Horne was among the invited leaders in school violence prevention to participate in the symposium sponsored by the Berkman Center for Internet and Society, in partnership with the Harvard Graduate School of Education and the MacArthur Foundation. Horne is internationally known for his scholarship on troubled families and ways to prevent and deal with bullying and aggressive behavior in students and families. His newest book, Empowering Teens to Prevent Bullying, was published in January.

via UGA education dean joins Lady Gaga, Oprah to raise awareness of bullying | Online Athens.

Representatives from the Berkman Center for Internet & Society, Harvard College, and Startup Tribe, a Harvard Business School-based, University-wide network of entrepreneurs, were on hand to demonstrate apps and exchange ideas with alumni.

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Shield laws have failed to protect bloggers in other states, according to Jeffrey Hermes, director of the Citizen Media Law Project at Harvard University’s Berkman Center for Internet & Society.

via Internet muddles shield-law proposal – Sentinel & Enterprise.

Ethan Zuckerman, Global Voices co-founder and a researcher at the Berkman Center for Internet and Society at Harvard University, writes that Joseph Russell and Invisible Voices have certainly raised awareness among millions who did not know about the Ugandan gunman Joseph Kony, whose Lords Resistance Army is on the run and may be close to the end of a decades-long spree terrorizing villages in Central Africa with abductions, food raids, killings and mutilations. But Russell, says Zuckerman, has also imbued those people with a reductive understanding of the situation in Central Africa:
via First POST: End-Arounds | TechPresident.

Zittrain, who is also a co-founder of the Berkman Center for Internet and Society, will become HLS’s Vice-Dean of Library and Information Resources. Wones will take on the role of Acting Executive Director.

via Zittrain, Wones to step into leadership roles for Harvard Law School Library.

In the morning, the Berkman Center and the School of Education hosted an Academic Symposium on Youth Meanness and Cruelty, whose goal was to discuss and describe the future research on bullying, both online and offline, and on “digital citizenship” that the Foundation will undertake, with the underlying goal to pinpoint individuals who will help “dig deep into the root causes that give rise to bullying” in the coming years. At 11 a.m., a “Youth Advocacy Bootcamp” focused on giving invited teens the skills necessary for “online advocacy”, and just before the launch a “Youth Conference” made up of community leaders learned about anti-bullying strategies from bullied students and student anti-bullying activists. Well-known for her strong LGBTQ fan base, Lady Gaga made sure that LGBTQ leaders were welcomed at a reception around noon.

via Born to Be Brave » The Harvard Independent.

Pop star Lady Gaga’s Born This Way Foundation is teaming up with Harvard University’s Berkman Center for Internet & Society to further academic research into both cyber bullying and real-life bullying amongst youths, and to ultimately empower a kinder and more accepting youth culture.

via Lady Gaga and Harvard University to combat youth bullying – Digital Life – Digital Life | siliconrepublic.com – Ireland’s Technology News Service.

In fact, DDoS attacks and offline threats–in some cases, violent beatings or assassinations–are key government or government-sympathizer strategies for controlling online speech, says a Berkman Center for Internet & Society paper released March 2.

via DDoS attacks used to curb Internet freedom in Russia – FierceGovernmentIT.

The report, “Youth and Digital Media: From Credibility to Information Quality,” synthesizes more than three years of research by Berkman’s Youth and Media team, headed by HLS Professor John Palfrey. The report, written by Urs Gasser, executive director of the Berkman Center, Berkman Fellow Sandra Cortesi, and Research Assistants Momin Malik and Ashley Lee, was released in February.

via Berkman Center releases report on youth and digital media.

“We are continuing to figure out what are the underlying issues associated with youth empowerment and bravery,” said John G. Palfrey ’94, a co-director of the Berkman Center who will serve as co-editor of the Kinder and Braver World project.

via Berkman Center Continues Collaboration with Lady Gaga | News | The Harvard Crimson.