Play’s Republic

So, I’m at the MIT conference at MIT ( http://web.mit.edu/comm-forum/mit5/ ) and they just announced that the 6 plenary sessions will be simulcast within Second Life at the New Media Consortum site (find it through search or http://www.nmc.org/ I believe, they did not give SLURL’s unfortunately, I’ll post ‘em as I get ‘em)
Webcasts/podcasts for the plenaries are available after the fact, and papers are usually available online shortly after the conference on the website.

May be Play and Games relevent, may not be. But they are generally interesting nonetheless. I may post thoughts through the conference as I have ‘em….

Plenaries are:
Plenary Conversation 1

Folk Cultures and Digital Cultures
Lewis Hyde, Kenyon College
Thomas Pettitt, University of Southern Denmark
S. Craig Watkins, University of Texas
Moderator: David Thorburn, MIT
Friday, April 27
12:30-2:00

Plenary Conversation 2

Collaboration and Collective Intelligence
Mimi Ito, Annenberg Center for Communication
Cory Ondrejka, Linden Lab
Trebor Scholz, SUNY Buffalo
Moderator: Thomas Malone, MIT
Friday, April 27
5:45-7:15

Plenary Conversation 3

Copyright, Fair Use and the Cultural Commons
Hal Abelson, MIT
Pat Aufderheide, American University
Wendy Gordon, Boston University
Gordon Quinn, Kartemquin Films
Moderator: William Uricchio, MIT

Plenary Conversation 4

Learning through Remixing
Erik Blankinship, Media Modifications
Juan Devis, KCET/PBS Los Angeles
Renee Hobbs, Temple University
Alice Robison, MIT
Ricardo Pitts-Wiley, Mixed Magic Theater
Moderator: Henry Jenkins, MIT
Saturday, April 28
7:30-9:30

Plenary Conversation 5

Reproduction, Mimicry, Critique and Distribution Systems in Visual Art
Tony Cokes, Brown University
Andres Laracuente, artist
Michael Mittelman, ASPECT
Moderator: Bill Arning, List Visual Arts Center, MIT
Sunday, April 29
10:45 am-12:15 pm

Plenary Conversation 6

Summary Perspectives
Suzanne de Castell, Simon Fraser University
Fred Turner, Stanford
Siva Vaidhyanathan, NYU
Jose van Dijck, University of Amsterdam
Moderator: Nick Montfort, University of Pennsylvania
Sunday, April 29
12:30-2