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Mike Ananny on A Pu...
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22:30:30 05/22/12

Mike Ananny — Postdoctoral Researcher at Microsoft Research New England, Fellow at Harvard’s Berkman Center for Internet & Society, and Assistant Professor at the ...

Mike Ananny on A Public Right to Hear and Press Freedom in an ...

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Mike Ananny on A Public Right to Hear and Press Freedom in an Age of Networked Journalism

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Mike Ananny — Postdoctoral Researcher at Microsoft Research New England, Fellow at Harvard’s Berkman Center for Internet & Society, and Assistant Professor at the University of Southern California’s Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism — describes how a public right to hear has historically and implicitly underpinned the U.S. press’s claims to freedom and, more [...]

Matthew Battles on ...
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19:20:56 05/15/12

How do we balance the empowering possibilities of the networked public sphere with the dark, unsettling, and even dangerous energies of cyberspace? Matthew Battles...

Matthew Battles on Going Feral on the Net: the Qualities of Su...

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Matthew Battles on Going Feral on the Net: the Qualities of Survival in a Wild, Wired World

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How do we balance the empowering possibilities of the networked public sphere with the dark, unsettling, and even dangerous energies of cyberspace? Matthew Battles — author, cofounder of the blog

James Gleick on his...
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18:00:09 05/08/12

James Gleick — author of a half-dozen books on science, technology, and culture — discusses his latest book The Information: A History, a Theory, a Flood, with Jon...

James Gleick on his new book The Information

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James Gleick on his new book The Information

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James Gleick — author of a half-dozen books on science, technology, and culture — discusses his latest book The Information: A History, a Theory, a Flood, with Jonathan Zittrain. Also in ogg for download More info on this event here

Erica Robles-Anders...
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18:06:59 04/24/12

Within the past thirty years the rise of a new style of worship, coined “megachurch,” has transformed the American religious landscape, by blending audio, visual, ...

Erica Robles-Anderson on Mediated Congregation – Architecting ...

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Erica Robles-Anderson on Mediated Congregation – Architecting the Crystal Cathedral

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Within the past thirty years the rise of a new style of worship, coined “megachurch,” has transformed the American religious landscape, by blending audio, visual, and communications technologies within postmodern architectures, megachurches radically re-imagine Christianity. In this talk Erica Robles-Anderson — Assistant Professor in the Department of Media, Culture, and Communication at New York University [...]

Dalida Maria Benfie...
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18:06:49 04/17/12

ICT4D (Information Communication Technology for Development) powerfully frames women’s grassroots video production in the Global South, much of which is distribute...

Dalida Maria Benfield on Decolonial Media Aesthetics and Women...

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Dalida Maria Benfield on Decolonial Media Aesthetics and Women’s ICT4D Video

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ICT4D (Information Communication Technology for Development) powerfully frames women’s grassroots video production in the Global South, much of which is distributed widely through YouTube. Often, these videos reproduce racialized and gendered discourses – legacies of colonialism – in their narratives of economic, social, and technological progress. However, there are also videos by women’s groups that [...]

Kristin Thomson and...
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10:00:18 04/11/12

Newly empowered musicians now find themselves juggling dozens of career-related responsibilities, from booking their own shows to composing witty tweets. How are t...

Kristin Thomson and Erin McKeown on Making it as a Musician in...

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Kristin Thomson and Erin McKeown on Making it as a Musician in an Increasingly Networked World

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Newly empowered musicians now find themselves juggling dozens of career-related responsibilities, from booking their own shows to composing witty tweets. How are today’s musicians balancing it all and, even more critical, how have these changes impacted their earning capacity? Kristin Thomson — independent record label owner and Consultant for the Future of Music Coalition — [...]

Dennis Tenen on the...
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21:13:22 04/03/12

Knowledge grows, but it also contracts as outmoded facts and theories are replaced with new ones. Dennis Tenen — a literary scholar, recovering software engineer, ...

Dennis Tenen on the Growth and Decay of Shared Knowledge

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Dennis Tenen on the Growth and Decay of Shared Knowledge

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Knowledge grows, but it also contracts as outmoded facts and theories are replaced with new ones. Dennis Tenen — a literary scholar, recovering software engineer, and fellow at the Berkman Center for Internet and Society — discusses our intuitions about knowledge domains and the methods by which such intuitions could be modeled empirically. Also in [...]

Virginia Heffernan ...
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23:14:22 03/27/12

Virginia Heffernan — columnist, national correspondent for Yahoo News, and author of the soon-to-be-released Magic and Loss: The Pleasures of the Internet — discus...

Virginia Heffernan on The Digital Dialectic

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Virginia Heffernan on The Digital Dialectic

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Virginia Heffernan — columnist, national correspondent for Yahoo News, and author of the soon-to-be-released Magic and Loss: The Pleasures of the Internet — discusses analog culture, digital culture and what’s next. Also in ogg for download More info on this event here

A conversation with...
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14:24:45 03/23/12

Every day we hear about privacy issues surrounding Facebook, Google, mobile apps, smartphones, Big Data and data brokers. The Berkman Center’s John Palfrey engages...

A conversation with Julie Brill, Commissioner, Federal Trade C...

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A conversation with Julie Brill, Commissioner, Federal Trade Commission, and John Palfrey

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Every day we hear about privacy issues surrounding Facebook, Google, mobile apps, smartphones, Big Data and data brokers. The Berkman Center’s John Palfrey engages Julie Brill — Commissioner of the Federal Trade Commission who focuses on policy and enforcement initiatives in the area of online privacy and data security — in a conversation on privacy [...]

Alexander B. Howard...
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19:24:38 03/20/12

The historic events of the last year, from Egypt to #Occupy to the SOPA debate, have breathed new life into the idea of open government fueled by technology. At th...

Alexander B. Howard: What Can 21st Century Open Government Lea...

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Alexander B. Howard: What Can 21st Century Open Government Learn From Open Source, Open Data, Open Innovation, & Open Journalism?

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The historic events of the last year, from Egypt to #Occupy to the SOPA debate, have breathed new life into the idea of open government fueled by technology. At the same time, a new spectre of new cutting edge surveillance states has arisen, where digital autocracies apply filtering, propaganda and tracking technologies to suppress speech, [...]

Peter M. Shane on O...
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20:39:43 02/28/12

The use of new media by governments around the world to engage the general public more directly in actual policy making raises significant questions of democratic ...

Peter M. Shane on Online Consultation and Democratic Informati...

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Peter M. Shane on Online Consultation and Democratic Information Flow

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The use of new media by governments around the world to engage the general public more directly in actual policy making raises significant questions of democratic theory and practice. Peter M. Shane — Jacob E. Davis and Jacob E. Davis II Chair in Law at the Ohio State University’s Moritz College of Law — discusses [...]

Jerome Hergueux on ...
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21:56:19 02/21/12

The advent of the internet provides social scientists with a fantastic tool for conducting behavioral experiments online at a very large-scale and at an affordable...

Jerome Hergueux on the Promises of Web-based Social Experiments

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Jerome Hergueux on the Promises of Web-based Social Experiments

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The advent of the internet provides social scientists with a fantastic tool for conducting behavioral experiments online at a very large-scale and at an affordable cost. It is surprising, however, how little research has leveraged the affordances of the internet to set up such social experiments so far. Jerome Hergueux — a PhD candidate in [...]

Kevin Lewis on Mate...
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18:01:17 02/14/12

Data from online dating sites offer an unprecedented opportunity to address questions of longstanding interest to social scientists. In this talk, Kevin Lewis — Ph...

Kevin Lewis on Mate Choice in an Online Dating Site

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Kevin Lewis on Mate Choice in an Online Dating Site

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Data from online dating sites offer an unprecedented opportunity to address questions of longstanding interest to social scientists. In this talk, Kevin Lewis — Ph.D. Candidate in the Department of Sociology and a fellow at the Berkman — introduces a new social network dataset based on behavioral data from a popular online dating site; discusses [...]

Felipe Heusser on O...
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20:11:58 02/07/12

Felipe Heusser — Founder and Director of Fundación Ciudadano Inteligente, a Latin American NGO based in Chile that uses information technology to promote transpare...

Felipe Heusser on Open Government Data for Open Accountability

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Felipe Heusser on Open Government Data for Open Accountability

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Felipe Heusser — Founder and Director of Fundación Ciudadano Inteligente, a Latin American NGO based in Chile that uses information technology to promote transparency and active citizen participation, and a Berkman Fellow — gives an overview the spread of transparency policy through freedom of information regulation, and point out to the rise of ‘Open Government [...]

David Weinberger on...
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19:10:30 02/03/12

We used to know how to know. Get some experts, maybe a methodology, add some criteria and credentials, publish the results, and you get knowledge we can all rely o...

David Weinberger on Too Big To Know

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David Weinberger on Too Big To Know

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We used to know how to know. Get some experts, maybe a methodology, add some criteria and credentials, publish the results, and you get knowledge we can all rely on. But as knowledge is absorbed by our new digital medium, it’s becoming clear that the fundamentals of knowledge are not properties of knowledge but of [...]

Rebecca MacKinnon o...
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17:00:51 02/03/12

Many commentators have debated whether the Internet is ultimately a force for freedom of expression and political liberation, or for alienation, and repression. Re...

Rebecca MacKinnon on The Worldwide Struggle for Internet Freedom

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Rebecca MacKinnon on The Worldwide Struggle for Internet Freedom

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Many commentators have debated whether the Internet is ultimately a force for freedom of expression and political liberation, or for alienation, and repression. Rebecca MacKinnon — Bernard L. Schwartz Senior Fellow at the New America Foundation, cofounder of Global Voices, and a former CNN Bureau Chief for Beijing and Tokyo — discusses her new book, [...]

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Jeff Jarvis on Public Parts: How Sharing in the Digital Age Improves the Way We Work and Live
12/06/11

Thanks to the internet, we now live — more and more — in public. Yet change brings fear, and many people—nostalgic for a more homogeneous mass culture and provoked by well-meaning advocates for privacy—despair that the internet and how we share there is making us dumber, crasser, distracted, and vulnerable to threats of all kinds. [...]