Berkman Center Video Fishbowl
From Harvard University comes conversations with leading cyber-scholars, entrepreneurs, activists, and policymakers as they explore the bleeding edge of the internet and technology, democracy, law, and society. (Also available as audio) From the Berkman Center for Internet and Society at Harvard University.
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Jason Griffey “When Online is Offline: The Case for Hyperlocal Webservers and Networks”
The LibraryBox Project (along with other emerging projects like PirateBox, ...
The LibraryBox Project (along with other emerging projects like PirateBox, occupy.here, IdeasBox, and others) is an attempt at bridging the divide in delivery of digital information in areas where there is a lack of communications infrastructure or where
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Jonathan Zittrain Kicks Off the Berkman Center’s 2015-2016 Academic Year
Berkman Center Faculty Chair Jonathan Zittrain leads a dynamic introduction ...
Berkman Center Faculty Chair Jonathan Zittrain leads a dynamic introduction to the Berkman Center for Internet & Society’s history, and the network of researchers, activists, faculty, students, technologists, entrepreneurs, artists, policymakers
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Olivier Sylvain on Network Equality
One of the few clear priorities of the federal Communications ...
One of the few clear priorities of the federal Communications Act is to ensure that all Americans have reasonably comparable access to the Internet without respect to whom or where they are. Yet, in spite of this, the main focus of policymakers and legal
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Justin Reich on The Web We Want & The Ed We Want
The past decade has seen a dramatic decline in user ...
The past decade has seen a dramatic decline in user agency all across the Web, but especially in education. The Aughts saw the budding of a golden age of user-produced media on the Web. But these buds never fully flowered, over-shadowed by the development
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Ali Hashmi on Ideology and Text: Classifying and Analyzing Discourse using Machine Learning
We can use technology to uncover patterns in data. But ...
We can use technology to uncover patterns in data. But it’s much harder to uncover an “ideology” embedded in text. In this talk, Ali Hashmi — a researcher at the MIT Center for Civic Media — discusses a tool he has created th
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John Palfrey on BiblioTech: Why Libraries Matter More Than Ever In An Age of Google
Anyone seeking to participate in the 21st century needs to ...
Anyone seeking to participate in the 21st century needs to understand how to find and use the vast stores of information available online. Libraries play a crucial role in making these skills and information available, and yet are at risk. John Palfrey &#
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Microsoft Research 2015 PhD Interns on Platforms, Data, and People
Microsoft Research PhD Interns Ifeoma Ajunwa, Stacy Blasiola, Nathan Matias, ...
Microsoft Research PhD Interns Ifeoma Ajunwa, Stacy Blasiola, Nathan Matias, and Aleena Chia present their current research on corporations and the quantified self; the Facebook newsfeed algorithm; how sites like Reddit and Wikipedia are made accountable
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Christine Borgman: Data, data everywhere — but how to manage and govern?
Universities are drowning in data, not only data produced by ...
Universities are drowning in data, not only data produced by their researchers and students, but also data they collect about their communities. Research data are subject to sharing and retention requirements by funding agencies and journals. Data from co
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Melody Kramer on Expanding the Definition of Membership in Public Media
What does it mean to be a member of a ...
What does it mean to be a member of a public radio station in the United States? What could it mean? How could expanding the definition of membership instill a sense of ownership and identity among listeners, allowing them to feel more connected and inves
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John Kropf and Neal Cohen on The Guide to U.S. Government Practice on Global Information Sharing
There are any number of compelling reasons the US would ...
There are any number of compelling reasons the US would want to have a good information relationship with other countries, from counter-terrorism and cyber-crime prevention, to simple tax identification. This information sharing is not only necessary to s
