roundtable: FYI, Media in Transition project

roundtable: FYI, Media in Transition project

FYI, Media in Transition project

Curtiss Priest (cpriest@juno.com)
Mon, 25 Aug 1997 14:05:58 EDT 

To: ROUNDTABLE@CNI.ORG
Subject: FYI, Media in Transition project
Message-Id: <19970825.140413.4223.28.cpriest@juno.com>
From: cpriest@juno.com (Curtiss Priest)
Date: Mon, 25 Aug 1997 14:05:58 EDT


--------- Begin forwarded message ----------
From: David Thorburn <thorburn@MIT.EDU>
To: MITCF@MITVMA.MIT.EDU
Subject: Media in Transition project
Date: Sat, 23 Aug 1997 00:11:43 -0400
Message-ID: <2.2.32.19970823041143.006ddf50@po9.mit.edu>


I write to notify subscribers to the Communications Forum e-mail list
that our "Media in Transition" web site is now open for business at the
following

   url: http://media-in-transition.mit.edu.

I hope all of you will spend some time on the site and that many of you
will respond to our dialogue topic, "New Web, Old Metaphors," or suggest
other topics, or submit an entry for our "Provocations" page. 

Those of you who attended last spring's conference on "Technologies of
Freedom" will find an extended summary of that event on the site.

The site also contains a preliminary calendar of events for 1997-98. 
These include a series of readings on the topic of emerging media by
leading science fiction writers and a conference, scheduled for October
24-25, on "Transformations of the Book" at which leading scholars and
designers will demonstrate hypertext and web-based projects that are
enhancing and reconfiguring the landmark texts and materials of humanist
culture. 

A full calendar of fall term events will be e-mailed to you in a few
weeks.  Meanwhile, I hope you will make time to explore the web site,
which is intended in part to serve as a kind of clearing house or
discourse space for scholars, teachers and thoughtful citizens who wish
to share ideas, projects, visions, even fears about the dangers and the
promise of new media. 

--DT
______________________________________

David Thorburn
Professor of Literature
Director, Communications Forum
14N-335, MIT
Cambridge, MA 02139
617 253-6950
thorburn@mit.edu
http://www.mit.edu/~thorburn/home.html

--------- End forwarded message ----------


	   W. Curtiss Priest, Director, CITS
      Center for Information, Technology & Society
         466 Pleasant St., Melrose, MA  02176
       Voice: 617-662-4044  BMSLIB@MITVMA.MIT.EDU
 Fax: 617-662-6882 WWW: http://www.eff.org/pub/Groups/CITS

[CNI Home Page]