Berkman in the News

October 8, 2008. South Korea wants to gag the noisy internet rabble. Gaurdian

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''Professor Jonathan Zittrain, co-founder of Harvard's Berkman Centre for Internet & Society, says other aspects of the new laws are unworkable. 'There are genuine worries about misinformation that can be spread online, but...'''

October 8, 2008. Christian Science Monitor. New media feels heat after Apple misstep

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''Both models have their place, says David Ardia, head of the Citizen Media Law Project at Harvard University's Berkman Center for Internet & Society, but users must give the crowd-sourced model time to work.''

October 7, 2008. Irrawaddy. Burma's IT Generation Combats Regime Repression

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'''The uprising in Burma is ultimately an example of a protest where digitally network technologies played a critical role' researcher Mridul Chowdhury reported in his paper 'The Role of the Internet in Burma’s Saffron Revolutionr...''

October 2. Inside Higher Ed. Understanding Students Who Were 'Born Digital'

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''If the technologies students use — and sometimes abuse — add up to an overwhelming jumble for some professors who teach them, John Palfrey and Urs Gasser have written a book that they hope will bridge the generation gap...''

September 26, 2008. IT Business Edge. What Google's Anonymity Policies Mean for Business Users

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''Lora Bentley spoke with Hal Roberts, who studies privacy and surveillance issues for Harvard's Berkman Center for Internet and Society.''

September 24, 2008. Christian Science Monitor. O3b Networks: A far-out plan to deliver the Web

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'''The uptake on mobile phones in Africa is phenomenal,' says Ethan Zuckerman, a fellow at the Berkman Center for Internet and Society at Harvard Law School and the founder of GeekCorps, a nonprofit group working to expand Internet use in emerging nations.''

September 23, 2008. Los Angeles Times. His kitty site became a caboodle

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''Increasingly, popular culture is taking its cues from user-generated Web content that can quickly spread far and wide, said Tim Hwang, an Internet culture expert with the Berkman Center for Internet and Society at Harvard Law School.''

September 22, 2008. San Jose Mercury News. One Web Day, an 'Earth Day' for the Internet, celebrates online activism

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'''Think of One Web Day as an environmental movement for the Internet ecosystem,' wrote Eszter Hargittai, a fellow at the Berkman Center for Internet and Society at Harvard Law School.''

September 15, 2008. Conde Nast Portfolio. Talking of Microsoft, Thinking of Google

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The anniversary conference was organized by Phil Malone, director of the Cyber Law Clinic at Harvard Law's Berkman Center for Internet and Society. While a lawyer with the Justice Department's San Francisco office, Malone led a team of Justice lawyers who amassed the thousands of emails, contracts found to be illegal and other conduct that led to the finding that Microsoft had abused its monopoly power.

September 11, 2008. Business Week. Can America Invent Its Way Back?

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''[Karim] Lakhani has been studying what is called distributed innovation, in which solutions to a business or technical problem are solicited from a wide variety of people.''