One-day workshop examining what the right to information should look like in relation to platforms and how it can be implemented in a manner that protects user privacy...
featuring Dennis Tenen, Assistant Professor of English and Comparative Literature at Columbia University
Computers—from electronic books to smart phones—play an active role in our social lives. Our technological choices thus entail theoretical and political commitments. Dennis Tenen…
Digital Black Feminist Discourse and the Legacy of Black Women’s Technology Use
The use of online technology by black feminist thinkers has changed the principles, praxis, and product of black feminist writing and simultaneously has changed the technologies…
Our society is blessed with new technologies yet also burdened with numerous and novel disputes as they are used. In his new book Digital Justice: Technology and the Internet of…
Curricle with Professor Jeffrey Schnapp, metaLAB Harvard
Visualized, annotated, connected: what should the course catalog look like in the 21st century? In this participatory lunch talk, members of metaLAB's Curricle team will share…
with public health researcher and educator Caroline Weinberg, MD, MPH
The March for Science went viral when it was nothing more than a name -- the very idea of a movement in defense of science in policy was enough to ignite the passion of more than…
Through a concrete hypothetical--ripped from tomorrow's headlines, if not today's--we explore the difficult decisions to be made around these issues, including actors from…
Inclusion is a key process for sustaining, developing, and building democratic societies. Crossing multiple social dimensions, inclusion can help to ensure more equal…
with author John Palfrey, Head of School at Phillips Academy, Andover
Often in today’s political climate our commitments to liberty and equality are set at odds with one another. This tension is nowhere more evident than when we pit free expression…
Social order - what counts as order in the social world - is changing in the digital era, the era of deep mediatization. How can social theory help us understand this shift, and…
Join Kaiser Kuo as he explores the factors that may explain the inflection points in content policy, and examine some of the prevailing notions in the west about Internet…
How do we prepare court systems, judges, lawyers, and defendants to interact with autonomous systems? What are the potential societal costs to human autonomy, dignity, and due…
Researching Social Media, Online Platforms, and Algorithmic Systems From the Outside
Join us at the University of Michigan for a discussion with Eric Gilbert, Cedric Langbort, Jeff Larson, Casey Pierce, and Christo Wilson on how researchers can navigate and…
This is a talk in the monthly Digital Health @ Harvard Brown Bag Lunch Series, which is co-hosted by the Petrie-Flom Center for Health Law Policy,…
The Bad News About Online Discrimination in Algorithmic Systems
Join us at the University of Michigan for a discussion with Solon Barocas, J. Nathan Matias, H. V. Jagadish, and Christian Sandvig on the potential for discrimination and digital…
If you’re interested in connecting with the Berkman Klein Center's research, community, and events, or are just generally interested in digital technologies and their impact on…
metaLAB AI Art Exhibition, Lightbox Gallery, Harvard Art Museums
metaLAB exhibits five new artistic projects playfully and critically engaging different aspects of Artificial Intelligence at Harvard Art Museum's Lightbox Gallery from August 8…
