Book Launch: Blown to Bits: Your Life, Liberty, and Happiness After the Digital Explosion18 jun 2008
Berkman Fellow Harry Lewis, Hal Abelson, and Ken Ledeen
Berkman Fellow Harry Lewis, Hal Abelson, and Ken Ledeen launched their book, Blown to Bits, in Harvard Square, Cambridge.
Prince, Bootlegging, and Copyright Protection for Live Performances
Citizen Media Law Project assistant director Sam Bayard follows up on the "Prince/Radiohead/YouTube flap," raising some additional questions and asking, "Copyright geeks and fair readers alike, what do you think?"
11 jun 2008
"The Future of the Internet" conference is three weeks behind us, but the insights and trajectories it generated lie ahead. Roll up your sleeves. We continue our collective journey with video of all of the conference's plenary sessions, including the closing "Onward!" discussion...
11 jun 2008
Berkman Luncheon Series
Designing Culture: The Technological Imagination at Work10 jun 2008
Anne Balsamo
Anne Balsamo presented information from her forthcoming book discussing relationships among technological innovation, technological imagination, and cultural reproduction.
The Publius project, launched in conjunction with Berkman@10, published three new essays last week.
9 jun 2008
Berkman Buzz: Week of June 2, 2008
The DMCA "repeat infringers," Journalism in the digital age, the Arabic blogosphere and more...all in this week's BUZZ!
6 jun 2008
Robert Darnton, head of the Harvard University library, who helped advocate for open access at the University, has written an essay for the New York Review of Books on "what it means to be a library in the digital age"
5 jun 2008
Harry Lewis reflects on "an act for the encouragement of learning" in the Harvard Crimson
As Harvard prepares for commencement later this week, with possibility and sunshine on the horizon, we at Berkman can’t enter the summer without offering tremendous thanks and congratulations to the countless students and research assistants who work with us through the academic year.
4 jun 2008
Berkman Buzz: Week of May 26, 2008
ccMixter, whistle blowing in Kenya, trade secrets and more...in this week's BUZZ!
30 may 2008
From MySpace to Hip Hop: New Media In the Everyday Lives of Youth (with Mimi Ito, danah boyd, and others)
Join us next month for these events!
The Berkman staff has been recovering from the Berkman@10 conference and gala, but starting next week we're more or less back in full swing for the summer, starting with the return of Tuesday Luncheon talks: Walter Bender joins us on Tuesday...
28 may 2008
Berkman Buzz: Week of May 19, 2008
YouTube's citizen news vlog, slow broadband, women's rights in Iran and more...in this week's BUZZ!
23 may 2008
Submit Your Nominations for This Year's Public Knowledge IP3 Awards (Deadline: June 1)
Berkman Faculty Co-Director Stuart Shieber to lead Harvard's Office for Scholarly Communication
Yesterday, the Senate Committee on the Judiciary's Subcommittee on Human Rights and the Law heard testimony on "Global Internet Freedom: Corporate Responsibility and the Rule of Law." The Berkman Center's John Palfrey and Colin Maclay submitted written testimony for the hearing...
21 may 2008
CMLP@1: Citizen Media Law Project celebrates its first year of blogging
It's official!
Berkman Center goes university-wide
The Harvard Gazette carries the news, which was announced last Thursday morning during opening remarks at the Berkman@10 conference...
19 may 2008
Winners include Esra’a Al Shafei, Richard Baraniuk, John Breen, Jeffrey Cunard and Bruce Keller, Carl Malamud, and Noah Samara
Announced Friday, May 16, at the Berkman Center for Internet & Society’s tenth anniversary gala dinner, recipients of the Berkman Awards were chosen for their outstanding contributions to the Internet’s impact on society over the past decade.
19 may 2008
Berkman Buzz: Week of May 12, 2008
Berkman@10, the launch of the the Publius Project, YouTube takedowns and more...all in this week's BUZZ!
16 may 2008