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February 4, 2009
NEW YORK TIMES LECTURE: "The Narrative is Changing: Sensors, Social Editors, and the New Storytelling"
Location: SCILS 212
Date: February 4, 2009 Time: 6:30 P.M. Location: SCILS 212 Nick Bilton is a designer, user interface specialist, technologist, journalist, hardware hacker, and researcher. He has worked in numerous industries within the context of design, technology and storytelling. Currently his time is shared between The New York Times newspaper and nytimes.com, where he serves as Design Integration Editor. The other half of his time is spent in The New York Times Research & Development Lab exploring technologies that will become commonplace in a 24-48 month timeframe. This talk explores the future of news and the ever-changing narrative. The narrative has taken many forms over the past 10,000 years, and we are currently entering an era of even broader storytelling but where does that leave books and other long-form content? In the R&D Labs at The New York Times Bilton is exploring some of the questions around content consumption and information delivery in the next two to 20 years. This talk will discuss the research and thinking in the areas of content vs. context, "smart content," augmented storytelling, the melding of social networks and traditional "editors" and the increasing role sensors will play in our media delivery and all facets of journalism. This program is a must-see for current and future journalists, writers, and anyone interested in news and information. Mor Naaman, assistant professor of library and information science at SCILS and friend and colleague of Bilton, will introduce the speaker. For more information, contact Ashanti M. Alvarez, Director of Public Communications, at |
