Mobile phone data are providing unprecedented insights into human migration and behavior with relevance for containment of epidemics and response to natural disasters, but what…
The Promise and Perils of the Algorithm-Driven Economy
The changing market reality is already shifting power into the hands of the few. Join us to explore the resulting risks to competition, our democratic ideals, and our economic and…
What sorts of objects do new forms of hardware culture enable, and what role does the internet now play in all steps along the way, from ideation to sales to manufacturing to…
The recent US election, and related conversations about misinformation, have brought questions about media influence to the forefront of internet research and communications…
In this revealing book, Cass Sunstein, the New York Times bestselling author of Nudge and The World According to Star Wars, shows how today's Internet is driving political…
Revisiting the Year 2000 Problem and the Politics of Technological Repair
What really happened in the Y2K crisis and did it matter? With a growing consensus that the United States is in a state of infrastructural crisis, the Y2K bug and its aftermath…
Berkman Faculty Associate, Juan Carlos De Martin with Berkman Klein founder, Charlie Nesson
Five global, complex, interrelated and to some extent unprecedented challenges: in the coming years what can universities do to support society in addressing them?
with Berkman Klein fellows Natalie Gyenes and Brittany Seymour
Research shows that public health information networks online have been largely unsuccessful in driving an evidence-based information network narrative around key health topics…
Sandra Braman, Abbott Professor of Liberal Arts at Texas A&M University
Those responsible for technical design of the Internet are essential among the policy-makers for this large-scale sociotechnical infrastructure. Based on analysis of the…
featuring General Counsel of Hyperloop One, Marvin Ammori
The future of transportation may include Google's autonomous vehicles, Uber's flying cars, and Amazon's delivery drones--all bound together by a high-speed hyperloop backbone. You…
with Christoph Graber, Berkman Klein Faculty Associate
Can we observe the emergence of a new fundamental right that is protecting the Internet? Can such a constitutionalisation process originate from civil society?
Hopeful Institutions and Technologies of Inequality
How did we learn that we need to learn to code—or else? This talk draws on an ethnography of a library system amidst a massive digital transition, tracing how strained public…
Free Independent Health Records are an important use-case for self-sovereign technology that links individual people with licensed practitioners and connected services. Blockchain…
Using Black women’s innovative use of digital technologies via the hashtag, via reappropriating imagery, via facebook pages and gaming, Kishonna L. Gray highlights examples…
December 2, 2016, 9:00 am - 12:00 pm Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society at Harvard University Harvard Law School campus This workshop is being sponsored…
