The Communications Forum is an on-going set of conferences (known as Media in Transition) and panel discussions reflecting the development of thought about the relationship of communications and culture as new technologies have emerged over the last thirty years. At least since 1983.
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The project consists of making accessible through DOME the proceedings of conferences and panel discussions that have been organized and hosted by the Communications Forum ( home page: http://web.mit.edu.ezproxyberklee.flo.org/comm-forum/
). Some digitization of early print summaries and transcripts will be needed; some recordings are born digital (these are currently already served up on the CommForum web site); other recordings on analog tape will require digitization as well.
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From the Comm Forum web site (at http://web.mit.edu.ezproxyberklee.flo.org/comm-forum/about.html)
"For more than twenty-five years the Communications Forum has played a unique role at MIT and beyond as a site for cutting-edge discussion of the cultural, political, economic and technological impact of communications, with special emphasis on emerging technologies.
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