Berkman Center

Citizen Media Law Project Launches Legal Assistance Network for Online Journalists

The Berkman Center’s Citizen Media Law Project (CMLP) announced today the public launch of its Online Media Legal Network (OMLN), a new pro bono initiative that connects lawyers and law school clinics from across the country with online journalists and digital media creators who need legal help.

19 nov 2009

Call for descriptions: online safety programs

Call for Descriptions of Projects and Interventions that Address Risky Youth Behaviors and Online Safety

The Youth and Media Policy Working Group Initiative is requesting organizations, institutions, and individuals working in online youth safety to share descriptions of their effective programs and interventions that address risky behavior by youth online. The deadline for submissions is December 21, 2009.

nov
24
2009

Berkman Luncheon Series

#iranelection: The digital media response to the 2009 Iranian election

Cameran Ashraf, Adjunct Faculty member in the Department of Geography and Anthropology at California State University, Pomona & Brett Solomon, recently Campaign Director at Avaaz.org and Executive Director at GetUp.org.au

With Iran as a case study, this presentation will explore the role new communication technologies are playing in the post-election unrest, how people outside of Iran are helping through digital media, and the Iranian government's efforts at maintaining its information border.

Berkman Buzz: Week of November 16, 2009

TV on the computer; Russian blogs; lobbying; security incentives; the persistence of data; sympathy, action; the list, primordially; and more...in this week's BUZZ...

20 nov 2009

Upcoming Events and Digital Media Roundup

Next week, we'll host a Tuesday Luncheon Series talk on "#iranelection: The digital media response to the 2009 Iranian election."

19 nov 2009

Radio Berkman 137: Cory Doctorow – In Defense of ©

This week on Radio Berkman: Cory Doctorow enumerates the properties of the book, with David Weinberger...

19 nov 2009

Open Video in Sixty Seconds Contest (via the Open Video Alliance)...

Reviewing comments on the Berkman Center's broadband study for the FCC

Last night the period for commenting on the Berkman Center’s broadband study for the FCC came to a close. We would like to thank those who took the time to provide substantive feedback and also to respond briefly to reports that incumbent broadband providers were negative in their assessments of our work.

17 nov 2009

nov
17
2009

Berkman Luncheon Series

Kudunomics: Information and Property Rights in the Weightless Economy

Sam Bowles, Santa Fe Institute, Behavioral Sciences Program

Sam Bowles will discuss how an evolutionary model and computer simulations will show how systems of property rights might respond to the challenges of the weightless economy.

Berkman Center for Internet & Society

Citizen Media Law Project Launches Legal Assistance Network for Online Journalists

Call for descriptions: online safety programs

Call for Descriptions of Projects and Interventions that Address Risky Youth Behaviors and Online Safety

Berkman Luncheon Series

#iranelection: The digital media response to the 2009 Iranian election

Cameran Ashraf, Adjunct Faculty member in the Department of Geography and Anthropology at California State University, Pomona & Brett Solomon, recently Campaign Director at Avaaz.org and Executive Director at GetUp.org.au

Berkman Buzz: Week of November 16, 2009

Upcoming Events and Digital Media Roundup

Radio Berkman 137: Cory Doctorow – In Defense of ©

Open Video in Sixty Seconds Contest (via the Open Video Alliance)...

Reviewing comments on the Berkman Center's broadband study for the FCC

Berkman Luncheon Series

Kudunomics: Information and Property Rights in the Weightless Economy

Sam Bowles, Santa Fe Institute, Behavioral Sciences Program

OpenNet Initiative: What Happened at the Internet Governance Forum?