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==Overview==
==Overview==
Humanities on the internet have long occupied a liminal space between functioning as updates to traditional humanities and new cultural forms. Digital Humanities is a wholly new type of humanities that is neither derivative of nor disdainful towards traditional humanities.
Since the last iLaw conference was held nearly five years ago, the debates at the intersection of
technology, law, and policy have continued to evolve. The introduction of new technologies –
and new uses of old technologies – raise a broad range of problems to explore. To name a few
examples, the intervening years have seen the growth of social networking tools; Facebook
has gained more than 750 million users worldwide and has found itself at the center of privacy
debates. Information technologies have played an unprecedented role in recent protests in the
Middle East and North Africa, at times in tension with US foreign policy and export controls. In
the US, government regulators and major ISPs continue to struggle with to find the right balance
points for network governance and regulatory authority.


The new field is building exciting new types of scholarship and art based on unprecedentedly interdisciplinary collaborations and a reimagining of traditional conceptions of intellectual property and copyright. Digital Humanities encourages remix and mash-up culture, iterative production and hugely collaborative processes and products. It aims to move the innovations of cyberspace out of the fringe and into their own intellectual territory.
Growing Internet usage trends, disruptive technologies, increased efforts by governments and
private entities to control the online space continue to reshape the cyber landscape. These issues,
alongside the actors who provide the technologies and the users who engage with them, are at the
center of many global policy debates. iLaw 2011 will be a unique opportunity to reexamine these
areas of inquiry and core questions while engaging with the new and emerging issues and thorny
debates that are constantly reshaping the field.
 
The 2011 iLaw Program is designed to take participants through the evolution of information
technologies and the Internet, including their past, present, and future. Each module will provide
a bridge to the past, beginning with a brief sketch of how a particular issue has evolved over the
course of recent decades, both from an intellectual history perspective and via changes in policy,
practice, and technology. Faculty and selected guests will use this foundation to explore how
technical, social, legal, economic, and policy trends and debates have evolved over time, and
identify the primary questions and issues that currently define the online space.
 
==Speakers==
*[http://zeega.org/ James Burns]
*Known Unknown (Kara Oehler)
*[http://sensate.tumblr.com/ Julia Yezbick]
*[http://extramuros.zeega.org/demo/ Robert Gerard Pietrusko]
*[http://www.jdarchive.org Kyle Parry]
*Society for Receipt Printer Reincarnation (Joseph Bergen)
*[http://metalab.harvard.edu/projects/ Joana Pimenta] (scroll to "Augmented Harvard")
*[http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/adup/2011/03/29/introducing-the-harvard-law-and-documentary-studio-updated-locationtime/ Victor Ban]
*[http://www.gsas.harvard.edu/programs_of_study/critical_media_practice.php Peter Galison]


==Recommended Readings==
==Recommended Readings==

Revision as of 10:58, 27 July 2011

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The Study of the Internet: New Methods for New Technologies
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Overview

Since the last iLaw conference was held nearly five years ago, the debates at the intersection of technology, law, and policy have continued to evolve. The introduction of new technologies – and new uses of old technologies – raise a broad range of problems to explore. To name a few examples, the intervening years have seen the growth of social networking tools; Facebook has gained more than 750 million users worldwide and has found itself at the center of privacy debates. Information technologies have played an unprecedented role in recent protests in the Middle East and North Africa, at times in tension with US foreign policy and export controls. In the US, government regulators and major ISPs continue to struggle with to find the right balance points for network governance and regulatory authority.

Growing Internet usage trends, disruptive technologies, increased efforts by governments and private entities to control the online space continue to reshape the cyber landscape. These issues, alongside the actors who provide the technologies and the users who engage with them, are at the center of many global policy debates. iLaw 2011 will be a unique opportunity to reexamine these areas of inquiry and core questions while engaging with the new and emerging issues and thorny debates that are constantly reshaping the field.

The 2011 iLaw Program is designed to take participants through the evolution of information technologies and the Internet, including their past, present, and future. Each module will provide a bridge to the past, beginning with a brief sketch of how a particular issue has evolved over the course of recent decades, both from an intellectual history perspective and via changes in policy, practice, and technology. Faculty and selected guests will use this foundation to explore how technical, social, legal, economic, and policy trends and debates have evolved over time, and identify the primary questions and issues that currently define the online space.

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