Upcoming Events and Digital Media Roundup

BERKMAN CENTER FOR INTERNET & SOCIETY AT HARVARD UNIVERSITY
November 25, 2009 // Upcoming events and digital media

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[1] [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)

[2] [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)

[3] [WEDNESDAY 12/2/09] Harvard-MIT-Yale Cyberscholar Working Group with Berkman Fellow Donnie Hao Dong and David Singh Grewal, Junior Fellow at the Harvard Society of Fellows, and an Affiliated Fellow at the Information Society Project at Yale Law School (http://cyber.harvard.edu/events/cyberscholars/2009/12/harvard)

[4] [SAVE THE DATE 12/7/09] Berkman Book Release: "Enterprise 2.0; The State of An Art" with Berkman Fellow Andrew McAfee (http://cyber.harvard.edu/events/2009/12/mcafee)

[MONDAY] 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.

About Marshall:

Marshall Van Alstyne is an Associate Professor at Boston University and Research Scientist at MIT. He received a BA from Yale, and MS & PhD degrees from MIT. He has made significant contributions to the field of information economics, covering such topics as communications markets, the economics of networks, intellectual property, social effects of technology, and productivity effects of information. He designed and implemented one of the first projects to measure the dollar output of individual information workers. He coauthored the first proof that a market mechanism could reduce spam and create more value for users than even a perfect filter.

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

[TUESDAY] BERKMAN LUNCHEON SERIES on TEACHING TEENS TO TWITTER
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12/1/09, 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.

About Rey:

Dr. Rey Junco is an Associate Professor and the Director of Disability Services in the Department of Academic Development and Counseling at Lock Haven University. Dr. Junco received his doctoral degree in Counselor Education with a focus on Student Development, and his Master’s degree in Clinical Psychology from Pennsylvania State University.

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

[WEDNESDAY] HARVARD-MIT-YALE CYBERSCHOLAR WORKING GROUP
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12/2/09, 6:00 PM ET, Berkman Center Conference Room @ 23 Everett St., Cambridge, MA
RSVP is required for those attending in person (herkko.hietanen@hiit.fi).

Donnie Hao Dong is a Fellow at Berkman Center and a Lecturer at Yunnan University (PRC). His research interests cover copyright law, cyber law and law and social development in digital age. He got a JSD from China University of Polictics and Law with his dissertation on the public domain in the context of Chinese copyright law. Now Donnie is a PhD Candidate in City University of Hong Kong closing his research on the lessons of Chinese copyright reform for digital age. His publications, short essays and nags can be accessed at http://www.BLawgDog.com.

David Singh Grewal is a Junior Fellow at the Harvard Society of Fellows, and an Affiliated Fellow at the Information Society Project at Yale Law School. His first book, Network Power: The Social Dynamics of Globalization was published by Yale University Press in 2008. He holds a JD from Yale, and is currently completing his PhD in the Harvard Government department, where he is finishing his dissertation, "The Invention of the Economy." He is also on the board of the Biobricks Foundation, a non-profit working to develop an open-source platform for the emerging field of synthetic biology.

MIT presenter to be announced.

Donnie Dong is going to present his studies of how the Utilitarian copyright of western word collides with Chinese copyright law.

David will examine the question of: Is there a way to bring "free culture" into biotechnology? His talk will explore one recent effort to do so: the creation of the Biobricks Public Agreement, a legal mechanism meant to assist the development of an open, shared platform in the emerging area of synthetic biology.

For more information and a complete description, see the event web page: http://cyber.harvard.edu/events/cyberscholars/2009/12/harvard

BERKMAN BOOK RELEASE on ENTERPRISE 2.0: THE STATE OF AN ART with ANDREW MCAFEE
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12/7/09, 6:00 PM ET, Pound Hall Room 102, Harvard Law School
Free and Open to the Public
RSVP required via the form on this page: http://cyber.harvard.edu/events/2009/12/mcafee

Berkman fellow, MIT Scientist (http://ebusiness.mit.edu/), blogger (http://andrewmcafee.org/blog/), and tweeter (http://twitter.com/amcafee) Andrew McAfee will talk about his new book "Enterprise 2.0: New Collaborative Tools for Your Organization's Toughest Challenges". He'll open with a few prepared remarks about the book's topic: how the tools and philosophies of Web 2.0 are making their way into organizations (even traditional ones). We'll then open up the session for discussion.

Copies of the book will be available for purchase.

About Andrew:

Andrew McAfee studies the ways that information technology (IT) affects businesses and business as a whole. His research investigates how IT changes the way companies perform, organize themselves, and compete. At a higher level, his work also investigates how computerization affects competition itself – the struggle among rivals for dominance and survival within an industry.

He coined the phrase “Enterprise 2.0” in a spring 2006 Sloan Management Review article to describe the use of Web 2.0 tools and approaches by businesses. He also began blogging at that time, both about Enterprise 2.0 and about his other research. McAfee’s blog is widely read, becoming at times one of the 10,000 most popular in the world (according to Technorati). He also maintains a Facebook profile and Twitter account.

McAfee’s book on Enterprise 2.0 will be published in 2009 by Harvard Business School Press.

For more information and a complete description, see the event web page: http://cyber.harvard.edu/events/2009/12/mcafee

OTHER EVENTS OF NOTE
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[1] 12/2/09: Ignite Spatial Boston (http://isb09.eventbrite.com/)

[2] 12/5/09: The Future of the Forum: Internet Communities and the Public Interest // UC Berkeley (http://bcnm.berkeley.edu/fotf/)

[3] 12/7/09: Web Innovators Group (http://www.webinnovatorsgroup.com/)

[4] 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 BIG DATA, GLOBAL DEVELOPMENT, and COMPLEX SOCIAL SYSTEMS with NATHAN EAGLE (http://cyber.harvard.edu/interactive/events/luncheons/2009/11/eagle)

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

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

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