But Helmi Noman, research affiliate at Harvard University’s Berkman Center in Massachusetts, said the survey does not necessarily “reflect objective claims of right and wrong” because different cultures view morality in different ways.So people living under repressive regimes or in countries that tightly control online content might also view the Internet as a bad influence on morality.
via Who Says the Internet is Bad for Morality? « Techtonics.
“It taps into a larger fear, especially in Europe, of Google’s dominance and the power it exercises over all of us,” said Vivek Krishnamurthy of Harvard Law School’s Cyberlaw Clinic, speaking of the EU’s complaint.
Krishnamurthy believes that “the Android action is potentially much more significant” than the formal search complaint because Europe’s concern — that Google forces phone makers to install its search engine and other products — has “shades of the U.S. antitrust case against Microsoft” for favoring its Web browser.
via Google in the bull’s eye of European Union – San Jose Mercury News.
“Anyone with a Harvard ID can tap in, sit down, and do their thing,” says Chris Bavitz, Clinical Professor of Law and managing director of the HLS Cyberlaw Clinic at the Berkman Center for Internet & Society, and Dean’s Designate to the i-lab. “That means anything from having shared space to work to looking at a physical bulletin board where people are looking for a software developer or lawyer. Nearly every night of the week, there’s programming about venture capital or how to deal with employment issues or any number of other legal and business concerns that startups face.”
via Harvard Law champions entrepreneurship and innovation | Harvard Law Today.
The Berkman Center for Internet & Society and Youth and Media released a new ebook “Digitally Connected: Global Perspectives on Youth and Digital Media,” a first-of-its kind collection of essays that offers reflections from diverse perspectives on youth experiences with digital media and with focus on the Global South.
A 2015 study, “Score Another One for the Internet? The Role of the Networked Public Sphere in the U.S. Net Neutrality Policy Debate,” looks at the public debate on net neutrality in the United States as the FCC was rewriting its regulations from January to November 2014, when President Obama made his announcement. The authors utilized the pioneering analysis tool Media Cloud, a joint project between the Berkman Center for Internet and Society at Harvard University and the Center for Civic Media at MIT, to examine more than 16,000 stories published on the subject during that period. The researchers — Robert Faris, Hal Roberts, Bruce Etling, Dalia Othman and Yochai Benkler — also analyzed the connections between media sources formed by more than 10,000 links among the stories.
via Examining success for net neutrality and digital power: A Harvard/MIT research analysis.
“We have a lot to celebrate here,” said EFF Staff Attorney Vera Ranieri. “But unfortunately, our work to protect podcasting is not done. Personal Audio continues to seek patents related to podcasting. We will continue to fight for podcasters, and we hope the Patent Office does not give them any more weapons to shake down small podcasters.”EFF partnered with attorneys working pro bono and the Cyberlaw Clinic at Harvard’s Berkman Center for Internet and Society to craft the petition for review with the USPTO.
“As Google has been developing its awareness and understanding of what people want, it’s been exploring the question of what it is about this group of people…[who] are aware of the world but not actively voicing their opinions or taking action. What can we do, and what can others in the civic ecosystem to do?” says Kate Krontiris, a fellow at Harvard’s Berkman Center for Internet and Society who worked on the project.
“The feeling was, ‘Oh, the Obama Administration is opening Cuba, and so now all Cubans will have access to Internet, they’ll have all these freedoms they didn’t have before,”’ says Ellery Roberts Biddle, a fellow at the Berkman Center for Internet and Society. “That’s really not what’s happening.”
via Renewed diplomacy still leaves Cubans stuck in a dial-up world | Public Radio International.
The Berkman Center for Internet & Society and Youth and Media are excited to announce the release of the new ebook “Digitally Connected: Global Perspectives on Youth and Digital Media,” a first-of-its kind collection of essays that offers reflections from diverse perspectives on youth experiences with digital media and with focus on the Global South. It creatively combines adult voices with written and visual contributions by young people from around the world.
via Digitally Connected: Global Perspectives on Youth and Digital Media | Harvard Gazette.
Mass surveillance by governments and corporations is comparable to child labor or environmental pollution. That is the largely persuasive claim of security expert Bruce Schneier in his new book “Data and Goliath: The Hidden Battles to Collect Your Data and Control Your World.” Resistance is not futile, Schneier thinks, although it will be tricky to fight overreaching securocrats and snooping online advertisers without giving up at least some of the genuine advantages of Big Data.