Archive for the 'Benjamen Walker' Category
geekroom20 - April 5, 2006 @ 2:27 pm
· Oxford Internet Institute, audio, Zephyr Techout, Benjamen Walker, Internet, Berkman Center, Politics
Zephyr Teachout examines the Internet’s transformative role in Eastern European politics. She explains, “Around the same time I was working on the Dean Campaign, Maidan.net, a Ukranian website, was building a powerful citizen media network that would be part of changing their country forever.”
Produced by Benjamen Walker and drawing on interviews with political activists from the Ukraine and Estonia, the podcast emerged from Berkman’s annual Internet & Politics conference, held last year at the Oxford Internet Institute and sponsored by eBay and the Omidyar Network. The event brought together academics, activists and policy-makers with a view to identifying new and exciting developments which challenge existing models of e-participation, while highlighting areas where policy and practice in Eastern Europe could be informed by and inform — research and experience from other parts of the world.
Having made our way from North America to Europe, we are hoping to continue the conversations later this year in South Asia — in nothing less than the world’s largest democracy. More on that as it happens…
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geekroom20 - January 3, 2005 @ 5:55 am
· Rebecca MacKinnon, audio, Global Voices, Benjamen Walker, Conference, Berkman Center, Internet
Berkman Fellow Rebecca MacKinnon and radio producer Benjamen Walker put together this audio report about the Global Voices track of our conference last month, Votes, Bits & Bytes. The conference focused on how the internet has affected politics, and Global Voices in particular drew together bloggers from around the world to examine the effect of blogs on an international scale. Later this week, the Berkman Center will officially begin podcasting its audio features, including a new piece about the conference.
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geekroom20 - May 13, 2004 @ 9:34 am
· Fair Use, Benjamen Walker, Citizen Media, Berkman Center, Internet, Intellectual Property
The success of the blog in helping Internet users communicate is undeniable, but what happens when this medium is used not just to share ideas but to share music, too? The MP3 blog is a new and fast growing phenomenon that stretches our understanding of copryight, fair use, the purpose of a blog. Is the MP3 blog just a new version of filesharing, or is it a new medium that could transform the way we will listen to music in the future? AudioBerkman’s Benjamen Walker has this report (available for stream and download).
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MP3 Blogs in the Piece
Other Good MP3 Blogs:
*Note, an earlier version of this piece, “Blog Jockeys,” also aired on the NPR show, On the Media.
AudioBerkman is licensed under a Creative Commons license.
geekroom20 - April 6, 2004 @ 6:53 am
· Mary Bridges, audio, Benjamen Walker, Citizen Media, Conference, Berkman Center, Internet
Online communities are all the rage in recent web-talk. Friendster, Orkut, RSS feeds, and blog rolls have popularized the idea of social networks in cyberspace and have given thousands of people easy access to participation in an online group. But does anybody know what these communities really look like? AudioBerkman was looking for answers to exactly this question, so we traveled to South by Southwest Interactive one example of an online community to find out what happens when a social network meets, not just in real time, but in real space. In the age of WiFi and wikis, has technology made us more interactive or less? Listen in to find out.
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geekroom20 - March 24, 2004 @ 6:29 am
· Colin Maclay, Benjamen Walker, audio, Developing Countries, Berkman Center, Internet, Conference, Governance
AudioBerkman brings you inside the World Summit on the Information Society the enormous UN-sponsored convention held in December 2003. WSIS brought together a staggering number of international diplomats, scholars, activists, and government officials for discussions about the future of information and communications technologies (ICTs). How do you make sense of a milestone this big? The scholarly journal, Information Technologies and International Development, asked exactly this question in January by issuing a call for papers for an issue devoted to making sense of WSIS. AudioBerkman follows Colin Maclay, a Berkman Center fellow and contributor to the journal, as he and ITID editors sift submissions and try to evaluate the legacy of WSIS. (running time: 9 min)
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geekroom20 - February 27, 2004 @ 10:56 am
· Charles Nesson, audio, Benjamen Walker, John Perry Barlow, Internet, Berkman Center, Governance
Ten years ago, in the March 1994 issue of Wired, Berkman fellow John Perry Barlow fired a revolutionary shot heard ’round the world. In his essay The Economy of Ideas he announced to the world that everything we know about intellectual property is wrong. Audio Berkman producer Benjamen Walker took a trip to New York City to mark this ten year anniversary. Listen in: Looking Back on an Internet Decade with John Perry Barlow (16 minutes).
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geekroom20 - February 6, 2004 @ 6:58 am
· Scott Kirsner, Urs Gasser, Benjamen Walker, audio, Mike McGuire, Fred von Lohmann, Internet, Digital Media Project, Berkman Center, Intellectual Property
Don’t let its size deceive you — this sleek little gadget is shaking the foundations of the digital media debate. In “The Gadget Factor,” AudioBerkman takes a closer look a cool new class of high-tech toys — the portable MP3 player — to find out how these devices are affecting the world of online music. We talk to business analysts, lawyers, and RIAA President Cary Sherman and ask how the iPod has changed the way people use digital media. Our results might surprise you… (running time: 12 minutes)
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Learn more about the digital media debate by visiting the Berkman Center’s Digital Media Project homepage, which contains research reports and a roadmap for the future of the debate.
The people we interviewed:
All music used in the piece is licensed through Creative Commons.
geekroom20 - January 21, 2004 @ 4:22 am
· Benjamen Walker, Entrepreneurship, audio, Berkman Center, Conference, Innovation, Internet, Digital Media Project, Intellectual Property
Industry leaders, musicians, legal scholars, and international experts convened at Harvard Law School this fall to discuss one of the most controversial subjects in internet law: the future of digital media. This audio documentary offers a window into the conference — a chance to overhear experts’ views and business leaders’ concerns. Running time: 15 minutes.
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Full Description
Get behind the scenes of a conference held at Harvard Law School this fall to discuss the future of Digital Media. The conference is part of a long-term study at the Berkman Center — the Digital Media Project — to analyze the different legal principles, business models, and interest groups vying to reshape the distribution of creative content in the digital age. Listen to what the experts had to say… (Running time: 15 minutes)
Background
The Digital Media Project investigates five scenarios that forceast different directions the copyright and digital media debate could take. These scenarios address questions like: what if copyright law becomes more restrictive, how will DRM systems will shape use of digital media, and what role technology will play in the future of this debate?In the coming weeks, we’ll offer another look at a conference held at Harvard in December to discuss Alternative Compensation Systems and the idea of an Internet-based Entertainment Co-op.
