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Felipe Heusser on Open Government Data for Open Accountability [AUDIO] Updated: 2012-02-07 18:15:21 Description: Felipe Heusser — Founder and Director of Fundación Ciudadano Inteligente, a Latin American NGO based in Chile that uses information technology to promote transparency and active citizen participation, and a Berkman Fellow — gives an overview the...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD David Weinberger on Too Big To Know [AUDIO] Updated: 2012-02-03 19:10:03 Description: We used to know how to know. Get some experts, maybe a methodology, add some criteria and credentials, publish the results, and you get knowledge we can all rely on. But as knowledge is absorbed by our new digital medium, it’s becoming clear th...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Rebecca MacKinnon on The Worldwide Struggle for Internet Freedom [AUDIO] Updated: 2012-02-03 16:00:51 Description: Many commentators have debated whether the Internet is ultimately a force for freedom of expression and political liberation, or for alienation, and repression. Rebecca MacKinnon — Bernard L. Schwartz Senior Fellow at the New America Foundation, co...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Andres Monroy-Hernandez on Designing for Remixing: Computer-supported Social Creativity [AUDIO] Updated: 2012-01-31 18:08:33 Description: The Scratch Online Community allows young people to share and remix their own video games and animations, as well as those of their peers. In four years, the community has grown to close to a million registered members and more than two million user-...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Beth Kolko on Hackademia: Leveraging the Conflict Between Expertise and Innovation to Create Disruptive Technologies [AUDIO] Updated: 2012-01-24 21:35:02 Description: How and why do nonexperts contribute to innovation? The conflict between expertise and innovation sits uneasily in academia, where the enterprise hinges on doling out official credentials. But a lack of expertise can in fact drive people to create th...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Justin Reich on How Free and Open Education Might Widen Digital Divides [AUDIO] Updated: 2012-01-17 18:15:29 Description: The explosion of open education content resources create unprecedented opportunities for teachers to design and personalize curriculum and to give students opportunities to collaborate, publish, and take responsibility for their own learning, free of...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Alison J. Head on Modeling the Information-Seeking Process of College Students in the Digital Age [AUDIO] Updated: 2012-01-10 19:01:29 Description: What is it like to be a college student in the digital age? Alison Head — lead researcher for the national study, Project Information Literacy, Berkman Fellow, and Research Scientist in University of Washington’s Information School — presen...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD RB 189: Peer Pressure Updated: 2011-12-21 19:45:59 Description: Listen: or download | …also in Ogg We’re so easily influenced by the habits and interests of our friends, you might think that social networks like Facebook would only magnify the power of peer pressure. But recent research from Harv...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Celebrating Two Years with the Online Media Legal Network [AUDIO] Updated: 2011-12-13 19:27:45 Description: As the OMLN nears the end of its second year, it has helped over 160 clients with more than 330 separate legal matters, and has more than 225 firms, clinics and individual attorneys in its roster with coverage in all 50 U.S. states. Jeff Hermes, Andy...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD The Fate of Civic Education in a Connected World [AUDIO] Updated: 2011-12-09 15:46:10 Description: Civic education is the cultivation of knowledge and traits that sustain democratic self-governance. As the social networks of individuals become less based on geography and more based on friendships and common interests, consensus on shared civic val...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Jeff Jarvis on Public Parts: How Sharing in the Digital Age Improves the Way We Work and Live [AUDIO] Updated: 2011-12-06 21:13:07 Description: Thanks to the internet, we now live — more and more — in public. Yet change brings fear, and many people—nostalgic for a more homogeneous mass culture and provoked by well-meaning advocates for privacy—despair that the internet and how we sha...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD OpenCourt on Transparency in the Court [AUDIO] Updated: 2011-11-29 18:25:09 Description: With the support of a Knight News Challenge grant OpenCourt streams and archives live daily coverage of court sessions. The project seeks to make courts more accessible to the public through technology while respecting legitimate concerns about priva...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Mayo Fuster Morell on the Spanish Revolution & the Internet: From Free Culture to Meta-Politics [AUDIO] Updated: 2011-11-23 01:00:48 Description: In the context of multiple crises – ecological, political, financial and geopolitical restructuring – there are emerging forms of social cooperation. In the Spanish case, we have seen some of the largest demonstrations since the country made its ...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Mayo Fuster Morell on the Spanish Revolution & the Internet: From Free Culture to Meta-Politics [AUDIO] Updated: 2011-11-23 01:00:48 Description: In the context of multiple crises – ecological, political, financial and geopolitical restructuring – there are emerging forms of social cooperation. In the Spanish case, we have seen some of the largest demonstrations since the country made its ...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Book Talk: John Palfrey on Intellectual Property Strategy [AUDIO] Updated: 2011-11-22 21:39:12 Description: Most entrepreneurs, corporate managers and nonprofit administrators leave intellectual property issues to the legal department, unaware that an organization’s intellectual property can help accomplish a range of management goals, from accessing new...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD RB 188: SOPA on the Ropes(?) Updated: 2011-11-22 03:33:28 Description: Listen: or download | …also in Ogg The Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) — a U.S. House bill that would give the Department of Justice the authority to demand that ISPs block sites accused of hosting pirated content — seemed to be doing we...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD John Williams on Interweaving Strategy, Leadership, Web Entrepreneurship and Social Sector Impact [AUDIO] Updated: 2011-11-11 03:45:09 Description: How do organizations — both for-profit and not-for-profit — achieve strategic clarity, and why does it matter? How does one go about re-positioning an iconic product or organization when the market changes? What did it take to launch the first We...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD RB 187: Facing the Music Updated: 2011-11-09 10:00:00 Description: Listen: or download | …also in Ogg 2011 has been a big year for quintuple threat actor/writer/comedian/rapper Donald Glover. For the last decade he released rap, remixes, and mixtapes on the web completely for free under the names Childish...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Jonathan Lazar on Accessible Web Design for People with Disabilities [AUDIO] Updated: 2011-11-08 18:25:01 Description: Despite the existing resources, knowledge, and regulations, many categories of web sites continue to be inaccessible for people with perceptual and motor disabilities. 90% of federal government web sites, many social media tools, many e-commerce web ...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD RB 186: World of Lawcraft Updated: 2011-11-04 20:28:31 Description: Listen: or download | …also in Ogg Video games aren’t just, well, fun and games. When you pop open a video game — be it Farmville on Facebook for your smartphone or World of Warcraft on your $10,000 immersive gaming setup — you...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD James Cowie on the Geopolitics of Internet Infrastructure [AUDIO] Updated: 2011-11-01 18:25:18 Description: The growth of the global Internet is still determined, in large part, by local factors like geography, politics, and the economics of interconnection and competition. A lot is at stake, especially as the countries that emerge as Middle Eastern region...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD James Cowie on the Geopolitics of Internet Infrastructure [AUDIO] Updated: 2011-11-01 18:25:18 Description: The growth of the global Internet is still determined, in large part, by local factors like geography, politics, and the economics of interconnection and competition. A lot is at stake, especially as the countries that emerge as Middle Eastern region...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Book Talk: Yochai Benkler on How Cooperation Triumphs over Self-Interest [AUDIO] Updated: 2011-10-19 17:30:45 Description: Harvard Professor Yochai Benkler (The Wealth of Networks) is one of the world’s top thinkers on cooperative structures. In his new book, The Penguin and the Leviathan: How Cooperation Triumphs over Self-Interest, he uses evidence from neuroscience,...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD RB 185: The Next Generation Library Updated: 2011-10-18 03:27:19 Description: Listen: or download | …also in Ogg What would a digital version of your public library look like? There’s more to it than e-books and digital reading devices. Librarians, scholars, innovators, and techno-wizards are collaborating und...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD RB 184: Intellectual Property — Not Just For Lawyers Anymore Updated: 2011-10-13 15:10:20 Description: Listen: or download | …also in Ogg It’s time to stop thinking about intellectual property as something purely for your legal counsel to deal with. That’s the driving idea behind John Palfrey’s aptly titled new book Intell...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Benjamin Mako Hill on What Eight Collaborative Encyclopedia Projects Reveal About Mechanisms of Collective Action [AUDIO] Updated: 2011-10-11 21:32:00 Description: Why did Wikipedia succeed in attracting contributors while other projects did so less effectively? Why are some attempts at online collective action successful while most never take off? In this talk Benjamin Mako Hill — a researcher and PhD Candid...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Intisar Rabb and Umbreen Bhatti on Islawmix: Content and Context for Islamic Law in the News [AUDIO] Updated: 2011-10-04 20:38:40 Description: Recent years have seen an uptick in coverage of Islamic law (sharīʿa) in American news media, policy, and academic circles. What are the rules that dictate how Muslims in America conduct themselves? How do or should our legal institutions respond? ...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Zeynep Tufekci on Social Media and Dynamics of Collective Action under Authoritarian Regimes [AUDIO] Updated: 2011-09-27 21:57:26 Description: What role did the new media ecology play in the ouster of long-standing dictators in Egypt and Tunisia as well as the continuing unrest across the region? In this talk Zeynep Tufekci — assistant professor at the University of North Carolina, Chapel...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD RB 183: The Cooperation Updated: 2011-09-22 10:00:20 Description: Listen: or download | …also in Ogg Are human beings — as consultants, researchers, and the authors of business books have thought for years — fundamentally motivated by self interest? Or is there a deeper cooperative instinct that driv...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Cathy Davidson on How the Brain Science of Attention Will Transform the Way We Live, Work, and Learn [AUDIO] Updated: 2011-09-22 03:13:41 Description: Although we email, blog, tweet, and text as if by instinct, too many of us toil in schools and workplaces designed for the last century, not the one in which we live. Using cutting-edge research on the brain and learning Cathy N. Davidson — former ...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Philippe Aigrain on A Self-standing Financing Model to Help Sustain the Non-market Digital Commons [AUDIO] Updated: 2011-09-21 16:48:41 Description: What if we consider that sharing a digitally published work in one’s possession with other individuals is a fundamental right? What if we break away from the idea of compensating the entertainment right holders for supposed harms resulting from...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD News and Entertainment in the Digital Age: A Vast Wasteland Revisited [AUDIO] Updated: 2011-09-14 16:52:20 Description: In 1961, Newt Minow — then Chairman of the Federal Communications Commission — delivered a landmark speech to the National Association of Broadcasters on “Television and the Public Interest,” in which he described television programming as a ...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD News and Entertainment in the Digital Age: A Vast Wasteland Revisited [AUDIO] Updated: 2011-09-14 16:52:20 Description: In 1961, Newt Minow — then Chairman of the Federal Communications Commission — delivered a landmark speech to the National Association of Broadcasters on “Television and the Public Interest,” in which he described television programming as a ...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Christopher Hoadley on Indigenous Technology Design and its Challenges [AUDIO] Updated: 2011-09-13 20:55:24 Description: While many well meaning efforts bring technology design to bear on problems in developing economies, such as Google People Finder, One Laptop Per Child, etc., fewer efforts involve local participants or settings in the design process. In this talk, D...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Sascha Meinrath on How Geeks, Wonks, & Field Operatives are Fighting to Transform Inside-the-Beltway Policy-Making [AUDIO] Updated: 2011-07-27 23:20:50 Description: Since its founding in 2009, the New America Foundation’s Open Technology Initiative (OTI) has been a catalyst for innovative technology and telecom interventions. OTI is working in Philadelphia and Detroit to build community wireless networks i...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Derek Bambauer & Oliver Day on The Hacker’s Aegis – Protecting Hackers From Lawyers [AUDIO] Updated: 2011-07-21 17:14:47 Description: Research on software security vulnerabilities is a valuable example of peer production. However, hackers are often threatened with intellectual property lawsuits by companies who want to keep flaws secret. Oliver Day — a senior security researcher ...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Michele Martinez Campbell on the Internet and the Commerce Clause through the Prism of the Federal Kidnapping Act [AUDIO] Updated: 2011-07-12 22:05:16 Description: Should kidnapping be a federal crime if use of the Internet or other telecommunications facilities is central to the crime’s execution? Even if the physical act itself takes place within the borders of a single state? Michele Martinez Campbell ...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Cultivating New voices, Approaches, and Audiences for national — and international — reporting [AUDIO] Updated: 2011-07-12 20:29:32 Description: In an age of shrinking news budgets, American newspapers and broadcasters are producing less original reporting of international stories. And while gripping events like the Arab Spring capture the attention of the public, many important international...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Latanya Sweeney on Privacy Rethinks and the Example of Privacy-Preserving Marketplaces [AUDIO] Updated: 2011-06-30 17:05:51 Description: Societal demands to share large-scale collections of detailed personal information are driving new directions for privacy in data architectures. Based on prior research, Latanya Sweeney — Distinguished Career Professor of Computer Science, Technolo...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Glenn Otis Brown on Bots, Mobs, Geeks: The new separation of powers / Top Secret, XXX, Private, All Rights Reserved [AUDIO] Updated: 2011-06-26 01:59:24 Description: Glenn Otis Brown — Director of Business Development for Twitter in New York, and an alum of Google, YouTube, Creative Commons, and the Berkman Center among others — presents on two topics. 1) Bots, Mobs, Geeks: The new separation of powers Are we...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Kate Hennessy on Ethnographies of Access, Ownership, and Collaboration in the Virtual Museum [AUDIO] Updated: 2011-06-14 19:57:08 Description: Museums and academic institutions are rapidly digitizing their ethnographic collections to make them accessible to the public and to communities from which they originated. These practices amplify the public nature of institutional collections, creat...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Herbert Burkert on Criteria: Beauty and Coercion in Public/Private Design [AUDIO] Updated: 2011-06-10 17:05:24 Description: Herbert Burkert of the University of St. Gallen discusses different schools of thought on design for publicness and privateness in architecture. The Hyperpublic symposium brings together computer scientists, ethnographers, architects, historians, art...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Ethan Zuckerman on Experience and Recreation [AUDIO] Updated: 2011-06-10 17:03:37 Description: Ethan Zuckerman of the Berkman Center discusses the “cute cat theory” and how citizens in authoritarian regimes use social media to promote reform while still protecting their identities. The Hyperpublic symposium brings together computer...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Adam Greenfield on Connected Things & Civic Responsibilities in the Networked City [AUDIO] Updated: 2011-06-10 17:02:04 Description: Adam Greenfield of Urbanscale, LLC discusses the many technologies used to collect and convey information around public spaces, and the ethical issues underlying them, as well as a proposal for how technologies could be better harnessed for the publi...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Martin Nowak on Game Theory in a Hyper-public Life [AUDIO] Updated: 2011-06-10 17:01:02 Description: Martin Nowak of Harvard’s Program for Evolutionary Dynamics discusses new research into game theory and how it applies in a hyper-public life. The Hyperpublic symposium brings together computer scientists, ethnographers, architects, historians,...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD danah boyd on Teen Privacy Strategies in Networked Publics [AUDIO] Updated: 2011-06-10 17:00:13 Description: At the Hyperpublic Symposium, danah boyd of Microsoft Research discusses how young people adapt to and modify norms and techniques for privacy on social networks. Jeffrey Schnapp of the Metalab moderates. The Hyperpublic symposium brings together com...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Nicole B. Ellison on the Benefits of Facebook “Friends” [AUDIO] Updated: 2011-06-07 19:09:53 Description: New research co-authored by Nicole Ellison — Associate Professor in the Department of Telecommunication, Information Studies, and Media at Michigan State University — attempts to identify specific Facebook-enabled behaviors that contribute to use...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Miriam Meckel on Drivers of Online Trust [AUDIO] Updated: 2011-05-31 18:45:59 Description: User trust has been identified as a key success factor of online business: A user’s willingness to provide personal data is a prerequisite for online transactions. But the qualities that communicate trustworthiness to a user are varied and diff...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Seth Flaxman & Paul Schreiber on a Netflix for Voting [AUDIO] Updated: 2011-05-24 21:10:20 Description: TurboVote is a service that makes voting by mail and voter registration as simple as renting a DVD with Netflix. Seth Flaxman — Co-Founder and Executive Director of Democracy Works (and a former Berkman Center intern) — and Paul Schreiber — one...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Juan Carlos de Martin & Charles Nesson on Re-thinking the University’s Role in Society in the Network Age [AUDIO] Updated: 2011-05-17 19:17:32 Description: Universities are at a historical crossroads, for both structural, long-term processes, as well as for more recent developments, mostly due to political decisions and technology. In this talk Juan Carlos de Martin — coordinator of COMMUNIA, the Euro...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Erez Lieberman Aiden & Jean-Baptiste Michel on Culturomics: Quantitative Analysis of Culture Using Millions of Digitized Books [AUDIO] Updated: 2011-05-17 15:57:49 Description: Construct a corpus of digitized texts containing about 4% of all books ever printed, and then analyze that corpus using advanced software and the investigatory curiosity of thousands, and you get something called “Culturomics,” a field in...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD danah boyd on Embracing a Culture of Connectivity [AUDIO] Updated: 2011-05-12 23:50:36 Description: Many young adults have incorporated social media into their daily practices, both academically and personally. They use these tools to connect, collaborate, communicate and create. In this talk, danah boyd — Social Media Researcher at Microsoft Res...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Radio Berkman 182: Fear of a Networked Fourth Estate Updated: 2011-04-30 00:57:18 Description: Listen: or download | …also in Ogg “Wikileaks” has become something of a neverending story. Coverage has branched out beyond the revelations of the documents allegedly leaked by Pfc. Bradley Manning in 2010, and on to ancillary...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Radio Berkman 181: The Management (Rethinking Music VII) Updated: 2011-04-25 17:30:24 Description: Listen: or download | …also in Ogg In our last episode we talked about how artists can feel besieged from all sides. Fans, promoters, labels — when you’re talented and famous everyone wants a piece of you. Today’s guest is on...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Radio Berkman 180: No Such Thing as a Free Sample? (Rethinking Music VI) Updated: 2011-04-25 15:47:35 Description: Listen: or download | …also in Ogg Musicians often feel besieged on all sides. Promoters, labels, publishers, radio stations, and venues can make an artist feel exploited and overwhelmed. But in the digital age it might feel like fans and ...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD |
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