Upcoming Events and Digital Media Roundup

Apr 15, 2009

BERKMAN CENTER FOR INTERNET & SOCIETY AT HARVARD UNIVERSITY
April 15, 2009 // Upcoming events and digital media

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[1] [TUESDAY 4/21/09] Berkman Center Luncheon Series: "Mediactive: Why media consumers, not just creators, need to be active users" with Dan Gillmor, Berkman Center Fellow and director of the Center for Citizen Media (http://cyber.harvard.edu/events/luncheon/2009/04/gillmor)

[2] [WEDNESDAY 4/22/09] "The End of Lawyers? The End of Law Schools?" with Professor Richard Susskind, Author of "The End of Lawyers?" and IT Adviser to the Lord Chief Justice of England (http://cyber.harvard.edu/events/lawlab/2009/04/susskind)

[TUESDAY] BERKMAN LUNCHEON SERIES on WHY MEDIA CONSUMERS NEED TO BE ACTIVE USERS
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4/21/09, 12:30 PM ET, Berkman Center Conference Room
RSVP is required (rsvp@cyber.harvard.edu).

Topic: Mediactive: Why media consumers, not just creators, need to be active users.
Guest: Dan Gillmor, Berkman Center Fellow and director of the Center for Citizen Media

The supply side of tomorrow's media is emerging quickly, if messily, in a democratization of media-creation tools that give us a vast and growing amount of content of all kinds, ranging from trivial to entertaining to vital. We will need to improve journalism at all levels during this process.

But the demand side needs help, too. Even as we help new media creators learn to understand and apply principles of journalism, we will also need to encourage people who have been simply consumers to become much more active users -- seeking reliable and trustworthy sources and taking some responsibility for the quality of what they read.

These are daunting goals. But as we emerge from an era of media monopolies and oligopolies that have allowed us to be lazy, and too trusting, we'll be better off taking more responsibility for what we read, hear and view.

This event will be webcast live; for more information and a complete description, see the event web page: http://cyber.harvard.edu/events/luncheon/2009/04/gillmor

[WEDNESDAY] THE END OF LAWYERS?
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4/22/09, 12:14 PM ET, Griswold Hall 110, Harvard Law School
Map: http://map.harvard.edu/level3.cfm?mapname=camb_allston&tile=F6&quadrant=C&series=N
Free and Open to the Public
RSVP Required (rsvp@cyber.harvard.edu)

Topic: The End of Lawyers? The End of Law Schools?
Guest: Professor Richard Susskind, Author of "The End of Lawyers?" and IT Adviser to the Lord Chief Justice of England

Will lawyers be casualties in the digital revolution? This is the controversial prediction of Richard Susskind, author of The End of Lawyers? Rethinking the Nature of Legal Services. He believes that lawyers will have to ask themselves what elements of their current workload could be undertaken more quickly, more cheaply, more efficiently, or to a higher quality using different and new methods of working – because if they don’t, their competitors will. The market is unlikely to tolerate expensive lawyers for tasks that can be better discharged with support of modern systems and techniques.

Prof. Susskind predicts that the legal profession will be driven by two forces in the coming decade: by a market pull towards the commoditization of legal services, and by the pervasive development and uptake of new and disruptive legal technologies. The threat here for lawyers is clear - their jobs may well be eroded or even displaced. At the same time, for entrepreneurial lawyers, Susskind foresees quite different law jobs emerging which may be highly rewarding, even if very different from those of today.

Is the same true of law schools? Is the current model of legal education facing radical change? Prof. Susskind will explore these and other challenging questions in a lecture open to the entire Law School community.

This event will be webcast live; for more information and a complete description, see the event web page: http://cyber.harvard.edu/events/lawlab/2009/04/susskind

OTHER EVENTS OF NOTE
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[1] 4/15/09 "The History of the Book and the Future of Information" with John Palfrey, Ann Blair, and Robert Darnton at Adams House, Harvard University, 4:00PM

[2] 4/16/09 "Cyber Security and Counterintelligence" with Dr. Joel Brenner, National Counter Intelligence Executive, DNI // MIT (http://www.csail.mit.edu/events/eventcalendar/calendar.php?show=event&id=2218)

[3] 4/22/09 "Scholarship in the Digital Age: Information, Infrastructure, and the Internet" with Christine Borgman of UCLA // Harvard IIC (http://iic.harvard.edu/seminars/iic-colloquium-series-fall-2008-through-spring-2009/iic-colloquium-scholarship-digital-age-)

[4] 5/2/09 New Media Literacy's "Learning in a Participatory Culture" (http://newmedialiteracies.org/)

DIGITAL MEDIA: Watch and Listen
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Did you miss this week's luncheon talk? Catch up with Berkman videos, podcasts, pictures, and dig in to our archive at http://cyber.harvard.edu/interactive.

-RADIO BERKMAN: This Wiki Post Will Self-Destruct in 5...4...3... (http://cyber.harvard.edu/interactive/podcasts/radioberkman117)

-BERKMAN LUNCHEON SERIES with VENI MARKOVSKI on "Internet Governance from an Eastern European Perspective" (http://cyber.harvard.edu/interactive/luncheons/2009/04/veni)

-LAW LAB SPEAKER SERIES: "Law for a Flat World: Building Legal Infrastructure for the New Economy" with Gillian Hadfield (http://cyber.harvard.edu/interactive/events/2009/04/hadfield)

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BERKMAN CALENDAR & UPCOMING EVENTS PREVIEW
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See our events calendar if you're curious about future luncheons, discussions, lectures, conferences, and more: http://cyber.harvard.edu/events. All of our events are free and open to the public, unless otherwise noted.

[1] 4/28/09 Berkman Center Luncheon Series on "Theories of Media Evolution" with W. Russell Neuman of the University of Michigan (http://cyber.harvard.edu/events/luncheon/2009/04/neuman)

[2] 5/5/09 Berkman Center Luncheon Series on "From the Crowd to the Cloud: Social Media in the Obama Administration" with Liz Losh of UC Irvine (https://cyber.harvard.edu/events/luncheon/2009/05/losh)

[3] 5/11/09 "Protecting Your Scholarship: Copyrights, Publication Agreements, and Open Access" with Kenneth Crews of Columbia University (http://cyber.harvard.edu/events/2009/05/crews)

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