Best Berkman Center for Internet & Society at Harvard University Podcasts (2025)

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Framing Decisions: a Book Talk About Human Advantage in an Age of Technology and Turmoil 58:51

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This book talk features Viktor Mayer-Schönberger, a co-author of the recently published book Framers: Human Advantage in an Age of Technology and Turmoil. The book explores how reframing some of the world's most challenging problems, particularly when it comes to technology, can create new opportunities and better outcomes for humans to not just su…

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At the Crossroads of Digital Imperialism & Digital Development 1:05:22

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The global information economy has provided freedom-enhancing affordances for previously marginalized groups, but has also enabled extractive practices in the form of digital imperialism, or as others term it, data colonialism. For so-called “periphery” countries such as those in sub-Saharan Africa, the information economy represents an opportunity…

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Dalia Topelson Ritvo and Kira Hessekiel: Exploring Corporate Structures and Governance Models for the Open-Source Community

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Organizations that develop open source software are often inherently fragmented and loosely-networked, which can make governance and decision-making a challenge. In addition, as the open source community grows and becomes more global, so too has the need to establish strong governance models and corporate structures that allow an organization to ac…

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Michel Bauwens: Are We Shifting to a New Post-Capitalist Value Regime?

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Every 500 years or so, European civilization and now world civilization, has been rocked by fundamental shifts in its value regime, in which the rules of the game for acquiring wealth and livelihoods have dramatically changed. Following Benkler’s seminal Wealth of Networks, which first identifies peer production, the P2P Foundation has collated a v…

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Vikki S. Katz on How Lower-Income Families Respond to Digital Equity Challenges

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While 94% of parents raising school-age children below the U.S. median household income have an Internet connection, more than half are “under-connected,” in that their Internet connection is too slow, has been interrupted in the past year due to non-payment, and/or they share their Internet-connected devices with too many people. In this talk, Vik…

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Ellery Biddle on The Internetish Things of Cuba: Open Source and ‘in the Clear’

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What is it like to use the Internet in fits and starts? How do communities with limited access to the global Internet use digital tools? Beyond sensational media narratives about Havana’s WiFi hotspots and the paquete semanal, there is a complex landscape of Internet access, digital media use and open source software development in Cuba. […]…

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Brittany Seymour on Social Communication Strategies for Public Health

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The social nature of today’s Internet is creating new public health and policy challenges. For example, the US in 2014 experienced the largest measles outbreak in nearly a generation, which led to the passing of the nation’s most conservative vaccine legislation, eliminating the personal belief exemption in California. Research has identified onlin…

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Dr. Michel Reymond on Finding Common Standards for the Right to be Forgotten

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Following the 2014 Google Spain decision rendered by the European Court of Justice of the European Union, search engines – and, first among them, Google – are tasked with the delisting of search results leading to outdated or inaccurate information about European citizens. This ‘right to be delisted’ has since then revealed itself as a […]…

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Carl Williams on Black 2.0: the New Liberation Movement

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Carl Williams joins us to speak about the current Black Liberation movement. What and who it is, how it started, and how Twitter, Facebook (yes, Facebook) and other social media played a part. About Carl Carl joined the ACLU of Massachusetts as staff attorney in September 2013. He was previously a criminal defense attorney with […]…

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Susan Crawford on Why the Right Digital Decisions Will Make America Strong

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The U.S. still lags behind much of the developed world in terms of the speed and density of its internet infrastructure. In the 21st Century this disparity in access to high speed internet could stand as a critical challenge to competitiveness in many areas, from industry and commerce, to healthcare and education, to civic life […]…

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Jon Penney on “Chilling Effects”: Insights on How Laws and Surveillance Impact People Online

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With Internet censorship and mass surveillance on the rise globally, understanding regulatory “chilling effects” — the idea that laws, regulations, or state surveillance can deter people from exercising their freedoms or engaging in entirely legal activities — has thus today, in our Post-Snowden world, taken on greater urgency and public importance…

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Alan Weinberger on Three Decades of IT Channel Evolution and the Continued Importance of Small IT Companies

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In this talk, Alan Weinberger — founder of The ASCII Group, Inc. and Harvard Law School alum — addresses the development of the information technology marketplace over the past three decades and the continued importance of small IT companies. Also in ogg for download More on this event hereBy Berkman Center for Internet & Society at Harvard University

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Peter S. Menell: Copyright Law Year in Review

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What ties together cheerleader outfits, monkey selfies, the Batmobile, a chicken sandwich, Yoga, and Yoda? In this talk, Professor Peter S. Menell — Koret Professor of Law at UC Berkeley School of Law and a Director of the Berkeley Center for Law & Technology — provides an exhilarating copyright year in review. Also in ogg […]…

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A Burglar’s Guide to the City: On Architecture and Crime

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The relationship between burglary and architecture is far from abstract. While it is easy to focus merely on questions of how burglars use or abuse the built environment — looking for opportunities of illicit entrance — burglary, in fact, requires architecture. It is an explicitly spatial crime, one that cannot exist without a threshold to […]…

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Sanna Kulevska & Michael Rustad: Reconceptualizing Right to Be Forgotten for TransAtlantic Data Flow

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In October 2015, the European Court of Justice (CJEU) struck down the U.S./EU Safe Harbor agreement that enabled data to be freely transferred from Europe to the United States. In February 2016, the EU/U.S. Privacy Shield was proposed as a replacement. These developments demonstrate some of the ways the European Union’s far-reaching Right to be […]…

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Jessie Rossman and Kade Crockford on Student Privacy in Massachusetts K-12 Schools

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In 2013, the ACLU of Massachusetts set out to get a snapshot of student privacy policies in diverse communities statewide. Almost across the board, schools told students they had “no expectation of privacy” on school networks, using school email, or on school devices. The Supreme Court has said students don’t shed their constitutional rights at […]…

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Framing Decisions: a Book Talk About Human Advantage in an Age of Technology and Turmoil 58:51

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Dalia Topelson Ritvo and Kira Hessekiel: Exploring Corporate Structures and Governance Models for the Open-Source Community

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Michel Bauwens: Are We Shifting to a New Post-Capitalist Value Regime?

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Vikki S. Katz on How Lower-Income Families Respond to Digital Equity Challenges

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Ellery Biddle on The Internetish Things of Cuba: Open Source and ‘in the Clear’

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Brittany Seymour on Social Communication Strategies for Public Health

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Dr. Michel Reymond on Finding Common Standards for the Right to be Forgotten

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Carl Williams on Black 2.0: the New Liberation Movement

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Susan Crawford on Why the Right Digital Decisions Will Make America Strong

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Jon Penney on “Chilling Effects”: Insights on How Laws and Surveillance Impact People Online

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Alan Weinberger on Three Decades of IT Channel Evolution and the Continued Importance of Small IT Companies

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Peter S. Menell: Copyright Law Year in Review

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A Burglar’s Guide to the City: On Architecture and Crime

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Sanna Kulevska & Michael Rustad: Reconceptualizing Right to Be Forgotten for TransAtlantic Data Flow

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Jessie Rossman and Kade Crockford on Student Privacy in Massachusetts K-12 Schools