Thursday, 12 June 2008

Live Conference Presentations from Princeton

The NMC (New Media Consortium) annual conference is under way in Princeton with over 600 participants. As you might hope for such a technology organisation, the keynote presentations are being made available as live streams. The events (in Princeton time!) are as below and you can access them here.
  • Opening Plenary Keynote Presentation: “Technology and the Global Commons” Diana Oblinger, President, EDUCAUSE
    Thursday June 12, 8:30am-9:45am EDT
  • Noontime Plenary Presentation: “Motion and Emotion, Multi-media Storytelling on the Web” Bill Frakes, Sports Illustrated
    Thursday June 12, 12:00pm-12:45pm EDT
  • Keynote Presentation: “New Frontiers in Nanotechnology” Wole Soboyejo, Princeton University
    Friday June 13, 12:00pm-12:45pm EDT
  • Center of Excellence Awards and Five Minutes of Fame, NMC
    Friday June 13, 2:45pm-5:00pm EDt
  • Closing Plenary Keynote Presentation: “What Would Herman Melville Say to Soulja Boy?: Remix Culture and the New Media” Henry Jenkins, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
    Saturday June 14, 10:15am-11:45am EDT
  • Note that we are also hoping to have Henry Jenkins' session also streamed into Second Life on Princeton's SL version of the actual venue, Alexander Hall

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