BERKMAN CENTER FOR INTERNET & SOCIETY AT HARVARD UNIVERSITYMarch 31, 2010 //
Upcoming events and digital media

Next Friday April 9th, the Berkman Center will host a symposium on "Journalism's Digital Transition: Unique Legal Challenges and Opportunities", which will address some of the most important legal issues arising from news aggregation and managing online communities, as well as the question of what comes next for journalism, and how the legal profession can assist (or hinder) journalism's digital transition.

We hope you might check out the symposium's agenda (http://www.omln.org/conference/agenda) and consider joining us for what promises to be an event that will appeal not just to those interested in law, but journalism, fair use, privacy, ethics, and more. Further information can be found here: http://www.omln.org/conference.

Other Berkman Center events for this week include:

[1] [MONDAY 4/5/10] Berkman Law Lab Speaker Series: "Old Habits Die Hard: Can Technology Change Deception?" with Jeff Hancock, Cornell University (http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/events/lawlab/2010/04/hancock)

[2] [TUESDAY 4/6/10] Berkman Center Luncheon Series: "The Television Cannot Be Revolutionized" with Christian Sandvig, Berkman Fellow (http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/events/luncheon/2010/04/sandvig)

[3] [FRIDAY 4/9/10] Symposium: "Journalism's Digital Transition: Unique Legal Challenges and Opportunities", organized by the Citizen Media Law Project and Cyberlaw Clinic (http://www.omln.org/conference) -- REGISTER NOW!

[MONDAY] BERKMAN LAW LAB SERIES on CAN TECHNOLOGY CHANGE DECEPTION?
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4/5/10, 12:30 PM ET, Berkman Center Conference Room @ 23 Everett St., Cambridge, MA
RSVP is required for those attending in person to Karyn Glemaud (kglemaud@cyber.law.harvard.edu)
This event will be webcast live

Topic: Old Habits Die Hard: Can Technology Change Deception?
Guest: Jeff Hancock, Cornell University

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.

In this talk we'll consider some of the myths commonly held about deception, and use the intersection of technology and deception to surface and rethink our assumptions about how deception functions in our interpersonal and increasingly mediated lives. The talk will cover some experiments we have conducted and propose the notion of shaping deception practices in online environments.

About Jeff:

Jeff Hancock is an Associate Professor in the Department of Communication and in the Faculty of Computing and Information Science, and co-Director of Cognitive Science at Cornell University. His work is concerned with how information technologies – such as email, instant messaging, and social networking sites – affect the way we understand and relate to one another, with a particular emphasis on deception. His research is supported by funding from the National Science Foundation and the Department of Defense, and his work on lying online has been featured in the New York Times, CNN, NPR, BBC and ABC News and the CBC documentary The Truth About Lying. Dr. Hancock earned his PhD in cognitive psychology at Dalhousie University, Canada, and joined Cornell in 2002.

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/2010/04/hancock

[TUESDAY] BERKMAN LUNCHEON SERIES on THE TELEVISION CANNOT BE REVOLUTIONIZED
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4/6/10, 12:30 PM ET, Berkman Center Conference Room @ 23 Everett St., Cambridge, MA
RSVP is required for those attending in person to Amar Ashar (ashar@cyber.law.harvard.edu)
This event will be webcast live

Topic: The Television Cannot Be Revolutionized
Guest: Christian Sandvig, Berkman Fellow

Video on the Internet briefly promised us a cultural future of decentralized production and daring changes in form--even beyond dancing kittens and laughing babies. Yet recent developments on sites like YouTube, Hulu, and Fancast as well as research about how audiences watch online video both suggest a retrenchment of structures from the old “mass media” system rather than anything daring. In this talk I’ll argue that choices about the distribution infrastructure for video will determine whether all our future screens will be the same.

About Christian:

Christian Sandvig is a Fellow of the Berkman Center and Associate Professor in Communication, Media, and at Coordinated Science Laboratory at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He holds the Ph.D. in communication from Stanford University. In 2006 he received the Faculty Early Career Development Award from the National Science Foundation in the area of Human-Centered Computing.

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/2010/04/sandvig

JOURNALISM'S DIGITAL TRANSITION: UNIQUE LEGAL CHALLENGES AND OPPORTUNITIES
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4/9/10, All Day, Harvard Law School
$225 if registration is received before March 31, which includes all CLE/course materials
Discounted registration is available for students and those working in the public interest (contact staff@omln.org to learn more)

Journalism's Digital Transition: Unique Legal Challenges and Opportunities

The Berkman Center's Citizen Media Law Project and Cyberlaw Clinic are pleased to announce a one-day symposium and CLE program to celebrate the launch of the Online Media Legal Network (OMLN). OMLN is a legal referral service that connects qualifying online journalism ventures and digital media creators with lawyers willing to provide legal services on a pro bono or reduced-fee basis. It supports promising ventures and innovative thinkers in online and digital media by providing access to legal help that would otherwise be unavailable.

The program will bring together panels of academics, legal practitioners, and journalists. Topics include the legal issues arising from news aggregation and managing online communities, as well as the question of what comes next for journalism, and how the legal profession can assist (or hinder) journalism's digital transition.

The symposium will feature Joshua Benton of the Nieman Journalism Lab; Eric Goldman, Associate Professor, Santa Clara University School of Law; Jeff Howe, Contributing editor at Wired.com and author of Crowdsourcing; # Srinandan Kasi - Vice President and General Counsel, Associated Press; members of the Citizen Media Law Project and Cyberlaw Clinic, and many more!

To register or for more information and a complete description, see the event web page: http://www.omln.org/conference

Agenda: http://www.omln.org/conference/agenda

OTHER EVENTS OF NOTE
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[1] 3/31: Breaking Down Digital Barriers // Online Discussion (http://www.americasquarterly.org/online-discussion-digital-barriers)

[2] 4/13: Using the Web to Connect Your Community & Encourage Civic Engagement in Cambridge // MIT Center for Future Civic Media (http://civic.mit.edu/event/using-the-web-to-connect-your-community-encou...)

[3] 4/15: Ten Ways to Conceive of the Derivative Work Right in Copyright Law (featuring Julie Cohen and Jonathan Zittrain) // Suffolk University (http://madisonian.net/conferences/2010/03/11/derivative-works-at-suffolk...)

[4] 4/16: NET Institute Conference on Network Economics // NYC (http://www.netinst.org/2010_conference.htm)

[5] 4/21: ISD: Digital Power and Its Discontents // Georgetown University (http://events.georgetown.edu/events/index.cfm?Action=View&CalendarID=359...)

[6] 4/27: Internet Security, Internet Freedom // Center for Information Technology Policy (http://citp.princeton.edu/internet-security-internet-freedom/)

[7] 4/28-4/30: FutureWeb: WWWhere Are We Heading? // North Carolina (http://futureweb2010.wordpress.com/)

[8] 5/11: Free Press Summit // Washington, DC (http://summit.freepress.net/)

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: DANIEL REETZ on "The Why in DIY Book Scanning" (http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/interactive/events/luncheons/2010/03/reetz)

-Berkman Law Lab Series: MATT DUNNE on "Transforming the Last Mile State" (http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/interactive/events/lawab/2010/03/dunne)

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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.

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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