Jennifer E. Rothman discusses her book, The Right of Publicity: Privacy Reimagined for a Public World (Harvard University Press 2018). She challenges the conventional story of the…
Why Is Internet Access Still Considered a Luxury in America?
Internet access is a major social and economic justice issue of our time. Dividing Lines, a four-part documentary video series, sheds a light on who is being left behind as big…
COMPAS is a software used across the country to predict who will commit future crimes. It doesn’t perform any better than untrained people who responded to an online survey.
the Library Consortium as Studio, Platform, and Metacommunity
In this talk, Nate will give an overview of the programs at METRO/599, talk about the challenges associated with this organizational recalibration, seek input and ideas from the…
featuring John Freedman, President & CEO of Freedman HealthCare
Health spending continues to outpace wages and GDP, while some new insurance designs transfer greater shares of that to patients’ own out of pocket costs. What is driving health…
featuring John Bracken, newly appointed executive director of the DPLA, and colleagues
Please join DPLA's new executive director John Bracken and colleagues to reflect on the DPLA’s past, present and future and explore the way in which libraries can contribute to a…
featuring a panel of experts on copyright, cyber law, and intermediary liability issues
Can non-human animals own copyrights? Can artificial intelligence machines? Join the Berkman Klein Center, the Harvard Law School Animal Law & Policy Program, and the HLS Student…
A panel featuring Christopher S. Yoo (UPenn) and Matthew Wood (Free Press)
The January 4 release of the Federal Communications Commission’s Restoring Internet Freedom Order marked the most recent turn of events in the longstanding and ever-changing…
In this talk, Berkman Klein affiliate Jonas Kaiser will share some of his research on the networked public sphere. "The right-wing is rising. Not only in the United States but…
A showcase of works by metaLAB artists exploring the emotional effects of algorithms, the uncanny experiences of sensor-enabled computers, and what intelligent machines might…
Who owns your ideas? How are cultural icons created and who gets to control their image and message? Orly Lobel’s new book You Don’t Own Me is about how intellectual property both…
On January 15-16, 2018, the School of Collective Communication Sciences of the University of Costa Rica, in collaboration with the Institute of Communication and Image of the…
featuring Dr. Ian Bogost, Professor of Interactive Computing at the Georgia Institute of Technology
Two decades of technological optimism in computing have proven foolhardy. Let’s talk about new ways to anticipate what might go right and wrong, using a technology that has not…
featuring Sarah Florini, Assistant Professor of Film and Media Studies, Department of English Arizona State University
Researchers often consider the technological practices of Black Americans for insight into race and cultural production. But, Black users are regularly at the digital vanguard,…
featuring Dennis Tenen, Assistant Professor of English and Comparative Literature at Columbia University
Computers—from electronic books to smart phones—play an active role in our social lives. Our technological choices thus entail theoretical and political commitments. Dennis Tenen…
Digital Black Feminist Discourse and the Legacy of Black Women’s Technology Use
The use of online technology by black feminist thinkers has changed the principles, praxis, and product of black feminist writing and simultaneously has changed the technologies…
Our society is blessed with new technologies yet also burdened with numerous and novel disputes as they are used. In his new book Digital Justice: Technology and the Internet of…
Curricle with Professor Jeffrey Schnapp, metaLAB Harvard
Visualized, annotated, connected: what should the course catalog look like in the 21st century? In this participatory lunch talk, members of metaLAB's Curricle team will share…
