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Tag: Berkman Center for Internet & Society
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At metaLAB, curiosity meets whimsy
The Harvard metaLAB, a design studio and creative research lab affiliated with the Berkman Center for Internet & Society, reaches across disciplines to create new multimedia projects.
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Big data, massive potential
Across Harvard, programs and researchers are mining big data, vast quantities of computerized information, often revolutionizing their fields in the process.
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One size won’t fit all
The Global Network of Internet and Society Research Centers and the Berkman Center for Internet & Society at Harvard University have released a report on “multistakeholder governance groups” to better inform the discussion over Internet governance models and mechanisms.
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Pointing toward Athens 2.0
Harvard will partner with Massachusetts General Hospital, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and The Boston Globe for a new, weeklong festival of big ideas and bold solutions next October.
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In sports, live TV is still No. 1
A panel of experts at Harvard Law School explored how the Internet and social media are redefining the traditional sports business model.
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Scholarly access to all
Digital Access to Scholarship at Harvard, a free and open portal for the University’s peer-reviewed literature, is drawing more worldwide downloads than ever.
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On a date, with everyone
Artist creates wide-open Web programs to gain personal insights.
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Help you? Love to
Model Lily Cole’s life in the fashion spotlight has gradually given way to her interests in technology and society. Today she is a digital entrepreneur, the founder of the social network Impossible.com, which tries to fulfill wishes for free. On Wednesday, an event at the Berkman Center for Internet & Society helped launch the website…
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Facebook, 10 years after
Professor Jonathan Zittrain, founder and director of the Berkman Center for Internet & Society, talks about Facebook’s past, present, and future as it turns 10 years old.
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So, who owns the Internet?
Harvard experts say a closely watched case now before the Circuit Court of Appeals in Washington, D.C., over the Federal Communications Commission’s authority to regulate online access could have game-changing implications for how consumers and businesses experience the Internet.
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National digital library gains traction
The Digital Public Library of America, with Harvard in its heritage, celebrates its first six months with an idea conference in Boston.
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Hack attacks, explained
In a question-and-answer session, Jonathan Zittrain, co-founder of the Berkman Center for Internet & Society, explains the latest hack attacks on major news media outlets.
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Alpha, beta, Zeega
Three Harvard affiliates are launching Zeega, a software platform that makes it easy for Internet storytellers to blend audio, images, and text from the riches of the Web.
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Schoolyard scourge
Scholars convened at the Harvard Graduate School of Education to explore the topic of bullying and potential ways forward.
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EdX expansion set for spring
EdX, the online learning initiative founded by Harvard University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, announced its spring course and module offerings, including four at Harvard.
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The pop-up, over-the-top library
Through Dec. 21, the Labrary, a student-designed pop-up space at 92 Mt. Auburn St., shows off projects that imagine the future of libraries.
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Note taking in a clickable age
A recent Radcliffe symposium explored the history and future of note taking.
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Wedding digital with traditional
Event showcases metaLAB summer projects displaying ways to access, annotate, and remix knowledge in the digital age.
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The future of self-knowledge
Anne Wojcicki, chief executive officer and co-founder of 23andMe, talked about growth in personal genomics in an event sponsored by the Program on Science, Technology and Society.
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Harvard heads Southwest
More than 300 Harvard alumni, students, and guests gathered at the South by Southwest Interactive festival in Austin, Texas, Sunday for “Digital Harvard in Austin,” a first-of-its-kind event sponsored by Alumni Affairs & Development.
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Sorting reality from ‘truthiness’
A Harvard and MIT symposium seeks to understand and address propaganda and misinformation in the new media ecosystem.
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Lady Gaga, Winfrey target bullying
Lady Gaga and her mother Cynthia Germanotta launched the Born This Way Foundation, a youth empowerment initiative, at Harvard’s Sanders Theatre on Feb. 29.
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Let there be music
As a liberal arts college, Harvard trains its students broadly so they can adapt nimbly to a rapidly changing world. Increasingly, appreciating and participating in music are integral parts of student life.
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Creating the digital humanities
Jeffrey Schnapp, professor of Romance languages and literatures, is using his academic passions to explore and experiment with the emerging field of digital scholarship.
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Write right, right?
The Harvard Writers at Work lecture series, in its third year, offers public conversations on craft, collaboration, and even challenges to writing in the digital age.
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The podcast revolution
Two fellows at Harvard’s Berkman Center for Internet & Society revolutionized how people create and consume digital information.
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You’re not so anonymous
Prescription data stripped of identify information seems not so anonymous after all. Researcher Latanya Sweeney aims to make such personal data more secure and to provide recourse for people who are harmed by privacy breaches.
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The ‘vast wasteland,’ reconsidered
Fifty years ago, FCC Chairman Newton Minow famously shocked the nascent television industry out of complacency, calling American television a “vast wasteland.” On Sept. 12, he joined an all-star lineup at Harvard Law School to discuss the problems and potential of the vaster wasteland that now includes elements of the Internet.
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Voices of frustration
In an afternoon discussion at the Berkman Center for Internet & Society, investigative journalists from around the world discussed the challenges of reaching a wider audience.
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From A to Zeega
Three Harvard affiliates nab a big new-media prize, and marvel at the University’s converging forces that mix the digital age with traditional scholarship.
