Upcoming Events and Digital Media Roundup

BERKMAN CENTER FOR INTERNET & SOCIETY AT HARVARD UNIVERSITY
October 28, 2009 // Upcoming events and digital media

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[1] [MONDAY 11/2/09] CRCS Lunch Seminar "Programming with Authorization and Audit " with Jeff Vaughan (http://cyber.harvard.edu/node/5736)

[2] [TUESDAY 11/3/09] Berkman Center Luncheon Series: "From Broadcast to Broadband: Redesigning public media for the 21st century" with Ellen Goodman of Rutgers University School of Law & Jake Shapiro, Executive Director, Public Radio Exchange (PRX) (http://cyber.harvard.edu/events/luncheon/2009/11/shapiro)

[3] [TUESDAY 11/3/09] Harvard-MIT-Yale Cyberscholar Working Group: "A Digital Democracy Debate" with Matthew Hindman and Micah Sifry at Yale University (http://cyber.harvard.edu/events/cyberscholars/2009/11/yale)

[MONDAY] CRCS LUNCHEON SEMINAR
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11/2/09, 11:45 AM ET, Maxwell Dworkin 2nd Floor
Topic: CRCS Lunch Seminar: Programming with Authorization and Audit
Guest: Jeff Vaughan, Harvard CRCS

Standard programming models do not provide direct ways of managing secret or untrusted data. This is a problem because programmers must use ad hoc methods to ensure that secrets are not leaked and, conversely, that tainted data is not used to make critical decisions. This talk will advocate integrating cryptography and language-based analyses in order to build programming environments for declarative information security, in which high-level specifications of confidentiality and integrity constraints are automatically enforced in hostile execution environments.

I will introduce describes Aura, a family of programing languages, which integrate functional programming, access control via authorization logic, automatic audit logging, and confidentially via encryption. Aura’s programming model marries an expressive, principled way to specify security policies with a practical policy-enforcement methodology that is well-suited for auditing access grants and protecting secrets.

For more information and a complete description, see the event web page: http://cyber.harvard.edu/node/5736

[TUESDAY] BERKMAN LUNCHEON SERIES on FROM BROADCAST TO BROADBAND
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11/3/09, 12:30 PM ET, Berkman Center Conference Room @ 23 Everett St., Cambridge, MA
RSVP is required for those attending in person (rsvp@cyber.harvard.edu).
This event will be webcast live.

Topic: From Broadcast to Broadband: Redesigning public media for the 21st century
Guest: Ellen Goodman of Rutgers University School of Law & Jake Shapiro, Executive Director, Public Radio Exchange (PRX)

A robust system of public media is of critical importance for sustaining and enriching democratic practices and social advancement. By connecting individuals to each other and to important public discourses, public media can advance democratic capabilities, empower publics to communicate and organize, and support the production and distribution of valued media content.

Public media can be understood as operating across four dimensions: (1) Public media supplement the commercial media market with content and services designed intentionally to meet social, not market, needs. (2) Public media leverage investments in educational, cultural and other civil society functions by linking to and supporting those functions. (3) Public media operate in a decentralized manner, emphasizing local connections, to provide access and voice to underserved populations. (4) Public media also centralize media production and distribution efforts through networks and collaboration.

What exactly the goals of public media should be in the new digital communications environment, how these goals should be achieved, and how each of the four dimensions of public media should be stretched are open and pressing questions. For reasons external and internal to public media entities, the next several years will be crucial in determining whether the United States has a system of public media that is able to support the kinds of widespread, high value, noncommercial, and productive communications essential for democratic functions. As policymakers focus more intensively on broadband policy, they will need the perspectives of public media stakeholders to fashion systems that support content production and citizen engagement as well as inclusive technological infrastructure.

This event will be webcast live; for more information and a complete description, see the event web page: http://cyber.harvard.edu/events/luncheon/2009/11/shapiro

[TUESDAY] HARVARD-MIT-YALE CYBERSCHOLAR WORKING GROUP
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11/3/09, 6:00 PM ET, Yale University Law School, Room 112
RSVP is required for those attending in person to bjp2108@columbia.edu.

Topic: A Digital Democracy Debate
Guest: Matthew Hindman and Micah Sifry

This workshop offers a forum for debating the signal claim of Matthew Hindman that digital democracy, as most online commentators know it, is a myth. The forum builds on Hindman's afternoon talk at Yale Law School titled "The Elephant and the Butterfly: Audience Size and the Political Economy of he Web." All in attendance are invited to read chapters four, five, and seven from Hindman's The Myth of Digital Democracy. A second piece "Closing the Frontier: Political Blogs, the 2008 Election, and the Online Public Sphere" will be forwarded to anyone who reserves as spot, as requested, from Ben Peters at bjp2108@columbia.edu.

Matthew Hindman (PhD in Politics, Princeton) is Assistant Professor at Arizona State University and author of The Myth of Digital Democracy.

Micah Sifry is co-founder of the annual Personal Democracy Forum conference on technology and politics, and editor of the award winning group blog Tech President, which covers how politicians are using the web, and how the web is using them.

For more information and a complete description, see the event web page: http://cyber.harvard.edu/events/cyberscholars/2009/11/yale

OTHER EVENTS OF NOTE
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[1] 10/28/09: Computer Science Colloquium: Interdisciplinarity in the Age of Networks (http://www.bu.edu/phpbin/calendar/event.php?id=92927&cid=17&oid=0)

[2] 10/29/09: The Science of Human and Machine Consciousness (http://www.neuphi.com/index.php/meetings/meeting/meeting_25/)

[3] 10/29-11/1/09: Free Culture Forum: Organization and Action // Barcelona, Spain (http://fcforum.net/)

[4] 10/30/09: Maasai: At the Crossroads with Professor Calestous Juma // Harvard University (http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=177381475497&index=1)

[5] 11/5/09: MIT Communications Forum: What's New at the Center for Future Civic Media // MIT (http://civic.mit.edu/event/communications-forum-whats-new-at-the-center-for-future-civic-media)

[6] 11/12-14: The Internet as Playground and Factory Conference // New School (http://digitallabor.org/)

[7] 11/10/09: A National Initiative for Technology-Mediated Social Participation // MIT Center for Collective Intelligence (http://cci.mit.edu/shneiderman.html)

[8] 11/17/09: David Weinberger at the Ethos Roundtable (http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=92474922615)

[9] 12/2/09: Ignite Spatial Boston (http://isb09.eventbrite.com/)

[10] 12/5/09: The Future of the Forum: Internet Communities and the Public Interest // UC Berkeley (http://bcnm.berkeley.edu/fotf/)

[11] 12/8/09: The library is dead. Long live the library! The rebirth of libraries in the 21st century (with Berkman Faculty Co-Director John Palfrey) // Cambridge, MA (http://neasist.eventbrite.com/)

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.

-Communication and Human Development: The Freedom Connection with AMARTYA SEN, MICHAEL SPENCE, YOCHAI BENKLER, CLOTILDE FONSECA, and MIKE BEST: http://cyber.harvard.edu/interactive/events/2009/09/idrc/idrcpanel and also on YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7uuanAaV5Y0&feature=player_profilepage

-Berkman Luncheon Series on WALLED GARDENS with ELIZABETH GOODMAN (http://cyber.harvard.edu/interactive/events/luncheons/2009/10/goodman)

-DELETE: THE VIRTUE OF FORGETTING IN THE DIGITAL AGE with VIKTOR MAYER-SCHONBERGER (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XwxVA0UMwLY)

-Berkman Luncheon Series on MAPPING MAIN STREET (http://cyber.harvard.edu/interactive/events/luncheons/2009/10/mapping)

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