Upcoming Events and Digital Media Roundup
BERKMAN CENTER FOR INTERNET & SOCIETY AT HARVARD UNIVERSITY
March 4, 2009 // Upcoming events and digital media
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[1] [TODAY 3/4/09, Oxford UK] "The More Things Change, the More They Stay the Same: Online Audiences and the Paradox of Web Traffic" with Professor Matthew Hindman (http://cyber.harvard.edu/node/5106)
[2] [MONDAY 3/9/09] The Future of News with Russ Stanton and Jeff Jarvis -- A public session of "The Internet: Issues at the Frontiers" seminar (http://cyber.harvard.edu/events/2009/03/futureofnews)
[3] [TUESDAY 3/10/09] Berkman Center Luncheon Series: "They Know Where You Are: Location Privacy in a Mobile World" with Al Gidari, Jr. of Perkins Coie (http://cyber.harvard.edu/events/luncheon/2009/03/gidari)
[4] [SAVE THE DATE 3/17/09] In Search of Jefferson's Moose: Notes on the State of Cyberspace with David Post (http://cyber.harvard.edu/node/5017)
[TODAY] ONLINE AUDIENCES AND THE PARADOX OF WEB TRAFFIC [OXFORD, UK]
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3/4/09, 5:00PM
Said Business School, Park End Street, OXFORD, OX1 1HP, UNITED KINGDOM
Topic: The More Things Change, the More They Stay the Same: Online Audiences and the Paradox of Web Traffic
Guest: Dr. Matthew Hindman, Assistant Professor of Political Science at Arizona State University
Many areas of Internet scholarship make strong--and often erroneous--assumptions about patterns of Web traffic. Still, there has been little comprehensive research on how online audiences are distributed, and even less work on how site traffic changes over time.
Using three years of daily Web traffic data, and new models adapted from financial mathematics, this talk examines large-scale variation in Web traffic. These data show that Web traffic is highly heteroskedastic, with smaller sites having orders of magnitude more variation in the relative number of visitors they receive. These consistent patterns allow us to provide reasonable estimates of how likely it is Google will still be the most visited U.S. site a year from now, for example, or the odds that a new site currently ranked 50 overall will break into the top 10. Despite constant churn in online traffic, the audience distribution for both the overall Web and for subcategories of content is extremely stable, limiting the number of prominent outlets.
These results challenge many accepted notions about online life. In particular, the talk will discuss what these traffic patterns mean for the openness the online public sphere.
For more information and a complete description, see the event web page: http://cyber.harvard.edu/node/5106
[MONDAY] THE FUTURE OF NEWS
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3/9/09, 5:00-7:00 PM
Austin West, Austin Hall, Harvard Law School
Topic: The Future of News
Guests: Russ Stanton and Jeff Jarvis -- A public session of "The Internet: Issues at the Frontiers" seminar
Russ Stanton and Jeff Jarvis will be the guests for a public session of The Internet: Issues at the Frontiers, a Harvard Law School seminar taught by Professors William Fisher and Jonathan Zittrain.
Background, discussion topics, readings, and more information are available on the course website at http://cyber.harvard.edu/iif/The_Future_of_News.
For more information and a complete description, see the event web page: http://cyber.harvard.edu/events/2009/03/futureofnews
[TUESDAY] BERKMAN LUNCHEON SERIES on LOCATION PRIVACY IN A MOBILE WORLD
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3/10/09, 12:30 PM ET, Berkman Center Conference Room
RSVP is required (rsvp@cyber.harvard.edu).
Topic: They Know Where You Are: Location Privacy in a Mobile World
Guest: Al Gidari, Jr. of Perkins Coie
Your mobile phone is a tracking device, and they know where you are, where you've been, and easily can figure out where you are going. They are the government, and they don't believe probable cause need be shown to track you. But "they" increasing include civil litigants and private application providers, and there are few standards for tracking on the civil side. This is Mobility Law 101.
This event will be webcast live; for more information and a complete description, see the event web page: http://cyber.harvard.edu/events/luncheon/2009/03/gidari
[SAVE THE DATE] DAVID POST on IN SEARCH OF JEFFERSON'S MOOSE: NOTES ON THE STATE OF CYBERSPACE
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3/17/09, 5:00 PM ET
Austin East Classroom, Austin Hall, Harvard Law School
Free and Open to the Public
Topic: In Search of Jefferson's Moose: Notes on the State of Cyberspace
Guest: Professor David Post
Who governs the Internet, and how? What kind of law does it have, what kind of law should it have, and who will make that law? David G. Post will be discussing these questions and his recently-published book, In Search of Jefferson's Moose: Notes on the State of Cyberspace (Oxford), which looks at these questions through Jefferson's eyes, re-creating Jefferson’s encyclopedia of the New World ("Notes on the State of Virginia," 1786), but this time for cyberspace. What kind of a “place” is it? How does it work? How did it grow as fast as it did? What kind of new things, and what kind of old things, are out there? How did they get there, and how do they get from one place to another? What kinds of communities form there? What principles should guide our law-making efforts, and the design of our law-making institutions, in a global place like this? (And along the way, he tries to figure out why Jefferson had a moose shipped to him in Paris while he was serving as US minister to France and mounted in the lobby of his residence. What was he up to?)
This event will be webcast live; for more information and a complete description, see the event web page: http://cyber.harvard.edu/node/5017
OTHER EVENTS OF NOTE
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[1] 3/5/09 Geoffrey Nunberg (University of California, Berkeley). "Google and the 'Jewish' Question: Conceiving the Space of Discourse" Co-sponsored with the Digital Humanities Initiative (http://tools.fas.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/calendar/exporter.cgi?view=event_detail&id=126361623&cal=9753)
[2] 3/11/09 "Connected Publics: Power and Politics in a Networked Age" with Benkler, Turkle, Jasanoff, and more (http://www.hks.harvard.edu/sts/events/connectedpublics.htm)
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.harvard.edu/interactive.
-Berkman Luncheon Series with PIPPA NORRIS on CULTURAL CONVERGENCE: http://cyber.harvard.edu/interactive/events/luncheon/2009/02/norris
-Law Lab Speaker Series with ASHIFI GOGO on THE 'INTERNET' OF THE DEVELOPING WORLD: http://cyber.harvard.edu/interactive/events/lawlab/2009/02/ashifi
-Do you Herdict? http://cyber.harvard.edu/interactive/2009/herdict
-What is the Future of Open Access? with PETER SUBER: http://cyber.harvard.edu/interactive/events/2009/02/suber
-RADIO BERKMAN on "Open Accessories" with DAVID WEINBERGER AND PETER SUBER: http://cyber.harvard.edu/interactive/podcasts/radioberkman111
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