People

Berkman represents a network of faculty, fellows, students, entrepreneurs, lawyers, and virtual architects working to identify and engage with the challenges and opportunities of cyberspace.

David Ardia

David Ardia is an assistant professor of law at the UNC School of Law and a faculty associate at the Berkman Center. Before joining the UNC faculty, he founded and directed the Berkman Center’s Digital Media Law Project.

Fernando Bermejo

Fernando Bermejo is a faculty associate at the Berkman Center, where he was a faculty fellow in residence during the 2009-10 academic year. His research focuses on the evolution of the different forms of online advertising and on the process of commercialization of interactivity.

James Bessen

James Bessen is currently a Berkman faculty associate and a Lecturer in Law at Boston University School of Law where he does research on the economics of technological innovation, including patents and Free/Open Source Software.

Michael Best

Michael L. Best is currently a faculty associate with the Berkman Center for Internet & Society where he focuses on the use of information and communication technologies (ICTs) for social, economic and political development.

Dan Gillmor

Dan Gillmor is a Berkman faculty associate. His work focuses on the Center for Citizen Media, a joint project with the Berkman Center and the Arizona State University's Walter Cronkite School of Journalism & Mass Communication.

Matthew Hindman

Matthew Hindman is Assistant Professor in the School of Media and Public Affairs at The George Washington University. For the 2010-2011 academic year he will be a faculty associate with the Center, writing on the political economy of the online public sphere.

Jeffrey Huang

Jeffrey Huang is a Berkman Center faculty associate and is the Director of the Media x Design Laboratory at EPFL Switzerland, where he is a Full Professor in the Department of Architecture and in the Faculty of Computer and Communication Sciences.

Lewis Hyde

Lewis Hyde's interests center on the public life of the imagination. He is currently at work on a book about "cultural commons," that vast, unowned store of ideas, inventions, and art that we have inherited from the past.

Beth Kolko

Beth Kolko is a faculty associate at the Berkman Center and a Professor in the Department of Human Centered Design & Engineering at the University of Washington.

Karim R. Lakhani

Karim R. Lakhani is a Berkman Center faculty associate and an Assistant Professor in the Technology and Operations Management Unit at Harvard Business School. His research focuses on distributed innovation and the movement of innovative activity to the edges of organizations and communities. He has done extensive research on open source communities and their mechanisms for innovation.

Harry Lewis

Harry Lewis is a Berkman Center faculty associate.

Wayne Marshall

Wayne Marshall is an ethnomusicologist focusing on the musical and cultural production of the Caribbean and the Americas, and their circulation in the wider world, with particular attention to digital technologies. He's currently writing a book on music, networked media, and transnational youth culture.

Claire McCarthy

Claire McCarthy is a pediatrician at Children's Hospital Boston and Medical Communications Editor in Children's Department of Marketing and Communications.

Miriam Meckel

Miriam Meckel, PhD., holds a professorship for Corporate Communication at the University of St. Gallen, Switzerland, and is the Managing Director of the Institute for Media and Communication Management. She is also an adviser for Public Affairs and Business Communication.

Mica Pollock

Mica Pollock, an anthropologist of education, has long studied how youth and adults discuss and address everyday issues of diversity and opportunity in schools. Pollock is now examining the full range of communications — including electronic communications — necessary to support young people in diverse communities.

Joseph Reagle

Joseph Reagle is an Assistant Professor of Communication Studies at Northeastern, a faculty associate at the Berkman Center for Internet and Society at Harvard, and author of Good Faith Collaboration: The Culture of Wikipedia (The MIT Press, 2010).

Geanne Rosenberg

Geanne Rosenberg is a faculty associate at the Berkman Center. Her areas of expertise include: 1. Media law and empowering those engaged in public interest journalism with media law education and resources; 2. News literacy and information quality education to help teenagers and adults become more discerning consumers of and contributors to news information.

Christian Sandvig

Christian Sandvig is a faculty associate at the Berkman Center and was previously a resident fellow from 2009-10. Sandvig’s research focuses on the development of new information technology infrastructure.

Clay Shirky

Clay Shirky is an American writer, consultant and teacher on the social and economic effects of Internet technologies

Eric von Hippel

Eric von Hippel is a Professor and Head of the Innovation and Entrepreneurship Group at the MIT Sloan School of Management, and is a faculty associate at the Berkman Center.

Dorothy Zinberg

Dorothy Shore Zinberg is Lecturer in Public Policy, Faculty Associate at the BCSIA, and a faculty member with the Program for Science, Technology, and Public Policy.