- -: Chris Anderson: YouTube Full of Crap!
July 27, 2009 (almost 15 years ago)Complete video at: http://fora.tv/2009/07/16/Chris_Anderson_on_FREE_The_Future_of_Radical_Price Chris Anderson, WIRED editor and author of FREE, explains how the future of TV is going to be decided collectively. Is YouTube full of crap? "The answer is yes, and that's what makes it so great," say...
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- -: How to Make Science Sexier - Chris Mooney
August 25, 2009 (over 14 years ago)Complete video at: http://fora.tv/2009/08/03/Unscientific_America_Chris_Mooney Science journalist Chris Mooney critics the inaccuracy of science in fictional films and television. Mooney also recommends changing stereotypical portrayals of scientists to help boost the image of science. ----- W...
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- -: Twitter CEO on No-Tweet Clauses in Celebrity Contracts
October 28, 2009 (over 14 years ago)Complete video at: http://fora.tv/2009/10/21/A_Conversation_with_Twitter_CEO_Evan_Williams Twitter co-founder and CEO Evan Williams and Federated Media's John Battelle discuss the trend of Hollywood actors and professional athletes having "no-tweet" clauses in their contracts. ----- Twitter co...
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- -: Mark Cuban: TV and Movies Still Trump Online Video
November 2, 2009 (over 14 years ago)Complete video at: http://fora.tv/2009/10/21/A_Conversation_with_Brooke_Burke_and_Mark_Cuban Billionaire entrepreneur Mark Cuban discusses the benefits of traditional forms of media in an age when content is increasingly moving online. He argues that television and studio films are still the ult...
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- -: Sports, Sex, Scandals, Weather: How News Media Competes
December 24, 2009 (over 14 years ago)Complete video at: http://fora.tv/v/c11190 A panel of experts discusses the benefits and challenges of increased competition in the world of news media. While journalist Christine Ockrent argues that competition decreases quality as well as profitability, others contend that it has allowed news ...
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- -: Is Jon Stewart's "The Daily Show" Good for Democracy?
February 20, 2010 (about 14 years ago)Complete video at: http://fora.tv/2010/02/12/Reaching_the_Audience_in_a_Fragmented_Media_Landscape Journalists Rachel Davis Mersey and Ted Anthony defend "The Daily Show" from NPR's Ira Glass, who argues that the program, while good satire, is a poor substitute for actual, in-depth news coverage...
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- -: Boba Fett Is Born: How a Star Wars Special Reshaped TV
March 2, 2010 (about 14 years ago)Complete video at: http://fora.tv/2010/01/24/Digital_Life_Design_2010_Audience_Sourcing One of the worst TV specials of all time, or a storytelling revolution? Tim Kring of "Heroes" and Peter Hirshberg of The Conversation Group discuss "The Star Wars Holiday Special," which was broadcast in 1978...
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- -: Does Social Activism Take the Fun Out of Video Games?
August 18, 2010 (over 13 years ago)Complete video at: http://fora.tv/2010/05/03/Games_for_Change_Producing_Transformational_Video_Games Gamelab CEO Eric Zimmerman debates Games for Change co-president Asi Burak about the potential of video games to encourage activism on social issues. Zimmerman warns that vast social problems can...
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- -: Kids Today: How Does 10,000 Hours of Video Games Affect Development?
December 14, 2010 (over 13 years ago)Complete video at: http://fora.tv/2010/11/06/Wonderfest_2010_Does_10k_Hours_of_Gaming_Have_Effects World-renowned game designer Jane McGonigal explores whether or not pro-social video games -- games that instruct players to help others -- are actually beneficial to the mental development of chil...
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- -: Celebrity Tabloids and the Evolution of Gossip
January 27, 2011 (about 13 years ago)Complete video at: http://fora.tv/2010/09/29/David_Sloan_Wilson_Evolving_the_City Professor David Sloan Wilson says that while gossip may have served a greater purpose in small-scale societies, in large-scale societies our innate hunger for social information has been exploited commercially by c...
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