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Digital assistants: Inequalities and social context of access, use, and perceptual understanding
Yong Jin Park, RSM Visiting Scholar, analyzes the digital inequality in AI.
"This study focuses on…
Jair Bolsonaro, A Perfect Example Of Why Autocrats Hate Women
David Nemer analyzes the antipathy towards women that world leaders like Jair Bolsonaro have.
Mary L. Gray: The invisible "ghost" workforce powering our day-to-day lives
BKC Faculty Associate Mary Gray discusses the invisible "ghost" workforce.
The Law Bytes Podcast, Episode 139: Florian Martin-Bariteau on the Artificial Intelligence and Data Act
BKC Fellow Florian Martin-Bariteau speaks about the Artificial Intelligence and…
Sex trouble: Sex/gender slippage, sex confusion, and sex obsession in machine learning using electronic health records
Kendra Albert writes about how researchers should handle sex/gender variables in…
Snapchat safety features for parents announced
BKC Faculty Associate Sameer Hinduja speaks about the new Snapchat safety…
GOP reacts to Trump search with threats and comparisons to ‘Gestapo’
Susan Benesch, faculty associate at the Berkman Klein Center for Internet &…
As Interest Rates Rise, a Silent Vampire Attack on Crypto
BKC affiliate Patrick Murck writes about <…
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Fall 2022 Open House
Harvard University community, join us for our Fall 2022 Open House!
In conversation with Rebecca Tushnet, Rebecca Giblin and Cory Doctorow will discuss ideas from their new book…
Possession in Copyright by Analogy
Join us on Tuesday, September 20th, for a talk by Dr…
Join us for a discussion with Brewster Kahle, founder and digital librarian of the Internet Archive, about the pending…
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Harvard Law School's Cyberlaw Clinic provides high-quality, pro-bono legal services to clients on issues relating to…
BKC Policy Practice: Artificial Intelligence
The BKC Policy Practice on Artificial Intelligence (BKC PP: AI) is a public interest-oriented program that helps…
The Institute for Rebooting Social Media
The Institute for Rebooting Social Media is a three-year "pop-up" initiative that will address the biggest questions in…
Fellowship Program
The Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society welcomes an interdisciplinary and diverse community of academics and…
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Explores the digital arts and humanities through research, teaching, publications, and exhibitions
Youth and Media
Youth and Media (YaM) encompasses an array of research, advocacy, and development initiatives around youth (age 12-18)…
Lumen
Lumen collects and studies online content removal requests, providing transparency and supporting research and analysis…
Privacy Tools
The Privacy Tools Project is a broad effort to advance a multidisciplinary understanding of data privacy issues and…
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See all TopicsEthics and Governance of AI
The rapidly growing capabilities and increasing presence of AI-based systems in our lives raise pressing questions about the impact, governance, ethics, and accountability of these technologi…
Internet Health
Censorship, filtering, throttling, dead links, blockages. The health of the Internet can be measured by the ease with which its users can access and share information. We develop tools and research to…
Governance of Technology & the Internet
Networked technologies are complex, multi-layered, interdependent, and subject to multiple competing interests. Through original research and by creating connections between stakeholders, we work to…
Privacy & Security
Privacy violations are a serious threat to the health of the Internet and the effective use of technology. We study how people understand their privacy as users of technology, examine and document the…