After Comcast admitted to stuffing seats at the FCC hearing at Harvard Law School February 24th, the FCC decided another hearing was necessary. They chose to hold it at Stanford April 17 and I’m watching the FCC’s videocast of the event, which is oddly appropriate, since the focus of the hearing is video on the […]
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Lessig stars at the Stanford FCC hearing
Published April 18th, 2008 in Internet and Democracy, Technology, Media and Economics. 0 CommentsCass Sunstein and Yochai Benkler at MIT - Our Digitized World: The Good, the Bad, the Ugly.
Published April 14th, 2008 in Internet and Democracy, Media and Talks. 0 CommentsLast Thursday April 10 MIT hosted a debate/discussion between Yochai Benkler and Cass Sunstein (audio can be found here). Both are Harvard Law Professors (Sunstein coming here from Chicago in the fall) and, perhaps unsurprisingly, the discussion became very philosophical. Both have written prolifically on technology and our future, especially Benkler’s The Wealth of Networks […]
The Internet Drives Election Results in Malaysia
Published April 4th, 2008 in Internet and Democracy, Developing world and Media. 1 CommentOn March 8, elections were held to the Malaysian parliament. The incumbent Barisan Nasional (BN) coalition, who lost its two-third majority in parliament, had held power since independence from the United Kingdom in 1957. In the months leading up to the election, accusations had been flying about corruption and a system designed to keep the […]
Do you Know Where Your News Is? Predictions for 2013 by Media Experts:
Published March 28th, 2008 in Internet and Democracy, Media, Berkman, Talks and Conferences. 0 CommentsJonathan Zittrain, co-founder of the Berkman Center, is moderating a panel on the future of news at Berkman’s Media Re:public Forum. The panelists were given two minutes and gave us some soundbites.
Paul Steiger is Editor-in-Chief of ProPublica, a non profit with 25 journalists created to fill the gap left by the shrinking newsrooms in […]
Media Re:public Forum Panel on Participatory Media: Defining Success, Measuring Impact
Published March 28th, 2008 in Internet and Democracy, Media, Berkman, Talks and Conferences. 0 CommentsMargaret Duffy is a Professor from the University of Missouri School of Journalism and she is speaking at Berkman’s Media Re:public Forum. She leads a Citizen Media Participation project to create a taxonomy of news categories and get a sense of the state of citizen media via sampling news across the nation. They are interested […]
John Kelly: Parsing the Political Blogosphere
Published March 28th, 2008 in Internet and Democracy, Media, Berkman, Statistics, Talks and Conferences. 1 CommentJohn Kelly is a doctoral student a Columbia’s School of Communications, a startup founder (Morningside Analytics), as well as doing collaborative work with Berkman. He’s speaking Berkman’s Media Re:public Forum.
Kelly says he takes an ecosystem approach to studying the blogosphere since he objects to dividing research on society into cases and variables because it is […]
David Weinberger: How new technologies and behaviors are changing the news
Published March 28th, 2008 in Internet and Democracy, Technology, Media, Berkman, Talks and Conferences. 0 CommentsDavid Weinberger is a fellow and colleague of mine at the Berkman Center and is at Berkman’s Media Re:public Forum discussing the difference the web is making to journalism: “what’s different about the web when it comes to media and journalism?”
Weinberger is concerned with how we frame this question. He prefers ‘ecosystem’ rather than ‘virtue […]
Robert Suro: Defining the qualities of information our democracy needs
Published March 28th, 2008 in Internet and Democracy, Technology, Media, Berkman and Conferences. 0 CommentsRobert Suro is a professor of journalism at USC and spoke today at Berkman’s Media Re:public Forum. His talk concerns journalism’s role in democratic processes and he draws two distinctions in how we think about journalism that often get conflated: journalism is a business but also a social actor. he points out that when main […]
Richard Sambrook at the Media Re:public Forum
Published March 27th, 2008 in Internet and Democracy, Technology, Media, Berkman and Conferences. 0 CommentsI’m at Berkman’s Media Re:public Forum and Richard Sambrook, director of Global News at the BBC is giving the first talk. He is something of a technological visionary and his primary concern is with how technology is affecting the ability of, not only traditional media but anyone, to set the international news agenda.
The model that […]
A Test of the Internet’s Free Speech Promise: China and Tibet
Published March 25th, 2008 in Internet and Democracy, Developing world, Media and Human Rights. 0 CommentsI haven’t seen any evidence that the internet was an important facilitator of the organization of the protests in Tibet, but citizen reporting on the events in Lhasa beginning March 10 made heavy use of the internet. The interesting question is whether perspectives other than the official view are getting through to discussions inside China. […]
