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June 3, 2009 // Upcoming events and digital media
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[1] [6/3-6/6/09] Beyond Broadcast 2009 Conference: Public Service Media from Local to Global at USC Annenberg (http://cyber.harvard.edu/events/beyondbroadcast/2009/06/conference)
[2] [TUESDAY 6/9/09] Berkman Center Luncheon Series on "The Second and
Third Enclosures" with Lewis Hyde, Berkman Fellow
(http://cyber.harvard.edu/events/luncheon/2009/06/hyde)
[3] [SAVE THE DATE 6/16/09] "Cluetrain at 10: So How's Utopia Working
Out for Ya?" with Berkman Fellows Doc Searls and David Weinberger, and
Berkman faculty co-director Jonathan Zittrain
(http://cyber.harvard.edu/events/2009/06/cluetrainat10)
[4] [6/17/09] "Online Discourse in the Arab World: Dispelling the
Myths" at the United States Institute of Peace
(http://cyber.harvard.edu/events/2009/06/usip)
[5] [6/19-6/20/09] Open Video Conference in NYC (http://openvideoconference.org/)
[6/3-6/6/09] BEYOND BROADCAST 2009
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Annenberg School for Communication, University of Southern California, Los Angeles
Since 2006, the annual Beyond Broadcast conference has explored the
evolution of participatory digital public media. This year's
conference, titled "Public Service Media from Local to Global," brings
this ongoing conversation to the world stage, examining these issues
from a global perspective.
BB09 will be structured around three themes: local, global and
connecting the two. We will explore the way new media are used on a
local community basis, then look at these practices on a global scale
and finally consider ways to build lasting bridges between participants
across the spectrum.
For more information and a complete description, see the event web page: http://bb2009.uscannenberg.org/
[TUESDAY] BERKMAN LUNCHEON SERIES on THE SECOND AND THIRD ENCLOSURES
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6/9/09, 12:30 PM ET, Berkman Center Conference Room
RSVP is required for those attending in person (rsvp@cyber.harvard.edu).
Topic: The Second and Third Enclosures
Guest: Lewis Hyde, Berkman Fellow
It has become customary to frame much recent intellectual property law
as a kind of “second enclosure” in which “the commons of the mind” have
been converted into private preserves where the right to exclude
regularly trumps what we used to think were our common cultural use
rights.
In his lunchtime talk, Lewis Hyde will trace the roots of the second
enclosure (it goes back at least to the invention of printing); he will
describe traditional forms of resistance (such as the useful old custom
of “beating the bounds”); and he will outline what he takes to be the
“third enclosure,” the many ways in which market forces now capture not
just known cultural commons but the unknown as well, the uncharted
wilderness of nature, the wilderness of the human mind, and even the
wilderness of the internet.
This event will be webcast live; for more information and a complete
description, see the event web page:
http://cyber.harvard.edu/events/luncheon/2009/06/hyde
[SAVE THE DATE] CLUETRAIN @ 10: SO HOW'S UTOPIA WORKING OUT FOR YA?
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http://cyber.harvard.edu/events/2009/06/cluetrainat10
6/16/09, 6:00 PM ET
Austin East Classroom, Austin Hall, Harvard Law School
Free and Open to the Public
RSVP requested via
http://cyber.harvard.edu/events/2009/06/cluetrainat10 or on
Facebook http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=99640854800&ref=nf
Cluetrain at 10: So How's Utopia Working Out for Ya?
with Berkman Fellows Doc Searls and David Weinberger, and Berkman faculty co-director Jonathan Zittrain
The Cluetrain Manifesto, posted in April, 1999, immediately became a
touchstone in the digital culture wars. Its four authors – Rick Levine,
Christopher Locke, Doc Searls, and David Weinberger - denounced the
mainstream media's portrayal of the Web as an extension of
business-as-usual into a medium cheaper than paper and TV time. No,
said Cluetrain in 95 "theses" (a number chosen for its resonant
overstatement), millions of people weren't flocking to the Web simply
because they so loved online catalog shopping. The Web was a place
where each individual had a voice, and each of those voices could
connect with any and every other voice. The Web is a conversation. And
-- in Cluetrain's most famous formulation -- so are networked markets.
Cluetrain.com and the subsequent book of that name are polemics. They
express anger at the attempt of the old regime to co-opt the Web and
joy at the possibility of building a new set of human connections, free
of the dehumanization of the Mass Age. But, that was ten years ago. The
Web has gone from millions to over a billion, from frontier to settled
land, from unnumbered to Web 2.0, from home pages to Facebook, from
laptops to iPhones, from email to Twitter. Entire industries and
institutions have collapsed, and many more have been transformed. Spam,
identify theft, cyber-bullying and killers leaping straight out of
Craigslist are on the scene, as well as Wikipedia, a gift economy, and
the online politics of yes-we-can.
On the tenth anniversary of The Cluetrain Manifesto, how's all that
freedom, that cyberutopianism, that Internet exceptionalism working out
for you?
Harvard Law professor and co-founder of Harvard's Berkman Center for
Internet & Society Jonathan Zittrain talks with two of The
Cluetrain Manifesto's co-authors, Doc Searls and David Weinberger, in
an open forum. This event will commemorate the release of the tenth
anniversary edition of The Cluetrain Manifesto.
Doc Searls is Senior Editor of Linux Journal and a well-known and
widely quoted blogger. His work as a journalist, speaker and advocate
of the Internet led to a Google-O'Reilly Open Source Award for Best
Communicator in 2005. In "The World is Flat," Thomas L. Friedman calls
Doc "one of the most respected technology writers in America." He is a
Fellow at the Berkman Center.
David Weinberger is the author of Small Pieces Loosely Joined (2002)
and Everything Is Miscellaneous (2008). He writes frequently for many
major journals, is a frequent contributor to National Public Radio,
advises start-ups and non-profits, and has been an adviser to two
presidential campaigns. He is a Fellow at the Berkman Center.
Jonathan Zittrain is a Professor of Law at Harvard Law School, is a
co-founder of the Berkman Center for Internet & Society and served
as its first executive director from 1997-2000. He is the author of The
Future of the Internet – And How to Stop It.
Map to Austin Hall at HLS: http://map.harvard.edu/level3.cfm?mapname=camb_allston&tile=F6&quadrant=C&series=M
This event will be webcast live; for more information and a complete
description, see the event web page:
http://cyber.harvard.edu/events/2009/06/cluetrainat10
[6/17/09] ONLINE DISCOURSE IN THE ARAB WORLD: DISPELLING THE MYTHS
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10:00 am ET, at the United States Institute for Peace in Washington, DC
Full details, including RSVP for the event/webcast, at: http://blogsbullets.eventbrite.com/
This is a public event.
Bruce Etling and John Kelly will present the Berkman Center's new study
of the Arabic blogosphere, which analyzes over 10,000 blogs from 18
countries and which follows last year's "Mapping Iran’s Online Public:
Politics and Culture in the Persian Blogosphere." The Arabic
blogosphere findings will be discussed by an exceptional panel of
speakers, with the online participation of bloggers from the Middle
East.
Speakers
Bruce Etling, Harvard University, Berkman Center for Internet & Society
John Kelly, Morningside Analytics
Daniel Brumberg, Georgetown University, Acting Director of USIP's Muslim World Initiative
Saad Ibrahim, Voices for a Democratic Egypt
Hisham Melhem, Al Arabiya, Washington Bureau Chief
Sheldon Himelfarb, United States Institute of Peace (Moderator)
Bloggers from throughout the Arab world will also participate live
online and via video, including Raed Jarrar (Iraq), Nora Younis
(Egypt), Laila El Haddad (Palestine), and Amira Al Hussaini (Bahrain).
This event is part of the USIP Center of Innovation for Science,
Technology, and Peacebuilding's ongoing “Blogs and Bullets” initiative
examining the relationship between online discourse and violent
conflict.
RSVP for the event at: http://blogsbullets.eventbrite.com/
Media Inquiries: Please contact Lauren Sucher (lsucher@usip.org) in the USIP Office of Public Affairs and Communications.
[6/19-6/20/09] OPEN VIDEO CONFERENCE
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in New York City
The upcoming Open Video Conference (June 19-20 in NYC) will tackle a
range of issues surrounding online video. The conference is asking big
questions regarding the future of the medium.
Open Video Conference
June 19-20 in New York
http://openvideoconference.org
Speakers Include: NYU's Clay Shirky, Harvard's Yochai Benkler, Boing
Boing's Xeni Jardin, DVD Jon, Free Press' Josh Silver, EFF's Corynne
McSherry, and many many more. Check out the full agenda.
About the Open Video Conference: At this very moment, in 2009, we have
a chance to ensure that internet video retains these key
characteristics. It's still early and things are looking good, but we
need devices that play nice with each other, networks that aren't
totally neutered, and playback and production tools that are low-cost
(ideally free/open source) and easy to use. Developments like Hulu are
pretty good for the user, because they can watch what they want, when
they want. But we don't want internet video to be a glorified TV on
demand service. We want video to be a dynamic medium that invites
clipping, archival, remix, collage, repurposing, and many other uses
that are currently inhibited by law or by lack of tools.
OTHER EVENTS OF NOTE
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[1] 6/1-6/4/09 Computers, Freedom, and Privacy Conference in Washington, DC (http://www.cfp2009.org/wiki/index.php/Main_Page)
[2] 6/1-6/8/09 Internet Week NYC (http://www.internetweekny.com/)
[3] 6/18-6/20/09 19th Annual Conference for Law School Computing // CALI (http://w.cali.org/conference/)
[4] 6/22-6/24/09 Open Translation Tools 2009 (http://aspirationtech.org/events/opentranslation/2009)
[5] 6/26-6/28/09 8th International Conference of Computer Ethics:
Philosophical Enquiry (http://cepe2009.ionio.gr/) // Berkman Executive
Director Urs Gasser will give a keynote.
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.
-BERKMAN LUNCHEON SERIES: "Global Voices and the Future of Journalism"
with LOKMAN TSUI
(http://cyber.harvard.edu/interactive/events/luncheons/2009/06/tsui)
-RADIO BERKMAN: "What the Heck is a Commons?" with DAVID BOLLIER and
DAVID WEINBERGER
(http://cyber.harvard.edu/interactive/podcasts/radioberkman124)
-RADIO BERKMAN: "It's not Fair! (Use)"
(http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/mediaberkman/2009/05/27/radio-berkman-123-its-not-fair-use/)
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