Tag: John Palfrey
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Helping your child make the best use of time online
Urs Gasser and John Palfrey are authors of the newly released book “The Connected Parent: An Expert Guide to Parenting in a Digital World.”
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Seeking solid return on philanthropy
The Gazette spoke with John Palfrey, former Henry N. Ess III Professor of Law and vice dean for Library and Information Resources at HLS, and former executive director of the Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society about how his Harvard time prepared him for his new role to lead one of the country’s largest…
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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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A symposium on teaching, learning
The Harvard Initiative for Learning and Teaching, created with a $40 million gift from Rita E. and Gustave M. Hauser, will host a symposium to explore excellence and innovation in the field.
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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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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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Digital drive
Across the University, digitization is rapidly changing the nature of scholarship, opening doors to information and collaboration, and redefining research and education.
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10 named to new Harvard Library Board
President Drew Faust has announced the names of the first 10 members of the new Harvard Library Board, which will oversee the transition of the University’s vast library system to a coordinated structure.
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The whither and why of books
A Harvard conference discusses venerable, vulnerable print and its fate in the digital age.
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Access Controlled: The Shaping of Power, Rights, and Rule in Cyberspace
John Palfrey and Jonathan Zittrain of Harvard Law School team up in this all-star collaboration on cyberspace. Whether the subjects are online censorship or surveillance, the wild frontier of the Web gets tamed in this tome.
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‘Digital immigrants’ teaching ‘digital natives’
Students coming into universities today are “digital natives” and fundamentally different in their use of technology than the “digital immigrants” who teach them, according to John Palfrey, executive director of the Berkman Center for Internet & Society.
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‘Digital immigrants’ teaching ‘digital natives’
Students coming into universities today are ‘digital natives’ and fundamentally different in their use of technology than the ‘digital immigrants’ who teach them, according to John Palfrey, executive director of…
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Berkman Center helps launch StopBadware campaign
The problems caused by badware have very serious implications, both for every day use of computers, and for the long-term viability of the open Internet. On Jan. 25, 2006, the…