BERKMAN CENTER FOR INTERNET & SOCIETY AT HARVARD UNIVERSITY
January 27, 2010 // Upcoming events and digital media

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[1] [MONDAY 2/1/10] 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] [TUESDAY 2/2/10] Berkman Center Luncheon Series: "Media Piracy in Emerging Economies" with Joe Karaganis, Social Science Research Council (http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/events/luncheon/2010/02/karaganis)

[MONDAY] LAW LAB SERIES on TRANSPARENT CITIZENS and the RULE OF LAW
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2/1/10, 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: Transparent Citizens and the Rule of Law
Guest: Joel R. Reidenberg, Professor of Law and Director, Center on Law and Information Policy, Fordham University

Joel will discuss "Transparent Citizens and the Rule of Law", an essay that explores the erosion of the boundary between public and private information on the Internet. The thesis is that the transparency of personal information available online erodes the rule of law in three ways. First, the transparency of personal information that is created by private sector activities enables government to collect and use personal information available from the private sector in ways that side step political and legal checks and balances. Second, technical self-help in the development of network infrastructure that seeks to assure complete anonymity online may used by individuals and groups to evade legal responsibility and the rule of law. And third, the transparency of personal information puts national security and legal institutions at risk in ways that will jeopardize faith in the rule of law. The essay concludes with a discussion of governance implications and norms.

About Joel

Joel R. Reidenberg is Professor of Law and the Founding Academic Director of the Center on Law and Information Policy at Fordham Law School. He is a former Associate Vice President for Academic Affairs and Associate Chief Academic Officer of Fordham University and a former President of the University’s Faculty Senate.

This event will be webcast live; for more information and a complete description, see the event web page: http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/events/2010/02/reidenberg

[TUESDAY] BERKMAN LUNCHEON SERIES on MEDIA PIRACY IN EMERGING ECONOMIES
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2/2/10, 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: Media Piracy in Emerging Economies
Guest: Joe Karaganis, Social Science Research Council

Joe Karaganis will discuss findings from a forthcoming six-country study of media piracy, including work on Russia, India, Brazil, Mexico, and South Africa. The study provides a rare empirical look at the organization of piracy and enforcement in developing countries, and explores the transformation of both as the optical disk economy give way to digital distribution.

About Joe

Joe Karaganis directs SSRC projects on media, technology, and culture, including the 'Necessary Knowledge for a Democratic Public Sphere' Program and the 'Culture, Creativity, and Information Technology' Program. His research focuses on the relationship between digital convergence and cultural production, and has recently included work on media piracy, broadband adoption, and data policy. He is editor of Structures of Participation in Digital Culture (2007) and of the forthcoming Toward Detente in Media Piracy (2010). He has also worked as a consultant for the Ford and Rockefeller Foundations.

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/2010/02/karaganis

OTHER EVENTS OF NOTE
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[1] 1/28: International Data Privacy Day (http://dataprivacyday2010.org/)

[2] 1/29: Boston Book Futurists // Microsoft N.E.R.D (http://bookfuturists1.eventbrite.com/)

[3] 1/29: MBTA Data Hackathon // MIT Center for Future Civic Media (http://civic.mit.edu/event/mbta-data-hackathon)

[4] 2/1: Public Media Arts + Urban Database Documentary with Jesse Shapins and Kara Oehler // Northeastern School of Architecture (http://www.architecture.neu.edu/events/lectures/)

[5] 2/1-2/12: Google Book Search in Depth (http://cipcommunity.org/s/1039/index.aspx?sid=1039&gid=1&pgid=252&cid=95...)

[6] 2/13-14/10: Free Culture Conference 2010 // Keynoted by Berkman Faculty Co-Director Jonathan Zittrain // Washington, DC (http://conference.freeculture.org/) -- Registration

[7] 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/)

[8] 3/12: Cloud Computing Conference // Berkeley Center for Law & Technology // Berkeley, CA (http://www.law.berkeley.edu/institutes/bclt/cloudcomputing/about.html)

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 JULIE COHEN on "Configuring the Networked Self" (http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/interactive/events/luncheon/2010/01/cohen)

-Berkman Luncheon Series with TARLETON GILLESPIE on "The Politics of Platforms" (http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/interactive/events/luncheon/2010/01/gillesp...)

-Law Lab Series with JEREMY BAILENSON on "Transformed Social Interaction in Virtual Reality" (http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/interactive/events/lawlab/2010/01/bailenson)

-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.

2/8: Law Lab Series: Richard Sosis of the University of Conneticut (http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/events/lawlab/2010/02/sosis)

2/9: Berkman Luncheon Series: "Beyond online/offline: Information access, public spaces, and the boundaries of visibility for queer youth in the rural US" with Mary L. Gray, Indiana University (http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/events/luncheon/2010/02/gray)

2/22: "Minds for Sale" with Berkman Faculty Co-Director Jonathan Zittrain (http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/events/2010/02/zittrain)

2/25: Wireside Chat with Lawrence Lessig: Fair Use, Politics, and Online Video (http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/events/2010/02/lessig)

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)

ABOUT US
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