Eric von Hippel, a long-time affiliate with the Berkman Center, leads off our 2010 season of lunch talks with a discussion of “Household Sector” innovation.… Read More »Eric von Hippel and 2.9 million British innovators
In a recent blog post, my friend and colleague Evgeny Morozov questions the responsibilities of academics who study internet censorship circumvention tools. As one of… Read More »Evaluating censorship circumvention tools and “irresponsibility”
Heather Blanchard, Noel Dickover and Andrew Turner from Crisis Commons visited the Berkman Center Tuesday to discuss the rapidly growing technology and crisis response space.… Read More »Crisis Commons, and the challenges of distributed disaster response
Kate Crawford of the Journalism and Media Research Centre at the University of New South Wales in Sydney, is two years into conducting a massive… Read More »Kate Crawford: mobile media and the art of noise
I’ve just spent two weeks giving lectures and workshops in five cities and three countries. Some were ones I’d planned for months, like the TED… Read More »“Either you make films or make excuses” – ICT and the Nigerian film industry
Nancy Baym, communications professor at the University of Kansas, is a visiting researcher at Microsoft Research in Cambridge this summer… which means we’re lucky enough… Read More »Nancy Baym: Pop music and social exchange