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Mapping the space of social media regulation
Nathaniel Lubin, Kalie Mayberry, Dylan Moses, Manon Revel, Luke Thorburn, and Andrew West identify two modes of mapping…
Why France’s arrest of Telegram CEO Pavel Durov has divided tech regulation experts
Juan Ortiz Freuler and Apunam Chander weigh in on the arrest of Pavel Durov.
Forces for Change
The Cyberlaw Clinic's Alejandra Caraballo was nominated as a British Vogue Force for Change.
The Future is Analog (if You Can Afford It)
"Analog is back," writes Maroussia Lévesque, arguing that the ability to bypass digital technology reflects an inherent…
Cyberlaw Clinic Supports Public Interest Patent Law Institute w/Comment to USPTO re: Patents and Artificial Intelligence
The Cyberlaw Clinic aided the Public Interest Patent Law Institute in filing comments stressing the importance of human…
When monoculture leads to monofailure
Ethan Zuckerman explores how the Crowdstrike outage makes computing farm more vulnerable than it ought to be.
"Deliberately designed to deceive": Experts say Taylor Swift could sue Trump over fake endorsement
Rebecca Tushnet details some of the complex legal landscape of doctored celebrity endorsements.
Blockchain Governance
A new book co-authored by Primavera De Filippi analyzes the reciprocal relationship between blockchain communities and…
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See all ProgramsResearch Sprints
The BKC Research Sprints are a series of educational programs that bring together emerging scholars from around the…
Fellowship Program
The Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society welcomes an interdisciplinary and diverse community of academics and…
Applied Social Media Lab
A new home for technologists and practitioners to reimagine, rebuild, and reboot social media to serve the public good…
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…
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See all Projects & ToolsNetwork of Interdisciplinary Internet & Society Research Centers
A collaborative initiative focused on interdisciplinary research on the development, social impact, policy implications…
metaLAB (at) Harvard
Explores the digital arts and humanities through research, teaching, publications, and exhibitions
Lumen
Lumen collects and studies online content removal requests, providing transparency and supporting research and analysis…
CopyrightX
CopyrightX is a twelve-week networked course offered under the auspices of Harvard Law School, the HarvardX distance…
Featured Topics
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 technologies around the…
Media, Democracy, & Public Discourse
The way we communicate online evolves and changes shape rapidly. Through research, the building of tools, and bringing together diverse viewpoints and underrepresented voices, we seek to examine, analyze,…
Technology & the Law
Software, hardware, platforms, and networks are regulated by sometimes conflicting and overlapping sets of laws, policies, and norms. New technologies are constantly creating new frontiers for policymaker…
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 build…