Hey folks! We’re hoping to take Radio Berkman in some amazing new directions this Spring, but we want your feedback.
Should we change our name? How can we tell better stories? What’s missing from current reporting on tech and internet issues?
We’ve made up a cute little survey right here, and would love for you to drop us some thoughts!
If you’re a regular listener, or just finding us for the first time, help us out with some ideas, would you?
February 14th, 2012
At the Hyperpublic Symposium, danah boyd of Microsoft Research discusses how young people adapt to and modify norms and techniques for privacy on social networks. Jeffrey Schnapp of the Metalab moderates.
The Hyperpublic symposium brings together computer scientists, ethnographers, architects, historians, artists and legal scholars to discuss how design influences privacy and public space, how it shapes and is shaped by human behavior and experience, and how it can cultivate norms such as tolerance and diversity.
This symposium was held on June 10, 2011 at Harvard University. Find out more here.
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June 10th, 2011
As more and more content moves into the cloud libraries are decreasingly the single place to go to find the material you need for your research (except for rare books and special collections). But libraries know a huge amount about their contents. This metadata is becoming even more valuable as research moves online, since now it can be deployed to help scholars and researchers discover, understand, and share what they need to know. The co-directors of the Harvard Library Innovation Lab at Harvard Law School—Kim Dulin and David Weinberger—along with members of the Lab will demonstrate their lead project (ShelfLife) and talk about the Lab’s proposed multi-library metadata server (LibraryCloud).
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November 9th, 2010
Wikipedia’s style of collaborative production has been lauded, lambasted, and satirized. Despite unease over its implications for the character (and quality) of knowledge, Wikipedia has brought us closer than ever to a realization of the century-old pursuit of a universal encyclopedia.
Joseph Reagle—a fellow at the Berkman Center for Internet and Society—discusses insights from his new book Good Faith Collaboration: The Culture of Wikipedia, a rich ethnographic portrayal of Wikipedia’s historical roots, collaborative culture, and much debated legacy.
See Charles Nesson’s recent blogpost about Good Faith Collaboration
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October 19th, 2010
Wikipedia’s style of collaborative production has been lauded, lambasted, and satirized. Despite unease over its implications for the character (and quality) of knowledge, Wikipedia has brought us closer than ever to a realization of the century-old pursuit of a universal encyclopedia.
Joseph Reagle—a fellow at the Berkman Center for Internet and Society—discusses insights from his new book Good Faith Collaboration: The Culture of Wikipedia, a rich ethnographic portrayal of Wikipedia’s historical roots, collaborative culture, and much debated legacy.
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October 19th, 2010
Changes in membership and fundraising regimes are affecting the political economy of interest group action, dramatically altering the interest group ecology of American politics. Despite online information abundance, there are issues with studying groups who keep the important data behind firewalls. Rutgers Assistant Professor and Yale Information Society Project Fellow Dave Karpf discusses his research on the emergence of a new generation of internet-mediated political advocacy groups in America.
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October 12th, 2010
Changes in membership and fundraising regimes are affecting the political economy of interest group action, dramatically altering the interest group ecology of American politics. Despite online information abundance, there are issues with studying groups who keep the important data behind firewalls. Rutgers Assistant Professor and Yale Information Society Project Fellow Dave Karpf discusses his research on the emergence of a new generation of internet-mediated political advocacy groups in America.
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October 12th, 2010
Big congratulations to our pals over PRX for winning a Knight News Challenge grant! They’ve revolutionized the distribution of content for audio for public radio, and now they’re going to revolutionize the creation of audio for public radio.
Pitch: “To take the software from Spot.us and adapt it for public radio.”
Public Radio Exchange is going to take the crowd-funding idea of Spot.us and extend it to public radio stations, enabling loyal listeners — many of whom are already supporting the station — to fund local content by donating to stories that they find important.
With Spot.us, readers see pitches for stories from freelance journalists and are able to fund the cost of that story by contributing. This project will extend the crowd-funding idea to a medium, and one that is already thriving through user donations.
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June 16th, 2010
In The Power of Pull, authors John Hagel III, John Seely Brown, and Lang Davison discuss how “pull” can be more systematically used to shape serendipity. As part of the Web of Ideas discussion series at the Berkman Center, David Weinberger interviews co-author John Hagel III on The Power of Pull — and how “pull” can bring us together to drive more rapid performance improvement in any arena, from extreme surfing to large scale business networks emerging in China.
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April 28th, 2010
Although computers have advanced dramatically over the last 50 years, they still do not possess the basic conceptual intelligence that most humans take for granted. By leveraging human skills and abilities in a novel way we can solve large-scale computational problems and collect training data to teach computers many basic human talents. Professor Luis von Ahn — of the Computer Science Department at Carnegie Mellon University — discusses how human brains can act as processors in a distributed system, each performing a small part of a massive computation.
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