Joichi Ito: Enabling Emergent Voices And Expression Through Technology

When
17 Oct 2011
7:00 PM - 9:00 PM
Location
MIT Bartos Theater - Weisner Building (E15) Lower Level - 20 Ames Street, Cambridge

"Enabling Emergent Voices And Expression Through Technology"

Joichi Ito, Director, MIT Media Lab

Brendan Mcgetrick, Independent Writer & Designer

Free and open to the public

Monday, October 17 at 7:00 PM

MIT Bartos Theater

Weisner Bldg (E15) Lower Level

20 Ames Street

Cambridge, MA

Moore’s law and the Internet have dramatically reduced the cost of producing and distributing information. This has greatly lowered the cost of collaboration and has empowered a qualitatively different “public” to think, express, and act without, or in spite of, central authority. These changes and advances in technology enabled interventions such as low-cost video cameras in the case of WITNESS; blogs (Global Voices); or open hardware and software used to build, distribute, collect and visualize data from geiger counters (Safecast). Ito will discuss how these trends relate to media, citizenship, academics, and conflicts. Joichi Ito was named Director of the MIT Media Lab in April 2011.

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