Starting today, for the next two days, the Futures of Entertainment conference will be taking place at MIT Media Lab.

Futures of Entertainment is an annual event exploring the current state and future of media properties, brands, and audiences. This year's event will look at how media producers and audiences are relating to one another in new ways in a spreadable media landscape. The conference features a roster of great forward-thinking speakers covering transmedia, digital development, crowd sourcing, collaboration, mobile, and using data to tell stories, to name a few of the themes.

Follow up-to-the minute updates from the conference at this page, or by following #foe5.

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