BERKMAN CENTER FOR INTERNET & SOCIETY AT HARVARD UNIVERSITY
Upcoming events and digital media // November 10, 2010

[TUESDAY 11/16] Berkman Center Luncheon Series: "Using the Internet to 'Save the Planet'" with Juliet Schor, Professor of Sociology at Boston College (http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/events/luncheon/2010/11/schor)

[WEDNESDAY 11/17] Harvard-MIT-Yale Cyberscholar Working Group at Yale Law School, featuring Toshie Takahashi of the Berkman Center on "Japanese Youths, Mobile Phones, and Social Media," C.W. Anderson of Yale ISP on "Textual Tunnel-Hops and Narrative Chutes-and-Ladders: The HTML Link as an Uncertain Object of Journalistic Evidence," and Konstantin Mitgutsch of MIT on "Recursive Learning in Computer Games. Game Design & Learning Theories" (http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/events/cyberscholars/2010/11/yale)

CRCS Seminars

[MONDAY 11/15] CRCS Seminar: "How Social Networks Shape Human Behavior" with Prof. Alex `Sandy’ Pentland, MIT Human Dynamics Lab (http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/node/6450)

Special announcement: The Berkman Center is currently accepting fellowship applications for our 2011-2012 academic fellowship and through our annual open call for applications.  Please click here to learn more about Berkman's fellowship program.



[TUESDAY] BERKMAN LUNCHEON SERIES on USING THE INTERNET TO SAVE THE PLANET
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11/16/10, 12:30pm 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: Using the Internet to 'Save the Planet'
Guests: Juliet Schor, Professor of Sociology at Boston College

We are witnessing escalating evidence of human destabilization of the climate and biodiversity loss. In the sustainability community, both activists and practitioners are increasingly turning to the internet to foster new lifestyles, consumption patterns and ways of producing. There has been an explosion of web-enabled innovations around consumption sharing and extra-market exchange in order to reduce footprint. At the cutting-edge people are turning to peer production and open-source practices to accelerate the design and diffusion of ecologically-intelligent and efficient modes of provision in agriculture, consumption and manufacturing. The conversation will draw on my recently published book, Plenitude: the new economics of true wealth.

About Juliet

Juliet Schor is Professor of Sociology at Boston College. Before joining Boston College, she taught at Harvard University for 17 years, in the Department of Economics and the Committee on Degrees in Women’s Studies. A graduate of Wesleyan University, Schor received her Ph.D. in economics at the University of Massachusetts.

Her most recent book is Plenitude: The New Economics of True Wealth (The Penguin Press 2010). She is also author of the national best-seller, The Overworked American: The Unexpected Decline of Leisure (Basic Books, 1992) and The Overspent American: Why We Want What We Don’t Need (Basic Books, 1998). The Overworked American appeared on the best-seller lists of The New York Times, Publisher’s Weekly, The Chicago Tribune, The Village Voice, The Boston Globe as well as the annual best books list for The New York Times, Business Week and other publications. The book is widely credited for influencing the national debate on work and family.  The Overspent American was also made into a video of the same name, by the Media Education Foundation (September 2003).

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/2010/11/schor


[WEDNESDAY] CYBERSCHOLARS WORKING GROUP @ YALE
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Wednesday, November 17, 6:00PM
Yale Law School, faculty lounge on the second floor
New Haven, CT
RSVP to Bryan Choi (bryan.choi at post.harvard.edu)

The "Harvard-MIT-Yale Cyberscholar Working Group" is a forum for fellows and affiliates of the Comparative Media Studies Program at MIT,  Yale Law School Information Society Project, and the Berkman Center for Internet & Society at Harvard University to discuss their ongoing research.

This month's presenters will include:

Japanese Youths, Mobile Phones, and Social Media
Toshie Takahashi, Faculty Fellow, Berkman Center for Internet & Society, Harvard University

Textual Tunnel-Hops and Narrative Chutes-and-Ladders: The HTML Link as an Uncertain Object of Journalistic Evidence
C.W. Anderson, Visiting Fellow at the Information Society Project, Yale Law School

Recursive Learning in Computer Games. Game Design & Learning Theories
Konstantin Mitgutsch, Max Kade visiting researcher at the Education Arcade of the Comparative Media Studies Program of the MIT

For more information and a complete description, see the event web page: http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/events/cyberscholars/2010/11/yale

CRCS Seminar

[MONDAY] CRCS Seminar
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CRCS Lunch Seminar
Date: Monday, November 15, 2010
Time: 11:30am – 1:-00pm
Place: Maxwell Dworkin 119

Speaker:  Prof. Alex `Sandy’ Pentland, MIT Human Dynamics Lab

Title:  How Social Networks Shape Human Behavior

Abstract:   We have developed robust models of how social network dynamics shape human behavior.  These models are constructed by use of data collected by my research group’s unique `reality mining’ sensor platforms, which allow us to track the behavior of hundreds of people in great detail and over long periods of time.  The resulting models bring into question traditional ideas about group selection in evolution, the role of trust in society, the nature of social learning, and economic mechanism design.

For more information and a complete description, see the event web page: http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/node/6450


OTHER EVENTS OF NOTE
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11/11: Towards the Convergent Networks of the Future: Social Media Computing Inc. // Boston University (http://www.bu.edu/phpbin/calendar/event.php?id=104876&cid=17&oid=0)

11/15: You're Being Followed -- Online Privacy Today // MIT Enterprise Forum (http://www.mitforumcambridge.org/events/yourebeingfollowed/)

11/18: Communications in Slow-moving Crises // MIT Communications Forum (http://web.mit.edu/comm-forum/forums/slow_moving_crises.html)

11/22: Nathan Eagle - Big Data, Global Development, & Complex Social Systems // IBM Center for Social Software (http://ctr4ssnathaneagle.eventbrite.com/)

11/30: One Day Conference - Big Data: Public Policy and the Exploding Digital Corpus // Princeton CITP (http://citp.princeton.edu/events/big-data/)


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: DAVE RAND on "The Online Laboratory: Taking Experimental Social Science onto the Internet" (http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/interactive/events/luncheon/2010/11/rand)

-Radio Berkman 167: The Ghost of Video Future (http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/interactive/podcasts/radioberkman167)

-YOCHAI BENKLER at the Havens Center on "From Free Software and Wikipedia to a Field of Cooperative Human Systems Design" (http://bit.ly/ctqlc7)

-YOCHAI BENKLER at the Havens Center on "Freedom of Power in the Networked Information Environment" (http://bit.ly/bijXmB)

-Ethan Zuckerman and Doc Searls liveblogged JOHN PALFREY'S Chair Lecture on "The Path to Legal Information" (http://www.ethanzuckerman.com/blog/2010/11/09/john-palfrey-the-path-of-l...) / (http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/doc/2010/11/09/a-new-path/)


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