The Berkman Center will celebrate the release of Blown to Bits: Your Life, Liberty, and Happiness after the Digital Explosion with all three authors, Hal Abelson, Ken Ledeen, and Berkman Fellow Harry Lewis.
Professor Jacques de Werra on the challenges raised by a proposed copyright regulation under which the internet access of copyright infringers can be shut down in the EU. This discussion will be webcast live beginning at 12:30ET.
The Saffron Revolution, Skype surveillance in China, "Scobleization," and more...in this week's BUZZ!
Next Tuesday we're hosting a book party for "Blown to Bits: Your Life, Liberty, and Happiness after the Digital Explosion," with the book's three authors, and, on Thursday, a panel on "The Uncertain Internet: Core Net Values for the [TBD] Administration" will consider the Net’s benefits and increasing vulnerabilities.
Our colleagues at the University of Toronto's Citizen Lab have released a major report, "Breaching Trust: An analysis of surveillance and security practices on China’s TOM-Skype platform," by Nart Villeneuve, with a foreword by OpenNet Initiative Principal Investigators Ron Diebert and Rafal Rohozinski. The report "reveals troubling security and privacy breaches affecting TOM-Skype -- the Chinese version of the popular voice and text chat software Skype."
Last week the Berkman Center hosted a public meeting of the ISTTF. Technology submissions, presentation slides, and video are being made available for those who were unable to attend or watch the webcast...
From the Internet & Democracy blog... We’re following up yesterday’s release of our Burma case study with a look at Africa and the role of technology in Kenya’s post-election violence. This case study builds off of the work of Joshua Goldstein and Juliana Rotich, examining how last year’s post-election domestic conflict in Kenya was both exacerbated and mitigated by the networked public sphere.
In this short issue of The Filter, we invite you to dig into Born Digital, to explore a special visualization of Berkman@10, and to offer your feedback and advice as we think through revisions to The Filter itself in the coming year...
We're pleased to announce the BCIS Harvard Graduate Student Awards, intended to help Harvard University graduate students take interdisciplinary approaches to exploring Internet and society issues.
From the Internet & Democracy blog... Over the past few months, the Internet and Democracy team has been hard at work producing a new set of case studies that take a closer look at the complex role of technology in the creation, progress, and outcomes of domestic crises....We're happy to announce today the official release of our study of the 2007 Saffron Revolution in Burma...
The Internet Safety Technical Task Force, bloggers insurance, One Web Day and more...in this week's BUZZ!
Attention social science researchers...Berkman Fellow Jason Kaufman reports that a first wave of Facebook.com data is now available through the Dataverse Network Project...
This week's -- exuberant -- installment in the Reporters in the Field series takes us to a silent dance party in Boston...
The Berkman Center hosted a day and a half-long public meeting of the Internet Safety Technical Task Force.
