Category Archives: Media

Craig Newmark: "no vision, but I know how to keep things simple, and I can listen some"

Posted on November 14, 2008 by vcs

Craig Newmark was visiting the Berkman Center today and he explained how founding Craiglist brought him to his current role as community organizer. But these are really the same, he says. In 1994, Craig was working at Charles Schwab where … Continue reading →

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Sunstein speaks on extremism

Posted on November 3, 2008 by vcs

Cass Sunstein, Professor at Harvard Law School, is speaking today on Extremism: Politics and Law. Related to this topic, he is the author of Nudge, Republic.com 2.0, and Infotopia. He discussed Republic 2.0 with Henry Farrell on this bloggingheads.tv diavlog, … Continue reading →

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Vacations or "Vacations" :)

Posted on June 28, 2008 by vcs

I’m here at the Global Voices Summit in Budapest and I just listened to a panel on Rising Voices, a group within Global Voices dedicated to supporting the efforts of people traditionally underrepresented in citizen media. (See their trailer here). … Continue reading →

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Lessig stars at the Stanford FCC hearing

Posted on April 18, 2008 by vcs

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 … Continue reading →

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Cass Sunstein and Yochai Benkler at MIT – Our Digitized World: The Good, the Bad, the Ugly.

Posted on April 14, 2008 by vcs

Last 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. … Continue reading →

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The Internet Drives Election Results in Malaysia

Posted on April 4, 2008 by vcs

On 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 … Continue reading →

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Do you Know Where Your News Is? Predictions for 2013 by Media Experts:

Posted on March 28, 2008 by vcs

Jonathan 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 … Continue reading →

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Media Re:public Forum Panel on Participatory Media: Defining Success, Measuring Impact

Posted on March 28, 2008 by vcs

Margaret 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 … Continue reading →

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John Kelly: Parsing the Political Blogosphere

Posted on March 28, 2008 by vcs

John 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 … Continue reading →

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David Weinberger: How new technologies and behaviors are changing the news

Posted on March 28, 2008 by vcs

David 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 … Continue reading →

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Robert Suro: Defining the qualities of information our democracy needs

Posted on March 28, 2008 by vcs

Robert 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: … Continue reading →

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Richard Sambrook at the Media Re:public Forum

Posted on March 27, 2008 by vcs

I’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 … Continue reading →

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A Test of the Internet's Free Speech Promise: China and Tibet

Posted on March 25, 2008 by vcs

I 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 … Continue reading →

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Media Re:public Forum: Los Angeles March 27-28

Posted on March 18, 2008 by vcs

Berkman’s Media Re:public project is bringing people together to discuss the state of participatory media within the current information environment, called Media Re:public Forum. I’m going to be there! Crossposted on I&D Blog

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Scoop08.com – A Lab for Developing Online Journalism Ethics?

Posted on March 12, 2008 by vcs

Alex Heffner, is eighteen year old co-founder and editor in chief of Scoop08, and gave the Berkman Lunch Series talk on March 11, 2008. The new thing about Scoop is that it is designed to give non-partisan coverage to the … Continue reading →

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Jesse Dylan and Hope|Act|Change

Posted on March 6, 2008 by vcs

Jesse Dylan, the director behind Will.I.Am‘s Yes We Can song video and Rob Holzer, CEO of Syrup NYC, want to bring their vision for political change through the Hope|Act|Change web site (http://hopeactchange.com). Karim Lakhani, Harvard Business School professor, is moderating … Continue reading →

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