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Upcoming Events

Apr 2, 2024 @ 3:00 PM

Not My Type: Automating Sexual Racism in Online Dating

Conversation & Book Signing

A new book by Dr. Apryl Williams exposes how race-based discrimination is a fundamental part of the most popular and influential dating…

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Apr 11, 2024 @ 6:00 PM

Enshittification, Disenshittification and The Bezzle: Cory Doctorow in conversation with Randall Munroe

Conversation & Book Signing

Activist, author and journalist Cory Doctorow coined "enshittification," the American Dialect Society's 2023 Word of the Year, describing how platforms decay and why they're…

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Apr 17, 2024 @ 12:30 PM

Global South, Geopolitics, and U.S, Europe, and China’s Competition to Influence Global AI Regulation

State of Play

The panel discussion seeks to discuss the evolving state of African AI governance and engagement.

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Apr 24, 2024 @ 12:39 PM

Harvard x Creators: Making Evidence-Based Public Health Information Viral

RSM Speaker Series

RSM welcomes Amanda Yarnell and Kate Speer for a conversation with Visiting Scholar Jeff Hall about the Center for Health Communication‘s efforts to improve the quality of public…

Past Events

Sep 9, 2015 @ 5:00 PM

Berkman Center Fall 2015 Open House

Come to the Berkman Center for Internet & Society’s Fall 2015 Open House to meet our faculty, fellows, and staff, and to learn about the many ways you can get involved in our…

Jul 14, 2015 @ 12:00 PM

Network Equality

Olivier Sylvain, Associate Professor, Fordham School of Law

Net neutrality advocates focus on app innovation to the detriment of more important telecom law/policy norms of universality and equality.

Jul 7, 2015 @ 12:00 PM

The Web We Want & The Ed We Want

with Justin Reich

In this talk, Justin Reich will highlight some of the exciting innovations within education that seek to put students and learners in charge of their online lives.

Jun 30, 2015 @ 12:00 PM

Ideology and Text: Classifying and Analyzing Discourse using Machine Learning

with Ali Hashmi

The link between the ideology and the text: how to classify, analyze, and deconstruct media discourse using machine learning and critical approaches.

Jun 23, 2015 @ 12:00 PM

Toward Critical Feminist Technology Studies of Youth Safety: Problematizing Dominant Digital Approaches to Sexual Exploitation of Children Online

Mitali Thakor, PhD student in MIT's HASTS program

In this talk, Mitali Thakor will discuss my ethnographic fieldwork on new digital approaches to addressing child exploitation online, such as the use of avatars and image…

Jun 22, 2015 @ 6:00 PM

BiblioTech: Why Libraries Matter More Than Ever In An Age of Google

with author John Palfrey

John Palfrey argues that anyone seeking to participate in the 21st century needs to understand how to find and use the vast stores of information available online. Libraries play…

Jun 16, 2015 @ 12:00 PM

The Quantified Self; Newsfeed: Created by you?; Holding Crowds Accountable To The Public; EVE Online and World of Darkness

Microsoft Research PhD Interns Ifeoma Ajunwa, Stacy Blasiola, Nathan Matias, and Aleena Chia present their current research

Join these Microsoft PhD Interns, Ifeoma Ajunwa, Stacy Blasiola, Nathan Matias, and Aleena Chia, as they present their current research at the Berkman Center.

Jun 9, 2015 @ 12:00 PM

Data, data everywhere -- but how to manage and govern?

Christine Borgman, Professor and Presidential Chair in Information Studies, University of California, Los Angeles

This talk will identify some of the challenges faced by universities in managing and governing complex categories of data.

Jun 2, 2015 @ 12:00 PM

Expanding the Definition of Membership in Public Media

with Melody Kramer

What does it mean to be a member? What could it mean? Updating #pubmedia membership.

May 19, 2015 @ 12:00 PM

Guide to U.S. Government Practice on Global Information Sharing, Second Edition

with authors John Kropf and Neal Cohen

The recently published “Guide to U.S. Government Practice on Global Sharing of Personal Information, Second Edition”, provides an introduction to the principles, practices, and…

May 16, 2015 @ 9:30 AM

Wind Farm

Internet Offline Simulation Event

Wind Farm's Internet Offline Simulation is a fun and interactive day for people of all ages and backgrounds. The only requirement is an open mind and optimistic view of what might…

May 12, 2015 @ 12:00 PM

Economic Inequality and Technology: How Knowledge Sharing Helps

with Jim Bessen in conversation with Karim Lakhani

The threat of ever-widening economic inequality looms, but in his new book, Learning by Doing: The Real Connection Between Innovation, Wages, and Wealth, James Bessen argues that…

Apr 28, 2015 @ 12:00 PM

Intellectual Privacy

with author Neil Richards

Come see @neilmrichards explain how privacy and free expression are essential to each other as he talks about his new book Intellectual Privacy.

Apr 27, 2015 @ 5:00 PM

The Arab Networked Public Sphere: Social Mobilization Post-Revolutions

With special guests, Lina Attalah, Rob Faris (moderator), Fares Mabrouk, Dalia Othman and Nagla Rizk

Join us for a round-table discussion on the networked public sphere and social mobilization post-revolutions in the Arab world.

Apr 21, 2015 @ 12:00 PM

Classes of defense for computer systems

with Berkman Fellow, Josephine Wolff

Drawing on case studies of actual security incidents, as well as the past decade of security incident data at MIT, this talk will analyze security roles and defense design…

Apr 16, 2015 @ 2:30 PM

Cyberscholar Working Group at Yale University

The Cyberscholar Working Group is a forum for fellows and affiliates of MIT, Yale Law School Information Society Project, Columbia University, and the Berkman Center for Internet …

Apr 14, 2015 @ 12:00 PM

Taking Back Power in the Age of Networks

with filmmaker, writer, and political organizer, Astra Taylor

Tuesday, April 14, 2015 at 12:00 pm

Apr 9, 2015 @ 4:00 PM

Deconstructing the 'Cuban Spring' Fantasy

A chat about Cuba and the Internet

What does the new chapter in US-Cuba relations mean for digital communities and journalists in Cuba?

Apr 7, 2015 @ 12:00 PM

The Black Box Society

With author Frank Pasquale. Moderated by Jonathan Zittrain.

Does the increasing velocity, variety, and volume of data make regulators' jobs harder or easier? Some say we are entering a "golden age of surveillance," enabling perfect…

Apr 2, 2015 @ 5:00 PM

Love the Processor, Hate the Process: The Temptations of Clever Algorithms and When to Resist Them

Harvard Law School Chair Lecture by Jonathan Zittrain, George Bemis Professor of International Law

“Love the Processor, Hate the Process: The Temptations of Clever Algorithms and When to Resist Them"