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Radio Berkman 228: Towards a More Inclusive Web
Listen:or download | …also in Ogg Ethnographer Whitney Phillips embedded ...
Listen:or download | …also in Ogg Ethnographer Whitney Phillips embedded with the trolls of 4chan, observing for years how anonymous members of its subversive “/b/” forum memed, pranked, harassed, and abused, all for the “lolz
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Radio Berkman 227: How Block Chain Will Change the World
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Listen:or download | …also in Ogg Bitcoin is having its 7th birthday, and its promise to change the way the world thinks about money is looking less and less hyperbolic. For one, the block chain technology underlying Bitcoin – the public
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Radio Berkman 226: Pay the Musician
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Listen:or download | …also in Ogg The market for recorded music has undergone at least three major reinventions since the dawn of the Internet. At the turn of the century illegal downloading ate away at the music industry’s bottom line. Then th
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Radio Berkman 225: Can you copyright a joke?
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Listen:or download | …also in Ogg With 316 million users posting 500 million tweets a day, someone is bound to write an unoriginal tweet now and then. But there are some Twitter users whose entire existence relies completely on plagiarizing tin
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Radio Berkman 224: Reddit – Community? Or Business?
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Listen:or download | …also in Ogg Reddit is sometimes called “the frontpage of the Internet.” 170 million people a month help upload, curate, and make viral the cat photos, prank videos, and topical discussions that help fuel our ne
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Radio Berkman 223: Fiber City
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Listen:or download | …also in Ogg Why are over 450 towns in the US building their own high speed Internet networks? Let’s look at the example of the small town of Holyoke, Massachusetts. A few years back the town’s mayor asked if th
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Radio Berkman 222: Going Public
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Listen:or download | …also in Ogg Public spaces function based on a varying give-and-take relationship with community members. Publicly supported media — whether it be college radio, a local NPR station, cable access, or PBS — share
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Radio Berkman 221: How to Stop Traffic
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Listen:or download | …also in Ogg The International Labour Organization estimates that between forced labor and the commercial sex trade, more than 20 million men, women, and children are being trafficked internationally. The web plays a huge r
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Radio Berkman 220: Trusting the Platform
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Listen:or download | …also in Ogg The more comfortable we get using digital platforms the more important it becomes to understand our relationships to them. From Facebook, to Fitbit, to Wikipedia, to networked games, and even to our schools and
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Radio Berkman 219: Whose App Is It Anyway?
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Listen:or download | …also in Ogg You may be familiar with a typical hack-day or hack-a-thon. Throw a group of developers and creators in a conference room for the weekend, and they’ll come up with some amazing app or product to make life
