New HLS Course with Professors Benkler and Palfrey

HLS has just announced the addition of a new seminar to be taught by Professors Yochai Benkler and John Palfrey - The Networked Public Sphere and the Elections of 2008.  Open to HLS students and unique in its mode and method, you can read about it and learn how to apply below.

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There is substantial theoretical and empirical debate over whether the networked public sphere improves the degree of participation in democratic discourse, undermines its quality, or matters little. As we enter a presidential election year, the Berkman Center for Internet and Society is offering a research program to follow the use of both Internet-based and traditional media.

This is a seminar for political junkies, an opportunity to engage in your passions, in a structured way, for credit. The seminar will offer one classroom credits in the Spring of 2008, and one credit in the Fall of 2008. It will meet, read, and discuss background readings on the debates over the networked public sphere early in the Spring of 2008, and discuss research targets and methods. Thereafter, we will meet bi-weekly to hear research reports and refine methods and targets. The product required from each participant will be one or more research reports on the subjects their observation. The seminar will require substantially more hands-on research and writing, and less formal reading and meeting, than seminars commonly do. The seminar is by-permission of the instructors.

To apply email Seth Young  with a CV and a short statement of interest.