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5:13 pm on May 20, 2019 · berkman (20), david weinberger (4)

WEBCAST TODAY: Book Talk – Everyday Chaos – David Weinberger & Joi Ito @berkmancenter @dweinberger @joi #everydaychaos

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livestream

livestreamOn Monday May 20 2019 at 6:30pm EDT (22:30 UTC) the Internet Society Livestream Channel will webcast a slightly edited video of ‘Everyday Chaos – A Book Talk with Author David Weinberger and Joi Ito‘ which took place last Tuesday at the Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society at Harvard University. In the book ‘Everyday Chaos: Technology, Complexity, and How We’re Thriving in a New World of Possibility‘ David Weinberger points to accepted ways we work on the Internet that in fact undo our old assumptions about how the future works: rather than attempting to anticipate what will happen and prepare for it, the Internet is training us to flourish by creating more and more unfathomable possibilities. Respondent Joi Ito is the director of the MIT Media Lab.


WATCH ON LIVESTREAM: https://livestream.com/internetsociety/everdaychaos

BOOK: https://everydaychaosbook.com/

TWITTER: #EverydayChaos https://bit.ly/everydaychaos

CC-BY Berkman Klein Center https://cyber.harvard.edu

10:12 pm on October 22, 2018 · berkman (20), content (7), media (12)

VIDEO: #NetworkPropaganda: Manipulation, Disinformation, and Radicalization in American Politics @BKCHarvard #contentrules #como3

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Network Propaganda

Network PropagandaOn October 4 2018 the Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society hosted a book panel event Network Propaganda: Manipulation, Disinformation, and Radicalization in American Politics at Harvard Law School. Authors Yochai Benkler, Robert Faris, and Hal Roberts presented the themes of the book.   Empirical analysis of millions of news stories and social media posts is used to overturn the conventional wisdom that new technologies and foreign agents swung the 2016 election in Trump’s favor and drove the current sense of a “post-truth” media landscape. Rather, the authors argue that longstanding institutional, political, and cultural patterns in American politics have interacted with technological change since the 1970s to create a propaganda feedback loop in American conservative media – a dynamic that has marginalized center-right media and politicians, radicalized the right wing ecosystem, and rendered it susceptible to propaganda efforts, foreign and domestic. After the presentation there was a panel discussion with respondents Dr. Claire Wardle and Martha Minow.

View on YouTube: https://youtu.be/v7iWP-4rYg4
Listen on Soundcloud: http://bit.ly/2Ja6Dfd
Download: video | audio
Book: OUP | Amazon | OSO (free)
Report: https://cyber.harvard.edu/publications/2017/08/mediacloud
Twitter: #networkpropaganda http://bit.ly/2JcjfTi

2:41 pm on April 16, 2018 · berkman (20), larry lessig (3), laura denardis (10), zittrain (9)

WEBCAST TODAY: Force of Nature – Celebrating 20 Years of the Laws of Cyberspace @BKCHarvard w/ @lessig, Ruth Okediji, @LauraDeNardis and @zittrain

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livestreamToday Monday April 16 2018 at 4pm ET (20:200 UTC), the Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society presents Force of Nature – Celebrating 20 Years of the Laws of Cyberspace at Harvard Law School. The event recognizes the 20th anniversary of the paper The Laws of Cyberspace (Taipei March ’98) by Professor Lawrence Lessig. Speakers: Professor Lessig, the Roy L. Furman Professor of Law and Leadership at Harvard Law School, along with Professor Ruth L. Okediji, the Jeremiah Smith, Jr. Professor of Law at Harvard Law School and Co-Director of the Berkman Klein Center, and Dr. Laura DeNardis, Professor in the School of Communication at American University, with moderator, Professor Jonathan Zittrain, the George Bemis Professor of International Law at Harvard Law School and the Harvard Kennedy School of Government, Professor of Computer Science at the Harvard School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Director of the Harvard Law School Library, and Faculty Director of the Berkman Center for Internet & Society. The event will be webcast live, and simulcast on the Internet Society Livestream Channel. (No captions).

View on Livestream: Internet Society Livestream Channel
Twitter: @BKCHarvard | #forces20

12:15 pm on February 7, 2017 · berkman (20), netneutrality (13), senate (12)

WEBCASTS TODAY: @SenateDems defend #netneutrality while @BKCHarvard discusses right to Internet

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US Senate

US SenateToday, Tuesday February 7 2016, as the new leadership at the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) moves to rescind the Open Internet Order, sessions in Washington DC question the wisdom/validity of that action. In Washington the Senate Democrats gathered to defend the Order, while in Boston at the Berkman Klein Professor Christoph B. Graber in a talk  – Bottom-up Constitutionalism: The Case of Net Neutrality – examines the emergence of a new constitutional right of the Internet, not only protect individuals in their communication online, but a right protecting also the Internet as an institution. Links below.

Senate Dems defend Net Neutrality


View on YouTube: https://youtu.be/kluAdfwm50Y

 

Bottom-up Constitutionalism: The Case of Net Neutrality

View on BKCHarvard website: https://cyber.harvard.edu/events/luncheons/2017/02/Graber

8:15 pm on January 27, 2017 · berkman (20), Susan Crawford (26), tom wheeler (9)

VIDEO: US Communications at a Crossroads – @scrawford talks to @TEWheels formerly @TomWheelerFCC @BKCHarvard

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On Tuesday January 24 2017 the Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society presented US Communications at a Crossroads at Harvard Law School. Professor Susan Crawford talked to outgoing Chair of the Federal Communications Commission Tom Wheeler about his work at the FCC, and where telecommunications might go under the next administration. Video is below:

View on YouTube: https://youtu.be/9s_EpWjPKwM
Edited transcript: https://backchannel.com/obamas-fcc-head-is-worried-about-our-online-future-628b8f63efc5

6:04 pm on October 26, 2015 · berkman (20), blockchain (23)

VIDEO: @virtuallylaw aka Patrick Murck on Property Law and the #Blockchain @berkmaninstitute

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Berkman Center

Berkman CenterOn Tuesday, October 20, 2015, the Berkman Center for Internet & Society at Harvard University presented Property Law and the Blockchain, a talk by Patrick Murck, co-founder of the Bitcoin Foundation. This is the first of series that aims to explore unpacks the legal complications of this fascinating new technology. Video is below.

Watch on YouTube: https://youtu.be/nqmkAa5VNGc
Skip intro: https://youtu.be/nqmkAa5VNGc?t=377

1:56 pm on July 14, 2015 · berkman (20), network equality (1), Oliver Sylvain (1)

VIDEO: @OliverSylvain on #NetworkEquality @berkmancenter

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Berkman Center

Berkman CenterToday, July 14 2015, Professor Olivier Sylvain of Fordham Law School presented his Feb 2015 paper Network Equality in a lunchtime talk at the Berkman Center for Internet & Society at Harvard University.One of the few clear priorities of the federal Communications Act is to ensure that all Americans have reasonably comparable access to the Internet without respect to whom or where they are. Yet, in spite of this, the main focus of policymakers and legal scholars in Internet policy today has been on promoting innovation, a concept that Congress barely invokes in the statute. The flagship regulatory intervention for this approach is “network neutrality,” a rule that forbids Internet providers from blocking or interfering with users’ connections. The paper critiques the prevailing approach and calls for a fundamental return to the distributional equality principle at the heart of communications law. While it has virtue, the singular focus on innovation could starkly exacerbate existing racial, ethnic, and class disparities because the quality of users’ Internet connections refract through those persistent demographic variables. Video is below.

View on YouTube: https://youtu.be/51aUXu2cbMM
Transcribe on AMARA: http://www.amara.org/en/videos/KpgaAh6DzHMh/
Twitter: #networkequality

6:37 pm on January 15, 2015 · berkman (20), China (9), privacy (69), security (26)

VIDEO: The Great Firewall Inverts – @n8fr8 @berkmancenter #privacy #security

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Berkman Center

Berkman CenterOn January 13, 2014 the Berkman Center for Internet & Society at Harvard University presented a talk – The Great Firewall Inverts – saying:

The world is witnessing a massive expansion of Chinese telecommunications reach and influence, powered entirely by users choosing to participate in it. In Usage of the mobile messaging app WeChat (微信 Weixin), for example, has skyrocketed not only inside China, but outside, as well. Due to these systems being built upon proprietary protocols and software, their inner workings are largely opaque and mostly insecure. (WeChat has full permission to activate microphones and cameras, track GPS, access user contacts and photos, and copy all of this data at any time to their servers.)

In this talk, Nathan Freitas — Berkman Fellow, director of technology strategy and training at the Tibet Action Institute. and leader of the Guardian Project — questions the risks to privacy and security foreign users engage in when adopting apps from Chinese companies. Do the Chinese companies behind these services have any market incentive or legal obligation to protect the privacy of their non-Chinese global userbase? Do they willingly or automatically turn over all data to the Ministry of Public Security or State Internet Information Office? Will we soon see foreign users targeted or prosecuted due to “private” data shared on WeChat? And is there any fundamental difference in the impact on privacy freedom for an American citizen using WeChat versus a Chinese citizen using WhatsApp or Google?

Video is below:

Watch on YouTube: http://youtu.be/KEJGqNf2rgk
Transcribe on AMARA: http://amara.org/en/videos/QXtvLEbkPhRP/
Download video: http://wilkins.law.harvard.edu/events/luncheons/2015-01-13_frietas/2015-01-13_frietas853.mov
Download audio: http://wilkins.law.harvard.edu/events/luncheons/2015-01-13_frietas/2015-01-13_frietas.mp3
Twitter: @berkmancenter + Firewall

1:24 pm on April 11, 2014 · benkler (1), berkman (20), bruce schneier (9), internet freedom (81), nsa (10), surveillance (38), zittrain (9)

VIDEO: Intelligence Gathering and the #Unowned Internet @BerkmanCenter #surveillance #netfreedom #nsa

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On April 8 2014 the Berkman Center for Internet and Society at Harvard University hosted a discussion –Intelligence Gathering and the Unowned Internet. The long-term viability of an unowned, open Internet remains in question. Any analysis of where the Internet is headed as a protocol and a platform must take into account the activities of both public and private entities that see the Internet as a source of intelligence — and a field of contention. This meeting aimed to leverage perspectives from inside and outside the U.S. intelligence community to bring some clarity to a discussion often rife with confusion. Participants included: Yochai Benkler, Berkman Professor for Entrepreneurial Legal Studies at Harvard Law School; John DeLong, Director of Compliance, National Security Agency; Anne Neuberger, Commercial Solutions Center Director, National Security Agency; Bruce Schneier, CTO of CO3 Systems and Fellow at the Berkman Center for Internet & Society; Jonathan Zittrain, Co-founder of the Berkman Center for Internet & Society. Terry Fisher. Wilmer Hale Professor of Intellectual Property Law at Harvard Law School and Faculty Director of the Berkman Center for Internet and Society moderated the discussion. Video is below:

View on YouTube: http://youtu.be/2dtsX5BdOKU
Transcribe on AMARA: http://www.amara.org/en/videos/gAtKHGZnl4Pv/
Download: video | audio
Twitter: #unowned

3:50 am on February 4, 2014 · berkman (20), governance (62), Veni (5)

WEBCAST TODAY: 2014 High-Level Conferences on ICT and the Internet: What Do They Mean? w/ @Veni Markovski @BerkmanCenter #governance

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Veni Markovski

Veni MarkovskiToday Tuesday February 4 2014 Veni Markovski, ICANN VP for Russia, CIS, and Eastern Europe, President of ISOC’s Bulgarian Chapter, will present 2014 High-Level Conferences on ICT and the Internet: What Do They Mean for the Internet As We Know It?, a talk in the Berkman Institute’s lunchtime series at Harvard Law School. The talk will be webcast live by the Berkman Center.

What: 2014 High-Level Conferences on ICT and the Internet: What Do They Mean for the Internet As We Know It?
Where: Berkman Institute, Boston
When: Tuesday February 4 2014 12.30pm-2.00pm EST | 1730-1900 UTC
Webcast: http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/events/luncheon/2014/02/markovski
Twitter: @Veni | @BerkmanCenter