Berkman Center for Internet & Society

Designing for Remixing; Cyberscholars; Consent of the Networked

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Berkman Buzz: January 20, 2012

Responding to SOPA/PIPA, a new library test kitchen, Internet immortality, and more...in this week's Buzz.

Hackademia; Too Big to Know; Designing for Remixing; Consent of the Networked

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Lady Gaga to Officially Launch Born This Way Foundation at Harvard on February 29th

Born This Way Foundation to partner with The John D. & Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, The California Endowment, Harvard’s Berkman Center for Internet & Society and the Harvard Graduate School of Education on event

Lady Gaga and her mother, Cynthia Germanotta, announced today that they will officially launch the Born This Way Foundation (BTWF) on Wednesday, February 29th, 2012 at Harvard University’s Sanders Theatre. Lady Gaga will be joined by some very special guests as she personally unveils BTWF before a crowd of policy makers, non-profit organizations, foundation leaders and youth themselves who are working to create a kinder and braver world.

The Berkman Community Responds to SOPA/PIPA

On January 18, many U.S. websites participated in a blackout in order to express their opposition to pending U.S. legislation—House Bill 3261, The Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) and S.968, the PROTECT IP Act (PIPA). The Berkman Center for Internet & Society does not take an institutional position on matters of policy. However, it encourages its faculty, fellows, staff, and community members to express their viewpoints, and invites in-depth conversations on controversial issues. Our goals are to stimulate informed analysis and to catalyze the expression of diverse opinions.

Intensive Course on IP and Business Strategy

In the second week of February, 2012, four faculty from Harvard Law School (including Berkman directors Terry Fisher and John Palfrey) and three faculty from Harvard Business School will be teaching an intensive 3-day executive-education course at the Business School on the topic of "Intellectual Property and Business Strategy."

Berkman Buzz: January 13, 2012

The new news ombudsman, social media in pre-revolution Egypt, a Herdict mystery, and more...in this week's Buzz.

Berkman Center and Pew Internet release first in-depth study of mobile giving

Contributors to the “Text to Haiti” earthquake relief campaign were spur-of-the-moment donors who often induced friends and family to give, too, new research finds.

Will Free Benefit the Rich?; Ideas for a Better Internet; Hackademia; Too Big to Know; Consent of the Networked

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Berkman Buzz: January 6, 2012

Occupy Nigeria, the Arab world: a year in pictures, applauding open access, and more...in this week's Buzz.

Information-Seeking Process of College Students in the Digital Age; Will Free Benefit the Rich?; Too Big to Know

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