BERKMAN CENTER FOR INTERNET & SOCIETY AT HARVARD UNIVERSITY
January 13, 2010 // Upcoming events and digital media

[1] [SATURDAY 1/16/10] Lawberry Camp: an unconference geared towards law librarians, legal information professionals, and others in related fields (http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/node/5858)

[2] [TUESDAY 1/19/10] Berkman Center Luncheon Series: "The Politics of Platforms" with Tarleton Gillespie, Department of Communication at Cornell University & fellow at the Center for Internet and Society at Stanford Law School (http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/events/luncheon/2010/01/gillespie)

[3] [ONGOING 1/4/10 - 1/21/10] Difficult Problems in Cyberlaw: a January course taught by Professor Jonathan Zittrain and Elizabeth Stark, co-hosted by Stanford Law School and Harvard Law School on the Stanford Law School campus (http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/cyberlaw_winter10/Main_Page)

[SATURDAY] LAWBERRY CAMP
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1/16/10, 9AM-5PM at Harvard Law School
Hosted by the Harvard Law School Library

Lawberry Camp is an unconference geared towards law librarians, legal information professionals, and others in related fields.

Lawberry Camp schedules are flexible, with events often decided on the day of the camp, or leading up to the event. Generally Lawberry Camp will be a full day of activities...including lightning talks, open round table discussions, the exciting and fun Battledecks Powerpoint Karaoke competition, and potentially other events.

It is an opportunity to share information, discuss important topics, network with colleagues, work on presentation skills, and have a good time.

David Weinberger will open Lawberry Camp 2010. For a full schedule, registration information, and more details, please visit http://lawberrycamp.com/.

[TUESDAY] BERKMAN LUNCHEON SERIES on THE POLITICS OF PLATFORMS
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Tuesday 1/19/10, 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: The Politics of Platforms
Guest: Tarleton Gillespie, Department of Communication at Cornell University & fellow at the Center for Internet and Society at Stanford Law School

Online media platforms such as YouTube and Facebook are, like the broadcasters and publishers before them, finding themselves as hosts, providers, and chaperones of public discourse. Though they often make the promise to openly and impartially host all content, they are of course actively making decisions about where the edges of these platforms should be: what should and should not appear, how content should be organized, what should be featured or squirreled away, and how it should be patrolled. And they're experimenting with both traditional and novel techniques for managing this discourse: not just removal and rating, but also technical mechanisms for marking content or making it inaccessible, and emerging techniques of depending on community governance. My aim is to sketch this array of interventions and see them together as structuring contemporary public discourse, and situate them in the history of commercial obligations around free speech.

About Tarleton

Tarleton Gillespie is is an assistant professor in the Department of Communication at Cornell University, a fellow at the Center for Internet and Society, Stanford Law School, author of Wired Shut: Copyright and the Shape of Digital Culture, and blogger about law, technology, media, culture.

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/2010/01/gillespie

JANUARY COURSE ENCOURAGING REMOTE PARTICIPATION: DIFFICULT PROBLEMS IN CYBERLAW
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Monday 1/4/10 - Thursday 1/21/10
Opportunities for virtual participation in course elements

In the coming three weeks, students from Harvard, MIT, and Stanford will be tackling real-life problems of Internet commerce, governance, security, and information dissemination at Stanford Law School. This course, Difficult Problems in Cyberlaw, covers the Global Network Initiative, ubiquitous human computing, the future of Wikipedia, and cybersecurity, and is co-taught by Jonathan Zittrain and Elizabeth Stark. There is overlap between these themes in areas of due process online among private sheriffs, the role of intermediaries, motivating good and bad actors, collaborating and relying on masses, and privacy and anonymity on the Internet. These problems themselves are not only conceptual issues but also identifiable struggles within their spheres. Students will engage with practitioners and academics–people who potentially hold the power to shape the future of these issues or provide the course with a sounding board to articulate better questions about the future.

The course will be meeting daily for the next three weeks, cramming in visits from corporate executives, artists, entrepreneurs, academics, and participants of online communities. It also includes excursions to various areas in the Silicon Valley technology community including Ebay, Facebook, and Reputation Defender. This immersion will allow students to gain a first-hand view of the environments in which these problems may arise. Since this course is designed to tackle real-life issues, and in the spirit of open access, the problems we're exploring will be tweeted and blogged, which will serve as a forum to facilitate public generation of debate, solutions, and better questions.

We invite you to explore the syllabus and participate in the course wiki at http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/cyberlaw_winter10/Main_Page. You can also follow along and contribute at @DifficultProbs (http://twitter.com/difficultprobs) on Twitter and on the blog at http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/difficultprobs. We look forward to your input!

OTHER EVENTS OF NOTE
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[1] 1/13: FCC Workshop on Innovation, Investment, and the Open Internet // MIT (http://www.openinternet.gov/workshops/innovation-investment-and-the-open...)

[2] 1/21-22/10: Open Government: Defining, Designing, and Sustaining Transparency // Princeton Center for Information Technology Policy (http://citp.princeton.edu/open-government-workshop/)

[3] 2/13-14/10: Free Culture Conference 2010 // Keynoted by Berkman Faculty Co-Director Jonathan Zittrain // Washington, DC (http://conference.freeculture.org/)

[4] 2/24-26/10: Limiting Knowledge in a Democracy // Featuring Berkman Faculty Co-Director Jonathan Zittrain and Berkman Fellow Julie Cohen // New School, NY (http://www.socres.org/limitingknowledge/)

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.

-Berkman Luncheon Series: SAHARA BYRNE on Parent vs Child Reports of Internet Behaviors (http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/interactive/events/luncheons/2009/12/byrne)

-Berkman Luncheon Series: BRETT GLASS on Lessons from Laramie: Broadband Innovation on the Wireless Frontier (http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/interactive/events/luncheons/2009/12/glass)

-MediaBerkman's Top 11 Topics of 2009: http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/mediaberkman/2009/12/18/mediaberkmans-top-1...

-Radio Berkman 140: Three Trends of 2009: http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/mediaberkman/2009/12/21/radio-berkman-140-t...

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