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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