Berkman Faculty Fellow and HLS Visiting Professor Julie Cohen will discuss a chapter from her forthcoming book, which explores the effects of expanding copyright, pervasive…
Jeremy Bailenson, founding director of Stanford University's Virtual Human Interaction Lab and an associate professor in the Department of Communication at Stanford
In this talk, Jeremy will describe a series of projects that explore the manners in which avatars (representations of people in virtual environments) qualitatively change the…
Tarleton Gillespie, Department of Communication at Cornell University & fellow at the Center for Internet and Society at Stanford Law School
Gillespie will discuss the politics of managing online media platforms (such as YouTube and Facebook) and how certain interventions interventions may structure contemporary public…
An unconference geared towards law librarians, legal information professionals, and others in related fields
Lawberry Camp is an unconference geared towards law librarians, legal information professionals, and others in related fields and will be hosted at Harvard Law School.
Advertising pays for a significant portion of online content and services. But in contrast to other forms of content and service provision, it expects a return on investment…
Stephen M. Kosslyn, Dean of Social Science and John Lindsley Professor of Psychology at Harvard University and Associate Psychologist in the Department of Neurology at the Massachusetts General Hospital
Different brain systems are used when one produces lies in different ways, such as by fabricating lies spontaneously "on the fly" versus fabricating them on the basis of a…
18 years ago, Brett Glass -- an electrical engineer, inventor, and technology columnist -- established LARIAT, the first terrestrial wireless Internet service provider (WISP), in…
The FCC is holding a public workshop on two independent studies that were requested in connection with the development of the National Broadband Plan: the Berkman Center's "Next…
Donnie Hao Dong, Berkman Fellow; David Singh Grewal, Junior Fellow at the Harvard Society of Fellows and an Affiliated Fellow at the Information Society Project at Yale Law School; Mackenzie Cowell, Berkman Center Research Assistant
This session of the Harvard-MIT-Yale Cyberscholar Working Group will take place at the Berkman Center for Internet & Society at Harvard University.
Marshall Van Alstyne, Associate Professor at Boston University and Research Scientist at MIT
Property rights provide incentives to create information but they also provide incentives to hoard it prior to the award of protection. Marshall Van Alstyne will propose a…
Cameran Ashraf, Adjunct Faculty member in the Department of Geography and Anthropology at California State University, Pomona & Brett Solomon, recently Campaign Director at Avaaz.org and Executive Director at GetUp.org.au
With Iran as a case study, this presentation will explore the role new communication technologies are playing in the post-election unrest, how people outside of Iran are helping…
Ethan and Hal will present their prototype system to retrieve, tag, cluster and analyze blog and newspaper data, and discuss how the Media Cloud platform will be used in our…
The Berkman Center for Internet & Society at Harvard University fondly invites you to attend our third annual celebration of our friends, affiliates and partners on the left coast…
Sam Bowles, Santa Fe Institute, Behavioral Sciences Program
Sam Bowles will discuss how an evolutionary model and computer simulations will show how systems of property rights might respond to the challenges of the weightless economy.
Nathan Eagle, Omidyar Fellow at the Santa Fe Institute
Petabytes of data about human movements, transactions, and communication patterns are continuously being generated by everyday technologies such as mobile phones and credit cards…
David Weinberger will present an informal sketch of a direction for understanding the dominance of information as concept, metaphor, etc., suggesting that we leaped into …
If a Companion were to become the internet repository for someone’s whole life, to be a “cognitive prosthesis” for dealing with their own life’s records, what safeguards are…
The Harvard-MIT-Yale Cyberscholar Working Group will convene at Yale University. This workshop offers a forum for debating the signal claim of Matthew Hindman that digital…
