The conference will consider developments such as user-generated content, transmedia storytelling, the rise of mobile media and the emergence of social networking.
Developments in advertising, cult media, metrics, measurement, and accounting for audiences, cultural labor and audience relations.
This year's conference will work to bring together the themes from last year -- media spreadability, audiences and value, social media, distribution -- with the Consortium's new projects as we move towards an increasingly global understanding of media convergence and content flows.
Futures of Entertainment 4 once again brings together key industry leaders and academic scholars who are shaping these new directions in our culture.
As a prologue to the Futures of Entertainment conference, this Forum will focus on the emergence of powerful new production cultures in such cities as Mumbai, Shanghai, and Rio de Janeiro.
What is the likely impact on audiences and on the international media landscape of such cities as Mumbai, Shanghai, and Rio de Janeiro?
How has Nigerian cinema in particular influenced local television and film markets in other countries across West Africa, and across the continent?
This year's event, Nov. 9-10 at MIT, will look at how media producers and audiences are relating to one another in new ways in a spreadable media landscape.
