Berkman in the News

November 24, 2009. swissinfo. Only extroverts have Facebook happiness factor, Swiss study finds

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'''Research also shows that these profiles, especially for teenagers, are important when it comes to the formation of someone's social identity,' said Urs Gasser...executive director of the Berkman Center for Internet and Society at Harvard University.''

November-December 2009. Harvard Magazine. New media transform college classrooms

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''The media revolution means new skills to acquire for faculty members, who are already hard-pressed for time and want to know, say, if the start-up cost of learning a new piece of software will be justified. The 2008 book Born Digital by John Palfrey, Ess librarian and professor of law, and Urs Gasser, executive director of the Berkman Center for Internet and Society at the Law School, describes the generation of young people who have grown up with digital technology.''

November 18, 2009. France 24. State pressure affecting Internet social networks

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''There is no jurisdiction on the planet in which companies do not come under some kind of pressure from government in some way to do things that arguably may infringe on the civil liberties of users,'' Rebecca MacKinnon, co-founder of Global Voices, an international network of blogs said.

November 19, 2009. MediaPost. New Program Offers Bloggers Free Legal Help

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''The initiative, Online Media Legal Network, aims to assist Web publishers with a broad array of legal issues, ranging from handling complaints about copyright to dealing with threatened defamation lawsuits to filing incorporation papers.''

November 17, 2009. CNSNews. United Nations Accused of Censoring Criticism of China at Internet Event

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''The poster at the center of the row, advertising the launch of an upcoming ONI book, included a reference to China’s 'Great Firewall.' ONI and other researchers say China – which has the world’s largest number of Internet users, almost 30 percent – oversees the most pervasive and sophisticated state online filtering system in place anywhere.''

November 16, 2009. BBC. UN criticised for stifling net debate

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''UN security demanded the removal of a poster promoting a book by the OpenNet Initiative (ONI) during a session at the Internet Governance Forum in Egypt. The poster mentioned internet censorship and China's Great Firewall.''

November 15, 2009. IDG. IGF 2009 event rattled by UN Security Office

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''The poster promoting ONI's forthcoming book, 'Access Controlled' was removed by the IGF's organizers because a sentence in the poster apparently violated UN policy.''

November 10, 2009. CNET News. A child porn-planting virus: Threat or bad defense?

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Phil Malone, a clinical professor at Harvard Law School and director of its Berkman Center Cyberlaw Clinic, agrees that a good forensic investigator should be able to tell the difference between files placed by a virus and ones deliberately downloaded.

November 7, 2009. New York Times. NY Case Spotlights Dead Sea Scrolls, Fake E-Mails

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Internet impersonation has generated various civil lawsuits, but prosecutions are much more common in cases that involve stealing money, said Sam Bayard, a fellow at Harvard University's Berkman Center for Internet & Society.

October 30, 2009. New York Times. School Sued for Punishing Teens Over MySpace Pix

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''From the standpoint of young people, there's no real distinction between online life and offline life,'' said John Palfrey, a Harvard University law professor and co-director of the Berkman Center for Internet and Society. ''It's just life.''