Upcoming Events and Digital Media Roundup
BERKMAN CENTER FOR INTERNET & SOCIETY AT HARVARD UNIVERSITY
June 16, 2010 // Upcoming events and digital media
[1] [THURSDAY 6/17] Law.gov: Massachusetts (http://cyber.harvard.edu/events/2010/06/lawdotgovMA)
[2] [FRIDAY 6/18] Law.gov: Putting It All Together (http://cyber.harvard.edu/events/2010/06/lawdotgov)
[3] [TUESDAY 6/22] Berkman Center Luncheon Series: "Changing
Relationships, Changing Industries" with Nancy Baym, University of
Kansas (http://cyber.harvard.edu/events/luncheon/2010/06/baym)
[REGISTRATION IS NOW OPEN 6/28-30] You are invited to the COMMUNIA 2010
Conference on "University and Cyberspace", taking place in Torino,
Italy. Visit http://www.communia2010.org/ to learn more and register.
[THURSDAY] LAW.GOV MASSACHUSETTS
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6/17/10, 10:00-3:00PM, Pound Hall, Harvard Law School
Free and open to the public; registration is required for those attending: http://tinyurl.com/2v7d4dq
Organized and co-hosted by the Harvard Law School Library
Do we have access to all primary legal materials in Massachusetts? What
are the best practices for making information accessible? What
obstacles face institutions trying to make it available? Our hope is to
create a document outlining the most salient issues in accessibility to
Massachusetts legal information with suggestions of things that could
be done to effect the most accessible system possible in Massachusetts.
Registration is required; visit http://tinyurl.com/2v7d4dq to sign up.
Please note that video will be captured for the workshop and posted on
the Internet. This is the first day of a two-day workshop focused on
Law.gov. To register for Law.gov: Putting It All Together, taking place
on Friday 6/18, please visit this page:
http://cyber.harvard.edu/events/2010/06/lawdotgov. You are welcome
to attend one or both days of the event.
The workshop will feature Carl Malamud, Berkman Faculty Co-Director
John Palfrey, Harvard Law Professor Lawrence Lessig, the Honorable Dina
E. Fein, Boston College Librarian Joan Shear, Harvard Law Cyberlaw
Clinic Director Phil Malone, and many more.
http://cyber.harvard.edu/events/2010/06/lawdotgovMA
[FRIDAY] LAW.GOV: PUTTING IT ALL TOGETHER
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6/18/10, 10:00-3:00PM, Pound Hall, Harvard Law School
Free and open to the public; registration is required for those attending: http://tinyurl.com/28v3h4v
Organized and co-hosted by the Harvard Law School Library
The Harvard Law School Law.Gov workshop on June 18 is the last in a
6-month series of such workshops that have taken place throughout the
country. In this final workshop, participants will discuss the
implications of some core principles about access to primary legal
materials. Are these principles workable? What will it take to make
them real? What are the implications of these principles? Our hope is
that upon completion of this workshop, a crisp set of basic principles
can be presented and discussed, perhaps leading to the enactment of
some of these principles into policy through mechanisms such as
judicial rules, executive orders, or legislation.
Registration is required; visit http://tinyurl.com/28v3h4v to sign up.
Please note that video will be captured for the workshop and posted on
the Internet. This is the second day of a two-day workshop focused on
Law.gov. To register for Law.gov: Massachusetts, taking place on
Thursday 6/17, please visit this page:
http://cyber.harvard.edu/events/2010/06/lawdotgovMA. You are
welcome to attend one or both days of the event.
The workshop will feature Carl Malamud, Berkman Faculty Co-Director
John Palfrey, Harvard Law Cyberlaw Clinic Director Phil Malone, and
many more.
http://cyber.harvard.edu/events/2010/06/lawdotgov
[TUESDAY] BERKMAN LUNCHEON SERIES on CHANGING RELATIONSHIPS, CHANGING INDUSTRIES
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6/22/10, 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: Changing Relationships, Changing Industries
Guest: Nancy Baym, University of Kansas
Entertainment industry professionals have generally related to their
audiences in terms of economic (market) exchange while fans have
generally related to one another in terms of social (gift) exchange. In
the case of music, audience members have long exchanged albums,
mixtapes, bootlegs, and friendship with one another while exchanging
little but money for product with musicians. The internet has enabled
audiences to connect with one another, to share music, and to become
visible to and interact directly with artists in new ways. As a
consequence, music industries, like all entertainment industries, are
forced to rethink how they work. I argue they are increasingly pushed
toward models of engagement with audiences that integrate social and
economic exchange. This talk will address how this happens in the
innovative case of independent Swedish artists and music labels and
raise questions about how new systems of value and reward may be
developing.
About Nancy:
Dr. Baym's main interests include interpersonal communication in online
communities, the relations between online and offline social life, and
perceptions of the internet as a social medium. Nancy is the author of
Tune In, Log on: Soaps, Fandom, and On-Line Community (2000) from Sage
Publications. She was a co-founder and past-president of the
Association of Internet Researchers and serves on the editorial boards
of several journals including the Journal of Communication, New Media
& Society, The Information Society and others. Her most recent
book, Personal Connections in the Digital Age (Polity 2010), can be
previewed and purchased here: http://www.people.ku.edu/%7Enbaym/.
This event will be webcast live; for more information and a complete
description, see the event web page:
http://cyber.harvard.edu/events/luncheon/2010/06/baym
[REGISTER NOW] COMMUNIA 2010 CONFERENCE: UNIVERSITY AND CYBERSPACE
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6/28-30/10, Politecnico di Torino, Torino, Italy
Free and open to the public; register via the conference website: http://www.communia2010.org/
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] 6/15-18: Computers, Freedom, and Privacy in a Networked Society --
the 20th annual CFP conference.
(http://www.cfp2010.org/wiki/index.php/Program)
[2] 6/17: Communication of Technical Knowledge Workshop // Boston University (https://sites.google.com/site/commtechbu/home)
[3] 7/26: Open Source Software and Copyright: Legal and Business
Considerations for Government Use // Washington, DC.
(http://cendievents.iiaweb.com/oss_workshop_0710/)
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 with CAROLINA ROSSINI on "Preliminary
Conclusions from The Industrial Cooperation Project"
(http://cyber.harvard.edu/interactive/events/luncheon/2010/06/rossini)
-The FCC's Authority Over Broadband Access: The History and Context of
the Debate
(http://cyber.harvard.edu/interactive/events/2010/05/FCCPanel1 /
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ddpfq_Bq-W8)
-The FCC's Authority Over Broadband Access: The Third Way - What
Happens Next?
(http://cyber.harvard.edu/interactive/events/2010/05/FCCPanel2 /
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sodqt_A6un4&feature=channel)
-Radio Berkman 153: The Wonderful World of Spectrum (http://cyber.harvard.edu/interactive/podcasts/radioberkman153)
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