Events

"Southern Cone Leviathans: Metropolis and Periphery in the Creation of Argentina, Chile, Brazil, Uruguay, and Paraguay"

Speakers

Mazzuca, Sebastián

Academy Scholar, Harvard Academy for International and Area Studies. Ph.D. candidate, Department of Political Science, and M.A.

Video on the Internet briefly promised us a cultural future of decentralized production and daring changes in form--even beyond dancing kittens and laughing babies.  Yet recent developments on sites like YouTube, Hulu, and Fancast as well as research about how audiences watch online video both suggest a retrenchment of structures from the old “mass media” system rather than anything daring.  In this talk I’ll argue that choices about the distribution infrastructure for video will determine whether all our future screens will be the same.