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Berkman Center Board of Directors welcomes five new members

Cambridge, MA ? The Berkman Center for Internet & Society at Harvard University announced today that five new members have been appointed to its Board of Directors, bringing the total number of directors to thirteen. The new members are: Susan Crawford (Visiting Stanton Professor of the First Amendment at the Kennedy School of Government; Visiting Professor at Harvard Law School); Phillip Malone (Clinical Professor of Law; director, Cyberlaw Clinic); Felix Oberholzer-Gee (Andreas Andresen Professor of Business Administration; Chair, MBA Global Program); Jeffrey Schnapp (Professor of Romance Languages & Literatures and Comparative Literature; faculty at the Graduate School of Design; Faculty Director, metaLAB (at) Harvard project); and Mark Wu (Assistant Professor of Law).   The renewed Board will help the Center continue to build collaborations that cross disciplinary and institutional boundaries.

?I am delighted to welcome these five outstanding faculty to our leadership group,? said Terry Fisher, Chair of the Board. ?Each brings to the Center great expertise and energy ? and in some cases a rich history of collaboration.  I very much look forward to working with all of them.?

The Board of Directors shapes the Berkman Center?s overall vision and makes significant financial, research, academic, personnel, governance, and other overarching organizational decisions. Terry Fisher remains the Chair of the Board.  Continuing as directors are: Professors Yochai Benkler, John Deighton, Charles Nesson, John Palfrey, Stuart Shieber, and Jonathan Zittrain. Urs Gasser continues as Executive Director, leading implementation of the vision and objectives set forth by the Board.

?The Berkman Center is a jewel, preeminent in the study of Internet governance and law, and it is also a model of innovative collaboration, research, and teaching,? said Harvard Law School Dean Martha Minow. ?The participation of Susan Crawford, Phil Malone, Felix Oberholzer-Gee, Jeffrey Schnapp, and Mark Wu ensures its ongoing dynamism and creativity, and I am delighted that the Center will have the benefit of their vision and expertise which ranges across the fields of intellectual property, internet technology and policy, communications law, cybercrime, cybersecurity, freedom of speech and anonymity, privacy, economics, and globalization. I salute the fine board service of Mark Edwards, Jack Goldsmith, Alex Keyssar, and Charles Ogletree. With the continuing leadership of Terry Fisher, Urs Gasser, Charles Nesson, Yochai Benkler, John Deighton, John Palfrey, Stuart Shieber, and Jonathan Zittrain and the new group of board members, the Berkman Center will dazzle, innovate, and set the standard.?

The Berkman community joins Dean Minow and the Board in thanking those members whose terms are coming to a close.  They have contributed enormously to the life of the Center, and in particular have helped to guide its transition from an organization rooted exclusively in the law school to a university-wide Interfaculty Initiative.

About the Berkman Center directors:

Yochai Benkler, Jack N. and Lillian R. Berkman Professor of Entrepreneurial Studies, Harvard Law School, teaches and writes about the Internet and the emergence of networked economy and society, as well as the organization of infrastructure, such as wireless and broadband communications.

Susan Crawford, (Visiting) Stanton Professor of the First Amendment at Harvard?s Kennedy School of Government; Visiting Professor at Harvard Law School. Prof. Crawford is on the faculty of Cardozo Law School, where she studies Internet policy, communications law and the use of technology by government.

John Deighton, Harold M. Brierley Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School, studies online marketing, conducted largely by close study of specific situations. Recent research has included the use of social media in the Obama/Clinton primary campaign, corporate use of blogging and Facebook presence, management styles and practices in the shift in the music industry from physical to digital product, and a series of cases on the processes by which viral videos were propagated online and offline.

William Fisher, WilmerHale Professor of Intellectual Property Law at Harvard Law School, focuses on Copyright, Patent, and Trademark Law and American legal History.

Urs Gasser, Executive Director, Berkman Center for Internet & Society at Harvard University. His research and teaching focuses on information law and policy and the interaction between law and innovation.

Phillip Malone, Clinical Professor of Law at Harvard Law School; Director of the Law School?s Cyberlaw Clinic at the Berkman Center for Internet and Society. Prof. Malone?s research and teaching focus on cybercrime, online speech and anonymity, online privacy, and intellectual property among the many dimensions of Internet law.

Charles Nesson, William F. Weld Professor of Law, Harvard Law School; founder of Berkman Center. Prof. Nesson?s myriad research interests include evidence, criminal law, cyberlaw and technology in teaching.

Felix Oberholzer-Gee, Andreas Andresen Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School; Chair, MBA Global Program. Prof. Oberholzer-Gee?s research is centered on competitive strategy, international competition, and non-market strategy, a branch of strategic management that studies how companies best work with government and non-governmental groups. In recent work, he studied how entertainment companies can successfully manage the digital transition.

John G. Palfrey, Henry N. Ess III Professor of Law; Vice Dean, Library and Information Resources, Harvard Law School. Prof. Palfrey studies intellectual property, access to knowledge, Internet & democracy, and youth & technology. He is currently leading Berkman?s involvement in the Digital Public Library of America project.

Jeffrey T. Schnapp, Professor of Romance Languages & Literatures and Comparative Literature; faculty at the Graduate School of Design; faculty director of the metaLAB (at) Harvard project. Prof. Schnapp is a cultural historian with research interests extending from antiquity to the present, largely centering around his pioneering work in the domains of digital humanities and digitally augmented approaches to cultural programming.

Stuart Shieber, James O. Welch, Jr. and Virginia B. Welch Professor of Computer Science, Harvard School of Engineering and Applied Sciences; Director, Office for Scholarly Communication. Prof. Shieber studies communications across many dimensions, including programming languages, graphical languages and human linguistics. In his capacity in the Office of Scholarly Communication, Shieber spearheads efforts to open, share and preserve scholarship across Harvard.

Mark Wu, Assistant Professor of Law, Harvard Law School. Prof. Wu?s research focuses on international trade and related issues of intellectual property law, economics and globalization. Prof. Wu is a specialist on legal and economic development of East Asia, particularly China.

Jonathan Zittrain, Professor of Law, Harvard Law School; Harvard Kennedy School of Government; Professor of Computer Science, Harvard School of Engineering and Applied Sciences. Prof. Zittrain?s research includes digital property, privacy, and speech, and the role played by private "middlepeople" in Internet architecture. He has a strong interest in creative, useful, and unobtrusive ways to deploy technology in the classroom.

About the Berkman Center for Internet & Society
The Berkman Center for Internet & Society at Harvard University is a research program founded to explore cyberspace, share in its study, and help pioneer its development. Founded in 1997, through a generous gift from Jack N. and Lillian R. Berkman, the Center is home to an ever-growing community of faculty, fellows, staff, and affiliates working on projects that span the broad range of intersections between cyberspace, technology, and society. More information can be found at http://cyber.law.harvard.edu.

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Cambridge, MA ? The Berkman Center for Internet & Society at Harvard University announced today that five new members have been appointed to its Board of Directors, bringing the total number of directors to thirteen. The new members are: Susan Crawford (Visiting Stanton Professor of the First Amendment at the Kennedy School of Government; Visiting Professor at Harvard Law School); Phillip Malone (Clinical Professor of Law; director, Cyberlaw Clinic); Felix Oberholzer-Gee (Andreas Andresen Professor of Business Administration; Chair, MBA Global Program); Jeffrey Schnapp (Professor of Romance Languages & Literatures and Comparative Literature; faculty at the Graduate School of Design; Faculty Director, metaLAB (at) Harvard project); and Mark Wu (Assistant Professor of Law).   The renewed Board will help the Center continue to build collaborations that cross disciplinary and institutional boundaries.

?I am delighted to welcome these five outstanding faculty to our leadership group,? said Terry Fisher, Chair of the Board. ?Each brings to the Center great expertise and energy ? and in some cases a rich history of collaboration.  I very much look forward to working with all of them.?

The Board of Directors shapes the Berkman Center?s overall vision and makes significant financial, research, academic, personnel, governance, and other overarching organizational decisions. Terry Fisher remains the Chair of the Board.  Continuing as directors are: Professors Yochai Benkler, John Deighton, Charles Nesson, John Palfrey, Stuart Shieber, and Jonathan Zittrain. Urs Gasser continues as Executive Director, leading implementation of the vision and objectives set forth by the Board.

?The Berkman Center is a jewel, preeminent in the study of Internet governance and law, and it is also a model of innovative collaboration, research, and teaching,? said Harvard Law School Dean Martha Minow. ?The participation of Susan Crawford, Phil Malone, Felix Oberholzer-Gee, Jeffrey Schnapp, and Mark Wu ensures its ongoing dynamism and creativity, and I am delighted that the Center will have the benefit of their vision and expertise which ranges across the fields of intellectual property, internet technology and policy, communications law, cybercrime, cybersecurity, freedom of speech and anonymity, privacy, economics, and globalization. I salute the fine board service of Mark Edwards, Jack Goldsmith, Alex Keyssar, and Charles Ogletree. With the continuing leadership of Terry Fisher, Urs Gasser, Charles Nesson, Yochai Benkler, John Deighton, John Palfrey, Stuart Shieber, and Jonathan Zittrain and the new group of board members, the Berkman Center will dazzle, innovate, and set the standard.?

The Berkman community joins Dean Minow and the Board in thanking those members whose terms are coming to a close.  They have contributed enormously to the life of the Center, and in particular have helped to guide its transition from an organization rooted exclusively in the law school to a university-wide Interfaculty Initiative.

About the Berkman Center directors:

Yochai Benkler, Jack N. and Lillian R. Berkman Professor of Entrepreneurial Studies, Harvard Law School, teaches and writes about the Internet and the emergence of networked economy and society, as well as the organization of infrastructure, such as wireless and broadband communications.

Susan Crawford, (Visiting) Stanton Professor of the First Amendment at Harvard?s Kennedy School of Government; Visiting Professor at Harvard Law School. Prof. Crawford is on the faculty of Cardozo Law School, where she studies Internet policy, communications law and the use of technology by government.

John Deighton, Harold M. Brierley Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School, studies online marketing, conducted largely by close study of specific situations. Recent research has included the use of social media in the Obama/Clinton primary campaign, corporate use of blogging and Facebook presence, management styles and practices in the shift in the music industry from physical to digital product, and a series of cases on the processes by which viral videos were propagated online and offline.

William Fisher, WilmerHale Professor of Intellectual Property Law at Harvard Law School, focuses on Copyright, Patent, and Trademark Law and American legal History.

Urs Gasser, Executive Director, Berkman Center for Internet & Society at Harvard University. His research and teaching focuses on information law and policy and the interaction between law and innovation.

Phillip Malone, Clinical Professor of Law at Harvard Law School; Director of the Law School?s Cyberlaw Clinic at the Berkman Center for Internet and Society. Prof. Malone?s research and teaching focus on cybercrime, online speech and anonymity, online privacy, and intellectual property among the many dimensions of Internet law.

Charles Nesson, William F. Weld Professor of Law, Harvard Law School; founder of Berkman Center. Prof. Nesson?s myriad research interests include evidence, criminal law, cyberlaw and technology in teaching.

Felix Oberholzer-Gee, Andreas Andresen Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School; Chair, MBA Global Program. Prof. Oberholzer-Gee?s research is centered on competitive strategy, international competition, and non-market strategy, a branch of strategic management that studies how companies best work with government and non-governmental groups. In recent work, he studied how entertainment companies can successfully manage the digital transition.

John G. Palfrey, Henry N. Ess III Professor of Law; Vice Dean, Library and Information Resources, Harvard Law School. Prof. Palfrey studies intellectual property, access to knowledge, Internet & democracy, and youth & technology. He is currently leading Berkman?s involvement in the Digital Public Library of America project.

Jeffrey T. Schnapp, Professor of Romance Languages & Literatures and Comparative Literature; faculty at the Graduate School of Design; faculty director of the metaLAB (at) Harvard project. Prof. Schnapp is a cultural historian with research interests extending from antiquity to the present, largely centering around his pioneering work in the domains of digital humanities and digitally augmented approaches to cultural programming.

Stuart Shieber, James O. Welch, Jr. and Virginia B. Welch Professor of Computer Science, Harvard School of Engineering and Applied Sciences; Director, Office for Scholarly Communication. Prof. Shieber studies communications across many dimensions, including programming languages, graphical languages and human linguistics. In his capacity in the Office of Scholarly Communication, Shieber spearheads efforts to open, share and preserve scholarship across Harvard.

Mark Wu, Assistant Professor of Law, Harvard Law School. Prof. Wu?s research focuses on international trade and related issues of intellectual property law, economics and globalization. Prof. Wu is a specialist on legal and economic development of East Asia, particularly China.

Jonathan Zittrain, Professor of Law, Harvard Law School; Harvard Kennedy School of Government; Professor of Computer Science, Harvard School of Engineering and Applied Sciences. Prof. Zittrain?s research includes digital property, privacy, and speech, and the role played by private "middlepeople" in Internet architecture. He has a strong interest in creative, useful, and unobtrusive ways to deploy technology in the classroom.

About the Berkman Center for Internet & Society
The Berkman Center for Internet & Society at Harvard University is a research program founded to explore cyberspace, share in its study, and help pioneer its development. Founded in 1997, through a generous gift from Jack N. and Lillian R. Berkman, the Center is home to an ever-growing community of faculty, fellows, staff, and affiliates working on projects that span the broad range of intersections between cyberspace, technology, and society. More information can be found at http://cyber.law.harvard.edu.

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A Public Right to Hear and Press Freedom in an Age of Networked Journalism

Tuesday, May 22, 12:30 pm
Berkman Center, 23 Everett Street, second floor
This event is at capacity;  the talk will be webcast live at 12:30 pm ET and archived on our site shortly after.

What does a public right to hear mean in networked environments and why does it matter?  In this talk I?ll describe how a public right to hear has historically and implicitly underpinned the U.S. press?s claims to freedom and, more fundamentally, what we want democracy to be.  I?ll trace how this right appears in contemporary news production, show how three networked press organizations have used Application Programming Interfaces to both depend upon and distance themselves from readers, and describe how my research program joins questions of free speech with media infrastructure design.  I will argue that a contemporary public right to hear partly depends upon how the press?s technologies and practices mediate among networked actors who construct and contest what Bowker and Star (1999) call ?boundary infrastructures.? It is by studying these technosocial, journalistic systems?powerful yet often invisible systems that I call ?newsware??that we might understand how a public right to hear emerges from networked, institutionally situated communication cultures like the online press.

About Mike

Mike Ananny is a Postdoctoral Researcher at Microsoft Research New England, a Fellow at Harvard?s Berkman Center for Internet & Society, and, starting August 2012, will be an Assistant Professor at the University of Southern California?s Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism. He researchers social uses of digital technologies, concentrating on how technological, institutional and normative forces both shape and reflect networked journalism and press freedom.  He earned his PhD from Stanford University (Communication), his Masters from MIT (Media Laboratory) and his Bachelors from the University of Toronto (Computer Science & Human Biology).  He was also a founding member of the research staff at Media Lab Europe as part of the Everyday Learning group.  He has held fellowships and scholarships with Stanford?s Center on Philanthropy and Civil Society, the Trudeau Foundation, LEGO Corporation, Interval Research Corporation, and has worked or consulted with LEGO, Mattel and Nortel Networks, helping to translate research concepts and prototypes into new product lines and services.

Berkman Buzz: May 18, 2012

The Berkman Buzz is selected weekly from the posts of Berkman Center people and projects. To subscribe, click here. Aaron Shaw explores the future of crowdwork While many moments of our conversation were energizing, the most compelling aspects derived from the group?s shared desire to imagine crowdwork and distributed online collaboration as potentially something more than the specter of alienated, de-humanized piece-work that it is frequently depicted to be. To spur our efforts, we used a provocative thought experiment: what it would take for crowdwork to facilitate fulfilling, creative, and sustainable livelihoods for us or our (hypothetical or real) children? From Aaron Shaw's blog post, "The Future of Crowdwork: CrowdCamp Workshop at CHI 2012" About Aaron Shaw | @aaronshaw Andrés Monroy-Hernández mentors crowd workers Traditional workplaces spend a fair amount of effort mentoring and training their workforce as a way to increase the quality of their work and their job satisfaction. Does mentoring crowd workers also increase the quality of their work? How can one mentor the crowd workforce? These were the question we tried to tackle this weekend at the Crowd Camp Workshop at CHI. From Andrés Monroy-Hernández's blog post, "Mentoring Crowd Workers" About Andrés Monroy-Hernández | @andresmh Academics: Passionate about Digital Media & Disruptive Publics? Workshop CFP: http://bit.ly/KYZhYr (Global Voices Summit in Kenya) —danah boyd (@zephoria) Yochai Benkler discusses the online SOPA/PIPA debate at the Guardian Activate Summit Yochai Benkler, co-director, Harvard University's Berkman Center for Internet and Society, addresses the Guardian Activate Summit with a talk titled 'the networked public sphere' which maps the public discourse of the SOPA/PIPA debate online. From The Guardian, "Yochai Benkler - 'The networked public sphere': framing the public discourse of the SOPA/PIPA debate" About Yochai Benkler Herdict reviews the UK's attempts to block The Pirate Bay Swedish website The Pirate Bay (TPB), the world?s largest BitTorrent site, has been in the news over the years for everything from copyright lawsuits and a raid by Swedish authorities, to tangles with powerful organizations like the Motion Picture Association of America. In February 2012, TPB was found guilty of sharing copyrighted material on a massive scale in a case brought by the British Phonographic Industry. Despite these setbacks and perhaps because of the attention, the peer-to-peer network has garnered millions of users (3.7 million in the UK alone) who use it to download and distribute copyrighted content (including music, films and television shows, games, and publications). From Alex Meriwether's blog post for Herdict, "Blocking the Pirate Bay" About Herdict | @herdict Justin Reich examines persistence and gaming in education For gamers of a certain age, the blocky pixels of the 8-bit Nintendo era bring back fond memories. In our own time, educators are fascinated by the learning potential of games: the way they engage us, challenge us, and test us. They teach, in compelling ways, all kinds of lessons, both pro- and anti-social. Some of the most powerful lessons of games are the rewards of exploration, persistence, patience, and determination. From Justin Reich's post for Ed Tech Researcher, "Persistence and Gaming in Education" About Justin Reich | @bjfr Viacom Joins Forces with Lady Gaga?s Born This Way Foundation as its Lead Media Partner http://shar.es/2MTB4 @btwfoundation @BerkmanCenter —John Palfrey (@jpalfrey) Cuba: Questioning Digital Expression within the Revolution The recent Encuentro de Blogueros Cubanos en Revolución [Meeting of Cuban Bloggers in Revolution] [es] brought together a group of ?official? bloggers?chiefly journalists and communications professionals who are employed by the state and maintain their blogs as part of their work. These bloggers acknowledge explicitly that they write ?within,? or in support of, the Cuban revolution. In contrast, many better-known Cuban bloggers, such as Yoani Sánchez and Laritza Diversent, make no such claim, calling for free speech and broader Internet access but seeking to avoid being categorized as dissidents or counterrevolutionaries. From Ellery Roberts Biddle's blog post for Global Voices, "Cuba: Questioning Digital Expression within the Revolution" About Global Voices Online | @globalvoices

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Press Freedom in an Age of Networked Journalism; Making large volunteer-driven projects sustainable; Interop Book Launch

Upcoming Events and Digital Media May 16th, 2012

Remember to load images if you have trouble seeing parts of this email. Or click here to view the web version of this newsletter. Below you will find upcoming Berkman Center events, interesting digital media we have produced, and other events of note. berkman luncheon series A Public Right to Hear and Press Freedom in an Age of Networked Journalism Tuesday, May 22, 12:30pm ET, Berkman Center for Internet & Society, 23 Everett St, Cambridge, MA. This event will be webcast live. What does a public right to hear mean in networked environments and why does it matter? In this talk I?ll describe how a public right to hear has historically and implicitly underpinned the U.S. press?s claims to freedom and, more fundamentally, what we want democracy to be. I?ll trace how this right appears in contemporary news production, show how three networked press organizations have used Application Programming Interfaces to both depend upon and distance themselves from readers, and describe how my research program joins questions of free speech with media infrastructure design. I will argue that a contemporary public right to hear partly depends upon how the press?s technologies and practices mediate among networked actors who construct and contest what Bowker and Star (1999) call ?boundary infrastructures.? It is by studying these technosocial, journalistic systems?powerful yet often invisible systems that I call ?newsware" ? that we might understand how a public right to hear emerges from networked, institutionally situated communication cultures like the online press. Mike Ananny is a Postdoctoral Researcher at Microsoft Research New England, a Fellow at Harvard?s Berkman Center for Internet & Society, and, starting August 2012, will be an Assistant Professor at the University of Southern California?s Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism. RSVP Required. more information on our website> berkman luncheon series Making large volunteer-driven projects sustainable. Lessons learned from Drupal Tuesday, May 29, 12:30pm ET, Berkman Center for Internet & Society, 23 Everett St, Cambridge, MA. This event will be webcast live. In this talk, Dries shares his experiences on how he grew the Drupal community from just one person to over 800,000 members over the past 10 years. Today, the Drupal community is one of the largest and most active Open Source projects in the world, powering 1 out of 50 websites in the world. The concept of major projects growing out of a volunteer, community-based model is not new to the world. Volunteer networks and communities exist in many shapes and sizes. Throughout history there are examples of pure volunteer organizations that were instrumental in the founding and formation of many projects. For example, the first trade routes were ancient trackways which citizens later developed on their own into roads suited for wheeled vehicles in order to improve commerce. Transportation was improved for all citizens, driven by the commercial interest of some. Today, we certainly appreciate that our governments maintain the roads. However, we still see road signs stating that a particular section of a highway is kept clean and trim by volunteers -- at least in some countries. When new ground needs to be broken, it's often volunteer communities that do it. But a full-time, paid infrastructure can be necessary for the preservation and protection of what communities begin. In this presentation, Dries wants to brainstorm about how large communities evolve and how to sustain them over time. Dries Buytaert is the original creator and project lead for the Drupal open source web publishing and collaboration platform. RSVP Required. more information on our website> special event Interop: The Promise and Perils of Highly Interconnected Systems Wednesday, May 30, 6:00pm ET, Harvard Law School, Cambridge, MA. Reception to follow. Co-sponsored by the Harvard Law School Library and the Harvard Book Store. Free and open to the public. The practice of standardization has been facilitating innovation and economic growth for centuries. The standardization of the railroad gauge revolutionized the flow of commodities, the standardization of money revolutionized debt markets and simplified trade, and the standardization of credit networks has allowed for the purchase of goods using money deposited in a bank half a world away. These advancements did not eradicate the different systems they affected; instead, each system has been transformed so that it can interoperate with systems all over the world, while still preserving local diversity. As Palfrey and Gasser show, interoperability is a critical aspect of any successful system?and now it is more important than ever. John Palfrey is Henry N. Ess Professor of Law and Vice Dean for Library and Information Resources at Harvard Law School. Dr. Urs Gasser is the Berkman Center for Internet & Society's Executive Director. RSVP Required. more information on our website> video/audio James Gleick on "The Information" James Gleick ? author of a half-dozen books on science, technology, and culture ? discusses his latest book "The Information: A History, a Theory, a Flood", with Jonathan Zittrain. His latest bestseller, translated into 20 languages, is "The Information: A History, a Theory, a Flood", which the NY Times called "ambitious, illuminating, and sexily theoretical." Whatever they meant by that. They also said "Don't make the mistake of reading it quickly." video/audio on our website> video/audio Matthew Battles on Going Feral on the Net: the Qualities of Survival in a Wild, Wired World How do we balance the empowering possibilities of the networked public sphere with the dark, unsettling, and even dangerous energies of cyberspace? Matthew Battles ? author, cofounder of the blog HiLobrow.com, and program fellow with metaLAB (at) Harvard ? blends a deep-historical perspective on the internet with storytelling that reaches into its weird, uncanny depths. The feral is a metaphor ? and maybe more than just a metaphor ? for thriving in cyberspace, a habitat that changes too rapidly for anyone truly to be native. This talk weaves critical and reflective discussion of online experience with a short story from Battles' new collection, "The Sovereignties of Invention". video/audio on our website>

Other Events of Note Events that may be of interest to the Berkman community: 5/16: Knowledge and Innovation: Understanding Public Access to Research (Brookings) 5/16: Second Annual Conference on Competition, Search, and Social Media (George Mason) 5/17: Citizens Fighting Corruption: Roles and Challenges for Civic Media (MIT Center for Civic Media) 5/18: Yahoo! Business & Human Rights Summit: Women, Technology and Social/Digital Media (Washington, DC) 5/19: International Legislation Unhackathon (San Francisco) 5/21: What the Bank's Open Access Policy Means for Development - Liveblog & webcast, featuring Berkman Fellow Peter Suber 5/21-22: F2C: Freedom to Connect (Washington, DC) 6/11-12: Personal Democracy Forum 2012 (NYC) 6/22-24: Web Science 2012 (Evanston, IL) 7/2-3: Global Voices Citizen Media Summit (Nairobi, Kenya) 7/12-15: Wikimania Conference (George Washington University)

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Going Feral on the Net: the Qualities of Survival in a Wild, Wired World

Tuesday, May 15, 12:30 pm
Berkman Center, 23 Everett Street, second floor
This event is now at capacity; the event will be webcast live at 12:30 pm ET and archived on our site shortly after.

About Matthew

Matthew Battles is program fellow with metaLAB (at) Harvard, an academic and creative collaborative devoted to the exploration of technology in the arts and humanities, hosted by the Berkman Center. He writes about the historical, aesthetic, and cultural dimensions of cyberspace for such publications as The Boston Globe and The Atlantic Monthly. He spent eight years as a scholarly editor at Harvard's Houghton Library and the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston; as cofounder of the blog HiLobrow.com he has helped generate innovative literary publishing projects in print and online. The author of Library: an Unquiet History (Norton 2004), his forthcoming books include Letter by Letter (W. W. Norton), a sentimental and natural history of writing, and a short story collection, The Sovereignties of Invention (Red Lemonade).

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Tuesday, May 15, 12:30 pm
Berkman Center, 23 Everett Street, second floor
This event is now at capacity; the event will be webcast live at 12:30 pm ET and archived on our site shortly after.

About Matthew

Matthew Battles is program fellow with metaLAB (at) Harvard, an academic and creative collaborative devoted to the exploration of technology in the arts and humanities, hosted by the Berkman Center. He writes about the historical, aesthetic, and cultural dimensions of cyberspace for such publications as The Boston Globe and The Atlantic Monthly. He spent eight years as a scholarly editor at Harvard's Houghton Library and the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston; as cofounder of the blog HiLobrow.com he has helped generate innovative literary publishing projects in print and online. The author of Library: an Unquiet History (Norton 2004), his forthcoming books include Letter by Letter (W. W. Norton), a sentimental and natural history of writing, and a short story collection, The Sovereignties of Invention (Red Lemonade).

Qualities of Survival in a Wild, Wired World; A Public Right to Hear & Press Freedom in an Age of Networked Journalism; Interop

Upcoming Events and Digital Media May 9th, 2012

Remember to load images if you have trouble seeing parts of this email. Or click here to view the web version of this newsletter. Below you will find upcoming Berkman Center events, interesting digital media we have produced, and other events of note. berkman luncheon series Going Feral on the Net: the Qualities of Survival in a Wild, Wired World Tuesday, May 15, 12:30pm ET, Berkman Center for Internet & Society, 23 Everett St, Cambridge, MA. This event will be webcast live. How do we balance the empowering possibilities of the networked public sphere with the dark, unsettling, and even dangerous energies of cyberspace? Matthew Battles blends a deep-historical perspective on the internet with storytelling that reaches into its weird, uncanny depths. It's a hybrid approach, reflecting the web's way of landing us in a feral state?the predicament of a domestic creature forced to live by its imperfectly-rekindled instincts in a world where it is never entirely at home. The feral is a metaphor?and maybe more than just a metaphor?for thriving in cyberspace, a habitat that changes too rapidly for anyone truly to be native. This talk will weave critical and reflective discussion of online experience with a short story from Battles' new collection, The Sovereignties of Invention. Matthew Battles is program fellow with metaLAB (at) Harvard, an academic and creative collaborative devoted to the exploration of technology in the arts and humanities, hosted by the Berkman Center. RSVP Required. more information on our website> berkman luncheon series A Public Right to Hear and Press Freedom in an Age of Networked Journalism Tuesday, May 22, 12:30pm ET, Berkman Center for Internet & Society, 23 Everett St, Cambridge, MA. This event will be webcast live. What does a public right to hear mean in networked environments and why does it matter? In this talk I?ll describe how a public right to hear has historically and implicitly underpinned the U.S. press?s claims to freedom and, more fundamentally, what we want democracy to be. I?ll trace how this right appears in contemporary news production, show how three networked press organizations have used Application Programming Interfaces to both depend upon and distance themselves from readers, and describe how my research program joins questions of free speech with media infrastructure design. I will argue that a contemporary public right to hear partly depends upon how the press?s technologies and practices mediate among networked actors who construct and contest what Bowker and Star (1999) call ?boundary infrastructures.? It is by studying these technosocial, journalistic systems?powerful yet often invisible systems that I call ?newsware??that we might understand how a public right to hear emerges from networked, institutionally situated communication cultures like the online press. Mike Ananny is a Postdoctoral Researcher at Microsoft Research New England, a Fellow at Harvard?s Berkman Center for Internet & Society, and, starting August 2012, will be an Assistant Professor at the University of Southern California?s Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism. RSVP Required. more information on our website> special event Interop: The Promise and Perils of Highly Interconnected Systems Wednesday, May 30, 6:00pm ET, Harvard Law School, Cambridge, MA. Reception to follow. Co-sponsored by the Harvard Law School Library and the Harvard Book Store. The practice of standardization has been facilitating innovation and economic growth for centuries. The standardization of the railroad gauge revolutionized the flow of commodities, the standardization of money revolutionized debt markets and simplified trade, and the standardization of credit networks has allowed for the purchase of goods using money deposited in a bank half a world away. These advancements did not eradicate the different systems they affected; instead, each system has been transformed so that it can interoperate with systems all over the world, while still preserving local diversity. As Palfrey and Gasser show, interoperability is a critical aspect of any successful system?and now it is more important than ever. John Palfrey is Henry N. Ess Professor of Law and Vice Dean for Library and Information Resources at Harvard Law School. Dr. Urs Gasser is the Berkman Center for Internet & Society's Executive Director. RSVP Required. more information on our website> video/audio RB 200: The Library Of The Future The technological advancements of the past twenty years have rendered the future of the library as a physical space, at least, as uncertain as it has ever been. The information that libraries were once built to house in the form of books and manuscripts can now be accessed in the purely digital realm, as evidenced by initiatives like the Digital Public Library of America, which convenes for the second time this Friday in San Francisco. But libraries still have profound cultural significance, indicating that even if they are no longer necessary for storing books they will continue to exist in some altered form. Radio Berkman host David Weinberger postulated in his book Too Big To Know that the book itself is no longer an appropriate knowledge container ? it has been supplanted by the sprawling knowledge networks of the internet. The book?s subtitle is "Rethinking Knowledge Now That the Facts Aren't the Facts, Experts Are Everywhere, and the Smartest Person in the Room Is the Room." Inspired by the work of Harvard Graduate School of Design students in Biblioteca 2: Library Test Kitchen ? who spent the semester inventing and building library innovations ranging from nap carrels to curated collections displayed on book trucks to digital welcome mats ? we turned the microphone around and had library expert Matthew Battles ask David, "When the smartest person in the room is the room, how do we design the room?" Matthew Battles is the Managing Editor and Curatorial Practice Fellow at the Harvard metaLAB. He wrote Library: an Unquiet History and a biography of Harvard?s Widener Library. video/audio on our website> video/audio RB 201: The 42 Streams (Rethinking Music X) In today's episode we wrap up our coverage of last week's Rethink Music conference with a conversation between guest host Chris Bavitz and Kristin Thomson. In addition to her work as community organizer, social policy researcher, entrepreneur and musician, Kristin is a consultant at the Future of Music Coalition, which recently unveiled the findings from its massive Artist Revenue Streams project designed to answer the question, "How are today?s musicians earning money?" After interviewing more than eighty composers and performers, conducting a dozen financial case studies, and distributing an online survey to more than 5,000 musicians, the Future of Music Coalition has identified no less than 42 distinct revenue streams ranging from karaoke licensing to merchandise sales. Friend of the show, Assistant Director of Harvard Law School?s Cyberlaw Clinic, and lecturer at Harvard Law School Chris asked Kristin about her research and its implications for contemporary musicians. video/audio on our website>

Other Events of Note Events that may be of interest to the Berkman community: 5/10: Media Lab Conversations Series: Howard Rheingold (MIT Media Lab) 5/10-12: Turing Centennial Celebration at Princeton (Princeton) 5/11: TEDxEast, featuring a talk with Beth Coleman (New York) 5/11: Berkman Fellow Matthew Battles reads from "The Sovereignties of Invention" (Harvard Book Store) 5/11-12: Health 2.0?s Boston Big-Data Code-a-thon (athenahealth, Watertown, MA) 5/12: lawTechCamp 2012 (University of Toronto) 5/13-18: Lean Software and Systems, featuring a keynote from Yochai Benkler (Boston) 5/14: Open Pediatrics: A game changer in critical pediatric care (IBM Center for Social Business) 5/16: Second Annual Conference on Competition, Search, and Social Media (George Mason) 5/18: Yahoo! Business & Human Rights Summit: Women, Technology and Social/Digital Media (Washington, DC) 5/19: International Legislation Unhackathon (San Francisco) 5/21: What the Bank's Open Access Policy Means for Development - Liveblog & webcast, featuring Berkman Fellow Peter Suber 5/21-22: F2C: Freedom to Connect (Washington, DC) 6/11-12: Personal Democracy Forum 2012 (NYC) 6/22-24: Web Science 2012 (Evanston, IL) 7/2-3: Global Voices Citizen Media Summit (Nairobi, Kenya) 7/12-15: Wikimania Conference (George Washington University)

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RB 201: The 42 Streams (Rethinking Music X)

From the MediaBerkman blog:

In today's episode we wrap up our coverage of last week's Rethink Music conference with a conversation between guest host Chris Bavitz and Kristin Thomson.

In addition to her work as community organizer, social policy researcher, entrepreneur and musician, Kristin is a consultant at the Future of Music Coalition, which recently unveiled the findings from its massive Artist Revenue Streams project designed to answer the question, "How are today?s musicians earning money?" After interviewing more than eighty composers and performers, conducting a dozen financial case studies, and distributing an online survey to more than 5,000 musicians, the Future of Music Coalition has identified no less than 42 distinct revenue streams ranging from karaoke licensing to merchandise sales.

Friend of the show, Assistant Director of Harvard Law School?s Cyberlaw Clinic, and lecturer at Harvard Law School Chris asked Kristin about her research and its implications for contemporary musicians.

The Information: James Gleick talks about his new book

Tuesday, May 8, 12:30 pm
Harvard Law School, Wasserstein Hall, Classroom 1023 (Map)
This event will be webcast live at 12:30 pm ET and archived on our site shortly after.

James Gleick, author of The Information: A History, a Theory, a Flood, will discuss his new book.

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