Upcoming Events and Digital Media Roundup

BERKMAN CENTER FOR INTERNET & SOCIETY AT HARVARD UNIVERSITY
May 12, 2010 // Upcoming events and digital media

[1] [TUESDAY 5/18] Berkman Center Luncheon Series: "Social Media Journalism and the Changing Roles of Journalists" with Miriam Meckel, Berkman Fellow (http://cyber.harvard.edu/events/luncheon/2010/05/meckel)

[2] [SAVE THE DATE 5/27] "The FCC's Authority Over Broadband Access" in Washington, DC. Co-hosted by the Berkman Center and the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania (http://cyber.harvard.edu/events/2010/05/broadband)

[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.


[TUESDAY] BERKMAN LUNCHEON SERIES on SOCIAL MEDIA JOURNALISM
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5/18/10, 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: Social Media Journalism and the Changing Roles of Journalists
Guest: Miriam Meckel

Technologies of participation empower everyone to engage in producing content on the web but also change the roles of professional journalism. By being able to explore these technologies, by establishing an individual personal brand and by combining traditional journalist's work with online research and contributions a new model of social media journalism is arising that has some substantial impact on agenda setting processes and opinion leadership on the web. The outline of the model is substantiated by a case study about journalists on Twitter during the period of protests in Iran 2009.

About Miriam:

Prof. Miriam Meckel, PhD., holds a professorship for Corporate Communication at the University of St. Gallen, Switzerland, and is the Managing Director of the Institute for Media and Communication Management (since 2005). She is also an adviser for Public Affairs and Business Communication.

This event will be webcast live; for more information and a complete description, see the event web page: http://cyber.harvard.edu/events/luncheon/2010/05/meckel


[THURSDAY 5/27] THE FCC'S AUTHORITY OVER BROADBAND ACCESS
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Co-hosted by the Berkman Center for Internet & Society at Harvard University, and the Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania
Thursday, May 27, 2010, 9:00am-12:30pm
National Press Club -- 529 14th Street, NW, Washington DC
Attendance is free, but space is limited. To register, visit http://cyber.harvard.edu/events/2010/05/broadband

On what basis, if any, does the FCC exercise jurisdiction over broadband access in pursuit of national goals? FCC Chairman Genachowski announced on May 6 that he intended to pursue a "Third Way" between the current "ancillary authority" approach and full imposition of Title II "telecommunications service" obligations on Internet providers. Just what does this approach mean for the future of broadband competition, Internet-based innovation, and the National Broadband Plan? At this non-partisan event, legal experts and former senior policy-makers will analyze how the U.S. arrived at this point, and what steps the FCC and other branches of government should take now.

Session 1: The History and Context of the Debate
- Moderator Kevin Werbach (The Wharton School, Univ. of Pennsylvania)
- John Nakahata (Partner, Wiltshire & Grannis; former Chief of Staff, FCC)
- Jessica Rosenworcel (Sr. Counsel, Senate Commerce Committee)
- John Windhausen (Telopoly; former Sr. Counsel, Senate Commerce Committee)

Session 2: The Third Way - What Happens Next?
- Moderator Kevin Werbach (The Wharton School, Univ. of Pennsylvania)
- Yochai Benkler (Harvard Law School)
- Susan Crawford (Univ. of Michigan Law School)
- James Speta (Northwestern University Law School)

Register and learn more by visiting http://cyber.harvard.edu/events/2010/05/broadband.


[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] 5/13: The Geopolitics of Cyberspace: From Militarization to Arms Control // MIT CSAIL (http://www.csail.mit.edu/events/eventcalendar/calendar.php?show=event&id=2636)

[2] 5/14: The Tethered Life: Technology Reshapes Intimacy and Solitude // Harvard Extension School (http://www.extension.harvard.edu/centennial/events/)

[3] 5/18: Music 2.0: Tools + Tech for Musicians, Marketers + Managers // MS NERD Center (http://music2.eventbrite.com/)

[4] 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.

-BETH NOVECK on Open and Transparent Government (http://cyber.harvard.edu/interactive/events/2010/04/noveck / http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3w6DTGhVHj0)

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

-DAVID WEINBERGER'S Web of Ideas: JOHN HAGEL on the Power of Pull (http://cyber.harvard.edu/interactive/events/2010/04/webofideas)

-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.

6/17: Law.gov: Massachusetts http://cyber.harvard.edu/events/2010/06/lawdotgovMA

6/18: Law.gov: Putting it All Together http://cyber.harvard.edu/events/2010/06/lawdotgov

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