Upcoming Events: Presentations from the Digital Problem-Solving Initiative (DPSI) Teams (2/24); We Break Things...Hackers Fight for Freedom (2/26); Lawyering for Social Justice in the Age of Digital Media (3/3)

Workshopping Ideas: Presentations from the Digital Problem-Solving Initiative (DPSI) Teams

Tuesday, February 24, **12:00pm ET** (please note new start time), Berkman Center for Internet & Society, 23 Everett St, 2nd Floor. This event will be webcast live.

The Digital Problem-Solving Initiative (DPSI, or "dip-see") at Harvard University, is an innovative and collaborative project, hosted through the Berkman Center. DPSI brings together a diverse group of learners (students, faculty, fellows, and staff) to work on projects to address challenges and opportunities across the university. DPSI offers participants a novel opportunity to engage with research, design, and policy relating to the digital world. Student teams will be presenting their work and seeking feedback from the Berkman community.

Introduction from Berkman's Executive Director, Urs Gasser. Urs Gasser is the Executive Director of the Berkman Center for Internet & Society at Harvard University and a Professor of Practice at Harvard Law School. He is a visiting professor at the University of St. Gallen (Switzerland) and at KEIO University (Japan), and he teaches at Fudan University School of Management (China). Urs Gasser serves as a trustee on the board of the NEXA Center for Internet & Society at the University of Torino and on the board of the Research Center for Information Law at the University of St. Gallen, and is a member of the International Advisory Board of the Alexander von Humboldt Institute for Internet and Society in Berlin. He is a Fellow at the Gruter Institute for Law and Behavioral Research. RSVP Required. more information on our website>

We Break Things...Hackers Fight for Freedom

Thursday, February 26, 6:00pm ET, Harvard Law School, Wasserstein Hall, Room B10. Co-sponsored by the Harvard Journal of Law and Technology.

A pre-release screening with filmmaker Rebecca Wexler. WE BREAK THINGS pulls back the curtain on one of society’s increasingly powerful political forces, which to most people remains a mystery. Meet the hackers who build and break technology to defend civil liberties worldwide. Featuring intimate personal stories from deep inside the hacker community, this film showcases gender, sexual orientation, socioeconomic, and other kinds of diversity among tech activists. Hacker culture, technology, and wit fuse in an electrified movement for digital freedom, as obscure figures behind the screens come forward for the first time to share their loves, losses, and deepest motivations.

Director/Producer Rebecca Wexler is a fellow of the Information Society Project at Yale Law School where she is currently a J.D. candidate writing on speech, privacy, Internet and democracy issues. She has produced, directed, shot and edited documentaries for the Yale Art Gallery and the Long Wharf Theater, and has worked as an Associate Producer and Archivist for PBS WETA and PBS American Experience. Rebecca recently completed work as a Fulbright Senior Research Scholar in Sri Lanka, where she collaborated with a post-war media collective and taught documentary film production at the Eastern University of Sri Lanka, Trincomalee. more information on our website>

Lawyering for Social Justice in the Age of Digital Media

Tuesday, March 3, 12:00pm ET, Berkman Center for Internet & Society, 23 Everett St, 2nd Floor.

Twenty years ago, effective legal advocacy required some fluency with press releases and mainstream media -- but today's digital media tools require a different sort of training. These tools enable lawyers to bring the voices of their clients directly to policymakers and mass audiences; to create new and richer ways to present evidence and expert reports; to expose government and corporate corruption; to crowdsource the documentation of law violations; to gather and authenticate visual evidence on mobile phones; to enhance public understanding of the law, to give legal information to unrepresented litigants en masse; and so much more. How do we teach today’s young advocates to integrate rich, multi-platform media campaigns into their legal work?

Rebecca Richman Cohen has been a Lecturer on Law art Harvard Law School since 2011. She is an Emmy Award nominated documentary filmmaker with experience in international human rights, criminal defense, and drug policy reform. Rebecca was profiled in Filmmaker Magazine's 25 New Faces in Independent Film as an "up-and-comer poised to shape the next generation of independent film." She has taught classes at the Rhode Island School of Design (RISD), American University's Human Rights Institute, and most recently at Columbia University. Rebecca graduated from Brown University with a B.A. in Portuguese and Brazilian Studies and with a Juris Doctor from Harvard Law School. She was a 2012-2013 Soros Justice Fellow. RSVP Required. more information on our website>

Carrie James on Disconnected: Youth, New Media, and the Ethics Gap

Fresh from a party, a teen posts a photo on Facebook of a friend drinking a beer. A college student repurposes an article from Wikipedia for a paper. A group of players in a multiplayer online game routinely cheat new players by selling them worthless virtual accessories for high prices. How do youth, and the adults in their lives, think about the moral and ethical dimensions of their participation in online communities? In this talk Carrie James -- Lecturer on Education at the Harvard Graduate School of Education and author of "Disconnected: Youth, New Media, and the Ethics Gap" -- explores how young people approach questionable situations online as well as more dramatic ethical dilemmas that arise in digital contexts. video/audio on our website>