Weekly Events and Digital Media Roundup

BERKMAN CENTER FOR INTERNET & SOCIETY AT HARVARD UNIVERSITY
August 26, 2009 // Upcoming events and digital media

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[1] [SAVE THE DATE 9/8/09] Berkman Center Open House (http://cyber.harvard.edu/events/2009/09/openhouse)

BERKMAN CENTER OPEN HOUSE
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Tuesday, 9/8/09, 7:00PM
Harvard Law School, Pound Hall Room 102
Followed by a reception at the Berkman Center's offices, 23 Everett Street, Second Floor
Free and Open to the Public

Tell us if you're coming or see who is planning to attend on Facebook (Optional): http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=141101864621

Come to our Open House to meet Berkman faculty, fellows, and staff and to learn about the many ways you can get involved and learn with our dynamic, exciting environment.

As a University-wide research center at Harvard University, our interdisciplinary efforts in the exploration of cyberspace address a diverse range of backgrounds and experiences. If you're interested in the Internet’s impact on society and are looking to engage a community of world-class fellows and faculty through events, conversations, case studies, and more please join us to hear more about our upcoming academic year!

Paid research assistant positions will also be available in the fall. In addition to Berkman courses and events, these positions provide a wonderful way to join our community. People from all disciplines and universities are encouraged to attend the Open House to learn about Berkman opportunities. As a primer, visit http://cyber.harvard.edu/getinvolved/internships to see currently available positions.

More information here: http://cyber.harvard.edu/events/2009/09/openhouse and http://cyber.harvard.edu/getinvolved/internships

Map to Pound Hall: http://map.harvard.edu/level3.cfm?mapname=camb_allston&tile=F6&quadrant=C&series=N

OTHER EVENTS OF NOTE
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[1] 9/10-11/09 *TMI: Social Justice in the Age of Facebook (*TMI: Too Much Information) // International Center for Ethics, Justice, and Public Life, Brandeis University (http://www.brandeis.edu/ethics/events/index.html)

[2] Gov 2.0 Summit (http://www.gov2summit.com), happening September 9-10 at the Grand Hyatt Washington in Washington D.C., is a non-partisan forum co-produced by O'Reilly Media and TechWeb that seeks to advance an agenda of participation, collaboration and transparency among government, industry, and non-profit leaders.

This senior-level event seeks to help bring the principles and technologies of Web 2.0 to bear in the practice of governing and features an all-star roster of speakers including Vivek Kundra, Casey Coleman, Aneesh Chopra, John Podesta, Macon Phillips, Generals Jeffrey Sorenson and Nikolas Justice, Lena Trudeau, Vinton Cerf, Jack Dorsey, and more. See the complete schedule at: http://www.gov2summit.com/gov2009/public/schedule/grid

DIGITAL MEDIA: Watch and Listen
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Did you miss this week's luncheon talk? Catch up with Berkman videos, podcasts, pictures, and dig in to our archive at http://cyber.harvard.edu/interactive.

-RADIO BERKMAN: Tweeting a Dead Horse
(http://cyber.harvard.edu/interactive/podcasts/radioberkman128)

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BERKMAN CALENDAR & UPCOMING EVENTS PREVIEW
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See our events calendar if you're curious about future luncheons, discussions, lectures, conferences, and more: http://cyber.harvard.edu/events. All of our events are free and open to the public, unless otherwise noted.

ABOUT US
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The Berkman Center for Internet & Society at Harvard University was founded to explore cyberspace, share in its study, and help pioneer its development. For more information, visit http://cyber.harvard.edu.