Comments for infopolitics http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/gwbstr Understanding the Internet and global political change Fri, 11 Dec 2009 00:40:35 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 Comment on On the ‘Berkman School’ and its limits by Kevin Donovan http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/gwbstr/2009/12/05/on-the-berkman-school-and-its-limits/comment-page-1/#comment-18 Kevin Donovan Fri, 11 Dec 2009 00:40:35 +0000 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/gwbstr/?p=44#comment-18 Still thinking through all this, but it reminds me of some of the writings Adam Thierer has done: http://techliberation.com/2009/08/12/cyber-libertarianism-the-case-for-real-internet-freedom/ Still thinking through all this, but it reminds me of some of the writings Adam Thierer has done:

http://techliberation.com/2009/08/12/cyber-libertarianism-the-case-for-real-internet-freedom/

]]> Comment on On the ‘Berkman School’ and its limits by Tim Hwang http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/gwbstr/2009/12/05/on-the-berkman-school-and-its-limits/comment-page-1/#comment-17 Tim Hwang Tue, 08 Dec 2009 05:40:30 +0000 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/gwbstr/?p=44#comment-17 Thanks for this comment! Really interesting to get to hear the reaction to the post. Fascinated by the concept of trying to map out the intellectual space beyond the Berkman Center (or even trying to figure out what the splinter positions are in the overall discussion). One approach that I've been playing around with is to take the set of assumptions that seem core to the Berkmanites and go through systematically, varying each of the assumption, and seeing what falls out. It's led to some interesting results: http://brosephstalin.com/2009/12/08/mapping-out-the-space-zittrainism-and-more/. Once that's out in the open, it'd be neat to lay these chronologically, to start to build a coherent story about how these positions have interacted. Agreed on the particular narrowness that all this may be to a certain extent US-centric or democracy-specific. Though the Berkman School's pretty cosmopolitan and international in its outlook, would be interested in the ideas floating around other intellectual communities around the world and their concept of the web. I'm sadly less familiar with that literature and that space, unfortunately -- thoughts on where might be good to look? Figuring it might be worth looking at Berkman's traditional enemies, and trying to pull out a "school" of thought from less academic actors, like you suggest. Thanks for this comment! Really interesting to get to hear the reaction to the post.

Fascinated by the concept of trying to map out the intellectual space beyond the Berkman Center (or even trying to figure out what the splinter positions are in the overall discussion). One approach that I’ve been playing around with is to take the set of assumptions that seem core to the Berkmanites and go through systematically, varying each of the assumption, and seeing what falls out. It’s led to some interesting results: http://brosephstalin.com/2009/12/08/mapping-out-the-space-zittrainism-and-more/. Once that’s out in the open, it’d be neat to lay these chronologically, to start to build a coherent story about how these positions have interacted.

Agreed on the particular narrowness that all this may be to a certain extent US-centric or democracy-specific. Though the Berkman School’s pretty cosmopolitan and international in its outlook, would be interested in the ideas floating around other intellectual communities around the world and their concept of the web. I’m sadly less familiar with that literature and that space, unfortunately — thoughts on where might be good to look? Figuring it might be worth looking at Berkman’s traditional enemies, and trying to pull out a “school” of thought from less academic actors, like you suggest.

]]> Comment on On the ‘Berkman School’ and its limits by Mapping Out The Space: “Zittrainism” and More « http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/gwbstr/2009/12/05/on-the-berkman-school-and-its-limits/comment-page-1/#comment-16 Mapping Out The Space: “Zittrainism” and More « Tue, 08 Dec 2009 05:35:31 +0000 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/gwbstr/?p=44#comment-16 [...] From a conversation with Graham Webster about how to start to map out the intellectual space about the internet beyond the Berkman School by using the old school polysci trick of putting everything into a 2×2 grid. Here, we’re varying the first two pillars/assumptions of the Berkman School, holding all else constant. For the first assumption, we vary whether or not the group of assumptions has relatively greater faith and emphasis on users or institutions in shaping the web. For the second, we vary whether or not the group of assumptions places importance on “The Internet” as a particular set of features and characteristics, or is more agnostic between various forms for different purposes. Doing so seems to make a variety of interesting positions fall out. [...] [...] From a conversation with Graham Webster about how to start to map out the intellectual space about the internet beyond the Berkman School by using the old school polysci trick of putting everything into a 2×2 grid. Here, we’re varying the first two pillars/assumptions of the Berkman School, holding all else constant. For the first assumption, we vary whether or not the group of assumptions has relatively greater faith and emphasis on users or institutions in shaping the web. For the second, we vary whether or not the group of assumptions places importance on “The Internet” as a particular set of features and characteristics, or is more agnostic between various forms for different purposes. Doing so seems to make a variety of interesting positions fall out. [...]

]]> Comment on At the top of U.S. government, no mobile phones? by Marcus Young http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/gwbstr/2009/09/22/at-the-top-of-u-s-government-no-mobile-phones/comment-page-1/#comment-8 Marcus Young Sun, 08 Nov 2009 01:03:47 +0000 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/gwbstr/?p=15#comment-8 Great post as per usual. I really like this glad. Off to google to do more research. Great post as per usual. I really like this glad. Off to google to do more research.

]]> Comment on U.S. Justice Department opposes Google Books settlement by Weekly Email: 24 September 2009 « Culture Politick http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/gwbstr/2009/09/20/u-s-justice-department-opposes-google-books-settlement/comment-page-1/#comment-6 Weekly Email: 24 September 2009 « Culture Politick Thu, 05 Nov 2009 12:01:22 +0000 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/gwbstr/?p=12#comment-6 [...] the parties to continue their discussion to address its concerns, more HERE This Harvard Law blog, HERE suggests three improvements that would begin to address many of the concerns that have been [...] [...] the parties to continue their discussion to address its concerns, more HERE This Harvard Law blog, HERE suggests three improvements that would begin to address many of the concerns that have been [...]

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