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Upcoming events and digital media // October 6, 2010

[1] [TUESDAY 10/12] Berkman Center Luncheon Series: "The MoveOn Effect: The Internet's Impact on Political Action?" with Dave Karpf, Rutgers Assistant Professor and Yale Information Society Project Fellow (http://cyber.harvard.edu/events/luncheon/2010/10/karpf)

[2] [TUESDAY 10/19] Berkman Center Luncheon Series: "Good Faith Collaboration: The Culture of Wikipedia" with Joseph Reagle, Berkman Center Fellow (http://cyber.harvard.edu/events/luncheon/2010/10/reagle)


[TUESDAY] BERKMAN LUNCHEON SERIES on THE INTERNET'S IMPACT ON POLITICAL ACTION
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10/12/10, 12:30pm 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: The MoveOn Effect: The Internet's Impact on Political Action?
Guests: Dave Karpf, Rutgers Assistant Professor and Yale Information Society Project Fellow

Rutgers Assistant Professor and Yale Information Society Project Fellow Dave Karpf discusses his research on the emergence of a new generation of internet-mediated political advocacy groups in America.  Karpf argues that changes in membership and fundraising regimes are affecting the political economy of interest group action, dramatically altering the interest group ecology of American politics.  The talk will focus on issues with studying groups who, despite online information abundance, keep the important data behind firewalls.

About Dave

Dave Karpf is an Assistant Professor in the Journalism and Media Studies Department at Rutgers University, School of Communication and Information.  He holds a Ph.D in political science from the University of Pennsylvania (2009) and has held fellowships at Brown University's Taubman Center for Public Policy and the University of Virginia's Miller Center for Public Affairs.  He is currently a Visiting Fellow with the Yale Information Society Project.

This event will be webcast live; for more information and a complete description, see the event web page: http://cyber.harvard.edu/events/luncheon/2010/10/karpf


[SAVE THE DATE] BERKMAN LUNCHEON SERIES on THE CULTURE OF WIKIPEDIA
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10/19/10, 12:30pm ET, Pound Hall, Harvard Law School. **Please note new location for this week only**
RSVP is required for those attending in person to Amar Ashar (ashar@cyber.harvard.edu)
This event will be webcast live

Topic: Good Faith Collaboration: The Culture of Wikipedia
Guests: Joseph Reagle, Berkman Center Fellow

Wikipedia's style of collaborative production has been lauded, lambasted, and satirized. Despite unease over its implications for the character (and quality) of knowledge, Wikipedia has brought us closer than ever to a realization of the century-old pursuit of a universal encyclopedia. Good Faith Collaboration: The Culture of Wikipedia  is a rich ethnographic portrayal of Wikipedia's historical roots, collaborative culture, and much debated legacy.

About Joseph

Joseph Reagle is a fellow at the Berkman Center for Internet and Society at Harvard University, where he studies collaborative cultures. He received his Ph.D., and was an adjunct faculty member, at NYU's Department of Media, Culture, and Communication. As a Research Engineer at MIT's Lab for Computer Science and Working Group Chair and Author within IETF and W3C, he contributed to several specifications on digital security and privacy. He also helped develop and maintain W3C's privacy  and intellectual rights policies (i.e., copyright/trademark licenses and patent analysis). Dr. Reagle has degrees in Computer Science (UMBC), Technology Policy (MIT), and Media, Culture, and Communication (NYU). He served as a fellow at the Berkman Center for Internet & Society, has been consulted on new-media related projects, and has been profiled, interviewed, and quoted in national media including Technology Review, The Economist, The New York Times and American  and New Zealand Public Radio. A book, based on his dissertation, about Wikipedia history and collaboration will be available in 2010 from The MIT Press.

This event will be webcast live; for more information and a complete description, see the event web page: http://cyber.harvard.edu/events/luncheon/2010/10/reagle


OTHER EVENTS OF NOTE
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[1] 10/7: Online Migration of Newspapers // MIT Communications Forum with David Carr and Dan Kennedy (http://web.mit.edu/comm-forum/forums/online_newspapers.html)

[2] 10/11: IBM Center for Social Software Speaker Series: S. Craig Watkins on "The Young and the Digital" (http://ibmsocialcraigwatkins.eventbrite.com/)

[3] 10/15-16: Future Ed: New Business Models for U.S. and Global Legal Education // Harvard Law School (http://www.law.harvard.edu/programs/plp/pages/future_ed_conference.php)

[4] 10/18-24: Open Access Week (http://www.openaccessweek.org/)

[5] 10/26: SM&  Presents Crisis in the Age of Social Media // Solomon McCown (http://www.solomonmccown.com/solomonmccown_crisissocialmedia.pdf)

[6] 10/29: "Why Books" Conference featuring Berkman Faculty Co-Directors John Palfrey and Stuart Shieber // Radcliffe (http://www.radcliffe.edu/events/whybooks_conference.aspx)


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