Berkman Luncheon Series

Status Update: Celebrity, Publicity and Self-Branding in Web 2.0

Alice Marwick, Microsoft Research

In the mid-2000s, journalists and businesspeople heralded “Web 2.0” technologies such as YouTube, Twitter, and Facebook as signs of a new participatory era that would democratize journalism, entertainment, and politics. By the decade’s end, this idealism had been replaced by a gold-rush mentality focusing on status and promotion. Alice Marwick will discuss three status-seeking techniques that emerged with social media: micro-celebrity, self-branding, and life-streaming.

Berkman Luncheon Series

decolonizing copyright: Jamaican street dances and globally networked technology

Larisa Mann of Berkeley Law School / Boalt Hall

Larisa Mann of Berkeley Law School / Boalt Hall will present on how street dances, Jamaica's explosive creative engine, challenge the colonial dimensions of globalized law and technology. Globally networked technology at the dance both exposes and supports the dance's radical challenge.

Berkman Luncheon Series

Surveillance or Security? The Risks Posed by New Wiretapping Technologies

Susan Landau, Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard University & CRCS

Building surveillance into communications infrastructures? Law enforcement claims it needs wiretaps in order to secure us, but the biggest long-term national-security threat is cybertheft of US inventions, processes and plans. Susan Landau talks sense about the communications surveillance/communications security dilemma.

Berkman Luncheon Series

Transmedia Mobilization

Sasha Costanza-Chock, Berkman Fellow

Media scholar/activist Sasha Costanza-Chock will discuss Transmedia Mobilization: "Don't ask 'is teh internets + or - for social movements?', look @ what movements r doing 2 spread ideas by any media necessary."

Berkman Luncheon Series

The Internet, Young Adults and Political Participation around the 2008 Presidential Elections

Eszter Hargittai and Aaron Shaw, Berkman Fellows

Based on unique survey data of a diverse group or young adults with unusually high representation of racial and ethnic minorities from Spring 2009, Eszter Hargittai and Aaron Shaw consider the relationship between online and offline political engagement around the 2008 presidential elections.

Berkman Luncheon Series

Whose choice? ICTs for “development” and the lives people value

Dorothea Kleine, Lecturer at the UNESCO Chair/Centre in ICT4D, Royal Holloway, University of London

Recognising that ICTs are powerful tools shaping people’s everyday lives, practitioners, policy-makers and academics in the ICT for development (ICT4D) field engage with these technologies in the name of “development”. Yet understandings of development differ and too often remain implicit and removed from participatory processes involving the intended users.

Berkman Luncheon Series

Millions, Billions, Zillions: Why (In)numeracy Matters

Brian Kernighan, Berkman Fellow & Department of Computer Science, Princeton University

Berkman Fellow Brian Kernighan offers an illustrated short course in numeric self defense.

Berkman Luncheon Series

What would make cloud computing truly free and open?

Andy Oram, O'Reilly Media

What would make cloud computing truly free and open? Andy Oram of O'Reilly Media explains an architecture that melds the cloud with free software. This event will be webcast live at 12:30PM ET.

Berkman Luncheon Series

Distributed Denial of Service Attacks Against Independent Media and Human Rights Sites

Ethan Zuckerman, Hal Roberts, and Jillian C. York

Ethan Zuckerman, Hal Roberts, and Jillian C. York will discuss the recently released Berkman Center report on "Distributed Denial of Service Attacks Against Independent Media and Human Rights Sites." This event will be webcast live at 12:30PM ET.

Berkman Luncheon Series

Tim Wu on THE MASTER SWITCH

Tim Wu presents his widely acclaimed new book THE MASTER SWITCH: The Rise and Fall of Information Empires. This event will be webcast live at 12:15PM ET today.