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Upcoming Events

Apr 17, 2024 @ 10:00 AM

Boston’s Data Landscapes: Visualizing the Urban Experience

April 17, Research Sprint Students Present Boston-Based Data Visualizations at the Museum of Science, Boston

Join the Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society at Harvard University, in partnership with the Edgelands Institute and the Master of Arts in Design Engineering (MADE) program…

Apr 17, 2024 @ 12:30 PM

Global South, Geopolitics, and U.S, Europe, and China’s Competition to Influence Global AI Regulation

State of Play

This panel will discuss the evolving state of African AI governance and engagement...

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Apr 24, 2024 @ 12:39 PM

Harvard x Creators: Making Evidence-Based Public Health Information Viral

RSM Speaker Series

Amanda Yarnell and Kate Speer discuss the Center for Health Communication‘s efforts with Jeff Hall...

May 2, 2024 @ 9:30 AM

Platforms and the Right to Information

Hybrid Workshop, May 2

One-day workshop examining what the right to information should look like in relation to platforms and how it can be implemented in a manner that protects user privacy...

May 8, 2024 @ 12:30 PM

Information Foraging in a Social Media World

RSM Speaker Series

Carl Bergstrom explores social media's impact on the scale of human communication...

Past Events

Nov 16, 2016 @ 5:30 PM

Civic Media: Technology, Design, Practice

A book talk discussion and reception with the editors and contributors.

Join the editors and contributors of the new book Civic Media: Technology, Design, Practice (MIT Press 2016) for a discussion on the role of civic media in the changing face of…

Nov 15, 2016 @ 12:00 PM

The End of Ownership

with Aaron Perzanowski, Professor of Law at Case Western Reserve University

Do you own the products you buy? From ebooks to smart appliances, digital goods are increasingly undermining consumer expectations of ownership and the autonomy we associate with…

Nov 3, 2016 @ 12:00 PM

Litigating Free Speech Cases in the African Regional Courts

featuring Berkman Klein Fellow, Nani Jansen Reventlow

Join us for a discussion with Nani Jansen Reventlow, Fellow at the Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society and Associate Tenant at Doughty Street Chambers, on the topic of…

Nov 1, 2016 @ 12:00 PM

Public Interest Data Science: The Data for Justice Project

with Berkman Klein Fellow Paola Villarreal

What happens when you put data and technology in the hands of civil liberties and human rights organizations? Learn about the Data for Justice project, an ACLU of Massachusetts…

Oct 27, 2016 @ 12:30 PM

The Digital Trade Imbalance: Digital Trade, Digital Protectionism, and Digital Rights

with Susan Ariel Aaronson, Research Professor of International Affairs and GWU Cross-Disciplinary Fellow at the George Washington University's Elliott School of International Affairs

Many internet NGOs including EFF, CDT, and Access see trade agreements as undermining the open internet because these agreements often include provisions related to copyright that…

Oct 25, 2016 @ 12:00 PM

Tim Wu - The Battle for Our Attention

Shorenstein Center Speaker Series

Tim Wu is an author, policy advocate, and professor at Columbia Law School, and director of the Poliak Center for the study of First Amendment Issues at Columbia Journalism School…

Oct 11, 2016 @ 12:00 PM

Beyond Legal Talismans

with Berkman Klein Affiliate Kendra Albert

In this talk, Kendra Albert explores how introducing legal terms of art invoked for their weight but often divorced from law, known as “legal talismans”, impacts online platforms…

Oct 4, 2016 @ 12:00 PM

Translating Research into Online Tools to Increase Participation in Collaborative Communities

with Berkman Klein Fellow Samer Hassan

How can we translate social research into evidence-based interventions to aid collaborative communities? Which online tools would help reducing the invisible wall between…

Sep 27, 2016 @ 12:00 PM

The Responsive Communities Initiative - Boston HUBweek

with Prof. Susan Crawford

The Responsive Communities Initiative led by Prof. Susan Crawford at the Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society at Harvard University addresses some of the most important…

Sep 27, 2016 @ 4:00 PM

Power and Participation in the Networked Public Sphere

with John Palfrey, Yochai Benkler, Intisar Rabb, Zeynep Tufekci, Catherine Bracy, and Jonathan Zittrain

A creative discussion about the impact of the networked public sphere on global events, power dynamics, and our society at large, and how that influence may be changing in years…

Sep 23, 2016 @ 5:00 PM

Fall 2016 Open House: Berkman Klein Center (and friends)

Come to the Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society’s Fall 2016 Open House to meet our faculty, fellows, and staff, and to learn about the many ways you can get involved in…

Sep 21, 2016 @ 5:00 PM

Born Digital: How Children Grow Up in a Digital Age

featuring authors, John Palfrey and Urs Gasser

This publication is the expanded and updated version of the critically-acclaimed 2008 book, Born Digital: Understanding the First Generation of DigitalNatives. The new edition…

Sep 6, 2016 @ 5:00 PM

Why the Internet Matters

an interactive discussion with Prof. Jonathan Zittrain, Berkman Klein Center Faculty Chair

If you’re interested in connecting with the Berkman Klein Center's research, community, and events, or are just generally interested in digital technologies and their impact on…

May 31, 2016 @ 12:00 PM

Exploring Corporate Structures and Governance Models for the Open-Source Community

featuring Dalia Topelson Ritvo and Kira Hessekiel

Come join Dalia Topelson Ritvo and Kira Hessekiel of the Berkman Center for a discussion on what corporate structures and governance models open source organizations can utilize…

May 27, 2016 @ 9:00 AM

Conectados al Sur - Breakfast of Ideas

International Development Design Summit: The Colombian Experience

Join us for Conectados al Sur - Breakfast of Ideas event on International Development Design Summit: The Colombian Experience with Pedro Reynolds Cuellar.

May 24, 2016 @ 12:00 PM

Are We Shifting to a New Post-Capitalist Value Regime?

with Michel Bauwens, Founder & Director of the P2P Foundation

Every 500 years or so, European civilization and now world civilization, has been rocked by fundamental shifts in its value regime, in which the rules of the game for acquiring…

May 17, 2016 @ 12:00 PM

Under-connected in America: How Lower-Income Families Respond to Digital Equity Challenges

with Vikki S. Katz, Associate Professor, School of Communication and Information at Rutgers University

Tuesday, May 17, 2016 at 12:00 pm Berkman Center for Internet & Society at Harvard University Harvard Law School…

May 17, 2016 @ 12:00 PM

Disneyland, measles, and parents’ choice not to vaccinate

A conversation with CA State Senator Dr. Richard Pan and Dr. Brittany Seymour

In 2014, the US experienced the largest measles outbreak in nearly a generation, with many cases linked to unvaccinated Disneyland visitors. Misinformation online about vaccines…

May 12, 2016 @ 9:00 AM

Conectados al Sur: Chile

2016. Digitally Connected

The Institute of Communication and Image at the University of Chile, UNICEF, and the Berkman Center for Internet & Society co-hosted the second regional symposium “…

May 11, 2016 @ 12:00 PM

The Internetish Things of Cuba: Open Source and ‘in the Clear’

with Berkman Fellow , Ellery Biddle

Learn about the complex landscape of Internet access, digital media use and open source software development in Cuba.