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News and Information as Digital Media Come of Age

Media Re:public paper series now available

We are pleased to announce a major research release: "Media Re:public: News and Information as the Digital Media Come of Age," a series of papers exploring the potential and the challenges of the emerging networked digital media environment...

18 dec 2008

Global Voices: Special Coverage from Gaza

Global Voices Online brings us special coverage from Gaza...

7 jan 2009

Citizen Media Law Project: "Fox Television Forces Shutdown of Progress Illinois' YouTube Channel"

dec
23
2008

Berkman Luncheon Series

Watching Google AdWords: The Mysterious Mechanization of Meaning in the Google Brain

Hal Roberts

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 advertising, making AdWords one of the world's most extensive processors of personal data. Hal Roberts presents on how Google's use of the AdWords data seeds a network of grey surveillance that may not have direct effects on the individual surveillance subjects but does have important effects on our modes of creating and consuming content online.

Berkman Buzz: Week of December 15, 2008

The future of the digital media environment, "the splinternet," insights into Global Voices, and more...in this week's BUZZ!

19 dec 2008

Upcoming Events and Digital Media Roundup

Next week: A luncheon that explores Google Adwords as a network of grey surveillance. Plus! Video from last week's Creative Commons panel, our Internet & Politics conference, and more...

17 dec 2008

Radio Berkman: A (Porn) Free Nationwide Internet?

This week on Radio Berkman, David Weinberger interviews Stephen Schultze on the FCC's (now postponed) vote on a plan for free nationwide wireless Internet...

16 dec 2008

dec
16
2008

Berkman Luncheon Series

The Open Knowledge Commons

Maura Marx, Executive Director of the Open Knowledge Commons

This talk with Maura Marx, Executive Director of the Open Knowledge Commons, will introduce the OKC, a new organization born out of the Open Content Alliance and dedicated to advocacy for and development of an open digital library of human knowledge.

Steve Schultze: "WSJ on Google and Net Neutrality..."

dec
12
2008

The Commons: Celebrating accomplishments, discerning futures

Jamie Boyle, Lawrence Lessig, Joi Ito, Molly S. Van Houweling, and Jonathan Zittrain

Creative Commons and the Berkman Center for Internet & Society present "The Commons: Celebrating accomplishments, discerning futures" tonight.

Berkman Buzz: Week of December 8, 2008

The Internet & Politics, conference connectivity, the Pulitzer Prize, and more...in this week's BUZZ!

12 dec 2008

Cambridge bound!

Lawrence Lessig receives two Harvard appointments

Tremendous news: former Berkman Center faculty director Lawrence Lessig is returning to Harvard as a professor of law and faculty director of Harvard's Edmond J. Safra Foundation Center for Ethics...

12 dec 2008

Publius: new essays on the Internet and politics

The Publius project has launched a new cluster of essays on "Internet and Politics 2008: Moving People, Moving Ideas," including a working hypothesis and responses that evaluate the technological innovations of this year's election cycle...

10 dec 2008

StopBadware: "It's official: badware is a problem"

dec
9
2008

Berkman Luncheon Series

Developing A Self-Learning Distance Program on Copyright for Librarians

Melanie Dulong de Rosnay, Berkman Fellow

Berkman Fellow Melanie Dulong de Rosnay will discuss the Copyright for Librarians project, which aims, in partnership with eIFL.net, to develop a distance learning program on copyright targeted to librarians.

John Palfrey discusses "Born Digital" with David Levine on the Hearsay Culture podcast...

Creative Commons NonCommercial study questionnaire

Creative Commons is conducting a study on the meaning of “NonCommercial” and you can weigh in by answering a detailed questionnaire on the subject.

8 dec 2008

Center for Information Technology Policy (CITP) at Princeton seeks Visiting Faculty, Scholars or Policy Experts

Berkman Buzz: Week of December 1, 2008

Online journalists, spam blacklists, the RIAA, and more...in this week's BUZZ!

5 dec 2008

Berkman Center for Internet & Society

News and Information as Digital Media Come of Age

Media Re:public paper series now available

Global Voices: Special Coverage from Gaza

Citizen Media Law Project: "Fox Television Forces Shutdown of Progress Illinois' YouTube Channel"

Berkman Luncheon Series

Watching Google AdWords: The Mysterious Mechanization of Meaning in the Google Brain

Hal Roberts

Berkman Buzz: Week of December 15, 2008

Upcoming Events and Digital Media Roundup

Radio Berkman: A (Porn) Free Nationwide Internet?

Berkman Luncheon Series

The Open Knowledge Commons

Maura Marx, Executive Director of the Open Knowledge Commons

Steve Schultze: "WSJ on Google and Net Neutrality..."

The Commons: Celebrating accomplishments, discerning futures

Jamie Boyle, Lawrence Lessig, Joi Ito, Molly S. Van Houweling, and Jonathan Zittrain

Berkman Buzz: Week of December 8, 2008

Cambridge bound!

Lawrence Lessig receives two Harvard appointments

Publius: new essays on the Internet and politics

StopBadware: "It's official: badware is a problem"

Berkman Luncheon Series

Developing A Self-Learning Distance Program on Copyright for Librarians

Melanie Dulong de Rosnay, Berkman Fellow

John Palfrey discusses "Born Digital" with David Levine on the Hearsay Culture podcast...

Creative Commons NonCommercial study questionnaire

Center for Information Technology Policy (CITP) at Princeton seeks Visiting Faculty, Scholars or Policy Experts

Berkman Buzz: Week of December 1, 2008

Yochai Benkler contemplates "Two (Radical?) Thoughts on Infrastructure" in TPMCafé...