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Apr 1, 2015

Berkman Community Newcomers: Dorothea Kleine

Meet Dorothea Kleine, a Berkman faculty associate focusing on the use of information and communication technologies for development.

Mar 23, 2015

Berkman Buzz: March 23, 2015

Protests and social media, YikYak, military robots, and more... in this week's Buzz.

Mar 23, 2015

Berkman Community Newcomers: Siva Vaidhyanathan

Meet Siva Vaidhyanathan, Berkman faculty associate and Professor of Media Studies at UVA.

Mar 17, 2015

Berkman Buzz: March 17, 2015

Debating the "Right to be Forgotten," being "a woman in tech" at Berkman, Internet anonymity, and more... in this week's Buzz.

Mar 16, 2015

Berkman’s Digital Literacy Toolkit Among Winners of the Trust Challenge

The Berkman Center is one of thirteen winners to receive funding as part of the Digital Media and Learning Competition’s recent “Trust Challenge,” which aims to foster trust in…

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Mar 6, 2015

Applications open for Advanced Copyright Practice, a new HLS Executive Education course

Faculty co-director William Fisher, together with five faculty, will teach Advanced Copyright Practice on May 7-9, 2015. The application deadline is April 15.

Update, April 14, 2015: this course has been indefinitely postponed. This intensive three-day executive education course is designed for lawyers who would like to deepen their…

Mar 6, 2015

Your Guide to Berkman at SXSW

Headed to SXSW? Check out these events led by members the Berkman community!

Mar 5, 2015

Intelligence² Debate: Should the US Adopt "The Right to be Forgotten?"

featuring Berkman Co-founder Jonathan Zittrain

Berkman Co-founder Jonathan Zittrain and former Berkman fellow Andrew McLaughlin join public radio's Intelligence Squared US for a debate on the European Union's "Right to be…

Mar 4, 2015

Berkman Buzz: March 4 2015

Cybersecurity, saying goodbye to tech companies, games as assessments, identifying villains online and more... in this week's Buzz.

Feb 25, 2015

Berkman Buzz: February 25, 2015

Reflections on youth experiences with online news, tales of early encounters with the Internet, thoughts on China's "Cyberspace Spirit" and more... in this week's Buzz.

Feb 24, 2015

Berkman Community Newcomers: Heather Whitney

Meet Heather Whitney, Berkman faculty associate studying the intersection of labor and employment law and innovation.

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Feb 24, 2015

Call for Participants—Catastrophic Risk: Technologies and Policy Study Group

Technology empowers, for both good and bad. A broad history of "attack" technologies shows trends of empowerment, as individuals wield ever more destructive power. The natural…

Feb 18, 2015

Berkman Buzz: February 18, 2015

Online intermediaries, the measles outbreak, eavesdropping televisions and more... in this week's Buzz.

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Feb 12, 2015

Berkman Community Newcomers: Ching-Lin Wang

Meet Ching-Lin Wang, Berkman fellow and Taiwanese public prosecutor focusing on surveillance and personal data protection.

Feb 11, 2015

Berkman Buzz: February 11, 2015

Arab religious skeptics online, mapping the public debate over net neutrality, experiencing the Harvard Depository, and more... in this week's Buzz.

Feb 4, 2015

Susan Crawford appointed clinical professor of law at Harvard Law

Susan Crawford has been appointed clinical professor of law at Harvard Law School. She had been the John A. Reilly Visiting Professor in Intellectual Property at HLS. She has also…

Jan 26, 2015

Berkman Buzz: January 26, 2015

Municipal broadband, Facebook use and academic performance, the rise of the native podcast and more... in this week's Buzz.

Jan 12, 2015

Berkman Buzz: January 12, 2015

A new manifesto for the Web, the problem with "zero rating," tracing the Sony hack, and more... in this week's Buzz.

Dec 22, 2014

Berkman Buzz: December 22, 2014

The Sony hack, US-Cuba relations, "Reflections on a Digital World," and more... in this week's Buzz.

Dec 15, 2014

Berkman Buzz: December 15, 2014

Digital news, the business of art, concerns about online privacy, and more... in this week's Buzz.