit6: where was gender, race, class, sexuality, disability? the archive is a technology of power. about 3 hours ago

rorylitwin My #mit6 reactions: http://libraryjuicepress.com/blog/?p=1328 about 3 hours ago

d_kompare Back to work after a great #mit6. Thanks to all who tweeted and followed; I'm looking forward to talking with you all soon again! about 3 hours ago

footage great conference. good to meet all of you, and thanks for the many insights! #mit6 about 16 hours ago

jrcarp Words the Dog Knows sold out at the MIT Press bookstore & #mit6 booktable about 17 hours ago

jrcarp post #mit6: played Asteroids, handled McCaffery's CARNIVAL, MIT Press bookstore w. a MIT Press author, Harvard bookstore, Korean food. Yum. about 17 hours ago

lockedroom reading #mit6 tweetprint (tweettrails?)--entertaining and fascinating recap of conference, for both panels i attended and didn't. about 18 hours ago

jmittell home from #MIT6, which was an excellent time. Now to decide whether to continue using twitter outside of conference-land... about 18 hours ago

loganpoppy What MIT6 reminded me of was that genuine conversation creates genuine value. Hope you all want to keep talking #MIT6 about 18 hours ago

kdc so yeah, the IP presentation went well and there was good post-panel conversation. thanks to those who came and offered input! #mit6 #fb about 21 hours ago

loganpoppy At Logan, ready to fly. Had a terrific time @ the conference. Thanks to all. #MIT6 about 22 hours ago

JeanBurgess @trine not on laptop, but the 3rd paper in the doco panel in the 2nd session today #mit6 about 23 hours ago

ghostleg listening to the podcasts from #mit6 seems like the general themes so far are what's an archive? and what's a story? (with no power analysis about 23 hours ago

kfitz At the airport, on my way home from #MiT6. Amazing weekend, all the way around. Now I have to go pay for it - work piles up in my absence. about 24 hours ago

detournement RT @farman: McKenzie Wark discussing his graphic novel of Guy Debord/Situationist International: http://twitpic.com/41dow #mit6 1 day ago

jmaxsfu #mit6 done. coming home. 1 day ago

iwishiwas @CritInternet - dang, looking at that program I wish I was at #mit6 as well. http://tinyurl.com/cdo3ad 1 day ago

brlamb @CritInternet - dang, looking at that program I wish I was at #mit6 as well. 1 day ago

j_l_r our closing question for #mit6: where was gender, race, class, sexuality, disability? the archive is a technology of power. 1 day ago

laura47 well, totally missed the last day of #mit6 damn this messed up sleep schedule and insomnia. :-( hope it was fun! 1 day ago

gruacach whew! presentation over. good size crowd. very positive response. #mit6 has been exhausting but exhilarating. my mind is abuzz with ideas! 1 day ago

liesell Petit: scholars have a "parasitic" relationship to archives. We don't collect enough ourselves, but analyze the collections of others #mit6 1 day ago

liesell @footage: scholars prev. didn't look for footage of hist. events; now they expect to use it --and expect someone *else* to archive it #mit6 1 day ago

gwayvt glad to be done with presentation...now getting ready for the long time in airports and planes back to Phoenix...hooray for an awesome #MiT6 1 day ago

fonchik #MIT6 my brain too small to comment on whether the memory is a sandwich but I had a nice Twitter moment this AM http://is.gd/uHIi 1 day ago

liesell liked Thomas Petit's remarks - tho his cadence reminds me of the hot tub professors on SNL: http://tinyurl.com/create.php (video) #mit6 1 day ago

eaj6 Wish people would stop mentioning sandwiches - emphasizes how hungry I am. #mit6 1 day ago

jmaxsfu All this talk of sandwiches! #mit6 1 day ago

alicejrobison RT @jeanburgess: Dear people who go way over their allotted time with a bazillion dot points: you are selfish and disorganized. #mit6 1 day ago

academicdave Back from run. Now the weekly ritual of Sunday house hunting. (But still wishing I was at #MIT6 ) 1 day ago

mckenziewark Thomas Pettit: "social science fiction." #MIT6 1 day ago

eaj6 Pettitt: In the focus on "all the megas and tetras" here, have we forgotten about quality? #mit6 1 day ago

liesell RT @halavais: website for 24/7: A DIY Video Summit redesigned and now with all the video documentation: http://www.video24-7.org #mit6 1 day ago

twel i like this idea too. RT @mckenziewark: John Durham Peters: Media studies as cabinet of curiosities, rather than archive. #MIT6 1 day ago

twel here,here! RT @mckenziewark: Peters: Two cheers for the failure of archives to perserve everything. #MIT6 1 day ago

eaj6 Peters: What counts as historical record is incredibly malleable (also technologically dependent) #mit6 1 day ago

liesell Peters: missing children on milk cartons as the ultimate ephemera - once the cartons are gone, you can't find the images anywhere #mit6 1 day ago

jmaxsfu Peters: ruins are interesting. #mit6 1 day ago

mckenziewark Peters: Two cheers for the failure of archives to perserve everything. #MIT6 1 day ago

mckenziewark John Durham Peters: Media studies as cabinet of curiosities, rather than archive. #MIT6 1 day ago

jmaxsfu @fonchik "relations" but consciously problematized. Cf. position v. positionality. I think. #mit6 1 day ago

eaj6 @weekendpictures Also 1st, 5th, and 9th Amendments...but yeah, mostly 4th #mit6 1 day ago

mckenziewark Marlene Manoff: is the term 'archive' still helpful at all? #MIT6 1 day ago

jmaxsfu A geographically distributed parallell-hosted conference is a pretty interesting idea, given the twitterstreams. #mit6 1 day ago

Weekendpictures Learned yesterday at #mit6 that U.S. doesn't have a Privacy Commissioner safeguarding privacy of citizenry. Instead, turn to 4th Amendment. 1 day ago

fonchik #mit6 When Mary Bryson says "relationalities" does she mean 'relations'? or' relationships'? or something else? 1 day ago

jmaxsfu Mary Bryson renders us all in theoretical language. #mit6 1 day ago

mckenziewark Lisa Gitelman as optimist but not utopian about tech. (I am a utopian but not an optimist). #MIT6 1 day ago

Weekendpictures Simon #mit6: Mobile movies traditionally available solely via "walled gardens" built by Nokia, etc. Reminds me of the old AOL-only web. 1 day ago

ljthornton RT @liesell: Temple U's Multimedia Reporting Lab http://www.temple.edu/murl/ - generated print edition for poor communities they cover #mit6 1 day ago

anadk From fanboys to activists, this is a diverse panel. Through-line, moving images and passion. #mit6 1 day ago

joshgreen If anyone is interested, I gathered the videos @jeanburgess and I discussed this AM #mit6 http://is.gd/uGD1 1 day ago

loganpoppy Smiley - The tin can network is key here and there are reenactments #MIT6 1 day ago

j_l_r my pal Sam Smiley on transit media arts collective http://astrodime.wordpress.com - project using tin can phones! #MIT6 1 day ago

loganpoppy Smiley - Astrodime Transit Authorit - http://www.astrodime.wordpress.com media arts collective who work on issues of transit and comm #MIT6 1 day ago

geoffreylong @gwayvt is talking about transmedia storytelling versus adaptation. Ears perking up for obvious reasons. #mit6 #transmedia 1 day ago

geoffreylong Sharron Greaves' talk about the two-edged sword of tech in Nigeria leading to both Nollywood and the 4-1-9 scam - really insightful. #mit6 1 day ago

JeanBurgess Dear people who go way over their allotted time with a bazillion dot points: you are selfish and disorganized. #mit6 1 day ago

jmaxsfu Steinstadt google able to ultimately assemble a fact-base through search data? Relation to these old positivist philosophers #mit6 1 day ago

jmaxsfu Stierstadt: Sergei Brin's "mind of God" quip. Constructed empirically thru NLP... #mit6 1 day ago

fonchik #MIT6 asked if I said ad-supported media is dead No! US model of 4profit ad-supported media as guarantor of journalism is dead. (IMHO) 1 day ago

bjorkin politics of tools, mauro-flude's bag lady 2.0 - grass-root surveillance as resistance or play? maybe both. #mit6 1 day ago

j_l_r in this 1936 documentary about the mechanization of the British postal service the mail is a series of tubes! #mit6 1 day ago

loganpoppy Ross - My note, I Like to think about this as early geotagging - nice presentation #MIT6 1 day ago

loganpoppy Ross is showing a clip from a doc on the british post. Really wonderful stuff #MIT6 1 day ago

mckenziewark Sharon Greaves: Nollywood cinema made with lost cost tech. A small business industry. #MIT6 1 day ago

jmaxsfu Stierstadt: Paul Otlet's "Mundaneum" -what a great name! #mit6 1 day ago

geoffreylong Really wishing #mit6 was video-archiving every panel - want to see both this panel moderated by @anadk and another moderated by @jmittell. 1 day ago

loganpoppy Ross - The postcode was a way of adding a layer of information that left earlier layer intact #MIT6 1 day ago

transmedia_lot RT @geoffreylong PLAY CHAPTER, my #mit6 paper + slides on video games and transmedia storytelling http://www.geoffreylong.com/playchapter 1 day ago

JeanBurgess "pocket cinema" - movies made with/for mobiles. #mit6 1 day ago

liesell Temple U's Multimedia Reporting Lab (http://www.temple.edu/murl/) - generated a print edition for the poor communities they cover #mit6 1 day ago

loganpoppy Ross - Talking about the UK Postcode at large - It is an infrastructure that allows you to talk about mobility and stability #MIT6 1 day ago

ckaman burgeoning international mobile movie festival circuit. often called "pocket" films. meant to be ephemeral? #mit6 1 day ago

mckenziewark Sharon Greaves: Nigeria has world's 3rd biggest cinema industry. #MIT6 1 day ago

geoffreylong Kristen Daly's intriguing talk 'Radical Potential' introduced me to the 'Stop Snitching' campaign. Whoa. http://tinyurl.com/dkq8w8 #mit6 1 day ago

bjorkin Mauro-Flude - video sniffing. cctv becomes video signal pollution. #mit6 1 day ago

eaj6 Jakobsson:Looking @ Google data centers, realize G has a really industrial way of functioning, despite nominally representing new mode #mit6 1 day ago

jmaxsfu Jakobsson & Stiernstadt rematerializing Google. Server farmsvas industrial infrastructure. #mit6 1 day ago

fonchik #MIT6 good title: "Mobile Movies Pro/AM or Anti-AM" 1 day ago

liesell Can Boczkowski's research (on Argentinian online news) apply US online news consumption? His slides suggest broad conclusions. #mit6 1 day ago

loganpoppy Cullen - presenting on the US postal routes for better communications infrastructure #MIT6 1 day ago

jmaxsfu Van den Heuvel on Paul Otlet's ca. 1913 networked document space concept. Wow! #mit6 1 day ago

JeanBurgess McLuhan Remix video essay project - v interesting and deeply thought through. #mit6 1 day ago

liesell Boczkowski - those who read news at work are LESS likely to discuss current events they read abt. than if they read news at home (hmm) #mit6 1 day ago

geoffreylong Really enjoyed @gaboury's presentation this morning on 'Where 2.0'. I'm still intrigued by the potential of place in storytelling. #mit6 1 day ago

kfitz Faden: what would scholarship look like if it weren't a paper? if it used the tools we're studying? #MiT6 1 day ago

liesell Boczkowski - those who read online news in the office associate that practice with the work week; they thus don't read online at home #mit6 1 day ago

kfitz Very cool series of video essays on Strangers on a Train being presented by Chris Keathley, Andrew Miller, and Eric Faden #MiT6 1 day ago

eaj6 Dougherty: "What are you looking for" - based on retrieval, not discovery. The archivist's meaning, not the user's. #mit6 1 day ago

kdc finished the IP presentation. can't believe how fast 15 minutes can go. #mit6 #fb 1 day ago

mckenziewark Gance's Napoleon, Thomas Crown Affair, Expo 67 -> your laptop. #MIT6 1 day ago

mckenziewark Jim Bizzocchi: split screen cinema as precursor to multi screen media. #MIT6 1 day ago

kdc Finish the IP presentation. I can't believe how fast 15 minutes can go. #mit6 #fb 1 day ago

geoffreylong Jim Bizzochi's talk on the poetics of split-screen cinema is bloody fascinating. #mit6 1 day ago

loganpoppy Robertson - The filing cabinet comes about at the end of the 19th century, introduced at the 1893 world's fair #MIT6 1 day ago

eaj6 Dougherty & van den Heuvel: title typo in program - annotation of ephemeral collections, not animation (real one cooler imho) #mit6 1 day ago

liesell Pablo Boczkowski (Digitizing the News) news previously consumed before/after work, but online news read DURING work: a new market #mit6 1 day ago

JeanBurgess To look at later: citylore project "city of memory". Documentary project #mit6 1 day ago

desconcentrado i love typosquatting for keeping the web strange and unpredictable. cameroon=='typographically rich' #mit6 1 day ago

RichardWright the boa eating the elephant: online eating print #mit6 1 day ago

loganpoppy Robertson - Modern Identity is a problem of information and the passport is place where you can bring this into focus #MIT6 1 day ago

lockedroom Flickr as repository and preservation, curated presentations to record space in organized space. Geotag as preservationist tool. #mit6 1 day ago

anadk We got going with the cinema panel!! come over to 345. Oh, and all papers and abstracts are back up at the site #mit6 1 day ago

liesell Ellen Hume - moving news online; a greater connection between emotion and action, a relocation of authority from expert to audience. #mit6 1 day ago

loganpoppy Robertson - Talking about the rise of the personal ID and its documentation and archivization - ID becomes personal information #MIT6 1 day ago

ckaman anyone lose a thumb drive in E51-151? I will turn it into the check in desk after this panel #mit6 1 day ago

eaj6 Benzon: Typosquatting = cybersquatting based on typos in URLs #mit6 1 day ago

eaj6 Benzon's title gives me a new word: "Typosquatting" #mit6 1 day ago

mckenziewark Maybe writers should think more like artists, as having a practice, variable in form. #MIT6 1 day ago

jmittell moderating/responding to panel on using video to create & teach criticism in film studies - join us in room 376! #mit6 1 day ago

desconcentrado can ppl use geolocated expression to challenge 'postcard' stereotypes about their homeland? eg london isn't always raining! #mit6 1 day ago

kdc actually, real talk time: the small number of minorities at this conference has kind of troubled me #mit6 1 day ago

farman McKenzie Wark discussing his graphic novel of Guy Debord/Situationist International: http://twitpic.com/41dow #mit6 1 day ago

d_kompare Good discussion of critical practice of media studies + pedagogy #mit6 1 day ago

kdc or to be more specific, a dialogue about minorities with no minorities in the dialogue. #mit6 1 day ago

jmaxsfu Wark: Trocchi's literary traces; Constant's post-labour vertical architecture. "Uncannily prescient" #mit6 1 day ago

kdc its weird to be in a room full of white people talking about what minorities should be doing w/ social media. #mit6 1 day ago

j_l_r now sitting downstairs reading livetweets from Q&A upstairs! will be at next panel then naptime. #mit6 1 day ago

eaj6 Jenkins: Dana Cunningham: there need to be invisible spaces for minority groups to talk amongst themselves #mit6 1 day ago

loganpoppy I'm kind of mad at myself for missing Aslinger's paper - damn #MIT6 1 day ago

desconcentrado @jmaxsfu guy debord + asger jorn as level designers? #mit6 http://is.gd/uFKX 1 day ago

jmaxsfu Wark: why aren't theory books illustrated? Wants to put new art with historical texts. #mit6 1 day ago

jmaxsfu Mackenzie Wark: Guy DeBord as game designer. #mit6 1 day ago

loganpoppy What I like about this Music and Participation panel is that things are gelling together #MIT6 1 day ago

eaj6 Jenkins - issues with movement from "safe spaces" into "public spaces" w/o context (ex: Rev. Wright) #mit6 1 day ago

lockedroom #mit6 HJ conclusion: who is not there, not visible? Majoritarian principles/dominant taste made more visible than minority texts, becaus ... 1 day ago

lockedroom #mit6 both vidding and human rights video share concerns of context; how do texts of microcommunities translate within context of youtube 1 day ago

fonchik 8:50AM headed to #MIT6 just missed getting photo of driver on #1 texting while bus moving. MBTA not on Twitter!! Maybe @Boston_Police care? 1 day ago

eaj6 So much of this conference seems to touch on the boundaries between contexts & communities online (Vidders/YT, Privacy, Surveillance) #mit6 1 day ago

halavais RT @website for 24/7: A DIY Video Summit redesigned and now with all the video documentation: http://www.video24-7.org #mit6 1 day ago

mkirschenbaum geez, does this conference just keep going and going with amazing-sounding panels I wish I had been at? #mit6 1 day ago

halavais I want to do my future conference slides entirely as remixes (cut-ups) from presentations online. #mit6 1 day ago

eaj6 Jenkins: Participatory culture - not everyone has to participate, but everyone should feel free to participate. #mit6 1 day ago

flourish #mit6 Dear Henry ILU 1 day ago

flourish @matlockmatlock OMG ferrets? Really? #mit6 1 day ago

j_l_r FTR I woke up @ 6am. but we were slow-moving & had a complicated trip involving stopping at the airport & missed the YouTube panel. :( #mit6 1 day ago

loganpoppy Larsen talks about the granger movements and grange games/halls form the 19th century to talk about his net event series #MIT6 1 day ago

halavais Jenkins: The difference of YouTube is we are now *watching* each other's videos, not *just* venting. #mit6 1 day ago

matlockmatlock got some ferrets in here #mit6 1 day ago

footage Jenkins: reviewing history of early amateur press associations #mit6 1 day ago

flourish #mit6 feminist Star Trek fan shout out, woot! 1 day ago

farman Paula Levine discussing her GPS work, overlaying a map of Baghdad missile and bomb sites onto San Francisco: http://tinyurl.com/c9udbw #MIT6 1 day ago

fonchik RT @ckaman: ben peters on why wasn't there a soviet arpanet? #mit6 one of his answers: b/c the US govt was more soviet in their approach 1 day ago

mckenziewark Paula Levine: "cartography is now sexy." #MIT6 1 day ago

desconcentrado @jmittell how do you think the name "youtube" contributed to its success? #mit6 1 day ago

loganpoppy A thought for Larsen - how is these not like Karaoke? #MIT6 1 day ago

fonchik #MIT6 Tonguc Sezen giving a fascinating history of media censorship in Turkey in room 151. 1 day ago

halavais Mark Davis(1997): "...the garages of the world will be the site of the 'New New Hollywood.'" #mit6 1 day ago

jmittell Henry Jenkins: is "you" in YouTube the individual/casual "tu" our collective "vous"? #mit6 1 day ago

loganpoppy Larsen - Ignite, Dorkbot and Pecha Kucha are like software, the community is the hardware, which is harder to get #MIT6 1 day ago

loganpoppy Larsen - interesting correlation in time between Read-Write-Web and Real Life social sharing events that aggregate and are informal #MIT6 1 day ago

jmittell I will now have American Pie in my head all day. Thanks @jeanburgess. #mit6 1 day ago

d_kompare Rocchio - students come to campus with much more technical skills than in the past; our pedagogy has yet to deal with this #mit6 1 day ago

halavais To watch later "I heard you YouTube" http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d-W5lOEKiFI #mit6 1 day ago

LR Cheers to all the friends and colleagues @mit6, I wish I was there too.. see you @mit7! #mit6 1 day ago

loganpoppy Larsen - quotes Jordan Crandall for cultures of showing and sharing to talk about social sharing events in real space #MIT6 1 day ago

d_kompare Rocchio - technical mastery subordinated to aesthetic innovation; i.e., moving to a "critical practice" integrating theory & practice #mit6 1 day ago

kdc i wonder how you tube insights fits into this. Does it allow amateur users to be more deliberate about their content? #mit6 1 day ago

lockedroom #mit6 vlogging for professional purposes; #blogher and #etsy as (mostly female) local/cyber spaces of social networking and personal/com ... 1 day ago

kfitz Jean Burgess: in whose interest is it for us to understand user-created content as cat videos? #MiT6 1 day ago

jmaxsfu Lanfranco Aceti argues for ephemerality in art; contemp. drive to archiving misses something here. #mit6 1 day ago

mckenziewark Aceti: disappearance of the object is not enough. The documentation must disappear too. #MIT6 1 day ago

d_kompare Rocchio - "craft system" in production pedagogy as ideological, skill over consciousness; netcasting era making this archaic #mit6 1 day ago

mckenziewark Lanfranco Aceti: artists ought not to get paid. His own practice is outside of the commodity system. #MIT6 1 day ago

kdc i would add that in certain subcultures the content is driven by a desire to document a living history #mit6 1 day ago

halavais Though "fair use" is particular to the US, doesn't already provide a way of thinking about "audience sharing," in terms of criticism? #mit6 1 day ago

loganpoppy Moreau and Gautschi - downloading more MP3s than they could listen to - My note Attali and Eisenberg talk about this re LPs and tapes #MIT6 1 day ago

d_kompare Vincent Rocchio on critical practice pedagogy; starting with a nice history of TV production pedagogy #mit6 1 day ago

kdc you tube panel: people are motivated by communications not publishing. #mit6 1 day ago

lockedroom #mit6 uploading copyrighted images is act of audienceship, rather than publishing. (!) (so true, yet so unsaid) 1 day ago

loganpoppy Got in late.. but now am at Music and Participation - apologies to Aslinger for missing his presentation #MIT6 1 day ago

fabiofernandes RT @raquelrecuero RT @ubimidia Henry Jenkins falando agora sobre o YouTube no #MIT6http://twitpic.com/41a5z 1 day ago

eaj6 Traditional media is most viewed on YT - but UGC is most discussed, most responded #mit6 1 day ago

raquelrecuero @ubimidia Manda mais notícias pra nós aí do #mit6 1 day ago

raquelrecueroen rt @ubimidia Jenkins on #mit6 talking about Youtube - http://twitpic.com/41a5z 1 day ago

ckaman ben peters presenting why the soviet internet failed. why wasn't there a soviet arpanet? #mit6 1 day ago

raquelrecuero rt @ubimidia Jenkins falando agora sobre o YouTube no #MIT6http://twitpic.com/41a5z 1 day ago

d_kompare Paganoni - 0.16% of YouTube vistors upload videos; 0.2% of Flickr visitors upload photos; 4.6% of Wikipedia users edit entries #mit6 1 day ago

lockedroom #mit6 non-user created content circulates through youtube as if it were user created 1 day ago

matlockmatlock @halavais I thought "jumped the shark" had "nuked the fridge?" #mit6 1 day ago

d_kompare RT @halavais: Has the term "tipping point" has officially "jumped the shark"? Me - let's just say "Fonzied" instead #mit6 1 day ago

halavais Has the term "tipping point" has officially "jumped the shark"? #mit6 1 day ago

matlockmatlock Textual analysis of mashups with @bsasling at #mit6 How is bootie formed? 1 day ago

flourish #mit6 MC NUGGETS, MC NUGGETS, YALL! I feel like this is my new theme song. 1 day ago

d_kompare Jessica Paganoni on Milan U students "medial diet" to analyze social media participation #mit6 1 day ago

twittness_en Looking forward to the CBS Sunday Morning bit on YouTube that they interviewed me for #mit6 1 day ago

kdc at youtube panel at #mit6 and surprised there is has not yet been talk of "Lazy Sunday" but maybe its coming ... 1 day ago

d_kompare Come on up to 335; there's only a few of us to see a couple of interesting presentations on the Digital Classroom #mit6 1 day ago

nancybaym @joshgreen That sounds like early morning academia worth waking up for #mit6 1 day ago

eaj6 Just found way to get papers from broken website: copy in http://web.mit.edu/comm-forum/mit6/papers/ - then add author's-name-dot-pdf #mit6 1 day ago

ubimidia Jenkins falando agora sobre o YouTube no #MIT6http://twitpic.com/41a5z 1 day ago

joshgreen Talking up YouTube with @jeanburgess & @henryjenkins #mit6 early morning academia! 1 day ago

footage RT @mwesch: Looking forward to the CBS Sunday Morning bit on YouTube that they interviewed me for #mit6 1 day ago

footage RT @ mwesch: Looking forward to the CBS Sunday Morning bit on YouTube that they interviewed me for #mit6 1 day ago

halavais @jeanburgess @joshgreen's YouTube book's cover tool isn't exactly ancient, breaking the pattern for the book series. Rebels! #mit6 1 day ago

eaj6 Looking forward to the panel that's starting right now - YouTube through the eyes of Burgess, Green, Jenkins #mit6 1 day ago

jmaxsfu @brlamb Been talking up OpenEd here at #MiT6 http://openedconference.org/ 1 day ago

gwayvt watching @jeanburgess @ joshgreen and @henryjenkins present on YouTube #MiT6 1 day ago

Weekendpictures Had my first cold shower since Hurriance Juan this morning. Wide awake and ready for the last day of #mit6! 1 day ago

jrcarp up early for last day of #mit6 Locating Art in Time and Space. and then on 2 MIT & Harvard Co-Op Bookstore 1 day ago

mckenziewark Think i'll talk about both Trocchi and Constant this morning. The crazy ex post situs. #MIT6 1 day ago

CritInternet @brlamb Whatever it is that's wrong, those cast iron frying pans could come in handy! Wish you were here at #mit6 1 day ago

fabiogiglietto @jeanburgess partying with u is one of #mit6 stuff we'll miss more :) we are waiting your book to be delivered here via amazon next week :) 1 day ago

fabiogiglietto #mit6 - Twitter Search http://ff.im/2mY5q 1 day ago

alicejrobison Great night celebrating @jeanburgess and @joshgreen at #MIT6. Hi5s to all. 1 day ago

JeanBurgess #mit6 #keepforgettingtousehashtags 1 day ago

sandragabriele RT@mckenziewark : John Durham Peters: "All media raise the question of inhuman scale." #MIT6 1 day ago

geoffreylong So thrilled with how the Future of Publishing panel turned out. My panelists rocked - I couldn't have hoped for a better experience! #mit6 1 day ago

geoffreylong PLAY CHAPTER, my #mit6 paper + slides on video games and transmedia storytelling, is now posted at http://www.geoffreylong.com/playchapter 1 day ago

hhhernandez @blackaller - Sneaked into the back for a bit between experiments. Trying to go to more lectures tomorrow. Listening to #MIT6 podcasts. 1 day ago

mattthomas RT @mckenziewark: John Durham Peters: "All media raise the question of inhuman scale." #MIT6 1 day ago

mckenziewark "Tribute is not theft." #MIT6 1 day ago

mckenziewark Tarleton Gillespie on "platforms." Platforms are code. Me: platforms enable self-organization. #MIT6 1 day ago

mckenziewark Tarleton Gillespie on "platforms." Platforms have edges. Platforms are chaperones. Plateforms aren't flat. #MIT6 1 day ago

mckenziewark John Durham Peters: "All media raise the question of inhuman scale." #MIT6 1 day ago

Debaser42 Wish we didn't go home after #mit6 and #bcb4 now that everyone is going out 1 day ago

Debaser42 #mit6 1 day ago

laura47 #mit6 hell i was clutching a book i've had since i was in HS last night and cherishing the worn edges, but still, my computer. 1 day ago

laura47 i'd choose my computer hands down. i love my books, desperately, but, dudes, srsly. *was born in the early 80s* #mit6 1 day ago

laura47 Beers for books at Tommy Doyle's tonight #mit6 http://is.gd/uugj (via @joshgreen) whose going? 1 day ago

akwhitacre #mit6 Since you guys are way smarter, what would you think about adjustable pricing models for baseball tickets? http://ping.fm/0yOkZ 1 day ago

akwhitacre #mit6 Since you guys are smart, what would you think about adjustable pricing models for sports events? http://ping.fm/D7Qr1 1 day ago

laura47 books were traditionally jealous of newspapers for advertising revenue, but now they don't have that to lose, so they are safer! irony #mit6 1 day ago

laura47 #mit6 hey guys i made a linkedin group on a whim: http://www.linkedin.com/groups?gid=1921296&trk=hb_side_g 1 day ago

Debaser42 It was a gorgeous day today at #bcb4 and #mit6 I'm back home in WMass and will be back next year for both 1 day ago

eaj6 Current questioner presented @ the first session this morning (fab pink shirt). Having trouble believing I'm still on the same day. #mit6 1 day ago

specialkdw @ErikaJL Congrats on the garden! What is #mit6? 1 day ago

footage @eaj6 Certainly an improvement and still civil, too. #mit6 1 day ago

amorelane @flourish congratz on pwning #mit6 1 day ago

j_l_r we ran off to fuel up on Tibetan food. probably pooping out after long day. @joshgreen @jeanburgess sorry I won't make beers n books! #mit6 1 day ago

laura47 @laura47 P.S. . . . and follow @interstitialart ! (via @EllenKushner) #mit6 1 day ago

eaj6 @footage We wanted a debate - I'm pretty happy with this one, you? #mit6 1 day ago

laura47 @EllenKushner And as soon as I graduate MIT next month, I would be happy to volunteer with IAF. :-) #mit6 1 day ago

laura47 @EllenKushner the moderator is Geoff Long. I think the panelist was Gavin Grant? this will all be online soon, yay cms podcasts. :-) #mit6 1 day ago

desconcentrado panelists at #mit6 getting downright PUNchy. coming unbound! 1 day ago

laura47 #mit6 PSA: MARK TWAIN IS DEAD 1 day ago

ErikaJL General thank you to all the tweeps covering #mit6. 1 day ago

eaj6 Are books more than/different from the stories they contain? #mit6 1 day ago

eaj6 Great phrase "bathing suit abuse" (those not here: guess how that applies to publishing) #mit6 1 day ago

laura47 "a new-school author makes a commitment to _engage with readers_ in the context of a particular subject" #mit6 1 day ago

mdocx1 Future of publishing? The book is a place where readers congregate. #MiT6 1 day ago

eaj6 Stein: The book as a meeting place - "where readers (and sometimes authors) congregate" #mit6 1 day ago

laura47 "a book is a place where a reader and sometimes authors congregate. the future of publishing is building communities around works." #mit6 1 day ago

eaj6 R. Stein: Author as discussion moderator. Ex: Gamr Theory #mit6 1 day ago

mdocx1 Future of publishing? People will pay for community over content. #MiT6 1 day ago

jomc gavin grant: kindle is a "texas instruments"-like 70s invention released today #mit6 another point: can't rip yr whole library like an ipod 1 day ago

laura47 #mit6 guys there is sushi at that reception out there. (someone was complaining about lack of tweeting about the food, right?) 1 day ago

flourish #mit6 I prefer .pdf ebooks because I can't deal with proprietary formats... (I typed that and then I realized the irony!) 1 day ago

mdocx1 PDFs are ugly but they are usually free. Ebooks are ugly too. The future of publishing? Ug-Zone. #MiT6 1 day ago

jmaxsfu Cost of producing ebooks continues to be FUD. #mit6 1 day ago

kfitz Grant: Kindle as 1970s technology released now; "it's like Texas Instruments designed an ebook reader" #MiT6 1 day ago

jmaxsfu Miller: "dark side is downward pressure on pricing." Ithey mark them up to begin, then yes, they will come down. #Mit6 1 day ago

eaj6 I second this: RT @kfitz: Miller: dark side of ebook publishing? "downward pressure on prices." Sheesh. #MiT6 1 day ago

kfitz Miller: dark side of ebook publishing? "downward pressure on prices." Sheesh. #MiT6 1 day ago

laura47 oh, ebooks. pondering buying one. shipping books to CA for the summer is a lot of effort. :-) #mit6 ebooks grew 68%, still only .5% total 1 day ago

eaj6 Excellent point Geoffrey Long: when we all got iPods, could just rip our CDs; eBooks make you buy everything all over again #mit6 1 day ago

mrenoch just so I don't forget... http://tinyurl.com/beyond-panopt-slides http://tinyurl.com/beyond-panopt-paper (phew!) #mit6 1 day ago

eaj6 @jmaxstu I'm pretty sure he did say you'd pay extra for the digital - but not as much as if you hadn't bought the print. #mit6 1 day ago

laura47 hung out talking with people after last call session, just showed up 30 min late to the plenary modded by @geoffreylong #mit6 what'd i miss? 1 day ago

jmaxsfu @eaj6 but only if you pay more for it? Did he say that? Or did I imagine it?#mit6 1 day ago

jmaxsfu Why does the print/ebook bundle cost more, exactly? #mit6 1 day ago

eaj6 R. Miller: Book buyers should get credit for having bought the paper copy when they go to buy the digital. (No doubt -EJ) #mit6 1 day ago

eaj6 Grant: if you buy from Amazon, you're killing local bookstores & the heart of your community. Yow. #mit6 1 day ago

kfitz Grant: Amazon is the evil heart of publishing. #MiT6 1 day ago

kfitz A: mixed; acquisition and preparation remain the same. Publicity is a bit more wired; social media help books to find right readers #MiT6 1 day ago

erhardt Gavin Grant reminds us that 'hyperlocal' means 'local' #mit6 1 day ago

kfitz Q to Gavin Grant: how is the rise of new publishing and promotion technologies affecting the way you acquire and publish your titles? #MiT6 1 day ago

jmaxsfu @geoffreylong says Small Beer Press is "vibrant". How come wesites aren't "vibrant"? #mit6 1 day ago

eaj6 "A small think- and do-tank" - description of Institute for Future of the Book - I like it. #mit6 1 day ago

kfitz Plenary conversation: The Future of Publishing, with Gavin Grant, Jennifer Jackson, Bob Miller, and Bob Stein #MiT6 1 day ago

lhgarrison Loving @d_kompare 's live-tweeting of #mit6. 1 day ago

jennamcjenna wonder if @nml_mit is at #mit6? wish it would post something if it is.... 1 day ago

laura47 the vidders are used to being f-ed with and were prepared to drop youtube and go to vimeo and imeem #mit6 1 day ago

estherbester wow! RT @footage: Richard Wright: BBC generates 4000 TB raw footage (rushes) per week, keeps about 200 TB. #mit6 1 day ago

aswinp #mit6 group of us heading to Emma's pizza@aprox. 7pm 1 day ago

eaj6 Open letters from fans to creators on YouTube would make a great research topic in and of themselves. Just saying. (Pol of Platforms) #mit6 1 day ago

laura47 @joshgreen says that studying youtube violates the terms of service. *sigh* youtube. #mit6 1 day ago

eaj6 RT @shelila: #mit6 Steven James May's Weekend Pictures project great discussion of internet privacy http://bit.ly/sZBN4 1 day ago

d_kompare RT @halavais: Wordl map of #mit6 tweets. http://bit.ly/J1adF 1 day ago

twiterface New post: Final link out of weekendpictures.ca : "The Politics of Platforms". #mit6 (http://cli.gs/vWUna5) 1 day ago

halavais Wordl map of #mit6 tweets. http://bit.ly/J1adF 1 day ago

jennamcjenna Check out my flock of followers at http://twittersheep.com/?jennamcjenna #mit6 mwahaha 1 day ago

laura47 "platforms enable self-organization. the legal part and the business part is reactive, the self-org is key and worth studying." #mit6 1 day ago

d_kompare @stoton nice summation of the analog time capsule as "encapsulating" 20th century techno-industrial hegemony #mit6 1 day ago

laura47 #mit6 kid charged w/100+ counts of academic dishonestly b/c modded FB study group? BS! "that's not what i thought i was signing up for w/ FB 1 day ago

laura47 Final link out of weekendpictures.ca : "The Politics of Platforms". #mit6 1 day ago

laura47 also, lots of new followers this weekend. say hi! especially if you found me via #mit6. this username at gmail works. :) 1 day ago

loganpoppy Second best quote of #MIT6 so far - "Take a chill, it's cool, it's fun, it's the internet and it's free. You were young once, weren't you?" 1 day ago

d_kompare @stoton But Westinghouse's shiny tubular time capsule was way more Buck Rogers! #mit6 1 day ago

eaj6 @laura47 Yes, I think so - though it has made me wish I was at another session sometimes. :) #mit6 1 day ago

d_kompare @stoton on analog and digital time capsules; cool history of a huge project at a 1930s Georgia university - "Crypt of Civilization" #mit6 1 day ago

matlockmatlock @laura47 yes! as long as people are actually saying what's going on or linking, not just "bob is talking about youtube" or whatever #mit6 1 day ago

eaj6 "This wall is not really a wall, it's more like an amplifier" - Avner Levin, interviewed on film (Politics of Platforms) #mit6 1 day ago

laura47 #mit6 is tweeting call sessions more interesting to others than plenaries, because we're not all at the same call sessions? 1 day ago

eaj6 May: there is an expectation that you're different from your online profile (according to his participant, the FB evangelist) #mit6 1 day ago

laura47 #mit6 that was the best teenager interview about facebook EVAR. "Just take a chill", re: the internet. ("The Politics of Platforms" ) 1 day ago

eaj6 Documentary subject on Facebook privacy: "Take a chill!....You were young once, weren't you?" (May: I was.) Awwwwesome. #mit6 1 day ago

mdocx1 The Pirate Bay is not an archive. Or, is it? #mit6 1 day ago

loganpoppy Hearing a presentation on "Weekend Pictures" re UGC at http://stw.ryerson.ca/others/s7may/index.html #MIT6 1 day ago

loganpoppy If you FB and would like to talk more in podcast form, please join "Lion's Share media podcast group" at http://tinyurl.com/czdumc #MIT6 1 day ago

d_kompare Stein - The Wire as millenial noir; also, noir imagery/aesthetics in fan works (vids, machinima, Second Life sims, etc.) #mit6 1 day ago

eaj6 Great talk by Gillespie - can't wait till the paper's accessible from the website again (sigh) #mit6 1 day ago

d_kompare Stein - Veronica Mars as gender-reversed noir (I miss that show!) #mit6 1 day ago

flourish Just rocked my presentation at #mit6, now in the real religion panel... religion people don't Twitter, it seems, LOL. 1 day ago

loganpoppy Gillespie - Platforms have Edges, are chaperoned, are wide, aren't flat, make content available, are code #MIT6 1 day ago

d_kompare Louisa Stein on "millienial noir" on 2000s TV and transmedia #mit6 1 day ago

d_kompare Kustritz - online participation bridges early and late Foucault; i.e., lots of "arts of the self" posts to the digital archive #mit6 1 day ago

mdocx1 In applied archiving session, YouTube-, p2p-, flickr-style archiving can be defined as perpetual transmission. #mit6 1 day ago

CritInternet Can death ever actually be "untimely"? -which was the frame to enunciate Foucault's death .... Dunno.... #mit6 1 day ago

d_kompare Anne Kustritz outs her own stolen blog posts that became attached to her name on Google #mit6 1 day ago

eaj6 Gillespie - YouTube has been increasingly referring to itself as a "platform" since Google purchased it #mit6 1 day ago

eaj6 Gillespie presenting using FreeMind. Haven't seen that before - kinda cool though. #mit6 1 day ago

loganpoppy Gillespie - 4 meanings of platform: computational, architectural, figurative, political: in these defs YouTube is not a platform #MIT6 1 day ago

CritInternet Anne Kustritz Foucault's Arts of Existence in the Digital Archive -- promising title #mit6 1 day ago

anadk Kevin's presentation is at http://icanhaz.com/youtubedecay. Defend the mic! #mit6 (w/link now) 1 day ago

kdc rt @footage Kevin Driscoll: introducing youtomb.mit.edu, where videos that've been taken down are "preserved" #mit6 1 day ago

loganpoppy Gillespie on politics of platforms - "We don't have a way to ask questions about new digital intermediaries", which is a real problem #MIT6 1 day ago

anadk Kevin's presentation is at http://kevindriscoll.info/docs/presentations/youtubedecay/. Defend the mic! #mit6 1 day ago

halavais @mdocx1 You'll see more of it. A lot of people without funding (me included), because of the economy and end of the fiscal year. #mit6 1 day ago

loganpoppy Driscoll - See http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iJoK_Yf9XEk as example of LRRG Tribute to Rush #MIT6 1 day ago

shelila @desconcentrado's #mit6 presentation just made me remember how much I miss Oink. 1 day ago

gruacach Henry Jenkins on spreadable media (not viral!) & the susan boyle phenomenon. http://www.henryjenkins.org/ #mit6 1 day ago

loganpoppy Driscoll - The Living Room Rock Gods have started a new campaign against overzealous copyright claims http://lrrgs.blogspot.com/ #MIT6 1 day ago

d_kompare @j_l_r right back at ya, fangirl! #mit6 1 day ago

d_kompare Kohnen - western and past setting is key to Brokeback's reificiation of its white queerness #mit6 1 day ago

j_l_r panel I'm moderating in 372! big ♥ to @d_kompare for being the bestest #mit6 fanboy conference buddy. 1 day ago

loganpoppy Driscoll - YouTomb works with YouTube API to understand who is placing "take-down" requests http://youtomb.mit.edu/ #MIT6 1 day ago

d_kompare RT @footage: Kevin Driscoll: introducing youtomb.mit.edu, where videos that've been taken down are "preserved" #mit6 1 day ago

d_kompare Melanie Kohnen on queer temporalities in Brokeback Mountain and Boy's Don't Cry #mit6 1 day ago

mdocx1 Never been to a conference where so many presenters just don't show up - weird. #mit6 1 day ago

anadk check out youtomb.mit.edu politics of platforms #mit6 1 day ago

shelila @desconcentrado presenting at #mit6 about http://youtomb.mit.edu. Very cool. 1 day ago

wardgeene is there aaudio/video stream of #mit6 ?? 1 day ago

footage Kevin Driscoll: introducing youtomb.mit.edu, where videos that've been taken down are "preserved" #mit6 1 day ago

loganpoppy Kevin Driscoll opens up with a video he made in his living room with his cell phone camera, but the clip was "removed", to YouTomb #MIT6 1 day ago

imardevries attending mirko tobias schaefer's lecture #mit6 1 day ago

d_kompare Possible theme for MIT9 (in 2015): What was local broadcasting? #mit6 1 day ago

d_kompare RT @loganpoppy: Post network affiliates are weather detectors and crime reporting machines #MIT6 1 day ago

anadk Psyched about politics of platforms. Have high hopes for this one! #mit6 1 day ago

twiterface New post: Now off to moderate "the politics of platforms" #mit6 (http://cli.gs/s9nHd9) 1 day ago

loganpoppy @d_kompare Post network affiliates are weather detectors and crime reporting machines #MIT6 1 day ago

cfurj Anyone have links to abstracts/papers for the @joshgreen TV panel? This link doesn't go to end of alphabet! http://bit.ly/7bOBF #mit6 1 day ago

alechosterman RT @kfitz: Good god: anybody here from UGA? http://www.uga.edu #MiT6 1 day ago

JeanBurgess Now off to moderate "the politics of platforms" #mit6 1 day ago

anadk ahhhh, the problem is the metrics. yes! #mit6 oh, and no one wants to fund UGC 1 day ago

aswinp #mit6 great line from @basling re q's for panelists: everyone who comes to the prom must dance! 1 day ago

JeanBurgess People are VERY INTERESTED IN TELEVISION. It's like a WHOLE ROOM full of arguing @joshgreen s #mit6 1 day ago

kfitz Abstracts with authors after G have gone poof; makes it hard to decide what panel to go to next! #MiT6 1 day ago

Debaser42 interesting talk by Tom Pettitt on Containment and Articulation in regards to the Gutenberg Parenthesis. #mit6 1 day ago

aswinp #mit6 @d_kompare bit like args re "post-colonial." But surely post-network => transition in tv landscape, not that network TV is done. 1 day ago

matlockmatlock Narrowly avoided Assyrian history pissing contest. #mit6 1 day ago

geoffreylong The branding spots in @joshgreen's presentation made me ~6 again. Cosby! Estelle Getty! Michael Landon! Whoa, creepy. #mit6 1 day ago

dannyid RT @desconcentrado Sarah Salter reveals little known truth: mobile providers store your text msgs for short time. #mit6 1 day ago

dannyid TR @desconcentrado Sarah Salter reveals little known truth: mobile providers store your text msgs for short time. #mit6 1 day ago

j_l_r discussion by @joshgreen of NBC's branding crisis while trying to incorporate online platforms. now Q&A! Mittell: affiliates?! #mit6 1 day ago

gruacach Hero Reports: A security campaign that reports civic courage. http://web.media.mit.edu/~alyssa/NYC_092208/index.php #mit6 1 day ago

gruacach Surveillance Camera Players. http://www.notbored.org/the-scp.html #mit6 1 day ago

aswinp #mit6... Colours also claiming to make ad breaks interesting + promises "cohesive viewing" http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TzDO53zCxxk 1 day ago

ivanovitch @joshgreen is right: cultivating individual show audiences, who gather in mult. locations, makes network's (lack of) value add clear. #mit6 1 day ago

aswinp #mit6 @joshgreen's args re NBC within the U.S. makes sense in the Indian context as well. NBC-owned Indian channel, Colours... 1 day ago

j_l_r thanks @joshgreen for offering analysis. I'm not a fan of descriptive papers - tho it's my field; others may find the info fresher. #mit6 1 day ago

lockedroom #mit6 josh green on cross platform marketing; interesting! ABC's multiplatform advertising directly echoes ABC family's campaign from 2- ... 1 day ago

stoton Joshua Green: NBC promos for NBC.com are the promotion of another product/media destination. #mit6 1 day ago

shelila C3 FTW! RT @anadk: In the tv panel @joshgreen dances, gives us michael landon and talks about the broadcaster's ID crisis. #mit6 FTW! 1 day ago

d_kompare #mit6 Interesting that cable nets seem to have ramped up their idents at the same time broadcast nets have backed off 1 day ago

anadk In the tv panel @joshgreen dances, gives us michael landon and talks about the broadcaster's ID crisis. #mit6 FTW! 1 day ago

dwittkower Are bloggers mere spin doctors, or are MSM sources just the most useful common reference? Perh. military analyst story is a test case? #MiT6 1 day ago

d_kompare #mit6 @joshgreen on the importance of TV network idents; US networks have backed off on it in last decade 1 day ago

geoffreylong Uploaded slides and lo-o-o-ong version of my talk to a URL that will be divulged later. Amused by the 'director's cut' of a lecture. #mit6 1 day ago

footage Monika Kin Gagnon: preservation of, and access to, event-based media is extremely challenging #mit6 1 day ago

d_kompare Josh Green - broadcast networks have ongoing identity crisis, most pronounced at NBC (yep - DK) #mit6 1 day ago

loganpoppy RT @kfitz: Good god: anybody here from UGA? http://www.uga.edu #MiT6 (via @d_kompare) 1 day ago

eaj6 Jennifer Whitson: Digital enclosures of online space, controlled by corporations. Cites Andreev...I associate with Boyle. #mit6 1 day ago

shelila #mit6 Post Network TV panel awesome so far. @joshgreen is up now. 1 day ago

Debaser42 Shared topics at #mit6 and #bcb4 although the differences are quite extreme - would be interesting to get BCB4 at MiT6 and vice versa 1 day ago

eaj6 Sarah Salter: do we really think our text messages carry a lower expectation of privacy than our phone calls? The law thinks so #mit6 1 day ago

d_kompare RT @kfitz: Good god: anybody here from UGA? http://www.uga.edu #MiT6 1 day ago

j_l_r #mit6 lunchtime wisdom: the behind-the-scenes #jobmarket is an ARG - must collect many pieces of info from many folks across many media. 1 day ago

kfitz Good god: anybody here from UGA? http://www.uga.edu #MiT6 1 day ago

d_kompare @academicdave I'll trade you notes on #mit6 for some on the #wordpress meet-up! 1 day ago

dwittkower Gerben: worthwhile points about the phenom. of scrolling-off-screen and how it trains kids to 'bump' themselves in friends feeds, etc. #MiT6 1 day ago

lockedroom #mit6 miranda banks: combination/association of show runners with writers at strikes increased visibility/legibility for audiences, to p ... 1 day ago

ckaman eric gerben of UMichigan on literacy versioning and the need to add a temporal lens when examining users' understanding of online text #mit6 1 day ago

aswinp #mit6 Mazzarella useful: no simple correlation b/w spatiality of cultural production and production of cultural space in today's mediascape 1 day ago

aswinp #mit6 adapting from @mmbanksy bollywood as a place in the world doesn't mean much in terms of the experience of prodn. 1 day ago

aswinp #mit6 look around the room y'all. 17 of 19 laptops are macs... 1 day ago

aswinp #mit6 look around the room y'all. It's 17 of 19 laptops are macs... 1 day ago

ivanovitch RT @d_kompare Miranda Banks presenting great history of the WGA, to put it into modern context #mit6 1 day ago

kfitz Banks: 1988 WGA strike failed in part b/c TV writers failed to see why they should care about VHS residuals. Oops. #MiT6 1 day ago

anadk "Technology lures moments of crisis" says @mmmbanksy. Love the verb. #mit6 1 day ago

desconcentrado Sarah Salter reveals little known truth: mobile providers store your text msgs for short time. #mit6 1 day ago

beyondbroadcast Switching gears, from academics at #MIT6 to experimental radio folks at #megapolis: http://megapolisfestival.org/ 1 day ago

loganpoppy missed it? 2nd Time - My paper at Public Sphere panel at is available for download at http://tinyurl.com/ddm3s4 #MIT6 1 day ago

d_kompare Miranda Banks presenting great history of the WGA, to put it into the context today #mit6 1 day ago

kfitz Miranda Banks: technical changes redefine nature of "work"; tv's move to digital must produce new means of thinking about labor #MiT6 1 day ago

tglaisyer learning about the future of democracy (IN LESS THAN 20 MINS) IN 51-325 #mit6 1 day ago

dwittkower http://web.mit.edu/comm-forum/mit6/papers/Anderson.pdf Good sketch of a rhizomatic theory of "buzz" in experiential goods. #MiT6 1 day ago

d_kompare Net neutrality is probably in trouble, from what I understand about the likely outcome of legislation this session #mit6 1 day ago

aswinp #mit6: when national audience is still watching tv on tv, easier to try online initiatives, targeting diaspora: NDTV's http://www.tubaah.com 1 day ago

d_kompare Holt - cable channels and systems are opposed to online distribution, citing fear of dropped subscribers #mit6 1 day ago

anadk Holt compares YouTube's estimated losses with the Boston Globe's. YT is in trouble. #mit6 1 day ago

aswinp #mit6 Hulu is in trouble too; terrific Alec in Huluwood ad: http://www.hulu.com/superbowl/55719 1 day ago

d_kompare Holt - CBS going "the aggregator route", "in business with everybody"; opposite strategy of Disney #mit6 1 day ago

aswinp #mit6 and Peter Lagouri, chairman of Fox, with his predictions here: http://www-personal.umich.edu/~aswinp/Peter_lagouri_FOX.wma 1 day ago

eaj6 I wonder how many times the phrase "fundamentally altered" has been uttered in this building in the last few days. #mit6 1 day ago

stoton Television in Post-Network Era panel is grea, but bummer it's up against Expo '67. Thankful for twitter updates. #mit6 1 day ago

stoton Jennifer Holt: Disney offers promotional material on outside networks (youtube) but directs viewers back to their sites for content. #mit6 1 day ago

shelila Jennifer Holt at #mit6: "Disney: making marketing look like content since 1954." 1 day ago

d_kompare Holt - ABC dominates online viewing thus far; Disney aggressive in developing the spaces, leveraging their brands #mit6 1 day ago

geoffreylong I wonder if I'm the only academic at #mit6 who writes his papers in BBEdit? Collapsible div tags actually help quite a bit. 1 day ago

aswinp #mit6 @anadk Holt's opening is another good instance of media industries' crisis narrative, no? 1 day ago

shelila Whenever anyone talks about Les Moonves, I always think of the 30 where Kenneth is friends with Les Moon Vest. #mit6 1 day ago

d_kompare Les Moonves - "The model ain't broken!" ; Jennifer Holt - "The model's broken" #mit6 1 day ago

anadk Jennifer Holt is here to say that the model is broken #mit6 1 day ago

shelila Dubious Nielsen Report mentioned in Post-Network Panel at #mit6. http://bit.ly/GbgSs 1 day ago

mdocx1 Research history -Scrooge McDuck- about researchers disregarding what we do know as common and fetishizing what we know we don't know #mit6 1 day ago

d_kompare #mit6 - Jennifer Holt on "rising anxiety" in media industry as the hum in Todd Haynes' film Safe; great metaphor! 1 day ago

kfitz Jennifer Holt on migration of television to digital space; suspicious claims that TV is still dominant viewing format #MiT6 1 day ago

lockedroom Just discovered #mit6 tag. Should have known. At post network panel, ours next! 1 day ago

footage at Expo '67 panel -- sitting with KS who was there as well. practical media archaeology. #mit6 1 day ago

geoffreylong Contemplating heckling @joshgreen on his panel, but have decided to refrain. Ya don't wanna mess with the muthafreakin' Australians. #mit6 1 day ago

kfitz Love these rooms with the power outlets at the seats, but still feel like I need to be about six inches taller to make it work. #MiT6 1 day ago

j_l_r at post-network TV but may not livetweet because my energy is flagging. our panel on media temporalities is next! #mit6 1 day ago

jmaxsfu #mit6 Early Unix Culture at Coach House Press now entered in the record. #maxwell">http://web.mit.edu/comm-forum/mit6/subs/abstracts.html#maxwell 1 day ago

JeanBurgess In post-network tv session #mit6 1 day ago

anadk Television in a Post-Network Era, here we go #mit6 1 day ago

gruacach Mass Media as Surveillance: http://web.mit.edu/comm-forum/mit6/papers/Drew.pdf #mit6 1 day ago

gruacach YouTube: A Short History of Competing Futures. http://web.mit.edu/comm-forum/mit6/papers/Burgess.pdf #mit6 1 day ago

d_kompare RT @liesell: Scrooge McDuck theory of history: no matter how much we save for the "future," people will want what we don't save #mit6 1 day ago

matlockmatlock ashurbanipal and diderot? yes plz #mit6 1 day ago

gruacach many eyes, for shared visualization and discovery. http://manyeyes.alphaworks.ibm.com/manyeyes/ #mit6 1 day ago

eaj6 Done with my presentation - went well. (Thanks to all who came!) :) On to Privacy Control in E-Communications. #mit6 1 day ago

gruacach Very cool. Public Radio Exchange. http://www.prx.org/ #mit6 1 day ago

gruacach YouTomb is a research project that tracks videos taken down from YouTube for alleged copyright violation. http://youtomb.mit.edu/ #mit6 1 day ago

gruacach Fascinating experiment with video in India: http://pad.ma/ #mit6 1 day ago

dwittkower Can we talk about ubiquitous and/or targeted marketing without speaking of an assault on the public? #MiT6 1 day ago

footage Doing history: motivated by desire for what we don't know & all about evidence we don't have. Loss of evidence may not all be bad. #mit6 1 day ago

liesell The Scrooge McDuck theory of history: no matter how much we save for the "future," people in the future will want what we don't save #mit6 1 day ago

liesell @footage makes a great point; we archive ephemera in order to preserve cultural memory, but "cultural memory isn't evidence based" #mit6 1 day ago

hhhernandez RT - @anadk - @blackaller - #MIT6 Conference going on right now - #Media in Transition - http://tr.im/jHuU 1 day ago

matlockmatlock "I'm not sure that collective memory is evidence-based" -@footage #mit6 1 day ago

footage Sinnreich: not necessarily true that digital media will ultimately be more fragile than "hard" analog media -- it's too early to tell #mit6 1 day ago

fabiogiglietto so sad to be missing #mit6 :( 1 day ago

mdocx1 Looking forward to archiving "acid-free" tweets of the future #mit6 1 day ago

gruacach TurnItIn lawsuit: http://www.plagiarismtoday.com/2008/03/25/iparadigms-wins-turnitin-lawsuit/ #mit6 1 day ago

gruacach Pat Aufderheide: "http://turnitin.com/static/index.html is a scummy little site" #mit6 2 days ago

jmaxsfu Petruska: TV Guide shunted by tech industry buyouts 5x so far; brand still worth millions; an icon still, despite corporate fumbling? #mit6 2 days ago

halavais Argh. I think this cold has finally knocked me out. To drug store for Dayquill, and hopefully a return to the conf to infect everyone. #mit6 2 days ago

beyondbroadcast RT @fonchik #mit6 Media Re:public slides from last evening available on slideshare.http://tinyurl.com/dzk8ox 2 days ago

d_kompare #mit6 Muller - researching "formatting," in participatory spaces, as in the term's usage in regards to global TV franchises 2 days ago

beyondbroadcast Interesting wrinkle--third-wavers demonstrate more agency over Barbie than second-wavers: grinding them down, writing snarky ditties. #MIT6 2 days ago

jmaxsfu Karen Petruska on the resilience of TV Guide's brand identity in the face of big media shifts #mit6 2 days ago

d_kompare #mit6 Muller - framework/structures of participatory media spaces are still built by those in power 2 days ago

fonchik #mit6 Media Re:public slides from last evening available on slideshare. http://www.slideshare.net/fonchik/mit6-new-media-civic-media 2 days ago

CritInternet Nancy van Leuven Indigenous online culture-sharing to combat white racism #MIT6 2 days ago

liesell Byerly - what are the ephemera of the future? Is it spam? Is it Twitter? How will we find it? Make sure we leave fragments at least... #mit6 2 days ago

anadk Digital screens in public spaces as a way of capturing the quite elusive audiences. Battle over control of attention. Prob Fail #mit6 2 days ago

d_kompare #mit6 - Eggo Muller on growing body of critical work on participatory media; we need more comparative work on participatory cultures/spaces 2 days ago

liesell Byerly - we may believe that paper has lost its significance now, but think of all those who wanted copy of NYT from the inauguration #mit6 2 days ago

anadk Contrasts between public screens in Stockholm and China. Many as you would imagine. #mit6 2 days ago

raquelrecueroen For the ones who aren't in #mit6 and wish they were (like myself), there is a lot of people twittering from the event. 2 days ago

beyondbroadcast GirlCity.TV stories about Barbie, revealing how girls reinterpret the doll. One revelation: Barbie was literally toxic, offgassing. #MIT6 2 days ago

farman Remix has a long history that predates the digital (such as collage as an important cultural practice) #mit6 2 days ago

liesell Byerly - ephemera as a 'sidelong glance' at the past, pointing to the categorical ambiguity of objects we might discard or save #mit6 2 days ago

halavais Bossewitch & Sinnreich, "Basically, what we are saying is that Philip K Dick was a genius." #mit6 2 days ago

footage Alison Byerly: canonical definition of print ephemera: accidental survival, not consciously collected at time of its creation #mit6 2 days ago

beyondbroadcast Confession: I love Stella Marrs' work from before--http://www.stellamarrs.com/catalog/results.php?type=category&cat=7 #MIT6 2 days ago

d_kompare #mit6 Gehl - Blog Cabin online community realizes in fall 08 how unrealistic the cabin is under the circumstances now 2 days ago

beyondbroadcast Stella Marrs: 20 years as artist, went into the academy but found art school alienating. Started GirlCity.TV to make space for women #MIT6 2 days ago

halavais RT @liesell: Facepainting - creating a campaign of deception to mask your true identity on social networks http://tinyurl.com/coqnka #mit6 2 days ago

CritInternet Hate speech and Internet - finally self-expression not coded as inherently progressive Adam Klein #MIT6 2 days ago

d_kompare #mit6 Gehl - online commenters of Blog Cabin discuss and debate the impact of the financial crisis on the cabin being built on the show 2 days ago

footage Alison Byerly on "what not to save" #mit6 2 days ago

liesell Facepainting - creating a campaign of deception to mask your true identity on social networks (ie facebook) http://tinyurl.com/coqnka #mit6 2 days ago

d_kompare #mit6 Robert Gehl on the online community ("off-site building team") of the DIY series Blog Cabin; "self-imagined audience/owners" of cabin 2 days ago

gruacach stories untold: copyright law and documentary film. http://www.centerforsocialmedia.org/videos/stories_untold/ #mit6 2 days ago

beyondbroadcast All of this struggle over the story begs the question: "Whose work is it anyway?" #MIT6 2 days ago

beyondbroadcast RT @gruacach code of best practices in fair use for online video. http://centerforsocialmedia... #mit6 This is really informative! 2 days ago

liesell Bossewitch is at http://alchemicalmusings.org/ and helped create the OS CMS http://plone.org; Sinnreich at http://aram.sinnreich.com/ #mit6 2 days ago

footage Bossewitch & Sinnreich: "off the grid" strategy to escape surveillance #mit6 2 days ago

beyondbroadcast Funny, re. Second Life griefers: "I don't know how many pictures of penises I've taken pictures of during the course of my work."#MIT6 2 days ago

footage Bossewitch & Sinnreich: "promiscuous broadcasting" of information -- this can be a strategy #mit6 2 days ago

footage Bossewitch & Sinnreich: "voracious collection" (web services): software that could allow you to be your own Big Brother #mit6 2 days ago

CritInternet discussion of restricting access, VS open access as key to Henessy's discussion of aboriginal knowledge and spatiality #mit6 2 days ago

anadk When you chase behaviors and not individuals it solves the illusion of statistical accuracy. Biz Models #mit6 2 days ago

halavais Second mention of "sousveillance" at the conference? #MiT6 2 days ago

pohaiplace RT @gruacach code of best practices in fair use for online video. http://centerforsocialmedia... #mit6 This is really informative! 2 days ago

beyondbroadcast Shift from narrative unfolding of lg15 to Alt Reality Game structure--more of a mystery than a story. Fans start to "gamejack". #MIT6 2 days ago

matlockmatlock "Power is exercised through strategically sharing information now" -Sinnreich #mit6 2 days ago

farman Nice resources on fair use of media and copyright issues (from Pat Aufderheid) http://www.centerforsocialmedia.org/fair_use/C23/ #mit6 2 days ago

shelila @eaj6: We should study how we watch television as well as content, especially since the average American watches 5 hours of TV a day. #mit6 2 days ago

halavais "End of Forgetting" would be a great workshop / miniconference theme. #MiT6 2 days ago

liesell Johan Bossewitch and Aram Simmheim - opting out of the cultural database and resisting surveiliance (paper http://tinyurl.com/cmhlg6 ) #mit6 2 days ago

anadk "It's not creative until it sells" Biz Models Panel #mit6 2 days ago

d_kompare #mit6 Bresnan - fan anticipation is participatory, much more so than the event itself 2 days ago

CritInternet kate hennessy canadian aboriginal cultural productions of digitally mediated repatriation #mit6 2 days ago

footage Bossewitch & Sinnreich: "we understand amnesia; how do we cope with eternal memory (hyperthymesia)" #mit6 2 days ago

AIRmedia @beyondbroadcast Will we have mingling of #MIT6 and #megapolis? 2 days ago

footage @vbstope Yes, we need a better word for 4d cartography, and one day it will replace "map." #mit6 2 days ago

eaj6 Overarching theme at #mit6: overreliance on digital "archive" tech that isn't actually archival - websites, blogs, Flickr, life-logs, etc. 2 days ago

richjensen RT @vbstope Yes, cartography 4D! That's the discipline title I've been searching for since 1994. @footage #mit6 2 days ago

footage I think I see two Eee netbooks in the "Archival Limits" room. Here's to scalable computing #mit6 2 days ago

d_kompare #mit6 Bresnan - talking about http://firejoemorgan.com and the books Money Ball and Bear vs. Shark 2 days ago

beyondbroadcast Definition of "transmedia," aka multiplatform or cross media: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transmedia_storytelling #MIT6 2 days ago

eaj6 Gardner & Del Giudice: UWisconsin study on twittering using only one's thoughts (and an EEG) - and it works. Spooky #mit6 2 days ago

jmaxsfu Chi. Underground Library tracing historical social networks within the city. #mit6 2 days ago

CritInternet John Campbell - cool discussion of race, spatiality and quasi-publics in the Race, Nationality and Digital Technologies 51-395 #mit6 2 days ago

d_kompare #mit6 Bresnan - Frankfurt school: sports fans as textbook mass-culture spectators; general theme of much on sports fandom (as consumption) 2 days ago

d_kompare #mit6 Bresnan - utopian sports fan fantasies center on direct participation with games and athletes; cf 1991 SI article on 2001 sports TV 2 days ago

liesell Balbi - (re national archives) sorting digital data by nationality doesn't make sense. Digital objects erode national boundaries. #Mit6 2 days ago

beyondbroadcast Lonelygirl15 production co. now called Eqal; creating "social shows" that bring communities in contact with advertisers via transmedia #MIT6 2 days ago

beyondbroadcast Storytelling model: interaction b/w producers, "materiality" (i.e. medium), communities who renegotiate control of the story #MIT6 2 days ago

liesell Balbi - intrinsic paradox in preserving and freezing data designed to be ephemeral and chimerical #mit6 2 days ago

gruacach code of best practices in fair use for online video. http://centerforsocialmedia.org/remix #mit6 2 days ago

matlockmatlock @vVvA I think loudness might be a tactic to make things that weren't otherwise noisy noisier? #mit6 2 days ago

vbstope Yes, cartography 4D! That's the discipline title I've been searching for since 1994. @footage #mit6 2 days ago

liesell Gabriele Balbi Thinking about how media historians of the future will engage with our data. Paper online: http://tinyurl.com/cvcpu5 #mit6 2 days ago

beyondbroadcast Girlhoods panel: Bercu S. Bakioglu from Indiana University reporting on "poaching on story worlds" vis-a-vis lonelygirl15 #MIT6 2 days ago

d_kompare #mit6 moderating panel on TV as a participatory medium; first up - Mark Bresnan on sports fans and participatory media 2 days ago

kdc in Pat Aufderheide workshop. I think I'm too tired to be truly participatory here. #mit6 2 days ago

CritInternet James Paradis - "The first thing I noticed when I came to MIT was that the clocks weren't synchronised" #Mit6 2 days ago

jmaxsfu There's still seating available in E51-149! #mit6 2 days ago

shelila Getting ready to moderate Streaming Information and Stories at #mit6. E51-325. 2 days ago

geoffreylong Successfully chopped 2800 words out of my presentation by assuming people have basic knowledge of both transmedia stories and games. #mit6 2 days ago

cscannella Number of times "blog" comes up in the #MiT6 abstracts? 12. Number of times "twitter" comes up? 0. #blogsstillkickass 2 days ago

JeanBurgess #mit6 retweet it up: Beers for books at Tommy Doyle's tonight #mit6 http://is.gd/uugj you should all come! 2 days ago

cscannella Look at the colons at #MiT6!!! http://web.mit.edu/comm-forum/mit6/subs/abstracts.html @academicdave is fighting *such* a losing battle. 2 days ago

arjunram RT @NiemanLab Two future-of-news hashtags to follow this weekend: #bcniphilly (BarCamp NewsInnovation) and #MiT6 (Media in Transition) 2 days ago

tuchodi @jmaxsfu #mit6 Good luck with your preso. 2 days ago

myrnaslist RT @rkref: Dyslexics Against Hashtags file protest. RT @NiemanLab Two future-of-news hashtags to follow this weekend: #bcniphilly and #MiT6. 2 days ago

liesell Before the digital era, INA aimed to be exhaustive: now they are forced to be selective, since they can't preserve all websites. #mit6 2 days ago

footage Mussou: We have to give up "exhaustivity" of collecting in digital era #mit6 2 days ago

beyondbroadcast "The quandary of quality"--hard to tell in the moment what future generations will think is worth retrieving. #MIT6 2 days ago

liesell In France, everything broadcast in France and Sweden (inc US progs) available for researchers in nat. archives. Not so w/BBC archives #mit6. 2 days ago

beyondbroadcast In France and Sweden they preserve the entire 24-hour broadcast schedule, including foreign productions, & researchers can access. #MIT6 2 days ago

imardevries just finished my talk on mobile wireless communication devices and the informational cloud #mit6 2 days ago

liesell Snickars: rights crisis - 3M media files on web, but legally can't be accessed online, only thru visit to Swedish National Archive #mit6 2 days ago

beyondbroadcast RT @liesell Wright - heritage aspect of BBC archives 'doesn't pay the bills' -reuse value does - 30% of evening news from the archives #mit6 2 days ago

liesell Wright - heritage aspect of BBC archives 'doesn't pay the bills' -reuse value does - 30% of evening news comes from the archives #mit6 2 days ago

beyondbroadcast Q: why archive? Answers: research, cultural heritage, continuity, institutional habit, legal deposit (ownership), reuse, fact-checking #MIT6 2 days ago

gabosama RT @NiemanLab Two future-of-news hashtags to follow this weekend: #bcniphilly (BarCamp NewsInnovation) and #MiT6 (Media in Transition) 2 days ago

liesell Mussou: INA.fr a 'one stop shop' for archives in France - helping to digitize smaller archives that don't have the money to preserve #mit6 2 days ago

liesell @footage wonders how archives will relate institutionally to the vast number of informal archives of public memory that are emerging #mit6 2 days ago

beyondbroadcast Snickars: not being able to post certain materials b/c of rights "distorts history"--example, http://videoactive.wordpress.com/ #MIT6 2 days ago

liesell Correction: I meant BBC isn't a *closed* archive, despite the fact that it's used mostly internally at present #mit6 2 days ago

footage US archives scene trending toward decentralization; far less coordinated than in Euro; less robust but less bureaucratic (my opinion) #mit6 2 days ago

footage European archives ecology revolves around centralized repositories funded by govts or TV license fees; quite different in rowdy USA #mit6 2 days ago

beyondbroadcast Wright: BBC says that content belongs to UK fee payers, so they feel like they need to get the material online ASAP. #MIT6 2 days ago

liesell Wright: BBC archive isn't an archive, it's part of the BBC, and thus belongs to the people of the UK via license fees.#mit6 2 days ago

beyondbroadcast Mussou: will archivists be willing to give up organizing collections to crowd? Unclear. But it's worth a shot. #MIT6 2 days ago

footage Love Claude Mussou (INA)'s abbreviation WWM (World Wide Monopolies) #mit6 2 days ago

beyondbroadcast Snickars: social tagging is one way to help to situate older collections that lack context, but rights issues need to be surmounted. #MIT6 2 days ago

beyondbroadcast One way to salvage: don't compress. Another: don't store as much unless you can automate metatdata. Firehose problem. #MIT6 2 days ago

loganpoppy Wright: Change from stone, paper, film to disc is 1000x cheaper each time, but lasts 1/10th as long #mit6 (via @footage) 2 days ago

loganpoppy Wright - keep clean, structured, redundant data, you can mitigate against loss: we do that in analog, but not digital #mit6 (via @liesell) 2 days ago

footage Wright: Change from stone, paper, film to disc is 1000x cheaper each time, but lasts 1/10th as long #mit6 2 days ago

liesell Wright - if you keep clean, structured, redundant data, you can mitigate against loss: we do that in analog, but not in digital #mit6 2 days ago

loganpoppy Wright - As storage becomes really cheap, then storage becomes much riskier. Ed note. nice summation! #MIT6 2 days ago

liesell Wright - doesn't see current IT handling the problem of how to mitigate loss once its occurs #mit6 2 days ago

liesell Requirements for storage, acc to Wright: 200 terabytes/seek. The more you store, the greater the risk of loss. #mit6 2 days ago

loganpoppy Wright - what keeps engineers in work is that technologies really do not work... funny #MIT6 2 days ago

beyondbroadcast BBC digitizing all of it, because that's the format they can best use. Risk of loss of data gets higher as amount of data goes up. #MIT6 2 days ago

footage Richard Wright: BBC generates 4000 TB raw footage (rushes) per week, keeps about 200 TB. #mit6 2 days ago

tuchodi #mit6 So what is being proposed as the answer to archieving the social web? 2 days ago

saduros RT @knightfdn: via @NiemanLab: Two #futureofnews hashtags to follow this weekend: #bcniphilly (BarCamp NewsInnovation) #MiT6 (Media in T ... 2 days ago

liesell Richard Wright, BBC archives: 100 km of shelves, 350k hours audio, 2M stills (25%online) - 95% internal use. most needs digitization! #mit6 2 days ago

farman Another group creating site-specific story w/ mobile devices (from Chris Eaket's talk on locative media): http://tinyurl.com/yozbhq #mit6 2 days ago

beyondbroadcast Richard Wright at BBC talking about archiving in a "post-media" world. A million hours, 1930s onward, 95% for internal use. #MIT6 2 days ago

beyondbroadcast Rights and archives get even more confusing as the cloud becomes more ubiquitous. #MIT6 2 days ago

paufder at MiT6 conference, check out Jessica Clark's tracking of it at beyondbroadcast and also use #MiT6 2 days ago

beyondbroadcast Here's how the trial worked out: http://tinyurl.com/ctnuj2 #MIT6 2 days ago

beyondbroadcast More on Pirate Bay Trial: http://blog.wired.com/27bstroke6/2009/02/pirate.html #MIT6 2 days ago

chrisgolden Be sure to check out @beyondbroadcast 's live tweeting from the Media in Transition Conference (also, follow hashtag #MIT6) 2 days ago

beyondbroadcast But intellectual property rights are a problem in terms of making material available to public. Pirate Bay trial creating backlash. #MIT6 2 days ago

loganpoppy Snickars notes that the problem with "digital as default" for Swedish Archives is that they do not always have rights to distribute #MIT6 2 days ago

farman From Michael Epstein's talk on locative media: mobile gaming to connect to sites of social activism in NYC: http://tinyurl.com/c37vak #mit6 2 days ago

beyondbroadcast Digital has become the default for archive--digital deposits and migration of VHS. Screen is now research interface. #MIT6 2 days ago

beyondbroadcast Pelle Snickars from the National Library of Sweden: legal deposit law for *any* AV material available in Sweden, so a big archive #MIT6 2 days ago

loganpoppy Snickars notes that there are 7 milllion hours of media deposits right now in the Swedish national archives #MIT6 2 days ago

liesell Warnings about perils of preserving collective memory in the age of WWM (World Wide Monopolies) on Institutions/Storage panel #mit6 2 days ago

beyondbroadcast Claude Mussou from INA France-gov't institutions are the best guarantee of preservation for future scholars. #MiT6 2 days ago

beyondbroadcast We can't rely on Google to archive and preserve our cultural history. Not a profitable role, tech change, financially fragile. #MiT6 2 days ago

jrcarp late for #mit6 2 day due to unforeseen convergence of long-time-no-see friends + sandwiches + sun + park. will be at Hypertext & IF for sure 2 days ago

jmaxsfu Nice to hear some critiques of the monopoly-driven cloud model. #mit6 2 days ago

beyondbroadcast Podcast of our MiT6 panel last night on new forms of public/civic media: http://tinyurl.com/dhtecu #MiT6 2 days ago

liesell Average lifespan of a web page: 44 to 75 days (acc to Brewster Kahle, Internet Archive) #mit6 2 days ago

beyondbroadcast How can we archive the Web? (netpreserve.org) #MiT6 2 days ago

loganpoppy 2nd Time - My paper at Public Sphere panel at 3:15pm in E51-325. It is available for download at http://tinyurl.com/ddm3s4 #MIT6 2 days ago

loganpoppy Uricchio - Institutional Perspectives on Storage - about heritage and the institutions of archives, how to collect social media #MIT6 2 days ago

liesell Archive of MIT Communications Forum is online: http://tinyurl.com/c3zrh6 #mit6 2 days ago

matlockmatlock Survived panel! Co-panelists were super-interesting, some great questions about historical sound art context and how we control sound. #mit6 2 days ago

footage Institutional Perspectives on Storage plenary beginning. #mit6 2 days ago

vVvA disturbance of sonic waves in the ocean of air #mit6 Sound/Noise/Signal panel 2 days ago

alexislyon RT @NiemanLab Two future-of-news hashtags to follow this weekend: #bcniphilly (BarCamp NewsInnovation) and #MiT6 (Media in Transition) 2 days ago

MacDivaONA Looks like it's a news/tech conference weekend. Watch out for flying hashtags: #bcniphilly #asja09 #MiT6 #SPJSTL #SPJ 2 days ago

alexislyon RT @liesell Halavais discussing the perils of URL shorteners: some urls will go down when companies fail. Need a permanent solution. #mit6 2 days ago

thisischristina Humanities making me think about the fallacy of "controlling nature" again #mit6 2 days ago

annejonas RT @j_l_r talk by @halavais on digital archiving! the google problem: our personal data is held by private companies. #mit6 2 days ago

knightfdn via @NiemanLab: Two #futureofnews hashtags to follow this weekend: #bcniphilly (BarCamp NewsInnovation) #MiT6 (Media in Transition) 2 days ago

eaj6 Theory panel has taken an unexpected (but to me, very welcome!) turn towards discussion of eBooks #mit6 2 days ago

MikeLizun RT @NiemanLab: Two future-of-news hashtags to follow this weekend, if you're inclined: #bcniphilly and #MiT6 2 days ago

AndrejSokolow RT @NiemanLab: Two future-of-news hashtags to follow this weekend: #bcniphilly (BarCamp NewsInnovation) and #MiT6 (Media in Transition) 2 days ago

j_l_r FYI #mit6 think I'm taking a break until post-network TV panel at 3:15, seeking lunch & audio cable. 2 days ago

d_kompare #mit6 @kfitz - these new paradigms are going to take a lot of labor, and different labor than we've been doing thus far 2 days ago

rkref Dyslexics Against Hashtags file protest. RT @NiemanLab Two future-of-news hashtags to follow this weekend: #bcniphilly and #MiT6. 2 days ago

d_kompare #mit6 good disc. about capital in peer reviewing (social and financial); someone from Europe mentioned changing funding paradigms 2 days ago

jmaxsfu @halavais asks @kfitz how we guard against total rise of popular king-makers in absence of trad. peer-review. #mit6 2 days ago

NiemanLab Two future-of-news hashtags to follow this weekend, if you're inclined: #bcniphilly (BarCamp NewsInnovation) and #MiT6 (Media in Transition) 2 days ago

eaj6 Just saw an excellent illustration of how to ask an otherwise insightful question in the most confrontational way possible #mit6 2 days ago

gwayvt @alist for students, we can't just talk about production or consumption, but participation in a context #MiT6 2 days ago

eaj6 RT @d_kompare: #mit6 Schwarz - people trust what they use, use what they like (nice summation of social media, actually - DK) 2 days ago

d_kompare #mit6 Schwarz - people trust what they use, use what they like (nice summation of social media, actually - DK) 2 days ago

jmaxsfu Schwarz: trustworthiness follows audience attention, not the other way around. #mit6 2 days ago

j_l_r RT @kfitz: MediaCommons URL [re] my talk: http://mediacommons.futureofthebook.org - actively seeking participation, so come join! #MiT6 2 days ago

liesell Claudia Schwarz, U Innsbruck, suggests the passion for ‘truth’ conveyed through the media is an American export, not a universal. #mit6 2 days ago

d_kompare #mit6 Schwarz - the image/speech becomes more trustworthy than text; TV :: most trusted news medium by the 1960s; "seeing is believing" 2 days ago

d_kompare #mit6 Schwarz - US legal/gov't culture based from the written word vs. oral culture 2 days ago

kfitz Failed to mention MediaCommons URL in my talk: http://mediacommons.futureofthebook.org - actively seeking participation, so come join! #MiT6 2 days ago

jmaxsfu Claudia Schwarz explores print, timeliness, and trust. #mit6 2 days ago

loganpoppy Claudia Schwartz - Trust is the fundamental issue she is dealing with, looks at Harvard's seal of "Veritas" as authoritarian example #MIT6 2 days ago

eaj6 Logan: McLuhan: electric media are extensions of our mind #mit6 2 days ago

liesell @halavais says he's bringing a Wordpress plugin for blog archiving to #thatcamp #mit6 2 days ago

eaj6 BTW, my talk on streaming TV is in the "Streaming Info and Stories" session, 1:30 today. #mit6 #shamelessplug 2 days ago

d_kompare #mit6 Claudia Schwarz talking about diffs between Euro and US news practices of "truth" and "trust" 2 days ago

eaj6 Probably unsurprising that the McLuhan scholar is talking about a bunch of the same stuff that'll be in my talk on streaming TV #mit6 2 days ago

jmaxsfu @halavais says he's working on WordPress plugin for blog shared archiving. #mit6 2 days ago

d_kompare #mit6 Halavais' website - http://alex.halavais.net 2 days ago

eaj6 Robert Logan: prob. only person on the theory panel who actually worked with his theorist (McLuhan). Also, what an awesome pink shirt. #mit6 2 days ago

liesell Halavais discussing the perils of URL shorteners: some urls will go down when companies fail. Need a permanent solution. #mit6 2 days ago

d_kompare #mit6 Halavais - URL shortening is a threat to internet archiving, as cos might fail and then the shorter URLs are useless 2 days ago

loganpoppy My paper at Reimagining the Public Sphere panel at 3:15pm in E51-325. My paper is available for download at http://tinyurl.com/ddm3s4 #MIT6 2 days ago

j_l_r talk by @halavais on digital archiving! the google problem: our personal data is held by private companies. #mit6 2 days ago

liesell Halavais discussing netpreserve.org, the international internet preservation consortsium - they have an event coming up in Ottawa #mit6 2 days ago

d_kompare #mit6 Halavais - we'll keep having digital "shoeboxes" (in the terabytes) but they're not quite archives 2 days ago

jmaxsfu @Halavais talks "reciprocal transparency" and the emerging archive of self- and mutual surveillance. #mit6 2 days ago

d_kompare #mit6 Halavais is using Prezi; it's got potential as a presentation platform, though I'm not convinced 2 days ago

liesell Alex Halavais on 'reciprocal transparency' and how facts abt future presidents are on facebook now: paper http://tinyurl.com/dbxqo9 #mit6 2 days ago

dwittkower Teh QTE starts naow! #MiT6 2 days ago

jmaxsfu Stu Geiger goes into out-of-band bot edits on Wikipedia, 30 seconds before the end of his talk. Want to hear more! #mit6 2 days ago

liesell Geiger discussing the growing use of bots to fight vandalism in Wikipedia - changes Wikipedia governance, yet not part of architecture #mit6 2 days ago

tuchodi #mit6 Anyone streaming Stuart Geiger? 2 days ago

j_l_r @jmaxsfu hi! we haven't been introduced yet but I'm sitting next to you. #mit6 2 days ago

j_l_r Staurt Geiger going under the hood of wikipedia to show crowdsourcing is not as easy as techno-utopian discourse would have it. #mit6 2 days ago

JeanBurgess RT @joshgreen: Beers for books at Tommy Doyle's tonight #mit6 http://is.gd/uugj 2 days ago

loganpoppy Hey, didn't get to the conference on time - was up all night meeting, err, drinking with conference mates #MIT6 2 days ago

liesell Geiger: as wikipedia moved from a listserv administrated model to a administrator model, it needed to dev. governance norms #mit6 2 days ago

footage Imar de Vries: fragmented access to archived data from mobile devices renders the oft-mentioned "cloud" more potential than real. #mit6 2 days ago

footage Imar de Vries: describing Paul Otlet's concept for a networked world communications system. #mit6 2 days ago

liesell Stuart Geiger giving a great paper on Evolving Governance and Media Use in Wikipedia unfortunately not online #mit6 2 days ago

georgeonline Following #mit6. @kfitz's talk: her work is, and is going to be (it had better be) extremely influential wrt how we think about scholarship. 2 days ago

gwayvt watching a student produced video on google literacy set to beat it and mario bros...awesome #MiT6 2 days ago

kfitz @j_l_r Sorry about the starting on time thing; we've got a very efficient moderator, not steeped in five-minutes-late time of uni #mit6 2 days ago

jmaxsfu Stu Geiger critiques the Build-it-and-they-will-come mythology of Wikipedia. #mit6 2 days ago

joshgreen Beers for books at Tommy Doyle's tonight #mit6 http://is.gd/uugj 2 days ago

j_l_r need an economy of filtering 2 replace an economy of scarcity. requires reconceiving what a 'peer' is. @kfitz #mit6 reviewing the reviewers! 2 days ago

kdc at media and authority panel at #mit6 2 days ago

j_l_r the problem is not peer review. what we need is to make the labor of peer review visible as labor! @kfitz #mit6 2 days ago

gwayvt delay due to technological difficulties in the digital classroom/digital curricula panel...even MIT isn't immune! #MiT6 2 days ago

j_l_r started as 'peer' of the realm and was gradually internalized as a disciplinary mechanism in the foucauldian sense. @kfitz #mit6 2 days ago

jmaxsfu @kfitz Peer review as disciplinary regime. #mit6 2 days ago

j_l_r history of peer review, awesome! I think she said 1755 was the origin, but wasn't widely adopted until 20th century. state censorship. #mit6 2 days ago

jmaxsfu @kfitz does history of peer review. starts with Phil Trans, but not mainstream till 1940s. #mit6 2 days ago

j_l_r yikes @kfitz started right on time! she's saying: clinging to outmoded ideologies of authority hinders rather than preserves academia. #mit6 2 days ago

eaj6 Getting my theory nerd on at the panel on Innis/McLuhan/Ong #mit6 2 days ago

footage Cartography 4D panel is starting. #mit6 2 days ago

dwittkower Starting the session soon: 'The Digital and teh Cute,' 59-image 30MB ppt. Should be fun! E51-361 #MiT6 2 days ago

kfitz Talking on the MIT campus at 9:00, building E51 room 376. Drop by if you're around. #MiT6 (via @halavais, with whom I'm speaking) 2 days ago

jmaxsfu Plug: Finally finished my slides for Early Unix Culture at the Coach House Press... at 1:30 #MiT6 2 days ago

halavais Talking on the MIT campus at 9:00, building E51 room 376. Drop by if you're around. #MiT6 2 days ago

eaj6 Cursing the transition from PDT to EDT once again as I prepare for another day of #mit6 2 days ago

matlockmatlock Another day of #mit6. People interested in sound and waking up early should come to the Sound/Noise/Signal panel at 9! 2 days ago

raquelrecuero rt @halavais RT @cms_mit: podcasts of #mit6 plenaries available http://migre.me/Gkx tonight's "New Media, Civic Media" available now 2 days ago

halavais RT @cms_mit: podcasts of #mit6 plenaries available http://cms.mit.edu/news/podcast tonight's "New Media, Civic Media" available now 2 days ago

laura47 moving stuff from archive.org to a secret location, silly homepage for fan group that's been defunct most of 2000s, but was my home.#mit6 2 days ago

laura47 http://tr.im/jFUH website shutdown with no warning, apparently! ironic given the #mit6 confrence theme!! internet archive here i come. *cry* 2 days ago

laura47 do i go to television as participatory medium panel, or why remixes=legal workshop, which will have things i know but probably be fun? #mit6 2 days ago

laura47 damn it, @kevindriscoll and @geoffreylong are both presenting at 5 tomorrow, and there are many things then! waah! #mit6 2 days ago

copyculture RT @cms_mit cms_mit podcasts of #mit6 plenaries at http://cms.mit.edu/news/podcast 2 days ago

shoutingloudly Great panel today. Packed! Fellow panelists Lisa Lynch (Concordia) and Hector Postigo (Temple) rocked. Good moderator, q&a. #mit6 2 days ago

gladyssantiago Saw this on a curb http://tinyurl.com/dtv609 Reminded me the DTV Transition is coming, for real this time Old TV disposal is not GREEN #mit6 2 days ago

stoton finished paper for tomorrow's #mit6 presentation. 2 days ago

cms_mit Spread the word: podcasts of #mit6 plenaries available http://cms.mit.edu/news/podcast tonight's "New Media, Civic Media" available now 2 days ago

CPHarbour RT @liesell: Peters: text messages first outnumbered telephone calls in October 2007 #MIT6 2 days ago

kdc There was a @vocalo shout-out here! #mit6 2 days ago

eaj6 Miro is soo pretty, and the concept's great. It'll be especially cool when it works with more content. #mit6 2 days ago

liesell shapiro: public broadcasting has been held back by "rights regimes;" public radio isn't as hampered by those concerns. #mit6 2 days ago

farman Dean Jansen (getmiro.com) notes that YouTube as "the" gateway is problematic (if users believe that if it's not there it's not on web) #mit6 2 days ago

d_kompare #mit6 Shapiro - public TV "really hitting a wall" these days, though more urgency about future of media today may change it 2 days ago

d_kompare #mit6 Jake Shapiro on http://www.prx.org Public Radio Exchange :: social net of public radio makers; very interesting, worth checking out 2 days ago

liesell jake shapiro from prx.org - anyone can upload audio, audience can review and rate, local stations can purchase it. #mit6 2 days ago

loganpoppy Dean Jansen and Jake Shapiro explain their creations http://twitpic.com/3xdn4 #MIT6 2 days ago

liesell Jansen pitching the Open Video conference in NYC June 19-20 http://openvideoconference.org/ #mit6 2 days ago

kfitz Super curious why the robot video camera up front was pointed at the audience a minute ago. (And a little self-conscious, too!) #MiT6 2 days ago

laura47 having to ask permission slows down the pace of innovation! #mit6 go open source 2 days ago

j_l_r heading home to providence early to get some sleep! see you all bright and early tomorrow. #mit6 2 days ago

eaj6 (And now I's getting it. Gotta love wifi.) #mit6 2 days ago

liesell RT @jmaxsfu: Miel's Media Re:public papers here http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/pubrelease/mediarepublic/downloads.html #MiT6 2 days ago

eaj6 Jansen: talking about MIro (http://www.getmiro.com) ...now I wants it. #mit6 2 days ago

d_kompare #mit6 Jansen - talking about Miro (http://getmiro.com); video aggregator, public media project 2 days ago

liesell Hah! Clark, Hume, Miel funded separately by mellon, ford and knight fdns to ask the same questions #mit6 2 days ago

laura47 man, just hearing "particpatory culture" gives me a thrill. i am such a cms fangirl. :-) #mit6 now being introduced to getmiro.com 2 days ago

d_kompare #mit6 Dean Jansen's deconstructed Mickey shirt is pretty awesome. 2 days ago

jmaxsfu Media Re:public papers here http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/pubrelease/mediarepublic/downloads.html #MiT6 2 days ago

d_kompare #mit6 - Miel great topics and ideas, but back off on the text in your slides, please! 2 days ago

liesell Miel: ad-supported mass media, a 'strange historical accident, is over - public media, not just citizen media, is needed to replace it #mit6 2 days ago

d_kompare #mit6 Miel - ad-supported mass-circulation journalism was a "strange historical accident"; nice! ; also, old media cos won't change stripes 2 days ago

liesell Miel: there are specific things that the old media model did for us -constancy, watchdog - that are going away and not be replaced. #mit6 2 days ago

d_kompare #mit6 Miel - http://spot.us as intriguing model of investigative journalism by tax-deductible donation 2 days ago

laura47 #mit6 RT tibbetts: the quote is "we routinely overestimate short-term change and underestimate long-term change", unattributed bit.ly/13Mtvm 2 days ago

liesell Miel shows grid of social media enterprises paid staff/voluntr contrib on 1 axis and for profit/nonprofit on the: other tpm in middle #mit6 2 days ago

loganpoppy Miel offers Typologies of New Media #MIT6 2 days ago

d_kompare #mit6 Miel - five typologies: publisher, news agency, aggregator, author-centric, audience-driven (i.e., UGC) 2 days ago

d_kompare #mit6 - Miel - next slide adds more "hybrid" projects between these poles - #DailyKos, #slashdot, etc. 2 days ago

loganpoppy Best question nonsequitor question of the day: "Have you seen "Wrath of Kahn"?" #MIT6 2 days ago

laura47 @eaj6 oh, thanks! I had to miss the early stuff for class, very lame of me. :-) #mit6 2 days ago

d_kompare #mit6 Miel - nicel two-axis chart of media "ecosystem" : profit vs. non, professional vs. volunteer; CNN, YouTube, Wikipedia, BBC 2 days ago

laura47 "why hasn't citizen media revolutionized the world yet??" was our optimism unjustified? (IMHO, people expect too much too fast) #mit6 2 days ago

liesell Persphone Miel, Berkman fellow http://tinyurl.com/c539o9 studying why citizen journalism hasn't produced significant social change #mit6 2 days ago

loganpoppy Persephone Miel presents on Media Re:Public http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/mediarepublic/ #MIT6 2 days ago

d_kompare #mit6 Hume - journalism needs cultural support before a workable business model; OK but we really can't wait for that to happen. 2 days ago

loganpoppy Ellen Hume notes that not only are we not supporting good journalism financially, but we are not doing it culturally as well #MIT6 2 days ago

loganpoppy Interesting site regarding civic action mentioned by Ellen Hume http://www.seeclickfix.com/ #MIT6 2 days ago

d_kompare #mit6 Hume - new accountability not yet here yet; still partnering with old media to leverage to action 2 days ago

liesell Hume: http://tinyurl.com/ccqb7f antidote to "toxic culture" of see something/say something campaigns: report random acts of kindness #mit6 2 days ago

laura47 #mit6 anyone lose a goldish coin in a clear bag in the auditorium? 2 days ago

laura47 #mit6 ooh, tension talking about some communities getting rid of graffiti "i know people like graffiti here, but..." awesome. :-) 2 days ago

laura47 seeclickfix.com a public decides to look out for some community,eg reporting potholes, then someone gets them fixed. citizen engagment #mit6 2 days ago

d_kompare #mit6 - talking up seeclickfix.com, heroreports.org; interesting takes on the idea of public media --> public action 2 days ago

liesell Hume: http://www.seeclickfix.com/ as an example of how to correct this (Boston Globe uses it) #mit6 2 days ago

laura47 ellen hume: newsmedia not saying how public can take action was taking a side and failed to make the connection with the viewer. #mit6 2 days ago

d_kompare #mit6 - Ellen Hume - old media didn't connect news to action 2 days ago

liesell Ellen Hume (http://www.ellenhume.com/) - mainstream media failed because they didn't connect the dots between news and action #mit6 2 days ago

laura47 everytime i go to a cms conference, i get so hopeful about the future and my role in it! Especially now that i'm graduating & jobless #mit6 2 days ago

liesell @ushahidi on Al Jazeera as another example of the future (dynamic content on established site) #mit6 2 days ago

liesell @beyondbroadcast - public radio tuner www.publicradio.com as example of static content, dynamic content = one vision of future #mit6 2 days ago

d_kompare #mit6 - Jessica Clark - contrasting two models: dynamic outlet, stable content/stable outlet, dynamic content 2 days ago

CritInternet Participation is SO not the right enunciatory frame for talking about what is hard and sticky about publics!#MIT6 2 days ago

d_kompare #mit6 - Jessica Clark - hybrid public media projects are flourishing 2 days ago

d_kompare #mit6 Jessica Clark - paradigm shifts in public media 2.0 - broadcast to network; choice, convseration, curation, creation, collaboration 2 days ago

liesell @beyondbroadcast - reframe 'public media 2.0' as a series of platforms which allow communities to form without corporate interference #mit6 2 days ago

cgerben why is no one tweeting about the food? this is great! also, what is this mysterious reception with alcohol i'm just now hearing about? #mit6 2 days ago

laura47 so, anyone want to pimp any of tomorrow's panels to me? :-) #mit6 2 days ago

d_kompare #mit6 Pat Aufderheide setting up plenary on New Media, Civic media; cites return of folk cultures vs. mass media 2 days ago

laura47 just had a really nice chat with mary hopper about history of cms program and various ideas about educational collaboration. yay #mit6 ! 2 days ago

farman Listening to a plenary discussion on new media and civic engagement #mit6 : http://twitpic.com/3x9ar 2 days ago

liesell panel with @beyondbroadcast, ellen hume, and persephone miel on social media about to begin #mit6 2 days ago

loganpoppy Clark, Hume and Miel before plenary http://twitpic.com/3x8rv #MIT6 2 days ago

zseward Walked along the river between panels at #MiT6 http://pic.im/1XP http://pic.im/1XQ 2 days ago

loganpoppy @dkompare sitting prettt on the panel http://twitpic.com/3x4kq #MIT6 2 days ago

j_l_r my question! how do the specific affordances of digital media intensify these textual formations even tho they span analog as well? #mit6 2 days ago

kdc i like that someone pointed out the curious focus on "authoritative voice" in the online activism panel #mit6 2 days ago

spikenlilli Wish I was at #MiT6 #fb 2 days ago

halavais I am becoming more and more dubious of even good analytical tools. Too easy to misuse: IssueCrawler, semantic network analysis, etc. #MiT6 2 days ago

jrcarp #mit6 computational papyrology> computational processes for recreating missing text> language modeling> it's literally all greek to me. 2 days ago

fonchik #Mit6 Hanna Wallach & David Mimno from Umass Computational Papyrology fascinating. Analysing ancient greek docs from here:http://is.gd/unka 2 days ago

kfitz (You got to love the email from three feet away, but we need to figure out how to make Jason Twitter.) #MiT6 2 days ago

liesell The site discussed by Hector Postigo in online activism panel: http://tinyurl.com/dga9md #mit6 2 days ago

j_l_r Shawn Shimpach's reading of the diagetic versioning of Dr. Who himself & series afterlife goes perfectly with @d_kompare's talk. #mit6 2 days ago

laura47 #mit6 i remember hearing henry lecture my class about the transmedia life of DW in the gay years before i ever watched it... *nostalgia* 2 days ago

laura47 #mit6 i am such a fangirl, talking about the doctor's regeneration just makes me start worrying about the next doctor, like we always do.... 2 days ago

kfitz Jason Mittell emailed me from one row up to tell me that the bldg# for my panel w/@halavais may be typo'd in the program: E51, not E15 #MiT6 2 days ago

loganpoppy Hey, an invocation of Reith directives to the BBC - Sarnoff to come next? #MIT6 2 days ago

laura47 #mit6 science fiction actualizes metaphors we take for granted. (doctor literally can regenerate, what a durable character. :) 2 days ago

j_l_r wondering whether I can backchannel while listening effectively? I can't. hopefully college students have more nimble attention. #mit6 2 days ago

liesell Online activism panel: interesting use of http://www.issuecrawler.net/ to chart which groups dominate discussion of copyright #mit6 2 days ago

loganpoppy My suggestion to Shimpach and Kompare - need to look deeply at the tactical strategies of the recording industries, let's talk #MIT6 2 days ago

loganpoppy Shimpach - Versioning is a response to the ubquitous repetition model #MIT6 2 days ago

shelila @eaj6 As the moderator of your #mit6 panel, I wondered the same thing. 2 days ago

laura47 #mit6 the recent tv "crisis" instead as an unbinding of spacial and temporal limits of television. 2 days ago

loganpoppy Shimpach - Interested in equity value in the "original brand" - leveraging the artificially produced scarcity of IP #MIT6 2 days ago

eaj6 Huh, just noticed that there's a panel that's actually on my topic (unlike the one I'm on). Wonder why I'm not on that one. Ah well. #mit6 2 days ago

laura47 #mit6 "The international circulation and afterlife of doctor who" amused, b/c i came here straight from video class screening fanvid w/DW&TW 2 days ago

joshgreen Shawn Shimpach is talking about Dr Who and being puntastic! #mit6 2 days ago

loganpoppy Shawn Shimpach - On International circulation of Dr. Who #MIT6 2 days ago

jrcarp #mit6 alternative archive > articulations of subaltern counter publics: http://alternativearchive.org 2 days ago

geoffreylong @ivanovitch Got the slides from @d_kompare's talk already. What I want is a paper to quote. :) #mit6 2 days ago

eaj6 Rats! It's not online yet! #mit6 2 days ago

eaj6 Herman: How people talk about/debate DRM online. I think I'll be downloading this one. #mit6 2 days ago

laura47 #mit6 oh that was an old one. i'll never get over my disbelief over lack of power outlets in newish mit buildings. power strip, anyone? 2 days ago

ivanovitch RT @JeanBurgess: @d_kompare talking smart about versioning and transmedia stuff. #mit6 / (@geoffreylong - slides are at http://bit.ly/bxtgQ ) 2 days ago

laura47 here are the slides! "Time Vortex" http://www.slideshare.net/dkompare #mit6 aww, now a first time presenter with a noticeable accent #mit6 2 days ago

lindser Jerome McGann just got name checked. I squealed with joy. #mit6 2 days ago

eaj6 Bill Herman: So enthusiastic! Very refreshing. #mit6 2 days ago

shelila @akwhitacre I believe that #mit6 "wooo!" came from in here. Cult Media and Global Fandom FTW! 2 days ago

footage @eaj6 connectivity sucks in the online activism room, and it is hot! #mit6 2 days ago

loganpoppy @dkompare Talking about TV and versioning... my note: it happens when TV gets on recordings, many of which have hole in the middle #MIT6 2 days ago

akwhitacre I want to be in the session next door. I just heard a "wooo!" through the wall. #mit6 2 days ago

matlockmatlock Lucky panelists: Only two of them, so they each get 30 minutes!! #mit6 2 days ago

loganpoppy Now a paper on ACG fandom by Petra Wong. Talks about Dojin, Japanese word that means "group of people who share an interest or hobby" #MIT6 2 days ago

farman Jessica Clark (http://twitter.com/beyondbroadcast) tweeted some thoughts from my presentation this afternoon (to answer @jcmeloni). #mit6 2 days ago

footage @ online activism panel: 2 modest but powerful EeePCs, 8 usual Mac laptops, 1 stray Windoze laptop, and 1 OLPC (special props to her). #mit6 2 days ago

eaj6 Those using #mit6 hash seem to have bifurcated -> Online Activism, Cult Media. The Cult Media folks seem to be tweeting more. Correlation? 2 days ago

kfitz @dkompare: fetishistic remastering of original works coupled with addition of extensive new CGI; complex logic of versioning #MiT6 2 days ago

JeanBurgess @d_kompare talking smart about versioning and transmedia stuff. #mit6 2 days ago

laura47 #mit6 they have options on doctor who DVDs to replace crappy bbc effects with cgi? MADNESS. 2 days ago

laura47 oh good, he said in his twitter that the paper will be up eventually. waiting for it, @d_kompare ! #mit6 2 days ago

matlockmatlock @shelila watch out for panelists in plak tow #mit6 2 days ago

laura47 #mit6 damn i should have punted class to see this talk. hopefully i can get a copy of the paper. versioning of doctor who and star trek 2 days ago

eaj6 Having trouble paying attention because I still haven't managed to find a bite to eat since 10:30 am. Not such good scheduling here. #mit6 2 days ago

kfitz @dkompare: text, work, brand: work is material, arbitrarily fixed, has copyright status; versioning of texts creates new works #MiT6 2 days ago

shelila @matlockmatlock you are missing out on learning about Star Trek fanvids. Pon Farr! #mit6 2 days ago

j_l_r ah, there's dr. who (& trek)! versioning: text, work, brand. work is arbitrary material segments of text subject to legal authority. #mit6 2 days ago

loganpoppy @dkompare the text in this case is always fluid, the work is fixed in arbitrary fixed form and versioning creates new works #MIT6 2 days ago

footage @stoton you're welcome! hope they're useful. #mit6 2 days ago

kfitz @dkompare: "cult television" as term foregrounds affective relations with users #MiT6 2 days ago

loganpoppy @dkompare - cult tv foregrounds affectivity in the utilization of those texts #MIT6 2 days ago

cgbrooke RT @kfitz TextFlows turns prose into poetry, poetry into performance; screen as proscenium (http://textflows.com) #MiT6 #vcool 2 days ago

kfitz @dkompare rethinking notion of repetition from "ReRun Nation"; in transmedia era, logic has become that of versioning #MiT6 2 days ago

loganpoppy @dkompare compares versioning to recorded music (yep) and thinks about it offering mobility, scalability and creativity #MIT6 2 days ago

j_l_r #mit6 @d_kompare is up. very confused that Dr. Who paper is NOT him, but this work on (trans)media temporality & versioning is very cool! 2 days ago

loganpoppy @dkompare has begun to rethink repetition in the textual issues. We have versioning that is coming around #MIT6 2 days ago

loganpoppy D_Kompare: Time Vortex uses the vortex as a metaphor for textuality - a standard concept in Poststructuralism - His focus is on TV #MIT6 2 days ago

kfitz (Not "vortext," as the program had it. Nice typo, though.) #MiT6 2 days ago

kfitz Next up: @dkompare, "Time Vortex: Versioning and the Fluid Text" #MiT6 2 days ago

kdc really interesting panelist talking about @wikileaks and protecting of sources #mit6 2 days ago

loganpoppy First Wrath of Kahn reference has been made. Hey, It's MIT after all... #MIT6 2 days ago

matlockmatlock Interesting to see which panels get tweeted the most; seems like folks on the #mit6 tag are clustering in specific talks. 2 days ago

kfitz TextFlows turns prose into poetry, poetry into performance; screen as proscenium #MiT6 2 days ago

loganpoppy Downey: Textflow turns text into poetry and poetry into theatre. http://www.textflow.com/ #MIT6 2 days ago

stoton @footage Great talking to you. Thank you for the AFM robot ads. Trying to resist admiring them in this panel. #MiT6 2 days ago

loganpoppy Downey: The flowing aspect is that the text "becomes like a game" - the main aspect here is the phase. #MIT6 2 days ago

pazonada holy whoa, we have a packed house at the online activism talk! #mit6 2 days ago

kfitz Dennis Downey, textflows.com - project creating dynamic text; slower reading process, but transforms text into game, painting #MiT6 2 days ago

loganpoppy Dennis Downey is passing around his iTouch for part of his presentation on TextFlows #MIT6 2 days ago

loganpoppy I just learned about the hash at #MIT6 2 days ago

halavais @JeanBurgess Ah, looks good. I think I'm ending up in the activism one, I think. #MiT6 2 days ago

pazonada moderating online activism in 66-156. come on down! #mit6 2 days ago

gwayvt now attending panel on Cult Media and Global Fandom...more good times at #MiT6 2 days ago

matlockmatlock Getting ready to moderate the Aural/Oral panel in 66-160. Come check it out! #mit6 2 days ago

JeanBurgess @halavais I'm going to cult media to hear @dkompare #mit6 2 days ago

kfitz Seems to be a body/mind issue after all: this room has me-sized chairs/tables, but one lone power outlet. Onto which I have glommed. #MiT6 2 days ago

cuuixsilver Regretting not being at MiT6; damned lack of money. All the cool people are there, as usual... Will try to put slides up soon. #MiT6 2 days ago

matlockmatlock RT @desconcentrado *Relevant, timely #mit6 2 days ago

NiemanLab Feeling a little aimless at #MiT6. Can anyone (here or not) recommend a 4:30 panel for someone studying future of news? http://tr.im/jDzM 2 days ago

jmaxsfu Database logics. Yongsuk Shim traces Manovich Bolter Benjamin Innis; DB logic as emergent counter-bias to trad. grand narrative. Wow. #MiT6 2 days ago

beyondbroadcast Club Penguin: has over 8 million users--training kids in online engagement: http://www.clubpenguin.com/ #MiT6 2 days ago

halavais Where should I go for the next session? What looks like it will be chock full of exciting stuff? (This one doesn't do it for me...) #MiT6 2 days ago

kfitz Digital Libraries & Archives session was 2/3 archives, 1/3 libraries. All great papers, but I crave more uni library issues. #MiT6 2 days ago

jrcarp #mit6 exteriority of writing places in a material continuum / runes as communication > Weaponized Media and the Book of Beowulf. who knew? 2 days ago

cgerben are all the q&as this brutal? i'm watching someone getting completely dismantled and i feel officially sad/scared #mit6 2 days ago

beyondbroadcast New term for me: "haptic media"--"any medium that communicates with the senses before the intellect." One example: architecture. #MiT6 2 days ago

fonchik #MiT6 Cultural Studies Bingo "I would problematize the idea of 'us." You don't have to travel far to find different temporarilities. 2 days ago

beyondbroadcast Maybe in order to use a map as a complex interface for knowledge we'll have to move beyond the keyboard as an input device. #MiT6 2 days ago

eaj6 As it happens, nobody can say the word digitization. Perhaps we should come up with a different term. Hmmm... #mit6 2 days ago

litwinbooks Will the email list be used for follow-up discussion? #mit6 2 days ago

eaj6 Levi: Digital archives repeat the Western prioritization of visual & textual literacy; maybe problematic for minority digital arch #mit6 2 days ago

eaj6 Levi: whose story is told by/reflected in archives? Archival selection reifies a particular 19th c. ontology/epistemology. #mit6 2 days ago

beyondbroadcast Jason Farman from Washington State University talking about mapping cyberspace. Are maps imperialist? Static? Dishonest? Yes and no. #MiT6 2 days ago

fonchik #MiT6 presenter with strong accent+reading dense text from screen in a monotone+post-lunch session in warm room=catatonia. 2 days ago

j_l_r hey #mit6 are we having a tweetup? tonight after the plenary?? 2 days ago

halavais Ann Wolpert: Do you really think that your online digital photos will be here a century from now? #MiT6 2 days ago

kfitz M Manoff: libraries bear some responsibility for crisis facing monograph; just now recognizing need to resist journal monopoly pricing #MiT6 2 days ago

geoffreylong Thoroughly enjoying the transmedia performance/presentation by @jrcarp on her work WORDS THE DOG KNOWS. http://luckysoap.com/ #mit6 2 days ago

eaj6 Manoff: electronic texts can be altered v. easily, tough to authenticate (citing N. Carr) #mit6 3 days ago

eaj6 Manoff : significant portion of links in works-cited lists are broken; yet MLA sez electronic is now the default for style #mit6 3 days ago

kfitz M Manoff: false binary between library need to "remake themselves to support the new, or the stick with the old and face obsolescence" #MiT6 3 days ago

eaj6 Marlene Manoff: libraries take it on trust that they'll receive all issues of their electronic journals; no verification tho #mit6 3 days ago

eaj6 Heh, the speaker just did exactly the same stumble on the word "digitization" that I ALWAYS do when presenting. Much sympathy. #mit6 3 days ago

jcmeloni is anyone live-tweeting @farman at #mit6 ? 3 days ago

eaj6 Settling in for first panel session, on the Digital Library and Archive #mit6 3 days ago

gwayvt in the Transmedia Stories panel w/JR Carpenter, Martin Foys, and Lin Zhang #MiT6 3 days ago

litwinbooks Archival Appraisal Theory... How archivists decide what to keep and what not to keep: http://litwinbooks.com/archivaltheory.php #mit6 3 days ago

zseward http://twitpic.com/3wns4 - MIT facing the Charles River #MIT6 3 days ago

kfitz Classroom for next session has power outlets by each seat. Seats are just a hair too low for table, though. Power, yes; body, no. Hmm. #MiT6 3 days ago

JeanBurgess @chutry @aswinp but he isn't using the #mit6 hashtag 3 days ago

eaj6 There seems to be a real ambivalence about even mentioning Google on this panel. Interesting... #mit6 3 days ago

laurelatoreilly Cambridge this wkd: #mit6 http://bit.ly/101LO , #bbc4 http://bit.ly/4RhF0 , Cambridge Science Fest http://bit.ly/IqQO7 3 days ago

jmaxsfu Foley mentions tracking user paths thru archive space. Memex! #mit6 3 days ago

kdc education/media literacy of user driven archives; (think online fan culture). i dunno, aren't we self taught? #mit6 3 days ago

jmaxsfu Prelinger: you need to be able to touch code, not just look at it, in order to mash it up. #mit6 3 days ago

shoutingloudly In Mass. for b'day w/ Tina and MiT6 conference. http://bit.ly/b8ycl Party Sat nite @ our house. In town? Hit me up. #MiT6 3 days ago

kfitz @j_l_r Not even remotely! I have jetlagged archival-discussion fever. :) #MiT6 3 days ago

eaj6 @jmaxsfu Interesting. Maybe it dep. who's archiving? More vanity required to donate diary to an archive than to keep it in 1st place. #mit6 3 days ago

j_l_r ooh audience questions. @kfitz are you awake enough to ask one? I'm not. #mit6 3 days ago

matlockmatlock Time to "Field of Dreams" reference: 1:09 c/o @footage #mit6 3 days ago

jmaxsfu @eaj6 To what extent is archiving inseparable from vanity? #mit6 3 days ago

liesell @eaj6- Wolpert's saying less - I agree differently - the "thing-ness" of photos is gone, so what you are losing is not an object. #mit6 3 days ago

eaj6 This plenary is making me want to do some work on the Goffman-esque aspects of archiving and reuse of archival materials. #mit6 3 days ago

jrcarp #mit6 landscape=history. metal=durable. scaleable=fragile. digital archive going retail / monetization is a false promise of most archives 3 days ago

j_l_r at the #mit6 plenary, standing in the back! fangirling @footage, looking for @stoton. big thanks to @fhi_duke for the #ff shout out. 3 days ago

academicdave Doing some work & following #mit6 (thanks to those tweeting). Going to look at a few more houses in a couple of hours. 3 days ago

jrcarp #mit6 stone and papyrus/storage & transmission: instability of platforms, pacing problems, perpetual flux, ceaseless spectacle of transition 3 days ago

eaj6 @liesell I wonder if it's "less" or "differently"? Worse to lose a paper photo than all traces/copies of a digital one? #mit6 3 days ago

jrcarp #mit6 survival of oral traditions linked to power of rule-governed flexibility, ability to morph, navigate networks, distributed authorship 3 days ago

matlockmatlock Thank you Foley for talking about the contingency of fixity! Saving everything is a recent development! #mit6 3 days ago

liesell Foley: the fixability of the archive may just be giving way to the 'rule-goverened flexibility' of past oral traditions #mit6 3 days ago

liesell Anne Wolpert, MIT archivist: individuals value digital documents like photographs much less than they do material ones. #mit6 3 days ago

eaj6 @jmaxstu Oh, I know. As librarian I think "make it available!" as private individual, "don't read my diary!" Pub/priv tensions=legion. #mit6 3 days ago

liesell Question: how do archivists get people to understand - and counteract - the ephemerality of the digital media they produce? #mit6 3 days ago

jmaxsfu @eaj6 Your biographer will care about the availability of your diary. #mit6 3 days ago

footage Wolpert: institutions can preserve many records, but richness & flavor of 21c life is being recorded in ephemeral fragile media. #mit6 3 days ago

eaj6 Wolpert: risk of losing important stuff when we cancel accounts, stop making payments. [Prob w/ access-only situation.] #mit6 3 days ago

eaj6 Wolpert: will your diary be available 100 years from now? [My comment: would I want it to be? Unsure.] #mit6 3 days ago

eaj6 Wolpert: can't always anticipate what's going to be important - today's photo of the MIT drama club may include tomorrow's first lady #mit6 3 days ago

kfitz Wolpert: persistence in digital world does not happen by luck; happens by intentional investment #MiT6 3 days ago

eaj6 Anne Wolpert: talking about problems of preservation and persistence at MIT Archives. #mit6 3 days ago

kfitz Wolpert: threats to persistence of archival material were once about preservation: rodents, decay, theft, etc. #MiT6 3 days ago

kfitz q to Anne Wolpert: given malleability, is archive of digital archives still an archive? #MiT6 3 days ago

liesell @footage discussing the historian Robert Binkley, whose work is archived here: http://www.wallandbinkley.com/rcb/?page_id=5 #mit6 3 days ago

kfitz Prelinger: want to see movement from archive/library being host of solitary research spaces to venue for collaboration #MiT6 3 days ago

kfitz Prelinger: must reconceive archive as repository rather than workshop; not collection but place of transaction #MiT6 3 days ago

OaktonCollege RT @mStonerblog Very insightful! RT @lrainie:RT @lokmant The End of Solitude- http://chronicle.com/free/v... #mit6 3 days ago

liesell @footage discussing the historian Robert Binkley, whose work is archived here: http://www.wallandbinkley.com/rcb/?page_id=5 #MIT6 3 days ago

eaj6 I think I really like Prelinger's slides. Hedgehogs! #mit6 3 days ago

kfitz q to Rick Prelinger: archive in past served small audience; as archives move to internet, how to serve vastly expanded audience #MiT6 3 days ago

jmaxsfu Internet Archive's Prelinger: what if we consider archie as the departure point rather than the end of an object's life cycle? #MiT6 3 days ago

liesell Prelinger: Youtube not an archive, but it looks a lot like one to most people, and that effects the practices of 'real' vid archives #mit6 3 days ago

matlockmatlock @footage gave me a coin! permanence at last. #mit6 3 days ago

chutry anyone else tweeting #MiT6 ? I've found @liesell @kfitz and @loganpoppy so far. 3 days ago

chutry cool that I'm able to follow #MiT6 w/o paying for plane ticket, etc, but I still wish I was there 3 days ago

kfitz Gitelman: all but absent from digital archives is labor that produced it; can search Google Books for words, but not for fingers #MiT6 3 days ago

liesell Lisa Gitelman, auth of Always Already New: discussing Archive of Americana, an "MRI of early America" and sadly a proprietary archive #MIT6 3 days ago

shelila RT @matlockmatlock: Foley: "They see me rollin, they hatin." #mit6 3 days ago

kfitz Next q Lisa Gitelman: physical archives primary material of history; how might digital change not just archives but history itself? #MiT6 3 days ago

matlockmatlock Gitelman: "Trying to catch me ridin dirty" #mit6 3 days ago

matlockmatlock Foley: "They see me rollin, they hatin." #mit6 3 days ago

liesell Foley: preliterate oral traditions, like internet technology, relied on distributed authorship #MIT6 3 days ago

kfitz Foley: oral tradition survives through rule-governed flexibility; ability to morph with morphing society; power to navigate network #MiT6 3 days ago

jmaxsfu If Archiving is distinct from Publishing, b/c the archived isn't copied widely, then digital media is a challenge. #MiT6 3 days ago

liesell John Foley: History of communication if human history = 1yr: if Egyptian script arrived 12/10, the internet showed up 19 minutes ago. #MIT6 3 days ago

kfitz First question to John Foley: survival of oral culture; parallels between oral traditions and emerging internet cultures? #MiT6 3 days ago

matlockmatlock Watching everyone look around the auditorium at name tags to see who is on their panels. Doing it too. #mit6 3 days ago

kdc And so it begins... sitting in first session at #mit6 3 days ago

kfitz First plenary discussion of #MiT6: John Foley, Lisa Gitelman, Rick Prelinger, Ann Wolpert; Peter Walsh moderating. 3 days ago

footage William Uricchio introducing. #mit6 3 days ago

geoffreylong @jomc D'oh! My #mit6 panel on games is Saturday at 5 as well, then I'm moderating the Future of Publishing panel at 6:45. See you there? 3 days ago

jmaxsfu "All platforms are unstable." - D Thorburn. Not a bad theme to start #MiT6 3 days ago

tglaisyer @matlockmatlock beard count = 1 suspender count = 0 but cool jacket or clothing item bringing a splash of color = 100% #mit6 3 days ago

liesell #mit6, Media In Transition officially begins; introductions and plenary panel on archives and history with @footage 3 days ago

SMALLab Shameless plug: @alicejrobison presenting SMALLab to the #MiT6 media studies conference in Cambridge, MA this wknd. 3 days ago

stoton At #mit6 listening to occasional sound checks, waiting for my fellow panelists. Need quick food... what's good around here? 3 days ago

matlockmatlock @tglaisyer media theorist chic being beards and suspenders, right? #mit6 3 days ago

tglaisyer @cgerben jeans definitely. To summarize I'd suggest the dress code is media theorist chic #mit6 3 days ago

amorelane @matlockmatlock Good luck with #mit6 3 days ago

cgerben as i'm still not there, i have a semi-silly question, how formal are people dressing at #mit6 ? to jeans or not to jeans...? 3 days ago

matlockmatlock oh yeah, and my own panel. at 9 AM ON SATURDAY MORNING. now taking bets on number of attendees. #mit6 3 days ago

matlockmatlock getting ready for #mit6. get pumped for the aural/oral panel this afternoon! 3 days ago

liesell Peters: text messages first outnumbered telephone calls in October 2007 #MIT6 3 days ago

ckaman JDP talk -- the most communicative act we do today is tagging. it's archiving -- #MIT6 3 days ago

mStonerblog Very insightful! RT @lrainie:RT @lokmant The End of Solitude- http://chronicle.com/free/v55/i21/21b00601.htm #mit6 3 days ago

fonchik RT @tglaisyer: #MIT6 Isn't twitter like the telepathic broadcasting of thoughts Peters mentions. Weird I like it it. It makes a talk social 3 days ago

tglaisyer @ckaman #MIT6 Isn't twitter like the telepathic broadcasting of thoughts Peters mentions. Weird I like it it. It makes a talk social 3 days ago

fonchik #MIT6 I love the way Peters mixes in examples from art & litrachur - Stockhausen, Bergman, Samuel Beckett, the Man in the Grey Flannel Suit 3 days ago

lokmant dolphins in cultural life through history: from CIA, to counter culture, to communism :-) #mit6 3 days ago

ckaman John Peters talk - analog media, the book cosmo dolphins, and how the interest in dolphins invented by the CIA in 1960s - #mit6 3 days ago

liesell new media as the iatrogenic cure for loneliness - John Durham Peters #MIT6 3 days ago

lokmant The End of Solitude in Chronicle of Higher Education - mentioned in JDP talk http://chronicle.com/free/v55/i21/21b00601.htm #mit6 3 days ago

jmaxsfu #MiT6 industrial breakfast at Marriott; needing a recommendation. 3 days ago

alicejrobison @kfitz #MiT6 Starts at 9am tomorrow though, and I was cursed with that slot. >.< Curses, jetlag! 3 days ago

akwhitacre @amorelane Thanks, duder. Should be a great time. #mit6 3 days ago

akwhitacre Media in Transition is nothing without meat-based business cards http://ping.fm/pvDEM #mit6 3 days ago

doctorlaura Wish I could attend. RT @jomc: At #MiT6 Speaking at the "Fiction and Media Change" panel tomorrow at 5 3 days ago

jomc At #MiT6 Speaking at the "Fiction and Media Change" panel tomorrow at 5 3 days ago

amorelane @akwhitacre Good luck with #mit6 3 days ago

akwhitacre About to truck #mit6 programs to E51, then man the reg desk with AJ, then be freaked out that my wife and her coworkers are at my conference 3 days ago

d_kompare @kfitz Good morning! I'm at the food court Au Bon Pain (adjacent to the Marriott) cramming for a thesis defense-via-Skype. #MiT6 3 days ago

kfitz Ugh. East coast time is painful. Coffee & a little work before wandering over to #MiT6. Big thx to organizers for not starting at 9am. 3 days ago

staeiou Heading to Boston for Media in Transition 6. #mit6 3 days ago

alicejrobison @footage thx for the follow, looking forward to meeting at #MiT6 this weekend 3 days ago

richjensen Media in Transition 6 @ MIT. Major global media mentation: http://tinyurl.com/c6vjoz . via @footage #mit6 3 days ago

j_l_r countdown to #mit6 ! only things I MUST attend tomorrow are 12:30 plenary w/ @footage + @d_kompare's 4:30 fan panel. holler for my # by DM 3 days ago

copyculture The great call & response RT @footage Southern US missionaries brought country music to Malawi, where it became middle-classidentified #mit6 3 days ago

copyculture RT @footage Aswin Punathambekar: legal and extralegal media circulations inform one another, discourse of piracy is simplistic #mit6 3 days ago

thisisDean In Boston speaking on a panel at #mit6 tomorrow at 6:30pm. Talking about new media and civic media. Come check it out! http://bit.ly/101LO 3 days ago

kfitz IAH, on my way to #MiT6. CO outdid itself in the crap food category: "turkey bbq bake." Pretzel dough injected with bbq flavor goo. 3 days ago

alicejrobison Opening plenary at #MiT6 has no official backchannel that I can see, but the grassroots version is warming up all right. 3 days ago

xiaochang How does one get to be part of the telenovela consortium? Because I want into that. #mit6 3 days ago

Jasonbartfast posterior is asleep, neck is sore, stomach is empty #MiT6 3 days ago

laura47 who is around for #mit6 ? 3 days ago

laura47 at the opening panel of #mit6 really sad that i have to miss some cool stuff for class tomorrow. also i will be so sleep depped tomorrow yay 3 days ago

xiaochang Opening #mit6 panel: global media circulation. Interesting discussion on "cultures of the copy," breaking down the binary of legal/piracy 3 days ago

footage Aswin Punathambekar: legal and extralegal media circulations inform one another, discourse of piracy is simplistic #mit6 3 days ago

meanmarcus Jonathan Gray: Dolly Parton is reigning entertainment queen in Malawi #mit6 (via @footage) 3 days ago

footage Southern US missionaries brought country music to Malawi, where it became middle-class identified #mit6 3 days ago

tglaisyer At #mit6 open evening panel. Anyone else here or attending? 3 days ago

footage Jonathan Gray: Dolly Parton is reigning entertainment queen in Malawi #mit6 3 days ago

matlockmatlock Global Media Forum: http://nickseaver.net/images/madonnamalawi.jpg #mit6 3 days ago

footage Jonathan Gray: Malawian "video shows" charge admission, play older videos all day. #mit6 3 days ago

footage Carolina Acosta-Alzuru: one Venezuelan telenovela had a character based in Hugo Chavez #mit6 3 days ago

footage Mexican telenovelas are most Catholic'Manichean, melodramatic and moralistic. #mit6 3 days ago

footage Colombian telenovelas dont shy away from showing narcowar issues and obsession with plastic surgery. #mit6 3 days ago

footage Brazilan telenovelas are politically and socially realistic, and characters evolve. #mit6 3 days ago

footage Carolina Acosta-Alzuru: there are 37 telenovelas on the air in Ecuador, 26 in US. #mit6 3 days ago

ubimidia Um integrante da mesa da Venezuela, outros da India, africa e Eua. Um fórum realmente global sobre mídia. #MIT6 3 days ago

footage Aswin Punathambekar: let's focus on media circulation to understand globalization #mit6 3 days ago

Jasonbartfast This chair is going to collapse #MiT6 3 days ago

JeanBurgess At global media preconf plenary #mit6 3 days ago

joshgreen Score! Conveniently arriving bus. Off to listen to clever people #mit6 3 days ago

cms_mit Global Media session, opening Media in Transition 6 #mit6 at 5pm! http://web.mit.edu/comm-forum/mit6/subs/globalmedia.html 3 days ago

JeanBurgess in cambridge, getting ready for #mit6. 4 days ago

rgerben I'm the proud big sis... RT @cgerben you can consider this a hastily made trailer for my talk this wknd at #mit6 http://tinyurl.com/cz42wv 4 days ago

footage Amtrak to Boston for Media in Transition. #mit6 4 days ago

cgerben you can consider this a hastily made trailer for my talk this wknd at #mit6 http://tinyurl.com/cz42wv 4 days ago

d_kompare Didn't quite finish the #MiT6 paper, but will today/tonight. Alas, it likely won't be up on the conf site till after, but it'll get there. 4 days ago

liesell Heading out to #MIT6, MIT's (last, I think) Media In Transition Conference. Global Media forum tonight. 4 days ago

cms_mit Media in Transition 6 kicks off tonight with a Communications Forum on global media http://web.mit.edu/comm-forum/mit6/ #mit6 4 days ago

pablomoura noite fria em boston e com um vento cortante, amanhã abertura do #MIT6 4 days ago

alicejrobison After 2 taxis, 2 planes, & 2 trains, I have finally arrived in Boston for #MiT6! Happy to be back. Missed you, New England. 4 days ago

halavais Thinking about my #MiT6 presentation (yes, a little late), and playing with Prezi. 5 days ago

scd Jealous of #MiT6 attending peeps. Please tweet like freaks throughout. 5 days ago

d_kompare Really enjoying the podcast disc. between @kfitz and @loganpoppy about #digitalscholarship; looking forward to talking in person at #MiT6. 5 days ago

cgerben ok, is really getting ready for boston and #mit6 (for real this time) http://tinyurl.com/cxqr3p 5 days ago

gwayvt packin' for #MiT6 5 days ago

d_kompare @j_l_r This time of year is beautiful, stressful, blissful, and sucky all at once. See you this weekend at #MiT6. Hang in there! Sleep! 6 days ago

stoton @j_l_r So glad talks went well! (Hope you get some rest.) Looking forward to seeing you at #mit6 6 days ago

southernspaces @j_l_r So glad talks went well! (Hope you get some rest.) Looking forward to seeing you at #mit6 6 days ago

kfitz To clarify: #MiT6 paper (=chapter) is complete. Need, however, to carve 15 mins out of 40 pages. Would almost be easier to start fresh. 6 days ago

kfitz I find it alarming that "prepare #MiT6 presentation" is currently no. 3 on my list of things to do. Saturday looms! 6 days ago

d_kompare Way crazy busy, but another #MiT6 trailer: It's about this http://tinyurl.com/dc3mfs and this http://tinyurl.com/y3p9ke & the fluid text 6 days ago

footage Slides ready for #mit6, and a surprise as well. 6 days ago

cgerben should be getting ready for boston this wknd #mit6 http://tinyurl.com/cxqr3p 6 days ago

jmaxsfu All the #MiT6 tweets so far are about papers not finished in time :-) 6 days ago

jmaxsfu Getting ready to go to #MiT6. 6 days ago

cgerben should be getting ready for boston this wknd #mit6 http://tinyurl.com/cxqr3p 6 days ago

stoton Writing time capsule paper for #MiT6 and rereading parts of History of Madness. 7 days ago

alicejrobison Saturday morning grading while I watch the temperature climb. This afternoon: work on my slides for #MiT6. 9 days ago

d_kompare #MIT6 teaser trailer for my paper: Brand ÷ (Text ÷ Work) = Versioning. 9 days ago

halavais Argh! #MiT6 paper. Not happy. Writing suxxors. So does thinking. Not my favorite paper. 12 days ago

j_l_r designed + ordered business cards that beg "hire me for part-time teaching" from @overheardatmoo to bring to #mit6 - hope they work! 21 days ago