Media X Explores 21st Century Conversations at the 2010 Wallenberg Summer Institute

Media X Explores 21st Century Conversations

Media X is launching its 2010-11 research theme, 21st Century Conversations, at the 2010 Wallenberg Summer Institute at Stanford University July 20-22. This year's Summer Institute includes a one-day conference as well as a set of 9 related half-day and full-day workshops.

Curious about? Continuous partial attention, persuasion profi ling, serious games

Need to understand? How people really feel about privacy
Why we treat our devices like people
New meanings of happiness

Want to learn how to? See a graph of your own social network
Design a serious game for your company
Use biosensors in virtual worlds

Eager to hear? Intel�s Genevieve Bell on feral technologies
Facebook�s Elliot Schrage on the future of conversation
Stanford�s Paul Saffo on crafting conversation research
Howard Rheingold on back to the future

Conference Social Media and Social Technologies: Changing Personal and Civic Conversations
	Featuring keynotes from Intel and HP along with panelists from Stanford, key industry players and leading non-profits July 21, Paul Brest Hall, Stanford $195

Workshops
	Small, highly interactive sessions with experts on a range of 21st Century Conversations topics July 20 and 22, Wallenberg Hall, Stanford $75 for half-day $100 for full-day