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The day will begin with a brief history of the Net and an introduction to the theory of generativity as a framework to understand the Internet’s disruptive power. Jonathan Zittrain’s opening lecture will focus on the Internet’s technical evolution and underlying architecture; the values that informed its early development, including principles related to consensus, openness, and non-discrimination; and the range of players, from users to computer scientists, governments and other bodies, and corporations, who engaged in the various activities, controls, and other arrangements that formed the initial distributed digital governance of the online space. | The day will begin with a brief history of the Net and an introduction to the theory of generativity as a framework to understand the Internet’s disruptive power. Jonathan Zittrain’s opening lecture will focus on the Internet’s technical evolution and underlying architecture; the values that informed its early development, including principles related to consensus, openness, and non-discrimination; and the range of players, from users to computer scientists, governments and other bodies, and corporations, who engaged in the various activities, controls, and other arrangements that formed the initial distributed digital governance of the online space. | ||
==Recommended Readings== | |||
James Grimmelmann, " Inside Judge Chin's Opinion," The Laboratorium (March 22, 2011) (CC BY 3.0), skim all (focus on Section 4, “Copyright”) | |||
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Revision as of 16:54, 1 August 2011
Overview
Tuesday, September 6, 9:30-10:30am
Format: Lecture, followed by discussion
Lead: Jonathan Zittrain
The day will begin with a brief history of the Net and an introduction to the theory of generativity as a framework to understand the Internet’s disruptive power. Jonathan Zittrain’s opening lecture will focus on the Internet’s technical evolution and underlying architecture; the values that informed its early development, including principles related to consensus, openness, and non-discrimination; and the range of players, from users to computer scientists, governments and other bodies, and corporations, who engaged in the various activities, controls, and other arrangements that formed the initial distributed digital governance of the online space.
Recommended Readings
James Grimmelmann, " Inside Judge Chin's Opinion," The Laboratorium (March 22, 2011) (CC BY 3.0), skim all (focus on Section 4, “Copyright”)