We are pleased to announce a major research release: "Media Re:public: News and Information as the Digital Media Come of Age," a series of papers exploring the potential and the challenges of the emerging networked digital media environment...
Google's AdWords system serves ads alongside about a quarter of all web traffic. In the process of serving those ads, Google actively processes the user browsing data in order to target its advertising, making AdWords one of the world's most extensive processors of personal data. Hal Roberts presents on how Google's use of the AdWords data seeds a network of grey surveillance that may not have direct effects on the individual surveillance subjects but does have important effects on our modes of creating and consuming content online.
The future of the digital media environment, "the splinternet," insights into Global Voices, and more...in this week's BUZZ!
Next week: A luncheon that explores Google Adwords as a network of grey surveillance. Plus! Video from last week's Creative Commons panel, our Internet & Politics conference, and more...
This week on Radio Berkman, David Weinberger interviews Stephen Schultze on the FCC's (now postponed) vote on a plan for free nationwide wireless Internet...
This talk with Maura Marx, Executive Director of the Open Knowledge Commons, will introduce the OKC, a new organization born out of the Open Content Alliance and dedicated to advocacy for and development of an open digital library of human knowledge.
Creative Commons and the Berkman Center for Internet & Society present "The Commons: Celebrating accomplishments, discerning futures" tonight.
The Internet & Politics, conference connectivity, the Pulitzer Prize, and more...in this week's BUZZ!
Tremendous news: former Berkman Center faculty director Lawrence Lessig is returning to Harvard as a professor of law and faculty director of Harvard's Edmond J. Safra Foundation Center for Ethics...
The Publius project has launched a new cluster of essays on "Internet and Politics 2008: Moving People, Moving Ideas," including a working hypothesis and responses that evaluate the technological innovations of this year's election cycle...
Berkman Fellow Melanie Dulong de Rosnay will discuss the Copyright for Librarians project, which aims, in partnership with eIFL.net, to develop a distance learning program on copyright targeted to librarians.
Creative Commons is conducting a study on the meaning of “NonCommercial” and you can weigh in by answering a detailed questionnaire on the subject.
Online journalists, spam blacklists, the RIAA, and more...in this week's BUZZ!
Next week: Copyright for Librarians at the Luncheon Series. Plus! Creative Commons panel with Lawrence Lessig, Jonathan Zittrain, Joi Ito, Molly Van Houweling, and Jamie Boyle.
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