Podcasts by Berkman Klein Center for Internet and Society: Audio Fishbowl
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Framing Decisions: a Book Talk About Human Advantage in an Age of Technology and Turmoil from 2021-06-07T17:14:05
This book talk features Viktor Mayer-Schönberger, a co-author of the recently published book Framers: Human Advantage in an Age of Technology and Turmoil. The book explores how reframing some of th...
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At the Crossroads of Digital Imperialism&Digital Development from 2021-05-28T20:55:29
The global information economy has provided freedom-enhancing affordances for previously marginalized groups, but has also enabled extractive practices in the form of digital imperialism, or as oth...
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Mistrust: How to revitalize civics at a moment of low public trust in institutions from 2021-05-27T16:11:07
Even before the storming of the US Capitol, mistrust in institutions like the press and the federal government was challenging the civic fabric of America. In Ethan Zuckerman's new book, "Mistrust"...
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Restoring US Leadership for Global Health from 2021-05-25T17:58:54
Governments around the world failed to contain COVID-19, with more than 3.2 million deaths and counting. Even before the pandemic, the United States was questioning its commitments to global health...
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Foresight and Decolonial Humanitarian Tech Ethics from 2021-05-12T13:15:06
Can humanitarian actors play a more intentional role in designing just and equitable digital futures? Could we, in fact, design worlds that don't imagine some figures, particularly populations that...
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Governing the Social Media City from 2021-04-27T20:28:49
The past few years have highlighted the range of problems that social media seems to amplify: harassment, hate speech, hoaxes, violent extremism, and more. Through traditional governing and researc...
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Decoding Stigma: Designing for Sex Worker Liberatory Futures from 2021-04-13T13:30:06
What would the Internet look like if it was designed by sex workers? Taking a sex worker lens to tech ethics envisions a radically different online space. Sex workers hold unique insights into the ...
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COVID-19 from the Margins: Pandemic Invisibilities, Policies and Resistance in the Datafied Society from 2021-04-05T15:44:23
In the first pandemic of the datafied society, the disempowered were denied a voice in the heavily quantified mainstream narrative. Diego Cerna Aragón, Shyam Krishna, Silvia Masiero, Stefania Milan...
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Reopening Schools: A Seminar for State&Local Leaders from 2021-03-24T13:32:45
Since the federal stimulus bill has been signed, one of our nation’s major goals is to safely and rapidly reopen schools using funds allocated to State Departments of Education. This session focuse...
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Hindsight is 2020: Learning From our Past to Build a Better Future from 2021-03-22T13:39:25
We are still in the early days of the Internet, but there is a growing sense that it's creating more problems than it’s solving. This wasn’t always the case. There was a time when we shared an over...
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Digital Witnesses: The Power of Looking from 2021-03-08T22:03:36
Hannane Ferdjani, Nana Mgbechikwere Nwachukwu, and Dr. Allissa Richardson explore how young Black people around the world are utilizing tech toolsto track and circumvent oppressive policies by repr...
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Organizing, Budgeting, and Implementing Wraparound Services for People in Quarantine and Isolation from 2021-02-26T18:56:47
People who have been exposed to SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19 disease, or have become infected with it, need to quarantine or isolate from others so that they don’t spread the disease ...
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Covid State of Play: Vaccines and Variants from 2021-02-19T18:11:34
Dr. Margaret Bourdeaux, Professor Jonathan Zittrain, and Dr. Vanessa Kerry discuss vaccine roll-out and the impact of new COVID strains from both a domestic and global perspective.
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Marginalized Women, Technology, COVID-19, and Intimate Partner Violence from 2021-02-12T21:13:19
Increasingly, marginalized women are opting against calling the police in response to intimate partner violence (IPV). Many report going to faith communities and online platforms to seek help — es...
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White Surveillance and Black Digital Publics from 2021-02-03T19:28:30
Dr. Apryl A. Williams and Dr. Allissa V. Richardson address the long-standing history of White vigilante-style surveillance of Black people in public spaces, exploring the role of White women in ex...
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Tanner Lecture 2020 – Between Suffocation and Abdication: Three Eras of Governing Digital Platforms from 2021-01-28T19:18:37
Jonathan Zittrain delivers part one of the 2020 Clare Hall Tanner Lectures on Human Values – Between Suffocation and Abdication: Three Eras of Governing Digital Platforms, exploring the tension bet...
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Covid State of Play: 2021 Outlook and Vaccine Disinformation from 2021-01-15T16:13:18
Dr. Margaret Bourdeaux and Professor Jonathan Zittrain, co-chairs of the Berkman Klein Center’s Digital Pandemic Response Working Group, reflect on 2020 and look ahead to 2021. Bourdeaux and Zittra...
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A More Representative First Amendment? from 2021-01-12T14:09:25
Professors Khaled Beydoun and Justin Hansford join IfRFA Director Kendra Albert for a discussion of the way in which First Amendment work could better engage with critical race theory. This event h...
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Covid State of Play: Building a Public Sector Health Intelligence Capability from 2020-12-18T19:42:51
Tracking the spread of COVID-19 has proved critical to efforts to contain the virus, but to do so, public health officials need to collect and utilize large amounts of data. Tarah Wheeler, Cyber Pr...
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Covid State of Play: Covid, Racism, and Environmental Justice from 2020-12-07T15:03:11
Jacqueline Patterson, Director of the NAACP Environmental and Climate Justice Program, and Dr. Michelle Morse, Founding Co-Director of EqualHealth, Hospitalist at Brigham and Women's Hospital, and ...
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The True Costs of Misinformation: Producing Moral and Technical Order in a Time of Pandemonium from 2020-12-04T14:49:44
It all feels like a precursor to a bad joke: What do foreign agents, white supremacists, conspiracists, snake oil salesmen, political operatives, white academics, and a disgruntled bunch of zoomers...
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Red and Blue Realities: Political Discourse and the 2020 Election from 2020-11-23T15:44:32
Yochai Benkler and Rob Faris present their recent research that assesses how asymmetrically polarized media in the United States shape political discourse and explains how the structure of media ec...
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The Connected Parent: An Expert Guide to Parenting in a Digital World from 2020-11-13T17:07:36
This book talk discussion included: Introduction: Jonathan Zittrain is the George Bemis Professor of International Law at Harvard Law School. He is also a professor at the Harvard Kennedy School ...
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Retrospective Contact Tracing: How States Can Investigate Covid-19 Clusters from 2020-11-13T15:27:10
The Berkman Klein Center for Internet&Society at Harvard University, Harvard Medical School’s Program in Global Public Policy and Social Change, the National Governors Association, and Partners In ...
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Election Chaos: Platform Preparations for the US Election from 2020-11-03T19:26:51
evelyn douek and Julie Owono discuss how platforms are preparing for—and anticipating—a variety of issues related to disinformation in the lead up to, and immediate aftermath of, the 2020 US electi...
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Two Geniuses Walk into a Zoom: A Conversation with Tressie McMillan Cottom&Mary L. Gray from 2020-10-23T15:08:45
The MacArthur Foundation recently announced its 2020 MacArthur Fellows, which include two BKC Faculty Associates, Tressie McMillan Cottom and Mary Gray. Watch Cottom and Gray discuss their previ...
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Covid State of Play: Authoritarian Politics&COVID-19 from 2020-10-13T21:27:31
How Should U.S. public health officials lead in this political moment? Rivka Weinberg, Professor of Philosophy at Scripps College and Jennifer Prah Ruger, Professor of Medical Ethics and Health Pol...
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Cybersecurity: How Far Up the Creek Are We? from 2020-10-07T02:52:36
Board Members James Mickens and Jonathan Zittrain explore cybersecurity beyond its traditional boundaries of protecting data or code from bad actors. Increasingly, the pervasive integration of comp...
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Covid State of Play: School Reopenings, Ventilation and Transmission, and Possible Solutions from 2020-08-24T13:48:37
What’s the Covid State of Play? Joseph Allen, professor and head of the Healthy Buildings program at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, joins Dr. Margaret Bourdeaux and Professor Jonath...
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Covid State of Play: Jonathan Zittrain, Margaret Bourdeaux, Beth Cameron, and KJ Seung from 2020-07-30T20:55:22
What’s the Covid State of Play? Join Dr. Margaret Bourdeaux and Professor Jonathan Zittrain, co-chairs of the Berkman Klein Center’s Digital Pandemic Response Working Group, as they try to untangle...
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The Pandemic As a Portal: Tracking and Enabling New Possibilities from 2020-06-24T17:29:23
The pandemic is a portal, the novelist Arundhati Roy wrote in an essay for the Financial Times. “We can choose to walk through it, dragging the carcasses of our prejudice and hatred, our avarice, o...
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COVID-19 and Inequality in the Global South from 2020-06-02T17:38:46
Low-income countries have several systemic disadvantages that cumulatively inhibit their capacity to cope with the spread of COVID-19. These systemic disadvantages, a result of long-term poverty an...
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Building Better Voting Systems from 2020-05-21T13:54:26
Ever since Florida 2000, it seems the US cannot hold an election without horror stories about equipment failing, votes lost, and disenfranchised voters says Ben Adida, co-founder and Executive Dire...
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Borderless COVID-19, Restricted Vaccines from 2020-05-12T14:52:29
As the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) sweeps the world in devastating fashion, scientists are scrambling to develop effective vaccines and treatments. But how should those medicines be priced globall...
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Challenges in Digital Technology Then and Now from 2020-05-08T13:31:24
Governments and publics are increasingly asking that tech companies work to address the challenges and adapt to the changes technology has unleashed, from digital security to the impact of the COVI...
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Data Overload: Data, Journalism,&COVID-19 from 2020-04-28T21:01:14
As people turn to news outlets for information, journalists -- and data journalists in particular -- are under pressure to make sense of droves of complicated information. Data Overload discusses ...
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Why Fairness Cannot Be Automated from 2020-04-20T17:09:52
Fairness and discrimination in algorithmic systems are globally recognized as topics of critical importance. To date, the majority of work in this area starts from an American regulatory perspectiv...
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Bot or Human? Unreliable Automatic Bot Detection from 2020-04-13T14:10:03
The identification of bots is an important and complicated task. The bot classifier Botometer was successfully introduced as a way to estimate the number of bots in a given list of accounts and has...
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In Principle and in Practice from 2020-04-06T16:06:47
This virtual talk features Jessica Fjeld, assistant director of the Cyberlaw Clinic and lead author on the “Principled AI” report, in conversation with Ryan Budish, an assistant research director a...
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All Data Are Local: Thinking Critically in a Data-Driven Society from 2020-03-23T13:31:24
“In our data-driven society, it is too easy to assume the transparency of data. Instead, we should approach data sets with an awareness that they are created by humans and their dutiful machines, a...
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"Everything is better with better broadband" featuring Christopher Ali from 2020-03-10T14:35
Rural broadband is currently having a moment in American political discourse. No less than 5 presidential candidates have released plans to connect the country’s rural places, and the FCC has recen...
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Advancing Racial Literacy in Tech from 2020-02-14T16:22:20
Dr. Howard Stevenson of the University of Pennsylvania kicked off the Berkman Klein Spring 2020 Luncheon Series with a talk and discussion on Advancing Racial Literacy in Tech. Racial literacy prov...
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Between Truth and Power: Featuring Julie Cohen from 2019-12-13T14:34:04
Our current legal system is to a great extent the product of an earlier period of social and economic transformation. From the late 19th century through the mid-20th century, the U.S. legal system ...
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Sharenthood: How Parents, Teachers, and Other Trusted Adults Harm Youth Privacy&Opportunity from 2019-12-04T20:31:04
A new book by BKC Faculty Associate and Youth&Media team member Leah Plunkett joins works by Margaret Atwood and Stephen King on Wired's list of "must-read" books for fall 2019. Leah's book from MI...
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Napster@20: Reflections on the Internet’s Most Controversial Music File Sharing Service from 2019-11-25T15:06:34
This panel discussion will address the topic of “Napster @ 20,” looking back from our vantage point in 2019 and examining the direct and indirect legacy of Napster over the past two decades. The pa...
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Ethics of the Digital Transformation from 2019-11-15T19:21:56
The Berkman Klein Center for Internet&Society at Harvard University was delighted to welcome the President of Germany, Dr. Frank-Walter Steinmeier, to campus for a special event on November 1 to di...
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North of Havana: A Lawyer's Truth featuring Martin Garbus from 2019-11-06T15:45:43
In this talk, Martin Garbus shares his truth: from representing criminal murder defendants, to representing detained migrants, to the internet’s effect on justice. When a lawyer must choose between...
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Protecting Elections from Online Manipulation and Cyber Threats from 2019-11-04T16:28:35
Israel went through two full election campaigns in 2019, featuring the cutting edge of network propaganda technologies. Justice Hanan Melcer of Israel's Supreme Court chaired Israel's Central Elec...
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Contesting Algorithms featuring Niva Elkin-Koren from 2019-11-04T15:13:43
Niva Elkin-Koren addresses issues in AI-based content moderation by introducing an adversarial procedure, the strategy of “Contesting Algorithms,” and discussing its promises and limitations. For m...
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https://cyber.harvard.edu/events/conversion-twitter from 2019-10-28T17:13:09
This talk features Megan Phelps-Roper and Brittan Heller in discussion about Phelps-Roper's new book Unfollow: A Memoir of Loving and Leaving the Westboro Baptist Church.
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A New Jim Code? Featuring Ruha Benjamin and Jasmine McNealy from 2019-10-03T13:12:26
From everyday apps to complex algorithms, technology has the potential to hide, speed, and even deepen discrimination, while appearing neutral and even benevolent when compared to racist practices ...
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Colonized by Data: The Costs of Connection with Nick Couldry and Ulises Mejias from 2019-09-27T12:37:11
This talk introduces the speakers’ new book, The Costs of Connection: How Data Colonizes Human Life and Appropriates it for Capitalism (Stanford University Press, August 2019). For more information...
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Can Tech be Governed? With Jonathan Zittrain and Kendra Albert from 2019-09-16T12:31:12
The twenty-odd year mainstream digital revolution has transformed in the public eye from one of promise to threat. This pessimism is reflected in assessments of the latest pervasive technology: AI ...
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Auditing for Bias in Resume Search Engines with Christo Wilson from 2019-06-03T17:40:27
There is growing awareness and concern about the role of automation in hiring, and the potential for these tools to reinforce historic inequalities in the labor market. In this work, Wilson perform...
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Everyday Chaos - A Book Talk with author David Weinberger and Joi Ito from 2019-05-20T15:41:22
The Internet and AI are not only changing the future, they're changing our ideas about how the future arises from the present. In his new book, Everyday Chaos, David Weinberger points to accepted w...
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IGNITE talks - Featuring Members of the BKC Community from 2019-05-10T19:28:30
Berkman Klein community members Elettra Bietti, John Collins, Andrew Gruen, Daniel Jones, Mariel Garcia Montes, Jasmine McNealy, Sabelo Mhlambi, Sarah Newman, Kathy Pham, and Salome Viljoen share t...
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How to Work with Tech Companies on Human Rights from 2019-04-25T20:12:43
How can advocates, activists, and academics work with technology companies to advance human rights? In this talk, David Sullivan, director at the Global Network Initiative, and BKC Fellow Chinmayi ...
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Dirty Data, Bad Predictions - How Civil Rights Violations Impact Police Data, Systems&Society from 2019-04-19T20:21:21
AI Now Director of Policy Research Rashida Richardson discusses recent research on the data provenance of police data commonly used in predictive policing system. The research reviews Department of...
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Constitutionalizing Speech Platforms - Featuring Kate Klonick, Thomas Kadri&BKC Community Members from 2019-04-12T20:53:58
We're never going to get a global set of norms for online speech, but do the platforms pick our global values and constitutionalize them? Is there something to tie our global values to the mast whe...
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BKC Meet the Author Series: Urs Gasser in conversation with Jason Farman from 2019-04-12T20:37:09
BKC Executive Director Urs Gasser speaks with Jason Farman, author of the book "Delayed Response: The Art of Waiting from the Ancient to the Instant World," about how our communication media shape ...
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Machines Learning to Find Injustice -Featuring Ryan Copus, HLS Climenko Fellow and Lecturer on Law from 2019-04-04T19:27:19
Predictive algorithms can often outperform humans in making legal decisions. But when used to automate or guide decisions, predictions can embed biases, conflict with a "right to explanation," and ...
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BKC Meet the Author Series: Urs Gasser in conversation with Farah Pandith from 2019-04-04T16:52:49
In her new book, How We Win, Farah Pandith, a world-leading expert and pioneer in countering violent extremism, lays out a comprehensive strategy for how we can defeat the growing extremist threat,...
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Digital Democracy, Analogue Politics - How the Internet Era is Transforming Kenya from 2019-03-20T18:46:26
Author Nanjala Nyabola speaks with BKC Fellow james Wahutu about Nanjala's book, Digital Democracy, Analogue Politics: How the Internet Era is Transforming Kenya. The book explores of efforts to co...
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Waking Up to the Internet Platform Disaster - Featuring Roger Mcnamee and Lawrence Lessig from 2019-03-12T20:02:47
Roger McNamee is the author of Zucked: Waking Up to the Facebook Catastrophe. He is joined by Lawrence Lessig, the Roy L. Furman Professor of Law and Leadership at Harvard Law School. Facebook, Go...
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Privacy’s Blueprint - The Battle to Control the Design of New Technologies from 2019-03-12T19:18:47
In this talk, Professor Woodrow Hartzog argues that the law should require software and hardware makers to respect privacy in the design of their products. Against the often self-serving optimis...
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A History of the Internet from 2019-03-12T13:44:33
Why has the Internet had such a powerful impact? What are the challenges that may cause the Internet of tomorrow to be significantly less revolutionary than the Internet to date? This talk provide...
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Goodbye California?: The New Tech Worker Movement from 2019-03-05T14:54:12
A recent wave of worker actions at major tech firms have challenged company contracts with the Pentagon, ICE, and other government agencies; organized for safe and equitable workplaces, free from s...
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The State of Online Speech and Governance from 2019-03-05T14:45:08
Professor Jonathan Zittrain discusses the social media giant’s ‘long year’ with Facebook's head of global policy management Monika Bickert. Citing his sense of the “pessimism and near-despair that ...
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The Smart Enough City: Putting Technology In Its Place To Reclaim Our Urban Future from 2019-02-26T14:07:28
Smart cities, where technology is used to solve every problem, are hailed as futuristic urban utopias. We are promised that apps, algorithms, and artificial intelligence will relieve congestion, re...
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Cyberlaw and Human Rights: Intersections In The Global South from 2019-02-26T13:48:51
After two decades of little direct legislation of the internet, national laws and related court decisions meant to govern cyberspace are rapidly proliferating worldwide. They are becoming building ...
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“My Constellation is Space”: Towards a Theory of Black Cyberculture from 2018-12-10T17:46:03
Technology is the American mythos (Dinerstein 2006); a belief system powering the relations between—and politics of—culture and technology. In the Western context, technoculture incorporates White...
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Promoting Fairness, Equity, and Human Rights in Tech from 2018-12-04T19:51:34
Perspectives from Europe and the US on a Law and Policy Agenda Digital technologies affect the lives of billions of people around the world daily. The decisions of private platforms and tech devel...
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Computer Simulations to Enhance Vaccine Trials from 2018-11-30T19:31:08
Infectious disease emergencies are opportunities to test the efficacy of newly developed interventions — for example, drugs, vaccines, and treatment regimens. Yet they raise many intertwined challe...
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Re-Engineering Humanity from 2018-11-20T19:24
Have forces been unleashed that are thrusting humanity down an ill-advised path, one that’s increasingly making us behave like simple machines? Brett Frischmann discusses what’s happening to our li...
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The State of Government Technology from 2018-11-12T13:46:33
Assessing Government Development, Deployment,&Use of Tech Tools A close look at the inner workings of government, with a particular focus on the ways in which federal, state, and local government ...
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Custodians of the Internet from 2018-11-06T19:25:22
Platforms, Content Moderation,&the Hidden Decisions that Shape Social Media In this talk, author Tarleton Gillespie discusses how social media platforms police what we post online – and the societ...
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Automating Inequality: How High-Tech Tools Profile, Police, and Punish the Poor from 2018-10-25T13:58:37
Virginia Eubanks joins us for a rousing conversation about her timely and provocative book, Automating Inequality. In Automating Inequality, Eubanks systematically investigates the impacts of data...
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Determining Disability: the limits of digital health for recipients, providers,&states from 2018-10-23T14:45:57
Rachel Gershon — Senior Associate at the Center for Health Law and Economics at UMass Medical School — discusses the nature of disability and disability determination; the resulting limitations in ...
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Open Data, Grey Data, and Stewardship: Universities at the Privacy Frontier from 2018-10-15T18:20:30
Universities have automated many aspects of teaching, instruction, student services, libraries, personnel management, building management, and finance, leading to a profusion of discrete data about...
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Software for Social Good from 2018-10-09T18:45:06
The Berkman Klein Center's geek team helps build amazing tools that help us study the Internet and advance the public interest. In this talk they discuss and demo some of the tools we produce, inc...
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Network Propaganda: Manipulation, Disinformation, and Radicalization in American Politics from 2018-10-09T14:12:29
Is social media destroying democracy? Are Russian propaganda or "Fake news" entrepreneurs on Facebook undermining our sense of a shared reality? A conventional wisdom has emerged since the election...
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"Click Here to Kill Everybody": A Book Talk with Bruce Schneier from 2018-09-27T15:37:23
Bruce Schneier, the author of Click Here to Kill Everybody in conversation with Abby Everett Jaques, MIT. From the description of "Click Here to Kill Everybody":Computer security is no longer abou...
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Platforms, Politics, and Power: Understanding and Shaping the Internet in 2018 from 2018-09-27T15:36:11
Drawing from memes, magazine covers and legal documents from the past 60 years, Jonathan Zittrain gives a lively overview of the Internet since its inception, spanning the debates, concerns, and ho...
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How Social Network Manipulation Tactics Are Impacting Amazon&Influencing Consumers from 2018-05-29T18:44:55
Narrative manipulation issues - such as manufactured consensus, brigading, harassment, information laundering, fake accounts, news voids, and more - are increasingly well-documented problems affect...
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Art that Imitates Art: Computational Creativity and Creative Contracting from 2018-05-22T00:00
Computational creativity—a subdomain of artificial intelligence concerned with systems that replicate or assist human creative endeavors—has been the subject of academic inquiry for decades. Now, ...
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The Law and Ethics of Digital Piracy: Evidence from Harvard Law School Graduates from 2018-05-10T20:37:31
Harvard Law School is one of the top law schools in the world and educates the intellectual and financial elites. Lawyers are held to the highest professional and ethical standards. And yet, when i...
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Governance and Regulation in the land of Crypto-Securities (as told by CryptoKitties) from 2018-05-10T20:33:10
Founding members of the CryptoKitties team, Dieter Shirley and Alex Shih, discuss the unique governance, legal, and regulatory challenges of putting cats on the Ethereum blockchain. CryptoKitties i...
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Force of Nature: Celebrating 20 Years of the Laws of Cyberspace from 2018-04-27T20:32:51
Professor Lawrence Lessig is joined by Professors Ruth L. Okediji, Laura DeNardis, and Jonathan Zittrain to reflect on the 20th anniversary of Professor Lessig's foundational paper "The Laws of Cyb...
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Honoring All Expertise: Social Responsibility and Ethics in Tech from 2018-04-27T20:20:40
Social scientists, computer scientists, historians, lawyers, political scientists, architects, and philosophers share some short glimpses into how we can better incorporate social responsibility an...
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Blockchain and the Law: The Rule of Code from 2018-04-27T20:11:41
Blockchain technology is ultimately a dual-edge technology that can be used to either support or supplant the law. This talk looks at the impact of blockchain technology of a variety of fields (fin...
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THEFT! A History of Music from 2018-04-16T18:09:37
Again and again there have been attempts to police music; to restrict borrowing and cultural cross-fertilization. But music builds on itself. To those who think that mash-ups and sampling started w...
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Remedies for Cyber Defamation: Criminal Libel, Anti-Speech Injunctions, Forgeries, Frauds, and More from 2018-04-12T16:52:43
“Cheap speech” has massively increased ordinary people’s access to mass communications — both for good and for ill. How has the system of remedies for defamatory, privacy-invading, and harassing sp...
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The Right of Publicity: Privacy Reimagined for a Public World from 2018-04-09T15:36:17
Who controls how one's identity is used by others? This legal question, centuries old, demands greater scrutiny in the Internet Age. Jennifer Rothman uses the right of publicity — a little-known la...
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Dividing Lines: Why Is Internet Access Still Considered a Luxury in America? from 2018-03-30T15:43:35
The online world is no longer a distinct world. It is an extension of our social, economic, and political lives. Internet access, however, is still often considered a luxury good in the United Stat...
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The Accuracy, Fairness, and Limits of Predicting Recidivism from 2018-03-15T17:03:32
Algorithms for predicting recidivism are commonly used to assess a criminal defendant’s likelihood of committing a crime. Proponents of these systems argue that big data and advanced machine learni...
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The Global Lives Project and Platforms for Building Empathy&Connection from 2018-02-28T19:43:14
The Global Lives Project presents 24-hour-long videos of daily lives of individuals from around the world both online and through in-person exhibits. This 15-year project is an online and real-worl...
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Nate Hill on the Library Consortium as Studio, Platform, and Metacommunity from 2018-02-15T20:18:24
METRO/599 is a studio in Hell’s Kitchen that connects more than 250 of New York’s libraries, archives, and knowledge organizations. With 6,000 square feet of event and studio space, supporting proj...
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John Freedman on Health Care Costs and Transparency from 2018-02-12T15:28:55
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. In this talk co-hosted with the Petrie-Flo...
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The Past, Present, and Future of the Digital Public Library of America from 2018-02-06T16:50:23
What is the role of libraries in a technological society? A group of librarians, technologists, journalists, and researchers, including new DPLA executive director John Bracken, come together to re...
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Jonas Kaiser on The Dark Side of the Networked Public Sphere from 2018-02-05T16:34:29
In this talk, Berkman Klein affiliate Jonas Kaiser shares some of his research on the networked public sphere. "The right-wing is rising. Not only in the United States but also in Germany and other...
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The State of Net Neutrality in 2018 from 2018-02-05T16:32:20
The January 4, 2018 release of the Federal Communications Commission’s "Restoring Internet Freedom Order" marked the most recent turn of events in the longstanding and ever-changing debate over net...
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The “Monkey Selfie” Case: Can Non-Humans Hold Copyrights? from 2018-02-05T16:30:11
After a photographer left his camera equipment out for a group of wild macaques to explore, the monkeys took a series of photos, including selfies. Once the photos were posted publicly, legal dispu...
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Professor Orly Lobel: Who Owns Your Ideas and How Does Creativity Happen? from 2018-01-25T15:59:54
In this talk, Orly Lobel—award-winning author of Talent Wants to be Free and the Don Weckstein Professor of Law at the University of San Diego—delves into the legal disputes between toy powerhouses...
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Safe Spaces, Brave Spaces from 2017-12-20T16:37:39
Can diversity and free expression co-exist on our campuses? How about in our town squares, our cities, and our world? In this talk, John Palfrey — Head of School at Phillips Academy, Andover, and a...
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A Pessimist’s Guide to the Future of Technology from 2017-12-14T19:07:53
Since the rise of the web in the 1990s, technological skeptics have always faced resistance. To question the virtue and righteousness of tech, and especially computing, was seen as truculence, igno...
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Black Users, Enclaving, and Methodological Challenges in a Shifting Digital Landscape from 2017-12-07T18:23:29
Black users have consistently been at the vanguard of digital and social media use, pioneering and anticipating digital trends including live tweeting and the podcast boom. As harassment on social ...
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Digital Black Feminist Discourse and the Legacy of Black Women’s Technology Use from 2017-11-29T16:15:02
Black women have historically occupied a unique position, existing in multiple worlds, manipulating multiple technologies, and maximizing their resources for survival in a system created to keep th...
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Digital Justice: Technology and the Internet of Disputes from 2017-11-16T23:06:02
eBay resolves 60 million disputes a year and Alibaba 100 million. How do they do that? At the other less impressive extreme, in 2015 the IRS hung up on telephone callers 8.8 million times without ...
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The March for Science: How a viral moment starts a movement from 2017-11-06T19:16:34
Caroline Weinberg — one of the co-chairs and organizers of the March for Science — discusses two broad questions: How is the Internet involved in the planning of large scale, high visibility politi...
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How the Networked Age is Changing Humanitarian Disasters from 2017-11-01T16:35:25
Information communication technologies and the data they produce are transforming how natural and manmade disasters alike unfold. These technologies are also affecting how populations behave and or...
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Deep Mediatization: Social Order in the Age of Datafication from 2017-10-23T15:13:16
Social and communication theorists Nick Couldry and Andreas Hepp draw on their recent book "The Mediated Construction of Reality" (Polity 2016) to explore what happens to the concept and practice o...
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Will Wikipedia exist in 20 years? from 2017-10-19T16:31:56
Katherine Maher, Executive Director of the Wikimedia Foundation, joins Harvard Law School professor Yochai Benkler for a conversation about the future of Wikipedia and global crowdsourced knowledge...
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Programming the Future of AI: Ethics, Governance, and Justice from 2017-10-11T15:36:21
How do we prepare court systems, judges, lawyers, and defendants to interact with autonomous systems? What are the potential societal costs to human autonomy, dignity, and due process from the use ...
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Did fake news save Kenya from an Internet shutdown? Emerging Trends in Tech and Elections in Africa from 2017-10-04T20:13:27
Did fake news save Kenya from an Internet shutdown? Kenya held general elections on August 8, 2017. The presidential election was nullified due to irregularities and is set for a repeat on October...
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The Line Between Hate and Debate on Facebook from 2017-09-22T19:05:20
The Internet has been billed as the great equalizer, breaking down barriers and increasing access to information and ideas. At the same time, it has allowed for the proliferation of abuse online – ...
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Jonathan Zittrain on Technology for the Social Good from 2017-09-18T14:57:04
Berkman Klein Center Faculty Chair Jonathan Zittrain discusses the development of the Internet — from its earliest stages to its present manifestations — as a technology for good or harm, depending...
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Jonny Sun and Jonathan Zittrain on Joke Tweets, Memes, and Being an Alien Online from 2017-06-30T15:41:01
Join Jonny Sun, the author of the popular Twitter account @jonnysun, for a conversation in celebration of his new book “everyone’s a aliebn when ur a aliebn too” by jomny sun (the aliebn). This deb...
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Tressie McMillan Cottom on the Troubling Rise of For-Profit Colleges in the New Economy from 2017-06-27T16:14:06
More than two million students are enrolled in for-profit colleges, from the small family-run operations to the behemoths brandished on billboards, subway ads, and late-night commercials. These sch...
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Can We Talk?: An Open Forum on Disability, Technology, and Inclusion from 2017-06-06T18:18:12
Can we talk? The question (a favorite prompt of the late comedian Joan Rivers) evokes a feeling of being intimately and sometimes uncomfortably open, frank, and honest, both with others and ourselv...
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How to regulate the future of finance from 2017-05-22T17:05:09
US market regulators offer perspectives on the benefits and risks of the financial technology revolution from distributed ledgers, p2p marketplaces and the use of AI in the financial system. Modera...
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Zeynep Tufekci on Twitter and Tear Gas: The Power and Fragility of Networked Protest from 2017-05-12T17:27:19
Berkman Klein Faculty Associate, Zeynep Tufekci joins us to talk about her new book, Twitter and Tear Gas: The Power and Fragility of Networked Protest. To understand a thwarted Turkish coup, an a...
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Ifeoma Ajunwa on The Quantified Worker from 2017-05-11T17:40:39
What are the rights of the worker in a society that seems to privilege technological innovation over equality and privacy? How does the law protect worker privacy and dignity given technological ad...
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Digital Rights and Online Harassment in the Global South from 2017-05-03T17:18:52
Nighat Dad discusses the state of freedom of expression, privacy, and online harassment in the global south, with a particular focus on Pakistan, where she is based. Dad is the Executive Director o...
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Internet Access as a Basic Service: Inspiration from our Canadian Neighbors from 2017-05-03T13:01:28
Deemed the modern equivalent of building roads or railways, connecting every person and business to high-speed internet is on the minds of policymakers, advocates, and industry players. Under the l...
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Digital Expungement: Rehabilitation in the Digital Age from 2017-05-03T12:50:24
The concept of criminal rehabilitation in the digital age is intriguing. How can we ensure proper reintegration into society of individuals with a criminal history that was expunged by the state wh...
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The International State of Digital Rights, a Conversation with the UN Special Rapporteur from 2017-04-28T16:59:14
UN Special Rapporteur on the Right to Freedom of Opinion and Expression, David Kaye, is joined in conversation by Nani Jansen Reventlow, a Fellow at the Berkman Klein Center and Adviser to the Cybe...
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Technology, Disruption, and the Practice of Law: Will the Profession Survive? from 2017-04-27T18:32:53
The law is arguably the least innovative profession in the country. Huge sectors of the economy -- health care, banking, the arts -- face constant churn and upheaval. Law schools steadily march a...
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Examining Black Feminism in the Digital Era from 2017-04-27T18:23:52
It is important to examine the digital manifestations of misogynoir – or what it means to be a Woman of Color existing in the hegemonic spaces of digital technology. But our conceptual frameworks f...
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Public Interest Data Science: The Data for Justice Project from 2017-04-27T18:15:29
The Data for Justice project is an initiative that aims to make (open) data actionable empowering lawyers, advocates, community organizers, journalists, activists and the general public by developi...
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The Digital Trade Imbalance: Digital Trade, Digital Protectionism, and Digital Rights from 2017-04-27T18:04:56
In this talk Aaronson discusses how the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) governs information flows, how its rules could affect internet governance, digital rights, and the open internet, and how to ...
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Holding Hospitals Hostage: From HIPAA to Ransomware from 2017-04-27T18:02:41
In 2016, more than a dozen hospitals and healthcare organizations were targeted by ransomware attacks that temporarily blocked crucial access to patient records and hospital systems until administr...
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Litigating Free Speech Cases in the African Regional Courts from 2017-04-27T18:01:41
Please join us for a discussion with Nani Jansen Reventlow, Fellow at the Berkman Klein Center for Internet&Society and Associate Tenant at Doughty Street Chambers, on the topic of regional courts ...
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The End of Ownership from 2017-04-27T17:58:56
Recent shifts in technology, intellectual property and contract law, and marketplace behavior threaten to undermine the system of personal property that has structured our relationships with the ob...
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A More Perfect Internet: Promoting Digital Civility and Combating Cyber-Violence from 2017-04-26T16:19:04
This event is co-sponsored by the Human Rights Program at Harvard Law School and the Berkman Klein Center for Internet&Society at Harvard University. This talk addresses a range of issues relating...
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US Communications at a Crossroads from 2017-04-24T17:23:03
Outgoing Chair of the Federal Communications Commission Tom Wheeler speaks with Harvard Law School Professor Susan Crawford about his work at the FCC, and where telecommunications might go under th...
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Hyperloop Law: Autonomy, Infrastructure, and Transportation Startups from 2017-04-24T17:20:11
In 2013, Elon Musk proposed an "open source transportation concept" of levitating vehicles zooming passengers through vacuum tubes at 760 miles an hour. It would be weatherproof, energy-efficient, ...
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Bottom-up Constitutionalism: The Case of Net Neutrality from 2017-04-24T17:16
The question is whether we can observe the emergence of a new constitutional right of the Internet, a right that does not only protect individuals in their communication online but a right protecti...
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The KINGS of Africa’s Digital Economy from 2017-04-24T17:02:57
Eric Osiakwan is an Entrepreneur and Investor with 15 years of ICT industry leadership across Africa and the world. He has worked in 32 African countries setting up ISPs, ISPAs, IXPs and high-tech ...
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Public Health Echo Chambers in a Time of Mistrust&Misinformation from 2017-04-24T16:48:49
With digitization and simultaneous democratization of the global information landscape, plus declining trust in media and health institutions, misinformation is pervasive. Audiences are forming hom...
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Internet Designers as Policy-Makers from 2017-04-24T16:45:33
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 RFCs (1969-1999), this tal...
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Embedded Dangers: Revisiting the Year 2000 Problem and the Politics of Technological Repair from 2017-04-24T16:40:29
More than any other recent event, the Year 2000 problem (better known as the Y2K bug) established the public awareness of the temporal and calendrical contingencies of computer systems. This talk r...
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Five Global Challenges and the Role of University from 2017-04-24T16:36:21
The world is facing five global challenges: democratic, environmental, technological, economical, and geopolitical. Challenges that will require both enormous amount of knowledge and citizens capab...
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#Republic: Divided Democracy in the Age of Social Media from 2017-04-22T17:30:25
As the Internet grows more sophisticated, it is creating new threats to democracy. Social media companies such as Facebook can sort us ever more efficiently into groups of the like-minded, creating...
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The Things of the Internet from 2017-04-22T17:25:12
As the internet connects makers, manufacturers and shippers across supply chains, a new form of producing and distributing global objects is arising, one that relies more on bottom up networks than...
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Virtual Competition: The Promise and Perils of the Algorithm-Driven Economy from 2017-04-22T17:22:51
Shoppers with Internet access and a bargain-hunting impulse can find a universe of products at their fingertips. In this thought-provoking exposé, Maurice Stucke and Ariel Ezrachi invite us to take...
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Beyond Legal Talismans from 2017-04-22T17:19:41
Speech on the Internet is often viewed as unregulated, yet platforms still have Terms of Service that prohibit defamation and community guidelines that prohibit incitement. How do we reconcile the ...
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Translating Research into Online Tools to Increase Participation in Collaborative Communities from 2017-04-22T17:12:01
There is abundant research on commons-based Peer Production communities, from free/open source software and wikis to fablabs and even community gardens. Research shows how these communities, regard...
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The Responsive Communities Initiative - Boston HUBweek from 2017-04-22T17:04:40
The Responsive Communities Initiative led by Susan Crawford at the Berkman Klein Center for Internet&Society at Harvard University addresses some of the most important issues of economic developmen...
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Exploring Corporate Structures and Governance Models for the Open-Source Community from 2017-04-22T16:58:15
Organizations that develop open source software are often inherently fragmented and loosely-networked, which can make governance and decision-making a challenge. In addition, as the open source com...
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Digital Health @ Harvard, January 2017 – Free Independent Health Records from 2017-04-22T16:48:10
Dr. Adrian Gropper is working to put patients in charge of their health records, arguably the most valuable and most personal kinds of connected information about a person. They encompass elements ...
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Are We Shifting to a New Post-Capitalist Value Regime? from 2017-04-22T16:45:28
Every 500 years or so, European civilization and now world civilization, has been rocked by fundamental shifts in its value regime, in which the rules of the game for acquiring wealth and livelihoo...
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Under-connected in America: How Lower-Income Families Respond to Digital Equity Challenges from 2017-04-22T16:42:49
While 94% of parents raising school-age children below the U.S. median household income have an Internet connection, more than half are “under-connected,” in that their Internet connection is too s...
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Applying network science for public health: Toward 'social' communication strategies from 2017-04-22T16:40:21
The social nature of today’s Internet is creating new public health and policy challenges. For example, the US in 2014 experienced the largest measles outbreak in nearly a generation, which led to ...
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Finding common standards for the Right to be Forgotten: Challenges and Perspective from 2017-04-19T19:32:13
Following the 2014 Google Spain decision rendered by the European Court of Justice of the European Union, search engines – and, first among them, Google – are tasked with the delisting of search re...
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The Internetish Things of Cuba: Open Source and ‘in the Clear’ from 2017-04-19T19:13:53
What is it like to use the Internet in fits and starts? How do communities with limited access to the global Internet use digital tools? Beyond sensational media narratives about Havana’s WiFi hots...
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"Chilling Effects": Insights on how laws and surveillance impact people online from 2017-04-19T19:09:46
With Internet censorship and mass surveillance on the rise globally, understanding regulatory "chilling effects"— the idea that laws, regulations, or state surveillance can deter people from exerci...
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Black 2.0: the New Liberation Movement from 2017-04-19T19:06:48
Carl Williams joins us to speak about the current Black Liberation movement. What and who it is, how it started, and how Twitter, Facebook (yes, Facebook) and other social media played a part. For...
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Why the Right Digital Decisions Will Make America Strong from 2017-04-19T19:02:02
The U.S. still lags behind much of the developed world in terms of the speed and density of its internet infrastructure. In the 21st Century this disparity in access to high speed internet could st...
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Joi Ito and Iyad Rahwan on AI&Society from 2017-04-13T16:05:12
AI technologies have the potential to vastly enhance the performance of many systems and institutions, from making transportation safer, to enhancing the accuracy of medical diagnosis, to improving...
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The North American Information Technology Marketplace: Three Decades of IT Channel Evolution from 2017-04-12T19:43:08
Alan Weinberger started out as a traditional law student. Soon after, he found himself on Wall Street with a major Wall Street law firm. He then took an academic route as the founding Professor a...
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A Burglar’s Guide to the City: On Architecture and Crime from 2017-04-12T19:40:18
The relationship between burglary and architecture is far from abstract. While it is easy to focus merely on questions of how burglars use or abuse the built environment — looking for opportunities...
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Reconceptualizing the Right to Be Forgotten to Enable Transatlantic Data Flow from 2017-04-12T19:35:26
Based on the authors’ recent Harvard Journal of Law and Technology article, Reconceptualizing the Right to be Forgotten to Enable Transatlantic Data Flow, Sanna Kulevska and Michael Rustad will lay...
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Copyright Law Year in Review from 2017-04-12T19:32:46
What ties together cheerleader outfits, monkey selfies, the Batmobile, a chicken sandwich, Yoga, and Yoda? Professor Peter Menell will provide an exhilarating copyright year in review. For more ab...
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Back to the Drawing Board: Student Privacy in Massachusetts K-12 Schools from 2017-04-12T19:30:08
In 2013, the ACLU of Massachusetts set out to get a snapshot of student privacy policies in diverse communities statewide. We filed public records requests with dozens of school districts, asking f...
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Developing Effective Citizen Responses to Discrimination and Harassment Online from 2017-04-12T19:27:10
Discrimination and harassment have been persistent problems since the earliest days of the social web. As platforms and legislators continue to debate and engineer responses, most of the burden of ...
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The Big Reverse of the Web: Are Our Policies and Standards Ready? from 2017-04-11T02:47:57
We're on the cusp of the next wave of the web, where information will come to people, versus people seeking it out. This "big reverse" of the web poses all sorts of issues: ranging from policy, to ...
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Deterrence and Arms Control in Cyberspace from 2017-04-11T02:44:54
For four years running, the Director of National Intelligence’s Worldwide Threat Assessment to Congress has led with cyber threats to national and international security. Under statute, the several...
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Engineering Open Production Efficiency at Scale from 2017-04-11T02:41:03
Wikipedia, largely used as a synecdoche for open production generally, is a large, complex, distributed system that needs to solve a set of "open problems" efficiently in order to thrive. In this t...
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Not Bugs, But Features: Hopeful Institutions and Technologies of Inequality from 2017-04-11T02:30:46
How did we learn that we need to learn to code—or else? This talk draws on three years of fieldwork among Washington, D.C.’s public libraries, and interviews with librarians and homeless patrons, t...
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Civic Technology and Community Science: Building a Model for Public Participation from 2017-04-11T02:22:15
Public Lab is an open community developing and using civic technologies to support the pursuance of community-defined questions and concerns. Public Lab introduces a model that incorporates open so...
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Security and Privacy in the World-Sized Web from 2017-04-11T02:16:46
We've created a world where information technology permeates our economies, social interactions, and intimate selves. The combination of mobile, cloud computing, the Internet Things, persistent com...
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Haiti, Machine Learning, and Ankle Holsters: Reflections on the U.S. Treasury Department from 2017-04-11T02:03:47
In 1997, as a freshly-minted lawyer, Mariano-Florentino (Tino) Cuéllar joined the staff of the Treasury Department’s Office of Enforcement. Almost immediately, he was drawn into some of the fascina...
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Algorithmic Consumers from 2017-04-07T14:29:54
Hate shopping? The next generation of e-commerce will be conducted by digital agents, based on algorithms that will not only make purchase recommendations, but will also predict what we want, make ...
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Using Mobile Phone Data to Map Migration and Disease: Politics, Privacy, and Public Health from 2017-04-06T16:15:17
Mobile phone data is passively collected in real-time by operators, producing enormous data sets that can be used to map human populations and migration accurately. These data hold enormous promise...
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