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Event Tomorrow Marks the End of Commercial Restrictions on the Caselaw Access Project that Digitized All U.S. Case Law

Library Innovation Lab's event Transform: Justice intends to begin the process of charting the future for access to law. 

Mar 7, 2024
Wall Street Journal

What Gen Z Will Lose if They Don’t Have Friendships at Work

Jeffrey Hall discusses research around making friendships in the workplace.

Mar 7, 2024
TIME

How to Use Apps to Actually Make Friends

Jeffrey Hall discusses making friends online.

Mar 6, 2024
Brookings Institute

How public AI can strengthen democracy

Nathan Sanders, Bruce Schneier, and Norman Eisen advocate for a public AI to counterbalance private AI and promote tech that benefits all people, not just corporate interests.

Mar 4, 2024
WGBH

A year of 'wins' for Asian American representation in movies and TV

BKC Affiliate Jenny Korn discusses the focus on the intersectional identities of Asians in media from last year.

Mar 1, 2024
Harvard Magazine

Facebook’s Failures

BKC Graduate Student Fellow Dylan Moses joins Jeff Horwitz and Latanya Sweeney to discuss Horwitz's book, Broken Code: Inside Facebook and the Fight to Expose Its Harmful Secrets.

Mar 1, 2024
Digital Journalism

Artificial Intelligence, Journalism, and the Ubuntu Robot in Sub-Saharan Africa: Towards a Normative Framework

BKC Faculty Associate Greg Gondwe's new study investigates the integration of Ubuntu philosophy into AI-driven journalism practices in Subs-Saharan Africa.

Mar 1, 2024
Harvard Law Today

Gauge against the machine

BKC Affiliate Maroussia Lévesque facilitated a conversation between Justice Rosalie Silberman Abella and BKC Director Martha Minow on equity, equality, and fairness in the time of…

Feb 29, 2024
CHI '24

Air/time Travel: Rethinking Appropriation in Global HCI and Futures of Electronic Exchange

BKC Affiliate Daniel Mwesigwa and Christopher Csíkszentmíhalyi reexamine appropriation in Human-Computer Interaction.

Feb 29, 2024
The Ash Center

Can We Talk? An Argument for More Dialogues in Academia

BKC Employee Fellow Manon Revel argues that more communication is key to facing the world's toughest issues.

Feb 29, 2024
.coda

How tech design is always political

BKC Alumnus Ellery Roberts Biddle ruminates on social media companies' past mistakes and the potential to continue making such mistakes with the AI revolution.

Feb 29, 2024
The World

Chile pulls approval for giant Google data center

BKC Fellow Lauren Bridges discusses a Chilean environmental court's decision to suspend the approval for Google to build a giant data center due to water access concerns.

Feb 28, 2024
Jacobin

How the “Frontier” Became the Slogan of Uncontrolled AI

BKC Affiliates Nathan Sanders and Bruce Schneier argue that big tech uses the conception of AI as a new "frontier" to excuse exploitation and a lack of oversight or accountability.

Feb 27, 2024
The Boston Globe

It’s high noon at the high court for internet free speech. What’s next for social media users?

BKC Director Rebecca Tushnet comments on what First Amendment speech protections look like in online discussions.

Feb 27, 2024
LawFare

Building a Cyber Insurance Backstop Is Harder Than It Sounds

BKC Affiliate Bruce Schneier and Josephine Wolff describe the difficulties of forming a government back cybersecurity insurance backstop.

Feb 26, 2024

Why Online Free Speech Is Now Up to the Supreme Court

2023-2024 RSM Visiting Scholar Anupam Chander provides insight on the content moderation cases before the Supreme Court this term.

Feb 26, 2024
RSM

We spend less time on TikTok than we fear

RSM Alumna Elissa Redmiles summarizes her collaborative work on the (in)accuracy of user estimates of TikTok usage, and lays out the implications: 

Feb 23, 2024
2023 Gender and Health Hub Virtual Forum run by the UN University Institute for Global Health

Digital Justice and Sexual and Reproductive Rights

Feb 22, 2024
Harvard Law Today

Compelling speech

BKC Director Rebecca Tushnet comments on the Supreme Court Case NetChoice v. Paxton. 

Feb 21, 2024
Tech Policy Press

Ensuring Digital Services Act Audits Deliver on Their Promise

BKC Affiliate Hilary Ross, Jason Pielemeier, and Ramsha Jahangir critique the EU DSA audits.

Feb 19, 2024