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For more than thirty years the Communications Forum has played a unique role at MIT and beyond as a site for cutting-edge discussion of the cultural, political, economic and technological impact of communications, with special emphasis on emerging technologies.

Leading scholars, journalists, media producers, political figures and corporate executives have appeared at conferences and panels sponsored by the Forum.

Translating specialized or technical perspectives into a discourse accessible to non-specialists is a defining ambition of the Forum. When engineers, scientists, other academics or media practitioners address the Forum, they accept a responsibility to speak in a common language that must be understood and used by literate citizens and professionals in many fields.

The Forum's founding director was the late Ithiel de Sola Pool of the MIT Political Science Department, a pioneer in the study of communications.

The Forum is funded by contributions from members of the MIT Industrial Liaison Program, other corporations and foundation grants.

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The Craft of Science Fiction

Joe Haldeman

Mar 20, 2014

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MIT Communications Forum

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Videos

The Craft of Science Fiction

Joe Haldeman

Summary Perspectives

Siva Vaidhyanathan,

Suzanne de Castell,

Fred Turner,

Jose van Dijck

Our World Digitized: The Good, the Bad, the Ugly

Yochai Benkler,

Cass Sunstein

Games and Civic Engagement

Mario Armstrong,

Ian Bogost

Race, Politics and American Media

Juan Williams,

David Thorburn,

J. Phillip Thompson

The Future of Digital Commons

Nancy Kranich,

Steven Pinker,

Ann Wolpert

Folk Cultures and Digital Cultures

Lewis Hyde,

Thomas Pettitt,

S. Craig Watkins

Evangelicals and the Media

Gary Schneeberger,

Diane Winston,

Jon Walker

Prime Time in Transition

John Romano

Copyright, Fair Use, and the Cultural Commons

Gordon Quinn,

Pat Aufderheide,

Hal Abelson,

Wendy Gordon

What is Civic Media?

Beth Noveck,

Chris Csikszentmihalyi,

Ethan Zuckerman

Learning Through Remixing

Juan Devis,

Renee Hobbs,

Alice J. Robison,

Ricardo Pitts-Wiley,

Erik Blankinship

Global Media

Carolina Acosta-Alzuru,

Jonathan Gray,

Abderrahmane Sissako,

Aswin Punathambekar

Collective Intelligence

Alex (Sandy) Pentland,

Karim R. Lakhani,

Thomas W. Malone

Remixing Shakespeare

Peter Donaldson,

Diana E. Henderson

Books and Libraries in the Digital Age

Robert Darnton

What’s New at the Media Lab?

Adam Boulanger,

Ryan Chin,

Hartmut Geyer,

Henry Jenkins,

Frank Moss

A Conversation with Robert Pinsky

Robert Pinsky

New Media, Civic Media

Jake Shapiro,

Persephone Miel,

Ellen Hume,

Dean Jansen,

Jessica Clark

Youth and Civic Engagement

Alan Khaze,

Ingeborg Endter,