Berkman Luncheon Series

Information Flows in Online Court Records: Tailoring Rules for Transparency and Privacy

Sophie Hood and Helen Nissenbaum, Information Law Institute at NYU

Helen Nissenbaum and Sophie Hood will explore whether new information technologies might be deployed to enhance both transparency and privacy for online court records.

Berkman Luncheon Series

Creating a Law School e-Curriculum

Legal technology is reshaping practice. It needs to reshape law schools as well. In the current crisis in law, teaching legal technology must be part of curriculum reform.

Berkman Luncheon Series

Present Shock: When Everything Happens Now

Douglas Rushkoff, author of Present Shock, in conversation with David Weinberger

The always-on, simultaneous society in which we have found ourselves has altered our relationship to culture, media, news, politics, economics, and power. We are living in a digital temporal landscape, but instead of exploiting its asynchronous biases, we are misguidedly attempting to extend the time-is-money agenda of the Industrial Age into the current era. The result is a disorienting and dehumanizing mess, where the zombie apocalypse is more comforting to imagine than more of the same. It needn't be this way.

Berkman Luncheon Series

Jazz and Journalism: Reporting with Improvisation

Laura Amico, Nieman-Berkman Fellow in Journalism Innovation

What if we reported in swing time?

Berkman Luncheon Series

Technologies of Choice? – ICTs, development and the capabilities approach

Dr. Dorothea Kleine, Director of the ICT4D Centre, RHUL

In Technologies of Choice?, Dorothea Kleine uses Sen’s capabilities approach to development to ask which values are embedded in ICT policies and technologies. The book argues for a radically pluralist and participatory approach to both technology design and development policy. This event will be webcast live at 12:30pm ET.

Berkman Luncheon Series

Cyber War Is Not the Answer, But What Is? Addressing Cyber Conflict While Protecting Privacy and Internet Freedom

Timothy H. Edgar

Come hear a former Obama White House privacy official discuss cyber conflict, privacy and Internet freedom - what can we do to combat threats without giving up freedoms?

Berkman Luncheon Series

Personalized Learning, Backpacks Full of Cash, Rockstar Teachers, and MOOC Madness

The Intersection of Technology, Free-Market Ideology, and Media Hype in U.S. Education Reform with Justin Reich, Berkman Center Fellow

Personalization, Backpacks of Cash, Rockstar Teachers, and #MOOC Madness: Free-Market Ideology, Media Hype, & ed reform. This event will be webcast live at 12:30pm ET.

Berkman Luncheon Series

How to archive for the future? Ensuring the Present benefits from a Relevant Past

Daniel J. Caron, Deputy Head and Librarian and Archivist of Canada and Eric Mechoulan,Université de Montréal

How to archive for the future? Ensuring the Present benefits from a Relevant Past.

Berkman Luncheon Series

Work here: have a voice and change the world.

Are employees at the Googles and Facebooks of the world able to enforce that promise? with Berkman Fellow, Heather Whitney

Work here: have a voice and change the world. Are employees at the Googles and Facebooks of the world able to enforce that promise? This event will be webcast live at 12:30pm ET.

Berkman Luncheon Series

Disruptive Innovation in Washington, DC

Derek Khanna, Visiting Fellow at Yale Law's Information Society Project / Contributor to National Review, Human Events, the Atlantic & Poltix.

The author of the House Republican memo on copyright reform and lead activist on cellphone unlocking will present his vision of future reforms on Capitol Hill and how to get Congress to take tech seriously. This event will be webcast live at 12:30pm ET.