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Berkman Center for Internet and Society: Audio Fishbowl

Homepage: http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/mediaberkman

A Berkman Center Podcast on Internet & Society

• Radio Berkman 169: Wiki’d
  
  Listen: or download | …also in Ogg Wikipedia is now likely the top return on almost any web search you do. But how did it get to be that way? The collaboratively edited online compendium...
  Nov 23, 2010
• Radio Berkman 168: Rethinking Music, Part I – Creativity, Commerce, and Policy
  
  Listen: or download | …also in Ogg A lot of e-ink has been spilled about how the Internet has fundamentally altered content industries. TV, film, news, books; all are still experiencing ...
  Nov 19, 2010
• Juliet Schor on Using the Internet to “Save the Planet” [AUDIO]
  
  We are witnessing escalating evidence of human destabilization of the climate and biodiversity loss. In the sustainability community, both activists and practitioners are increasingly turning to th...
  Nov 16, 2010
• Kim Dulin and David Weinberger on the Meta-Library [AUDIO]
  
  As more and more content moves into the cloud libraries are decreasingly the single place to go to find the material you need for your research (except for rare books and special collections). But ...
  Nov 09, 2010
• Barbara van Schewick on Internet Architecture and Innovation [AUDIO]
  
  Barbara van Schewick—Associate Professor of Law at Stanford Law School, an Associate Professor (by courtesy) of Electrical Engineering at Stanford’s Department of Electrical Engineering and the...
  Nov 08, 2010
• Radio Berkman 167: The Ghost of Video Future
  
  Listen: or download | …also in Ogg The future of video lies within our grasp, people. Powerful new technologies and web services are available that not only make video available anytime,...
  Nov 04, 2010
• Dave Rand on The Online Laboratory: Taking Experimental Social Science onto the Internet [AUDIO]
  
  The internet provides an unprecedented opportunity for social scientists to recruit a large pool of subjects quickly, cheaply, and virtually effortlessly. Online labor markets, such as Amazon Mecha...
  Nov 02, 2010
• John Chory on Legal Issues for Startups [AUDIO]
  
  Founders of companies often experience early sins of omission or commission which decrease the probability of ultimate success. John Chory—chair of the WilmerHale Venture Group and a member of th...
  Oct 28, 2010
• Radio Berkman 166: An Innocent Infringer?
  
  Listen: or download | …also in Ogg This is Whitney Harper. She is the central figure in one of the most recent anti-piracy court battles being waged by the Recording Industry Association...
  Oct 27, 2010
• Joseph Reagle on Good Faith Collaboration: The Culture of Wikipedia [AUDIO]
  
  Wikipedia’s style of collaborative production has been lauded, lambasted, and satirized. Despite unease over its implications for the character (and quality) of knowledge, Wikipedia has broug...
  Oct 19, 2010
• Radio Berkman 165: Jonathan & Larry TAKE ON… Net Neutrality!
  
  Listen: or download | …also in Ogg Net Neutrality. What started out as a high level policy debate among internet service providers and telecommunications geeks has since blossomed into a...
  Oct 15, 2010
• Dave Karpf on The MoveOn Effect: The Internet’s Impact on Political Action? [AUDIO]
  
  Changes in membership and fundraising regimes are affecting the political economy of interest group action, dramatically altering the interest group ecology of American politics. Despite online inf...
  Oct 12, 2010
• Cynthia Dwork: I’m in the Database, but Nobody Knows [AUDIO
  
  A statistical database provides statistical information about a population, while maintaining the privacy of individuals in the database. A thriving research effort has produced high-quality differ...
  Sep 28, 2010
• Radio Berkman 164: The University in Cyberspace
  
  Listen: or download | …also in Ogg What should be the mission of universities in cyberspace? What can universities contribute to the future of the internet? How can our educational insti...
  Sep 23, 2010
• Radio Berkman 163: I Am Not a Lawyer
  
  Listen: or download | …also in Ogg So it looks like you guys liked “Zittrain and Lessig Take On… Competition!” Last week’s season premiere of Radio Berkman drew t...
  Sep 16, 2010
• Radio Berkman 161: A Brief History of Noise
  
  Listen: or download | …also in Ogg Noise is distracting and irritating enough in the real world. Our focus is easily disrupted by unwanted clutter and sounds from our surrounding environ...
  Aug 05, 2010
• Kate Crawford on Mobile Social Media and Attention [AUDIO]
  
  Debates are raging about reduced attention spans and information overload — with particular focus on young people being at risk. How do we manage the increasing demands of network connectivity, f...
  Aug 03, 2010
• Radio Berkman 160: Business, Meet Web
  
  Listen: or download | …also in Ogg In the early days of the LLC launching a business might have been a simple task. After all, chances are your partners were close by and you probably w...
  Jul 29, 2010
• Nalini Kotamraju on the Tension between User-centered Design and E-government Services [AUDIO]
  
  Individuals and institutions are slower to adopt e-government services due to a lack of user centricity in design and development. Work with PortNL, an integrated e-government service for expatriat...
  Jul 28, 2010
• Radio Berkman 159: Spare a Cycle?
  
  Listen: or download | …also in Ogg What are you doing with your spare cycles? You know, the bits of time you spend on the web when you’re not really being productive? Maybe you...
  Jul 22, 2010
• Vivek Wadhwa on Women and Minorities in Entrepreneurship [AUDIO]
  
  What makes entrepreneurs successful? What inhibits them? Vivek Wadhwa is a senior research associate with the Labor and Worklife Program at Harvard Law School and an executive in residence/adjunct ...
  Jul 20, 2010
• Radio Berkman 158: Thinking About Thinking About the Net
  
  Listen: or download | …also in Ogg Take a look at the headlines of any major newspaper or news magazine. Check out the non-fiction bestsellers at Amazon. The net is on everyone’s ...
  Jul 15, 2010
• Patrick Meier on Crowdsourcing Crisis Mapping [AUDIO]
  
  Patrick Meier — Director of Crisis Mapping and Strategic Partnerships at Ushahidi — has published widely on the topic of conflict early warning and blogs at iRevolution.net and EarlyWarnin...
  Jul 13, 2010
• Radio Berkman 157: Gaming Grief
  
  MMORPGs may maim and pwn but words will never hurt me. In online gaming environments you may be getting shot at, impaled, or run over by tanks. But the more serious damage may come in the form of t...
  Jul 08, 2010
• Lewis Hyde on Creating an Enduring Commons [AUDIO]
  
  The founding generation in the United States hoped to establish a cultural commons of art and ideas, a lively public domain of created works that all of us use because nobody controls it. But the f...
  Jul 01, 2010
• Nancy Baym on Changing Relationships, Changing Industries [AUDIO]
  
  Entertainment industry professionals have generally related to their audiences in terms of economic (market) exchange while fans have generally related to one another in terms of social (gift) exch...
  Jun 23, 2010
• Radio Berkman 156: The Dark Side of the World Cup
  
  With the estimated 250 to 450 million soccer fans now descending upon South Africa for the World Cup, we can expect to see billions of dollars of spent in local communities, benefitting the entire ...
  Jun 17, 2010
• Lisa Nakamura: Don’t Hate the Player, Hate the Game [AUDIO]
  
  Internet Games, Social Inequality, and Racist Talk as Griefing Internet gameplay is becoming more socially and culturally diverse and ubiquitous than ever before. Yet at the same time, the culture ...
  Jun 15, 2010
• Radio Berkman 155: The Gamble
  
  Let’s admit it: the advertising world we once knew is long dead. In a couple short decades, the digital revolution has fundamentally undermined all of the old arbiters of image, from Madison ...
  Jun 10, 2010
• The FCC’s Authority Over Broadband Access: The History and Context of the Debate [AUDIO]
  
  The Berkman Center for Internet & Society at Harvard University and the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania bring together academics and policy analysts to consider the implication...
  May 27, 2010
• The FCC’s Authority Over Broadband Access: The Third Way – What Happens Next? [AUDIO]
  
  The Berkman Center for Internet & Society at Harvard University and the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania bring together academics and policy analysts to consider the implication...
  May 27, 2010
• Radio Berkman 154: A (Video) Day in the Life
  
  If a picture is worth a thousand words, and video moves at 30 frames per second, how many words could you get for 24 hours of footage? Today’s guest started a project that may have the answer...
  May 27, 2010
• Radio Berkman 153: The Wonderful World of Spectrum
  
  Step into a world where information floats through the open air — around your house, around your town, around the world — just waiting for you to reach up and grab it. Music, movies, phone call...
  May 20, 2010
• Miriam Meckel on Social Media Journalism and the Changing Roles of Journalists [AUDIO]
  
  Technologies for participation on the web can be empowering, but they are also changing the roles of professional journalism. By being able to explore these technologies, by establishing an individ...
  May 18, 2010
• Radio Berkman 152: A “Third Way” for the FCC and Broadband
  
  Last week the FCC announced that they would seek a “third way” in regulating the broadband industry, one that they hope will respect a recent court decision prohibiting them from cracki...
  May 12, 2010
• Elliot Maxwell on Openness: How Increasing Accessibility and Responsiveness Can Transform Processes
  
  The term “open” has been used in many contexts: open source, open standards, open access, open architecture, open spectrum, open innovation, and open educational resources. What are the...
  May 11, 2010
• Radio Berkman 147: Digital Hermits and the People Who Scare Them (Adventures in Anonymity III)
  
  Some people guard their privacy online jealously. As much as they want free email and facebook, they shudder at thoughts of having their data scraped, email addresses exposed, and photos indexed. B...
  Apr 02, 2010
• Michael Slaby on The Values of Technology [AUDIO]
  
  The power of Barack Obama’s 2008 presidential campaign was not just the technology itself, but in the values that drove the creativity and use of the technology. Michael Slaby – Deputy ...
  Mar 30, 2010
• Daniel Reetz on The Why in DIY Book Scanning [AUDIO]
  
  The DiY Book Scanner community has produced a diverse ecosystem of book scanning hardware and software to address a wide range of human needs since it was founded in June 2009. Daniel Reetz- an art...
  Mar 23, 2010
• Matt Dunne on Transforming the Last Mile State [AUDIO]
  
  Vermont is currently the least connected state in the country and has been ranked among the bottom three states for government transparency and use of the Internet to deliver services. Matt Dunne &...
  Mar 22, 2010
• Radio Berkman Minis: Kalamazoogle?
  
  High speed internet may be scarce in the US, but the dream of having web be fast/cheap/everywhere is snowballing. The FCC’s much anticipated National Broadband Plan was finally released Tuesd...
  Mar 18, 2010
• Donnie Dong on Cyber-pluralism: Can We Get Along with Each Other in a “Splitting” Internet? [AUD
  
  From pervasive doubtable usage of copyright works in Chinese web-sphere to Google’s latest dilemma in China, it seems the Internet as an open, universal and single network is still an “ought to...
  Mar 16, 2010
• Radio Berkman 146: The Early Days of the Avatar
  
  Millions of people are now interacting in virtual worlds like Second Life and World of Warcraft using the guise of avatars. In these spaces, users can actually design their avatars to be subtly or ...
  Mar 11, 2010
• John Wilbanks on Overcoming Systemic Resistance to Generativity in Science [AUDIO]
  
  Scientific research has been resistant to adopt the kinds of “generative” effects we’ve seen in networks and culture. John Wilbanks – Vice President of Science Commons ̵...
  Mar 09, 2010
• Rebecca Bliege Bird on Mutualism, Altruism, and Signaling in Martu Women’s Cooperative Hunting [AU
  
  Rebecca Bliege Bird tested a conventional hypothesis of cooperative hunting – that working together will yield higher returns than working alone – among female hunters of the Martu Abor...
  Mar 08, 2010
• Radio Berkman 145: The Future of Transparency and How to Stop It (Adventures in Anonymity Part II)
  
  Transparency challenges the very existence of the Rule of Law. That is the very provocative thesis of today’s guest, who suggests that there is a tragedy behind the web’s powerful lubri...
  Mar 04, 2010
• Karrie Karahalios on Text and Tie Strength [AUDIO]
  
  One’s Facebook friend list may include their college professor, their grandmother, and an acquaintance from the dentist’s office. How can we infer a sense of relationships and relatio...
  Mar 02, 2010
• Radio Berkman 144: This Law is My Law
  
  This week we sit down with Carl Malamud, who with the group Public.Resource.org is pushing to put law in the public domain. We covered the issue of copyright on law a few months ago in Radio Berkma...
  Feb 25, 2010
• Jeffrey Schnapp on the Augmented Museum [Audio]
  
  Schnapp maps the overall contours of the “augmented” or digitalized museum by exploring The Tunnels experiment. The Tunnels is a 7000 square meter installation in Trento, Italy, where a...
  Feb 23, 2010
• Jonathan Zittrain on Minds for Sale [Audio]
  
  Zittrain presents the commercial side of cloud computing in this talk hosted in partner with the Harvard Alumni Association. Hear why cloud computing is not just for computing anymore and how a new...
  Feb 23, 2010
• Radio Berkman 142: On and Out
  
  Rural communities don’t usually have the same support networks for queer youth that you might find in big cities or college towns. Mary L. Gray spent two years working in small rural communit...
  Feb 11, 2010
• Radio Berkman Minis: A Failing Fantasy of Intellectual Property
  
  We’ll be back soon with more full episodes of Radio Berkman. In the meantime, we’d like to share a clip from a short interview we did not long ago with Lawrence Liang of the Alternative...
  Feb 04, 2010
• Joe Karaganis on Media Piracy in Emerging Economies [Audio]
  
  Joe Karaganis discusses findings from a forthcoming six-country study of media piracy, including work on Russia, India, Brazil, Mexico, and South Africa. The study provides a rare empirical look at...
  Feb 03, 2010
• Joel R. Reidenberg on Transparent Citizens and the Rule of Law [AUDIO]
  
  How could the transparency of personal information available online erode the rule of law? And what should government be doing about it – if anything? Joel R. Reidenberg – Professor of...
  Feb 01, 2010
• Julie Cohen on Configuring the Networked Self [AUDIO]
  
  Berkman Faculty Fellow and HLS Visiting Professor Julie Cohen explores the effects of expanding copyright, pervasive surveillance, and the increasingly opaque design of network architectures in the...
  Jan 26, 2010
• Jeremy Bailenson on Transformed Social Interaction in Virtual Reality [AUDIO]
  
  Unlike telephone conversations and videoconferences, avatars – representations of people in virtual environments – have the ability to control their physical appearance and behavioral a...
  Jan 25, 2010
• Tarleton Gillespie on The Politics of Platforms [AUDIO]
  
  Though online media platforms such as YouTube and Facebook often make the promise to openly and impartially host all content, they actively make decisions about where the edges of these platforms s...
  Jan 19, 2010
• Radio Berkman 141: Signaling in the Wild, Signaling Online
  
  When under threat from an approaching feline, gazelles will repeatedly leap up and down in the air – even when logically it seems they should run. It’s an example of a signal – us...
  Jan 14, 2010
• Fernando Bermejo on Mapping Online Advertising: From Anxiety to Method [AUDIO]
  
  Advertising pays for a significant portion of online content and services. But in contrast to other forms of content and service provision, it expects a return on investment despite not being backe...
  Jan 12, 2010
• Stephen M. Kosslyn on Why We Probably Will Never Have a Perfect Lie Detector [AUDIO]
  
  Different brain systems are used when one produces lies in different ways, such as by fabricating lies spontaneously “on the fly” versus fabricating them on the basis of a previously me...
  Jan 11, 2010
• Brett Glass on Lessons from Laramie: Broadband Innovation on the Wireless Frontier [AUDIO]
  
  8 years ago, Brett Glass — an electrical engineer, inventor, and technology columnist — established LARIAT, the first terrestrial wireless Internet service provider (WISP), in Laramie, ...
  Dec 22, 2009
• Radio Berkman 140: Three Trends of 2009
  
  The closing of another year brings with it an excuse for celebration. And what could be more fun than looking back at the year that was and trying to distill some of the top trends in the web, tech...
  Dec 21, 2009
• Sahara Byrne on Parent vs Child Reports of Internet Behaviors [AUDIO]
  
  A nation-wide survey of 1,812 parents of web-savvy children shows parental support for various strategies to protect their children from negative effects. But strategies resulting in the least disa...
  Dec 17, 2009
• Radio Berkman 139: My Fair Economy
  
  Is it hard to imagine a world in which people are treated fairly? Paid a fair wage for the work they contribute? Rewarded monetarily for the successful intellectual products that they help to produ...
  Dec 10, 2009
• Andrew McAfee on his new book, Enterprise 2.0; The State of An Art [AUDIO]
  
  How are the tools and philosophies of Web 2.0 making their way into organizations (even traditional ones)? Berkman fellow, MIT Scientist, blogger, and tweeter Andrew McAfee talks about his new book...
  Dec 08, 2009
• Rey Junco on Twitter in the College Classroom [AUDIO]
  
  Dr. Rey Junco – Associate Professor and the Director of Disability Services in the Department of Academic Development and Counseling at Lock Haven University – is at the helm of one of ...
  Dec 01, 2009
• Sam Bowles on Kudunomics: Information and Property Rights in the Weightless Economy [Audio]
  
  Sam Bowles of the Santa Fe Institute explores how the economy of grain and steel is slowly being displaced by the weightless economy of information and network connections. Bowles presents a model ...
  Dec 01, 2009
• Marshall Van Alstyne on The Social Efficiency of Fairness [AUDIO]
  
  Could we hasten innovation and economic growth by offering rewards for sharing of information and redefining “fairness”? Marshall Van Alstyne – Associate Professor at Boston Unive...
  Nov 30, 2009
• Cameran Ashraf on #iranelection: The digital media response to the 2009 Iranian election [Audio]
  
  Cameran Ashraf presents how social and digital media play a crucial role in helping mass social movements coordinate and communicate effectively. With Iran as a case study, this presentation explor...
  Nov 24, 2009
• Jonathan Zittrain on “Minds for Sale” [Audio]
  
  Jonathan Zittrain, Professor of Law at Harvard Law School, explores the evolving world of cloud computing. Cloud computing is not just for computing anymore: you can now find as much mindshare as y...
  Nov 19, 2009
• Nathan Eagle on Big Data, Global Development, and Complex Social Systems [Audio]
  
  Nathan Eagle, Omidyar Fellow at the Santa Fe Institute, infers behavioral dynamics on a broad spectrum of scales using technology; from risky behavior in a group of MIT freshman, to cholera outbrea...
  Nov 18, 2009
• David Weinberger on What Information Was [Audio]
  
  Berkman Fellow David Weinberger investigates the origin of modern “information”, trying to understand what about it led us to embrace it as the dominant–paradigmatic–way of understanding ou...
  Nov 11, 2009
• Yorick Wilks on Internet Companions: technical and social issues [Audio]
  
  Yorick Wilks of the Oxford Internet Institute presents COMPANIONS, an EU project that aims to change the way we think about the relationships of people to computers and the Internet by developing a...
  Nov 09, 2009
• Ellen Goodman and Jake Shapiro on Redesigning public media for the 21st Century [AUDIO]
  
  Ellen Goodman of Rutgers University School of Law and Jake Shapiro, Executive Director of the Public Radio Exchange (PRX), discuss public media’s role in providing public discourses, advancin...
  Nov 03, 2009
• Elizabeth Goodman on Walled Gardens: Opening the Discussion [Audio]
  
  “Walled gardens” is a common term for systems that limit the entrance and exit of certain kinds of data. It is a deceptively simple metaphor that relies on the existence of a shared set...
  Oct 28, 2009
• Viktor Mayer-Schönberger presents “Delete: The Virtue of Forgetting in the Digital Age” [Audio]
  
  A book talk with professor Viktor Mayer-Schönberger who examines the technology that’s facilitating the end of forgetting in his book, “Delete: The Virtue of Forgetting in the Digital Age&...
  Oct 23, 2009
• Radio Berkman Recent Classics: What the Heck is a Commons?
  
  It’s been a busy week at the Berkman Center, so we had to forgo a new podcast this week. But have no fear, we did not forget you! We dusted off a recent classic from our archive by popular de...
  Oct 22, 2009
• Jesse Shapins and James Burns on Mapping Main Street [Audio]
  
  Mapping Main Street is a collaborative documentary media project that creates a new map of the country through a dynamic visualization of stories, data, photos and videos recorded on actual Main St...
  Oct 21, 2009
• Radio Berkman 134: Small Medium at Large
  
  Few dispute that the web will be the dominant medium of the 21st Century – swallowing whole newspapers, books, radio, television, and the cinema. And even as the web grows virtually – o...
  Oct 15, 2009
• John Clippinger and Oliver Goodenough on Cloud Law, Finance 3.0, and Digital Institutions [AUDIO]
  
  John Clippinger and Oliver Goodenough of the Berkman Center’s Law Lab discuss the progress made this year by the Law Lab – especially three specific projects that develop new digital in...
  Oct 07, 2009
• Herkko Hietanen on Network Recorders and Social Enrichment of Television [AUDIO]
  
  Television recorders are going online. Device manufacturers are starting to produce consumer devices and software that can be connected to Internet at consumers’ homes. New models of innovati...
  Oct 02, 2009
• Radio Berkman 132: Learning to Share
  
  Ownership structures for creative works – such as Copyright, Creative Commons, Fair Use, Public Domain – abound. This week, Kenneth Crews, the director of the Copyright Office at Columb...
  Oct 01, 2009
• Lee Dirks on Transforming Scholarly Communication [AUDIO]
  
  Lee Dirks, Director of Education & Scholarly Communications in Microsoft’s External Research division proposes a vision for the future of research and the need for semantic-oriented computing...
  Sep 18, 2009
• Calestous Juma on Legal Issues in Broadband Internet for Eastern Africa [AUDIO]
  
  Calestous Juma, Professor of the Practice of International Development and Director of the Science, Technology, and Globalization Project at Harvard’s Kennedy School, explores the implication...
  Sep 15, 2009
• Radio Berkman 129: I Bought the Law
  
  Steve Schultze is a busy fellow. He is a fellow at the Berkman Center for Internet and Society. He recently joined the Princeton Center for Information Technology Policy as Associate Director. He a...
  Sep 04, 2009
• Radio Berkman Supreme: Is Twitter A Revolution? A Debate
  
  The Berkman Center for Internet Society was blessed with the presence of dozens of interns this summer – some of the best, the brightest, and most energetic folks in the field of cyber study....
  Aug 13, 2009
• Radio Berkman 128: Tweeting a Dead Horse
  
  The hype shows no signs of abating. Now that people have moved from just talking-about-Twitter, to the more meta talking-about-talking-about-Twitter, we here at Radio Berkman decided to take on the...
  Aug 13, 2009
• Lawrence Lessig on the Google Book Search Settlement – “Settlements: Static goods, dynamic bads�
  
  Larry Lessig, Professor of Law and founder of the Stanford Center for Internet and Society speaks at the Berkman Center workshop “Alternative Approaches to Open Digital Libraries in the Shado...
  Aug 03, 2009
• Radio Berkman 127: Video Killed the Video Star
  
  Is the idea of a mainstream video culture dead? TV news anchors, sitcom stars, and A-list actors are losing ground to the groundswell of citizen journalists, independent web series creators, and th...
  Jul 23, 2009
• Alexander Macgillivray of Google on the Google Book Search Settlement [AUDIO]
  
  The proposed Google Book Search settlement creates the opportunity for unprecedented access by the public, scholars, libraries and others to a digital library containing millions of books assembled...
  Jul 21, 2009
• Radio Berkman 126: The G-fail
  
  You don’t need to be a crowned Ranger class master hacker to sneak into someone’s email or facebook account these days. Which means that you’re not simply being a nervous nellie ...
  Jul 16, 2009
• Giorgos Cheliotis on Mapping the Global Commons – A Quantitative Perspective on Free Cultural Prac
  
  Where in the world are people using Creative Commons licenses? How much content is licensed under Creative Commons and what are the individual, social and cultural factors that influence adoption? ...
  Jul 15, 2009
• Cluetrain at 10: So How’s Utopia Working Out for Ya? [AUDIO]
  
  **PLEASE NOTE: The sound quality for this event recording is imperfect. Portions have been edited or refined for improved clarity.** The Cluetrain Manifesto, posted in April, 1999, immediately beca...
  Jul 06, 2009
• Ben Wikler on Changing the World of Changing the World: Pushing the Models of Online Organizing [AUD
  
  Ben Wikler from Avaaz.org discusses how nimbly aggregating small actions by individuals around the world can build effective online campaigns for issues like conflict, human rights, and climat...
  Jul 01, 2009
• Eszter Hargittai on Skill Matters: The Role of User Savvy in Different Levels of Online Engagement [
  
  Much enthusiasm surrounds the opportunities made available by digital media for people to express themselves and participate in the public sphere without having to go through traditional gatekeeper...
  Jul 01, 2009
• Beth Kolko on Form, Function and Fiction: ICTs and Their Uses in Resource Constrained Environments [
  
  Beth Kolko, Berkman Center fellow and Associate Professor in the Department of Human Centered Design & Engineering at the University of Washington, examines what are essentially fictional defin...
  Jun 16, 2009
• Lewis Hyde on the Second and Third Enclosures [AUDIO]
  
  Lewis Hyde traces the roots of the second enclosure (it goes back at least to the invention of printing); he describes traditional forms of resistance (such as the useful old custom of “beating t...
  Jun 10, 2009
• Lokman Tsui on Global Voices and the Future of Journalism [AUDIO]
  
  Lokman Tsui, doctoral candidate at the Annenberg School for Communication at the University of Pennsylvania and Berkman Fellow, discusses Global Voices, and argues for the need to move beyond objec...
  Jun 04, 2009
• Christopher Soghoian – Caught in the Cloud: Privacy, Encryption, and Government Back Doors in the
  
  Today, the vast majority of Internet users still transmit their own personal information over networks without any form of encryption. The shift to cloud computing exposes end-users to an increased...
  May 27, 2009
• CyberScholars: Aaron Shaw on the Commons and Rasmus Kleis Nielsen on Tools for Politics [AUDIO]
  
  Aaron Shaw – Polanyi’s Penguin? Commons-Based Industry in the Neoliberal Knowledge Economy A renowned group of social and political theorists have argued that Commons-Based Peer Product...
  May 26, 2009
• Gene Koo & Scott Seider on Video Games and Pro-Social Learning [AUDIO]
  
  Do video games cause aggressive tendencies and other negative behaviors? How can games create positive impacts on players and society? Could My.BarackObama.com really be considered “the ...
  May 20, 2009
• Radio Berkman 122: NBC vs. the Pirates
  
  When NBC took its programming off of iTunes in 2007, part of their motivation may have been to reduce the proliferation of their content in digital form. Well, recent research shows that the taked...
  May 19, 2009
• David Bollier on Governing the Digital Commons [AUDIO]
  
  David Bollier’s new book Viral Spiral: How the Commoners Built a Digital Republic of Their Own traces the origins of free software, Creative Commons licenses and the online “sharing econom...
  May 12, 2009
• Radio Berkman 121: Law + Technology = Fewer Lawyers
  
  If you like the idea of the above equation, well, you are either looking forward to a Robot vs. Lawyer stand-off, or, like today’s guest, you simply believe that law can be made better and m...
  May 12, 2009
• Kenneth Crews on Protecting Your Scholarship [AUDIO]
  
  Kenneth Crews, founding director of the Copyright Advisory Office at Columbia University, provides an engaging review of the issues affecting authors and creators of copyrightable works, from books...
  May 11, 2009
• Radio Berkman: Why We Search
  
  The new “Computational Knowledge Engine” called Wolfram|Alpha has gone through a full media cycle before it has even been unleashed on the world. It has been hyped as a “Goo...
  May 05, 2009
• Elizabeth Losh on Social Media in the Obama Administration [AUDIO]
  
  Elizabeth Losh, author of Virtualpolitik: An Electronic History of Government Media-Making in a Time of War, Scandal, Disaster, Miscommunication , and Mistakes, builds on recently published researc...
  May 05, 2009
• Radio Berkman Supreme: Full Interview with Stephen Wolfram
  
  A first look at Wolfram|Alpha: Computational Knowledge Engine, with Stephen Wolfram. This is uncut audio from David Weinberger’s 55 minute interview with Stephen for Radio Berkman. Look...
  Apr 29, 2009
• Russ Neuman on Theories of Media Evolution [AUDIO]
  
  Russ Neuman traces the flow of information and entertainment into the typical American home from 1960 to 2005 in search of a theory of media evolution. Download the MP3 Share and Enjoy: ...
  Apr 29, 2009
• Stephen Wolfram discusses Wolfram|Alpha: Computational Knowledge Engine [AUDIO]
  
  There’s been great anticipation around Stephen Wolfram’s ambitious project to create a comprehensive “computational knowledge engine.” The Berkman Center for Internet & ...
  Apr 29, 2009
• Radio Berkman: Journalism is Dead. Long Live Journalism!
  
  It is a foregone conclusion in media circles that journalism as we know it is, or soon will be, kaput. As the huge machine that is 20th Century journalism is dismantled, long before the vultures ge...
  Apr 28, 2009
• Richard Susskind on “The End of Lawyers?” [AUDIO]
  
  Richard Susskind, author of The End of Lawyers? Rethinking the Nature of Legal Services predicts that the legal profession will be driven by two forces in the coming decade: by a market pull toward...
  Apr 22, 2009
• Radio Berkman: My Own Private Infrastructure
  
  If you’ve been following the Facebook Terms of Service flap you probably have some idea of how big a deal a company’s terms of service can be. If Facebook were a country they would be ...
  Apr 21, 2009
• Dan Gillmor on Why Media Consumers, Not Just Creators, Need to be Active Users[AUDIO]
  
  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, ranging from ...
  Apr 21, 2009
• Internet Governance from an Eastern European Perspective [AUDIO]
  
  What is the Internet governance model as seen from an Eastern European perspective? Why does the US keep the button to ’shut down’ the Internet? Learn more in this interesting talk from...
  Apr 15, 2009
• Radio Berkman: This Wiki Post Will Self-Destruct in 5…4…3…
  
  The CIA’s Intellipedia project has brought the Wikipedia concept into the the highly secretive intelligence sector. How does it work? Will using a technology that encourages openness and col...
  Apr 14, 2009
• CouchSurfing: What one website reveals about the future of the net [AUDIO]
  
  Daniel Hoffer, Founder and Chairman of CouchSurfing, is peppered with questions by Berkman Faculty Co-Director and Professor of Law Jonathan Zittrain, along with a provocative audience. Download t...
  Apr 08, 2009
• The LOLCat-hedral and the Bizarre: A Memescape Manifesto [AUDIO]
  
  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 patt...
  Apr 07, 2009
• Radio Berkman: What do you call a web-enabled political system?
  
  What do you call a web-enabled political system? Dot-Communism? A Meme-ocracy? Either way, US President Barack Obama has been up to some interesting tricks in building .gov’s web presence. A ...
  Apr 07, 2009
• Radio Berkman: YOU as the Future of Commerce
  
  The tech world is an alphabet soup of acronyms referencing all kinds of fascinating concepts. But “VRM” might actually have implications for YOU as a consumer. This week, in a special e...
  Mar 31, 2009
• The Future of Computational Science: Information Sharing and Reproducibility [AUDIO]
  
  Victoria Stodden presents the Reproducible Research Standard, which seeks to realign the Intellectual Property framework with longstanding scientific norms and promote the release of all components...
  Mar 31, 2009
• The Intention Economy: What Happens When Customers Get Real Power
  
  Doc Searls details progress that the VRM project (which seeks to improve markets by equipping customers with tools for both independence from vendors and better engagement with vendors) is making o...
  Mar 24, 2009
• Book Talk: In Search of Jefferson’s Moose: Notes on the State of Cyberspace by David Post [AUDIO]
  
  David G. Post, Stern Professor of Law at the Beasley School of Law at Temple University, discusses questions raised by his recently-published book, In Search of Jefferson’s Moose: Notes on th...
  Mar 17, 2009
• The Role of Non-Monetary Incentives in Crowdsourcing and Social Production Projects [AUDIO]
  
  Jeff Howe of Wired Magazine presents at the Berkman Luncheon Series on non-monetary incentives in crowdsourcing and social production projects. Download the MP3 Share and Enjoy: ...
  Mar 17, 2009
• They Know Where You Are: Location Privacy in a Mobile World
  
  Your mobile phone is a tracking device, and they know where you are, where you’ve been, and easily can figure out where you are going. They are the government, and they don’t believe p...
  Mar 11, 2009
• The Tao of the Web: China and the future of the Internet [AUDIO]
  
  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 th...
  Mar 05, 2009
• What is the future of open access? [AUDIO]
  
  Peter Suber offers some predictions for the adoption of open access in science and scholarship. Download the MP3 Share and Enjoy:
  Mar 03, 2009
• The “Internet” of the developing world: using GSM networks to secure information [AUDIO]
  
  Ashifi Gogo, a Schweitzer Fellow at Dartmouth College, discusses mobile communications in the developing world – system architectures that provide levels of security analogous to well-known s...
  Feb 25, 2009
• Cultural Convergence: Cosmopolitan Communications and National Diversity [AUDIO]
  
  In her newest publication, Pippa Norris addresses issues of “Cosmopolitan Communications and National Diversity” and discusses her findings at the Berkman Center Luncheon Series. Downl...
  Feb 24, 2009
• A New Era of Computing: The Opportunities and Challenges of Cloud-Based Software and Services [AUDIO
  
  Lisa Tanzi of Microsoft presents on the opportunities and challenges of Cloud Computing. Download the MP3 Share and Enjoy:
  Feb 18, 2009
• Comcast, BitTorrent, and Network Neutrality [AUDIO]
  
  Chris Riley, Policy Counsel at Free Press, gives a brief history of the Comcast proceeding and other net neutrality legal efforts, and then dives into a substantive policy discussion of present and...
  Feb 13, 2009
• Herdict: The Verdict of the Herd [AUDIO]
  
  Jonathan Zittrain and the Herdict Team present Herdict Web, which seeks to gain insight into what users around the world are experiencing in terms of web accessibility. Download the MP3 Share a...
  Feb 12, 2009
• ISTTF: Enhancing Child Safety and Online Technologies (Audio)
  
  The Internet Safety Technical Task Force recently completed a year-long inquiry by releasing its Final Report to the Attorneys General of 49 states, sparking a lively public debate about what kinds...
  Feb 09, 2009
• The Challenges of Activism in the Middle East [Audio]
  
  Esra’a Al Shafei is the founder and Executive Director of MideastYouth.com, an award-winning, independent, interfaith network whose mission is to inspire and provide young people with th...
  Feb 09, 2009
• Mapping Globalization (AUDIO)
  
  Maps of infrastructure show what’s possible in a connected world, but not necessarily what happens. Understanding globalization requires new kinds of maps – maps of flow of bits, atoms ...
  Jan 27, 2009
• The Long Tail of Gadgets – How Open Source Hardware is Enabling Bottom Up Innovation in Electronic
  
  Open source software has collapsed the cost of innovation in the digital world. Now open source hardware IP promises to do the same in the physical world of electronics. As an example of this emerg...
  Jan 20, 2009
• Enterprise 2.0: How Organizations are Exploiting Web 2.0 Technologies and Philosophies
  
  Prof. Andrew McAfee from the Harvard Business School gives examples of Enterprise 2.0, folding them into a simple model intended to communicate the different categories of benefits conferred. Down...
  Jan 13, 2009
• Watching Google AdWords: The Mysterious Mechanization of Meaning in the Google Brain
  
  Google’s AdWords system serves ads alongside about a quarter of all web traffic. In the process of serving those ads, Google actively processes the user browsing data in order to target its a...
  Jan 06, 2009
• The Commons: Celebrating Accomplishments, Discerning Futures
  
  Some of the top thinkers on copyright in a digital age come together to celebrate the sixth anniversary of Creative Commons, and discuss some of the great achievements in technology for sharing cul...
  Dec 18, 2008
• The Open Knowledge Commons
  
  Maura Marx, Executive Director of the Open Knowledge Commons, introduces the OKC, a new organization born out of the Open Content Alliance and dedicated to advocacy for and development of an open d...
  Dec 18, 2008
• Ari Melber of the Nation interviews Joe Trippi, of joetrippi.com
  
  a conversation with Joe Trippi> and Ari Melber Download the MP3 Share and Enjoy:
  Dec 18, 2008
• Building Collective Capacity: New Forms of Political Organizing Part III
  
  Q&A with Marshall Ganz and Jeremy Bird Download the MP3 Share and Enjoy:
  Dec 18, 2008
• Building Collective Capacity: New Forms of Political Organizing Part II
  
  a conversation with Jeremy Bird – Obama for America Download the MP3 Share and Enjoy:
  Dec 18, 2008
• Building Collective Capacity: New Forms of Political Organizing Part I
  
  a conversation with Marshall Ganz - Harvard Kennedy School. Download the MP3
  Dec 18, 2008
• Building Collective Capacity: New Forms of Political Organizing Part II
  
  a conversation with Jeremy Bird - Obama for America Download the MP3
  Dec 18, 2008
• Building Collective Capacity: New Forms of Political Organizing Part III
  
  Q&A with Marshall Ganz and Jeremy Bird Download the MP3
  Dec 18, 2008
• The Open Knowledge Commons
  
  Maura Marx, Executive Director of the Open Knowledge Commons, introduces the OKC, a new organization born out of the Open Content Alliance and dedicated to advocacy for and development of an open d...
  Dec 18, 2008
• The Commons: Celebrating Accomplishments, Discerning Futures
  
  Some of the top thinkers on copyright in a digital age come together to celebrate the sixth anniversary of Creative Commons, and discuss some of the great achievements in technology for sharing cul...
  Dec 18, 2008
• Ari Melber of the Nation interviews Joe Trippi, of joetrippi.com
  
  a conversation with Joe Trippi> and Ari Melber Download the MP3
  Dec 18, 2008
• Building Collective Capacity: New Forms of Political Organizing Part I
  
  a conversation with Marshall Ganz – Harvard Kennedy School. Download the MP3 Share and Enjoy:
  Dec 18, 2008
• Examining the networked public sphere in recent elections
  
  a conversation with Yochai Benkler & Eszter Hargittai Download the MP3 Share and Enjoy:
  Dec 18, 2008
• Examining the networked public sphere in recent elections
  
  a conversation with Yochai Benkler & Eszter Hargittai Download the MP3
  Dec 18, 2008
• Developing A Self-Learning Distance Program on Copyright for Librarians
  
  Copyright for Librarians is a project developed at the Berkman Center in partnership with eIFL.net (Electronic Information for Libraries), aiming at developing a distance learning program on c...
  Dec 09, 2008
• Developing A Self-Learning Distance Program on Copyright for Librarians
  
  Copyright for Librarians is a project developed at the Berkman Center in partnership with eIFL.net (Electronic Information for Libraries), aiming at developing a distance learning program on c...
  Dec 09, 2008
• Immersive Interfaces for Learning: Opportunities and Perils
  
  Virtual worlds (e.g., Internet games, Second Life) and augmented realities (mobile wireless devices that overlay a virtual simulation on the real world) are entering the educational landscape. Like...
  Dec 02, 2008
• Immersive Interfaces for Learning: Opportunities and Perils
  
  Virtual worlds (e.g., Internet games, Second Life) and augmented realities (mobile wireless devices that overlay a virtual simulation on the real world) are entering the educational landscape. Like...
  Dec 02, 2008
• Participatory Governance: In open source communities, companies and government
  
  Irving Wladawsky-Berger, Chairman Emeritus of IBM’s Academy of Technology, discusses participatory governance. Download the MP3 Share and Enjoy:
  Nov 25, 2008
• Participatory Governance: In open source communities, companies and government
  
  Irving Wladawsky-Berger, Chairman Emeritus of IBM’s Academy of Technology, discusses participatory governance. Download the MP3
  Nov 25, 2008
• Information Technology and Political Campaigning — Sunshine Hillygus
  
  Changes in the information environment and information technology have had a tremendous impact on political campaigning. In this week’s talk Professor Hillygus discusses her recent book, The ...
  Nov 19, 2008
• Information Technology and Political Campaigning — Sunshine Hillygus
  
  Changes in the information environment and information technology have had a tremendous impact on political campaigning. In this week’s talk Professor Hillygus discusses her recent book, The ...
  Nov 19, 2008
• The Future of Radio and Digital Music
  
  Tim Westergren, founder of the groundbreaking free internet music provider Pandora.com, speaks about his experiences in the tumultuous world of digital radio. Download the MP3 Share and En...
  Nov 17, 2008
• Nerd Culture Rising with Craig Newmark
  
  Craig Newmark drops by the Berkman Center for a lively talk on the origins of Craigslist.org, the philosophy of Geekdom, and the potential for a socially networked democracy. Download the MP3...
  Nov 14, 2008
• The Blogging Revolution: Going Online in Repressive Regimes
  
  In 2007, Australian journalist, author and blogger Antony Loewenstein traveled to Egypt, Iran, Syria, Saudi Arabia, Cuba and China to investigate how the net was challenging authoritarian regimes, ...
  Oct 25, 2008
• The Blogging Revolution: Going Online in Repressive Regimes
  
  In 2007, Australian journalist, author and blogger Antony Loewenstein traveled to Egypt, Iran, Syria, Saudi Arabia, Cuba and China to investigate how the net was challenging authoritarian regimes, ...
  Oct 25, 2008
• Lawrence Lessig: Change Congress Podcast
  
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  Apr 07, 2008
• Lawrence Lessig: Change Congress Podcast
  
  Download the MP3
  Apr 07, 2008
• Special Berkman Web Event: Jesse Dylan, Director of will.i.am’s “Yes We Can” Video (event Vide
  
  QuickTime Video Download the MP3 (time: 01:14:23) Jesse Dylan speaks on the “Yes We Can” video. Runtime: 01:14:23, size: 320×240, 276.2MB, .MOV, H.264 codec Share and Enjoy: ...
  Mar 17, 2008
• Alexander Heffner on Scoop 08
  
  QuickTime Video Download the MP3 (time: 01:14:23) Alexander Heffner senior at Phillips Academy in Andover, Massachusetts, was the guest speaker this week at the Berkman Center’s Luncheon S...
  Mar 11, 2008
• Jim Bessen on “Patent Failure”
  
  QuickTime Video Download the MP3 (time: 56:14) Jim Bessen, Lecturer of Law at Boston University Law School, was the guest speaker this week at the Berkman Center’s Luncheon Series. Bessen&...
  Mar 04, 2008
• Judith Donath on “Designing Society” – Podcast & Video
  
  QuickTime Video Download the MP3 (time: 1:13:05) Judith Donath, Associate Professor at the MIT Media Lab and director of its Sociable Media research group, was the guest speaker this week at the...
  Feb 08, 2008
• Fernando Rodrigues “Journalism and Public Information in Brazil” - Podcast
  
  Judith Donath on“Designing Society” - Podcast Download the MP3
  Jan 22, 2008
• Fernando Rodrigues “Journalism and Public Information in Brazil” - Podcast
  
  Judith Donath on“Designing Society” - Podcast Download the MP3 Share and Enjoy:
  Jan 22, 2008
• Danielle Citron on “Technological Due Process” - Podcast
  
  Danielle Citron on “Technological Due Process” - Podcast Download the MP3 (time: 01:05:31)
  Jan 15, 2008
• Danielle Citron on “Technological Due Process” - Podcast
  
  Danielle Citron on “Technological Due Process” - Podcast Download the MP3 (time: 01:05:31) Share and Enjoy:
  Jan 15, 2008
• Deb Roy: “The Human Speechome Project” Podcast
  
  Deb Roy: “The Human Speechome Project” Podcast Download the MP3 (time: 01:28:13)
  Jan 09, 2008
• Deb Roy: “The Human Speechome Project” Podcast
  
  Deb Roy: “The Human Speechome Project” Podcast Download the MP3 (time: 01:28:13) Share and Enjoy:
  Jan 08, 2008
• Victoria Stodden on the Potential of the Internet - Podcast
  
  Victoria Stodden: “The Internet and Democracy: Problems and Ideas” Podcast Download the MP3 (time: 1:10:08)
  Dec 19, 2007
• Victoria Stodden on the Potential of the Internet - Podcast
  
  Victoria Stodden: “The Internet and Democracy: Problems and Ideas” Podcast Download the MP3 (time: 1:10:08) Share and Enjoy:
  Dec 18, 2007
• Citizen Media Law Podcast #6: Copyright and Fair Use in Savage v. Council on American-Islamic Relati
  
  This week, Colin Rhinesmith speaks with Sam Bayard about copyright and fair use issues involved in a recent lawsuit against the Council on American-Islamic Relations. Download the MP3 (time: 9:40...
  Dec 14, 2007
• Citizen Media Law Podcast #6: Copyright and Fair Use in Savage v. Council on American-Islamic Relati
  
  This week, Colin Rhinesmith speaks with Sam Bayard about copyright and fair use issues involved in a recent lawsuit against the Council on American-Islamic Relations. Download the MP3 (time: 9:40...
  Dec 14, 2007
• Citizen Media Law Podcast #5: Libel Suit Against iBrattleboro.com; Important Decision on Anonymity
  
  This week, David Ardia talks about a recent lawsuit against iBrattleboro.com and Colin Rhinesmith speaks with Sam Bayard about an important decision on anonymity. Download the MP3 (time: 8:2...
  Nov 30, 2007
• Citizen Media Law Podcast #5: Libel Suit Against iBrattleboro.com; Important Decision on Anonymity
  
  This week, David Ardia talks about a recent lawsuit against iBrattleboro.com and Colin Rhinesmith speaks with Sam Bayard about an important decision on anonymity. Download the MP3 (time: 8:2...
  Nov 30, 2007
• New York Times’ Michael Anti on Blogging in China - Podcast
  
  Michael Anti, New York Times Beijing bureau reporter and fellow at Harvard University’s Nieman Foundation, was the guest speaker this week at the Berkman Center’s Luncheon Series. Down...
  Nov 29, 2007
• New York Times’ Michael Anti on Blogging in China - Podcast
  
  Michael Anti, New York Times Beijing bureau reporter and fellow at Harvard University’s Nieman Foundation, was the guest speaker this week at the Berkman Center’s Luncheon Series. Down...
  Nov 29, 2007
• Citizen Media Law Podcast #4: Ciolli Dropped from AutoAdmit Suit; Libel Claim Against Perez Hilton D
  
  This week, David Ardia talks about the lawsuit against AutoAdmit and Colin Rhinesmith speaks with Sam Bayard about a recent decision involving the celebrity blogger Perez Hilton. Download the MP3...
  Nov 16, 2007
• Breaking Down Digital Barriers - John Palfrey and Urs Gasser Present New Research on Interoperabilit
  
  QuickTime Video This week the Berkman Center and the Research Center for Information Law, St. Gallen released the latest study on the state of interoperability: “Breaking Down Digital Barri...
  Nov 16, 2007
• Citizen Media Law Podcast #4: Ciolli Dropped from AutoAdmit Suit; Libel Claim Against Perez Hilton D
  
  This week, David Ardia talks about the lawsuit against AutoAdmit and Colin Rhinesmith speaks with Sam Bayard about a recent decision involving the celebrity blogger Perez Hilton. Download the MP3...
  Nov 16, 2007
• Gary Kebbel on “The Knight News Challenge and Digital Innovation”
  
  Gary Kebbel, journalism program officer at the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation, was the guest speaker this week at the Berkman Center’s Luncheon Series. Download the MP3 (time: 59:36)...
  Nov 13, 2007
• Gary Kebbel on “The Knight News Challenge and Digital Innovation”
  
  Gary Kebbel, journalism program officer at the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation, was the guest speaker this week at the Berkman Center’s Luncheon Series. Download the MP3 (time: 59:36)...
  Nov 13, 2007
• Citizen Media Law Podcast #3: News Media Clampdown in Pakistan; Sam Bayard Interview on Internet Sol
  
  This week, David Ardia talks about threats to the Internet in Pakistan and Colin Rhinesmith speaks with Sam Bayard about a recent entry in our new legal threats database. Download the MP3 (time: ...
  Nov 09, 2007
• Citizen Media Law Podcast #3: News Media Clampdown in Pakistan; Sam Bayard Interview on Internet Sol
  
  This week, David Ardia talks about threats to the Internet in Pakistan and Colin Rhinesmith speaks with Sam Bayard about a recent entry in our new legal threats database. Download the MP3 (time: ...
  Nov 09, 2007
• Christine Harold on Intellectual Property Law and Open Content
  
  Christine Harold, ries features Christine Harold, an Assistant Professor in Department of Communication at the University of Washington, was the guest speaker this week at the Berkman Center’...
  Nov 06, 2007
• Christine Harold on Intellectual Property Law and Open Content
  
  Christine Harold, ries features Christine Harold, an Assistant Professor in Department of Communication at the University of Washington, was the guest speaker this week at the Berkman Center’...
  Nov 06, 2007
• Citizen Media Law Podcast #2: Legal Threats Database; Orthomom Defamation Action; Iranian Blogger Su
  
  This week, David Ardia previews our legal threats database, Colin Rhinesmith talks about a recent decision on First Amendment protections for anonymous bloggers, and Sam Bayard spotlights a defama...
  Nov 02, 2007
• Citizen Media Law Podcast #2: Legal Threats Database; Orthomom Defamation Action; Iranian Blogger Su
  
  This week, David Ardia previews our legal threats database, Colin Rhinesmith talks about a recent decision on First Amendment protections for anonymous bloggers, and Sam Bayard spotlights a defama...
  Nov 02, 2007
• Eszter Hargittai on Young Adult Internet Use, Demographics and Skill Level
  
  Eszter Hargittai, Assistant Professor of Communication Studies and Sociology, and Faculty Associate of the Institute for Policy Research at Northwestern University, was the guest speaker this week ...
  Oct 30, 2007
• Eszter Hargittai on Young Adult Internet Use, Demographics and Skill Level
  
  Eszter Hargittai, Assistant Professor of Communication Studies and Sociology, and Faculty Associate of the Institute for Policy Research at Northwestern University, was the guest speaker this week ...
  Oct 30, 2007
• Citizen Media Law Podcast #1: Federal Shield Bill; Co-Blogging and Legal Threats; Phoenix New Times
  
  Welcome to the first episode of the Citizen Media Law Podcast, providing practical knowledge and tools for citizen journalists. This week, David Ardia responds to the federal shield bill passed in...
  Oct 26, 2007
• Citizen Media Law Podcast #1: Federal Shield Bill; Co-Blogging and Legal Threats; Phoenix New Times
  
  Welcome to the first episode of the Citizen Media Law Podcast, providing practical knowledge and tools for citizen journalists. This week, David Ardia responds to the federal shield bill passed in...
  Oct 26, 2007
• Aaron Swartz on The Open Library
  
  Aaron Swartz, co-founder of Reddit.com and Tech Lead for the Open Library project, spoke at this week’s installment of the Berkman Center’s Luncheon Series. Download the MP3 (time...
  Oct 24, 2007
• Aaron Swartz on The Open Library
  
  Aaron Swartz, co-founder of Reddit.com and Tech Lead for the Open Library project, spoke at this week’s installment of the Berkman Center’s Luncheon Series. Download the MP3 (time...
  Oct 23, 2007
• Oliver Goodenough on “Modeling Cooperation for First and Second Lives: Suggesting a General Case�
  
  The Berkman Luncheon Series continued yesterday with Oliver Goodenough, who, in addition to being a Berkman fellow, is a Professor of Law at Vermont Law School and an Adjunct Professor at the Thaye...
  Oct 17, 2007
• Oliver Goodenough on “Modeling Cooperation for First and Second Lives: Suggesting a General Case�
  
  The Berkman Luncheon Series continued yesterday with Oliver Goodenough, who, in addition to being a Berkman fellow, is a Professor of Law at Vermont Law School and an Adjunct Professor at the Thaye...
  Oct 17, 2007
• Drew Clark on the Politics of Telecom, Media and Technology
  
  Drew Clark of the Center for Public Integrity joined an enthusiastic crowd at today’s Berkman Luncheon Series to discuss “Media Tracker, FCC Watch, and the Politics of Telecom, Media an...
  Oct 09, 2007
• Drew Clark on the Politics of Telecom, Media and Technology
  
  Drew Clark of the Center for Public Integrity joined an enthusiastic crowd at today’s Berkman Luncheon Series to discuss “Media Tracker, FCC Watch, and the Politics of Telecom, Media an...
  Oct 09, 2007
• James Vasile of the Software Freedom Law Center
  
  Yesterday, the Berkman Luncheon Series continued with a presentation and discussion by James Vasile of the Software Freedom Law Center. Download the MP3 (time: 50:14) James is Counsel for the cen...
  Oct 03, 2007
• James Vasile of the Software Freedom Law Center
  
  Yesterday, the Berkman Luncheon Series continued with a presentation and discussion by James Vasile of the Software Freedom Law Center. Download the MP3 (time: 50:14) James is Counsel for the cen...
  Oct 03, 2007
• Participation, Design, Search: How the Internet is Transforming
  
  This afternoon Michael Maier, former Shorenstein Fellow and founder and CEO of the German company Blogform Publishing, joined the Berkman Luncheon Series to present on the next generation of digita...
  Sep 26, 2007
• Participation, Design, Search: How the Internet is Transforming
  
  This afternoon Michael Maier, former Shorenstein Fellow and founder and CEO of the German company Blogform Publishing, joined the Berkman Luncheon Series to present on the next generation of digita...
  Sep 25, 2007
• The Future of the Net
  
  “JZ, live on the big screen, Future of the Internet Luncheon“ In the spirit of One Web Day, a celebration of global online life taking place on September 22nd, as well as Berkman’s 1...
  Sep 24, 2007
• The Future of the Net
  
  “JZ, live on the big screen, Future of the Internet Luncheon“ In the spirit of One Web Day, a celebration of global online life taking place on September 22nd, as well as Berkman’s 1...
  Sep 24, 2007
• De-localized Production of Scientific Knowledge
  
  The Berkman Center kicked off this year’s Luncheon Series on Tuesday, September 11 with a stimulating presentation from world renowned physicist and professor at Harvard’s Department of...
  Sep 11, 2007
• De-localized Production of Scientific Knowledge
  
  The Berkman Center kicked off this year’s Luncheon Series on Tuesday, September 11 with a stimulating presentation from world renowned physicist and professor at Harvard’s Department of...
  Sep 11, 2007
• Weinberger Interviews BBC’s Sambrook
  
  David Weinberger Everything is Miscellaneous Wired News/Berkman Center Podcast Series In his latest interview for Wired, Berkman Fellow David Weinberger speaks with BBC News Director Richard Sambro...
  Jun 27, 2007
• Weinberger Interviews BBC’s Sambrook
  
  David Weinberger Everything is Miscellaneous Wired News/Berkman Center Podcast Series In his latest interview for Wired, Berkman Fellow David Weinberger speaks with BBC News Director Richard Sambro...
  Jun 27, 2007
• danah boyd on MyFriends, MySpace
  
  On June 19, danah boyd participated in the Berkman Luncheon Series to discuss her work and research in the area of social networks. She provided a great historical context to the various sites tha...
  Jun 26, 2007
• danah boyd on MyFriends, MySpace
  
  On June 19, danah boyd participated in the Berkman Luncheon Series to discuss her work and research in the area of social networks. She provided a great historical context to the various sites tha...
  Jun 25, 2007
• David Weinberger Interviews Paul English of Kayak
  
  David Weinberger Everything is Miscellaneous Wired News/Berkman Center Podcast Series The market for online travel information and booking seems pretty well covered by just a few dominant sites, ye...
  Jun 18, 2007
• David Weinberger Interviews Paul English of Kayak
  
  David Weinberger Everything is Miscellaneous Wired News/Berkman Center Podcast Series The market for online travel information and booking seems pretty well covered by just a few dominant sites, ye...
  Jun 18, 2007
• UNIVERSITY and its Library
  
  Librarians are the navigators of knowledge and access at University. As search and content companies further engage in the realm of University and its Library, how do the roles of library, librari...
  Jun 14, 2007
• Weinberger Interviews Craig(slist) Newmark
  
  David Weinberger Everything is Miscellaneous Wired News/Berkman Center Podcast Series Over ten years ago Craig Newmark began Craigslist as a community site for San Francisco. Today it plays host t...
  Jun 14, 2007
• UNIVERSITY Agenda for Fair Use
  
  The Center for Social Media at American University and documentary filmmakers wrote a report on Best Practices in Fair Use to help navigate the waters of copyrighted materials and to determine whe...
  Jun 14, 2007
• UNIVERSITY and the RIAA
  
  Suits brought against members of University by the RIAA bring up issues revolving around the role and identity of University and copyright. Universities are being asked to absorb financial and non...
  Jun 14, 2007
• Open Access at UNIVERSITY – OpenCourseWare and Beyond
  
  MIT’s OpenCourseWare, along with numerous other University-lead open access learning initiatives, has revealed the world’s thirst for open access knowledge and learning. What have we learned f...
  Jun 14, 2007
• The Digital Identity of UNIVERSITY
  
  With digital tools such as message boards, social networks, and search engines making University and its clients’ identities more public than ever, navigating the integrated media landscape for ...
  Jun 14, 2007
• Alternative UNIVERSITY Models for Scholarly Publications
  
  The ways in which professors, academics and students and professionals release their work into the world are changing. The old models of scholarly publishing, in which most work is turned over to ...
  Jun 14, 2007
• Weinberger Interviews Craig(slist) Newmark
  
  David Weinberger Everything is Miscellaneous Wired News/Berkman Center Podcast Series Over ten years ago Craig Newmark began Craigslist as a community site for San Francisco. Today it plays host t...
  Jun 14, 2007
• UNIVERSITY and the Digital Divide
  
  There’s been much discussion of open access to information, but that doesn’t mean much to people who don’t have access to the network at all. This working group addressed the rol...
  Jun 14, 2007
• Connecting UNIVERSITY and Localized Curricula
  
  What is University’s role in guiding elementary education? Through empowering and enabling local teachers and volunteers in the world through collaborative development of teaching materials ...
  Jun 14, 2007
• Social and Cultural UNIVERSITY Communities Online and Off
  
  How can University sponsored events leverage their reach, build communities and keep the conversations going after the conference ends? Using as a case study the Dred Scott conference held by the ...
  Jun 14, 2007
• UNIVERSITY Agenda for Fair Use
  
  The Center for Social Media at American University and documentary filmmakers wrote a report on Best Practices in Fair Use to help navigate the waters of copyrighted materials and to determine whe...
  Jun 13, 2007
• Social and Cultural UNIVERSITY Communities Online and Off
  
  How can University sponsored events leverage their reach, build communities and keep the conversations going after the conference ends? Using as a case study the Dred Scott conference held by the ...
  Jun 13, 2007
• Open Access at UNIVERSITY – OpenCourseWare and Beyond
  
  MIT’s OpenCourseWare, along with numerous other University-lead open access learning initiatives, has revealed the world’s thirst for open access knowledge and learning. What have we learned f...
  Jun 13, 2007
• The Digital Identity of UNIVERSITY
  
  With digital tools such as message boards, social networks, and search engines making University and its clients’ identities more public than ever, navigating the integrated media landscape for ...
  Jun 13, 2007
• Connecting UNIVERSITY and Localized Curricula
  
  What is University’s role in guiding elementary education? Through empowering and enabling local teachers and volunteers in the world through collaborative development of teaching materials ...
  Jun 13, 2007
• UNIVERSITY and the Digital Divide
  
  There’s been much discussion of open access to information, but that doesn’t mean much to people who don’t have access to the network at all. This working group addressed the rol...
  Jun 13, 2007
• Alternative UNIVERSITY Models for Scholarly Publications
  
  The ways in which professors, academics and students and professionals release their work into the world are changing. The old models of scholarly publishing, in which most work is turned over to ...
  Jun 13, 2007
• UNIVERSITY and the RIAA
  
  Suits brought against members of University by the RIAA bring up issues revolving around the role and identity of University and copyright. Universities are being asked to absorb financial and non...
  Jun 13, 2007
• UNIVERSITY and its Library
  
  Librarians are the navigators of knowledge and access at University. As search and content companies further engage in the realm of University and its Library, how do the roles of library, librari...
  Jun 13, 2007
• Final Words from David Weinberger at Internet & Society 2007
  
  David Weinberger, Research Fellow at the Berkman Center for Internet & Society and author of the new book Everything is Miscellaneous, offers some final words at Internet & Society 2007 on...
  Jun 06, 2007
• Working Group Report and Action Plan at Internet & Society 2007
  
  Harvard Business School Professor and Berkman Center Faculty Fellow, Karim Lakhani leads the Working Group Report and Action Plan afternoon session at Internet & Society 2007 on June 1. Downl...
  Jun 06, 2007
• John Palfrey Keynote at Internet & Society 2007
  
  Professor John Palfrey, Executive Director of the Berkman Center for Internet & Society and Digital Natives Principal Investigator, presents the conference keynote on being “Born Digital...
  Jun 06, 2007
• Professor Mary Wong at Internet & Society 2007
  
  Professor Mary Wong of Franklin Pierce Law Center presents a summary of day one and looks ahead at Internet & Society 2007 on June 1. Download the MP3 (time: 10:56).
  Jun 06, 2007
• Final Words from David Weinberger at Internet & Society 2007
  
  David Weinberger, Research Fellow at the Berkman Center for Internet & Society and author of the new book Everything is Miscellaneous, offers some final words at Internet & Society 2007 on...
  Jun 06, 2007
• Working Group Report and Action Plan at Internet & Society 2007
  
  Harvard Business School Professor and Berkman Center Faculty Fellow, Karim Lakhani leads the Working Group Report and Action Plan afternoon session at Internet & Society 2007 on June 1. Downl...
  Jun 06, 2007
• Professor Mary Wong at Internet & Society 2007
  
  Professor Mary Wong of Franklin Pierce Law Center presents a summary of day one and looks ahead at Internet & Society 2007 on June 1. Download the MP3 (time: 10:56). Share and Enjoy: ...
  Jun 06, 2007
• Introduction and Welcome to Internet & Society 2007
  
  Professor Charles Ogletree, Executive Director of The Charles Hamilton Houston Institute for Race and Justice and Internet & Society 2007 Co-chair kicks off the conference with a special welco...
  Jun 06, 2007
• Nicholas Negroponte Keynote at Internet & Society 2007
  
  Nicholas Negroponte, Founder and Chairman of One Laptop per Child, presents the keynote address at this year’s Internet & Society conference, “University - Knowledge Beyond Authori...
  Jun 06, 2007
• Introduction and Welcome to Internet & Society 2007
  
  Professor Charles Ogletree, Executive Director of The Charles Hamilton Houston Institute for Race and Justice and Internet & Society 2007 Co-chair kicks off the conference with a special welco...
  Jun 06, 2007
• Weinberger Interviews Wikipedia’s Jimmy Wales
  
  David Weinberger Everything is Miscellaneous Wired News/Berkman Center Podcast Series Jimmy Wales is a Berkman Fellow, the founder of Wikipedia, and also the latest to speak with David Weinberger ...
  Jun 04, 2007
• Everything is Miscellaneous Book Release Party
  
  Everything is Miscellaneous by David Weinberger Book Release Party Monday, April 30 Berkman Center for Internet & Society faculty, fellows and community join David Weinberger to celebrate the ...
  Jun 04, 2007
• Organizing the Universe with Physicist Neil DeGrasse Tyson
  
  David Weinberger Everything is Miscellaneous Wired News/Berkman Center Podcast Series by Dylan Tweney: “Neil DeGrasse Tyson is an astrophysicist who doesn’t believe in planets. Of cours...
  May 23, 2007
• Gene Koo on New Skills, New Learning
  
  At the end of March, the Berkman Center celebrated the release of Gene Koo’s study on the relation between the development of legal education and the technology required for modern-day practice, ...
  May 23, 2007
• David Weinberger Wired News Podcast with Arianna Huffington
  
  David Weinberger Everything is Miscellaneous Wired News/Berkman Center Podcast Series This is the Future of the News: The Arianna Huffington Interview by Dylan Tweney “The Huffington Post is ...
  May 16, 2007
• Digital Natives: Participatory Culture or Self-Representation?
  
  Corinna di Gennaro visited the Berkman Center this week to discuss “Digital Natives: Participatory Culture or Self-Representation?” Download the audio podcast (time: 1:02:39). The grow...
  May 16, 2007
• Controlled Chaos: An Interview with Kos
  
  David Weinberger Everything is Miscellaneous Wired News/Berkman Center Podcast Series Controlled Chaos: An Interview with Kos by Dylan Tweney “Markos Moulitsas Zúniga — better known as...
  May 09, 2007
• An Open Source Marriage of Audio, Music, and Radio
  
  New Jersey freeform radio station WFMU has been a leader in non-commercial radio’s use of web technologies and social media. General Manager Ken Freedman joined us at the Berkman Center on May 9 ...
  May 09, 2007
• Metacrap and Flickr Tags: An Interview with Cory Doctorow
  
  David Weinberger Everything is Miscellaneous Wired News/Berkman Center Podcast Series Metacrap and Flickr Tags: An Interview with Cory Doctorow by Dylan Tweeney “Welcome to the first in a ser...
  May 03, 2007
• Applications of Social Networking Technology to Medical Treatment
  
  Tony Ferraro, President and CEO of 360Hubs and Dr. David Stone, a practicing psychologist, former Harvard Fellow in computer science and now a Visiting Scholar in GSAS joined us at the Berkman Cen...
  May 03, 2007
• Teresa Hackett on Digital Libraries in Developing Nations
  
  University: Knowledge Beyond Authority Internet & Society Conference 2007 Lead Up Event Download the audio podcast (time: 1:14:10). The role and mission of libraries is to collect, organise,...
  May 02, 2007
• Access Denied: The Practice and Policy of Global Internet Filtering
  
  Rob Faris, the OpenNet Initiative’s Research Director and John Palfrey, one of the project’s Principal Investigators, lead a discussion of Internet filtering and provided a glimpse of t...
  Apr 26, 2007
• IS2K7 Interview with Michael Hemment
  
  Michael Hemment is Research Librarian and Head of Scholarly Research Initiatives at Widener Library, here at Harvard University. Recently, MediaBerkman producer Colin Rhinesmith sat down with Mich...
  Apr 25, 2007
• Wendy Seltzer, “Sacked by Copyright”
  
  When Berkman Fellow and Chilling Effects founder Wendy Seltzer posted a Super Bowl clip to YouTube, she thought she’d get to teach a bit about copyright — the clip was the NFL’s w...
  Apr 19, 2007
• Africa’s Internet Infrastructure
  
  Eric Osiakwan and Ethan Zuckerman join Berkman Center visitors and participants to discuss current developments in Africa’s Internet and communications infrastructure, as a follow-up to their...
  Apr 12, 2007
• Napster’s Second Life? Regulatory Dynamics of Virtual Worlds
  
  Viktor Mayer-Schoenberger discusses “Napster’s Second Life? Regulatory Dynamics of Virtual Worlds”. Download the audio podcast (time: 1:15:10). Five million registered users and ...
  Apr 03, 2007
• Does Participatory Culture Lead to Participatory Democracy?
  
  Web of Ideas with David Weinberger, March 21, 2007. Download the audio podcast (time: 1:20:56). Thanks to the pliability of bits and the connectedness of the Net, we’re now able to participate ...
  Mar 26, 2007
• Copyright and Access to Knowledge
  
  Mary Wong of Franklin Pierce Law Center joins Berkman Center guests, fellows, and staff to discuss the growing discourse around such topics as “the commons,” “free culture,” and “open...
  Mar 20, 2007
• Opening Up to Open Access: Part One
  
  Gavin Yamey on “Opening Up to Open Access: What Can Other Disciplines Learn from the Sciences?” Download part one of the audio podcast (time: 1:17:38). What can academics do to ensure...
  Mar 17, 2007
• Harvard Law School Discussion on US Attorney Firings
  
  On March 14, 2007, the Berkman Center Clinical Program in Cyberlaw and Harvard Law School’s Office of Public Interest Advising’s Heyman Fellowship Program sponsored a panel discussion o...
  Mar 17, 2007
• Opening Up to Open Access: Part Two
  
  Gavin Yamey on “Opening Up to Open Access: What Can Other Disciplines Learn from the Sciences?” Download part two of the audio podcast (time: 23:10). What can academics do to ensure th...
  Mar 17, 2007
• John Mayer of CALI
  
  John Mayer, Executive Director of the Center for Computer-Assisted Legal Instruction (CALI), a non-profit consortium of over 200 law schools joined the Berkman Center to discuss CALI’s use of...
  Mar 13, 2007
• Internet and the Music Industry
  
  David Herlihy of Northeastern University leads a discussion on “Internet and the Music Industry” as part of the Berkman Center Luncheon Series. Download the audio podcast (time: 1:05:...
  Mar 06, 2007
• The Literary Vision of Copyright
  
  Matthew Pearl, best-selling author and Visiting Lecturer at Harvard Law School participated in the Berkman Center Luncheon Series on February 27 to discuss: “The Literary Vision of Copyright....
  Feb 28, 2007
• Rehabilitation and Restorative Justice in Jamaica’s Prisons
  
  Kevin Wallen and Prof. Charles Nesson discuss Rehabilitation and Restorative Justice in Jamaica’s prisons. Nesson and Wallen were joined by June Jarrett, Chief of Staff in the Department of C...
  Feb 21, 2007
• Lewis Hyde on Cultural Commons
  
  Berkman Fellow Lewis Hyde talks about the topic of his upcoming work, “the privatizing of the cultural commons.” Download the audio podcast (time: 1:09:25). Hyde addresses many of the ...
  Feb 13, 2007
• Pop Culture to Democracy
  
  Steve Schultze discusses the convergence of pop culture with political action as it creates a new, networked form of participatory democracy. The discussion is a primer for the Beyond Broadcast 200...
  Feb 09, 2007
• ID Mashup 2006 Day Two: Code and Law: How Should and Might They Mix?
  
  Closing Plenary Session: Code and Law: How Should and Might They Mix? Download the MP3.
  Jan 30, 2007
• ID Mashup 2006 Day Two: Towards and Open Identity Layer and Trusted Exchange
  
  Open Plenary Session: Towards and Open Identity Layer and Trusted Exchange: What Might it Look Like? Download the MP3.
  Jan 30, 2007
• Securing Human Rights Online
  
  Ron Deibert, Associate Professor of Political Science and Director of the Citizen Lab at the Munk Centre for International Studies, University of Toronto. Prof. Deibert, who is also a principal i...
  Jan 30, 2007
• Civics 2.0
  
  Chad Maglaque and Timothy Killian of MorePerfect.org discuss “Civics 2.0″. MorePerfect is a web initiative approaching democracy in a direct, public, participatory way through the inte...
  Jan 16, 2007
• Evidence 2007 Lecture One
  
  Evidence is a Harvard Law School course taught by Professor Charles Nesson. Visit the Evidence Course Wiki to learn how to participate. Download the MP3 (time: 9:43)
  Jan 10, 2007
• Evidence 2007 Lecture Two
  
  Evidence is a Harvard Law School course taught by Professor Charles Nesson. Visit the Evidence Course Wiki to learn how to participate. Download the MP3 (time: 23:57)
  Jan 10, 2007
• Susan Crawford on The Internet and the Project of Communications Law
  
  Susan Crawford of Cardozo Law School discusses “The Internet and the Project of Communications Law,” focusing on the way the internet’s uniqueness as a social communications tool ...
  Jan 09, 2007
• How Open Will Harvard Be to Internet and Society?
  
  Professor Charles Nesson asks “How Open Will Harvard Be to Internet and Society?” Download the MP3 (time: 1:23:25). How Open Will Harvard Be to Internet & Society? That’s th...
  Dec 18, 2006
• The Wikipedia Revolution: A Web of Ideas Talk with Andrew Lih
  
  Author Andrew Lih (The Wikipedia Revolution) is interviewed by David Weinberger (Everything is Miscellaneous) about how Wikipedia has influenced the Internet and our culture, and its implications b...
  Dec 31, 1969

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