Your Guide to Berkman at SXSW
Headed to South by Southwest or SXSWedu? If so, be sure to check out some of these panels led by members of the Berkman community.
Designing for Student Privacy 3.0
Paulina Haduong & Dalia Topelson
Monday, March 9, 1:30PM - 2:30PM
Hilton Austin Downtown Salon E
This interactive session, hosted by the Student Privacy Initiative at the Berkman Center, will engage participants in discussion and design-based activities around future challenges (e.g., interoperability with government platforms) and opportunities (e.g., digital dossiers) at the intersection of student privacy and EdTech.
Designing Principles for a Trusted Environment
Amanda Lenhart
Tuesday, March 10, 9:00AM - 1:30PM
JW Marriott Salon B
A dialogue for deeper understanding on how to operationalize trusted environments in the learning landscape. Day one will grapple with privacy, trust and data collection, raising the tensions between positive and negative uses of data. A youth panel will give the audience a student, learner-centered perspective on trust.
Here Comes Professor Everybody
Jeff Young
Tuesday, March 10, 12:00PM - 1:00PM
Hilton Austin Downtown Salon K
With new platforms that let anyone offer a course or tutoring session online for a fee, this is a look at how teaching marketplaces could impact education and the nature of expertise.
Global Knowledge Through Media and Art Engagement
Matthew Battles and Dalida María Benfield
Wednesday, March 11, 1:30PM - 2:30PM
Hilton Austin Downtown Salon G
Globally, youth aren’t only consuming media, art and knowledge — they’re making it as well. And the more they make, the more they discover, growing engaged in their communities and the wider world. This panel showcases six global media projects created in collaboration with MAKE: Media, Art, and Knowledge Engaged.
Is the Internet Disappointed in Us?
David Weinberger
Saturday, March 14th, 3:30-4:30PM
Hyatt Regency Austin, Texas Ballroom 4-7
The Web was to be a new beginning that let us at last get right our relationships to business, to governments, to media, to one another. Now even many of the early Internet enthusiasts think the Web has recentralized, new authorities replacing the old, and if anything has changed, it's for the worse. But is that true? What are the real opportunities the Internet opens for us? What can we do -- as individuals and in connection -- to take advantage of the gift the Internet has given us?
Beyond Privacy: Surveillance's Threat To Liberty
Bruce Schneier
Saturday, March 14, 5:00PM - 6:00PM
JW Marriott Salon 4
Conveniences of modern life–from smartphones to smoke detectors–have become digital informants, giving governments and corporations detailed information about us. The problem is often framed as one of privacy, but that doesn’t come close to capturing what’s threatened by the explosion of data and the zeal with which it’s collected, stored and analyzed. But the situation isn’t hopeless. There’s nothing inevitable about technology overpowering liberty, and there are solutions–legal, regulatory and technological–to help us regain control over our data and our lives.
When Algorithms Attack
Christian Sandvig
Sunday, March 15, 12:30PM - 1:30PM
JW Marriott Room 208
Googling for African-American names produces ads that ask: "Arrested?" Prospective Grindr users are told that they would also be interested in locating sex offenders. All of this happens because content recommendation and ad placement algorithms make promiscuous associations. This panel focuses on those associations that are unintended, unpleasant, and even illegal. We will investigate the risks when you or your business are subject to misbehaving algorithms, then debate the best response.
Youth Activism in a Post Snowden World
Zeynep Tufekci
Sunday, March 15, 12:30PM - 1:30PM
JW Marriott Salon 7
Snowden’s leak of NSA documents, two weeks before his 30th birthday, marked a fresh take on activism, a word historically applied to the demonstrations and physical protests of the Arab Spring and Occupy Wall Street. So what resonates with people in their 20s and 30s, and what motivates them to act? An in-depth conversation about privacy, social media censorship, hashtag activism, and global youth protests.
Rights Management and Collective Licensing Orgs
Christopher Bavitz
Thursday, March 19, 5:00PM - 6:00PM
Austin Convention Center Room 10A
As more creators and independent entities control music rights, and as more digital services need rights to distribute music, one might expect intermediaries to play a major role in the licensing of compositions and recordings. But, technology has enabled rights owners and licensees to bring in-house expertise required to manage licensing and payment of royalties. With publishers threatening to pull repertoire from PROs, and services like SiriusXM threatening to circumvent SoundExchange, the future of these kinds of organizations is unclear. We will analyze the state of rights management and collective licensing organizations and their role in the licensing landscape.