 There's a few words to say. All right. Hi, everybody. We're from the Zodran, the reception part of the day. And as the newest professor of comparative media studies, I'm kind of being hazed right now. And being told that I'm going to be welcoming you, I'm glad my colleagues are here with me. Heather Hendershot, William Ericchio. Heather directed our graduate program for six years. William has run and with Henry Jenkins built up the comparative media studies program for 20 years. So our reception tonight is to both honor and thank all of the conference attendees, as well as the founders of the CMS program here at MIT, Henry Jenkins and William Ericchio, and other faculty and students involved in this conference, such as Ian Condry, Jing Wang, Jim Parody, Ethan Zuckerman, and others. We also have 30 plus alums from the CMS graduate program who are participating in the conference this year and who have over the years helped to build this conference up, as well as our department. So we really want to thank and recognize all of you. Can you guys raise your hands if you're in a long? OK. Another personally crucial in building up CMS, and this conference was David Thorburn, who with Henry in the early days, I gave a speech about this last night, too, so I didn't want to duplicate everything, but really important in building up the media and transition conference and editing the first two volumes from MIT Press, which came out in 2003. So I just wanted to mention a few things about the amazing alums, and I'm not going to do justice to all of them, because the list is exhaustive. It's very long and impressive. Philip Tan, are you here somewhere? Maybe? He's been working with us all day. He graduated in 2003 and is a creative director of the MIT game lab and teaches game design and creative and creating video games here at MIT. Sam Ford, director of cultural intelligence, what a great job for Simon and Schuster, a CBS company, and is also co-leading various initiatives in the future of work in Kentucky, which I think is fantastic. Huma Yusuf, you heard her on our plenary today. Graduated in 2008, has worked with the Wilson Center as a Pakistan scholar, weekly columnist for Dawn. There are probably many updates that she has about her professional career, including being recently named one of foreign policies top 100 women on Twitter. Thank you. Elise Graham is assistant professor of digital humanities at Stony Brook University. She just published last year a book entitled The Republic of Games, Textual Culture Between All Books and New Media. These are people I haven't even met yet, and I hope to meet you guys. I'm the new person here. I hope you guys can fill in the blank. 2003, Cherise LePri is now professor at Syracuse's Newhouse School of Public Communications, and does crucial work on media and identity construction. Also raised a vital question on the session we were just on about racial politics in regard to digital media and democracy, which we all need to continue to work on and think about. Lulia Kilburn is now a PhD student in anthropology at Harvard and does great work on vocality and sound technologies, media and communication disorders, kinship and intimacy, and is also doing work in Cameroon. Josh Cowles, 2017 graduate, is now a data ethics researcher at the Alan Turing Institute in the British Library in London and is also a PhD student at the Oxford Internet Institute. I know there are a lot of people that I have not mentioned. I'm going to mention one more, and I'm sorry if I have. There's so many. I said mentioning some means I'm excluding others, but we can't go on all night. The last, Mariel Garcia Montez, who graduated last year. She's a public interest technology capacity builder and researcher from Mexico. She was so active at MIT and in CMS while she was here. And her main topics of interest are privacy and information security, social exclusions in technology and participatory processes. She's starting the PhD program here at MIT in the fall. Before I hand it off to either of these people if they want to say anything, I want to thank our current CMS graduate student volunteers who I have gotten to know well over the past three years and honored to work with. Rachel Thompson, Annie Wang, Libby Falk, Matt Gray, Sam Mendez, Iago Boychuk, Josefina Bushman, James Wilson, Anna Chang, Reiko Malhotra, and Sultan Sharik. All of these students have been actively involved in this conference and organized. They have greeted and registered you, presented you with a pre-conference and media-based demos, and will change your life tomorrow night with their DJing. And Andrew Whitaker, our communications director. Thank you for thank you for including our department head and Chiapa and our staff, Jessica Tatlock and Sarah Smith, many other people. That's all I'm going to say. But we're so happy you guys are here. We haven't had the conference for a while. We used to be 50 to 100 people. This year, we got over 300 responses to the call for papers. And we're true in our best to accommodate the swell of interest in these issues these days. So thank you so much. We're really honored you're here with us. Thank you very much. Thank you all for coming. We're looking forward to a rich full day tomorrow. I'd see you at the end of the day at our big dance party.