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. Both have written prolifically on technology and our future, especially Benkler’s The Wealth of Networks […]
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Cass 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 CommentsAmartya Sen at the Aurora Forum at Stanford University: Global Solidarity, Human Rights, and the End of Poverty
Published April 5th, 2008 in Developing world, Human Rights, Talks, Economics and Conferences. 0 CommentsThis is a one day conference to commemorate Martin Luther King’s “The Other America” in his 1967 speech at Stanford, and heed that speech’s call to create a more just world.
Mark Gonnerman, director of the Aurora Forum introduces the event by noting that economic justice is the main theme of King’s legacy. He references King’s […]
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 […]
Implementing a Human Rights Policy at the World Bank
Published March 17th, 2008 in Developing world, Human Rights and Talks. 0 CommentsGalit Safarty gave a talk at Harvard Law School today titled: Why Culture Matters in International Institutions: The Marginality of Human Rights at the World Bank. Sarfaty obtained her JD from Yale and is a lawyer and anthropologist. She is a visiting fellow at Harvard Law School’s Human Rights Program and writing her dissertation based on […]
