Berkman Center Events & Webcasts

Ethan liveblogged David Weinberger’s Tuesday Luncheon Talk last week:

Most people who speak for a living (as David does, and as I aspire to do) use well-worn and carefully roadtested material. David is brave enough to put new ideas in front of audiences and work through new ideas, live and in public. And we’re lucky enough at the Berkman Center lunch today to hear his new talk, “What Information Was: Bits, Links and the Iron Rule of Irony”, an exploration of issues that David is starting to think about and wrestle with.

via …My heart’s in Accra » David Weinberger: what information was.

Craig Silverstein, David Weinberger, Sherry Turkle, Robert Darnton, and Harry Lewis are on a panel this Wednesday (11/18) which will address “No More Teachers? No More Books? Higher Education in the Networked Age”:

This panel discussion explores what it means to offer higher education in a world of ubiquitous connectivity and a knowledge base that is hyperlinked and broadly accessible.

via Events : Harvard Extension School Centennial.

Many of todays youth are embracing a wide array of social media as part of their everyday lives. From social network sites to texting to blogs, many youth are leveraging the power of social media to create, communicate, share, and learn. In this talk, I will examine the various emergent practices, focusing primarily on how American teenagers are navigating the world of social media as a part of everyday life. I will examine inflections in privacy, sociality, and learning. While this talk will focus on those engaged with social media, I will also discuss the costs and challenges of unequal access and the complications that occur when social stratification is reproduced in digital environments.

via Events Calendar | CSAIL.

Lokman Tsui will be participating in this roundtable at Columbia University later this month:

A Roundtable on Technology and Democracy at Columbia, Nov 24 « collective communications campus.

It’s puzzling that even though we named an age after information, very few people can tell you what information is. And the ones with the clearest answers are often defining information in the technical sense, which is not the sense in which the culture took it up. In this session, we’ll look back at information, trying to understand what about it led us to embrace it as the dominant — paradigmatic — way of understanding ourselves and our world. David Weinberger will present an informal sketch of a direction, suggesting that we leaped into information because it reflected a long-held but squirrely metaphysics. There will be lots of time for open discussion.

[Today] What Information Was | Berkman Center.

Information security continues to grow in importance, as threats proliferate, privacy erodes, and attackers find new sources of value. Yet the security of information systems depends on more than just technology. Good security requires an understanding of the incentives and tradeoffs inherent to the behavior of systems and organizations. As society’s dependence on information technology has deepened, policy makers, including the President of the United States, have taken notice. Now more than ever, careful research is needed to accurately characterize threats and countermeasures, in both the public and private sectors.

via Workshop on the Economics of Information Security 2010.

The forum will bring together experts in digital media and learning to share their research and experiences using digital media in and outside of the classroom.

via MacArthur Foundation Event Invitation.

As the world’s infrastructure becomes increasingly grounded on the Internet for commerce and communication, the consequences of these attacks become more ominous. Worse still, the perpetrators are usually invisible and difficult to trace, be they individuals or state actors, and they often carry out their attacks remotely with a worldwide network of hijacked personal computers.

via Boston University Online Community – Events.

The activist, academic and co-founder of Global Voices shares a story about building cultural bridges, xenophilia and a little video game called War of Warcraft.

via Ethan Zuckerman at BIF-5 | Business Innovation Factory.

Music Hack Day – Boston.