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Fellowship Opportunity: Privacy Tools for Sharing Research Data

rtabasky — Tue, 22 Jan 2013 09:47:57 -0500

The Berkman Center for Internet & Society at Harvard University is looking for a full-time legal fellow to join our Privacy Tools for Sharing Research Data Project.

A position description for the fellowship opportunity can be found below and on the Harvard Human Resources website.

Please note that applications for this fellowship must be submitted through the Harvard Human Resources website, and will not be collected directly through the Berkman Center.

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Fellow, Privacy Tools for Sharing Research Data project, Berkman Center for Internet & Society

Duties & Responsibilities

Working collaboratively with faculty from the Berkman Center for Internet & Society and partnering institutions, the fellow’s primary responsibilities are to provide managerial support and substantive contributions to the Berkman Center’s role in the Privacy Tools for Sharing Research Data Project, including but not limited to:

working closely with faculty from the Berkman Center to coordinate, oversee, and conduct legal research, written project outputs, and publications;
cultivating and supporting relationships between faculty and other experts in law, social science, applied mathematics, computer science, and other fields to understand non-legal substantive issues and objectives, assess needs and capabilities, and collaboratively develop new legal instruments (e.g., contractual agreements, policies, and procedures) to meet the project’s broader goals;
planning, communicating, and implementing privacy-related workshops and convenings;
managing the selection, oversight, and mentorship of student interns and research assistants;
developing plans and timelines to advance project priorities and meet deadlines; and
providing additional project support.

This is a great opportunity for experienced legal practitioners who want to serve the public interest, transition to academic pursuits, or work in an intellectually invigorating environment, and the role is positioned be part of the fellows community at the Berkman Center. In order to most fully and efficiently carry out his or her duties, the candidate will attend workshops and conferences at the Center and at Harvard Law School, and will have frequent opportunities to expand his/her knowledge of technology and law. The community of fellows at the Center includes a wide range of people working on issues related to Internet and society, including scholars, practitioners, innovators and others committed to understanding and advancing the public interest. The Berkman Center fellowship program aims to encourage and support fellows in an inviting and rigorous intellectual environment, with community activities designed to foster inquiry and collaboration. Berkman's committed and tight-knit community encourages serious fun and creativity, supports deep inquiry, values novel approaches to solving problems, strives for transparency, continually builds upon best-practices and lessons learned, and is supportive of individual and collective goals. We look forward to growing our community with people who will thrive in and contribute to our unique, fulfilling environment.

The annual salary is $48,000, and includes health and other benefits.

The fellow will report directly to the Clinical Professor/Director of the Cyberlaw Clinic. As with all Berkman Center positions, this is a term appointment funded through 6/30/14 with strong potential for continuation based on funding and institutional need. The position is based in Cambridge, MA.

Basic Qualifications

Candidates must have a Juris Doctor or an equivalent law degree and 1-3 years of experience in legal practice or academia working with Internet and privacy law matters.

Candidates should be energetic and passionate about working on privacy and cyberlaw issues. Top academic credentials, superior writing and verbal skills, sound judgment, exceptional ethical standards, and proven abilities in interpersonal communication, supervision, and team building are required.

Additional Qualifications

Demonstrable knowledge, including a degree or practical experience, of data privacy and security issues in fields such as applied mathematics, cryptography, or computer science is preferred.

Candidates should also possess a strong familiarity with privacy-related statutes, regulations, legislative activity, and policy as well as practice experience with transactions involving data privacy. Previous experience in a clinical legal setting or the direct supervision and mentoring of young attorneys is advantageous.

Additional Information

About the Privacy Tools for Sharing Research Data Project

Information technology, advances in statistical computing, and the deluge of data available through the Internet are transforming social science. With the ability to collect and analyze massive amounts of data on human behavior and interactions, social scientists can hope to uncover many more phenomena, with greater detail and confidence, than allowed by traditional means such as surveys and interviews. However, a major challenge for computational social science is maintaining the privacy of human subjects. Beyond harm that may be suffered by the subjects themselves, privacy violations are a serious threat to the future of computational social science research.

Led collaboratively by Harvard University’s Center for Research on Computation and Society (CRCS) at the School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Institute for Quantitative Social Science (IQSS), and Berkman Center for Internet & Society, with support from the Secure and Trustworthy Cyberspace (SaTC) program at the National Science Foundation, the Privacy Tools for Sharing Research Data project seeks to develop methods, tools, and policies to further the tremendous value that can come from collecting, analyzing, and sharing data while more fully protecting individual privacy.

Faculty co-director and Clinical Professor Phil Malone leads the Berkman Center’s role in this exciting initiative, which brings the Center’s institutional knowledge and practical experience to help tackle the legal and policy-based issues in the larger project. The Berkman Center is working with Berkman faculty, fellows, research assistants, and the CRCS and IQSS project team members to distill key definitional issues, explore new and existing legal and regulatory frameworks, and develop legal instruments that take into account the specific needs of researchers, research subjects, and data, while enabling reliable mechanisms for protecting privacy, transparency, and accountability.

For more information about the project, visit the Berkman Center website at http://cyber.law.harvard.edu or the official project website at http://privacytools.seas.harvard.edu/.

About the Berkman Center for Internet & Society

The Berkman Center for Internet & Society at Harvard University is a research program founded to explore cyberspace, share in its study, and help pioneer its development. Founded in 1997, through a generous gift from Jack N. and Lillian R. Berkman, the Center is home to an ever-growing community of faculty, fellows, staff, and affiliates working on projects that span the broad range of intersections between cyberspace, technology, and society. More information can be found at http://cyber.law.harvard.edu.

Commitment to Diversity

To Apply

More information and the official Harvard Human Resource position listing can be found online, and applications must be submitted through the official Harvard channels described at the listing: https://sjobs.brassring.com/1033/asp/tg/cim_jobdetail.asp?jobId=923216&P...

Open Call for Fellowship Applications, Academic Year 2013-2014

rtabasky — Tue, 16 Oct 2012 22:01:21 -0400

January 2013 Update: We are no longer accepting applications for 2013-2014 academic year fellowships though our open call for applications. You can check out our fellowship page to learn of other fellowships we may have open, join the community through participation at events, or sign up for one of our listservs to be notified of new opportunities, events, or research.

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The Berkman Center for Internet & Society at Harvard University has opened our yearly call for fellowship applications. This opportunity is for those who wish to spend the 2013-2014 academic year in residence in Cambridge, MA as part of Berkman's community of pioneers, and who seek to deeply engage in the collaborative, cross-disciplinary, and cross-sectoral exploration of some of the Internet's most interesting, challenging, and compelling issues.

We invite applications from those who are working on issues related to Internet and society who are familiar with the work of the Berkman Center as well as those who are not; those studying issues that overlap with ongoing Berkman interests and those who will expose us to new opportunities and approaches; scholars, practitioners, innovators, and others committed to understanding and advancing the public interest; those who come from and have interest in countries industrialized or developing; and people just beginning their work, in the midst of it, or eager to reflect upon it.

Through this annual open call, we seek to advance our work and give it new direction, and to deepen and broaden our community. We welcome you to read more about the program below, and to consider joining us as a fellow!

About Berkman’s Fellowship Program

“The Berkman Center's mission is to explore and understand cyberspace; to study its development, dynamics, norms, and standards; and to assess the need or lack thereof for laws and sanctions.

We are a research center, premised on the observation that what we seek to learn is not already recorded. Our method is to build out into cyberspace, record data as we go, self-study, and share. Our mode is entrepreneurial nonprofit.”

Inspired by our mission statement, the Berkman Center’s fellowship program provides the opportunity for some of the world’s most innovative thinkers and changemakers to hone and share ideas, find camaraderie, and spawn new initiatives. The program aims to encourage and support fellows in an inviting and rigorous intellectual environment, with community activities designed to foster inquiry and to identify and expose the common threads across fellows’ individual activities.

Fellows actively participate in exchanges through a weekly fellows hour, fellows-run working groups, and a wide-range of Berkman Center events and interactions. While engaging in both substance and process, much of what makes the fellowship program rewarding is created each year by the fellows themselves to address their own interests and priorities. These entrepreneurial, collaborative ventures – ranging from goal-oriented to experimental, from rigorous to humorous – are what ensure the dynamism of the fellows, the fellowship program, and the Berkman community.

Additionally, with Berkman faculty, students, staff, and other affiliates, fellows help to develop and advance their own work and Berkman Center projects, and they learn and teach through courses, hacking and development sessions, cultural productions, and other diverse gatherings.

Fellows are essential to the Berkman Center as nodes of intelligence, insight, energy, and knowledge-sharing. From their diverse backgrounds and wide-ranging physical and virtual travels, Berkman Center fellows bring fresh ideas, skills, passion, and connections to the Center, and from their time spent in Cambridge help build and extend new perspectives and initiatives out into the world.

About Berkman Fellowships

An appointment that defies one-size-fits-all description, each Berkman fellowship carries a unique set of opportunities, responsibilities and expectations. All fellows engage issues related to the fairly limitless expanse of Internet & society issues, and are committed to the intellectual life of the Center and fellowship program activities. Some fellows work as researchers directly on Berkman Center projects. Other fellowships consist of independent work, such as the research and writing of a manuscript or series of papers, the vision and planning of an action-oriented meeting, or the development and implementation of an initiative or a study on issues related to the Berkman Center’s areas of inquiry.

Fellowship terms typically run the course of the academic year, roughly from the beginning of September through the end of May. In some instances, fellows are re-appointed for consecutive fellowship terms.

While we embrace our many virtual connections, spending time together in person remains essential. In order to maximize their engagement with the community, during their fellowship terms fellows are expected to routinely spend time in and conduct much of their work from Cambridge, in most cases requiring residency. Tuesdays hold particular importance as it is the day the fellows community meets for a weekly fellows hour, in addition to it being the day Berkman hosts our public luncheon series; as such, we ask that fellows commit to spending as many Tuesdays at the Center as is possible.

Qualifications

While fellowships are extremely competitive and our standards are accordingly high, we do not have a defined set of requirements for the fellows we select through our open call; we welcome applications from a wildly diverse pool of individuals.

Fellows come from across the disciplinary spectrum, different life paths, and are at all stages of career development. Some fellows are academics, whether students, post-docs or professors. Others come from outside academia, and include lawyers, philosophers, activists, technologists, entrepreneurs, journalists and other types of practitioners.

The commonality between all Berkman fellows is an interest in the intersections of the Internet and related emergent technologies, social change, and policy and regulatory change, and a commitment to spending their fellowship exploring those dynamics in concert with others.

To learn more about the work and interests of our current community of fellows, you can read their bios and find links to their outstanding work at http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/people/fellows, read their blogs at http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/planet/current/, and find them on the twittersphere in our list of Berkman community members at https://twitter.com/i/#!/berkmancenter/current-people-projects.

Commitment to Diversity

The work and well-being of the Berkman Center for Internet & Society are strengthened profoundly by the diversity of our network and our differences in background, culture, experience, national origin, religion, sexual orientation, and much more. We actively seek and welcome applications from people of color, women, the LGBTQ community, and persons with disabilities, as well as applications from researchers and practitioners from across the spectrum of disciplines and methods. The roots of this deep commitment are many and, appropriately, diverse. We are not nearly far enough along in this regard, and we may never be. It is a constant process in which there remains much to learn. We welcome your inquiries, comments and ideas on how we may continue to improve.

Stipends, Benefits, and Access to University Resources

Stipends: Fellowships awarded through the open call for applications are rarely stipended. Some fellows receive partial stipends –the award of such a stipend is based on the nature of the responsibilities the applicant would assume while a fellow, and their relation, relevance, and application to Berkman’s funded projects. Most fellows receive no direct funding or stipend through the Berkman Center, but rather have obtained funding through other means, such as an outside grant or award, a home institution, or other forms of scholarship.

Benefits: Fringe benefits do not routinely accompany Berkman fellowships. Fellows must make their own housing, insurance, childcare, and transportation arrangements.

Office Space: Most Berkman fellows work out of the greater-Boston area and spend a significant amount of time at the Berkman Center. There are many desks and workspaces available for flexible use at the Berkman Center, though few fellows are given their own permanent desk or office. We endeavor to provide comfortable and productive spaces for fellows to work, even if it is not the same space each day. Fellows are welcome to host small meetings and gatherings at the Center and on the Harvard campus.

Access to University Resources: Fellows are allowed physical access into Langdell Library (the Harvard Law School Library), and fellows are able to acquire a Special Borrower Card for privileges with the Harvard College Libraries. At present, we do not routinely provide access to the University’s e-resources by way of individual logins, however the e-resources are accessible within the libraries. Fellows do not have the ability to purchase University health insurance, get Harvard housing, or purchase Harvard gym membership. Berkman fellows wishing to audit classes at Harvard University must ask permission directly from the professor of the desired class.

Additional Information about the Berkman Center

Frequently Asked Questions

More information about fellows selection and the application process can be found on our Fellows Program FAQ at http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/getinvolved/fellowships/faq.

Required Application Materials

1.) A current resume or CV.
2.) A personal statement which should a) frame your motivation for applying for a Berkman Center fellowship and b) outline the work you propose to conduct during a fellowship. This statement should be roughly 1,000 – 1,500 words or should be a multi-media equivalent.
3.) A copy of a recent publication or an example of your work that is related to Internet research and inquiry. If it is a written document, it should be on the order of a paper, chapter, or presentation - not an entire book or dissertation - and should be in English.
4.) Two letters of recommendation, sent directly from the reference.

In addition to the above materials, we will ask applicants to share some additional information in a form as part of the application.

1.) Disciplinary background: Up to three disciplines in which you have been trained and/or have worked.
2.) Tags: Five tags that describe or represent the themes, issues, or ideas you know about and on which you propose to conduct work during a fellowship at Berkman; and five tags that represent work, themes, issues, or ideas that you do not currently know much about, but would like to explore and learn more about during a fellowship year. Each tag should be one- to three- words or terms.
3.) Berkman projects of interest.

Applying for a 2013-2014 Fellowship through the Open Call - Application Tracker Instructions

rtabasky — Fri, 12 Oct 2012 22:48:56 -0400

Below you can find a step-by-step guide for submitting a 2013-2014 fellowship application through the Application Tracker.

To register an account in the Application Tracker:

Click on the application link at: https://cyber.law.harvard.edu/apply/jobs/7?apptracker_id=3
Click on the register link where it says “Log In or Register to Apply to This Job.” The link is about a quarter of a way down the page near the left hand side.
Fill out the required fields in the registration page and click register. After clicking register, you will be brought back to the job application page.

To start your application and add reference info:

From the job page at https://cyber.law.harvard.edu/apply/jobs/7?apptracker_id=3, click on the link that reads “Apply to this job.”
Fill out the required fields, and click save. After clicking save, you will automatically be brought to a new page into which you will submit reference info.
On the new page, you will provide the name and contact information for one of the people who will provide a letter of recommendation on your behalf - you will see on the page that it says Reference 1 of 2. After adding in the information, click "Submit" - this will send your reference an email, and will bring you to a new page.
On this new page, you will enter the information for the second person who will provide a recommendation letter - it will say Reference 2 of 2. Add the information and click "Submit."
After submitting the information for both references, you will be brought to a page showing your account and application status.

To add additional application information, upload application materials, and submit your application:

After creating a profile and submitting names and contact information for two references so they can upload letters, you can submit the rest of your application materials.

Click on the job application link at https://cyber.law.harvard.edu/apply/jobs/7?apptracker_id=3
Click on the link at the top of that page that reads “Apply to this job.”
On this new page, you will answer prompts under the heading “Additional Information”, and attach required documents under the heading “Job Application Materials.”
When you’ve double checked all of the information you have inputted into the fields and documents, take a deep breath and click the button on the bottom that says “Submit Application.”
Congrats - you’ve submitted the application! You will receive a submission confirmation email.

To edit your application before the application deadline:

If you want to edit your submitted application before the application deadline, click on the “My Job Applications” tab within the system, click on the "edit" link near the right side of the page, and edit your custom field answers, or upload new versions of your resume or cover letter and delete previous versions. Make sure you remember to click the “Save Edits” button to preserve any changes!

To see if recommendation letters have been submitted:

Both you and your reference will receive a letter to confirm the upload of a recommendation letter. You can also view the status of the letters from within the system by clicking on the "View Referral" link within the "My Job Applications" tab.

To resend a link to your reference at which they will upload their letter of recommendation:

Click on the "View Referral" link within the "My Job Applications" tab. On the new page, click on the "Resend Referral Request" link and your reference will receive a new email with a link for letter upload.

Technical questions or problems?:

For help and to report problems, please email apptracker-feedback@cyber.law.harvard.edu.

Berkman Center Announces 2012-2013 Fellows

rtabasky — Thu, 28 Jun 2012 06:25:44 -0400

Cambridge, MA - The Berkman Center for Internet & Society at Harvard University today announced the fellows who will join the community in the 2012-2013 academic year, continuing a tradition of providing a home for some of the most incisive and creative minds in law, technology, and social science, alongside path-breaking entrepreneurs and activists.

“The 2012-2013 fellows bring to Berkman an astounding level of expertise, a diversity in viewpoints and interests, and a willingness to innovatively and deeply engage the many pressing questions related to the ongoing development of the Internet” said Urs Gasser, Berkman’s Executive Director. “Their commitment to spending the next year in Cambridge provides us the opportunity to build bridges across our shared and independent activities, and to serve the public interest with rigorous research, concerted action, and genuine kinship. We very much look forward to the year ahead with this inspiring group of colleagues.”

Notably, the Berkman Center and the Nieman Foundation for Journalism at Harvard, will host two inaugural Nieman-Berkman Fellows in Journalism Innovation.

In addition to our fellows, each year the Berkman Center’s community is strengthened by relationships with faculty associates, fellows advisory board members, and affiliates and partners the world over. Their contributions are fundamental to the Berkman Center’s work and identity, helping to further bolster ties among organizations around the world and to bolster the capacity of the field.

New 2012-2013 Berkman fellows:

Kendra Albert will deepen her relationship with Berkman and work on the H2O project for open educational resources, as well as explore new topics in generativity and online gatekeeping.

Meg Leta Ambrose, a Ph.D. candidate at the University of Colorado's interdisciplinary ATLAS Institute, will explore the legal, social, and technical issues surrounding the proposed digital right to be forgotten.

Laura Norton Amico, editor and founder of Homicide Watch in Washington, D.C., will study criminal justice journalism in the digital age, focusing on best practices, useful tools and new models for crime and courts reporting. She is one of two new Nieman-Berkman Fellows in Journalism Innovation.

Bodó Balázs, a Fulbright Visiting Researcher from the Budapest University of Technology and Economics, will work on his book on bottom-up, voluntary intellectual property regimes that emerge in piratical file-sharing communities and other informal media economies.

Matthew Becker, a Harvard Law School 3L and Editor-in-Chief of the Harvard Journal of Law & Technology, will explore a solution to the problem of adhesive standard form contracts such as terms of service, using an approach that draws on the decentralized nature of the Internet.

Jacques de Werra, Professor of intellectual property and contract law at the University of Geneva, will conduct research on the development of global intellectual property licensing policies in the online environment.

Ruha Devanesan, Executive Director of Internetbar.org, will research the impact of the digitization of the music industry on developing world music creation and consumption.

Borja Echevarría de la Gándara, Deputy Managing Editor of El País in Spain, will study the structural evolution of newsrooms around the world and how disruptive innovation is altering traditional business and workflow models for news. He is one of two new Nieman-Berkman Fellows in Journalism Innovation.

Eric Gordon, Associate Professor at Emerson College and Director of the Engagement Game Lab, will examine how social media and games are transforming local civic engagement.

Phil Hill, a J.D. candidate at Harvard Law School, will explore copyright law and policies relating to creative expression in the digital age.

Diana Kimball, an MBA candidate at Harvard Business School, will apply an open-source ethos to her work on mentoring and her research on internet culture.

Rosemary Leith, a Director of the World Wide Web Foundation, will join Berkman's Internet Robustness team, building awareness and facilitating partnerships in the effort to support a more stable and reliable Web.

Ching-Yi Liu, Professor of law at National Taiwan University and Principal Investigator of Taiwan's National E-Learning and Digital Archives Program, will explore issues related to network neutrality, technology policies related to digital libraries, and freedom of the press in the Internet age.

Maria Löblich, Assistant Professor at the Department of Communication Science and Media Research, Ludwig-Maximilians-University Munich, will work on civil society's involvement in net neutrality contentions and its intertwining with other political actors in the United States.

Xinlei Lu, a Ph.D. candidate in the School of Journalism at Fudan University, Shanghai will work on how cyber-technology has been employed to prevent HIV/AIDS in the gay community in China, and the political, commercial, and social factors implicated therein.

Jun-Ru Lu, a public prosecutor of Taipei District Prosecutors Office in Taiwan, will develop his research on electronic case files and evidence in criminal procedure.

Silvio Meira, Professor of software engineering at the Center for Informatics at the Federal University of Pernambuco and Chief Scientist at the Recife Center for Advanced Studies and Systems, will work on innovation networks and habitats in developing economies and Brazil in particular and will have a go at The Emerging Web of Machines.

O'Seun Odewale, Personal Assistant and Adviser to Governor of Ekiti State, South West Nigeria will explore Open Society in the context of new technologies and the politics of control.

Jonathon Penney, a research fellow at the University of Toronto’s Citizen Lab and a Ph.D. candidate at the Oxford Internet Institute, University of Oxford, will work primarily on his doctoral research concerning regulatory chilling effects online.

Alberto Pepe, a postdoctoral research fellow at the Center for Astrophysics of Harvard University and co-founder of Authorea, will research and promote Open Science and develop the next generation of tools for the collaborative authorship of research projects.

Molly Sauter, a S.M. candidate in Comparative Media Studies at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, will be examining conflicts of anonymity and pseudonymity at the intersections of digital activism and "real life" activism.

Elisabeth Staksrud, a research fellow at the Department of Media and Communication at the University of Oslo, will work on her new book, critically exploring the relationship between NGOs and the Internet industry in the field of online protection of children.

Alexander H. Trechsel, Professor of political science at the European University Institute in Florence, will work on internet voting and, more generally, the transformation of representative democracy in the digital era.

Jessica Valenti, a feminist author and activist, will research and develop a plan for a national think tank grounded in digital feminism and its communities.

Heather Whitney, a J.D. candidate at Harvard Law School, will investigate how we can better leverage social platforms and the rise of citizen science and quantified self to improve health and health research.

John Palfrey will take on the role as a senior research fellow at Berkman while he also transitions to his position of Head of School of Phillips Academy, Andover. In addition, he will maintain his position as a member of the Berkman Center’s Board of Directors and serve as a principal investigator on selected projects, including the Digital Public Library of America.

Fellows returning for 2012-2013 include: Dalida Maria Benfield, danah boyd, Ryan Budish, Herbert Burkert, Sandra Cortesi, Juan Carlos de Martin, Judith Donath, Mayo Fuster Morell, Oliver Goodenough, Eszter Hargittai, Jerome Hergueux, Benjamin Mako Hill, Catharina Maracke, Maura Marx, Claire McCarthy, Intisar Rabb, Justin Reich, Hal Roberts, Andy Sellars, Aaron Shaw, Peter Suber, Kevin Wallen, and Christopher Walsh.

Fellowship Advisory Board members, Wendy Seltzer, Jake Shapiro, David Weinberger, and Ethan Zuckerman, will continue their deep involvement in the Center’s activities, fellows program, and growing network of affiliated researchers.

In addition to new and returning fellows and the Fellowship Advisory Board, the Berkman Center will also engage a group of Faculty Associates for the 2012-2013 academic year, including: Mike Ananny, David Ardia, Fernando Bermejo, Jim Bessen, Michael Best, Beth Coleman, Sasha Costanza-Chock, Dan Gillmor, Matt Hindman, Jeffrey Huang, Lewis Hyde, Beth Kolko, Karim Lakhani, Kevin Lewis, Harry Lewis, Wayne Marshall, Miriam Meckel, Carlos Osorio, Mica Pollock, Joseph Reagle, Nagla Rizk, Geanne Rosenberg, Christian Sandvig, Clay Shirky, Zeynep Tufekci, Eric Von Hippel, Dennis Yi Tenen, and Dorothy Zinberg.

About the Berkman Center for Internet and Society:

Contact:
Rebecca Tabasky
rtabasky@cyber.law.harvard.edu
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The Nieman-Berkman Fellowship in Journalism Innovation

rtabasky — Wed, 11 Jan 2012 11:52:50 -0500

We are excited to share that the Berkman Center has partnered with the Nieman Foundation for Journalism at Harvard to establish a joint Nieman-Berkman Fellowship in Journalism Innovation for the 2012-2013 academic year. Please find the announcement below.

As part of both the Nieman and Berkman fellowship communities, the Nieman-Berkman fellow will conduct and advance research at the cutting edge of digital journalism.

More information about the fellowship can be found on the Nieman site.

You will find information about proposal scope, candidate eligibility, stipending and benefits, and application requirements and instructions. Applications will be processed through the Nieman Foundation's application system.

As well, Joshua Benton of the Nieman Journalism Lab has written a great blog post expressing some of the promise this opportunity holds.

The deadline for applications for the 2012-2013 academic year is Feb. 15, 2012.

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January 11, 2012

CAMBRIDGE, Mass. – Addressing the growing need for fresh ideas and research in news reporting, the Nieman Foundation for Journalism at Harvard and the Berkman Center for Internet & Society announce the creation of the joint Nieman-Berkman Fellowship in Journalism Innovation.

Candidates for the new yearlong fellowship will be asked to propose a specific course of study or project relating to journalism innovation. The proposal may deal with any issue relating to journalism’s digital transformation. Examples might include ideas for new revenue streams to fund journalism, the construction of new tools for reporting or research into news consumption patterns. The candidate must indicate clearly how his or her proposal will benefit journalism.

Nieman and Berkman share a set of common interests around journalism, innovation and the development of digital space, and both run fellowship programs that offer professionals a year to learn and collaborate with others in the Harvard community.

“We are excited to marry the resources of Nieman with the expertise of our colleagues at Berkman,” said Nieman curator Ann Marie Lipinski. “This partnership offers an excellent opportunity for a fellow to use these assets in support of a project that will help journalism in a meaningful way. We think this sort of collaboration with a great Harvard partner holds much promise.”

“While a great many challenges to journalism and news remain, there is tremendous energy and innovation among the diverse journalists and news organizations embracing digital opportunity,” added Colin Maclay, managing director of the Berkman Center. “This fellowship is a promising step toward catalyzing and deepening our relationship with the Nieman community – and in our joint efforts to better understand and support journalism’s digital future.”

On campus, the Nieman-Berkman Fellow will be a full participant in the Nieman and Berkman fellowship programs and serve as a conduit of information between the two. The fellow also will be expected to share the results of his or her work online through the Nieman Journalism Lab.

The Nieman-Berkman Fellow will be able to draw upon the wealth of resources available at Harvard and in the surrounding area. Along with the Nieman Foundation and the Berkman Center, Cambridge is home to such institutions as Harvard Business School, the Hauser Center for Nonprofit Organizations, the Shorenstein Center for Press, Politics and Public Policy, the MIT Media Lab MIT’s Center for Civic Media and others concerned with journalism’s ongoing evolution.

The Nieman-Berkman Fellowship is open to both United States citizens and citizens of other countries. Working journalists, including independent journalists, and those who work for a news organization in a business, technology, or leadership capacity are welcome to apply.

The deadline for applications for the 2012-2013 academic year is Feb. 15, 2012. American citizens may apply for both the standard Nieman Fellowship (deadline: Jan. 31) and the specialized Nieman-Berkman Fellowship.

The Nieman Foundation and the Berkman Center share a commitment to diversity and encourage applications from members of underrepresented groups.

The Nieman-Berkman Fellow will receive the standard Nieman Fellowship stipend, which is $60,000 over 10 months. Fellows also receive additional allowances for housing, childcare and health insurance. More details about the new fellowship are available on the Nieman Foundation website at www.nieman.harvard.edu/nieman-berkman/

Questions about the application process may be sent to Nieman fellowship administrator John Breen at john_breen@harvard.edu.

The Nieman Foundation for Journalism at Harvard administers the oldest fellowship program for journalists in the world. Grants are awarded to accomplished professionals who come to Harvard for a year of study. More than 1,300 journalists from 91 countries have received Nieman Fellowships since 1938. The foundation’s other initiatives include the Nieman Journalism Lab, a website that reports on the future of news and identifies emerging business models, innovation and best practices in journalism in the digital media age; Nieman Reports, an influential quarterly magazine/website that explores contemporary challenges and opportunities in journalism; Nieman Watchdog, a website that poses questions the press should ask and teaches journalists how to monitor and hold accountable all those who exert power in public life; and Nieman Storyboard, a website that showcases exceptional narrative journalism in every medium and explores the future of nonfiction storytelling.

New Fellowship: Nieman-Berkman Fellowship in Journalism Innovation

rtabasky — Wed, 11 Jan 2012 11:41:25 -0500

The Nieman Foundation and the Berkman Center share a commitment to diversity and encourage applications from members of underrepresented groups.

Questions about the application process may be sent to Nieman fellowship administrator John Breen at john_breen@harvard.edu.

Opportunity: Clinical Instructional Fellow, Cyberlaw Clinic

rtabasky — Thu, 15 Dec 2011 15:05:32 -0500

February 22, 2012 update: We are no longer accepting applications for this position.

The Berkman Center for Internet & Society at Harvard University seeks a Clinical Instructional Fellow to join our Cyberlaw Clinic team.

The official human resources language is below, followed by additional context and information.

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Clinical Instructional Fellow

Duties & Responsibilities

Reports to the Director of the Harvard Law School Cyberlaw Clinic, based at Harvard’s Berkman Center for Internet & Society.

The Clinical Instructional Fellow’s (Fellow’s) primary responsibility will be to assist the Clinic’s Director and Clinical Instructors in supervising, managing and mentoring students as they represent clients in a variety of challenging cyberlaw cases and matters, including in the areas of new media and online speech; transactional, licensing, and online liability questions; copyright, fair use, trademark and other intellectual property issues; startups, entrepreneurship and emerging technology; privacy and security; cybercrime; and youth online safety, among others. The Fellow’s practice will include considerable work helping represent and advocate for the First Amendment interests of online speakers and others who host and provide content online and otherwise engage in free expression online, among other areas.

The Fellow also may assist in overseeing student preparation of amicus briefs, comments and other filings in cases involving significant First Amendment, online speech and media law, IP, and technology policy issues.

The Fellow, under the close supervision of the Clinic’s Director and Clinical Instructors, will meet regularly with students to prepare and strategize in connection with the students’ casework, observe students in client interactions, review students’ written and other work product, provide regular and detailed feedback to students on their projects and performance, deliver instruction in basic legal skills and Internet-related practice, and ensure professional, high-quality representation of Clinic clients.

The Fellow will also assist in developing new Cyberlaw Clinic cases and clients, particularly in the transactional, licensing, startup and IP/technology counseling areas, and in maintaining relationships with existing clients and external partners such as government agencies, advocacy organizations, startups, and law firms.

The Fellow will play a substantial role in assisting the Director and Clinical Instructors in managing various administrative aspects of the Clinic’s practice and operation.

The Fellow will be part of the intellectual community at the Berkman Center and will have the opportunity to attend workshops and conferences at the Center and at Harvard Law School. The Fellow will have frequent opportunities to expand his/her knowledge of technology and law and the opportunity to use a limited amount of time to pursue his or her own research or scholarship. The community of fellows at the Center includes wide range of people working on issues related to Internet and society, including scholars, practitioners, innovators and others committed to understanding and advancing the public interest. The Berkman Center fellowship program aims to encourage and support fellows in an inviting and rigorous intellectual environment, with community activities designed to foster inquiry and collaboration.

The Clinical Instructional Fellow position is a benefit-eligible, full-time position ending no later than December 31, 2013.

Basic Qualifications

Candidates must have a Juris Doctor degree and be admitted to the Massachusetts bar. Two to three years legal-practice experience with significant internet/technology and/or relevant intellectual property law background is required.

Additional Qualifications

Expertise in the areas of online transactional/licensing law, start-up (both for-profit and non-profit) legal assessment and advising, is preferred, as is experience with legal issues relating to the First Amendment, new media, and online speech. Previous experience in a clinical legal setting or the direct supervision and mentoring of young attorneys is highly desirable. A strong technical background or prior technical experience is advantageous but not required. Candidates should be energetic and passionate about working on a variety of cyberlaw, technology policy and IP cases and projects. Top academic credentials, superior writing and verbal skills, sound judgment, exceptional ethical standards, and proven abilities in interpersonal communication, supervision, and team building are required.

Additional Information

The following materials should be submitted with your online application:
* A short statement (no more than 1000 words) describing relevant experience;
* Resume;
* Writing sample (10 – 15 pages preferred);
* List of at least three references; and
* Law school transcript

Commitment to Diversity

The work and well-being of the Berkman Center for Internet & Society at Harvard University are strengthened profoundly by the diversity of our network and our differences in background, culture, experience, national origin, religion, sexual orientation, and much more. We actively seek and welcome applications from people of color, women, the LGBTQ community, and persons with disabilities, as well as applications from researchers and practitioners from across the spectrum of disciplines and methods. The roots of this deep commitment are many and, appropriately, diverse. We are not nearly far enough along in this regard, and we may never be. It is a constant process in which there remains much to learn. We welcome your inquiries, comments and ideas on how we may continue to improve.

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What is the Berkman Center for Internet & Society?

The Berkman Center for Internet & Society is a research center founded at Harvard Law School in 1997. Now a university-wide center, it serves as the locus for a network of Harvard and other faculty, students, fellows, lawyers, entrepreneurs, and others working to identify and engage with the challenges and opportunities presented by the Internet. The Center is devoted to research and teaching on issues at the intersection of emerging technologies, law, public policy, industry, and education and to the development of dynamic approaches and rigorous scholarship that can affect and support the public interest.

What does the Cyberlaw Clinic do?

The rapid expansion of the Internet during the 1990s and the increasing ability of individuals and organizations to locate and retrieve content online had two important and related effects relevant to the law school clinical model. First, it allowed a wide range of users to obtain and share information at an extraordinary rate. Second, it posed enormous challenges to existing legal regimes in areas such as intellectual property, speech, and privacy. Whereas some could afford to pay for high-quality legal services in the emerging area of “cyberlaw,” the need for free or low-cost legal service organizations to meet the needs of individuals, academics, startups, and others was apparent. At the same time, students graduating from law schools in the late-1990s and early-2000s were increasingly expected by their employers, clients, and others, to come to the workforce prepared to grapple with complex questions relevant to organizations, businesses, and individuals that operate in an online world. The importance of legal issues relevant to the Internet was clear even in areas of practice with no apparent connection to the web, as questions about the intersection technology and law (including laws relating to contracts, intellectual property, jurisdiction, privacy, and speech) impacted virtually everyone.

The Cyberlaw Clinic was born of the need to serve these two constituencies -- prospective clients and students -- and a central aim of the Clinic remains balancing the provision of top-notch legal services to Clinic clients with teaching and pedagogy geared toward students. The Clinic offers HLS students a unique opportunity to engage directly with the practice of law as it relates to the Internet, technology, and new media. It does so by providing high-quality, pro-bono legal services to appropriate individuals, small start-ups, non-profit groups, and government entities regarding cutting-edge issues of the Internet, new technology, and intellectual property. Consistent with the needs of its clients and the interests of its students, the Clinic's practice covers a wide variety of types of work and a broad range of substantive areas of the law.

To apply

More information and the official Harvard Human Resource position listing can be found online, and applications must be submitted through the official Harvard channels described at the listing: <https://sjobs.brassring.com/1033/asp/tg/cim_jobdetail.asp?jobId=843447&PartnerId=25240&SiteId=5341&type=mail&JobReqLang=1&recordstart=1&JobSiteId=5341&JobSiteInfo=843447_5341&gqid=0>

Open Call for Fellowship Applications, Academic Year 2012-2013

rtabasky — Wed, 12 Oct 2011 16:02:57 -0400

December 19, 2011 Update: We are no longer accepting applications for 2012-2013 academic year fellowships though our open call for applications. You can check out our fellowship page to learn of other fellowships we may have open, join the community through participation at events, or sign up for one of our listservs to be notified of new opportunities, events, or research.

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The Berkman Center for Internet & Society at Harvard University has opened our yearly call for fellowship applications. This opportunity is for those who wish to spend the 2012-2013 academic year as a fellow conducting research with the Berkman community.

We invite people who are working on issues related to Internet and society who are familiar to us as well as those who are not; those working on issues that overlap with ongoing Berkman interests and those who will expose us to new opportunities and approaches; scholars, practitioners, innovators and others committed to understanding and advancing the public interest; and people just beginning their work, in the midst of it, or eager to reflect.

Through this annual open call, we seek to advance our work and give it new direction, and to deepen and broaden our community.

About Berkman’s Fellowship Program

Berkman Center fellowships provide the opportunity for innovative thinkers and changemakers to hone and share ideas, find camaraderie, and spawn new initiatives. The program aims to encourage and support fellows in an inviting and rigorous intellectual environment, with community activities designed to foster inquiry and collaboration. With Berkman faculty, students, staff, and other affiliates, fellows help to develop and advance Berkman Center projects, and learn and teach through courses, curricula and diverse gatherings.

Together fellows actively participate in exchanges through a weekly fellows hour, various online media, fellows-run working groups, and a wide-range of events and interactions. Much of what makes the fellowship program rewarding is created each year by the fellows themselves to address their own interests and priorities. These innovative, entrepreneurial, collaborative ventures – ranging from goal-oriented to experimental, from rigorous to humorous – are what ensure the dynamism of the fellows, the fellowship program and the Berkman community.

Fellows are essential to the Berkman Center as nodes of intelligence, insight, energy, and knowledge-sharing. From their diverse backgrounds and wide-ranging physical and virtual travels, fellows bring fresh ideas, skills, passion and connections to the Center, and from their time spent in Cambridge help build and extend new perspectives and initiatives out into the world.

About Berkman Fellowships

An appointment that defies one-size-fits-all description, each Berkman fellowship carries a unique set of opportunities, responsibilities and expectations. All fellows engage issues related to the fairly limitless expanse of Internet & society issues, and are committed to the intellectual life of the Center and fellowship program activities. Some fellows work as researchers directly on Berkman Center projects. Other fellowships consist of independent work, such as the research and writing of a manuscript or series of papers, an event, or the development and implementation of a project or a study on issues related to the Berkman Center’s areas of inquiry. Each Berkman fellow develops and coordinates their fellowship workplan with the Center’s directors and staff.

Fellowship terms typically run the course of the academic year, roughly from the beginning of September through the end of May. In some cases, the period of appointment does not align with the US academic year. In some instances, fellows are re-appointed for consecutive fellowship terms.

While we embrace our many virtual connections, spending time together in person remains essential. In order to maximize their engagement with the community, fellows are expected to routinely spend time in and conduct much of their work from Cambridge, in most cases requiring residency. Tuesdays hold particular importance as it is the day the fellows community meets for a weekly fellows hour, in addition to it being the day we host our public luncheon series; as such, we ask that fellows commit to spending as many Tuesdays at the Center as is possible.

Qualifications

The commonality between all Berkman fellows is an interest in the Internet and a commitment to spending the period of their fellowship studying it.

Commitment to Diversity

Stipends, Benefits, and Access to University Resources

Stipends: Fellowships awarded through the open call for applications are rarely stipended. Some fellows receive partial stipends –the award of such a stipend is based on the nature of the responsibilities the applicant would assume while a fellow, and their relation, relevance, and application to Berkman’s funded projects. Most fellows receive no direct funding or stipend through the Berkman Center, but rather have obtained funding through other means, such as an outside grant or award, a home institution, or other forms of scholarship.

Benefits: Fringe benefits do not routinely accompany Berkman fellowships. Fellows must make their own housing, insurance, childcare, and transportation arrangements.

Office Space: Most Berkman fellows work out of the greater-Boston area and spend a significant amount of time at the Berkman Center. There are many desks and workspaces available for flexible use at the Berkman Center, though few fellows are given their own permanent desk or office. We endeavor to provide comfortable and productive spaces for fellows to work, even if it is not the same space each day. Fellows are welcome to host small meetings and gatherings at the Center and on the Harvard campus.

Access to University Resources: A Harvard ID is a key into many of Harvard’s resources, including access to the Harvard library network (including checkout privileges and access to the University’s e-resources), the ability to purchase University health insurance, and the ability to purchase Harvard gym membership. At present, we are not able to routinely provide Harvard IDs to fellows, though some IDs are issued based on need, funding, and other administrative reasons. Berkman fellows bringing their own funding via scholarships or other financial support have the opportunity to pay the University appointment fees necessary to issue an ID. Physical access into Langdell Library (the Harvard Law School Library) can be arranged for all Berkman fellows. Berkman fellows wishing to audit classes at Harvard University must ask permission directly from the professor of the desired class.

Additional Information about the Berkman Center

The Berkman Center for Internet & Society at Harvard University is a research program founded to explore cyberspace, share in its study, and help pioneer its development. Founded in 1997, through a generous gift from Jack N. and Lillian R. Berkman, the Center now is home to an ever-growing community of faculty, fellows, staff, and affiliates working on projects that span the intersections among innovation, democracy, learning, law, technology, and policy. More information can be found at: http://cyber.law.harvard.edu.

Required Application Materials

1.) A current resume or CV.

2.) A personal statement which should a) frame your motivation for applying for a Berkman Center fellowship and b) outline the work you propose to conduct during a fellowship. This statement should be roughly 1,000 – 1,500 words or a multi-media equivalent.

3.) A copy of a recent publication or piece of your work that is related to Internet research. It should be on the order of a paper, chapter, or presentation - not an entire book or dissertation - and should be in English.

4.) Two letters of reference, to be sent directly from the referrer to Rebecca Tabasky at rtabasky at cyber.law.harvard.edu.

To Apply for a 2012-2013 Academic Year Fellowship Through Our Open Call

Applications will be completed through a combination of online webform submission (through which you will submit information and attach digital copies of application materials 1-3) and receipt of the letters of recommendation directly from your references.

Applications will be accepted on a rolling basis through 11:59 p.m. ET on December 18, 2011. Incomplete applications and applications received after the application deadline will not be accepted or reviewed.

Our online application webform can be found at: https://cyber.law.harvard.edu/forms/fellows_app.cgi.

Letters of recommendation should be sent directly from the referrer to Rebecca Tabasky at rtabasky@cyber.law.harvard.edu.

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Questions

If you have further questions about our open call for fellowship applications, please check out our fellowship program FAQ where you might find an answer.

If you have questions that are not addressed in our FAQ, please contact Rebecca Tabasky at rtabasky@cyber.law.harvard.edu.

U.S. C.I.O. to Serve Joint Fellowship at Harvard

syoung — Thu, 16 Jun 2011 13:00:00 -0400

CAMBRIDGE, MA. -- Vivek Kundra, the U.S. Chief Information Officer at the White House for the past two and a half years, will serve a joint fellowship this fall at Harvard University. Kundra will split his time between the Shorenstein Center on the Press, Politics and Public Policy at Harvard Kennedy School (HKS), and the Berkman Center for Internet & Society at Harvard University.

In addition to carrying out independent research at the Berkman Center, Kundra will collaborate with the Center in its research activities in the areas of cloud computing, open data, and open government. At the Shorenstein Center, Kundra’s research will focus on the implications of digital media and technology on governance.

“We are excited to welcome Vivek Kundra to Harvard,” said Alex Jones, director of the Shorenstein Center. “His extensive background in information technology, strategy and government operations will provide a valuable new lens through which to examine many of the important issues that the Center is committed to exploring.”

“We are delighted that Vivek Kundra will be joining the Berkman Center community,” said Urs Gasser, executive director of the Berkman Center. “We look forward to working closely with him on cutting edge issues where the complexities of cloud computing intersect with law, institutions, and data.”

Vivek Kundra was appointed as the United States Chief Information Officer by President Obama in March 2009. Prior to joining the Obama administration, Kundra served in Mayor Fenty's cabinet as the CTO for the District of Columbia and Governor Kaine’s cabinet as Assistant Secretary of Commerce and Technology for the Commonwealth of Virginia. He has also served in leadership roles in the private sector.

The World Economic Forum selected Kundra as a 2011 Young Global Leader, representing a group of exceptional young leaders who share a commitment to shaping the global future. He has been recognized as the 2009 Chief of the Year by InformationWeek for driving unprecedented change in Federal IT and as the 2008 IT Executive of the Year for his pioneering work to drive transparency, engage citizens and lower the cost of government operations. He has also been recognized by InfoWorld among the top 25 CTO's in the country.

“Our government and its citizens are invariably connected through a vast and complex technology infrastructure rife with opportunities as well as risks,” said Kundra. “The work that I dedicated myself to while serving as the Federal CIO – in cutting waste, strengthening cybersecurity, and building an open and transparent government through technology – will also drive my research interests on both the national and international levels at the Shorenstein Center and the Berkman Center at Harvard.”

The Joan Shorenstein Center on the Press, Politics and Public Policy is a Harvard University research center dedicated to exploring and illuminating the intersection of press, politics and public policy in theory and practice. The Center strives to bridge the gap between journalists and scholars, and between them and the public. Read more on the website: http://www.hks.harvard.edu/presspol/index.html

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Berkman Center Announces 2011-2012 Fellows

syoung — Wed, 15 Jun 2011 10:30:00 -0400

Cambridge, MA - The Berkman Center for Internet & Society at Harvard University today announced its incoming fellows for the 2011-2012 academic year, continuing a tradition of providing a home to many of the brightest and most creative minds in law, technology, and social science, as well as leading entrepreneurs and activists. Joining the Berkman Center is an opportunity for fellows to further pursue their current work, to incubate new ideas, and to apply their expertise more directly to the Center’s interdisciplinary research agenda.

"The fellowship program is a central element of the Berkman Center's DNA and a constant source of inspiration and innovation. We are very excited that the 2011-12 class of fellows, even more diverse than in previous years, makes this point in such wonderful ways," said Berkman Center Executive Director Urs Gasser. "The appointed fellows come from various disciplinary, professional, and cultural backgrounds and are engaged in a broad range of cutting-edge activities. This outstanding group will help us in deepening our understanding of cyberspace, addressing some of its hardest problems, and ultimately shaping its future in important ways."

New 2011-2012 Berkman fellows:

Dalida Maria Benfield, a Ph.D. candidate in Ethnic Studies at the University of California-Berkeley, will examine the rhetorical uses of race and gender in contemporary discourses of Information and Communication Technology for Development.

Harris Chen, of the Ministry of Justice in Taiwan, handles cases relating to IP crimes, sexual crimes, and drug trafficking and will spend his time developing his research on cyberlaw.

Tyng-Ruey Chuang, an associate research fellow at the Institute of Information Science, Academia Sinica, Taipei will research the architectures and norms of online social networks and organizations.

Beth Coleman, an assistant professor of writing and new media at MIT, will look at the impact of networked social media platforms on collective action.

Juan Carlos De Martin, co-director of the NEXA Center for Internet & Society at Politecnico di Torino, will work on the future of universities in the networked age, with a focus on their role in cyberspace.

Mayo Fuster Morell, who recently concluded her Ph.D. thesis at the European University Institute in Florence, will develop her research on the governance of commons based peer production and on the free culture movement.

Alison Head, of the Information School at the University of Washington, will explore what happens to “Born Digital” students after college.

Jerome Hergueux, a Ph.D. candidate in economics at Sciences Po Paris, will develop new interactive survey methods to uncover the foundations and dynamics of interactions and behavior in online social spaces.

Felipe Heusser, a Ph.D. candidate in government at the London School of Economics, will work on his doctoral thesis, "Freedom of Information (FOI), a closer look from Regulations, Institutions and the Internet."

Benjamin Mako Hill, a Ph.D. candidate in management and media arts and science at MIT, will explore the question, why do some peer production projects successfully attract contributors while most do not?

In addition to carrying out independent research at the Berkman Center, Vivek Kundra will collaborate with the Center in its research activities in the areas of cloud computing, open data, and open government.

Catalina Laserna, a lecturer on anthropology at Harvard, will work on writing a book on her theory of "cybercy" – how the affordances of digital media transform learning and enable deep understanding in preexisting oral and literate traditions.

Kevin Lewis, Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Sociology at Harvard, will examine patterns of mate choice in online dating.

Betsy Masiello, from Google, will research the practical applications of predictive analytics and the ethics surrounding their use.

Giuseppe Mazziotti, an assistant professor in intellectual property law at the University of Copenhagen, will conduct research on intellectual property infringement cases against Google in Europe.

Musician Erin McKeown will work to connect the worlds of policy, art, and technology while considering questions about how to make a creative life a viable vocation.

Andres Monroy-Hernandez, a Ph.D. candidate at the MIT Media Lab and a soon-to-be postdoctoral researcher at Microsoft Research, will study the design of sociotechnical systems that support amateur collaboration in online communities.

Intisar Rabb, an assistant professor at Boston College Law School and faculty affiliate in research at the Islamic Legal Studies Program at Harvard Law School, will work with a team to develop islawmix, a project aimed at connecting news readers, media producers, and legal scholars with credible, authoritative information about trends in Islamic law.

Justin Reich, a doctoral student at the Harvard Graduate School of Education, will continue his work with the Distributed Collaborative Learning Communities Project team to develop metrics of quality in wiki learning environments, and then use those metrics to identify teacher practices and school resources that predict high quality learning environments.

Jennifer Shkabatur, an S.J.D. candidate at Harvard Law School, will study online citizen participation in administrative agencies.

Dennis Y. Tenen, who will join the Columbia University English faculty in 2012-2013, will research online communities and the ways in which they create cultural capital.

Zeynep Tufekci, who will be an assistant professor at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, will focus on the relationship between changing means of connectivity and the dynamics of social change, especially in light of the uprisings in the Middle East and North Africa.

Jia Wang, former department director of Open Constitution Initiative in China and current L.L.D. candidate at Stellenbosch University in South Africa, will conduct research on the development of the public sphere in cyberspace and its impact on the political ecology in China.

Fellows returning for 2011-2012 include: David Abrams, Brad Abruzzi, Mike Ananny, Sandra Cortesi, Sasha Costanza-Chock, Judith Donath, Oliver Goodenough, Eszter Hargittai, Jeff Hermes, Catharina Maracke, Maura Marx, Hal Roberts, Jeffrey Schnapp, Aaron Shaw, Hugo Van Vuuren, and Kevin Wallen.

As the Berkman Center’s Fellowship Advisory Board, Wendy Seltzer, Jake Shapiro, David Weinberger, and Ethan Zuckerman will continue their deep involvement in the Center’s activities, fellows program, and growing network of affiliated researchers.

In addition to new and returning fellows and the Fellowship Advisory Board, the Berkman Center also welcomes a group of Faculty Associates for the 2011-2012 academic year, including: David Ardia, Fernando Bermejo, Jim Bessen, Michael Best, Dan Gillmor, Matt Hindman, Jeffrey Huang, Lewis Hyde, Beth Kolko, Karim Lakhani, Harry Lewis, Wayne Marshall, Claire McCarthy, Miriam Meckel, Mica Pollock, Joseph Reagle, Christian Sandvig, Clay Shirky, and Eric Von Hippel.

In the coming year the Berkman Center’s fellowship program will remain linked with that of the Center for Research on Computation and Society, based at the Harvard School of Engineering and Applied Sciences. The joint fellowship program will continue to spark and reinforce collaborations among faculty, fellows, staff members, and students across schools.

Finally, along with the many talented incoming community members mentioned above, others may join the Berkman community in various capacities over the course of the academic year.

About the Berkman Center for Internet and Society
The Berkman Center for Internet & Society at Harvard University is a research program founded to explore cyberspace, share in its study, and help pioneer its development. Founded in 1997, through a generous gift from Jack N. and Lillian R. Berkman, the Center is home to an ever-growing community of faculty, fellows, staff, and affiliates working on projects that span the broad range of intersections between cyberspace, technology, and society. More information can be found at http://cyber.law.harvard.edu.

Contact:
Rebecca Tabasky
rtabasky@cyber.law.harvard.edu

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