Lost in the splinternet | The Economist
Urs Gasser, executive director at the Berkman Klein Centre for Internet & Society at Harvard Law School, says that the existing system of international co-operation is becoming overwhelmed.
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What Surveillance Will Look Like in the Future – The Atlantic, November 2016 Issue
Will paranoia reduce misbehavior, or will humans be humans and maintain our blithe and blundering ways? “It’s hard to change our daily habits,” says Jonathan Zittrain, a co-founder of Harvard’s Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society. Source: What Surveillance … Continue reading
Addicted to Your iPhone? You’re Not Alone – The Atlantic, November 2016 Issue
Yet he’s amassed a network of volunteers keen to get involved, thanks in part to his frequent cameos on the thought-leader speaker circuit, including talks at Harvard’s Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society; the O’Reilly Design Conference; an internal meeting of Facebook designers; and a TEDx event, whose video has been viewed more than 1 million times online.
Source: Addicted to Your iPhone? You’re Not Alone – The Atlantic
Could Google influence the presidential election? | Science | AAAS
Jonathan Zittrain, a professor of law and computer science at Harvard University, has written about Facebook’s unique ability to mobilize voters by placing reminders in their newsfeeds.
Source: Could Google influence the presidential election? | Science | AAAS
New Strategies for Securing Our Private Lives – Lawfare
Jonathan Zittrain is the George Bemis Professor of International Law at Harvard Law School and the Harvard Kennedy School of Government, Professor of Computer Science at the Harvard School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Director of the Harvard Law School Library, and co-founder of the Berkman Center for Internet & Society.
Source: New Strategies for Securing Our Private Lives – Lawfare
Democrats Raised More Than $13,000 To Reopen A Firebombed Republican Office – BuzzFeed News
Zeynep Tufekci of the University of North Carolina’s School of Information Science first tweeted about Democrats helping the GOP office, and David Weinberger of Harvard’s Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Technology later launched a campaign on GoFundMe. Source: Democrats … Continue reading
Democrats raise funds for GOP after North Carolina headquarters firebombed | Fox News
The campaign was created by David Weinberger, a research fellow at the Berkman Center for Internet and Society at Harvard Law School.
Source: Democrats raise funds for GOP after North Carolina headquarters firebombed | Fox News
Democrats raise money for firebombed GOP headquarters through GoFundMe – Metro
David Weinberger, a senior researcher at Harvard University’s Berkman Klein Center for Internet and Society and a Brookline resident, launched a GoFundMe page Sunday as a way for Democrats to raise cash to help the North Carolina GOP reopen its office.
Source: Democrats raise money for firebombed GOP headquarters through GoFundMe – Metro