Gene Koo, Berkman Fellow, & Scott C. Seider, Boston University
Video games -- whether "casual" or "hardcore," single- or multi-player, mainstream or independent -- have become a powerful cultural force. Researchers have extensively…
David Bollier, Author of "Viral Spiral: How the Commoners Built a Digital Republic of Their Own"
David Bollier will discuss the rise of the commons paradigm in the digital environment, the subject of his new book, "Viral Spiral: How the Commoners Built a Digital Republic of…
Although the Obama administration is often praised in comparison for its mastery of such many-to-many computational media, Elizabeth Losh poses that its use of proprietary third…
Stephen Wolfram, creator of Wolfram|Alpha and Mathematica, & Jonathan Zittrain, Professor of Law at Harvard Law School
There's been great anticipation around Stephen Wolfram's ambitious project to create a comprehensive "computational knowledge engine." The Berkman Center is hosting a sneak…
Russ Neuman will trace the flow of information and entertainment into the typical American home from 1960 to 2005 in search of a theory of media evolution.
John Durham Peters, University of Iowa, will present his paper on "Whatever happened to loneliness? Social thought about communication, 1959/2009", what is new in the media…
Professor Richard Susskind, Author of "The End of Lawyers?" and IT Adviser to the Lord Chief Justice of England
Professor Richard Susskind predicts that the legal profession will be driven by two forces in the coming decade: by a market pull towards the commoditization of legal services,…
The supply side of tomorrow's media is emerging quickly, if messily, in a democratization of media-creation tools that give us a vast and growing amount of content of all kinds,…
Gillian K Hadfield on how and why our legal infrastructure is outdated and ill-suited to the new economy, looking mostly to the non-market or protected-market mechanisms on which…
What's the link between Rick Astley and funny cat pictures? How about "alpaca sheep" and Anonymous? Is internet culture as a whole fundamentally random, or does an underlying…
INFORMATION SUPERHIGHWAY is Boston's monthly party gathering hackers, activists, artists, designers, nonprofits, startups, academics and general geekery to hang out and connect…
Victoria Stodden will present the Reproducible Research Standard to realign the Intellectual Property framework with longstanding scientific norms and promote the release of all…
Digitally-connected social networks are fast becoming a key ingredient of today’s social movements. But scholarship about networks – social, professional, and otherwise – has…
Papers presented at this convening of cyberscholars: 1) These are the Best of Times and these are the Worst of Times: Free Software and the Global Politics of Intellectual…
In these dawn years of the Information Age, when individuals have more choice than ever about what they can do with their time and money, big companies still talk about "capturing…
