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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 Estate Listen: 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 Googleplex Listen: 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 Taiwan With 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 Robots Listen: 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 Switch Listen: 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 Technium Listen: 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 Wars Listen: 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’d Listen: 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 Policy Listen: 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 [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Barbara van Schewick on Internet Architecture and Innovation [AUDIO] Barbara van Schewick—Associate Professor of Law at Stanford Law School, an Associate Professor (by courtesy) of Electrical Engineering at Stanford’s Department of Electrical Engineering and the Director of Stanford Law School’s Center for Internet and Society—discusses her new book, Internet Architecture and Innovation. This book analyzes how the Internet’s internal structure, or architecture, has fostered [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Radio Berkman 167: The Ghost of Video Future Listen: or download | …also in Ogg The future of video lies within our grasp, people. Powerful new technologies and web services are available that not only make video available anytime, anywhere, but also make sharing and creating easier than ever, all over the world. Think of the smartphone revolution; the explosion in high bandwidth [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Dave Rand on The Online Laboratory: Taking Experimental Social Science onto the Internet [AUDIO] The internet provides an unprecedented opportunity for social scientists to recruit a large pool of subjects quickly, cheaply, and virtually effortlessly. Online labor markets, such as Amazon Mechanical Turk (MTurk), is one place where social scientists can easily find subjects to participate in unique cooperation studies in exchange for cash (where pay depends on choices [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website John Chory on Legal Issues for Startups [AUDIO] Founders of companies often experience early sins of omission or commission which decrease the probability of ultimate success. John Chory—chair of the WilmerHale Venture Group and a member of the Corporate Practice Group—focuses on the representation of early-stage and venture-backed technology and life sciences companies. In this talk he discusses issues affecting startup companies, and [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Radio Berkman 166: An Innocent Infringer? Listen: or download | …also in Ogg This is Whitney Harper. She is the central figure in one of the most recent anti-piracy court battles being waged by the Recording Industry Association of America. She’s only one of any number of accused illegal downloaders. But what makes her case different? Whitney could be considered an [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Joseph Reagle on Good Faith Collaboration: The Culture of Wikipedia [AUDIO] Wikipedia’s style of collaborative production has been lauded, lambasted, and satirized. Despite unease over its implications for the character (and quality) of knowledge, Wikipedia has brought us closer than ever to a realization of the century-old pursuit of a universal encyclopedia. Joseph Reagle—a fellow at the Berkman Center for Internet and Society—discusses insights from his [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Radio Berkman 165: Jonathan & Larry TAKE ON… Net Neutrality! Listen: or download | …also in Ogg Net Neutrality. What started out as a high level policy debate among internet service providers and telecommunications geeks has since blossomed into an all out war, with battle lines ostensibly drawn between those who value free expression and innovation on one side, and free market advocates on another. [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Dave Karpf on The MoveOn Effect: The Internet’s Impact on Political Action? [AUDIO] Changes in membership and fundraising regimes are affecting the political economy of interest group action, dramatically altering the interest group ecology of American politics. Despite online information abundance, there are issues with studying groups who keep the important data behind firewalls. Rutgers Assistant Professor and Yale Information Society Project Fellow Dave Karpf discusses his research [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Cynthia Dwork: I’m in the Database, but Nobody Knows [AUDIO A statistical database provides statistical information about a population, while maintaining the privacy of individuals in the database. A thriving research effort has produced high-quality differentially private solutions for a wide range of data analysis tasks. In this talk, Cynthia Dwork—a theoretical computer scientist and Distinguished Scientist at Microsoft Research—gives a feel for the broad [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Radio Berkman 164: The University in Cyberspace Listen: or download | …also in Ogg What should be the mission of universities in cyberspace? What can universities contribute to the future of the internet? How can our educational institutions promote ideals of free exchange of information yet cope with the complex intellectual property challenges presented by the net? A group of academic experts, [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Radio Berkman 163: I Am Not a Lawyer Listen: or download | …also in Ogg So it looks like you guys liked “Zittrain and Lessig Take On…Competition!” Last week’s season premiere of Radio Berkman drew the largest number of listeners and tweets in our show’s history! Jonathan Zittrain and Larry Lessig co-host a definitive tour of how the competitive landscape for the digital technology [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Eric von Hippel Models a Paradigm Shift From Producer Innovation to User and Open Collaborative Innovation [AUDIO] How does innovation work? Innovation by individual users and open collaborative innovation are both competing with (and may displace) producer innovation in many parts of the economy. Eric von Hippel—T Wilson Professor of Innovation Management, and Professor of Engineering Systems at MIT—presents the basic story and discusses some of the important implications for public policy, [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Radio Berkman 162: Lessig & Zittrain Take On… Competition Listen: or download | …also in Ogg The year was 1998. Cher’s autotune anthem Believe was one of the year’s biggest hits, Titanic had swept the Oscars, and in some sterile software campus in the Northwest, Bill Gates was rehearsing a deposition. It’s been over 12 years since Gates’ and Microsoft’s anti-trust battle with the [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Radio Berkman 161: A Brief History of Noise Listen: or download | …also in Ogg Noise is distracting and irritating enough in the real world. Our focus is easily disrupted by unwanted clutter and sounds from our surrounding environment. So we often find ourselves turning to digital spaces to try control the chaos, and concentrate on tasks. But noise still exists in the [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Kate Crawford on Mobile Social Media and Attention [AUDIO] Debates are raging about reduced attention spans and information overload — with particular focus on young people being at risk. How do we manage the increasing demands of network connectivity, from mobiles, email, and social media? Sharing early findings from a large, three-year study of mobile media use in Australia, Dr Kate Crawford — author [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Radio Berkman 160: Business, Meet Web Listen: or download | …also in Ogg In the early days of the LLC launching a business might have been a simple task. After all, chances are your partners were close by and you probably worked within the laws of your state. It was mostly a local task. Setting your shingle out in the 21st Century might be [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Nalini Kotamraju on the Tension between User-centered Design and E-government Services [AUDIO] Individuals and institutions are slower to adopt e-government services due to a lack of user centricity in design and development. Work with PortNL, an integrated e-government service for expatriates in the Netherlands, suggests the core of governments’ difficulty in creating user-centered services lies in a fundamental tension between the needs of users and those of [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Radio Berkman 159: Spare a Cycle? Listen: or download | …also in Ogg What are you doing with your spare cycles? You know, the bits of time you spend on the web when you’re not really being productive? Maybe you’re waiting for a file to download. Maybe you’re playing a game. Maybe you’re even filling out a form. All of these little moments could [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Vivek Wadhwa on Women and Minorities in Entrepreneurship [AUDIO] What makes entrepreneurs successful? What inhibits them? Vivek Wadhwa is a senior research associate with the Labor and Worklife Program at Harvard Law School and an executive in residence/adjunct professor at the Pratt School of Engineering at Duke University. In this talk he discusses the characteristics of successful entrepreneurs, the success of Indians in Silicon [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Radio Berkman 158: Thinking About Thinking About the Net Listen: or download | …also in Ogg Take a look at the headlines of any major newspaper or news magazine. Check out the non-fiction bestsellers at Amazon. The net is on everyone’s minds. Or more specifically, the way the net is on our minds is on our minds. Nicholas Carr’s The Shallows paints a bleak picture of what [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Patrick Meier on Crowdsourcing Crisis Mapping [AUDIO] Patrick Meier — Director of Crisis Mapping and Strategic Partnerships at Ushahidi — has published widely on the topic of conflict early warning and blogs at iRevolution.net and EarlyWarning. Here he discusses how Ushahidi’s open source mapping system has been used to help those on the ground report issues and connect swiftly with responders during crises [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Radio Berkman 157: Gaming Grief MMORPGs may maim and pwn but words will never hurt me. In online gaming environments you may be getting shot at, impaled, or run over by tanks. But the more serious damage may come in the form of the offensive chatter bandied about casually between players connected remotely via headsets. Racist, homophobic, and sexist language proliferates as [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Lewis Hyde on Creating an Enduring Commons [AUDIO] The founding generation in the United States hoped to establish a cultural commons of art and ideas, a lively public domain of created works that all of us use because nobody controls it. But the founders did not leave us with any good way to protect this commons. How might an unguarded public domain be [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Nancy Baym on Changing Relationships, Changing Industries [AUDIO] Entertainment industry professionals have generally related to their audiences in terms of economic (market) exchange while fans have generally related to one another in terms of social (gift) exchange. The internet has enabled audiences to connect with one another, to share music, and to become visible to and interact directly with artists in new ways. [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Nancy Baym on Changing Relationships, Changing Industries [AUDIO] Entertainment industry professionals have generally related to their audiences in terms of economic (market) exchange while fans have generally related to one another in terms of social (gift) exchange. The internet has enabled audiences to connect with one another, to share music, and to become visible to and interact directly with artists in new ways. [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Radio Berkman 156: The Dark Side of the World Cup With the estimated 250 to 450 million soccer fans now descending upon South Africa for the World Cup, we can expect to see billions of dollars of spent in local communities, benefitting the entire region. Locals and soccer fans alike are also looking out for an increase in crime that comes with such a dramatic increase [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Lisa Nakamura: Don’t Hate the Player, Hate the Game [AUDIO] Internet Games, Social Inequality, and Racist Talk as Griefing Internet gameplay is becoming more socially and culturally diverse and ubiquitous than ever before. Yet at the same time, the culture of griefing or pranking that dominates these games and other forms of networked social life such as Second Life and Chatroulette takes increasingly racist and [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Radio Berkman 155: The Gamble Let’s admit it: the advertising world we once knew is long dead. In a couple short decades, the digital revolution has fundamentally undermined all of the old arbiters of image, from Madison Avenue to Hollywood to K Street. Companies have been quick to jump ship and join the social media bandwagon. Even without clear proof that [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The FCC’s Authority Over Broadband Access: The Third Way – What Happens Next? [AUDIO] The Berkman Center for Internet & Society at Harvard University and the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania bring together academics and policy analysts to consider the implications of the recent FCC decision to opt for a “third way” in asserting its jurisdiction to implement policy for broadband service to U.S. homes. This session examines [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The FCC’s Authority Over Broadband Access: The History and Context of the Debate [AUDIO] The Berkman Center for Internet & Society at Harvard University and the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania bring together academics and policy analysts to consider the implications of the recent FCC decision to opt for a “third way” in asserting its jurisdiction to implement policy for broadband service to U.S. homes. This session covers [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Radio Berkman 154: A (Video) Day in the Life If a picture is worth a thousand words, and video moves at 30 frames per second, how many words could you get for 24 hours of footage? Today’s guest started a project that may have the answer to that question. The Global Lives Project picked ten subjects from around the world, followed each of them with a [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Radio Berkman 153: The Wonderful World of Spectrum Step into a world where information floats through the open air — around your house, around your town, around the world — just waiting for you to reach up and grab it. Music, movies, phone calls from loved ones, the sound of your baby crying — it all travels in the charged particle space known [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Miriam Meckel on Social Media Journalism and the Changing Roles of Journalists [AUDIO] Technologies for participation on the web can be empowering, but they are also changing the roles of professional journalism. By being able to explore these technologies, by establishing an individual personal brand, and by combining traditional journalist’s work with online research and contributions a new model of social media journalism is arising that has some [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Radio Berkman 152: A “Third Way” for the FCC and Broadband Last week the FCC announced that they would seek a “third way” in regulating the broadband industry, one that they hope will respect a recent court decision prohibiting them from cracking down on telecomms, while also ensuring some level of net neutrality. Susan Crawford — the founder of OneWebDay, telecommunications expert, and professor at the University [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Elliot Maxwell on Openness: How Increasing Accessibility and Responsiveness Can Transform Processes and Systems [AUDIO] The term “open” has been used in many contexts: open source, open standards, open access, open architecture, open spectrum, open innovation, and open educational resources. What are the various characteristics of “openness”? How do open models differ from more traditional models? What is their appeal? Elliot E. Maxwell — author, lecturer, and currently a Fellow of [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Amie Siegel on Youtube Performance and Remaking [AUDIO] Amie Siegel — Assistant Professor of Visual and Environmental Studies at Harvard University — discusses and shows works from her “My Way” series. This series of video installations appropriate amateur performance videos posted on Youtube, reconstructing how image posting and response — and the online communities dedicated to their propagation — performs the mass-identified narrative [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Beth Noveck on White House Open Government Initiatives [AUDIO] Without participation, citizens can become increasingly alienated. Beth Noveck — President Obama’s Deputy Chief Technology Officer for Open Government — wants to create more opportunities for citizens to engage and for government to engage in civic structures — a “DoSomething.gov.” Noveck talks about some of the initiatives taken on by the US Government over the [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Richard A. Danner on Taming Multiplicity in the Post-Print Era: Law Librarians, Legal Scholarship, and Access to the Law [AUDIO] Professor Richard Danner — Senior Associate Dean for Information Services and Archibald C. and Frances Fulk Rufty Research Professor Of Law at Duke Law School — has been at the forefront of the open access to legal scholarship movement and has also recently written about the role of academic law librarians in supporting faculty scholarship. [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Radio Berkman 151: A Non-Unified Theory of the Internet Does the discussion of a free and open internet really have to be an ideological debate? Some would say the situation is black or white, open or closed. You are either for freedom of content, the right to post anonymously, and to opt out of having your data tracked, or you are in favor of [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website David Weinberger’s Web of Ideas: John Hagel on the Power of Pull [AUDIO] In The Power of Pull, authors John Hagel III, John Seely Brown, and Lang Davison discuss how “pull” can be more systematically used to shape serendipity. As part of the Web of Ideas discussion series at the Berkman Center, David Weinberger interviews co-author John Hagel III on The Power of Pull — and how “pull” [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Luis von Ahn on Human Computation [AUDIO] Although computers have advanced dramatically over the last 50 years, they still do not possess the basic conceptual intelligence that most humans take for granted. By leveraging human skills and abilities in a novel way we can solve large-scale computational problems and collect training data to teach computers many basic human talents. Professor Luis von [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Radio Berkman 150: Regarding a Cease-Fire on Piracy How could pirates and the content industries learn to get along? In many contexts they are beginning to get along quite well. Some in the film, software, and music industries are finding ways to use pirate markets to their advantage — rather than simply using law enforcement to shut them down. Recent research is showing that [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Mikko Välimäki on A Start-up Perspective on Open Standards and Patents [AUDIO] What is an open standard and what does it mean when a standard has an increasing number of patents? What are the implications of patenting to IT commodification trends such as open source software? Mikko Välimäki — CEO of Tuxera Ltd., a company providing interoperable file system software solutions for Microsoft Windows on Linux both [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Brad Smith on Building a More Diverse and Inclusive Legal Profession [AUDIO] The diversity of the legal profession continues to lag the diversity of the American population. Brad Smith — Microsoft’s general counsel and senior vice president for Legal and Corporate Affairs — makes the case for more rapid progress, outlines the types of practical steps that are needed at law firms and companies, and speaks to [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Radio Berkman 149: Freedom of the Internet In 2008, Michael Slaby served as Chief Technology Officer from Obama for America, and helped with technology policy as the Obama campaign transitioned to an administration. One of the most difficult aspects of the transition has come in trying to keep a huge group of grassroots, web-enabled supporters, after the campaigning is over and the [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Shai Reshef on Educating the Many, Not the Few [AUDIO] The lack of universal access to higher education impacts not only the lives of individuals — their income, health and quality of life — but the societies in which they live — crime rates, social awareness and economic stability. Shai Reshef — Founder & President of the University of the People and named one of [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Joshua Benton on Journalism’s Digital Transition [AUDIO] Are the legal struggles faced by professional journalism today — such as copyright infringement and online aggregation issues — unique to our times? What are the historical precedents and origins for these challenges, and how might we pave a better path forward? Joshua Benton — Director, Nieman Journalism Lab at Harvard University — addresses the [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Radio Berkman 148: Lies, Damned Lies, and Technology In an age when every conversation, email, and tweet could be digitally archived, how honest we are - or how deceptive – is open for scrutiny. But there is still a lot we don’t know about the nature of deception. How can we tell if someone is telling the truth? Are there verbal cues, in addition to [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Christian Sandvig: The Television Cannot Be Revolutionized [AUDIO] Recent developments on popular video hosting sites like YouTube, Hulu, and Fancast – as well as research about how audiences watch online video – suggest that online video is becoming a lot more like old “mass media” system, rather than anything like the cultural future of decentralized production and daring changes in form we were [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Jeff Hancock on Technology and Deception [AUDIO] Jeff Hancock – the co-Director of Cognitive Science at Cornell University – conducts experiments on how online environments and technologies like email, IM, SMS and social networks are shaping how we deceive. In this talk he considers how technology forces us to rethink our assumptions about how deception functions in our interpersonal and increasingly mediated [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Radio Berkman 147: Digital Hermits and the People Who Scare Them (Adventures in Anonymity III) Some people guard their privacy online jealously. As much as they want free email and facebook, they shudder at thoughts of having their data scraped, email addresses exposed, and photos indexed. But the trend of web services is not in favor of these digital hermits. More and more social networks and applications are popping up, allowing [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Michael Slaby on The Values of Technology [AUDIO] The power of Barack Obama’s 2008 presidential campaign was not just the technology itself, but in the values that drove the creativity and use of the technology. Michael Slaby – Deputy Director of New Media then Chief Technology Officer for Obama for America (now Chief Technology Strategist for TomorrowVentures) – discusses the technology and tactics that [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Daniel Reetz on The Why in DIY Book Scanning [AUDIO] The DiY Book Scanner community has produced a diverse ecosystem of book scanning hardware and software to address a wide range of human needs since it was founded in June 2009. Daniel Reetz- an artist and a Ph.D student studying visual neuroscience – recently developed a high-speed book scanning system using open source technology, cheap [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Matt Dunne on Transforming the Last Mile State [AUDIO] Vermont is currently the least connected state in the country and has been ranked among the bottom three states for government transparency and use of the Internet to deliver services. Matt Dunne – former State Senator, Head of Community Affairs for Google and current candidate for Vermont Governor – gives some suggestions on how states [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Radio Berkman Minis: Kalamazoogle? High speed internet may be scarce in the US, but the dream of having web be fast/cheap/everywhere is snowballing. The FCC’s much anticipated National Broadband Plan was finally released Tuesday. And Google’s Fiber Initiative – a move to finance and deploy an unbelievable gigabit speed connection to some yet-to-be-named lucky town or towns in [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Donnie Dong on Cyber-pluralism: Can We Get Along with Each Other in a “Splitting” Internet? [AUDIO] From pervasive doubtable usage of copyright works in Chinese web-sphere to Google’s latest dilemma in China, it seems the Internet as an open, universal and single network is still an “ought to” imagination but not a truth. Donnie Dong (Hao Dong) – a Fellow at the Berkman Center and a Fulbright Junior Scholar – presents new [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Radio Berkman 146: The Early Days of the Avatar Millions of people are now interacting in virtual worlds like Second Life and World of Warcraft using the guise of avatars. In these spaces, users can actually design their avatars to be subtly or radically different from who they are in real life. And it turns out how people interact through their avatars – the [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website John Wilbanks on Overcoming Systemic Resistance to Generativity in Science [AUDIO] Scientific research has been resistant to adopt the kinds of “generative” effects we’ve seen in networks and culture. John Wilbanks – Vice President of Science Commons – discusses the systemic sources of this resistance, and some of the interventions from free culture and free software world that are helping a generative system to emerge. Download [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Rebecca Bliege Bird on Mutualism, Altruism, and Signaling in Martu Women’s Cooperative Hunting [AUDIO] Rebecca Bliege Bird tested a conventional hypothesis of cooperative hunting – that working together will yield higher returns than working alone – among female hunters of the Martu Aboriginal communities in Western Australia. She found that cooperation only provides increased returns to poorer hunters while disadvantaging better hunters. Rebecca tests a signaling model of benefit, [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Radio Berkman 145: The Future of Transparency and How to Stop It (Adventures in Anonymity Part II) Transparency challenges the very existence of the Rule of Law. That is the very provocative thesis of today’s guest, who suggests that there is a tragedy behind the web’s powerful lubricative effect on the flow of information. Data about your address, purchases, academic performance, travel itineraries, likes and dislikes are all quite simple to track down [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Karrie Karahalios on Text and Tie Strength [AUDIO] One’s Facebook friend list may include their college professor, their grandmother, and an acquaintance from the dentist’s office. How can we infer a sense of relationships and relationship strength through social media? Karrie Karahalios, Berkman Fellow and Assistant Professor of Computer Science at the University of Illinois discusses how we relate to one [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Radio Berkman 144: This Law is My Law This week we sit down with Carl Malamud, who with the group Public.Resource.org is pushing to put law in the public domain. We covered the issue of copyright on law a few months ago in Radio Berkman 144, where Steve Schultze introduced us to RECAP – a software that helps legal researchers bypass hefty fees for [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Jonathan Zittrain on Minds for Sale [Audio] Zittrain presents the commercial side of cloud computing in this talk hosted in partner with the Harvard Alumni Association. Hear why cloud computing is not just for computing anymore and how a new range of projects is making the application of human brainpower as purchasable and fungible as additional server rackspace. Download the MP3 …or download [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Leslie Zebrowitz on the Effects of Physiognomy on Judicial Decisions [AUDIO] Whither blind justice? Although we value ‘blind justice,’ judges and juries are not blind to the physical appearance of defendants. Moreover, research shows that peoples’ facial appearance influences impressions of their honesty and judgments of their culpability, effects that have been shown to bias decisions in the courtroom. Leslie Zebrowitz of Brandeis University discusses [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Jeffrey Schnapp on the Augmented Museum [Audio] Schnapp maps the overall contours of the “augmented” or digitalized museum by exploring The Tunnels experiment. The Tunnels is a 7000 square meter installation in Trento, Italy, where an abandoned industrial site has been repurposed as an experimental history museum with an island in Second Life serving as a support and learning space. Download the [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Radio Berkman 143: Fast, Cheap, and Everywhere When the Federal Communications Commission announced in April of 2009 that they would be pursuing a National Broadband Plan – picture something as ambitious as the interstate highway initiative but for bytes instead of cars – web surfers with a need for speed began warming up their mouse muscles. It seems like we’ve sat [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Jure Leskovec on Meme-tracking and the Dynamics of the News Cycle [Audio] Jure Leskovec of Stanford University explores the internet news cycle–the set of temporal patterns by which news grows and fades over time. His team’s analysis of approximately 1.6 million mainstream media sites and blogs for a period of three months shows a distinct “heartbeat”-like pattern in the handoff between news and blogs. Download the MP3 …or [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Mary L. Gray on Information Access, Public Spaces, & Boundaries of Visibility for Queer Youth in the Rural US [Audio] Mary Gray of Indiana University maps out how lesbian, gay, bisexual, trans and questioning (LGBTQ) youth and their allies make use of social media and local resources to combat the marginalization they contend with in their own communities as well as the erasure they face in popular representations of gay and lesbian life and the [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Radio Berkman 142: On and Out Rural communities don’t usually have the same support networks for queer youth that you might find in big cities or college towns. Mary L. Gray spent two years working in small rural communities in Kentucky, and found that as queer youth are forming their identities here, the experiences they have in the real world often [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Cliff Stoll and Jonathan Zittrain on When Countries Collide Online: Internet Spies, Cyberwar, and Government Skullduggery [AUDIO] With the Internet woven into the fabric of all governmental activities, it’s not surprising to find many international espionage agencies shadowing targets online and performing remote wiretapping. Occasionally, these break into the news, such as recent cases where the email overseas Chinese dissidents has been targeted by overseas operatives. How far have these activities gone? [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Radio Berkman Minis: A Failing Fantasy of Intellectual Property We’ll be back soon with more full episodes of Radio Berkman. In the meantime, we’d like to share a clip from a short interview we did not long ago with Lawrence Liang of the Alternative Law Forum on piracy, media, and culture. Excerpt: “When culture reaches the point of ephemerality which allows it to flow in the [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Joe Karaganis on Media Piracy in Emerging Economies [Audio] Joe Karaganis discusses findings from a forthcoming six-country study of media piracy, including work on Russia, India, Brazil, Mexico, and South Africa. The study provides a rare empirical look at the organization of piracy and enforcement in developing countries, and explores the transformation of both as the optical disk economy give way to digital distribution. [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Joel R. Reidenberg on Transparent Citizens and the Rule of Law [AUDIO] How could the transparency of personal information available online erode the rule of law? And what should government be doing about it – if anything? Joel R. Reidenberg – Professor of Law and the Founding Academic Director of the Center on Law and Information Policy at Fordham Law School – explores the erosion of [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Julie Cohen on Configuring the Networked Self [AUDIO] Berkman Faculty Fellow and HLS Visiting Professor Julie Cohen explores the effects of expanding copyright, pervasive surveillance, and the increasingly opaque design of network architectures in the emerging networked information society. Based on a chapter from her forthcoming book, Cohen argues that “access to knowledge” is a necessary but insufficient condition for human flourishing, and [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Jeremy Bailenson on Transformed Social Interaction in Virtual Reality [AUDIO] Unlike telephone conversations and videoconferences, avatars – representations of people in virtual environments – have the ability to control their physical appearance and behavioral actions in the eyes of their conversational partners, strategically enhancing or hiding features and nonverbal signals in real-time. Jeremy Bailenson – founding director of Stanford University’s Virtual Human Interaction Lab – [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Tarleton Gillespie on The Politics of Platforms [AUDIO] Though online media platforms such as YouTube and Facebook often make the promise to openly and impartially host all content, they actively make decisions about where the edges of these platforms should be: what should and should not appear, how content should be organized, what should be featured or squirreled away, and how it should [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Radio Berkman 141: Signaling in the Wild, Signaling Online When under threat from an approaching feline, gazelles will repeatedly leap up and down in the air – even when logically it seems they should run. It’s an example of a signal – used to communicate a concept to trigger a reaction. In this case, “I am strong and fast – if you chase me [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Fernando Bermejo on Mapping Online Advertising: From Anxiety to Method [AUDIO] Advertising pays for a significant portion of online content and services. But in contrast to other forms of content and service provision, it expects a return on investment despite not being backed by any kind of legal structure or binding agreement, resulting in anxiety on the part of the advertising industry. Fernando Bermejo – Associate [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Stephen M. Kosslyn on Why We Probably Will Never Have a Perfect Lie Detector [AUDIO] Different brain systems are used when one produces lies in different ways, such as by fabricating lies spontaneously “on the fly” versus fabricating them on the basis of a previously memorized story. This discovery indicates that there is no single “lie center” in the brain, and makes it unlikely that a single neural pattern of [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Brett Glass on Lessons from Laramie: Broadband Innovation on the Wireless Frontier [AUDIO] 8 years ago, Brett Glass — an electrical engineer, inventor, and technology columnist — established LARIAT, the first terrestrial wireless Internet service provider (WISP), in Laramie, Wyoming. What’s it like to roll up your sleeves and roll out high speed connectivity to underserved and unserved areas with, literally, one’s bare hands? What are the logistics? [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Radio Berkman 140: Three Trends of 2009 The closing of another year brings with it an excuse for celebration. And what could be more fun than looking back at the year that was and trying to distill some of the top trends in the web, technology, and society? David Weinberger attended Supernova 2009 in San Francisco, where some of the biggest names in [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Sahara Byrne [AUDIO] A nation-wide survey of 1,812 parents of web-savvy children shows parental support for various strategies to protect their children from negative effects. But strategies resulting in the least disagreement from the children in this survey included those that empower the youth to protect themselves, as well as legal consequences or suspension from school for people [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Radio Berkman 139: My Fair Economy Is it hard to imagine a world in which people are treated fairly? Paid a fair wage for the work they contribute? Rewarded monetarily for the successful intellectual products that they help to produce? Did you just scoff? If so you might be a knowledge worker who toils day in and day out on information [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Andrew McAfee on his new book, Enterprise 2.0; The State of An Art [AUDIO] How are the tools and philosophies of Web 2.0 making their way into organizations (even traditional ones)? Berkman fellow, MIT Scientist, blogger, and tweeter Andrew McAfee talks about his new book Enterprise 2.0: New Collaborative Tools for Your Organization’s Toughest Challenges. Download the MP3 …or download the OGG audio format! Share and Enjoy: Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Rey Junco on Twitter in the College Classroom [AUDIO] Dr. Rey Junco – Associate Professor and the Director of Disability Services in the Department of Academic Development and Counseling at Lock Haven University – is at the helm of one of the first experimental studies to assess whether first-year college students’ use of Twitter affects student engagement and success. Here he talks about some [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Sam Bowles on Kudunomics: Information and Property Rights in the Weightless Economy [Audio] Sam Bowles of the Santa Fe Institute explores how the economy of grain and steel is slowly being displaced by the weightless economy of information and network connections. Bowles presents a model and history of the long-term development and transformation of property rights drawing on recent behavioral experiments and econometric estimates of wealth dynamics in [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Marshall Van Alstyne on The Social Efficiency of Fairness [AUDIO] Could we hasten innovation and economic growth by offering rewards for sharing of information and redefining “fairness”? Marshall Van Alstyne – Associate Professor at Boston University and Research Scientist at MIT – looks at property rights and incentives for innovation. Download the MP3 …or download the OGG audio format! Share and Enjoy: Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Cameran Ashraf on #iranelection: The digital media response to the 2009 Iranian election [Audio] Cameran Ashraf presents how social and digital media play a crucial role in helping mass social movements coordinate and communicate effectively. With Iran as a case study, this presentation explores the role new communication technologies are playing in the post-election unrest, how people outside of Iran are helping through digital media, and the Iranian government’s [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Jonathan Zittrain on “Minds for Sale” [Audio] Jonathan Zittrain, Professor of Law at Harvard Law School, explores the evolving world of cloud computing. Cloud computing is not just for computing anymore: you can now find as much mindshare as you can afford out in the cloud, too. A new range of projects is making the application of human brainpower as purchasable and [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Nathan Eagle on Big Data, Global Development, and Complex Social Systems [Audio] Nathan Eagle, Omidyar Fellow at the Santa Fe Institute, will discuss a selection of projects arising from collaborations that involve inferring behavioral dynamics on a broad spectrum of scales; from risky behavior in a group of MIT freshman to population-level behavioral signatures, including cholera outbreaks in Rwanda and wealth in the UK. Access to the [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website David Weinberger on What Information Was [Audio] 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 [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Yorick Wilks on Internet Companions: technical and social issues [Audio] Yorick Wilks of the Oxford Internet Institute presents COMPANIONS, an EU project that aims to change the way we think about the relationships of people to computers and the Internet by developing a virtual ‘Companion’. This talk describes the functionality of a Senior Companion (SC), a program that elicits the life memories of the elderly, [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Ellen Goodman and Jake Shapiro on Redesigning public media for the 21st Century [AUDIO] 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 communicate and organize. The two investigate whether the United States has a system of public media that is able to support [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Elizabeth Goodman on Walled Gardens: Opening the Discussion [Audio] “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, [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Viktor Mayer-Schönberger presents “Delete: The Virtue of Forgetting in the Digital Age” [Audio] A book talk with professor Viktor Mayber-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 perfect digital memories where we can store everything from recipes and family photographs to work emails and personal information, [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Radio Berkman Recent Classics: What the Heck is a Commons? It’s been a busy week at the Berkman Center, so we had to forgo a new podcast this week. But have no fear, we did not forget you! We dusted off a recent classic from our archive by popular demand: “Episode 124, What the Heck is a Commons?” David Bollier, author of Viral Spiral: How the [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Jesse Shapins and James Burns on Mapping Main Street [Audio] 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, [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Radio Berkman 134: Small Medium at Large Few dispute that the web will be the dominant medium of the 21st Century – swallowing whole newspapers, books, radio, television, and the cinema. And even as the web grows virtually – over a trillion unique urls and growing – it shrinks physically – from laptop, to netbook, from cell phone, to even tinier and [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website John Clippinger and Oliver Goodenough on Cloud Law, Finance 3.0, and Digital Institutions [AUDIO] 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 deepen our understanding of trust, transparency and human cooperation.Liveblogging from the talk by David WeinbergerDownload the [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website John Clippinger and Oliver Goodenough on Cloud Law, Finance 3.0, and Digital Institutions [AUDIO] 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 deepen our understanding of trust, transparency and human cooperation. Liveblogging from the talk by David Weinberger Download the [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Herkko Hietanen on Network Recorders and Social Enrichment of Television [AUDIO] 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 enrichment of TV offerings may prove to create disruptive innovation to an industry accustomed to control the consumption [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Herkko Hietanen on Network Recorders and Social Enrichment of Television [AUDIO] 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 enrichment of TV offerings may prove to create disruptive innovation to an industry accustomed to control the consumption [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Radio Berkman 132: Learning to Share Ownership structures for creative works – such as Copyright, Creative Commons, Fair Use, Public Domain – abound. This week, Kenneth Crews, the director of the Copyright Office at Columbia University, speaks with us about some of the distinctions, and the ways to make sure your work is protected as much or as little as possible. Listen: or [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Lee Dirks on Transforming Scholarly Communication [AUDIO] 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 applied relevant technologies. He suggests that a software + service model with scientific services delivered from the cloud will become an [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Lee Dirks on Transforming Scholarly Communication [AUDIO] 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 applied relevant technologies. He suggests that a software + service model with scientific services delivered from the cloud will become an [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Calestous Juma on Legal Issues in Broadband Internet for Eastern Africa [AUDIO] 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 expand the global market for access devices, creation of content, and development of markets. Click here for notes on the event from [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Radio Berkman 129: I Bought the Law Steve Schultze is a busy fellow. He is a fellow at the Berkman Center for Internet and Society. He recently joined the Princeton Center for Information Technology Policy as Associate Director. He also is one of the developers behind RECAP - an ambitious and provocative project that seeks to bring publicly available digital court records [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Radio Berkman 128: Tweeting a Dead Horse The hype shows no signs of abating. Now that people have moved from just talking-about-Twitter, to the more meta talking-about-talking-about-Twitter, we here at Radio Berkman decided to take on the topic from our own perspective and see if there is possibly anything new left to be said about the popular microblogging service. Turns out there [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Radio Berkman Supreme: Is Twitter A Revolution? A Debate The Berkman Center for Internet Society was blessed with the presence of dozens of interns this summer - some of the best, the brightest, and most energetic folks in the field of cyber study. Four of them came together earlier this summer for a semi-Oxford style debate on a topic of importance. The question: Is [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Lawrence Lessig on the Google Book Search Settlement - “Settlements: Static goods, dynamic bads” [AUDIO] 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 31, 2009. Sponsored by the Berkman Center for Internet & Society, the Harvard Law School Library, and Professors [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Radio Berkman 127: Video Killed the Video Star Is the idea of a mainstream video culture dead? TV news anchors, sitcom stars, and A-list actors are losing ground to the groundswell of citizen journalists, independent web series creators, and the occasional cats falling off of pianos on YouTube. If everyone is a producer, what role will video play in our lives in the [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Alexander Macgillivray of Google on the Google Book Search Settlement [AUDIO] 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 controversial, in large part because this access is limited in major ways: instead of being truly open, this new [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Radio Berkman 126: The G-fail You don’t need to be a crowned Ranger class master hacker to sneak into someone’s email or facebook account these days. Which means that you’re not simply being a nervous nellie if you’re worried about security. In fact, users of public WiFi should be worried. If you use WiFi to access some of the most popular [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Giorgos Cheliotis on Mapping the Global Commons - A Quantitative Perspective on Free Cultural Practice [AUDIO] 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 remixing under an open license? Giorgos Cheliotis, Assistant Professor of Communications and New Media at the [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Cluetrain at 10: So How’s Utopia Working Out for Ya? [AUDIO] **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 authors – Rick Levine, Christopher Locke, Doc Searls, and David Weinberger - denounced the mainstream media’s portrayal of [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Ben Wikler on Changing the World of Changing the World: Pushing the Models of Online Organizing [AUDIO] Ben Wikler from Avaaz.org discusses how nimbly aggregating small actions by individuals around the world can build effective online campaigns for issues like conflict, human rights, and climate change. Download the MP3 Share and Enjoy: Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Eszter Hargittai on Skill Matters: The Role of User Savvy in Different Levels of Online Engagement [AUDIO] Much enthusiasm surrounds the opportunities made available by digital media for people to express themselves and participate in the public sphere without having to go through traditional gatekeepers. While the enthusiasm about new opportunities is thus warranted, little is known about who is actually participating, who is not, and what participation patterns may imply for [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Beth Kolko on Form, Function and Fiction: ICTs and Their Uses in Resource Constrained Environments [AUDIO] Beth Kolko, Berkman Center fellow and Associate Professor in the Department of Human Centered Design & Engineering at the University of Washington, examines what are essentially fictional definitions (what is “the Internet,” “an Internet user,” a “mobile phone”) and discusses how the same collection of circuits and memory can occupy varying cultural meanings across contexts, [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Lewis Hyde on the Second and Third Enclosures [AUDIO] Lewis Hyde traces the roots of the second enclosure (it goes back at least to the invention of printing); he describes traditional forms of resistance (such as the useful old custom of “beating the bounds”); and he outlines what he takes to be the “third enclosure,” the many ways in which market forces now capture [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Lokman Tsui on Global Voices and the Future of Journalism [AUDIO] Lokman Tsui, doctoral candidate at the Annenberg School for Communication at the University of Pennsylvania and Berkman Fellow, discusses Global Voices, and argues for the need to move beyond objectivity and towards “hospitality” in pursuing the potential of journalism in a networked world. Download the MP3 Share and Enjoy: Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Christopher Soghoian - Caught in the Cloud: Privacy, Encryption, and Government Back Doors in the Web 2.0 Era [AUDIO] Today, the vast majority of Internet users still transmit their own personal information over networks without any form of encryption. The shift to cloud computing exposes end-users to an increased risk of privacy invasion and fraud by hackers. Christopher Soghoian, a fellow at the Berkman Center and a Ph.D. Candidate at Indiana University’s School of [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website CyberScholars: Aaron Shaw on the Commons and Rasmus Kleis Nielsen on Tools for Politics [AUDIO] Aaron Shaw - Polanyi’s Penguin? Commons-Based Industry in the Neoliberal Knowledge EconomyA renowned group of social and political theorists have argued that Commons-Based Peer Production (CBPP) and the spread of non-rival informational goods could eliminate North-South inequalities in the knowledge-based economy (see, for example, Benkler 2006; Weber 2004). Some of them have even gone further [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website CyberScholars: Aaron Shaw on the Commons and Rasmus Kleis Nielsen on Tools for Politics [AUDIO] Aaron Shaw - Polanyi’s Penguin? Commons-Based Industry in the Neoliberal Knowledge Economy A renowned group of social and political theorists have argued that Commons-Based Peer Production (CBPP) and the spread of non-rival informational goods could eliminate North-South inequalities in the knowledge-based economy (see, for example, Benkler 2006; Weber 2004). Some of them have even gone further [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Gene Koo & Scott Seider on Video Games and Pro-Social Learning [AUDIO] Do video games cause aggressive tendencies and other negative behaviors? How can games create positive impacts on players and society? Could My.BarackObama.com really be considered “the most influential ‘video game’” in recent history? Gene Koo of the Berkman Center and Scott Seider of Boston University tackle a few of these fascinating questions. Download the MP3 Share and [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Radio Berkman 122: NBC vs. the Pirates When NBC took its programming off of iTunes in 2007, part of their motivation may have been to reduce the proliferation of their content in digital form. Well, recent research shows that the takedown may have directly resulted in a spike in piracy of their content. Research from the i-Lab at Carnegie Mellon University shows [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website David Bollier on Governing the Digital Commons [AUDIO] David Bollier’s new book Viral Spiral: How the Commoners Built a Digital Republic of Their Own traces the origins of free software, Creative Commons licenses and the online “sharing economy”. At the Berkman Center Bollier examined how commoners assert differing notions of freedom, community boundaries, social norms and reliance on law to protect the [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Radio Berkman 121: Law + Technology = Fewer Lawyers If you like the idea of the above equation, well, you are either looking forward to a Robot vs. Lawyer stand-off, or, like today’s guest, you simply believe that law can be made better and more efficient through the use of software and applications to streamline repetitive legal tasks. Richard Susskind is the IT adviser to [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Kenneth Crews on Protecting Your Scholarship [AUDIO] Kenneth Crews, founding director of the Copyright Advisory Office at Columbia University, provides an engaging review of the issues affecting authors and creators of copyrightable works, from books, articles, lectures and class notes, to software, databases, websites, schematics, drawings, blueprints, renderings, movies, songs, lyrics, sculpture, choreography, landscape designs, and many other products of human creativity. [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Elizabeth Losh on Social Media in the Obama Administration [AUDIO] Elizabeth Losh, author of Virtualpolitik: An Electronic History of Government Media-Making in a Time of War, Scandal, Disaster, Miscommunication , and Mistakes, builds on recently published research in this talk about the struggles of government agencies as Internet content-creators, looking at the government’s use of sites like Flickr, YouTube, Facebook, and Twitter. Download the MP3 Share [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Radio Berkman: Why We Search The new “Computational Knowledge Engine” called Wolfram|Alpha has gone through a full media cycle before it has even been unleashed on the world. It has been hyped as a “Google Killer” and denounced as snake oil, and we’re still at least a few days from release. The simple goal behind the engine is to connect searchers [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Radio Berkman Supreme: Full Interview with Stephen Wolfram A first look at Wolfram|Alpha: Computational Knowledge Engine, with Stephen Wolfram. This is uncut audio from David Weinberger’s 55 minute interview with Stephen for Radio Berkman. Look for the more concise version in next week’s episode. Enjoy! Listen: or download Subscribe to Radio Berkman Share and Enjoy: Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Stephen Wolfram discusses Wolfram|Alpha: Computational Knowledge Engine [AUDIO] There’s been great anticipation around Stephen Wolfram’s ambitious project to create a comprehensive “computational knowledge engine.” The Berkman Center for Internet & Society at Harvard University will host a sneak preview of the Wolfram|Alpha system, and a discussion of its underlying technology and implications. Participants will include Wolfram|Alpha founder Stephen Wolfram and Professor of Law [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Russ Neuman on Theories of Media Evolution [AUDIO] Russ Neuman traces the flow of information and entertainment into the typical American home from 1960 to 2005 in search of a theory of media evolution. Download the MP3 Share and Enjoy: Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Radio Berkman: Journalism is Dead. Long Live Journalism! It is a foregone conclusion in media circles that journalism as we know it is, or soon will be, kaput. As the huge machine that is 20th Century journalism is dismantled, long before the vultures get a chance to pick at the bones of the last remaining printing press, a class of media creators, critics, [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Richard Susskind on “The End of Lawyers?” [AUDIO] Richard Susskind, author of The End of Lawyers? Rethinking the Nature of Legal Services predicts that the legal profession will be driven by two forces in the coming decade: by a market pull towards the commoditization of legal services, and by the pervasive development and uptake of new and disruptive legal technologies. But this could [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Dan Gillmor on Why Media Consumers, Not Just Creators, Need to be Active Users[AUDIO] The supply side of tomorrow’s media is emerging quickly, if messily, in a democratization of media-creation tools that give us a vast and growing amount of content of all kinds, ranging from trivial to entertaining to vital. Dan Gillmor explores how we will need to improve journalism at all levels during this process. Download the [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Radio Berkman: My Own Private Infrastructure If you’ve been following the Facebook Terms of Service flap you probably have some idea of how big a deal a company’s terms of service can be. If Facebook were a country they would be the sixth largest in the world, just by the sheer number of citizens they can claim. But how a citizen of [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Internet Governance from an Eastern European Perspective [AUDIO] What is the Internet governance model as seen from an Eastern European perspective? Why does the US keep the button to ’shut down’ the Internet? Learn more in this interesting talk from Veni Markovski. Download the MP3 Share and Enjoy: Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Law for a Flat World: Building Legal Infrastructure for the New Economy [AUDIO] Download the MP3 Opening up the mechanisms for producing law and legal inputs to a greater role for market-based solutions is a central challenge for legal infrastructure development in the 21st century. Gillian Hadfield, professor of law and economics at the University of Southern California, talks about how and why our legal infrastructure is [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website CouchSurfing: What one website reveals about the future of the net [AUDIO] Daniel Hoffer, Founder and Chairman of CouchSurfing, is peppered with questions by Berkman Faculty Co-Director and Professor of Law Jonathan Zittrain, along with a provocative audience. Download the MP3 Share and Enjoy: Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Radio Berkman: This Wiki Post Will Self-Destruct in 5…4…3… The CIA’s Intellipedia project has brought the Wikipedia concept into the the highly secretive intelligence sector. How does it work? Will using a technology that encourages openness and collaboration affect the culture of the agency? Do you think they have an entry for Area 51? Two principals from the Intellipedia project, Don Burke and Sean Dennehy, [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The LOLCat-hedral and the Bizarre: A Memescape Manifesto [AUDIO] What’s the link between Rick Astley and funny cat pictures? How about “alpaca sheep” and Anonymous? Is internet culture as a whole fundamentally random, or does an underlying pattern link these phenomena? This talk looks back on 2008 in the meme universe, explores the ecosystem of hardware and software that undergirds internet culture and attempts [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Radio Berkman: What do you call a web-enabled political system? What do you call a web-enabled political system? Dot-Communism? A Meme-ocracy? Either way, US President Barack Obama has been up to some interesting tricks in building .gov’s web presence. A memo (linked here) that came out of the Oval Office in late January ordered all federal agencies not only to err on the side of transparency [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Future of Computational Science: Information Sharing and Reproducibility [AUDIO] Victoria Stodden presents the Reproducible Research Standard, which seeks to realign the Intellectual Property framework with longstanding scientific norms and promote the release of all components (code, data, written article) of computational research. Download the MP3 Share and Enjoy: Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Radio Berkman: YOU as the Future of Commerce The tech world is an alphabet soup of acronyms referencing all kinds of fascinating concepts. But “VRM” might actually have implications for YOU as a consumer. This week, in a special extended episode of Radio Berkman, one of the innovators of Vendor Rights Management (VRM) gives us an inside look at how the relationship between customer [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Wikipedia Revolution: A Web of Ideas Talk with Andrew Lih Author Andrew Lih (The Wikipedia Revolution) is interviewed by David Weinberger (Everything is Miscellaneous) about how Wikipedia has influenced the Internet and our culture, and its implications beyond encyclopedia writing. Download the MP3 Share and Enjoy: Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Intention Economy: What Happens When Customers Get Real Power Doc Searls details progress that the VRM project (which seeks to improve markets by equipping customers with tools for both independence from vendors and better engagement with vendors) is making on a number of fronts in this Berkman Luncheon event. Download the MP3 Share and Enjoy: Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Book Talk: In Search of Jefferson’s Moose: Notes on the State of Cyberspace by David Post [AUDIO] David G. Post, Stern Professor of Law at the Beasley School of Law at Temple University, discusses questions raised by his recently-published book, In Search of Jefferson’s Moose: Notes on the State of Cyberspace (Oxford), which re-creates Jefferson’s encyclopedia of the New World (”Notes on the State of Virginia,” 1786), but this time for cyberspace. [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Role of Non-Monetary Incentives in Crowdsourcing and Social Production Projects [AUDIO] Jeff Howe of Wired Magazine presents at the Berkman Luncheon Series on non-monetary incentives in crowdsourcing and social production projects. Download the MP3 Share and Enjoy: Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website They Know Where You Are: Location Privacy in a Mobile World Your mobile phone is a tracking device, and they know where you are, where you’ve been, and easily can figure out where you are going. They are the government, and they don’t believe probable cause need be shown to track you. But “they” increasing include civil litigants and private application providers, and there are [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Tao of the Web: China and the future of the Internet [AUDIO] Most English-language discussions about “the future of the Internet” approach the subject from an Anglo-American and European perspective. But what if you take China - now with the world’s largest number of Internet users, fast-growing technology sector, and a strong voice in global Internet governance debates - as your starting point for thinking about where [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website What is the future of open access? [AUDIO] Peter Suber offers some predictions for the adoption of open access in science and scholarship. Download the MP3 Share and Enjoy: Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The “Internet” of the developing world: using GSM networks to secure information [AUDIO] Ashifi Gogo, a Schweitzer Fellow at Dartmouth College, discusses mobile communications in the developing world - system architectures that provide levels of security analogous to well-known standards for internet transactions, and innovations in use of mobile networks for public services. Download the MP3 Share and Enjoy: Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Cultural Convergence: Cosmopolitan Communications and National Diversity [AUDIO] In her newest publication, Pippa Norris addresses issues of “Cosmopolitan Communications and National Diversity” and discusses her findings at the Berkman Center Luncheon Series. Download the MP3 Share and Enjoy: Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website A New Era of Computing: The Opportunities and Challenges of Cloud-Based Software and Services [AUDIO] Lisa Tanzi of Microsoft presents on the opportunities and challenges of Cloud Computing. Download the MP3 Share and Enjoy: Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Comcast, BitTorrent, and Network Neutrality [AUDIO] Chris Riley, Policy Counsel at Free Press, gives a brief history of the Comcast proceeding and other net neutrality legal efforts, and then dives into a substantive policy discussion of present and future Congressional and Commission net neutrality proceedings. Download the MP3 Share and Enjoy: Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Herdict: The Verdict of the Herd [AUDIO] Jonathan Zittrain and the Herdict Team present Herdict Web, which seeks to gain insight into what users around the world are experiencing in terms of web accessibility. Download the MP3 Share and Enjoy: Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Challenges of Activism in the Middle East [Audio] Esra’a Al Shafei is the founder and Executive Director of MideastYouth.com, an award-winning, independent, interfaith network whose mission is to inspire and provide young people with the freedom and opportunity of expression, and promote a fierce but respectful dialogue among the highly diverse youth of all sects, socio-economic backgrounds, and political and religious beliefs in the [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website ISTTF: Enhancing Child Safety and Online Technologies (Audio) The Internet Safety Technical Task Force recently completed a year-long inquiry by releasing its Final Report to the Attorneys General of 49 states, sparking a lively public debate about what kinds of risks youth are really facing online, and what should be done to make the Internet safer for them. Task Force chair John Palfrey, [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Mapping Globalization (AUDIO) Maps of infrastructure show what’s possible in a connected world, but not necessarily what happens. Understanding globalization requires new kinds of maps - maps of flow of bits, atoms and ideas. Ethan Zuckerman discusses maps, real and suggested, to help understand our changing world. Download the MP3 Share and Enjoy: Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Long Tail of Gadgets - How Open Source Hardware is Enabling Bottom Up Innovation in Electronics Open source software has collapsed the cost of innovation in the digital world. Now open source hardware IP promises to do the same in the physical world of electronics. As an example of this emerging trend, Peter Semmelhack, founder and CEO of Bug Labs, demonstrates Bug Labs’ product BUG. Download the MP3 Share and Enjoy: Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Enterprise 2.0: How Organizations are Exploiting Web 2.0 Technologies and Philosophies Prof. Andrew McAfee from the Harvard Business School gives examples of Enterprise 2.0, folding them into a simple model intended to communicate the different categories of benefits conferred. Download the MP3 Share and Enjoy: Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Watching Google AdWords: The Mysterious Mechanization of Meaning in the Google Brain 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 [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Open Knowledge Commons Maura Marx, Executive Director of the Open Knowledge Commons, introduces 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. Download the MP3 Share and Enjoy: Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Open Knowledge Commons Maura Marx, Executive Director of the Open Knowledge Commons, introduces 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. Download the MP3 Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Commons: Celebrating Accomplishments, Discerning Futures Some of the top thinkers on copyright in a digital age come together to celebrate the sixth anniversary of Creative Commons, and discuss some of the great achievements in technology for sharing culture. Moderator: * Jonathan Zittrain, of the Berkman Center for Internet & Society, and author of The Future of the Internet — and How [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Commons: Celebrating Accomplishments, Discerning Futures Some of the top thinkers on copyright in a digital age come together to celebrate the sixth anniversary of Creative Commons, and discuss some of the great achievements in technology for sharing culture. Moderator: * Jonathan Zittrain, of the Berkman Center for Internet & Society, and author of The Future of the Internet — and How [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Ari Melber of the Nation interviews Joe Trippi, of joetrippi.com a conversation with Joe Trippi> and Ari Melber Download the MP3 Share and Enjoy: Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Ari Melber of the Nation interviews Joe Trippi, of joetrippi.com a conversation with Joe Trippi> and Ari Melber Download the MP3 Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Examining the networked public sphere in recent elections a conversation with Yochai Benkler & Eszter Hargittai Download the MP3 Share and Enjoy: Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Examining the networked public sphere in recent elections a conversation with Yochai Benkler & Eszter Hargittai Download the MP3 Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Building Collective Capacity: New Forms of Political Organizing Part III Q&A with Marshall Ganz and Jeremy Bird Download the MP3 Share and Enjoy: Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Building Collective Capacity: New Forms of Political Organizing Part III Q&A with Marshall Ganz and Jeremy Bird Download the MP3 Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Building Collective Capacity: New Forms of Political Organizing Part II a conversation with Jeremy Bird - Obama for America Download the MP3 Share and Enjoy: Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Building Collective Capacity: New Forms of Political Organizing Part II a conversation with Jeremy Bird - Obama for America Download the MP3 Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Building Collective Capacity: New Forms of Political Organizing Part I a conversation with Marshall Ganz - Harvard Kennedy School. Download the MP3 Share and Enjoy: Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Building Collective Capacity: New Forms of Political Organizing Part I a conversation with Marshall Ganz - Harvard Kennedy School. Download the MP3 Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Developing A Self-Learning Distance Program on Copyright for Librarians Copyright for Librarians is a project developed at the Berkman Center in partnership with eIFL.net (Electronic Information for Libraries), aiming at developing a distance learning program on copyright targeted to librarians. Berkman Fellow Melanie Dulong de Rosnay presents the objectives and main steps of the project. As new technologies impact on the work of libraries and [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Developing A Self-Learning Distance Program on Copyright for Librarians Copyright for Librarians is a project developed at the Berkman Center in partnership with eIFL.net (Electronic Information for Libraries), aiming at developing a distance learning program on copyright targeted to librarians. Berkman Fellow Melanie Dulong de Rosnay presents the objectives and main steps of the project. As new technologies impact on the work of libraries and [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Immersive Interfaces for Learning: Opportunities and Perils Virtual worlds (e.g., Internet games, Second Life) and augmented realities (mobile wireless devices that overlay a virtual simulation on the real world) are entering the educational landscape. Like Alice in Wonderland, students who are ‘immersed’ encounter both opportunities and perils. This talk with Chris Dede, Harvard’s Timothy E Wirth professor of Learning Technologies, illustrates research [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Immersive Interfaces for Learning: Opportunities and Perils Virtual worlds (e.g., Internet games, Second Life) and augmented realities (mobile wireless devices that overlay a virtual simulation on the real world) are entering the educational landscape. Like Alice in Wonderland, students who are ‘immersed’ encounter both opportunities and perils. This talk with Chris Dede, Harvard’s Timothy E Wirth professor of Learning Technologies, illustrates research [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Blogging Revolution: Going Online in Repressive Regimes In 2007, Australian journalist, author and blogger Antony Loewenstein traveled to Egypt, Iran, Syria, Saudi Arabia, Cuba and China to investigate how the net was challenging authoritarian regimes, the role of Western multinationals such as Google in the assistance of web filtering and how misinformed we are in the West towards states considered “enemies” or [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Blogging Revolution: Going Online in Repressive Regimes In 2007, Australian journalist, author and blogger Antony Loewenstein traveled to Egypt, Iran, Syria, Saudi Arabia, Cuba and China to investigate how the net was challenging authoritarian regimes, the role of Western multinationals such as Google in the assistance of web filtering and how misinformed we are in the West towards states considered “enemies” or [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Participatory Governance: In open source communities, companies and government Irving Wladawsky-Berger, Chairman Emeritus of IBM’s Academy of Technology, discusses participatory governance. Download the MP3 Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Participatory Governance: In open source communities, companies and government Irving Wladawsky-Berger, Chairman Emeritus of IBM’s Academy of Technology, discusses participatory governance. Download the MP3 Share and Enjoy: Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Information Technology and Political Campaigning � Sunshine Hillygus Changes in the information environment and information technology have had a tremendous impact on political campaigning. In this week’s talk Professor Hillygus discusses her recent book, The Persuadable Voter, in which she evaluates how today’s information environment shapes how candidates communicate with voters, who they communicate with and what they are willing to say. Download [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Information Technology and Political Campaigning — Sunshine Hillygus Changes in the information environment and information technology have had a tremendous impact on political campaigning. In this week’s talk Professor Hillygus discusses her recent book, The Persuadable Voter, in which she evaluates how today’s information environment shapes how candidates communicate with voters, who they communicate with and what they are willing to say. Download [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Future of Radio and Digital Music Tim Westergren, founder of the groundbreaking free internet music provider Pandora.com, speaks about his experiences in the tumultuous world of digital radio. Download the MP3 Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Future of Radio and Digital Music Tim Westergren, founder of the groundbreaking free internet music provider Pandora.com, speaks about his experiences in the tumultuous world of digital radio. Download the MP3 Share and Enjoy: Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Future of Radio and Digital Music Tim Westergren, founder of the groundbreaking free internet music provider Pandora.com, speaks about his experiences in the tumultuous world of digital radio. Download the MP3 Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Nerd Culture Rising with Craig Newmark Craig Newmark drops by the Berkman Center for a lively talk on the origins of Craigslist.org, the philosophy of Geekdom, and the potential for a socially networked democracy. Download the MP3 Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Nerd Culture Rising with Craig Newmark Craig Newmark drops by the Berkman Center for a lively talk on the origins of Craigslist.org, the philosophy of Geekdom, and the potential for a socially networked democracy. Download the MP3 Share and Enjoy: Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Nerd Culture Rising with Craig Newmark Craig Newmark drops by the Berkman Center for a lively talk on the origins of Craigslist.org, the philosophy of Geekdom, and the potential for a socially networked democracy. Download the MP3 Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Lawrence Lessig: Change Congress Podcast Download the MP3 Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Lawrence Lessig: Change Congress Podcast Download the MP3 Share and Enjoy: Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Special Berkman Web Event: Jesse Dylan, Director of will.i.am�s �Yes We Can� Video (event Video/Audio) QuickTime Video Download the MP3 (time: 01:14:23) Jesse Dylan speaks on the “Yes We Can” video. Runtime: 01:14:23, size: 320�240, 276.2MB, .MOV, H.264 codec Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Special Berkman Web Event: Jesse Dylan, Director of will.i.am�s �Yes We Can� Video (event Video/Audio) QuickTime Video Download the MP3 (time: 01:14:23) Jesse Dylan speaks on the “Yes We Can” video. 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Runtime: 01:14:23, size: 320×240, 276.2MB, .MOV, H.264 codec Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Alexander Heffner on Scoop 08 QuickTime Video Download the MP3 (time: 01:14:23) Alexander Heffner senior at Phillips Academy in Andover, Massachusetts, was the guest speaker this week at the Berkman Center’s Luncheon Series. He is co-founder and editor-in-chief of Scoop08.com, an online national student newspaper dedicated to coverage of the 2008 presidential election. Heffner discusses how scoop08 is geared towards young [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Alexander Heffner on Scoop 08 QuickTime Video Download the MP3 (time: 01:14:23) Alexander Heffner senior at Phillips Academy in Andover, Massachusetts, was the guest speaker this week at the Berkman Center’s Luncheon Series. He is co-founder and editor-in-chief of Scoop08.com, an online national student newspaper dedicated to coverage of the 2008 presidential election. Heffner discusses how scoop08 is geared towards young adults [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Alexander Heffner on Scoop 08 QuickTime Video Download the MP3 (time: 01:14:23) Alexander Heffner senior at Phillips Academy in Andover, Massachusetts, was the guest speaker this week at the Berkman Center’s Luncheon Series. He is co-founder and editor-in-chief of Scoop08.com, an online national student newspaper dedicated to coverage of the 2008 presidential election. Heffner discusses how scoop08 is geared towards young adults [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Jim Bessen on�Patent Failure� QuickTime Video Download the MP3 (time: 56:14) Jim Bessen, Lecturer of Law at Boston University Law School, was the guest speaker this week at the Berkman Center’s Luncheon Series. Bessen’s presentation is titled “Patent Failure”. Bessen analyzes a broad range of evidence on the economic performance of the patent system. He finds that patents provide strong [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Jim Bessen on “Patent Failure” QuickTime Video Download the MP3 (time: 56:14) Jim Bessen, Lecturer of Law at Boston University Law School, was the guest speaker this week at the Berkman Center’s Luncheon Series. Bessen’s presentation is titled “Patent Failure”. Bessen analyzes a broad range of evidence on the economic performance of the patent system. He finds that patents provide strong [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Jim Bessen on“Patent Failure” QuickTime Video Download the MP3 (time: 56:14) Jim Bessen, Lecturer of Law at Boston University Law School, was the guest speaker this week at the Berkman Center’s Luncheon Series. Bessen’s presentation is titled “Patent Failure”. Bessen analyzes a broad range of evidence on the economic performance of the patent system. He finds that patents provide strong [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Judith Donath on�Designing Society� - Podcast&Video QuickTime Video Download the MP3 (time: 1:13:05) Judith Donath, Associate Professor at the MIT Media Lab and director of its Sociable Media research group, was the guest speaker this week at the Berkman Center’s Luncheon Series. Donath’s presentation was titled “Designing Society”. In it, she presents several design projects from the Sociable Media Group. Some are [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Judith Donath on “Designing Society” - Podcast & Video QuickTime Video Download the MP3 (time: 1:13:05) Judith Donath, Associate Professor at the MIT Media Lab and director of its Sociable Media research group, was the guest speaker this week at the Berkman Center’s Luncheon Series. Donath’s presentation was titled “Designing Society”. In it, she presents several design projects from the Sociable Media Group. Some are [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Judith Donath on“Designing Society” - Podcast&Video QuickTime Video Download the MP3 (time: 1:13:05) Judith Donath, Associate Professor at the MIT Media Lab and director of its Sociable Media research group, was the guest speaker this week at the Berkman Center’s Luncheon Series. Donath’s presentation was titled “Designing Society”. In it, she presents several design projects from the Sociable Media Group. Some are [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Fernando Rodrigues�Journalism and Public Information in Brazil� - Podcast Judith Donath on�Designing Society� - Podcast Download the MP3 Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Fernando Rodrigues “Journalism and Public Information in Brazil” - Podcast Judith Donath on“Designing Society” - Podcast Download the MP3 Share and Enjoy: Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Deb Roy:�The Human Speechome Project� Podcast Deb Roy: �The Human Speechome Project� Podcast Download the MP3 (time: 01:28:13) Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Deb Roy: “The Human Speechome Project” Podcast Deb Roy: “The Human Speechome Project” Podcast Download the MP3 (time: 01:28:13) Share and Enjoy: Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Victoria Stodden on the Potential of the Internet - Podcast Victoria Stodden: �The Internet and Democracy: Problems and Ideas� Podcast Download the MP3 (time: 1:10:08) Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Victoria Stodden on the Potential of the Internet - Podcast Victoria Stodden: “The Internet and Democracy: Problems and Ideas” Podcast Download the MP3 (time: 1:10:08) Share and Enjoy: Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website New York Times� Michael Anti on Blogging in China - Podcast Michael Anti, New York Times Beijing bureau reporter and fellow at Harvard University’s Nieman Foundation, was the guest speaker this week at the Berkman Center’s Luncheon Series. Download the MP3 (time: 1:08:17) Anti discussed how the recent surge in blogging has changed the state-run media landscape of China and altered the centralized control the ruling party [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website New York Times’ Michael Anti on Blogging in China - Podcast Michael Anti, New York Times Beijing bureau reporter and fellow at Harvard University’s Nieman Foundation, was the guest speaker this week at the Berkman Center’s Luncheon Series. Download the MP3 (time: 1:08:17) Anti discussed how the recent surge in blogging has changed the state-run media landscape of China and altered the centralized control the ruling party [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Breaking Down Digital Barriers - John Palfrey and Urs Gasser Present New Research on Interoperability QuickTime Video This week the Berkman Center and the Research Center for Information Law, St. Gallen released the latest study on the state of interoperability: “Breaking Down Digital Barriers.” This joint report follows the Roadmap to Open ICT Ecosystems released in 2005, as it navigates the nuanced territory of consumer, corporate, and governmental interests [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Breaking Down Digital Barriers - John Palfrey and Urs Gasser Present New Research on Interoperability QuickTime Video This week the Berkman Center and the Research Center for Information Law, St. Gallen released the latest study on the state of interoperability: “Breaking Down Digital Barriers.” This joint report follows the Roadmap to Open ICT Ecosystems released in 2005, as it navigates the nuanced territory of consumer, corporate, and governmental interests [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Breaking Down Digital Barriers - John Palfrey and Urs Gasser Present New Research on Interoperability QuickTime Video This week the Berkman Center and the Research Center for Information Law, St. Gallen released the latest study on the state of interoperability: “Breaking Down Digital Barriers.” This joint report follows the Roadmap to Open ICT Ecosystems released in 2005, as it navigates the nuanced territory of consumer, corporate, and governmental interests [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Breaking Down Digital Barriers - John Palfrey and Urs Gasser Present New Research on Interoperability QuickTime Video This week the Berkman Center and the Research Center for Information Law, St. Gallen released the latest study on the state of interoperability: “Breaking Down Digital Barriers.” This joint report follows the Roadmap to Open ICT Ecosystems released in 2005, as it navigates the nuanced territory of consumer, corporate, and governmental interests [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Gary Kebbel on�The Knight News Challenge and Digital Innovation� Gary Kebbel, journalism program officer at the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation, was the guest speaker this week at the Berkman Center’s Luncheon Series. Download the MP3 (time: 59:36) Kebbel’s presentation, entitled �The Knight News Challenge and Digital Innovation: Challenges Posed by Intellectual Property, International Giving, and Grant Administration� discussed the foundation’s grant program. [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Gary Kebbel on “The Knight News Challenge and Digital Innovation” Gary Kebbel, journalism program officer at the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation, was the guest speaker this week at the Berkman Center’s Luncheon Series. Download the MP3 (time: 59:36) Kebbel’s presentation, entitled “The Knight News Challenge and Digital Innovation: Challenges Posed by Intellectual Property, International Giving, and Grant Administration” discussed the foundation’s grant program. [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Christine Harold on Intellectual Property Law and Open Content Christine Harold, ries features Christine Harold, an Assistant Professor in Department of Communication at the University of Washington, was the guest speaker this week at the Berkman Center’s Luncheon Series. Download the MP3 (time: 54:04) Harold’s presentation, entitled “Inventing Publics: Kairos and Intellectual Property Law” looks to explore the possibilities of the �open content� movement, specifically [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Christine Harold on Intellectual Property Law and Open Content Christine Harold, ries features Christine Harold, an Assistant Professor in Department of Communication at the University of Washington, was the guest speaker this week at the Berkman Center’s Luncheon Series. Download the MP3 (time: 54:04) Harold’s presentation, entitled “Inventing Publics: Kairos and Intellectual Property Law” looks to explore the possibilities of the “open content” movement, specifically [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Eszter Hargittai on Young Adult Internet Use, Demographics and Skill Level Eszter Hargittai, Assistant Professor of Communication Studies and Sociology, and Faculty Associate of the Institute for Policy Research at Northwestern University, was the guest speaker this week at the Berkman Center’s Luncheon Series. Download the MP3 (time: 1:02:11) Hargittai presented a new study using a unique data set on young adults� Internet uses, skills and [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Eszter Hargittai on Young Adult Internet Use, Demographics and Skill Level Eszter Hargittai, Assistant Professor of Communication Studies and Sociology, and Faculty Associate of the Institute for Policy Research at Northwestern University, was the guest speaker this week at the Berkman Center’s Luncheon Series. Download the MP3 (time: 1:02:11) Hargittai presented a new study using a unique data set on young adults’ Internet uses, skills and [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Aaron Swartz on The Open Library Aaron Swartz, co-founder of Reddit.com and Tech Lead for the Open Library project, spoke at this week’s installment of the Berkman Center’s Luncheon Series. Download the MP3 (time: 1:03:39) Aaron spoke about how, thanks to new technology, the grand vision of a library containing every book in the world is now within our grasp. He discussed [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Aaron Swartz on The Open Library Aaron Swartz, co-founder of Reddit.com and Tech Lead for the Open Library project, spoke at this week’s installment of the Berkman Center’s Luncheon Series. Download the MP3 (time: 1:03:39) Aaron spoke about how, thanks to new technology, the grand vision of a library containing every book in the world is now within our grasp. He discussed how [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Oliver Goodenough on�Modeling Cooperation for First and Second Lives: Suggesting a General Case� The Berkman Luncheon Series continued yesterday with Oliver Goodenough, who, in addition to being a Berkman fellow, is a Professor of Law at Vermont Law School and an Adjunct Professor at the Thayer School of Engineering at Dartmouth College. Download the MP3 (time: 1:07:08) Oliver discussed how the institution of game theory and other economic institutions [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Oliver Goodenough on “Modeling Cooperation for First and Second Lives: Suggesting a General Case” The Berkman Luncheon Series continued yesterday with Oliver Goodenough, who, in addition to being a Berkman fellow, is a Professor of Law at Vermont Law School and an Adjunct Professor at the Thayer School of Engineering at Dartmouth College. Download the MP3 (time: 1:07:08) Oliver discussed how the institution of game theory and other economic institutions [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Drew Clark on the Politics of Telecom, Media and Technology Drew Clark of the Center for Public Integrity joined an enthusiastic crowd at today’s Berkman Luncheon Series to discuss “Media Tracker, FCC Watch, and the Politics of Telecom, Media and Technology.” Download the MP3 (time: 1:03:04) Drew, a senior fellow and project manager at the Center, not only provided great insight into the difficult and confusing [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Drew Clark on the Politics of Telecom, Media and Technology Drew Clark of the Center for Public Integrity joined an enthusiastic crowd at today’s Berkman Luncheon Series to discuss “Media Tracker, FCC Watch, and the Politics of Telecom, Media and Technology.” Download the MP3 (time: 1:03:04) Drew, a senior fellow and project manager at the Center, not only provided great insight into the difficult and confusing [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website James Vasile of the Software Freedom Law Center Yesterday, the Berkman Luncheon Series continued with a presentation and discussion by James Vasile of the Software Freedom Law Center. Download the MP3 (time: 50:14) James is Counsel for the center, which seeks to “provide legal representation and other law-related services to protect and advance free software.” In addition to his vast experience in a [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website James Vasile of the Software Freedom Law Center Yesterday, the Berkman Luncheon Series continued with a presentation and discussion by James Vasile of the Software Freedom Law Center. Download the MP3 (time: 50:14) James is Counsel for the center, which seeks to “provide legal representation and other law-related services to protect and advance free software.” In addition to his vast experience in a [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Participation, Design, Search: How the Internet is Transforming This afternoon Michael Maier, former Shorenstein Fellow and founder and CEO of the German company Blogform Publishing, joined the Berkman Luncheon Series to present on the next generation of digital media platforms in his talk: “Participation, Design, Search: How the Internet is Transforming.” Download the MP3 (time: 1:02:48) Michael’s thoughts centered on the idea that digital [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Participation, Design, Search: How the Internet is Transforming This afternoon Michael Maier, former Shorenstein Fellow and founder and CEO of the German company Blogform Publishing, joined the Berkman Luncheon Series to present on the next generation of digital media platforms in his talk: “Participation, Design, Search: How the Internet is Transforming.” Download the MP3 (time: 1:02:48) Michael’s thoughts centered on the idea that digital [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Future of the Net “JZ, live on the big screen, Future of the Internet Luncheon“ In the spirit of One Web Day, a celebration of global online life taking place on September 22nd, as well as Berkman�s 10th anniversary, we dedicated our luncheon series last week to a discussion on �The Future of the Net.� Download the MP3 (time: 1:05:20) In [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Future of the Net “JZ, live on the big screen, Future of the Internet Luncheon“ In the spirit of One Web Day, a celebration of global online life taking place on September 22nd, as well as Berkman’s 10th anniversary, we dedicated our luncheon series last week to a discussion on “The Future of the Net.” Download the MP3 (time: 1:05:20) In [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website De-localized Production of Scientific Knowledge The Berkman Center kicked off this year’s Luncheon Series on Tuesday, September 11 with a stimulating presentation from world renowned physicist and professor at Harvard’s Department of the History of Science, Peter Galison. Download the MP3 (time: 1:03:33) Peter is the Joseph Pellegrino University Professor at Harvard University, a MacArthur Fellow, and spoke on his work [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website De-localized Production of Scientific Knowledge The Berkman Center kicked off this year’s Luncheon Series on Tuesday, September 11 with a stimulating presentation from world renowned physicist and professor at Harvard’s Department of the History of Science, Peter Galison. Download the MP3 (time: 1:03:33) Peter is the Joseph Pellegrino University Professor at Harvard University, a MacArthur Fellow, and spoke on his work [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website danah boyd on MyFriends, MySpace On June 19, danah boyd participated in the Berkman Luncheon Series to discuss her work and research in the area of social networks. She provided a great historical context to the various sites that have come and gone from the center of Internet activity, as well as some insight into what brought about their [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website danah boyd on MyFriends, MySpace On June 19, danah boyd participated in the Berkman Luncheon Series to discuss her work and research in the area of social networks. She provided a great historical context to the various sites that have come and gone from the center of Internet activity, as well as some insight into what brought about their [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Social and Cultural UNIVERSITY Communities Online and Off How can University sponsored events leverage their reach, build communities and keep the conversations going after the conference ends? Using as a case study the Dred Scott conference held by the Charles Hamilton Houston Institute for Race and Justice in April, we will discuss how history relates to the present and future. We will consider [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Social and Cultural UNIVERSITY Communities Online and Off How can University sponsored events leverage their reach, build communities and keep the conversations going after the conference ends? Using as a case study the Dred Scott conference held by the Charles Hamilton Houston Institute for Race and Justice in April, we will discuss how history relates to the present and future. We will consider [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Open Access at UNIVERSITY� OpenCourseWare and Beyond MIT�s OpenCourseWare, along with numerous other University-lead open access learning initiatives, has revealed the world�s thirst for open access knowledge and learning. What have we learned from previous efforts, and how and in what ways can Universities harness the potential of making their course material open access? How do we give knowledge, once put online, [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Open Access at UNIVERSITY – OpenCourseWare and Beyond MIT’s OpenCourseWare, along with numerous other University-lead open access learning initiatives, has revealed the world’s thirst for open access knowledge and learning. What have we learned from previous efforts, and how and in what ways can Universities harness the potential of making their course material open access? How do we give knowledge, once put online, [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website UNIVERSITY and the RIAA Suits brought against members of University by the RIAA bring up issues revolving around the role and identity of University and copyright. Universities are being asked to absorb financial and non-monetary costs of the record companies’ enforcement. Is this enforcement also compromising student privacy? Does this limit access to genuine educational resources? How do we [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website UNIVERSITY and the RIAA Suits brought against members of University by the RIAA bring up issues revolving around the role and identity of University and copyright. Universities are being asked to absorb financial and non-monetary costs of the record companies’ enforcement. Is this enforcement also compromising student privacy? Does this limit access to genuine educational resources? How do we [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Digital Identity of UNIVERSITY With digital tools such as message boards, social networks, and search engines making University and its clients� identities more public than ever, navigating the integrated media landscape for students and other members of University has become increasingly difficult. In a world where anonymous postings can have lasting effects on the professional and personal lives of [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Digital Identity of UNIVERSITY With digital tools such as message boards, social networks, and search engines making University and its clients’ identities more public than ever, navigating the integrated media landscape for students and other members of University has become increasingly difficult. In a world where anonymous postings can have lasting effects on the professional and personal lives of [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website UNIVERSITY and its Library Librarians are the navigators of knowledge and access at University. As search and content companies further engage in the realm of University and its Library, how do the roles of library, librarians, and library tools evolve, particularly into digital space? With libraries embracing new content delivery services, creating their own digital taxonomies and resources, and [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website UNIVERSITY and its Library Librarians are the navigators of knowledge and access at University. As search and content companies further engage in the realm of University and its Library, how do the roles of library, librarians, and library tools evolve, particularly into digital space? With libraries embracing new content delivery services, creating their own digital taxonomies and resources, and [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Connecting UNIVERSITY and Localized Curricula What is University’s role in guiding elementary education? Through empowering and enabling local teachers and volunteers in the world through collaborative development of teaching materials with luminaries in various academic disciplines, we can connect University to all children in the world, offering children who may not necessarily have access to traditional systems that would lead [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Connecting UNIVERSITY and Localized Curricula What is University’s role in guiding elementary education? Through empowering and enabling local teachers and volunteers in the world through collaborative development of teaching materials with luminaries in various academic disciplines, we can connect University to all children in the world, offering children who may not necessarily have access to traditional systems that would lead [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website UNIVERSITY and the Digital Divide There’s been much discussion of open access to information, but that doesn’t mean much to people who don’t have access to the network at all. This working group addressed the role University can play in addressing digital divide issues, and how those issues relate to the other topics of openness. Facilitators: Nolan Bowie (Senior Fellow, Berkman [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website UNIVERSITY and the Digital Divide There’s been much discussion of open access to information, but that doesn’t mean much to people who don’t have access to the network at all. This working group addressed the role University can play in addressing digital divide issues, and how those issues relate to the other topics of openness. Facilitators: Nolan Bowie (Senior Fellow, Berkman [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Alternative UNIVERSITY Models for Scholarly Publications The ways in which professors, academics and students and professionals release their work into the world are changing. The old models of scholarly publishing, in which most work is turned over to a publishing company just to be purchased back by the Universities from which it originated, are challenged as the printing press is replaced [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Alternative UNIVERSITY Models for Scholarly Publications The ways in which professors, academics and students and professionals release their work into the world are changing. The old models of scholarly publishing, in which most work is turned over to a publishing company just to be purchased back by the Universities from which it originated, are challenged as the printing press is replaced [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website UNIVERSITY Agenda for Fair Use The Center for Social Media at American University and documentary filmmakers wrote a report on Best Practices in Fair Use to help navigate the waters of copyrighted materials and to determine when material use can be considered Fair Use. Much like documentarians, members of University communities are often riddled with questions as they create and [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website UNIVERSITY Agenda for Fair Use The Center for Social Media at American University and documentary filmmakers wrote a report on Best Practices in Fair Use to help navigate the waters of copyrighted materials and to determine when material use can be considered Fair Use. Much like documentarians, members of University communities are often riddled with questions as they create and [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Final Words from David Weinberger at Internet&Society 2007 David Weinberger, Research Fellow at the Berkman Center for Internet & Society and author of the new book Everything is Miscellaneous, offers some final words at Internet & Society 2007 on June 1. Download the MP3 (time: 19:37). Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Final Words from David Weinberger at Internet & Society 2007 David Weinberger, Research Fellow at the Berkman Center for Internet & Society and author of the new book Everything is Miscellaneous, offers some final words at Internet & Society 2007 on June 1. Download the MP3 (time: 19:37). Share and Enjoy: Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Working Group Report and Action Plan at Internet&Society 2007 Harvard Business School Professor and Berkman Center Faculty Fellow, Karim Lakhani leads the Working Group Report and Action Plan afternoon session at Internet & Society 2007 on June 1. Download the MP3 (time: 55:44). Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Working Group Report and Action Plan at Internet & Society 2007 Harvard Business School Professor and Berkman Center Faculty Fellow, Karim Lakhani leads the Working Group Report and Action Plan afternoon session at Internet & Society 2007 on June 1. Download the MP3 (time: 55:44). Share and Enjoy: Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website John Palfrey Keynote at Internet&Society 2007 Professor John Palfrey, Executive Director of the Berkman Center for Internet & Society and Digital Natives Principal Investigator, presents the conference keynote on being “Born Digital” at Internet & Society 2007 on June 1. Download the MP3 (time: 1:00:28). Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website John Palfrey Keynote at Internet&Society 2007 Professor John Palfrey, Executive Director of the Berkman Center for Internet & Society and Digital Natives Principal Investigator, presents the conference keynote on being “Born Digital” at Internet & Society 2007 on June 1. Download the MP3 (time: 1:00:28). Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website John Palfrey Keynote at Internet & Society 2007 Professor John Palfrey, Executive Director of the Berkman Center for Internet & Society and Digital Natives Principal Investigator, presents the conference keynote on being “Born Digital” at Internet & Society 2007 on June 1. Download the MP3 (time: 1:00:28). 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Share and Enjoy: Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Introduction and Welcome to Internet&Society 2007 Professor Charles Ogletree, Executive Director of The Charles Hamilton Houston Institute for Race and Justice and Internet & Society 2007 Co-chair kicks off the conference with a special welcome from Professor Charles Nesson, Berkman Center for Internet & Society Founder and Internet & Society 2007 Co-chair on June 1. Download the MP3 (time: 12:53). Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Introduction and Welcome to Internet & Society 2007 Professor Charles Ogletree, Executive Director of The Charles Hamilton Houston Institute for Race and Justice and Internet & Society 2007 Co-chair kicks off the conference with a special welcome from Professor Charles Nesson, Berkman Center for Internet & Society Founder and Internet & Society 2007 Co-chair on June 1. Download the MP3 (time: 12:53). Share and [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Nicholas Negroponte Keynote at Internet&Society 2007 Nicholas Negroponte, Founder and Chairman of One Laptop per Child, presents the keynote address at this year’s Internet & Society conference, “University - Knowledge Beyond Authority” on May 31. Download the MP3 (time: 48:32). Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Nicholas Negroponte Keynote at Internet & Society 2007 Nicholas Negroponte, Founder and Chairman of One Laptop per Child, presents the keynote address at this year’s Internet & Society conference, “University - Knowledge Beyond Authority” on May 31. Download the MP3 (time: 48:32). Share and Enjoy: Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Gene Koo on New Skills, New Learning At the end of March, the Berkman Center celebrated the release of Gene Koo�s study on the relation between the development of legal education and the technology required for modern-day practice, entitled: New Skills, New Learning: Legal Education and the Promise of Technology. This week at the Berkman Center, Gene presented his findings during the weekly [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Gene Koo on New Skills, New Learning At the end of March, the Berkman Center celebrated the release of Gene Koo’s study on the relation between the development of legal education and the technology required for modern-day practice, entitled: New Skills, New Learning: Legal Education and the Promise of Technology. This week at the Berkman Center, Gene presented his findings during the weekly [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Digital Natives: Participatory Culture or Self-Representation? Corinna di Gennaro visited the Berkman Center this week to discuss “Digital Natives: Participatory Culture or Self-Representation?” Download the audio podcast (time: 1:02:39). The growing diffusion of Internet adoption and use and the popularity of Internet applications from blogs to social networking sites, has sparkled a revolution in the way people gather and share information. But [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Digital Natives: Participatory Culture or Self-Representation? Corinna di Gennaro visited the Berkman Center this week to discuss “Digital Natives: Participatory Culture or Self-Representation?” Download the audio podcast (time: 1:02:39). The growing diffusion of Internet adoption and use and the popularity of Internet applications from blogs to social networking sites, has sparkled a revolution in the way people gather and share information. But [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website An Open Source Marriage of Audio, Music, and Radio New Jersey freeform radio station WFMU has been a leader in non-commercial radio�s use of web technologies and social media. General Manager Ken Freedman joined us at the Berkman Center on May 9 to discuss WFMU�s latest project, an open source audio library to be known as the Free Music Archive. Download the audio podcast [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website An Open Source Marriage of Audio, Music, and Radio New Jersey freeform radio station WFMU has been a leader in non-commercial radio’s use of web technologies and social media. General Manager Ken Freedman joined us at the Berkman Center on May 9 to discuss WFMU’s latest project, an open source audio library to be known as the Free Music Archive. Download the audio podcast [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Applications of Social Networking Technology to Medical Treatment Tony Ferraro, President and CEO of 360Hubs and Dr. David Stone, a practicing psychologist, former Harvard Fellow in computer science and now a Visiting Scholar in GSAS joined us at the Berkman Center to speak about applications of social networking technology in the treatment of trauma survivors. Download the audio podcast (time: 1:14:05). David began the [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Applications of Social Networking Technology to Medical Treatment Tony Ferraro, President and CEO of 360Hubs and Dr. David Stone, a practicing psychologist, former Harvard Fellow in computer science and now a Visiting Scholar in GSAS joined us at the Berkman Center to speak about applications of social networking technology in the treatment of trauma survivors. Download the audio podcast (time: 1:14:05). David began the [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Teresa Hackett on Digital Libraries in Developing Nations University: Knowledge Beyond Authority Internet & Society Conference 2007 Lead Up Event Download the audio podcast (time: 1:14:10). The role and mission of libraries is to collect, organise, preserve and make available the world�s cultural and scientific heritage for current and future generations. Publicly funded libraries operating for the public benefit support access to knowledge, as well [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Teresa Hackett on Digital Libraries in Developing Nations University: Knowledge Beyond Authority Internet & Society Conference 2007 Lead Up Event Download the audio podcast (time: 1:14:10). The role and mission of libraries is to collect, organise, preserve and make available the world’s cultural and scientific heritage for current and future generations. Publicly funded libraries operating for the public benefit support access to knowledge, as well [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Access Denied: The Practice and Policy of Global Internet Filtering Rob Faris, the OpenNet Initiative’s Research Director and John Palfrey, one of the project’s Principal Investigators, lead a discussion of Internet filtering and provided a glimpse of the results of ONI�s first global survey of Internet censorship. Download the audio podcast (time: 1:08:57). In the last year ONI has studied forty countries and found a substantial [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website IS2K7 Interview with Michael Hemment Michael Hemment is Research Librarian and Head of Scholarly Research Initiatives at Widener Library, here at Harvard University. Recently, MediaBerkman producer Colin Rhinesmith sat down with Michael to discuss a number of pressing issues in the research field. Download the audio podcast (time: 22:55). In this Internet & Society 2007 podcast, Michael discusses the available [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Wendy Seltzer,�Sacked by Copyright� When Berkman Fellow and Chilling Effects founder Wendy Seltzer posted a Super Bowl clip to YouTube, she thought she’d get to teach a bit about copyright — the clip was the NFL’s warning that “Any other use of this telecast or of any pictures, descriptions, or accounts of the game without the NFL’s consent, is [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Africa�s Internet Infrastructure Eric Osiakwan and Ethan Zuckerman join Berkman Center visitors and participants to discuss current developments in Africa’s Internet and communications infrastructure, as a follow-up to their Luncheon Series talk last September. Download the audio podcast (time: 1:35:38). In this lively conversation with a great deal of questions and answers, we hear about exciting possibilities and innovations, [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Napster�s Second Life? Regulatory Dynamics of Virtual Worlds Viktor Mayer-Schoenberger discusses “Napster’s Second Life? Regulatory Dynamics of Virtual Worlds”. Download the audio podcast (time: 1:15:10). Five million registered users and counting - Second Life is the current darling of the media. With its decision to let users build their virtual world and retain intellectual property rights in their creations they broke new ground, then [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Does Participatory Culture Lead to Participatory Democracy? Web of Ideas with David Weinberger, March 21, 2007. Download the audio podcast (time: 1:20:56). Thanks to the pliability of bits and the connectedness of the Net, we�re now able to participate in our culture like never before. We can create a video and post it at sites like YouTube. We can watch a video and [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Copyright and Access to Knowledge Mary Wong of Franklin Pierce Law Center joins Berkman Center guests, fellows, and staff to discuss the growing discourse around such topics as �the commons,� �free culture,� and �open content.� Download the audio podcast (time: 1:03:04). Professor Wong addresses the extent to whichthese terms are rhetoric or signals of change; how “openness” can be [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Opening Up to Open Access: Part Two Gavin Yamey on “Opening Up to Open Access: What Can Other Disciplines Learn from the Sciences?” Download part two of the audio podcast (time: 23:10). What can academics do to ensure that their research results are included in the growing “knowledge commons?” Gavin Yamey MD, Senior Editor of PLoS Medicine and Consulting Editor of PLoS Neglected [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Harvard Law School Discussion on US Attorney Firings On March 14, 2007, the Berkman Center Clinical Program in Cyberlaw and Harvard Law School’s Office of Public Interest Advising’s Heyman Fellowship Program sponsored a panel discussion on the controversy surrounding the Bush administration’s firing of eight United States Attorneys. Download the audio podcast (time: 1:21:34). Panelists include: Professor David Barron of Harvard Law School; Ari [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Opening Up to Open Access: Part One Gavin Yamey on “Opening Up to Open Access: What Can Other Disciplines Learn from the Sciences?” Download part one of the audio podcast (time: 1:17:38). What can academics do to ensure that their research results are included in the growing “knowledge commons?” Gavin Yamey MD, Senior Editor of PLoS Medicine and Consulting Editor of PLoS [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website John Mayer of CALI 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. Download the audio [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Internet and the Music Industry David Herlihy of Northeastern University leads a discussion on “Internet and the Music Industry” as part of the Berkman Center Luncheon Series. Download the audio podcast (time: 1:05:57). A professor of music industry and copyright, David reviews the current landscape of the field and explores both business models and copyright policy for the future. David maintains [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Literary Vision of Copyright Matthew Pearl, best-selling author and Visiting Lecturer at Harvard Law School participated in the Berkman Center Luncheon Series on February 27 to discuss: “The Literary Vision of Copyright.” Download the audio podcast (time: 1:07:28). Derived from his current course at HLS, Pearl considered how literary titans such as Twain, Dickens, Poe, and Whitman confronted copyright transitions [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Rehabilitation and Restorative Justice in Jamaica�s Prisons 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. Download the audio podcast (time: 1:17:28). Wallen, a Berkman Affiliate, is working with the government [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Lewis Hyde on Cultural Commons Berkman Fellow Lewis Hyde talks about the topic of his upcoming work, “the privatizing of the cultural commons.” Download the audio podcast (time: 1:09:25). 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 [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Pop Culture to Democracy Steve Schultze discusses the convergence of pop culture with political action as it creates a new, networked form of participatory democracy. The discussion is a primer for the Beyond Broadcast 2007 Conference that will take place on February 24th at MIT. Download the MP3 (time: 1:04:01) Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Securing Human Rights Online 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.” Download the MP3 (time: 1:03:01). Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website ID Mashup 2006 Day Two: Code and Law: How Should and Might They Mix? Closing Plenary Session: Code and Law: How Should and Might They Mix? Download the MP3. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website ID Mashup 2006 Day Two: Towards and Open Identity Layer and Trusted Exchange Open Plenary Session: Towards and Open Identity Layer and Trusted Exchange: What Might it Look Like? Download the MP3. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Civics 2.0 Chad Maglaque and Timothy Killian of MorePerfect.org discuss “Civics 2.0″. MorePerfect is a web initiative approaching democracy in a direct, public, participatory way through the internet and wikis. Download the MP3 (1:24:53). Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Evidence 2007 Lecture Two Evidence is a Harvard Law School course taught by Professor Charles Nesson. Visit the Evidence Course Wiki to learn how to participate. Download the MP3 (time: 23:57) Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Evidence 2007 Lecture One Evidence is a Harvard Law School course taught by Professor Charles Nesson. Visit the Evidence Course Wiki to learn how to participate. Download the MP3 (time: 9:43) Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Susan Crawford on The Internet and the Project of Communications Law Susan Crawford of Cardozo Law School discusses “The Internet and the Project of Communications Law,” focusing on the way the internet’s uniqueness as a social communications tool should affect the way we think about regulating it. Download the MP3 (time: 57:26). Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Susan Crawford on The Internet and the Project of Communications Law Susan Crawford of Cardozo Law School discusses “The Internet and the Project of Communications Law,” focusing on the way the internet’s uniqueness as a social communications tool should affect the way we think about regulating it. Download the MP3 (time: 57:26). Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website