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Upcoming Events

Mar 20, 2024 @ 12:30 PM

Moderating AI and Moderating with AI

RSM Speaker Series

RSM welcomes Dave Willner for a talk on the promises and perils that foundation models present for the field of content moderation.

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Mar 27, 2024 @ 12:30 PM

A Contractual Approach to Social Media Governance

RSM Speaker Series

Gilad Mills discusses his work on social media governance with Martha Minow...

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Mar 28, 2024 @ 1:00 PM

Social Media and Well-Being in Context

RSM Speaker Series

The purpose of this discussion is to identify what we know and don’t know about how context influences the way social media is used and its effects on well-being.

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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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Past Events

Oct 29, 2014 @ 6:00 PM

The Coming Swarm

Author Molly Sauter in discussion with Laurie Penny

In her new book, The Coming Swarm: DDoS, Hacktivism, and Civil Disobedience on the Internet, Molly Sauter examines the history, development, theory, and practice of distributed…

Oct 28, 2014 @ 12:00 PM

The Responsive City: Engaging Communities Through Data Smart Governance

With Susan Crawford and other special guests

Harvard Law School Visiting Professor and co-director of the Berkman Center Susan Crawford joins Mayor Joseph A. Curtatone, Mayor of Somerville, MA, Jascha Franklin-Hodge, Chief…

Oct 24, 2014 @ 5:00 PM

Cyberscholar Working Group at MIT

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 …

Oct 21, 2014 @ 12:30 PM

The Inspection House: An Impertinent Field Guide to Modern Surveillance

with authors Emily Horne & Tim Maly

Shopping malls, container ports, terrorist holding cells, and social networks all bristle with cameras, sensors, and trackers. But, crucially, they are also rife with resistance…

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Oct 10, 2014 @ 2:00 PM

National Security and Cyberthreats

A Conversation with John Carlin, Assistant Attorney General for National Security

Join Assistant Attorney General for National Security HLS alumnus and Heyman Fellow John Carlin, together with moderator Jonathan Zittrain, for a conversation about significant…

Oct 2, 2014 @ 9:00 AM

The Evolution of the Internet Governance Ecosystem

A conference of the Network of Centers, hosted by the Nexa Center for Internet & Society, Politecnico di Torino, Italy

On October 2, 2014 the Global Network of Interdisciplinary Internet & Society Research Centers will host an academic symposium on “The Evolution of the Internet Governance…

Sep 30, 2014 @ 12:30 PM

NymRights: Protecting Identity in the Digital Age

with aestetix, founder of NymRights

Do you use your "real" name online? What makes a name "real" anyways? Can Google, Facebook, or the government tell us?

Sep 23, 2014 @ 12:30 PM

Digital Badges for Global Health Delivery Skills

Rebecca Weintraub, MD, Faculty Fellow, Berkman Center for Internet & Society at Harvard University & Faculty Director, Global Health Delivery Project at Harvard University

Healthcare professionals worldwide often have extensive non-clinical skills in management, public health, policy, or other fields which are not officially recognized through a…

Sep 19, 2014 @ 4:00 PM

Cyberscholar Working Group at Yale

This week's presenters/discussions include: (1) Amanda Levendowski on What We Talk About When We Talk About Revenge Porn; and (2) "The Internet is Dead. Isn't it?"

Sep 19, 2014 @ 12:00 PM

Kurt Opsahl of the Electronic Frontier Foundation: A Conversation About National Security Letters

Hosted and Moderated by Christopher Bavitz of the Cyberlaw Clinic.

Join us for a lunch and discussion with Kurt Opsahl, Deputy General Counsel of the Electronic Frontier Foundation, which will address the issue of National Security Letters and…

Sep 17, 2014 @ 3:00 PM

Berkman Center 2014-2015 Orientation: Technical Showcase with the Geeks

The Berkman Center for Internet & Society welcomes students and other Harvard community members to an open session with the Center’s software development and systems operations…

Sep 16, 2014 @ 12:30 PM

Drone Warfare and the Public Imagination

John Kaag, Associate Professor of Philosophy, University of Massachusetts Lowell

In 2012, U.S. drone strikes occurred most often in which nation? If you don’t know, don’t feel too bad. You’re not alone. You could just admit it and join the 27 percent of…

Sep 15, 2014 @ 7:00 PM

Cyberlaw Pub Trivia: A Joint EFF / Berkman Center Event

at the Harvard Law Pub

Please join us for a special edition of the Electronic Frontier Foundation's CyberLaw Pub Trivia Night -- held in collaboration with the Berkman Center for Internet & Society as…

Sep 11, 2014 @ 5:30 PM

Berkman's Digital Problem-Solving Initiative (DPSI) Kickoff

at the Harvard Graduate School of Education

Please join the Berkman Center for Internet & Society at Harvard University for the kickoff of the 2014-2015 Digital Problem-Solving Initiative.

Sep 10, 2014 @ 4:30 PM

Berkman Center 2014-2015 Orientation: Research Showcase

at Harvard Law School

Select Berkman projects will be present with information about their projects' current activities. In addition to the project tabling, there will be space and opportunity to…

Sep 9, 2014 @ 12:30 PM

Berkman Center 2014-2015 Orientation: Tuesday Luncheon

Learn more about the Berkman Center for Internet & Society and join our community

Learn more about the Berkman Center for Internet & Society -- and its network of researchers, activists, faculty, students, technologists, entrepreneurs, artists, policy makers,…

Sep 4, 2014 @ 8:45 PM

Berkman Center 2014-2015 Orientation: Internet Policy Symposium

w/ Harvard's Institute of Politics and The Internet Association at the Harvard Kennedy School

Join us for the Internet Policy Conference hosted by Harvard University's Institute of Politics, the Berkman Center for Internet & Society at Harvard University, and The Internet…

Jul 29, 2014 @ 12:30 PM

Democratizing Ideologies and Inequality Regimes in Digital Domains

Tressie (McMillan) Cottom, Microsoft Research & PhD Student, Sociology, Emory University

How do we map and measure inequality in digital domains?" "What does the social in 'social media' mean for sociology?

Jul 22, 2014 @ 12:30 PM

Uncovering Algorithms: Looking Inside the Facebook News Feed

Christian Sandvig, University of Michigan; Karrie G. Karahalios, University of Illinois; and Cedric Langbort, University of Illinois

The Facebook news feed algorithm organizes your online life, but it’s a secret. Can we make sense of it from the outside?

Jul 8, 2014 @ 12:30 PM

w4m: The End of the American Red Light District

with Journalist and author, Melissa Gira Grant

Who invented the red light district? Journalist and author Melissa Gira Grant reconsiders how communication technologies shape sex-for-sale.