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October 21, 2009 // Upcoming events and digital media

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[1] [TUESDAY 10/27/09] Berkman Center Luncheon Series: "Walled Gardens: Opening the Discussion" Elizabeth Goodman, UC Berkeley School of Information (http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/events/luncheon/2009/10/goodman)

[TUESDAY] BERKMAN LUNCHEON SERIES on WALLED GARDENS
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10/27/09, 12:30 PM ET, Berkman Center Conference Room @ 23 Everett St., Cambridge, MA
RSVP is required for those attending in person (rsvp@cyber.law.harvard.edu).
This event will be webcast live.

Topic: Walled Gardens: Opening the Discussion
Guest: Elizabeth Goodman, UC Berkeley School of Information

"Walled gardens" is a common term for systems that limit the entrance and exit of certain kinds of data. It is a deceptively simple metaphor that relies on the existence of a shared set of assumptions about what gardens are, what walls are, and what it means to build and maintain them. In this talk, I will try to productively extend the walled garden metaphor for digital spaces by comparing it to everyday experiences of more literal ones: urban community gardens. Often fenced off from surrounding city neighborhoods, community gardens are popular, beloved places. I propose that discussing how urban gardeners build, maintain, and understand their relationships to each other and to their walls will help us rethink this often-used but under-considered metaphor.

This event will be webcast live; for more information and a complete description, see the event web page: http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/events/luncheon/2009/10/goodman

OTHER EVENTS OF NOTE
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[1] 10/19-23: Open Access Week (http://www.openaccessweek.org/)

[2] UMASS Open Access Week Events (http://scholarworks.umass.edu/oa/2009/)

[3] 10/21: The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind: Elegant Design Out of Junk and Spare Parts // MIT (http://web.mit.edu/tac/upcoming/index.html#boy)

[4] 10/23: Social Networks: Friends or Foes? // UC Berkeley (http://www.law.berkeley.edu/institutes/bclt/socialnetworking/about.html)

[5] 10/24: Tech Futures at the Boston Book Festival (http://www.bostonbookfest.org/index.php/bookfest/blog/tech_futures_at_th...)

[6] 10/24: Media Literacy Conference // MIT (http://ezregister.com/events/536/)

[7] 11/12-14: The Internet as Playground and Factory Conference // New School (http://digitallabor.org/)

DIGITAL MEDIA: Watch and Listen
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Did you miss this week's luncheon talk? Catch up with Berkman videos, podcasts, pictures, and dig in to our archive at http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/interactive.

-Communication and Human Development: The Freedom Connection with AMARTYA SEN, MICHAEL SPENCE, YOCHAI BENKLER, CLOTILDE FONSECA, and MIKE BEST: http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/interactive/events/2009/09/idrc/idrcpanel and also on YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7uuanAaV5Y0&feature=player_profilepage

-RADIO BERKMAN 134: Small Medium at Large with RUSS NEUMAN of the University of Michigan (http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/interactive/podcasts/radioberkman134)

-Berkman Luncheon Series on MAPPING MAIN STREET (http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/interactive/events/luncheons/2009/10/mappin...)

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