Berkman Center for Internet & Society

Berkman Luncheon Series

Going Feral on the Net: the Qualities of Survival in a Wild, Wired World

Matthew Battles, Managing Editor and Curatorial Practice Fellow at metaLAB (at) Harvard

How do we balance the empowering possibilities of the networked public sphere with the dark, unsettling, and even dangerous energies of cyberspace? Matthew Battles blends a deep-historical perspective on the internet with storytelling that reaches into its weird, uncanny depths.

Berkman Luncheon Series

The Information: James Gleick talks about his new book

James Gleick, author of The Information: A History, a Theory, a Flood, will discuss his new book.

DPLA West Conference + Webcast

DPLA West—taking place on April 27, 2012 in San Francisco—is the second major public event bringing together librarians, technologists, creators, students, government leaders, and others interested in building a Digital Public Library of America. This event will be webcast live.

Berkman Luncheon Series

Mediated Congregation - Architecting The Crystal Cathedral

Erica Robles-Anderson, Department of Media, Culture, and Communication, New York University

Within the past thirty years the rise of a new style of worship, coined “megachurch”, has transformed the American religious landscape. Blending audio, visual, and communications technologies within postmodern architectures, megachurches radically re-imagine Christianity. These re-contextualizations of secular technologies carry particularly symbolic meaning; for believers, megachurches make visible God's hand at work in the conditions of 20th and 21st century mediated social life. They produce conditions for apprehending a Protestant ethic within the networked worldview.

Berkman Luncheon Series

Unexpected Development: Decolonial Media Aesthetics and Women’s ICT4D Video

Dalida Maria Benfield, Berkman Center Fellow

ICT4D (Information Communication Technology for Development) powerfully frames women’s grassroots video production in the Global South, much of which is distributed widely through YouTube. Often, these videos reproduce racialized and gendered discourses - legacies of colonialism - in their narratives of economic, social, and technological progress. Dalida Maria Benfield will discuss.