Upcoming Events and Digital Media Roundup
BERKMAN CENTER FOR INTERNET & SOCIETY AT HARVARD UNIVERSITY
Upcoming events and digital media // September 22, 2010
[1] [CONFERENCE 9/25] "Media Law in the Digital Age: The Rules Have
Changed, Have You?" Conference in Atlanta, GA
(http://csjconferences.org/medialaw/)
[2] [TUESDAY 9/28] Berkman Center Luncheon Series: "I'm in the
Database, but Nobody Knows" with Cynthia Dwork, Microsoft Research
(http://cyber.harvard.edu/events/luncheon/2010/09/cdwork)
[3] [10/1-2] Open Video Conference (http://cyber.harvard.edu/events/2010/10/ovc)
[CONFERENCE] MEDIA LAW IN THE DIGITAL AGE
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9/25/10, Atlanta, GA
Visit the conference website for more information on the conference
agenda, registration and logistics: http://csjconferences.org/medialaw/
We're pleased to announce that the Citizen Media Law Project at
Harvard's Berkman Center and the Center for Sustainable Journalism at
Kennesaw State University are co-hosting a conference on September 25,
2010 entitled "Media Law in the Digital Age: The Rules Have Changed,
Have You?" in Atlanta, Georgia.
If you are a journalist, blogger, or a lawyer who works with media
clients, the conference should be at the top of your schedule. This
will be a fantastic opportunity to learn first-hand the latest legal
developments and to get your questions answered by our panel of experts.
The program will bring together panels of legal practitioners,
journalists, and academics to discuss the latest legal issues facing
online media ventures. Topics will include: libel law, copyright law,
newsgathering law, and advertising law, as well as the legal issues
arising from news aggregation, managing online communities, and
business law considerations for start-up online media organizations.
Small-group workshops will focus on strategies for accessing government
information and understanding legal terms in content licenses,
freelancer contracts, and website terms of service and privacy policies.
If you need personalized legal assistance before or after talking about
these media law issues, contact the Online Media Legal Network, a legal
referral network for independent online media administered by the
Citizen Media Law Project at the Berkman Center.
Funding for the conference is being provided by the Harnisch
Foundation, which has been a long-time sponsor of the Center for
Sustainable Journalism and recently provided a grant to the Berkman
Center to support media law education.
For more information and a complete description, see the event web page: http://csjconferences.org/medialaw/
[TUESDAY] BERKMAN LUNCHEON SERIES on I'M IN THE DATABASE, BUT NOBODY KNOWS
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9/28/10, 12:30pm ET, Berkman Center Conference Room @ 23 Everett St., Cambridge, MA
RSVP is required for those attending in person to Amar Ashar (ashar@cyber.harvard.edu)
This event will be webcast live
Topic: I'm in the Database, but Nobody Knows
Guest: Cynthia Dwork, Microsoft Research
A statistical database provides statistical information about a
population, while maintaining the privacy of individuals in the
database. A popular interpretation of this statement, due to Dalenius,
says that "anything learnable about an individual, given access to the
database, can be learned without access to the database." In
non-technical terms, we will discuss why any such definition is
problematic, and suggest an alternate notion of privacy for statistical
databases, differential privacy, that arises naturally from an
observation about the impossibility argument.
A thriving research effort has produced high-quality differentially
private solutions for a wide range of data analysis tasks. We will try
to give a feel for the broad spectrum of things that can be done by
accessing information through a privacy-preserving programming
interface. Finally, we will touch on some privacy problems arising in
the context of behavioral targeting that are not addressed by this
approach, and pose some questions about mitigation.
About Cynthia
Cynthia Dwork, a theoretical computer scientist, has made fundamental
contributions to cryptography, distributed computing, and complexity
theory. Her current focus is the development of a mathematically
rigorous framework and algorithmic techniques for the
privacy-preserving analysis of data. A Distinguished Scientist at
Microsoft, Dwork is a recipient of the Edsger W. Dijkstra Prize and a
member of the US National Academy of Engineering and the American
Academy of Arts and Sciences.
This event will be webcast live; for more information and a complete
description, see the event web page:
http://cyber.harvard.edu/events/luncheon/2010/09/cdwork
OPEN VIDEO CONFERENCE
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10/1-2, New York City
Organized by the Open video Alliance
This October 1 & 2, Open Video Alliance will present the second
annual Open Video Conference in New York City. While the OVA focuses on
creating and promoting free and open technologies, policies, and
practices in online video, the conference embodies the important need
for discussion which transcends online video and grapples with the
larger questions of mass media, participatory culture, and the state of
freedom and openness online.
Last year's conference featured talks by thinkers and activists like
Jonathan Zittrain, Yochai Benkler, Josh Silver of Free Press, Mark
Surman of Mozilla, and legendary hacker DVD Jon—as well as artists and
filmmakers like Eyebeam, Eclectic Method, and Ted Hope.
This year's line up is set to be just as diverse, stimulating, and
informative, featuring speakers like telecommunications scholar Tim Wu
(who first coined the term "net neutrality"), former Obama adviser
Susan Crawford, cultural anthropologist Michael Wesch, and lead
singer/guitarist Damian Kulash of the band OK Go.
OVC is two days of talks, workshops, panels, and film screenings on
technology, business, law, education, and the future of storytelling.
For a complete list of conference activities, visit
http://www.openvideoconference.org/.
OTHER EVENTS OF NOTE
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[1] 9/22: William Gibson on "Zero History" // Brookline, MA (http://brooklinebooksmith.com/Events/MainEvent.html)
[2] 9/23: Life 2.0: Virtual World, New Reality (http://lsc.mit.edu/)
[3] 9/24-25: Innovate / Activate // New York Law School
(http://www.nyls.edu/centers/harlan_scholar_centers/institute_for_information_law_and_policy/events/innovate_activate)
[4] 9/25-26: Podcamp Boston (http://microsoftcambridge.com/Events/PodcampBoston/tabid/503/Default.aspx)
[5] 9/28: Access to Government Records in Massachusetts: Issues and
Trends
(http://events.constantcontact.com/register/event?oeidk=a07e2ydlvtf9c7ca76f)
[6] 9/23: Intellectual Freedom Festival // Featuring a Keynote by
Berkman Faculty Co-Director John Palfrey // Iowa City Public Library
(http://blogs.law.uiowa.edu/docket/?p=3212)
[7] 9/29: "Why Books" Conference // Radcliffe (http://www.radcliffe.edu/events/whybooks_conference.aspx)
[8] 10/1-2: Open Video Conference // NYC (http://www.openvideoconference.org/)
[9] 10/1-3: International Conference on Crisis Mapping // Harvard (http://www.crisismappers.net/page/iccm-2010-haiti-and-beyond)
[10 10/4: Keeping the Net Healthy: A Conversation with Vinton Cerf,
Paul Mockapetris, and Esther Dyson // Commonwealth Club of California
(https://tickets.commonwealthclub.org/open.asp?show=2030)
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 162: LAWRENCE LESSIG & JONATHAN ZITTRAIN Take On
...Competition
(http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/mediaberkman/2010/09/09/radio-berkman-162-lessig-zittrain-take-on%E2%80%A6-competition/)
-Berkman Luncheon Series: ERIC VON HIPPEL Models a Paradigm Shift From
Producer Innovation to User and Open Collaborative Innovation
(http://cyber.harvard.edu/interactive/events/luncheon/2010/09/vonhippel)
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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.
10/4: CRCS Seminar: Computational Social Choice: A Decision-theoretic Perspective (http://cyber.harvard.edu/node/6355)
10/5: Becoming a Networked Nonprofit (http://cyber.harvard.edu/events/luncheon/2010/10/finekanter)
10/12: The MoveOn Effect: The Internet's Impact on Political Action?
(http://cyber.harvard.edu/events/luncheon/2010/10/karpf)
10/19: Good Faith Collaboration: The Culture of Wikipedia (http://cyber.harvard.edu/events/luncheon/2010/10/reagle)
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