Topic “user-generated content”

Making Sense of the Wikileaks Fiasco: Prior Restraints in the Internet Age

Citizen Media Law Project Director David Ardia is quoted in today's New York Times, saying that a judge's order to shutdown the WikiLeaks website by removing its DNS record, “is clearly not constitutional...There is no justification under the First Amendment for shutting down an entire Web site.” You can read developments and keep up on this story via the Citizen Media Law Project's Legal Threats Database. Click more for coverage around the web as well as Berkman co-founder Jonathan Zittrain's analysis.

20 feb 2008

BloggerCon II17 apr 2004

BloggerCon is a user-focused conference for the blogger community

Signal or Noise: The Future of Music on the Net25 feb 2000

The Future of Music on the Net

berkman interactive

Berkman.tv: Conversation with Jake Shapiro, Executive Director of PRX

This week Berkman’s managing director Colin Maclay discusses public media in the digital age with Public Radio Exchange’s Jake Shapiro.

Breaking Down Digital Barriers: When and How ICT Interoperability Drives Innovation

In this study, we have done a deep-dive on three cases - DRM-protected music, Digital ID, and Mashups in the Web services context - as well as cursory reviews of other narratives with a goal of understanding a range of views on how interoperability comes to pass, what is optimal in terms of interoperability, how interoperability relates to innovation, and how we ought to approach achieving greater interoperability.

authored by urs gasser, john palfrey, einnovation and ict interoperability, published on 1 nov 2007

Pulling the Plug: A Technical Review of the Internet Shutdown in Burma

This bulletin examines the role of information technology, citizen journalists, and bloggers in Burma and presents a technical analysis of the abrupt shutdown of Internet connectivity by the Burmese government on September 29, 2007, following its violent crackdown on protesters there.

authored by stephanie wang, opennet initiative, published on 22 oct 2007

Podcasting Legal Guide: Rules for the Revolution

Podcasting Legal Guide: Rules for the Revolution -- a collaboration between Creative Commons and the Berkman Center Clinical Program in Cyberlaw reviewing copyright, trademark and other legal issues related to podcasting and providing a helpful list of resources for podcasters.

authored by cyberlaw clinic, mia garlick, colette vogele, published on 8 may 2006

Internet & Society Conference 2007 (IS2k7): University: Knowledge Beyond Authority31 may 2007 - 31 may 2007

The 2007 Internet & Society Conference was positioned to generate questions, insight and solutions from diverse perspectives across the landscape of University, with a focus on the role of University as an institution.

Blogging, Journalism & Credibility21 jan 2005 - 22 jan 2005

Blogging, Journalism and Credibility: Battleground and Common Ground was organized jointly by the Harvard Law Schools Berkman Center for Internet & Society, the Shorenstein Center on the Press, Politics and Public Policy at the Harvard Kennedy School of Government, and the American Library Associations Office of Information Technology Policy.

Signal/Noise 2k5: Creative Revolution?7 apr 2005

The following is an archived page. The complete Signal or Noise II conference website can be found at http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/sn/

We the Media

Grassroots Journalism By the People, For the People

In We the Media, nationally acclaimed newspaper columnist and blogger Dan Gillmor tells the story of this emerging phenomenon and sheds light on this deep shift in how we make--and consume--the news.

authored by dan gillmor, published on 24 jan 2006

The Wealth of Networks

How Social Production Transforms Markets and Freedom

In this comprehensive social theory of the Internet and the networked information economy, Benkler describes how patterns of information, knowledge, and cultural production are changing -- and shows that the way information and knowledge are made available can either limit or enlarge the ways people can create and express themselves.

authored by yochai benkler, published on 16 may 2006