Berkman Center for Internet & Society

Berkman Luncheon Series

Beyond online/offline: Information access, public spaces, & the boundaries of visibility for queer youth in the rural US

Mary L. Gray, Indiana University

Drawing on her experiences working for 2 years in rural parts of Kentucky and in small towns along its borders, Mary will map 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 agendas of national gay and lesbian advocacy groups.

When Countries Collide Online: Internet Spies, Cyberwar, and Government-sponsored Skullduggery

Cliff Stoll and Jonathan Zittrain

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? How far might they go? What are the legal implications of state sponsored network espionage?

Berkman Luncheon Series

Media Piracy in Emerging Economies

Joe Karaganis, Social Science Research Council

Joe Karaganis will discuss 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.

Law Lab Speaker Series

Transparent Citizens and the Rule of Law

Joel R. Reidenberg, Professor of Law and Director, Center on Law and Information Policy, Fordham University

Joel will discuss "Transparent Citizens and the Rule of Law", an essay that explores the erosion of the boundary between public and private information on the Internet.

Berkman Luncheon Series

Configuring the Networked Self

Julie Cohen, Berkman Fellow

Berkman Faculty Fellow and HLS Visiting Professor Julie Cohen will discuss a chapter from her forthcoming book, which explores the effects of expanding copyright, pervasive surveillance, and the increasingly opaque design of network architectures in the emerging networked information society. This event will be webcast live at 12:30 PM ET.

Law Lab Speaker Series

Transformed Social Interaction in Virtual Reality

Jeremy Bailenson, founding director of Stanford University's Virtual Human Interaction Lab and an associate professor in the Department of Communication at Stanford

In this talk, Jeremy will describe a series of projects that explore the manners in which avatars (representations of people in virtual environments) qualitatively change the nature of remote communication. This event will be webcast live at 12:30PM ET.