Berkman Luncheon Series Videos

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 will present an informal sketch of a direction, suggesting that we leaped into information because it reflected a long-held but squirrely metaphysics. Download [...]

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 will present an informal sketch of a direction, suggesting that we leaped into information because it reflected a long-held but squirrely metaphysics. Click Above [...]

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 will present an informal sketch of a direction, suggesting that we leaped into information because it reflected a long-held but squirrely metaphysics. Click Above [...]

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 will present an informal sketch of a direction, suggesting that we leaped into information because it reflected a long-held but squirrely metaphysics. Download [...]

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, and what it means to build and maintain them. In this talk, [...]

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, and what it means to build and maintain them. In this talk, [...]

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 10,000 streets named Main in the United States. Click Above for Video Share and Enjoy:

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 10,000 streets named Main in the United States. Click Above for Video Share and Enjoy:

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 10,000 streets named Main in the United States. Two of the project s founders, [...]

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 10,000 streets named Main in the United States. Two of the project s founders, [...]

Video 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 both social networking tools, as well as innovative software in the quest to provide the most thorough and practical means of legal education. Specifically, John walks through the different types of software that CALI offers and why they have proven to be so useful to their large network of users. He also presents the idea of common casebooks, which would not only offset the cost, but allow for constant and immediate updating capabilities. Video produced by Henok Mehari. Share and Enjoy:

Video Last summer, Traci Fenton of WorldBlu came to the Berkman Center to discuss organizational democracy and the future of work. WorldBlu writes Organizational democracy is freedom within a business framework. It is both an organizational strategy for companies and a leadership style. It is achieved when a company uses the principles of democracy to design the way it operates daily, cultivating a company that enhances employee potential, thereby achieving its business goals and positively impacting the community. Video produced by Indigo Tabor. Share and Enjoy:

Video 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 Corrections of Jamaica, and Gile Campbell, Head of Rehabilitation in the prisons. Wallen, a Berkman Affiliate, is working with the government of Jamaica in a program called Students and Staff Expressing Truth (SSET) that addresses human development in the prisons and problems of re-entry when inmates are paroled. To date, SSET boasts a zero recidivism rate. Nesson says Think of SSET as a strategy for the society part of Internet Share and Enjoy:

Video Berkman Fellow Lewis Hyde talks about the topic of his upcoming work, “the privatizing of the cultural commons.” Hyde addresses many of the issues and concerns that modern copyright use presents to works traditionally open for public consumption. Referencing the life and work of Ben Franklin, he argues on behalf of the public’s need for access to traditionally public ideas and works for the benefit and progression of society. Share and Enjoy:

Video 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 investigator in the Open Net Initiative, discusses “Securing Human Rights Online: Addressing Long-term Problems of Sustainability, Coordination, and Resource.” Share and Enjoy:

Video How Open Will Harvard Be to Internet s the big question for the Internet at this Tuesday s lunch, Professor Nesson spoke about his hopes for Internet & Society at Harvard. As importantly, he solicited the spirited the needs, desires and perspectives of those affected by the policies across Harvard and beyond.Charles Nesson, with fellow Harvard Law Professor Charles Ogletree, has been chairing biannual Internet & Society conferences since 1996. He has written about his prelinimary hopes for this conference over at his blog. Produced by Indigo Tabor and Colin Rhinesmith. Share and Enjoy:

Video Stopbadware.org is a Neighborhood Watch campaign aimed at fighting badware - spyware and other programs that can damage an internet user s computer and lower citizen confidence in the internet itself. The project s goal is to provide reliable, objective information about downloadable applications in order to help consumers to make better choices about what they download. The StopBadware team tests and reports on websites and software suggested by the public, noting as badware those programs that engage in potentially objectionable behaviors without adequately informing the user and seeking their consent. Christina Olson, Berkman Center fellow and the project manager for StopBadware, led the lunch discussion. She recently graduated cum laude from Harvard Law School, where she worked at the Harvard Journal of Law and Technology as editor-in-chief, technical editor, production editor, and line editor. Christina was joined by the StopBadware staff team. Video produced by Indigo Tabor and Colin Rhinesmith. Share and Enjoy:

Video Nancy Hafkin leads a discussion about women’s empowerment in the face of information and technology developments at the Berkman Center’s Tuesday Luncheon Series. Nancy Hafkin is a leading scholar on gender and information technology. She speaks about the possibilities for Cinderellas and Cyberellas in the 21st century. Cyberella is fluent in the uses of technology, comfortable using and designing computer technology, and working in virtual spaces. Cinderella works in the basement of the knowledge society with little opportunity to reap its benefits. How will we work to support and develop Cyberellas? Ms. Hafkin has compiled the tales of Cinderella or Cyberella in a new book. Share and Enjoy: