BERKMAN CENTER FOR INTERNET & SOCIETY AT HARVARD UNIVERSITY
January 20, 2010 // Upcoming events and digital media

[1] [MONDAY 1/25/10] Law Lab Series: "Transformed Social Interaction in Virtual Reality" with Jeremy Bailenson, founding director of Stanford University's Virtual Human Interaction Lab and an associate professor in the Department of Communication at Stanford (http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/events/lawlab/2010/01/bailenson)

[2] [TUESDAY 1/26/10] Berkman Center Luncheon Series: "Configuring the Networked Self" with Julie Cohen, Berkman Fellow, Professor of Law at the Georgetown University Law Center, and Visiting Professor at Harvard Law School (http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/events/luncheon/2010/01/cohen)

[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://blogs.law.harvard.edu/difficultprobs)

[MONDAY] LAW LAB SERIES on TRANSFORMED SOCIAL INTERACTION in VIRTUAL REALITY
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1/25/10, 12:30 PM ET, Berkman Center Conference Room @ 23 Everett St., Cambridge, MA
RSVP is required for those attending in person (kglemaud@cyber.law.harvard.edu)
This event will be webcast live

Topic: Transformed Social Interaction in Virtual Reality
Guest: Jeremy Bailenson, founding director of Stanford University's Virtual Human Interaction Lab and an associate professor in the Department of Communication at Stanford

This talk is part of the The Psychology and Economics of Trust and Honesty Speaker Series, led by Berkman Fellow Judith Donath and hosted by the Berkman Center for Internet & Society’s Law Lab. For more information, see this page: http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/node/5831.

From Jeremy:

In this talk, I describe a series of projects that explore the manners in which avatars (representations of people in virtual environments) qualitatively change the nature of remote communication. Unlike telephone conversations and videoconferences, avatars have the ability to systematically filter their physical appearance and behavioral actions in the eyes of their conversational partners, amplifying or suppressing features and nonverbal signals in real-time for strategic purposes. These transformations have a drastic impact on interactants' abilities to influence others in social and professional contexts.

About Jeremy:

Jeremy Bailenson is founding director of Stanford University's Virtual Human Interaction Lab and an assistant professor in the Department of Communication at Stanford. He earned a B.A. cum laude from the University of Michigan in 1994 and a Ph.D. in cognitive psychology from Northwestern University in 1999. After receiving his doctorate, he spent four years at the Research Center for Virtual Environments and Behavior at the University of California, Santa Barbara as a Post-Doctoral Fellow and then an Assistant Research Professor.

Bailenson's main area of interest is the phenomenon of digital human representation, especially in the context of immersive virtual reality. He explores the manner in which people are able to represent themselves when the physical constraints of body and veridically-rendered behaviors are removed. Furthermore, he designs and studies collaborative virtual reality systems that allow physically remote individuals to meet in virtual space, and explores the manner in which these systems change the nature of verbal and nonverbal interaction.

This event will be webcast live; for more information and a complete description, see the event web page: http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/events/lawlab/2010/01/bailenson

[TUESDAY] BERKMAN LUNCHEON SERIES on CONFIGURING THE NETWORKED SELF
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1/26/10, 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: Configuring the Networked Self
Guest: Julie Cohen, Berkman Fellow, Professor of Law at the Georgetown University Law Center, and Visiting Professor at Harvard Law School

Berkman Faculty Fellow and HLS Visiting Professor Julie Cohen will discuss a chapter from her forthcoming book, which explores the effects of expanding copyright, pervasive surveillance, and the increasingly opaque design of network architectures in the emerging networked information society. The chapter argues that “access to knowledge” is a necessary but insufficient condition for human flourishing, and adds two additional conditions.

About Julie:

Julie E. Cohen is a Professor of Law at the Georgetown University Law Center, and is a Visiting Professor of Law at the Harvard Law School for the 2009-10 academic year. She teaches and writes about intellectual property law and privacy law, with particular focus on copyright and on the intersection of copyright and privacy rights in the networked information society. She is a co-author of Copyright in a Global Information Economy (Aspen Law & Business, 2d ed. 2006), and is a member of the Advisory Boards of the Electronic Privacy Information Center and Public Knowledge. She is currently completing a book manuscript titled "The Networked Self: Copyright, Privacy, and the Production of Networked Space," under contract to Yale University Press.

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/cohen

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] 1/20: "Authority, Meet Technology: Will China's Great Firewall Hold?" with Rebecca MacKinnon, Tim Wu, Evgeny Morozov, Alec Ross, and James Fallows // Washington, DC // New America Foundation (http://www.newamerica.net/events/2010/authority_meet_technology)

[2] 1/20: "The Politics of Online Media Platforms" with Tarleton Gillespie // Microsoft Research New England (http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/labs/newengland/speakers/default.asp...)

[3] 1/21-22/10: Open Government: Defining, Designing, and Sustaining Transparency // Princeton Center for Information Technology Policy (http://citp.princeton.edu/open-government-workshop/)

[4] 1/26: Regulation After the National Broadband Plan // Boston University (http://www.bu.edu/phpbin/calendar/event.php?id=95551&cid=69&oid=0)

[5] 2/13-14/10: Free Culture Conference 2010 // Keynoted by Berkman Faculty Co-Director Jonathan Zittrain // Washington, DC (http://conference.freeculture.org/) -- Registration

[6] 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.

-RADIO BERKMAN 141: Signaling in the Wild, Signaling Online with JUDITH DONATH: http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/interactive/podcasts/radioberkman141

-Berkman Luncheon Series with FERNANDO BERMEJO on "Mapping Online Advertising: From Anxiety to Method": http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/interactive/events/luncheon/2010/01/bermejo

-Law Lab Series with STEPHEN KOSSYLN on "Why We Probably Will Never Have a Perfect Lie Detector": (http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/interactive/events/lawab/2010/01/kosslyn)

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

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BERKMAN CALENDAR & UPCOMING EVENTS PREVIEW
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See our events calendar if you're curious about future luncheons, discussions, lectures, conferences, and more: http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/events. All of our events are free and open to the public, unless otherwise noted.

2/1: Law Lab Series: "Transparent Citizens and the Rule of Law" with Joel R. Reidenberg, Professor of Law and Director, Center on Law and Information Policy, Fordham University (http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/events/2010/02/reidenberg)

2/2: Berkman Luncheon Series: "Media Piracy in Emerging Economies" with Joe Karaganis, Social Science Research Council (http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/events/luncheon/2010/02/karaganis)

4/30-5/1: ROFLCon II at MIT (http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/events/2010/04/roflcon)

6/28-6/30: COMMUNIA Conference 2010: Universities & the commons/cyberspace (http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/node/5608)

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