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Past Events

Oct 3, 2013 @ 6:00 PM

After Snowden: Towards Distributed Security in Cyberspace.

Ronald Deibert, Professor of Political Science, and Director of the Canada Centre for Global Security Studies and the Citizen Lab at the Munk School of Global Affairs, University of Toronto

Cyberspace is ours. It is what we make of it. We need to remember that before it slips through our grasp.

Oct 1, 2013 @ 12:30 PM

Art in the age of the Ubiquitous Image

Molly Crabapple

Artists once had the monopoly on image making. But In a world where mobile technology has made images ubiquitous, what does visual art have left to say?

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Sep 24, 2013 @ 12:30 PM

Curated by the Crowd: collections, data, and platforms for participation in museums and other institutions

hosted by metaLAB's Jeffrey Schnapp, Matthew Battles and Pablo Barría Urenda

Curarium is a collection of collections, an “animated archive,” designed to serve as a model for crowdsourcing annotation, curation, and augmentation of works within and beyond…

Sep 17, 2013 @ 12:30 PM

Is beautiful really usable? Understanding how aesthetics and usability influence user experience.

Javier Bargas-Avila, User Experience Researcher, Google (Switzerland)

Ever wondered how product aesthetics and usability work together, and how they influence the experiences we create? Come and learn.

Sep 9, 2013 @ 4:00 PM

Berkman Center Fall 2013 Open House

Come to the Berkman Center for Internet & Society’s Fall 2013 Open House to meet our faculty, fellows, and staff, and to learn about the many ways you can get involved in our…

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Aug 8, 2013 @ 2:00 PM

Reforming the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court

Richard Blumenthal, United States Senator for Connecticut

Senator Richard Blumenthal will deliver an address about proposed legislation to reform the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court. Read more about the legislation >

Jul 16, 2013 @ 12:30 PM

Information Flows in Online Court Records: Tailoring Rules for Transparency and Privacy

Sophie Hood and Helen Nissenbaum, Information Law Institute at NYU

Helen Nissenbaum and Sophie Hood will explore whether new information technologies might be deployed to enhance both transparency and privacy for online court records.

Jul 9, 2013 @ 12:30 PM

Creating a Law School e-Curriculum

Legal technology is reshaping practice. It needs to reshape law schools as well. In the current crisis in law, teaching legal technology must be part of curriculum reform.

Jun 27, 2013 @ 2:00 PM

Open Access and the Humanities

Martin Eve and Caroline Edwards, Academic Directors, The Open Library of the Humanities

The greatest successes of the Open Access movement have taken place within the sciences where the tipping point was all but reached in 2012. In the humanities, however, there has…

Jun 25, 2013 @ 6:00 PM

REWIRE: Digital Cosmopolitans in the Age of Connection

A book launch with the author, Ethan Zuckerman, Director of the MIT Center for Civic Media

A rousing call to action for those who would be citizens of the world—online and off.

Jun 18, 2013 @ 12:30 PM

Present Shock: When Everything Happens Now

Douglas Rushkoff, author of Present Shock, in conversation with David Weinberger

The always-on, simultaneous society in which we have found ourselves has altered our relationship to culture, media, news, politics, economics, and power. We are living in a…

Jun 11, 2013 @ 12:30 PM

Jazz and Journalism: Reporting with Improvisation

Laura Amico, Nieman-Berkman Fellow in Journalism Innovation

What if we reported in swing time?

May 28, 2013 @ 12:30 PM

Technologies of Choice? – ICTs, development and the capabilities approach

Dr. Dorothea Kleine, Director of the ICT4D Centre, RHUL

In Technologies of Choice?, Dorothea Kleine uses Sen’s capabilities approach to development to ask which values are embedded in ICT policies and technologies. The book argues for…

May 14, 2013 @ 12:30 PM

Cyber War Is Not the Answer, But What Is? Addressing Cyber Conflict While Protecting Privacy and Internet Freedom

Timothy H. Edgar

Come hear a former Obama White House privacy official discuss cyber conflict, privacy and Internet freedom - what can we do to combat threats without giving up freedoms? This…

May 7, 2013 @ 12:30 PM

Personalized Learning, Backpacks Full of Cash, Rockstar Teachers, and MOOC Madness

The Intersection of Technology, Free-Market Ideology, and Media Hype in U.S. Education Reform with Justin Reich, Berkman Center Fellow

Personalization, Backpacks of Cash, Rockstar Teachers, and #MOOC Madness: Free-Market Ideology, Media Hype, & ed reform. This event will be webcast live at 12:30pm ET.

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May 4, 2013 @ 9:00 AM

Filling the News Gap in Cambridge and Beyond: Citizen Journalism and Grassroots Media

The event will explore the quickly expanding world of citizen journalism: how technology is fueling its growth; how that growth is changing the way we see our world, enact change,…

May 2, 2013 @ 9:00 AM

CGA Annual Conference: Creating the Policy and Legal Framework for a Location–Enabled Society

The Centre for Spatial Law and Policy based in Washington, DC, the Center for Geographic Analysis, the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs and the Berkman Center…

Apr 23, 2013 @ 12:30 PM

How to archive for the future? Ensuring the Present benefits from a Relevant Past

Daniel J. Caron, Deputy Head and Librarian and Archivist of Canada and Eric Mechoulan,Université de Montréal

How to archive for the future? Ensuring the Present benefits from a Relevant Past.

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Apr 18, 2013 @ 4:19 PM

[postponed] DPLA Launch

in Boston, MA

On April 18-19, 2013, the Digital Public Library of America (DPLA) will bring together librarians, technologists, creators, publishers, innovators, students, government leaders,…

Apr 16, 2013 @ 12:30 PM

Work here: have a voice and change the world.

Are employees at the Googles and Facebooks of the world able to enforce that promise? with Berkman Fellow, Heather Whitney

Work here: have a voice and change the world. Are employees at the Googles and Facebooks of the world able to enforce that promise? This event will be webcast live at 12:30pm ET.