The Digital Natives Reporters in the Field series may be taking a breather, but with the US election only three weeks away and the final presidential debate tonight, the conversation on youth activism hardly has time to pause...
YouTube and PBS have teamed up to ask US voters to document their voting experiences. You're invited to upload your election day video to the Video Your Vote channel. The Citizen Media Law Project has contributed a piece of its own, Video Your Vote: A Legal Primer...
The Internet & Democracy Project is looking for research interns for a study investigating the US political blogosphere and "astro-turfing."
In the past twenty years, a remarkable number of government documents have been put online, yet some still remain behind a paywall. This talk argued that there is an alternative path in which the public benefits to eliminating this barrier far outweigh the costs.
SPARC, PLoS, and FreeCulture have organized the first international Open Access Day to help the higher education community and the public learn and understand more about the opportunities of wider access and use of content...
The Internet in the 2008 presidential election, gender and math, saying "see ya" to traditional publishing, and more...in this week's BUZZ!
From the Citizen Media Law Project blog... There are a lot of things to consider when making the decision to launch a blog or website...one area most people tend to overlook is whether their prospective ISP or hosting provider values -- and is willing to stand up for -- free speech rights.
Now is a critical moment for defining and reinforcing the best features of our communications platforms. What do we value about the internet and what should be the focus of the next administration?
In this week's installment of the Digital Natives Reporters in the Field series we hear from Lisa Epstein, a 19-year-old UMASS student and former victim of cyberbullying.
We're looking for a new team member to help manage Berkman's financial systems, and to provide assistance to the Law Lab, one of our new projects! Like for all of our positions, we're looking for smart, fun, and up-to-the-challenge candidates. Is it you or someone you know? Read on to learn more about the position!
The Saffron Revolution, Skype surveillance in China, "Scobleization," and more...in this week's BUZZ!
Next Tuesday we're hosting a book party for "Blown to Bits: Your Life, Liberty, and Happiness after the Digital Explosion," with the book's three authors, and, on Thursday, a panel on "The Uncertain Internet: Core Net Values for the [TBD] Administration" will consider the Net’s benefits and increasing vulnerabilities.
Our colleagues at the University of Toronto's Citizen Lab have released a major report, "Breaching Trust: An analysis of surveillance and security practices on China’s TOM-Skype platform," by Nart Villeneuve, with a foreword by OpenNet Initiative Principal Investigators Ron Diebert and Rafal Rohozinski. The report "reveals troubling security and privacy breaches affecting TOM-Skype -- the Chinese version of the popular voice and text chat software Skype."
