Berkman Center for Internet & Society

Berkman Buzz: March 16, 2012

A new interactive nature documentary, the end of Righthaven, hacker ethics, and more...in this week's Buzz.

Alex Howard on Open Government; A conversation with FTC Commissioner Julie Brill & Professor John Palfrey; The Digital Dialectic

Upcoming events and digital media roundup

RB 194: The Wiki 1%

Only 1% of educational wikis succeed in creating the kind of multimedia, collaborative learning environment we have come to associate with open educational resources like PBWikis and Wikispaces. Radio Berkman wanted to know: Who is making those successful wikis and how? Producer Frances Harlow spent a day at Thayer Academy in Braintree, MA to see how this technology is being used.

Berkman Buzz: March 9, 2012

Unpacking Kony 2012, Global Voices at SXSW, your new library friend, and more...in this week's Buzz.

Talk with Alex Howard of O'Reilly Media; A conversation with FTC Commissioner Julie Brill and John Palfrey

Upcoming events and digital media roundup

RB 193: Facts Are Boring

On the podcast for Radio Berkman we tear apart the difference between Truth, Fact, and Evidence, and the quiet, but irreplaceable, role of the humble factchecker in our media.

RB 192: Wikis, Teaching, and the Digital Divide

Technology has made us all kinds of promises when it comes to transforming the way we learn — not least of which was the promise to break the "digital divide." But there is some evidence showing that some educational technologies are used less effectively in poor schools than in rich ones. Justin Reich on this week's podcast.

Berkman Buzz: March 2, 2012

Exploring civic video, examining "truthiness," a report from the OWS Forum on the commons, and more...in this week's Buzz.

Exploring Russian Cyberspace: Digitally-Mediated Collective Action and the Networked Public Sphere - New Berkman Center Research

In advance of this Sunday’s Russian presidential election, the Berkman Center is pleased to announce the release of a paper that summarizes the major findings for our three-year project investigating the Internet’s impact on Russian politics, media and society.

Lady Gaga Testifies at Harvard on Behalf of Born This Way Foundation

Pop icon stands before distinguished panel including Oprah Winfrey, Deepak Chopra, Secretary Kathleen Sebelius, Alyssa Rodemeyer, Professor Charles Ogletree, Dr. Susan M. Swearer and David Burtka

Today at Harvard University, Lady Gaga and her mother, Cynthia Germanotta, officially unveiled Born This Way Foundation (BTWF), a new non-profit charitable organization, before a crowd of policy makers, non-profit organizations, foundation leaders, students and youth at the Harvard Graduate School of Education’s Askwith Forum.

Born This Way Foundation Launch: Collected Links

Ongoing coverage of the Born This Way Foundation Launch at Harvard University.

Webcast: Born This Way Foundation Launch; The Growth and Decay of Shared Knowledge

Upcoming events at the Berkman Center.

Berkman Buzz: February 24, 2012

Quantifying cosmopolitanism, YouTube and the Surveillance Revolution, new report on information quality, and more...in this week's Buzz.

RB 191: Quality Control

When the net competes with family, friends, school, and mass media, how do kids tell truth from the garbage? Researchers here at the Berkman Center sought to find out, and came back with some fascinating findings. We sat down this week with four people intimately involved with the research: Urs Gasser, Sandra Cortesi, Nathaniel Levy, and Ned Crowley.