Nicole B. Ellison, Dept. of Telecommunication, Information Studies and Media, Michigan State University
Nicole Ellison will report on new research that explores the social capital implications of Facebook use. It's not how many Friends you have, but what you do with them that…
User trust has been identified as a key success factor of online business: A user's willingness to provide personal data is a prerequisite for online transactions. Research has…
TurboVote is a service that makes voting by mail and voter registration as simple as renting a DVD with Netflix. Come hear how TurboVote built in two months for spare change what…
Juan Carlos de Martin, Co-Founder and Co-Director of the NEXA Center for Internet & Society at Politecnico di Torino & Charles Nesson, Berkman Center for Internet & Society
Juan Carlos de Martin, Co-Founder and Co-Director of the NEXA Center for Internet & Society at Politecnico di Torino, will speak at the Berkman Center Luncheon Series: How should…
On May 16-17, 2011, the Berkman Center together with Open Knowledge Commons and the Institute for Information Law at the University of Amsterdam convened a group of technical and…
This month's installment of cyberscholars will feature Malte Ziewitz on "How’s my feedback? Six puzzles and some notes on web-based review and rating schemes"; Nicholas Bramble on…
Erez Lieberman Aiden, Harvard Society of Fellows & Jean-Baptiste Michel, FQEB Fellow at Harvard (and both Visiting Faculty at Google)
Erez Lieberman Aiden & Jean-Baptiste Michel show how an analysis of a corpus of digitized text can provide insights about fields as diverse as lexicography, the evolution of…
Social media — from blogs to wikis to tweets — have become academic media, new means by which scholars communicate, collaborate, and teach. Hear from a distinguished faculty panel…
For the Berklee College of Music's Rethink Music conference, the Berkman Center for Internet & Society at Harvard University hosted a Call for Papers seeking policy proposals that…
This month's presenters will include: Daniel Kreiss, Yale Information Society Project on "Acting in the networked public sphere: the Obama campaign’s strategic use of new media to…
Greg Elliott, MIT Media Lab Researcher & Hugo Van Vuuren, Berkman Fellow / GSD
Greg Elliott, MIT Media Lab Researcher & Hugo Van Vuuren, Berkman Fellow / GSD present "Protocol," a tool to communicate personal communication preferences.
Jens Grossklags, Pennsylvania State University, College of Information Sciences and Technology
The majority of the stakeholders of the political process argue for consistently increased funding for defense, anti-terrorism activities and domestic security. However, it is far…
The Cyberscholar Working Group is a forum for fellows and affiliates of MIT, Yale Law School Information Society Project, Columbia University, NYU and the Berkman Center for…
Dan Gillmor of ASU & Berkman Center Faculty Associate
We're in an age of information overload, and too much of what we watch, hear and read is mistaken, deceitful or even dangerous. Yet we can take control and make media serve us --…
This paper studies cascade effects created by interconnections between sectors, firms or financial institutions. Focusing on a multi-sector economy linked through a supply network…
Charlie DeTar of MIT on "Research, Service, and Ethics in contested spaces: How definitions can go wrong"; Seeta Peña Gangadharan of Yale on "Data integration and segregation:…
In the mid-2000s, journalists and businesspeople heralded “Web 2.0” technologies such as YouTube, Twitter, and Facebook as signs of a new participatory era that would democratize…
Larisa Mann of Berkeley Law School / Boalt Hall will present on how street dances, Jamaica's explosive creative engine, challenge the colonial dimensions of globalized law and…
While computers have automated the operation of most financial markets, the underlying mechanism was designed for people to operate it. It is simple, not necessarily efficient,…
