All related past events for Berkman Luncheon Series

jun
21
2011

Berkman Luncheon Series

Bots, Mobs, Geeks: The new separation of powers / Top Secret, XXX, Private, All Rights Reserved

Glenn Otis Brown

Are we be ruled by robots? The mob? Technocrats? Yes, yes, and yes. The question is not if, but how -- and how we should prevent any one of the three from taking over.

jun
14
2011

Berkman Luncheon Series

Ethnographies of Access, Ownership, and Collaboration in the Virtual Museum

Kate Hennessy, Assistant Professor, Simon Fraser University, School of Interactive Arts and Technology

Kate Hennessy of Simon Fraser University will present on global heritage policies and institutional practices interface with Aboriginal paradigms of access, ownership and control in the virtual museum.

jun
7
2011

Berkman Luncheon Series

The benefits of Facebook “Friends”: The social capital implications of Facebook-enabled communication practices

Nicole B. Ellison, Dept. of Telecommunication, Information Studies and Media, Michigan State University

Nicole Ellison will report on new research that explores the social capital implications of Facebook use. It's not how many Friends you have, but what you do with them that matters.

may
31
2011

Berkman Luncheon Series

Communicating Trustworthiness - Drivers of Online Trust

Miriam Meckel, University of St. Gallen

User trust has been identified as a key success factor of online business: A user's willingness to provide personal data is a prerequisite for online transactions. Research has shown that this willingness is based on the perceived trustworthiness of the transaction partner. Miriam Meckel will discuss 9 core drivers of online trust from a corporate communication's as well as the user's perspective and differentiate the contribution of the corporate communication function to these drivers.

may
24
2011

Berkman Luncheon Series

Netflix for Voting

Seth Flaxman & Paul Schreiber

TurboVote is a service that makes voting by mail and voter registration as simple as renting a DVD with Netflix. Come hear how TurboVote built in two months for spare change what the government couldn't do for any price. The founders (one a former Berktern!) and developer will discuss the project's legal, technical and philosophical issues and how TurboVote will bring democracy into the 21st century.

may
17
2011

Berkman Luncheon Series

The Post-Humboldtian University: Re-thinking the University's Role in Society in the Network Age

Juan Carlos de Martin, Co-Founder and Co-Director of the NEXA Center for Internet & Society at Politecnico di Torino & Charles Nesson, Berkman Center for Internet & Society

Juan Carlos de Martin, Co-Founder and Co-Director of the NEXA Center for Internet & Society at Politecnico di Torino, will speak at the Berkman Center Luncheon Series: How should the post-humboldtian, network-age university be? Which should its priorities be for the next 20 years?

may
10
2011

Berkman Luncheon Series

Culturomics: Quantitative Analysis of Culture Using Millions of Digitized Books

Erez Lieberman Aiden, Harvard Society of Fellows & Jean-Baptiste Michel, FQEB Fellow at Harvard (and both Visiting Faculty at Google)

Erez Lieberman Aiden & Jean-Baptiste Michel show how an analysis of a corpus of digitized text can provide insights about fields as diverse as lexicography, the evolution of grammar, collective memory, the adoption of technology, the pursuit of fame, censorship, and historical epidemiology.

apr
19
2011

Berkman Luncheon Series

The Communication Crises and the Evolution of Personal and Cultural Protocols

Greg Elliott, MIT Media Lab Researcher & Hugo Van Vuuren, Berkman Fellow / GSD

Greg Elliott, MIT Media Lab Researcher & Hugo Van Vuuren, Berkman Fellow / GSD present "Protocol," a tool to communicate personal communication preferences.

apr
12
2011

Berkman Luncheon Series

Mediactive: Using Media in a Networked Age

Dan Gillmor of ASU & Berkman Center Faculty Associate

We're in an age of information overload, and too much of what we watch, hear and read is mistaken, deceitful or even dangerous. Yet we can take control and make media serve us -- all of us -- by being active consumers and participants. In a networked age, we are fully literate only if we are creators as well as active consumers, and the Internet has given us the tools to be both. Dan Gillmor will lay out his approach to Using Media in a Networked Age.

apr
5
2011

Berkman Luncheon Series

Cybercrimes in Taiwan -- Experiences and challenges we face

Doreen Tu, Berkman Fellow

Doreen Tu, the prosecutor of Taipei District Court Prosecutors' Office, will introduce Taiwan's experiences and challenges of combating cybercrimes.