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Sascha Meinrath on How Geeks, Wonks, & Field Operatives are Fighting to Transform Inside-the-Beltway Policy-Making [AUDIO] Since its founding in 2009, the New America Foundation’s Open Technology Initiative (OTI) has been a catalyst for innovative technology and telecom interventions. OTI is working in Philadelphia and Detroit to build community wireless networks in areas underserved by broadband providers. They also coordinate MeasurementLab.net (M-Lab), an open, distributed, global platform for Internet measurement tools, and [...]
Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Derek Bambauer & Oliver Day on The Hacker’s Aegis – Protecting Hackers From Lawyers [AUDIO]Research on software security vulnerabilities is a valuable example of peer production. However, hackers are often threatened with intellectual property lawsuits by companies who want to keep flaws secret. Oliver Day — a senior security researcher for Internet titan Akamai — and Derek Bambauer — a professor of internet law at Brooklyn Law School — [...]
Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Michele Martinez Campbell on the Internet and the Commerce Clause through the Prism of the Federal Kidnapping Act [AUDIO]Should kidnapping be a federal crime if use of the Internet or other telecommunications facilities is central to the crime’s execution? Even if the physical act itself takes place within the borders of a single state? Michele Martinez Campbell — Assistant Professor of Law at Vermont Law School (and accomplished crime novelist — presents case [...]
Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Latanya Sweeney on Privacy Rethinks and the Example of Privacy-Preserving Marketplaces [AUDIO]Societal demands to share large-scale collections of detailed personal information are driving new directions for privacy in data architectures. Based on prior research, Latanya Sweeney — Distinguished Career Professor of Computer Science, Technology and Policy at Carnegie Mellon University and founder and director of the Data Privacy Lab — discusses the privacy-preserving marketplace paradigm, which [...]
Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Glenn Otis Brown on Bots, Mobs, Geeks: The new separation of powers / Top Secret, XXX, Private, All Rights Reserved [AUDIO]Glenn Otis Brown — Director of Business Development for Twitter in New York, and an alum of Google, YouTube, Creative Commons, and the Berkman Center among others — presents on two topics. 1) Bots, Mobs, Geeks: The new separation of powers Are we be ruled by robots? The mob? Technocrats? Yes, yes, and yes. The [...]
Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Kate Hennessy on Ethnographies of Access, Ownership, and Collaboration in the Virtual Museum [AUDIO]Museums and academic institutions are rapidly digitizing their ethnographic collections to make them accessible to the public and to communities from which they originated. These practices amplify the public nature of institutional collections, create opportunities for re-thinking how collections should be shared online, and help merge global heritage policies and institutional practices with Aboriginal paradigms [...]
Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Nicole B. Ellison on the Benefits of Facebook “Friends” [AUDIO]New research co-authored by Nicole Ellison — Associate Professor in the Department of Telecommunication, Information Studies, and Media at Michigan State University — attempts to identify specific Facebook-enabled behaviors that contribute to users’ ability to access diverse perspective, novel information, and social support. In this talk Professor Ellison provides an overview of this research and [...]
Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Miriam Meckel on Drivers of Online Trust [AUDIO]User trust has been identified as a key success factor of online business: A user’s willingness to provide personal data is a prerequisite for online transactions. But the qualities that communicate trustworthiness to a user are varied and difficult to parse. Miriam Meckel — Professor for Corporate Communication at the University of St. Gallen, Switzerland, [...]
Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Seth Flaxman & Paul Schreiber on a Netflix for Voting [AUDIO]TurboVote is a service that makes voting by mail and voter registration as simple as renting a DVD with Netflix. Seth Flaxman — Co-Founder and Executive Director of Democracy Works (and a former Berkman Center intern) — and Paul Schreiber — one of the software engineers behind Barack Obama’s 2008 presidential campaign — talk about [...]
Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Juan Carlos de Martin & Charles Nesson on Re-thinking the University’s Role in Society in the Network Age [AUDIO]Universities are at a historical crossroads, for both structural, long-term processes, as well as for more recent developments, mostly due to political decisions and technology. In this talk Juan Carlos de Martin — coordinator of COMMUNIA, the European Thematic Network on the digital public domain — and Charles Nesson — Founder and Faculty Co-Director of [...]
Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Erez Lieberman Aiden & Jean-Baptiste Michel on Culturomics: Quantitative Analysis of Culture Using Millions of Digitized Books [AUDIO]Construct a corpus of digitized texts containing about 4% of all books ever printed, and then analyze that corpus using advanced software and the investigatory curiosity of thousands, and you get something called “Culturomics,” a field in which cultural trends are represented quantitatively. In this talk Erez Lieberman Aiden and Jean-Baptiste Michel — co-founders of [...]
Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website danah boyd on Embracing a Culture of Connectivity [AUDIO]Many young adults have incorporated social media into their daily practices, both academically and personally. They use these tools to connect, collaborate, communicate and create. In this talk, danah boyd — Social Media Researcher at Microsoft Research New England and affiliate of the Harvard University’s Berkman Center for Internet and Society — examines the different [...]
Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Radio Berkman 182: Fear of a Networked Fourth EstateListen: or download | …also in Ogg “Wikileaks” has become something of a neverending story. Coverage has branched out beyond the revelations of the documents allegedly leaked by Pfc. Bradley Manning in 2010, and on to ancillary territory: the flamboyant presence of founder Julian Assange; the legal propriety of Wikileaks’ actions; and the harsh treatment [...]
Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Radio Berkman 181: The Management (Rethinking Music VII)Listen: or download | …also in Ogg In our last episode we talked about how artists can feel besieged from all sides. Fans, promoters, labels — when you’re talented and famous everyone wants a piece of you. Today’s guest is one of the most important people in a musician’s life. He’s the guy that keeps [...]
Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Radio Berkman 180: No Such Thing as a Free Sample? (Rethinking Music VI)Listen: or download | …also in Ogg Musicians often feel besieged on all sides. Promoters, labels, publishers, radio stations, and venues can make an artist feel exploited and overwhelmed. But in the digital age it might feel like fans and fellow musicians are taking a bite out of them, too. Second to piracy the phenomenon [...]
Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Greg Elliott & Hugo Van Vuuren on the Communication Crises and the Evolution of Personal and Cultural Protocols [AUDIO]There is a full-scale “communication crisis” going on. Otherwise meaningful conversations and valuable data points are spread incoherently across various platforms. As communication channels increase in number and function, how will formerly society-wide notions of culture and protocol evolve to a personal and group level? Greg Elliott — a master’s student at the MIT Media [...]
Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Radio Berkman 179: The GoogleplexListen: or download | …also in Ogg The story of Google’s rise to prominence is one of consistently radical innovation. In the 1990s Google reinvented the model of the search engine — transforming it to an algorithmically-driven ranking system — and online advertising — making it possible for anyone to be an advertiser or advertisement [...]
Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Radio Berkman 178: Whirled Music (Rethink Music V)Listen: or download | …also in Ogg From the wax cylinder to the MP3 tracking global trends in music has changed a great deal over time. In 1933, the Lomax family of ethnomusicologists and folklorists traipsed around the world with a 315-pound phonograph recorder to collect the music and stories of dozens of cultures. Today, [...]
Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Dan Gillmor on Mediactive: Using Media in a Networked Age [AUDIO]In an age of information overload too much of what we watch, hear and read is mistaken, deceitful or even dangerous. In a networked age, we are fully literate only if we are creators as well as active consumers, and the Internet has given us the tools to be both. Dan Gillmor — founding director [...]
Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Doreen Tu on Cybercrimes in TaiwanWith the rapid growth of Internet usage in Taiwan over the last decade has come an increase in cybercrimes such as online fraud, copyright infringement, and access offenses. In this talk Doreen Tu — prosecutor of Taipei District Court Prosecutors’ Office — discusses Taiwan’s experiences and challenges of combating cybercrime. Download the MP3 …or download [...]
Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Radio Berkman 177: Retweeting RobotsListen: or download | …also in Ogg Strike another entry off the list of things robots CAN’T do. Geeks competed this past winter in Socialbots 2011 to create robots capable of forming relationships on Twitter in a competition organized by Tim Hwang and the Web Ecology Project. The winning bot was the one who could [...]
Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Alice Marwick on Celebrity, Publicity and Self-Branding in Web 2.0 [AUDIO]In the mid-2000s, journalists and businesspeople heralded “Web 2.0” technologies such as YouTube, Twitter, and Facebook as signs of a new participatory era that would democratize journalism, entertainment, and politics. But user status and popularity has become a primary use of social media, maintaining hierarchy rather than diminishing it. In this talk Alice Marwick — [...]
Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Radio Berkman 176: Label Success (Rethinking Music IV)Listen: or download | …also in Ogg Did you ever wonder how artists become rock stars? Sure, talent is a big part of it. But behind almost every successful musician — from the platinum selling pop idol to the quirky regional artist who only sells records by the handful — you’ll probably find at least [...]
Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Larisa Mann on Decolonizing Copyright: Jamaican Street Dances and Globally Networked Technology [AUDIO]Jamaican music-making practices present an interesting case study in the relationship between culture, copyright law, technology and power. In this talk Larisa Mann — a DJ, journalist, and student of Berkeley Law School’s Jurisprudence and Social Policy Program — shows how the street dance, the explosively creative heart of Jamaican musical practice, suggests several ways [...]
Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Radio Berkman 175: Lessig and Zittrain Take On…the Kill SwitchListen: or download | …also in Ogg In recent months citizens of the Middle East and North Africa have experienced widespread shutdowns of internet access, coinciding with revolutions to overthrow national leadership. The seeming ease with which the Internet has been silenced in Libya, Egypt, and other countries has raised questions about ethical issues behind [...]
Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Book Talk: Susan Landau on Surveillance or Security? The Risks Posed by New Wiretapping Technologies [AUDIO]The reliance of business and commerce on IP-based networks leaves the U.S. highly exposed and vulnerable to cyberattack, yet U.S. law enforcement remains focused on building wiretapping systems within communications infrastructure. By embedding eavesdropping mechanisms into communications technology itself, we build tools that could easily be turned against us. In this talk based on her [...]
Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Sasha Costanza-Chock on Transmedia Mobilization [AUDIO]Dr. Sasha Costanza-Chock — Berkman Fellow and Assistant Professor of Civic Media at MIT — introduces the theory of transmedia mobilization and invites us to rethink the relationship between social movements and the media opportunity structure. Based on five years of research within the immigrant rights movement in Los Angeles, the theory of transmedia mobilization [...]
Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Siva Vaidhyanathan on The Googlization of Everything [AUDIO]The Internet is not as wild and ungoverned as we might have naively assumed back at its conception. But overall, no single state, firm, or institution in the world has as much power over Web-based activity as Google does. Is Google’s dominance the best situation for the future of our information ecosystem? Siva Vaidhyanathan — [...]
Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Eszter Hargittai and Aaron Shaw on The Internet, Young Adults and Political Participation around the 2008 Presidential Elections [AUDIO]How are online and offline political activities linked? Berkman Fellows Eszter Hargittai and Aaron Shaw collected data soon after the 2008 presidential elections on a diverse group of young adults from Obama’s home city of Chicago. In this presentation Hargittai and Shaw look at the relationship of online and offline political engagement based on this [...]
Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Dorothea Kleine on ICTs for “Development” and the Lives People Value [AUDIO]Information and Communications Technologies are powerful tools for shaping people’s everyday lives, but understandings of development differ and too often remain implicit and removed from participatory processes involving the intended users. In this talk Dorothea Kleine — Lecturer in Development Geography at the UNESCO Chair/Centre in ICT4D at Royal Holloway, University of London — explores [...]
Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Radio Berkman 174: The Neverending Concert (Rethink Music III)Listen: or download | …also in Ogg Musicians are increasingly becoming their own managers, promoters, bookers, and agents. And with YouTube, Twitter, Facebook, BandCamp, and dozens of others of ways of staying in touch with their audience, the concert never stops. There’s no way to put a dollar value on this engagement, but that doesn’t [...]
Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Brian Kernighan on Why (In)numeracy Matters [AUDIO]Technology has buried us in an avalanche of numbers and graphs and charts, many of which claim to present the truth about important issues. At the same time, our personal facility with numbers has diminished, leaving us at the mercy of quantitative reasoning and presentation that is often wrong and sometimes not disinterested. Brian Kernighan [...]
Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Book Talk: Lewis Hyde on Common as Air [AUDIO]Lewis Hyde — Berkman Center Faculty Associate & Professor at Kenyon College — discusses his new book, “Common as Air: Revolution, Art, and Ownership.” Robert Darnton — Carl H. Pforzheimer University Professor and Director of the University Library at Harvard — responds. This event was co-hosted with the Humanities Center at Harvard University. Download the [...]
Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Andy Oram on Making Cloud Computing Truly Free and Open [AUDIO]The various trends known as cloud computing have spawned serious critiques about vendors’ reliability, security, privacy, and liability. In this talk, Andy Oram — editor at O’Reilly Media — melds cloud computing with the principles of free and open source software to find solutions or mitigating factors for the concerns about cloud computing, and suggests [...]
Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Radio Berkman 173: The Portrait of the Self-Published Artist (Rethinking Music II)Listen: or download | …also in Ogg Big music publishers may be worried about declining CD sales and the inability of digital purchases to make up the difference. But independent artists have continued to create, innovate, connect with fans, and even make a pretty decent living on their own, without big budget promotions — or [...]
Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Ethan Zuckerman, Hal Roberts, and Jillian C. York on Independent Sites and Distributed Denial of Service Attacks [AUDIO]Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) is an increasingly common Internet phenomenon capable of silencing Internet speech, usually for a brief interval but occasionally for longer. A recent paper released by the Berkman Center sheds light on DDoS attacks on independent media and human rights organizations, seeking to understand the nature and frequency of these attacks, [...]
Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Tim Wu on the Master Switch [AUDIO]Tim Wu is a policy advocate, a professor at Columbia Law School, and the chairman of media reform organization Free Press. Wu was recognized in 2006 as one of 50 leaders in science and technology by Scientific American magazine, and in 2007 Wu was listed as one of Harvard’s 100 most influential graduates by 02138 [...]
Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website John Palfrey on The Path of Legal Information [AUDIO]On the occasion of his appointment as the Henry N. Ess III Professor of Law, John Palfrey delivers a lecture proposing a path toward a new legal information environment that is predominantly digital in nature. A new, digitally optimized legal information environment can be the key to a world of improvements, but such a revolution [...]
Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Jim Lucchese on Application Developers and the Future of Music [AUDIO]In a few short years, app developers have already changed music’s role in our lives with new solutions for music discovery and recommendation, blog and news aggregators, music games, location-based listening, interactive remix apps, social music sharing, and countless other new music experiences. However, most music application developers are locked out of the commercial music [...]
Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Radio Berkman 172: The Evolutionary Biases of the TechniumListen: or download | …also in Ogg The idea that technology could want something seems kind of outlandish, almost like science fiction. But journalist Kevin Kelly is proposing a kind of technological self-determination in his new book What Technology Wants. It’s not exactly robots with souls that Kelly is suggesting. It’s more of an evolutionary [...]
Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Wayne Marshall on The Unstable Platforms and Uneasy Peers of Brave New World Music [AUDIO]Public culture is being remade in the wake of user-generated content. The ever curious category of “world music” is a case study in how culture has been changed by the proliferation of music and video production software and the connective possibilities of the web. With these innovations, a multinational network of grassroots producers, DJs, and [...]
Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Radio Berkman 171: Wikileaks and the Information WarsListen: or download | …also in Ogg Our emails have been dinging off the hook here at the Berkman Center for Internet and Society, with notes from journalists and concerned citizens trying to make some sense of the story-in-progress that is Wikileaks. So today we pull together some of the brightest minds at the Berkman Center to talk [...]
Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Jon Udell on Rethinking the community calendar: A case study in learning and teaching Fourth R principles [AUDIO]The real challenge of community calendaring isn’t technical. It’s conceptual. Most people don’t know how they could (or why they should) be the authoritative publishers of their own data. This comes from a lack of understanding of some of basic concepts of computing, including: The pub/sub communication pattern Indirection (“pass-by-reference” vs “pass-by-value”) Structured versus unstructured [...]
Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Radio Berkman 170: Jonathan & Larry Take On…Corruption!!Listen: or download | …also in Ogg With the November elections behind us here in the US Jonathan Zittrain and Lawrence Lessig take on the issue of money in politics, and investigate how campaign contributions sway candidates for office and influence policy. In the face of a campaign finance system struggling to find a more [...]
Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Mica Pollock on Building OneVille: Understanding and Improving a Communication Ecosystem in Education [AUDIO]In order to support youth in a community, who needs to communicate what information to whom, through which media? Which barriers are in the way of such communication, and how might these barriers be overcome? And what are the devil(s) in the details of just “adding tech”? In the OneVille Project, students, teachers, parents, mentors, [...]
Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Radio Berkman 169: Wiki’dListen: 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 of human knowledge is at once reviled by highbrow scholars who make strict rules about its use as a cited [...]
Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Radio Berkman 168: Rethinking Music, Part I – Creativity, Commerce, and PolicyListen: 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 growing pains. But, no other industry has experienced more trauma and volatility than music. One of the first victims of the electronic piracy epidemic, [...]
Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 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 the internet to foster new lifestyles, consumption patterns and ways of producing. There has been an explosion of web-enabled innovations around consumption sharing and extra-market exchange in order to [...]
Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 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 libraries know a huge amount about their contents. This metadata is becoming even more valuable as research moves online, since now [...]
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