Upcoming Events and Digital Media Roundup
BERKMAN CENTER FOR INTERNET & SOCIETY AT HARVARD UNIVERSITY
April 29, 2009 // Upcoming events and digital media
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[1] [TUESDAY 5/5/09] Berkman Center Luncheon Series: "From the Crowd to the Cloud: Social Media in the Obama Administration" with Elizabeth Losh, University of California, Irvine (http://cyber.harvard.edu/events/luncheon/2009/05/losh)
[2] [MONDAY 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)
[TUESDAY] BERKMAN LUNCHEON SERIES on SOCIAL MEDIA IN THE OBAMA
ADMINISTRATION
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5/5/09, 12:30 PM ET, Berkman Center Conference Room
RSVP is required for those attending in person
(rsvp@cyber.harvard.edu).
Topic: From the Crowd to the Cloud: Social Media in the Obama
Administration
Guest: Elizabeth Losh, University of California, Irvine
This talk builds on recently published research about the struggles of
government agencies as Internet content-creators. Virtualpolitik: An
Electronic History of Government Media-Making in a Time of War,
Scandal, Disaster, Miscommunication, and Mistakes chronicles the
failures of the Bush administration to use social media effectively and
to observe the conventions of new digital genres when engaging in the
rhetorics of e-government. Although the Obama administration is often
praised in comparison for its mastery of such many-to-many
computational media, its use of proprietary third-party commercial
social network sites and applications dependent on cloud computing
technologies raises questions about the permanence, transparency,
neutrality, and continued accessibility of the public record in the
digital age. “From the Crowd to the Cloud” looks at the government’s
use of sites like Flickr, YouTube, Facebook, and Twitter and considers
the policy issues involved in reaching out to the public in this way.
This event will be webcast live; for more information and a complete
description, see the event web page:http://cyber.harvard.edu/events/luncheon/2009/05/losh
[MONDAY 5/11/09] COPYRIGHTS, PUBLICATION AGREEMENTS, and OPEN ACCESS
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5/11/09, 12:00 PM, Lamont Library Forum Room
Free and Open to the Public
RSVP is requested (tdodson@hulmail.harvard.edu)
This talk is co-sponsored by the Harvard Office for Scholarly
Communication, Harvard Law School Library, and the Berkman Center for
Internet and Society.
Topic: Protecting Your Scholarship: Copyrights, Publication Agreements,
and Open Access
Guest: Kenneth Crews, Columbia University
Kenneth Crews will provide an engaging review of the issues affecting authors and creators of copyrightable works. Copyrightable works include not only the traditional products of academic activity and inquiry, including books, articles, lectures and class notes, but also software, databases, websites, schematics, drawings, blueprints, renderings, movies, songs, lyrics, sculpture, choreography, landscape designs, and many other products of human creativity. As more channels become available for access to these works, the issues surrounding control and use are becoming ever more complex. Dr. Crews will discuss ways for scholars and other creators of copyrightable works to operate this new environment.
For more information and a complete description, see the event web page: http://cyber.harvard.edu/events/2009/05/crews
OTHER EVENTS OF NOTE
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[1] 4/09-5/09 Boston Cyberarts Festival (http://bostoncyberarts.org/)
[2] 4/29/09 C4FCM Lecture Series: The Future of Profitable
International News with Philip Balboni // MIT
(http://civic.mit.edu/event/c4fcm-lecture-series-the-future-of-profitable-international-news-with-philip-balboni)
[3] 4/30/09 Cyberattacks through the Lens of International Law with
Jack Goldsmith // MIT CSAIL
(http://www.csail.mit.edu/events/eventcalendar/calendar.php?show=event&id=2241)
[4] 4/30/09 IBM Open House - Open to Public // Cambridge Science
Festival
(http://www.zvents.com/cambridge-ma/events/show/86696916-ibm-open-house)
[5] 5/1/09 Stepping Into Virtual Worlds // MIT Museum
(http://web.mit.edu/museum/programs/programdescriptions.html)
[6] 5/1/09 Screening of "Remix" @ 2009 Boston Cyberarts
(http://remixboston.wordpress.com/2009/04/08/hello-world/)
[7] 5/2/09 New Media Literacy's "Learning in a Participatory Culture"
(http://newmedialiteracies.org/)
[8] 5/6/09 Machines with eyes and texting spies: The shifting lines of
public/private with Jonathan Zittrain (http://smg.media.mit.edu/)
[9] 5/6/09 Annie Antón on Designing
Software Systems that Comply with Privacy Laws //
[10] 5/19/09 Anti Spyware Coalition Public Meeting: Creating a Chain of
Trust (http://antispywarecoalition.org/events/may2009.php)
[11] 6/18-6/20/09 "19th Annual Conference for Law School Computing" //
CALI
(http://w.cali.org/conference/)
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 athttp://cyber.harvard.edu/interactive.
-RADIO BERKMAN: Journalism is Dead. Long Live Journalism! with DAN GILLMOR and DAVID WEINBERGER (http://cyber.harvard.edu/interactive/podcasts/radioberkman119)
-BERKMAN LUNCHEON SERIES with on "Theories of Media Evolution" with RUSS NEUMAN (http://cyber.harvard.edu/interactive/events/luncheons/2009/04/neuman)
-Alternative Futures of the Internet: Fears & Optimism with JONATHAN ZITTRAIN (http://www.amacad.org/binaries/video/streamPlayer.aspx?i=9)
-A Sneak Peak at Wolfram|Alpha with STEPHEN WOLFRAM and JONATHAN ZITTRAIN (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5TIOH80Qg7Q) and podcast interview with DAVID WEINBERGER (http://cyber.harvard.edu/interactive/podcasts/radioberkman/wolfram)
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[1] 5/12/09 Berkman Center Luncheon Series on "How Shall the Commons Be Governed? New Challenges Facing the Digital Commons Sector" with David Bollier, Author of "Viral Spiral: How the Commoners Built a Digital Republic of Their Own" (http://cyber.harvard.edu/events/luncheon/2009/05/bollier)
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