The supply side of tomorrow's media is emerging quickly, if messily, in a democratization of media-creation tools that give us a vast and growing amount of content of all kinds,…
Gillian K Hadfield on how and why our legal infrastructure is outdated and ill-suited to the new economy, looking mostly to the non-market or protected-market mechanisms on which…
What's the link between Rick Astley and funny cat pictures? How about "alpaca sheep" and Anonymous? Is internet culture as a whole fundamentally random, or does an underlying…
INFORMATION SUPERHIGHWAY is Boston's monthly party gathering hackers, activists, artists, designers, nonprofits, startups, academics and general geekery to hang out and connect…
Victoria Stodden will present the Reproducible Research Standard to realign the Intellectual Property framework with longstanding scientific norms and promote the release of all…
Digitally-connected social networks are fast becoming a key ingredient of today’s social movements. But scholarship about networks – social, professional, and otherwise – has…
Papers presented at this convening of cyberscholars: 1) These are the Best of Times and these are the Worst of Times: Free Software and the Global Politics of Intellectual…
Brian Worobey and Gabriel Fishman of openairboston.net
Brian Worobey and Gabriel Fishman of openairboston.net and Aaron Kaplan of Funkfeuer Austria present a new approach to building citywide WiFi networks from the bottom up,…
In these dawn years of the Information Age, when individuals have more choice than ever about what they can do with their time and money, big companies still talk about "capturing…
Paul Ohm, Associate Professor of Law and Telecommunications, University of Colorado Law School
Two recent, newsworthy events have upended our understanding of the privacy-protecting power of anonymization. America Online and Netflix each released millions of anonymized…
Public session of "The Internet: Issues at the Frontiers" seminar
Russ Stanton and Jeff Jarvis will be the guests for a public session of "The Internet: Issues at the Frontiers," a Harvard Law School seminar taught by Professors William Fisher…
This event, organized in collaboration with the OII and the Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism brought together leading researchers to assess the current state of…
Dr. Matthew Hindman, Assistant Professor of Political Science at Arizona State University
Many areas of Internet scholarship make strong--and often erroneous--assumptions about patterns of Web traffic. Still, there has been little comprehensive research on how online…
Most English-language discussions about "the future of the Internet" approach the subject from an Anglo-American and European perspective. But what if you take China - now with…
