Berkman Center for Internet & Society

Berkman Buzz: March 29, 2013

Why everyone should register a domain name, how digital media is changing civics, connecting big and small data, and more...in this week's Buzz.

The Web We Lost (4/2); IT, Security, and Power (4/4); Tech Policy Reform in Congress (4/9)

Upcoming events and recently archived digital media

HLS Students: Clinical Registration April 3rd – 5th

Come learn about the Cyberlaw Clinic during the HLS Clinical Fair

Are you interested in getting law school credit by working for real-world clients on cutting-edge legal issues that involve intellectual property, privacy, technology, and the Internet? Come learn about the Cyberlaw Clinic during the HLS Clinical Fair, which takes place on Wednesday, March 27, 2013 from 6:00 pm – 8:00 pm in Milstein East ABC. Staff from the Clinic (and many other HLS clinical programs) will be on hand to answer questions and provide details about their work.

Berkman Buzz: March 22, 2013

Children, privacy, and consent; building a more inclusive digital learning environment; the "worst law in technology"; and more...in this week's Buzz.

The Science of Player Behavior in Online Games (3/20); Permission Taken (3/26); The Web We Lost (4/2)

Upcoming events and recently archived digital media

RB210: The New Knowledge Worker

Young folks just entering the job world are pretty good at finding out information online and through social networks. But they experience significant difficulty with traditional methods of finding answers — going through bound reports, picking up the phone, or researching with groups. We find out why on today's podcast.

Berkman Buzz: March 14, 2013

Using Twitter to fight the spread of errors, events vs. facts, the perils of "pre-dating," and more...in this week's Buzz.

Permission Taken (3/26); The Web We Lost (4/2); Digital Public Library of America (DPLA) Launch at BPL (4/18-10)

Upcoming events and recently archived digital media

Teens and Technology 2013: New Survey Findings from Pew Research Center & Berkman Center

37% of all teens ages 12-17 have smartphones, up from just 23% in 2011. One in four teens are “cell-mostly” internet users – they mostly go online using their phone

Smartphone adoption among American teens has increased substantially and mobile access to the internet is pervasive. One in four teens are “cell-mostly” internet users, who say they mostly go online using their phone and not using some other device such as a desktop or laptop computer.

Berkman Buzz: March 8, 2013

Yoruba buzz on Twitter, political censorship by Facebook, cloud computing and the Chromebook pixel, and more...in this week's Buzz.

Big Data - and its Dark Side; The smartphone revolution in the behavioral sciences; Permission Taken

Upcoming events and digital media

Dan Cohen Named Founding Executive Director of the Digital Public Library of America

The Digital Public Library of America (DPLA) announced today the appointment of Dan Cohen as the DPLA’s founding Executive Director.

The DMLP Asks the Sixth Circuit to Safeguard Crowdsourced Research and Data-based Journalism

The Digital Media Law Project (formerly the Citizen Media Law Project), assisted by Harvard Law School’s Cyberlaw Clinic, has asked the Sixth Circuit to make clear that website operators that aggregate citizen reports and rely on that data to draw conclusions cannot be liable for defamation based on those conclusions.

Berkman Buzz: March 1, 2013

New open access mandate from the White House, "factivism," how Facebook is changing the college experience, and more...in this week's Buzz.

The Citizen Media Law Project is now the Digital Media Law Project

We are pleased to announce that the Citizen Media Law Project has now transitioned to its new name, the Digital Media Law Project.