2010 Stanford Media X Summer Institute 21st Century Conversations
July 17, 2010
Media X is sponsoring a mini-conference and several workshops at the 2010 Wallenberg Summer Institute at Stanford University. The 2010-11 research theme is “21st Century Conversations” and the subject of the July 21st conference is “Social Media, New Conversations and the Changing Nature of Personal and Civic Life”. The related workshops take place on July 20th and 22nd.
TUESDAY WORKSHOPS, July 20
Morning
– Total Engagement: Using Games And Virtual Worlds To Change Behavior Related To Work Productivity, Energy, Transportation And Health. Byron Reeves and Dante Anderson
– Teaching My Avatar New Tricks: Experiential Learning And Biomeasurement In Virtual Online Environments. Wm. LeRoy Heinrichs
Afternoon
– Ideas Are Nice, Outcomes Are Better: Intuit’s Counter-Intuitive Lessons Of Innovation. Roy Rosin
– From Micro To Macro: Enabling Sustainable Progress Through Information Technology. Martin Curley
July 21 MINI-CONFERENCE
“Social Media, New Conversations and the Changing Nature of Personal and Civic Life”
THURSDAY WORKSHOPS, July 22
All Day
– Network Analysis Made Easy: Using NodeXL To Map Social Media Networks. Marc Smith
– Thinking Tools: A Hands-On Workshop On The History And Use Of Personal And Social Knowledge Amplifiers. Howard Rheingold
Morning
– Leadership Tradecraft: Designing Strategic Conversations. Lisa Kay Solomon and Chris Ertel
– Elephants In The Sustainability Room: What The Vision 2050 Project Mural Does And Doesn’t Tell Us. Robert Horn
Afternoon
– The Web’s 3rd Wave: How HTML5 Will Move Us Beyond Digital Documents. Henrik Bennetsen