Berkman Center for Internet and Society: Video Fishbowl

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Peek inside the Berkman Center's Video Fishbowl: Conversations with leading cyber-scholars, entrepreneurs, activists, and policymakers as they explore the bleeding edge of the internet and technology, democracy, law, and society. (Also available as audio) From the Berkman Center for Internet and Society at Harvard University

Dalia Topelson Ritvo and Kira Hessekiel: Exploring Corporate Structures and Governance Models for the Open-Source Community

May 31, 2016

Organizations that develop open source software are often inherently fragmented and loosely-networked, which can make governance and decision-making a...

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Michel Bauwens: Are We Shifting to a New Post-Capitalist Value Regime?

May 24, 2016

Every 500 years or so, European civilization and now world civilization, has been rocked by fundamental shifts in its value regime, in which the rules...

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Vikki S. Katz on How Lower-Income Families Respond to Digital Equity Challenges

May 17, 2016

While 94% of parents raising school-age children below the U.S. median household income have an Internet connection, more than half are “under-connect...

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Ellery Biddle on The Internetish Things of Cuba: Open Source and ‘in the Clear’

May 11, 2016

What is it like to use the Internet in fits and starts? How do communities with limited access to the global Internet use digital tools? Beyond sensat...

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Brittany Seymour on Social Communication Strategies for Public Health

May 10, 2016

The social nature of today’s Internet is creating new public health and policy challenges. For example, the US in 2014 experienced the largest measles...

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Dr. Michel Reymond on Finding Common Standards for the Right to be Forgotten

May 4, 2016

Following the 2014 Google Spain decision rendered by the European Court of Justice of the European Union, search engines – and, first among them, Goog...

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Carl Williams on Black 2.0: the New Liberation Movement

May 3, 2016

Carl Williams joins us to speak about the current Black Liberation movement. What and who it is, how it started, and how Twitter, Facebook (yes, Faceb...

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Susan Crawford on Why the Right Digital Decisions Will Make America Strong

April 28, 2016

The U.S. still lags behind much of the developed world in terms of the speed and density of its internet infrastructure. In the 21st Century this disp...

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Jon Penney on “Chilling Effects”: Insights on How Laws and Surveillance Impact People Online

April 28, 2016

With Internet censorship and mass surveillance on the rise globally, understanding regulatory “chilling effects” — the idea that laws, regulations, or...

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Alan Weinberger on Three Decades of IT Channel Evolution and the Continued Importance of Small IT Companies

April 21, 2016

In this talk, Alan Weinberger — founder of The ASCII Group, Inc. and Harvard Law School alum — addresses the development of the information technology...

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