Announcing a new Meetup for Nerd Fun - Boston!

What: Henry Jenkins: What is Civic Media? - Soap Box at the MIT Museum

When: October 22,[masked]:00 PM

Where: Click the link below to find out!

Meetup Description: What is Civic Media?
MIT Museum,
Mark Epstein Innovation Gallery
6:00 pm, Free

This evening's "Soap Box" lecture will be with Henry Jenkins, Director of the MIT Comparative Media Studies Program and the Peter de Florez Professor of Humanities, who will be covering "What is Civic Media"?

Soap Box at the MIT Museum
http://web.mit.edu/museum/programs/soapbox.html

"Soap Box, held at the MIT Museum, is a series of salon-style, early-evening conversations with scientists and engineers who are making the news that really matters. Soap Box is a public forum for debate about important ideas and issues in science and technology.

"Now in its fourth season, Soap Box gives its audience the chance to debate serious issues with world-class scientists and engineers in an intimate setting at the MIT 360 program arena located in the new Mark Epstein Innovation Gallery".

Fall 2008's theme for Soap Box:
Grassroots and Global: Technologies & Social Change
"Join speakers from both MIT and Harvard this fall for a series of discussions on the impact of new media technologies on politics and social change. Your questions and comments keep the discussion lively and thoughtful. Please join the MIT Museum for these discussions which, in this election year are more important than ever. Refreshments are served. Admission is free".

More on Henry Jenkins:
http://cms.mit.edu/people/index.php

Henry Jenkins III
Peter de Florez Professor of Humanities
Professor of Literature and Comparative Media Studies

"Henry Jenkins is the Co-Director of the MIT Comparative Media Studies Program and the Peter de Florez Professor of Humanities. He is the author and/or editor of twelve books on various aspects of media and popular culture, including Convergence Culture: Where Old and New Media Collide, Fans, Bloggers and Gamers: Exploring Participatory Culture, The Wow Climax: Tracing the Emotional Impact of Popular Culture, Textual Poachers: Television Fans and Participatory Culture, and Hop on Pop: The Politics and Pleasures of Popular Culture, and From Barbie to Mortal Kombat: Gender and Computer Games. Jenkins writes writes regularly about media and cultural change at his blog, http://henryjenkins.org ".

Learn more here:
http://socialnetwork.meetup.com/718/calendar/8871615/