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.
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…
Told in the sinister style of a neon, cyberpunk thriller, The Cleaners charts social media’s evolution from a shared vision of a global village to a dangerous web of fake news,…
Featuring Kate Klonick and Thomas Kadri with members of the BKC community
PODCAST & VIDEO: We're never going to get a global set of norms for online speech but do the platforms pick our global values and constitutionalize them? Something to tie them to…
PODCAST & VIDEO: The delay between call and response has always been a vital piece of the messages we send. In this talk, Farman and Gasser discuss the impact that technology has…
Featuring Dr. Jon Cornwall, Centre for Early Learning in Medicine
Digital innovation is transforming health care, and the amount of digital health care data being generated will likely have increasing research utility over time. Despite the…
PODCAST & VIDEO: Join us for a conversation with author Nanjala Nyabola and 2017 Berkman Klein Fellow Grace Mutung'u about Nanjala's book, Digital Democracy, Analogue Politics:…
The Battle to Control the Design of New Technologies
PODCAST & VIDEO: The dominant model for regulating privacy focuses on giving people control over their information and regulating data practices. This focus ignores the role that…
libraries, digital placemaking, and emancipatory design
An immersive library experience that gives visitors control over light, color, sound, and space to create the ideal environment for whatever brings them through the library's…
VIDEO & PODCAST: In the past years, workers across the tech industry have engaged in an unprecedented series of actions challenging their companies. What do these actions mean-…
Featuring the author Roger McNamee in conversation with Lawrence Lessig
PODCAST & VIDEO: A former mentor to Mark Zuckerberg explains the danger posed by Facebook, Google and other internet platforms and what we must do about it.
Measuring the Impact on Global Access to Medicines
Market concentration in technology industries has become a subject of interest to scholars and policy analysts. This talk presents some of the first empirical results on how the…
VIDEO & PODCAST: Why has the Internet had such a powerful impact? What are the challenges that may cause the Internet of tomorrow to be significantly less revolutionary than the…
VIDEO & PODCAST: Academics and civil society representatives from across the Global South will discuss emerging legal challenges to
human rights in digitally networked spaces,…
VIDEO & PODCAST: Utilizing critical technocultural discourse analysis, Afro-optimism, and libidinal economic theory, Dr. Andre Brock employs Black Twitter as an exemplar of Black…