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BERKMAN CENTER FOR INTERNET & SOCIETY AT HARVARD UNIVERSITY
May 13, 2009 // Upcoming events and digital media

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[1] [5/15/-5/16/09] ProjectVRM West Coast Workshop 2009 (http://cyber.harvard.edu/events/2009/05/vrm)

[2] [TUESDAY 5/19/09] Berkman Center Luncheon Series on "Video games and pro-social learning" with Gene Koo, Berkman Fellow & Scott C. Seider, Boston University (http://cyber.harvard.edu/events/luncheon/2009/05/koo)

[3] [WEDNESDAY 5/20/09] Harvard-MIT-Yale Cyberscholar Working Group with Aaron Shaw on "Polanyi's Penguin? Commons-Based Industry in the Neoliberal Knowledge Economy"; Colleen Kaman on "The World in the Network"; Rasmus Kleis Nielsen on "Mundane Tools and Mobilizational Practices in Two U.S. Congressional Campaigns" (http://cyber.harvard.edu/events/cyberscholars/2009/05/harvard)


PROJECT VRM WEST COAST WORKSHOP
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5/15-5/16/09

The first ProjectVRM West Coast Workshop (tag vrm2009) will take place on Friday-Saturday 15-16 May, 2009 at SAP Labs at 1410 Hillview Street in Palo Alto. As with earlier VRM gatherings, the purpose of the workshop is to bring people together and make progress on any number of VRM topics and projects. The workshop will be run as an "unconference" on the open space model, which means session topics will be chosen by participants.

For more information, visit the ProjectVRM wiki (http://cyber.harvard.edu/projectvrm/VRM_West_Coast_Workshop_2009) or see Doc Searls' blogpost announcement (http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/doc/2009/04/13/first-vrm-west-coast-workshop-15-16-may-2009/).


[TUESDAY] BERKMAN LUNCHEON SERIES on VIDEO GAMES AND PRO-SOCIAL LEARNING
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5/19/09, 12:30 PM ET, Berkman Center Conference Room
RSVP is required for those attending in person (rsvp@cyber.harvard.edu).

Topic: Video games and pro-social learning
Guest: Gene Koo, Berkman Fellow & Scott C. Seider, Boston University

Video games -- whether "casual" or "hardcore," single- or multi-player, mainstream or independent -- have become a powerful cultural force. Researchers have extensively investigated whether games "cause" aggressive tendencies and other negative attitudes and behaviors. Considerably less attention has focused on whether games offer anything positive to game players and society. In their chapter in a forthcoming volume on video games and ethics, co-authors Gene Koo and Scott Seider attempt to bridge among the disparate fields of video game studies, the learning sciences, and traditional "moral education" and "character education." This presentation sketches their main arguments and focuses particularly on the most interesting implications, including games that reach out beyond the digital interface and directly change player behaviors. For example, Mr. Koo believes My.BarackObama.com as the most influential "video game" (very loosely defined) in recent history, alongside the "Toyota Prius game."

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/koo


[WEDNESDAY] HARVARD-MIT-YALE CYBERSCHOLARS
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5/20/09, 6:00 PM ET, Berkman Center Conference Room
RSVP to ltsui@cyber.harvard.edu

The "Harvard-MIT-Yale Cyberscholar Working Group" is a forum for fellows and affiliates of the Comparative Media Studies Program at MIT, Yale Law School Information Society Project, and the Berkman Center for Internet & Society at Harvard Law School to discuss their ongoing research. Each session is focused on the peer review and discussion of current projects submitted by a presenter. Meeting alternatively at Harvard, MIT, Yale, the working group aims to expand the shared knowledge of young scholars by bringing together these preeminent centers of thought on issues confronting the information age. Discussion sessions are designed to facilitate advancements in the individual research of presenters and in turn encourage exposure among the participants to the multi-disciplinary features of the issues addressed by their own work.

This month's event will feature Aaron Shaw on "Polanyi's Penguin? Commons-Based Industry in the Neoliberal Knowledge Economy"; Colleen Kaman on "The World in the Network"; and Rasmus Kleis Nielsen on "Mundane Tools and Mobilizational Practices in Two U.S. Congressional Campaigns"

For more information and a complete description, see the event web page: http://cyber.harvard.edu/events/cyberscholars/2009/05/harvard


OTHER EVENTS OF NOTE
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[1] 5/19/09 Anti Spyware Coalition Public Meeting: Creating a Chain of Trust (http://antispywarecoalition.org/events/may2009.php)

[2] 5/23/09 Information Superhighway Six: The Tim and Diana Show Edition (http://cyber.harvard.edu/node/5366)

[3] 5/29-5/29/09 7th Chinese Internet Research Conference (http://www.global.asc.upenn.edu/index.php?page=167)

[4] 6/18-6/20/09 "19th Annual Conference for Law School Computing" // CALI (http://w.cali.org/conference/)

[5] 6/19-6/20/09 Open Video Conference at NYU (http://openvideoconference.org/)

[6] 6/22-6/24/09 Open Translation Tools 2009 (http://aspirationtech.org/events/opentranslation/2009)


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: "Law + Technology = Fewer Lawyers" with RICHARD SUSSKIND (http://cyber.harvard.edu/interactive/podcasts/radioberkman121)

-BERKMAN LUNCHEON SERIES with on "Governing the Digital Commons" with DAVID BOLLIER (http://cyber.harvard.edu/interactive/events/luncheons/2009/05/bollier)

-KENNETH CREWS on "Protecting Your Scholarship: Copyrights, Publication Agreements, and Open Access" (http://cyber.harvard.edu/interactive/events/2009/05/crews)

-A Sneak Peak at Wolfram|Alpha with STEPHEN WOLFRAM and JONATHAN ZITTRAIN (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5TIOH80Qg7Q). Screenshots from the talk (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hYhLsQPHNas&annotation_id=annotation_299303&feature=iv)


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