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A Conversation with Craig Newmark
Craig Newmark drops by the Berkman Center for a lively talk on the origins of Craigslist.org, the philosophy of Geekdom, and the potential for a socially networked democracy.
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Open Source at Microsoft: Opportunity or Threat?
Bryan Kirschner and Mario Madden, Director of Open Source Strategy and Open Source Licensing Counsel, respectively at Microsoft Corp discuss Microsoft and open source today—and what you can expect from Microsoft and open source in the future.
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Information Technology and Political Campaigning -- Sunshine Hillygus (Harvard)
Changes in the information environment and information technology have had a tremendous impact on political campaigning. In this week's talk Professor Hillygus discusses her recent book, The Persuadable Voter, in which she evaluates how today's information environment shapes how candidates communicate with voters, who they communicate with and what they are willing to say.
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Rising Voices: Helping the global population join the global conversation
As much as participatory media have democratized how we find out about the world around us, the new global voices tend to come from a narrow demographic: highly educated, urban, and upper-middle class. Rising Voices is a citizen media outreach initiative of Global Voices. David Sasaki, Global Voice's director of outreach, discusses the successes, challenges, and lessons learned over the past 18 months of training under-represented communities how to take advantage of new media tools to participate in the 21st century global conversation.
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“Why the Soviet Internet Failed†- Ben Peters (Yale ISP)
Ben Peters presents preliminary findings of a dissertation chapter examining why the Soviets did not succeed in building an ARPANET-equivalent. In particular, he examines Soviet bureaucratic and social structures as decentralized networks, compares them to conventional critiques of centralized power, and speculates on the chapter's relevance for modern-day practices of power distribution.
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“Global Voices, One World: Towards a Hospitable Public Sphere by Global Citizen Media†– LokmanTsui (Berkman Center)
How does the news shape the way we see the world? And how is global citizen media changing the way news is produced? I address these questions by examining the strategic case study of Global Voices (http://www.globalvoicesonline.org) to gain a better understanding of the production of news that is more in tune with today's differentiated media ecology while offering media hospitality as a normative theoretical framework that can help us think through the twin challenges of the internet and globalization.
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Public Services Reform and Information Technology in Developing Countries
Jennifer Bussell evaluates technology policy variation in the context of public service reforms in the Indian states and argues that policy differences across the states are driven not by economic development or previous technology investment, but rather by politicians’ calculations over their potential to retain power.
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“Revealing Errors†- Benjamin Mako Hill (MIT)
Errors offer an incredible opportunity as points where "invisible" technology is thrust into view of even the least technical user. With a tour of errors, this talk will paint a picture of how certain technologies frame and mediate our experience and interaction.
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Open Access to Government Documents
In the past twenty years, a remarkable number of government documents have been put online. In some cases, these documents are made easily and freely accessible. In others, technology has failed to overcome barriers or even created new barriers to access. Stephen Schultze makes a dynamic case for free access to government documents, in honor of Open Access Day 2008.
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The Uncertain Internet: Core Net Values for the [TBD] Administration
Jonathan Zittrain (Professor, Harvard Law School), Susan Crawford (Professor, University of Michigan Law School), Rich Miner (Mobile Platforms, Google; co-Founder of Android) and Alec Ross (Tech Policy Advisor to Obama)
Insights on Cyberbullying: an interview with a digital native
Digital Natives' Reporters-in-the-Field asked 19 year old UMASS student and New Jersey native, Lisa Epstein, to share her thoughts on the world of cyberbullying. In this interview, Epstein provides insight on how the anonymity of cyberbullies makes one question who her real friends are, and how the Internet acts as a “big shield†in such situations.
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Banning Copyright Infringers from the Internet: A View from Europe
At a time when the French legislative authorities are about to vote on a new copyright regulation under which the internet access of copyright infringers can be shut down while other regulators in Europe (at the EU or at the national level) are debating about the constitutionality and the fairness of such sanction, it appears interesting to present and to discuss the pros and cons of this controversial approach as well as the challenges that it raises.
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Blown to Bits Book Release
The Berkman Center hosts a talk on the release of Blown to Bits: Your Life, Liberty, and Happiness after the Digital Explosion with all three of the book's authors: Hal Abelson, Ken Ledeen, and Berkman Fellow Harry Lewis.
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September 24, 2008 - ISTTF Meeting - Social Network Sites - Facebook
Internet Safety Technical Task Force open meeting, September 24, Harvard Law School Social Network Sites - Facebook
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September 24, 2008 - ISTTF Meeting - Online Abuse and Crime By Youth
Internet Safety Technical Task Force open meeting, September 24, Harvard Law School Online Abuse and Crime By Youth: Results from the RIT Survey of Internet and At-risk Behaviors
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September 24, 2008 - ISTTF Meeting - Social Network Sites - MySpace
Internet Safety Technical Task Force open meeting, September 24, Harvard Law School Social Network Sites - MySpace
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Internet Draws Masses for ‘Silent Dance’ Experiment
Diane Kimball and Sarah Zhang take us into the world of the “silent dance experiment†- a silent, synchronized dance party which, with the help of the Internet, drew throngs of people from all over Boston, the US, and the world to Faneuil Hall in Boston in February. Such “flash mob†happenings have picked up in popularity over the last few years thanks to the publicity they have gained through blogs, online event pages, and most especially Facebook. Of the event in Boston, one site wrote, this “silent dance party involves a large group of people assembling at a given area on a pre-decided time. They mill around inconspicuously, and at the signal (in this case, an airhorn), insert their headphones into their ears, hit play on their portable music player and start dancing as passersbys confusingly look on as a swarm of people dance in silence.â€
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September 24, 2008 - ISTTF Meeting - Youth Perspective: WiredSafety's Teenangels
Internet Safety Technical Task Force open meeting, September 24, Harvard Law School Youth Perspective: Presentation from WiredSafety's Teenangels
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September 24, 2008 - ISTTF Meeting - Open Discussion
Internet Safety Technical Task Force open meeting, September 24, Harvard Law School Open Discussion of Technologies Presented
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Born Digital (Cambridge Book Talk)
John Palfrey and Urs Gasser discuss the themes of their new book "Born Digital: Understanding the First Generation of Digital Natives" at Harvard Law School.
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September 23, 2008 - ISTTF Meeting - Age Verification Group #2 Company Presentations
Internet Safety Technical Task Force open meeting, September 23, Harvard Law School -School-based/tokens • Microsoft • e-Guardian -Peer-to-Peer • Assert ID -Biometrics • VerificAge
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September 23, 2008 - ISTTF Meeting - Age Verification Group #2 Company Presentations II
Internet Safety Technical Task Force open meeting, September 23, Harvard Law School -Filtering/Auditing • Content Watch/Net Nanny • Symantec • McGruff SafeGuard • Keibi • SpectorSoft -Text Analysis • EthoSafe
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September 23, 2008 - ISTTF Meeting - Welcome
Internet Safety Technical Task Force open meeting, September 23, Harvard Law School Introductions by John Palfrey, and Attorneys General Martha Coakley and Richard Blumenthal
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September 23, 2008 - ISTTF Meeting - Age Verification Group #2 Company Presentations III
Internet Safety Technical Task Force open meeting, September 23, Harvard Law School -Combining Multiple Technologies and Authentication Tools • icouldbe.org • Phillip Hallam-Baker, VeriSign
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September 23, 2008 - ISTTF Meeting - Age Verification Group #1 Company Presentations
Internet Safety Technical Task Force open meeting, September 23, Harvard Law School -Public Records • Aristotle • IDology • Sentinel • BeenVerified
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Generativity, Innovation, and US v. Microsoft
Jonathan Zittrain, Professor of Law at Harvard Law School, and Co-Founder of the Berkman Center, leads a dynamic, though-provoking, and frequently humorous talk reflecting on the legacy of the US v. Microsoft case and its implications for openness and open platforms in the future.
azn.play: a conversation with blogger Qin Zhi Lau
Digital Natives reporter Nikki Leon chatted online with Qin Zhi Lau, a second-year Princeton student who runs the blog aznplay.com in his spare time. Although the blog started as a side project for QZ (as he’s sometimes called), it’s become a small-scale hub for English-speaking fans of Asian music. In this interview, QZ gives insight into what it’s like to manage an online community and how being a digital native has shaped his view of the world.
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Blogging, Journalism and Reality
Persephone Miel presents some findings from the upcoming Media Re:public project.
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United States v. Microsoft: Ten Years Later - Remarks and Discussion: David Boies
David Boies, founding partner of Boies, Schiller & Flexner and the DOJ's special trial counsel in the Microsoft case.
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United States v. Microsoft: Ten Years Later - Panel II
Andrew Chin, David Heiner, Edward Felten, and Steve Holtzman tackle one of the thorniest and least resolved issues raised by the case: Integration, Product Improvement and Tying: Access or Code; Liability or Remedy
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