Berkman Center for Internet and Society: Video Fishbowl
Berkman Center For Internet And Society: Video Fishbowl
Peek inside the Berkman Center's Video Fishbowl: Conversations with leading cyber-scholars, entrepreneurs, activists, and policymakers as they explore the bleeding edge of the internet and technology, democracy, law, and society. (Also available as audio) From the Berkman Center for Internet and ...
Nathan Eagle on Big Data, Global Development, and Complex Social Systems
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 outbreaks in Rwanda and wealth in the UK, to disease ...
David Weinberger on What Information Was
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 ourselves and our world. David Weinberger ...
Ellen Goodman and Jake Shapiro on Redesigning public media for the 21st Century
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, advancing democratic capabilities, and empowering publics to ...
Elizabeth Goodman on Walled Gardens: Opening the Discussion
“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 of assumptions about what gardens are, what walls are, ...
Viktor Mayer-Schönberger presents “Delete: The Virtue of Forgetting in the Digital Age”
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”. Mayer-Schönberger argues that in our quest for ...
Jesse Shapins and James Burns on Mapping Main Street
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 Streets. The goal is to document all of the more than ...
John Clippinger and Oliver Goodenough on Cloud Law, Finance 3.0, and Digital Institutions
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 institutions and research tools to foster innovation and ...
Clay Shirky on Internet Issues Facing Newspapers
Clay Shirky describes the changing news landscape that has put accountability journalism at risk, and outlines a “journalistic ecosystem” that is needed to preserve essential watchdog role of the press.
This talk was sponsored by the Joan ...
Clay Shirky on Internet Issues Facing Newspapers
Clay Shirky describes the changing news landscape that has put accountability journalism at risk, and outlines a “journalistic ecosystem” that is needed to preserve essential watchdog role of the press.
This talk was sponsored by the Joan ...
Herkko Hietanen on Network Recorders and Social Enrichment of Television
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 innovation are starting to emerge. This talk proposes the social ...
Lee Dirks on Transforming Scholarly Communication
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 by exploring eResearch projects that have successfully ...
Lee Dirks on Transforming Scholarly Communication
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 by exploring eResearch projects that have successfully ...
Calestous Juma on Legal Issues in Broadband Internet for Eastern Africa
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 implications of high speed internet for Africa’s capacity to ...
Calestous Juma on Legal Issues in Broadband Internet for Eastern Africa
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 implications of high speed internet for Africa’s capacity to ...
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 Shadow of the Google Book Search Settlement” held July ...
Alexander Macgillivray of Google on the Google Book Search Settlement
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 by major research libraries. But the settlement is ...
Giorgos Cheliotis on Mapping the Global Commons - A Quantitative Perspective on Free Cultural ...
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? Also, what happens after content is made available for ...
Aaron Shaw: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Amazon’s Mechanical Turk
The online labor market Amazon Mechnical Turk (or AMT) offers a controversial example of Crowdsourcing by allowing employers to offer micro-payments to a global pool of “Turkers” in exchange for work on small “Human Intelligence Tasks” ...
Cluetrain at 10: So How’s Utopia Working Out for Ya?
**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 became a touchstone in the digital culture wars. Its four ...