Upcoming Events and Digital Media Roundup

BERKMAN CENTER FOR INTERNET & SOCIETY AT HARVARD UNIVERSITY
November 19, 2009 // Upcoming events and digital media

[1] [MONDAY 11/23/09] CRCS Lunch Seminar: Media Cloud and Quantitative News Media Analysis with Ethan Zuckerman and Hal Roberts (http://cyber.harvard.edu/events/2009/11/mediacloud)

[2] [TUESDAY 11/24/09] Berkman Center Luncheon Series on "#iranelection: The digital media response to the 2009 Iranian election & the birth of a new global movement for digital freedom" with Cameran Ashraf and Brett Solomon (http://cyber.harvard.edu/events/luncheon/2009/11/iranelection)

[3] [MONDAY 11/30/09] Law Lab Speaker Series: The Social Efficiency of Fairness with Marshall van Alstyne (http://cyber.harvard.edu/events/lawlab/2009/11/alstyne)

[4] [TUESDAY 12/1/09] Berkman Center Luncheon Series: "Teaching Teens to Twitter: Supporting Engagement in the College Classroom" with Rey Junco, Associate Professor and the Director of Disability Services in the Department of Academic Development and Counseling at Lock Haven University (http://cyber.harvard.edu/events/luncheon/2009/12/junco)

[MONDAY] CRCS LUNCH SEMINAR
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11/23/09, 11:45 AM
Maxwell Dworkin Room 119

Topic: CRCS Lunch Seminar: Media Cloud and Quantitative News Media Analysis
Guests: Ethan Zuckerman and Hal Roberts

The rapid rise of participatory media technologies – weblogs, social networks, microblogging, video sharing sites – are transforming the news media landscape, reshaping how ideas are spread. Much of the early research on the influence of participatory media on existing institutions focuses on specific, successful cases where media frames developed online influenced offline media. Our project seeks to complement this work with tools to facilitate quantitative analysis of the relationship between media sources. We will present our prototype system to retrieve, tag, cluster and analyze blog and newspaper data, and discuss how the Media Cloud platform will be used in our future experiments, and can be used by other researchers to analyze patterns of influence in news media.

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

BERKMAN LUNCHEON SERIES on #iranelection
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11/24/09, 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: #iranelection: The digital media response to the 2009 Iranian election & the birth of a new global movement for digital freedom

Guest: Cameran Ashraf, Adjunct Faculty member in the Department of Geography and Anthropology at California State University, Pomona & Brett Solomon, recently Campaign Director at Avaaz.org and Executive Director at GetUp.org.au

The ability of social and digital media to play a crucial role in helping mass social movements coordinate and communicate effectively has been highlighted by the recent post-election unrest in Iran. Due to the borderless nature of digital communications, the resources available to many activists can now be global in scale and supported by virtually instantaneous communication. Some governments have taken notice of this borderless nature and the potential threat it poses. To limit communications within and with the outside world they have erected their own border in the form of firewalls, monitoring mechanisms and internet filtering systems.

With Iran as a case study, this presentation will explore the role new communication technologies are playing in the post-election unrest, how people outside of Iran are helping through digital media, and the Iranian government's efforts at maintaining its information border.

Working with existing projects and movements in the field, a new ongoing movement for digital freedom is forming (accessnow.org), rallying digital activists and ordinary online citizens around the world, to assist political freedom movements and civil society who are being shut out from their rights to information, political expression and assembly.

This event will be webcast live; for more information and a complete description, see the event web page: http://cyber.harvard.edu/events/luncheon/2009/12/junco

LAW LAB SPEAKER SERIES on THE SOCIAL EFFICIENCY OF FAIRNESS
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11/30/09, 12:30 PM ET, Berkman Center Conference Room @ 23 Everett St., Cambridge, MA
RSVP is required for those attending in person (kglemaud@cyber.harvard.edu).
This event will be webcast live.

Topic: The Social Efficiency of Fairness
Guest: Marshall Van Alstyne, Associate Professor at Boston University and Research Scientist at MIT

Property rights provide incentives to create information but they also provide incentives to hoard it prior to the award of protection. All-or-nothing rights, in particular, limit prior sharing. An unintended consequence is to slow, not hasten, forward progress when innovation hinges on combining disparately owned private ideas. In response, we propose a solution, based on a reward definition of "fairness,'' that unblocks innovation by increasing willingness to share private information.

We present three arguments. First, we show that fairness can increase the rate of innovation. Welfare can improve both in the absolute sense of enabling new projects and in the relative sense of reordering the social sort order of which projects agents prefer to undertake. Second, in contrast to models of "other regarding'' preferences, we show how self-interest alone is sufficient to justify fairness. Third, we argue that liability rather than property rules can be more conducive to innovation based on information reuse and recombination.

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

BERKMAN LUNCHEON SERIES on TEACHING TEENS TO TWITTER
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11/30/09, 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: Teaching Teens to Twitter: Supporting Engagement in the College Classroom
Guest: Rey Junco, Associate Professor and the Director of Disability Services in the Department of Academic Development and Counseling at Lock Haven University

Recent research has shown that social media use is correlated with indices of student engagement. While a relationship exists, no research has been conducted to elucidate the causal connection, if any, between engagement in social media spaces and engagement in the real world. This talk will outline an experimental study, currently underway, that assesses whether first-year college students’ use of Twitter affects student engagement and success.

This event will be webcast live; for more information and a complete description, see the event web page: http://cyber.harvard.edu/events/luncheon/2009/12/junco

OTHER EVENTS OF NOTE
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[1] 11/19/09: Cyber-Terrorism/Warfare - The Emergent Threat: Strategies for Survival // Boston University (https://secure-alumni.bu.edu/olc/pub/BUAR/events/event_order.cgi?tmpl=events&event=2237679)

[2] 11/19/09: Data Is the Network: Link or Die // Initiative in Innovative Computing (http://iic.harvard.edu/seminars/iic-colloquium-series-fall-2009-through-spring-2010/iic-colloquium-data-network-link-or-die)

[3] 11/19/09: Organizational and Societal Resilience as a Cybersecurity Strategy // MIT CSAIL (http://www.csail.mit.edu/events/eventcalendar/calendar.php?show=event&id=2433)

[4] 11/21-22/09: Music Hackday Boston // MS NERD (http://boston.musichackday.org/)

[5] 11/24/09: A Roundtable on Technology and Democracy with Lokman Tsui // Columbia University (http://collectivecommunicationscampus.wordpress.com/2009/11/11/a-roundtable-on-technology-and-democracy-at-columbia-nov-24/)

[6] 12/2/09: Ignite Spatial Boston (http://isb09.eventbrite.com/)

[7] 12/5/09: The Future of the Forum: Internet Communities and the Public Interest // UC Berkeley (http://bcnm.berkeley.edu/fotf/)

[8] 12/7/09: Web Innovators Group (http://www.webinnovatorsgroup.com/)

[9] 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.

-Berkman Luncheon Series on WHAT INFORMATION WAS with DAVID WEINBERGER (http://cyber.harvard.edu/interactive/events/luncheons/2009/11/weinberger)

-Berkman Luncheon Series on REDESIGNING PUBLIC MEDIA FOR THE 21st CENTURY (http://cyber.harvard.edu/interactive/events/luncheons/2009/11/prx)

-RADIO BERKMAN 136: The Garden and the Net (http://cyber.harvard.edu/interactive/podcasts/radioberkman136)

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