BKC is building a pillar of work on the topic of digital discourse, and we’re proud to share our first output this season: Harvard Law School’s Molly Cinnamon’s wide-ranging and cross-sectoral new white paper that follows the online harassment of journalists through its full lifespan and offers entry points for technologists, regulators, and funders to take action now. Journalists must be protected from abuse, dogpiling, and ultimately, a chilling effect on their reporting. This white paper provides recommendations for interventions to interrupt these democracy-threatening and psychologically damaging cycles. Part of a timely new project launching via the Applied Social Media Lab this September, the author encourages journalists and the stakeholders who work on their behalf – media organizations, law enforcement, cybersecurity professionals, nonprofits, and more – to leverage their collective strengths to combat this destabilizing phenomenon. If you work in this arena, please comment below – we want to hear from you! http://brk.mn/dogpiling
Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society at Harvard University
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About us
The Berkman Klein Center's mission is to explore and understand cyberspace; to study its development, dynamics, norms, and standards; and to assess the need or lack thereof for laws and sanctions. We are a research center, premised on the observation that what we seek to learn is not already recorded. Our method is to build out into cyberspace, record data as we go, self-study, and share. Our mode is entrepreneurial nonprofit.
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http://cyber.law.harvard.edu
External link for Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society at Harvard University
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Employees at Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society at Harvard University
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David Weinberger
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Jonathan Bellack
Director of the Applied Social Media Lab at Harvard's Berkman Klein Center for Internet and Society, Xoogler, 30-year Internet veteran
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Brendan Miller
Advancing digital democracy and healthy social media
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David Homa
Strategy and Operations Executive | Digital Data Design Institute at Harvard | Digital Technology Literacy Expert
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BKC is building a pillar of work on the topic of digital discourse, and we’re proud to share our first output this season: Harvard Law School’s Molly Cinnamon’s wide-ranging and cross-sectoral new whitepaper that follows the online harassment of journalists through its full lifespan and offers entry points for technologists, regulators, and funders to take action now. Journalists must be protected from abuse, dogpiling, and ultimately, a chilling effect on their reporting. This whitepaper provides recommendations for interventions to interrupt these democracy-threatening and psychologically damaging cycles. Part of a timely new project launching via the Applied Social Media Lab this September, the author encourages journalists and the stakeholders who work on their behalf – media organizations, law enforcement, cybersecurity professionals, nonprofits, and more – to leverage their collective strengths to combat this destabilizing phenomenon. If you work in this arena, please comment below – we want to hear from you! brk.mn/dogpiling
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The Applied Social Media Lab at the Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society at Harvard University is hiring! We are looking for a senior software engineer to join the team! The role includes working with a cross-functional team on new types of social media technology and envisioning innovative ways to shape social media's future. Learn more and apply: https://lnkd.in/eSrtjMTC
Senior Software Engineer, Applied Social Media Lab
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Excited be joining as a Berkman Klein fellow this fall!
The Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society at Harvard University is thrilled to announce an extraordinary cohort of incoming fellows for the 2024-2025 academic year. The group’s expertise and interests range from AI’s role in children’s development, neuropsychiatry, and political theology; to the link between digitization and populist movements; to the changing landscape of internet censorship. Coming this fall to Cambridge, MA, the cohort will gather together for dialogue, shared learning, and participation in BKC’s public programming. Congratulations to those selected! Read more on their areas of focus and backgrounds: brk.mn/2425fellows
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Meet Berkman Klein’s newest additions: our 2024-25 fellows! These experts in law, tech policy, psychology, and journalism join our community this fall to engage in discourse about the future of the internet on and off-campus, deepen their research projects, and learn from one another’s unique perspectives and backgrounds. Special welcomes from our Director of Community Rebecca Tabasky, Faculty Director Jonathan Zittrain, and Managing Director Tara Kripowicz! These incoming fellows join BKC’s dynamic community of faculty associates, affiliates, and visiting scholars with research, industry, and civil society experience drawn from around the globe. https://lnkd.in/ehhd5bxz
Berkman Klein Center Announces Incoming 2024-2025 Fellows
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I am thrilled to share that this month I began as a Senior Fellow at Instituto de Tecnologia e Sociedade (ITS Rio), continuing our collaboration on AI and broader tech ethics and education across boundaries. ☀️ Last week at “#AI20: Artificial Intelligence in the Global Context” hosted by ITS Rio in partnership with Alexander von Humboldt Institute for Internet and Society and DWIH São Paulo, I spoke about strategies for research and economic development on a panel with João Falcão (Museum of Tomorrow), Nina von Sartori (German Ministry of Education and Research), and Marconi Edson Ferreira Viana (BNDES), moderated by Vincent Hofmann (HIIG). I outlined the current research ecosystem in the US and the need to start by defining goals and not the technological tools of the moment. Then at the Global Sandboxes Forum inaugural event, organized by The Datasphere Initiative and Lorrayne Porciuncula, Bertrand de LA CHAPELLE and Carolina A. Rossini, JD, MA, LLM, MBA and featuring regulatory sandbox experts like the Global Network of Centers’ Armando Guio Español. There I spoke on a panel on ‘Sandboxes in Municipalities’ moderated by Maria Marinho with Carina Quirino, Marcelo Almeida, Rafael Fassio, Michael Hennessey, and Guilherme D. F. Dominguez. I discussed why we need to define measures of success from the onset and how to evaluate throughout the sandbox process. These past two weeks have been rich with conversations and planning with colleagues: ITS’s Celina Mendes de Almeida Bottino, Sérgio Branco, Carlos Affonso Souza, Fabro Steibel, and Pedro Gueiros, Network of Centers’ colleagues Florian Martin-Bariteau and Wolfgang Schulz and so many other amazing people including Laura Galindo-Romero 🌎, Thiago Moraes, Isadora Perez Peixoto, Virgilio Almeida, Ysold Gendreau, Gabriella Seiler, Isabella Frahjof, Alexandre Evsukoff, Gabriela Agustini, and Marcio Weichert. Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society at Harvard University https://lnkd.in/gVDyw9Av https://lnkd.in/geTF_taE
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Program Manager at Harvard // Artificial Intelligence & Student Engagement // Equity & Inclusion // Educator & Social Worker
One of the joys at working at the Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society at Harvard University is the opportunity to interact and learn from the fellows that come to the Center each year. I can't wait to get curious with these experts in AI, social media, and university discourse. Congrats to the new cohort! brk.mn/2425fellows
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Meet BKC's 2024-25 Fellows! First up are Ben Brooks and George Chaloub. Ben Brooks is currently Head of Public Policy Stability AI. Ben brings expertise in regulatory reform for emerging technology. As a fellow, Ben will scrutinize the regulatory and legislative response to generative AI, with a focus on the implications for open-source AI development, distribution, and deployment. Welcome, Ben! 👋 George Chalhoub is an Assistant Professor at University College London and an Associate Member at the University of Oxford. He holds a PhD in Cyber Security from the University of Oxford, where he also completed a postdoctoral position. He has previously worked at Microsoft Research and Nokia Bell Labs. As a fellow, his research will focus on the effectiveness and misuse of copyright takedown notices under the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA). See you in the other Cambridge, George 😀
Berkman Klein Center Announces Incoming 2024-2025 Fellows
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Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society at Harvard University reposted this
The Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society at Harvard University recently announced a new cohort of fellows for the coming academic year, uniting experts on artificial intelligence, social media, internet censorship, and more. brk.mn/2425fellows
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Berkman Klein Fellow @ Harvard | Fall 2025: Info Sci Professor @ CU Boulder | MIT PhD | Forbes 30 Under 30
I'm excited to be joining this fantastic cohort of interdisciplinary thinkers at the Berkman Klein Center in September.
The Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society at Harvard University is thrilled to announce an extraordinary cohort of incoming fellows for the 2024-2025 academic year. The group’s expertise and interests range from AI’s role in children’s development, neuropsychiatry, and political theology; to the link between digitization and populist movements; to the changing landscape of internet censorship. Coming this fall to Cambridge, MA, the cohort will gather together for dialogue, shared learning, and participation in BKC’s public programming. Congratulations to those selected! Read more on their areas of focus and backgrounds: brk.mn/2425fellows