Nancy Baym will argue entertainment industries are increasingly pushed toward models of engagement with audiences that integrate social and economic exchange.
The Harvard Law School Law.Gov workshop on June 18 is the last in a 6-month series of such workshops that have taken place throughout the country. In this final workshop,…
Do we have access to all primary legal materials in Massachusetts? What are the best practices for making information accessible? Join a Law.gov workshop focused on outlining the…
Lisa Nakamura, University of Illinois, Urbana Champaign
Internet gameplay is becoming more socially and culturally diverse and ubiquitous than ever before. Yet at the same time, the culture of griefing or pranking that dominates these…
The Berkman Center for Internet & Society at Harvard University and the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania will bring together academics and policy analysts to…
Technologies of participation empower everyone to engage in producing content on the web but also change the roles of professional journalism. Berkman Fellow Miriam Meckel will…
Elliot E. Maxwell, Fellow of the Communications Program at Johns Hopkins University and a Distinguished Research Fellow at the eBusiness Research Center of Pennsylvania State University
The term "open" has been used in many contexts: open source, open standards, open access, open architecture, open spectrum, open innovation, and open educational resources. …
At this installment of cyberscholars, Jeffrey Warren will talk about "Grassroots Mapping Projects"; Nicholas Bramble will discuss "A Diverse and Antagonistic Information Age?";…
Amie Siegel, Harvard Visual and Environmental Studies
Artist Amie Siegel will discuss and show works from her "My Way" series. Her videos appropriate amateur performance videos posted on Youtube, reconstructing how image posting and…
Back in April 2008, there was ROFLCon -- the first internet culture conference devoted to discussing what makes memes work, why they work, and where it's all going. ROFLCon II…
Richard A. Danner, Senior Associate Dean for Information Services and Archibald C. and Frances Fulk Rufty Research Professor Of Law at Duke Law School
Professor Richard Danner has been at the forefront of the open access to legal scholarship movement and has also recently written about the role of academic law librarians in…
David Weinberger in conversation with John Hagel III
Join us for a discussion on The Power of Pull, a new book from authors John Hagel III, John Seely Brown, and Lang Davison on how "pull" can be more systematically used to shape…
Mikko Välimäki, is CEO of Tuxera Ltd, adjunct professor at Helsinki University of Technology, Finland
Mikko will discuss the inner meaning of the politically hot term "open standard" and the practical implications of having more and more patents in information technology standards…
In this virtual panel, five scholars will comment for five minutes each on emerging research problems, opportunities, and methods in social science both with and about digital…
