Upcoming Events and Digital Media Roundup

BERKMAN CENTER FOR INTERNET & SOCIETY AT HARVARD UNIVERSITY
April 28, 2010 // Upcoming events and digital media

[1] [TODAY 4/28] Web of Ideas: "The Power of Pull: How Small Moves, Smartly Made, Can Set Big Things in Motion" with David Weinberger in conversation with John Hagel III (http://cyber.harvard.edu/events/2010/04/powerofpull)

[2] [THURSDAY 4/29] "Taming Multiplicity in the Post-Print Era: Law Librarians, Legal Scholarship, and Access to the Law" with Richard A. Danner, Senior Associate Dean for Information Services and Archibald C. and Frances Fulk Rufty Research Professor Of Law at Duke Law School (http://cyber.harvard.edu/events/2010/04/danner)

[3] [FRIDAY-SATURDAY 4/30-5/1] ROFLCon II at MIT (http://cyber.harvard.edu/events/2010/04/roflcon)

[4] [TUESDAY 5/4] Berkman Center Luncheon Series: "My Way: Youtube Performance and Remaking" with Amie Siegel, Harvard Visual and Environmental Studies (http://cyber.harvard.edu/events/luncheon/05/27/siegel)

[5] [WEDNESDAY 5/5] CRCS Lunch Seminar: "CRCS Seminar: Would a ‘Cyber Warrior’ Protect Us? Exploring Trade-offs Between Attack and Defense of Information Systems" with CRCS Fellow Allan Friedman (http://cyber.harvard.edu/events/2010/05/friedman)

[6] [WEDNESDAY 5/5] Harvard-MIT-Yale Cyberscholar Working Group with Jeffrey Warren on "Grassroots Mapping Projects"; Nicholas Bramble on "A Diverse and Antagonistic Information Age?"; and David Abrams on "YouTube's Copyright Downfall" (http://cyber.harvard.edu/events/cyberscholars/2010/05/berkman)

[SAVE THE DATE 6/28-30] You are invited to the COMMUNIA 2010 Conference on "University in Cyberspace", taking place in Torino, Italy. Visit http://www.communia2010.org/ to learn more and sign up for the announcement list.


[TODAY] WEB OF IDEAS on THE POWER OF PULL
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4/28/10, 6:00 PM ET, Pound Hall 2nd Floor John Chipman Gray Room, Harvard Law School
RSVP is required via the form on the website: http://cyber.harvard.edu/events/2010/04/powerofpull
Refreshments served

Topic: The Power of Pull: How Small Moves, Smartly Made, Can Set Big Things in Motion
Guest: David Weinberger in conversation with John Hagel III

Join us for a discussion on The Power of Pull, a new book from authors John Hagel III, John Seely Brown, and Lang Davison on how "pull" can be more systematically used to shape serendipity.

As part of the Web of Ideas discussion series at the Berkman Center, David Weinberger will interview John Hagel III on The Power of Pull, and offer a deep dive into many of the themes addressed in the book.

From the publisher:

THE POWER OF PULL: How Small Moves, Smartly Made, Can Set Big Things in Motion (Basic Books; April 2010 by John Hagel III, John Seely Brown, and Lang Davison) goes beyond the surface events that are often distractions and examines the deep forces reshaping our world. Drawing on stories and examples from around the world, the authors show us how pull can be more systematically used to shape serendipity. They show that what we thought we knew about pull is just the tip of the iceberg, obscuring the real power of pull. Pull can bring us together in new ways to drive more rapid performance improvement (in such diverse arenas as extreme surfing and large scale business networks emerging in China) and provide powerful platforms to more fully achieve our potential. The authors also provide us with pragmatic migration paths to aid us in getting from where we are today to where we need to be in a world of pull.

The book brings a tight, logical, structure to this transformed world. The authors identify and explain three waves of change, three levels of pull that are becoming central to success and three elements of the journey we all need to make in order to understand and master pull.

For more information, see: http://cyber.harvard.edu/events/2010/04/powerofpull


[THURSDAY] TAMING MULTIPLICITY IN THE POST PRINT ERA
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4/29/10, 12:30 PM ET, Lamont Forum Room, Lamont Library
RSVP requested http://tinyurl.com/dannertalk
Sponsored by the Harvard Law School Library, the Office for Scholarly Communication, and the Berkman Center

Topic: Taming Multiplicity in the Post-Print Era: Law Librarians, Legal Scholarship, and Access to the Law
Guest: Richard A. Danner, Senior Associate Dean for Information Services and Archibald C. and Frances Fulk Rufty Research Professor Of Law at Duke Law School

Professor Richard Danner has been at the forefront of the open access to legal scholarship movement and has also recently written about the role of academic law librarians in supporting faculty scholarship. He will discuss "Taming Multiplicity in the Post-Print Era: Law Librarians, Legal Scholarship, and Access to the Law".

See the following for examples of his scholarship that might be of interest:

* http://scholarship.law.duke.edu/faculty_scholarship/2071/
* http://scholarship.law.duke.edu/working_papers/1/
* http://scholarship.law.duke.edu/faculty_scholarship/1698/

For more information, see: http://cyber.harvard.edu/events/2010/04/danner


[TUESDAY] BERKMAN LUNCHEON SERIES on YOUTUBE PERFORMANCE AND REMAKING
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5/4/10, 12:30 PM ET, Berkman Center Conference Room @ 23 Everett St., Cambridge, MA
RSVP is required for those attending in person to Amar Ashar (ashar@cyber.harvard.edu)
This event will be webcast live

Topic: My Way: Youtube Performance and Remaking
Guest: Amie Siegel, Harvard Visual and Environmental Studies

Artist Amie Siegel will discuss and show works from her "My Way" series. Her videos appropriate amateur performance videos posted on Youtube, reconstructing how image posting and response -- and the online communities dedicated to their propagation -- performs the mass-identified narrative of individualism that capitalism proposes. The "My Way" videos reveal issues of gender-specificity, sexual orientation, race, globalization and marketing within the larger codings of belonging and isolation, sameness and difference this vast aggregation of online video documents evokes.

About Amie:

Amie Siegel is Assistant Professor of Visual and Environmental Studies at Harvard University.

Born 1974 in Chicago, Illinois, Amie lives and works in Berlin, New York and Cambridge, MA. She received her MFA from The School of the Art Institute of Chicago and BA from Bard College.

Amie Siegel works variously in 16mm and 35mm film, video, sound and writing. Siegel uses the cinematic image as material means to a conceptual end. Her work mines the voyeuristic gaze, direct address and interview to consider how these repetitions shape cultural memory. In multi-channel video and film installations, Siegel reformulates cinematic enterprises—including the establishing shot, the remake and the tracking shot—as uncanny reflections on absence, historical disorientation and nostalgia. Longer videos and feature films move between spontaneous and scripted spaces, truth and fiction, shifting performance from identification to parody and estrangement.

This event will be webcast live; for more information and a complete description, see the event web page: http://cyber.harvard.edu/events/luncheon/05/27/siegel


[FRIDAY-SATURDAY] ROFLCON II
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4/30-5/1/10, MIT, Cambridge, MA

From the ROFLCon website:

"Another two days and two nights of the most epic internet culture conference ever assembled. Informed commentators suggest that this may be the most important gathering of humanity since the fall of the tower of Babel."

For more information, see: http://cyber.harvard.edu/events/2010/04/roflcon


[WEDNESDAY] CRCS SEMINAR on WOULD A 'CYBER WARRIOR' PROTECT US
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5/5/10, 11:45 AM, Maxwell Dworkin 2nd Floor Area

Topic: CRCS Seminar: Would a ‘Cyber Warrior’ Protect Us? Exploring Trade-offs Between Attack and Defense of Information Systems
Guest: Allan Friedman, CRCS Fellow

As information security shifts from the realm of computer science to national security, the priority for safe and secure systems will be balanced against the appeal of using information insecurity as a strategic asset. In“cyber war”, those tasked with defending friendly computer networks are also expected to exploit enemy networks. This paper presents two game-theoretic models of vulnerability discovery and exploitation, where nations must choose between protecting themselves by sharing vulnerability information with ven- dors or pursuing an offensive advantage while remaining at risk. One game describes a cold war of stockpiling, the other allows for actual attack. In both models, we predict that at least one state will have an incentive to pursue an aggressive cyber war posture, rather than secure its own systems. This finding – that a mutually defensive approach to security is not a stable equilibrium – holds up under a range of assumptions about social risk of cybercrime, technical so- phistication, military aggressiveness and the likelihood of vulnerability rediscovery. We conclude with a discussion of the security policy implications of a militarized cyberspace.

About Allan:

Allan Friedman is a post-doctoral fellow at the Center for Research in Computation and Society at Harvard's School of Engineering and Applied Sciences.

For more information and a complete description, see the event web page: http://cyber.harvard.edu/events/2010/05/friedman


[WEDNESDAY] CYBERSCHOLARS
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5/5/10, 6:00PM, Berkman Center Conference Room, 23 Everett St., 2nd Fl, Cambridge
Please RSVP to Herkko Hietanen at hietanen@cyber.harvard.edu before 5/3/10
Dinner provided

The "Harvard-MIT-Yale Cyberscholar Working Group" is a forum for fellows and affiliates of the Comparative Media Studies Program at MIT, Yale Law School Information Society Project, and the Berkman Center for Internet & Society at Harvard Law School to discuss their ongoing research. Each session is focused on the peer review and discussion of current projects submitted by a presenter. Meeting alternatively at Harvard, MIT, Yale, the working group aims to expand the shared knowledge of young scholars by bringing together these preeminent centers of thought on issues confronting the information age. Discussion sessions are designed to facilitate advancements in the individual research of presenters and in turn encourage exposure among the participants to the multi-disciplinary features of the issues addressed by their own work.

At this installment of cyberscholars, Jeffrey Warren will talk about "Grassroots Mapping Projects"; Nicholas Bramble will discuss "A Diverse and Antagonistic Information Age?"; and David Abrams will present on "YouTube's Copyright Downfall".

For more information and a complete description, see the event web page: http://cyber.harvard.edu/events/cyberscholars/2010/05/berkman


[SAVE THE DATE] COMMUNIA 2010 CONFERENCE: UNIVERSITY IN CYBERSPACE
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6/28-30/10, Politecnico di Torino, Torino, Italy

Universities are entrusted with the increasingly important responsibility of creating, sharing, and fostering use of knowledge on behalf of society, and to that end, are the recipients of tremendous investments of time, money, space, authority and freedom. Universities have embraced this role in diverse fashions, varying by tradition, period, and discipline, but we now ask them to go further. As we progress ever more deeply into a networked age, our knowledge institutions are faced with concomitant opportunities. They are challenged by society to become a driving force to create and disseminate knowledge - using innovative, effective, and dynamic approaches - derived from and for the networked world.

The COMMUNIA 2010 International Conference will provide a venue for exploring these points, with the twofold objective of defining a shared vision of the future of universities as knowledge institutions and of identifying the main steps leading from vision to reality.

To learn more and sign up for the announcements list, please visit http://www.communia2010.org/.


OTHER EVENTS OF NOTE
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[1] 4/28: Berkman Infrastructure Seminar "The Information Channel as a Social Signal" with Karrie Karahalios (http://cyber.harvard.edu/infra/)

[2] 4/28-30: Futureweb (http://futureweb2010.wordpress.com/)

[3] 4/28-4/30: FutureWeb: WWWhere Are We Heading? // North Carolina (http://futureweb2010.wordpress.com/)

[4] 4/30: Unruly Democracy: Science Blogs and the Public Sphere // Harvard Kennedy School (http://www.hks.harvard.edu/sts/events/workshops/unrulydemocracy.html)

[5] 5/4: NERCOMP: Copyright and IP for Image Use (http://www.nercomp.org/events/event_single.aspx?id=6005)

[6] 5/6-7: Global Voices Citizen Media Summit // Santiago, Chile (http://summit2010.globalvoicesonline.org/)

[7] 5/6-7: Politics of Open Source Conference // UMass (http://politicsofopensource.jitp.net/)

[8] 5/11: Free Press Summit // Washington, DC (http://summit.freepress.net/)

[9] 5/18: Music 2.0: Tools + Tech for Musicians, Marketers + Managers // MS NERD Center (http://music2.eventbrite.com/ )

[10] 6/8: Intelligence Squared Debate: The Cyber War Threat Has Been Grossly Exaggerated (featuring Berkman Faculty Co-Director Jonathan Zittrain) (http://intelligencesquaredus.org/index.php/debates/cyber-war-threat-has-been-grossly-exaggerated/)


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: LUIS VON AHN on "Human Computation" (http://cyber.harvard.edu/interactive/events/luncheon/2010/04/vonahn)

-Radio Berkman 150: Regarding a Cease-Fire on Piracy with JOE KARAGANIS of the Social Science Research Council (http://cyber.harvard.edu/interactive/podcasts/radioberkman150)

-Video Recap of "Journalism's Digital Transition" conference (http://www.citmedialaw.org/blog/2010/video-recap-cmlps-april-9th-conference-journalisms-digital-transition)


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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.

6/28-6/30: COMMUNIA Conference 2010: Universities & the commons/cyberspace (http://cyber.harvard.edu/node/5608)


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