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Taylor Lorenz Makes Sense of Online Culture for the Rest of Us
The BKC affiliate reveals how social media is encouraging individual expression.
From clinical student to clinical instructor
Kendra Albert shares their Cyberlaw Clinic story
The good, bad, and scary of the Internet of Things
BKC faculty associate Francine Berman on the question that keeps her up at night: Is the Internet of Things a future…
The system is rigged against users
BKC fellow Beatriz Botero Arcila on why getting compensated for your personal data is not a good idea.
Podcast: Election Meltdown
BKC faculty associate Danielle Citron joins former Florida gubernatorial candidate Andrew Gillum, director of the ACLU…
How the Coronavirus Revealed Authoritarianism’s Fatal Flaw
China’s use of surveillance and censorship makes it harder for Xi Jinping to know what’s going on in his own country.
Is the dream of an 'open' internet dead?
As some countries restrict and replace content, are we headed toward a world of multiple internets?
Contextual Analysis of Social Media
A podcast with Desmond Patton on the promise and challenge of eliciting context in social media posts with natural…
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The Internet Robustness project is developing, testing, and piloting software and protocols to safeguard the promise of… More
Internet Monitor
Internet Monitor's aim is to evaluate, describe, and summarize the means, mechanisms, and extent of Internet content… More
AI: Educational Activities
The Berkman Klein Center has worked to build a robust community and institutional activities leveraging the University… More
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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… More
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… More
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… More
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… More
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In Principle and in Practice
A conversation about AI principles More
Tech and Human Rights
In our capitalist, consumer society, how can companies exercise corporate responsibility, protect human rights, and… More
All Data Are Local
How to analyze data settings rather than data sets, acknowledging the meaning-making power of the local. More
The United States spends $6billion a year on rural broadband deployment, and yet the digital divide may be growing… More