| Subject: | 2014 Summer Internship Program, Berkman Center for Internet & Society, Application Deadline Feb. 16 |
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| Date: | Mon, 13 Jan 2014 11:54:53 -0500 |
| From: | Rebecca Tabasky <rtabasky@cyber.law.harvard.edu> |
| To: | jobs-list@eon.law.harvard.edu |
Law students: please find
application instructions and important additional information
here.
Students from disciplines other than law:
please find more information and application instructions
here.
Required application materials for all include:
The application deadline for all students for
Summer 2014 is Sunday, February 16, 2014 at 11:59 p.m. ET.
We look forward to hearing from you!
Questions? Check out our FAQ, and if
you have a question not addressed there, email Rebecca Tabasky
at rtabasky@cyber.law.harvard.edu.
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Select Expected Summer 2014 Opportunities:
Chilling Effects
Summer interns working for Chilling Effects will work on a
range of assignments, including: writing blog posts, updating
news and research resources for on-site publication; helping
with managing and curating the database, including coding
metadata and working with source partners to facilitate the
ingestion and processing of notices; working on domestic and
international collaboration initiatives; event planning and
management; and working on research and writing projects
centered on the database corpus, either internally or in
collaboration with external researchers. Applicants with
coding skills in Ruby and Postgres will have opportunities to
work with the new Chilling Effects site. More information
about Chilling Effects is at http://www.chillingeffects.org/.
CopyrightX
CopyrightX is a networked course—not a true
MOOC—that the Berkman Center has helped to produce during each
of the past two years. The course, offered under the auspices
of Harvard Law School, HarvardX,
and Berkman, explores the current law of copyright and the
ongoing debates concerning how that law should be reformed.
Through a combination of pre-recorded lectures, weekly
seminars, live webcasts, and online discussions, participants
in the course examine and assess the ways in which law seeks
to stimulate and regulate creative expression. Many
activities fall under the umbrella of “producing” CopyrightX,
including refining the pedagogical model, analyzing course
data, vetting and choosing the technology that supports the
course (which extends to improving existing tools and creating
new ones), and generally ensuring that the course team is up
to date on the latest currents in digital learning, blended
learning, and online higher education. Law students strongly
interested in copyright law and/or pedagogy, who are also
excited about delving into the mixed suite of activities
mentioned above, are highly encouraged to apply. Several other
kinds of talents and interests would be a good fits, too,
including education research skills and web development (with
an interest in or openness to edu-tech). Find more at http://copyx.org.
Cyberlaw Clinic
The Cyberlaw Clinic provides high-quality, pro-bono legal
services to individuals, start-ups, non-profit organizations,
and government entities. Every summer, clinic interns
contribute to a wide range of real-world projects related to
the Internet and technology. Interns may help the Clinic team
provide guidance on open access, digital copyright, and fair
use issues; support advocacy efforts to protect online speech
and anonymity; develop legal resources for citizen journalists
and new media organizations; advise courts on innovative uses
of technology to increase citizens’ access to justice; or
draft reference documents and training materials for educators
on children's privacy and online safety. Interns in the
Cyberlaw Clinic can expect direct hands-on experience working
with clients under the supervision of the Clinic's staff
attorneys. More information about the Cyberlaw Clinic can be
found at http://cyberlawclinic.berkman.harvard.edu.
Digital Media and Communications Squad
The intern with Berkman’s digital media and communications
squad will have a chance to use a number of video and audio
production resources to tell the world about the amazing
Internet research and action coming out of Berkman. This
intern will be chiefly responsible for helping to create the Radio Berkman
audio podcast, but will also play a role in
producing video (like
these). On any given day you could be
interviewing a senior
Berkman researcher or guest, helping to
produce a dynamic
video explainer on Internet censorship, or
digging up astonished cat GIFs to accompany a blog post about
the latest NSA-leak revelations. This intern should have: (1)
experience with audio editing software (Logic, Soundtrack,
Audacity, Soundbooth, or other); (2) excellent writing skills;
and (3) enthusiasm and an open mind for creating and executing
fun ideas. Useful but not mandatory: experience in video
production/editing, Photoshop/Illustrator, animation, social
media management, Wordpress/Drupal platforms.
Digital Media Law Project
Summer interns at the Digital Media Law Project will work on a
wide range of legal research and writing projects relating to
media law, intellectual property, and the intersection of
journalism and the internet. In past years, interns have
updated the Legal
Guide to media law topics, developed
entries for the database
of threats against online publishers,
commented on current issues in law and media on the
blog, and provided research and
drafting assistance on
amicus briefs. Interns may also
be asked to assist with the operation and expansion of the Online
Media Legal Network, an attorney referral
service for digital publishers, and with other projects that
the DMLP undertakes in conjunction with its partner
organizations around the world. More information on can be
found on the DMLP website at http://www.dmlp.org/about/summer-internships.
Digital Problem-Solving Initiative
The Digital
Problem-Solving Initiative (DPSI) is a
University-wide, highly-collaborative project that begun as a
pilot in Spring 2013 to offer Harvard students the opportunity
to strengthen their digital competencies by learning and
working in small interdisciplinary teams of faculty, staff
members, and students from across the University on
practicable use cases of digital problem solving. The DPSI
pilot has prototyped an open and collaborative model in which
students work with mentors at the University, engage with real
use cases in a range of areas, generate tangible and useful
outputs, and inform the development of DPSI overall. Past use
cases have concerned diverse topics like innovation spaces,
museums/technology-enhanced curatorial practices, big data,
institutional uses of social media, and online organizational
identity-building. (See an example of innovation spaces here).
DPSI interns will support the Berkman team in assessing the
13-14 DPSI pilot and planning for the program’s future
expansion. Work may include outreach across the University and
schools, interaction with faculty, staff, and students, event
planning, report writing, and general creative thinking and
brainstorming. Compelling candidates could be interested in
and/or excited about any of the topics mentioned above, as
well as innovation at universities and within education,
design, student entrepreneurship, team building and
collaboration, interdisciplinarity and technology. Most
importantly, candidates should be creative, independent
thinkers, strong communicators, and team players. For more
information, visit http://dpsipilot.tumblr.com/.
Freedom of Expression
The Berkman Center's suite of freedom of expression-related
projects, including Internet Monitor, Herdict, and others, is
seeking a small team of interns to conduct research on
Internet filtering, monitoring, and control efforts around the
globe; engage in related data gathering efforts using online
sources; contribute to report writing; blog regularly about
issues concerning online freedom of expression; and manage
various projects' Twitter and Facebook accounts. In the past,
interns have also supported research on blogospheres and other
online communities around the world, contributed to literature
reviews, and hand coded online content. Foreign language
skills, particularly in Persian, Arabic, Russian, and Chinese,
are useful. More information about some of Berkman’s work on
freedom of expression can be found at the following links: http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/research/internetmonitor
; http://www.herdict.org/web/.
Geek Cave
Interns joining the Geek Cave may extend open source software,
build scalable websites, or manage the mixed desktop network
that keeps the Center moving. Our team works with ruby, perl,
php, bash, jQuery, PostgreSQL, MySQL and a slew of other
tools. We have a small group of talented, devoted, fun,
full-time developers on staff that can help hone your 1337
coding skillz as well provide fun projects to pair code or
geek out on; two project managers to help you keep your work
on track; and hardware and software support to help deploy
your projects on Berkman infrastructure. More info about the
projects that we work on can be found on our github
organization page at http://github.com/berkmancenter.
Internet Governance
The Berkman Center seeks a team of interns to do research and
planning around multistakeholder models for Internet
governance and recent
related events on the global landscape. On
the heels of the announcement from Brazilian President Dilma
Roussef and ICANN
(Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers) of a high-level
commission charged with investigating different modes of
Internet governance as well as a
large conference to take place in São Paolo, Brazil, in
April to explore different findings,
Berkman — in collaboration with its international partners —
plans to contribute to the academic debate with literature
reviews, briefing documents, expert opinions, and workshops.
Internet governance interns will work closely with Professor
Urs Gasser and Research Director Rob Faris and should be adept
researchers and communicators interested in international
relations and Internet policy. For more information on the
unfolding debate around Internet governance, see “The Internet
Governance Project,” articles in CircleID,
and 1net.org,
the public-facing website and discussion forum for the panel
on the future of Internet governance.
Internet Robustness - Software Development
The intern for the Internet Robustness project will work to
extend open source development for software that makes (you
guessed it) the Internet more robust and resilient to attacks
and disappearing content. Our Robustness software is written
in Lua, with a little bit of php and C, but we're interested
in anyone who wants to help code our way to a better Web. The
Internet Robustness software development intern will also work
closely with the Berkman Center's Geek
Cave and have opportunities for paired
development on other spiffy projects. Read more about the
project at http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/research/internetrobustness.
Harvard Open Access Project (HOAP)
HOAP fosters open access (OA) to research within Harvard and
beyond, undertakes research on OA, and provides OA to timely
and accurate information about OA itself. HOAP interns may
enlarge the Open Access Directory (OAD), a wiki-based
encyclopedia of OA, help with ongoing OA research projects, or
contribute to the Open Access Tracking Project (OATP), a
social-tagging project organizing knowledge about OA. They
might also help document and promote TagTeam, a HOAP-directed
open-source tagging platform built at Berkman to support OATP.
More information about HOAP can be found at: http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/hoap/Main_Page.
Media Cloud - Research and Technical
Development
Media Cloud, a joint project of the Berkman
Center and the MIT Center
for Civic Media, seeks summer interns to
contribute to our team’s effort to build new tools and methods
that allow us to study and better analyze the shape and
dynamics of the
networked public sphere.
Research interns with Media Cloud will contribute to the
research, data collection, and synthesis of case studies
developed as part of the Controversy Mapping tool, which
allows researchers to use the Media Cloud platform’s data
collection and network visualization tools to map the
evolution of a particular public affair, debate, or policy
conversation (such as controversies related to the
SOPA/PIPA debate, Trayvon
Martin, NSA, and more).
Technical development interns with Media Cloud will help to
extend and improve the project’s features. We are looking for
developers interested in online media research, big data, and
natural language processing. More information
about Media Cloud is available at http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/research/mediacloud
and you can see the project in action at
http://www.mediacloud.org.
metaLAB
metaLAB is a research and teaching unit dedicated to exploring
and expanding the frontiers of networked culture in the arts
and humanities. In summer 2014, an intern will help us to
produce a workshop in digital art history involving scholars,
developers, and designers from across the country, which takes
place at the end of June. In the balance of the summer, the
intern's time will be split between Teaching with Things, an
initiative to explore the use of multimedia to document,
annotate, and remix objects in Harvard's libraries and museums
for teaching; and a project documenting urban ecology. These
projects will call upon writing, media, and design skills, and
will furnish opportunities for learning across such varied
domains as ethnography, editing, and software development.
Some time will be spent outdoors in summer weather, likely in
forested urban settings. More about metaLAB is available at http://metalab.harvard.edu/.
Online Intermediaries
The Berkman Center, in conjunction with the Network
of Interdisciplinary Research Centers for Internet &
Society, is taking the lead on a multi-year
research project intended to produce several policy-oriented
studies of online intermediaries in a range of international
contexts. The overarching focus will be areas of convergence
and disagreement regarding the liability and responsibility of
online intermediaries, and the ways in which the liability to
which they are subject influences their ultimate success or
failure. Summer interns working on this effort may be asked
to help curate and expand a shared repository of materials for
the projects research groups, research and edit country case
studies and use cases, create a synthesizing white paper, and
coordinate efforts with partners and colleagues.
Privacy Tools for Sharing Research Data
The Privacy Tools for Sharing Research Data project is a
collaboration between three Harvard institutions - the Center
for Research on Computation & Society (CRCS)
at the School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, the Institute
for Quantitative Social Science (IQSS), and
the Berkman Center. The project seeks to develop
computational and legal methods, tools, and policies to
further the tremendous value that can come from collecting,
analyzing, and sharing data while more fully protecting the
privacy of individuals whose information resides within large
data sets. The Berkman Center’s role in this collaboration is
to identify shortcomings in legislation and policy, and to
create legal instruments that complement the new technical
approaches to privacy being developed by our collaborators in
the project. The Berkman team is looking for rising second
and third-year law students to help with research and analysis
on privacy law and policy issues. Summer interns may conduct
research and write memoranda on selected topics in law, draft
data sharing agreements, aid in the development of new
conceptual models for privacy legislation, summarize recent
publications in professional journals, and attend lectures and
events with the larger project team. Other opportunities to
participate in project activities may arise during the summer.
More information about the project can be found on the
Privacy Tools project website at http://privacytools.seas.harvard.edu/.
Student Privacy Initiative
The Berkman Center’s Student Privacy Initiative explores the
opportunities and challenges that may arise as educational
institutions consider adopting cloud computing technologies.
As we conduct our research, we are engaging multiple
stakeholders-- from district officials to policymakers to
industry members to teachers, parents, and students--to
develop shared good practices that promote positive
educational outcomes, harness technological and pedagogical
innovations, and protect critical values. Summer interns will
be asked to work across three overlapping clusters: Privacy
Expectations & Attitudes, School Practices & Policies,
and Law & Policy, interfacing internally with the Cyberlaw
Clinic as well as the Youth and Media Project. In addition to
ongoing research tasks, summer interns might help to draft
research briefs, white papers, and website updates, as well as
to coordinate with and engage external organizations working
in the K-12 edtech innovation space. More information is
available at http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/research/studentprivacy.
Youth and Media
During a summer at Youth and Media,
summer interns will contribute to various research, advocacy,
and development initiatives around youth and technology. By
understanding young people‘s interactions with digital media
such as the Internet, cell phones, and video games, this
highly collaborative project aims to gain detailed insights
into youth practices and digital fluencies, harness the
associated opportunities, address challenges, and ultimately
shape the evolving regulatory and educational framework in a
way that advances the public interest. For 2014, we are
looking for candidates with strong academic training and
experience in qualitative research methods to assist with
designing, conducting, and analyzing focus group and
one-on-one interviews around topics of privacy, information
quality and health information, youth use of the Internet in
developing countries, and new ways of learning. We would also
consider candidates with expertise in these areas to conduct
background research and write literature reviews.
Additionally, we are looking for summer interns who can help
us create interesting and innovative ways to help
conceptualize some of the data we have collected for our
current research project around
youth and privacy. An example of
a previous report (and accompanying
infographic) on information
quality can be found
here. Applicant must be
professional, proactive, and have strong graphic design
skills; please be prepared to submit a sample of your
portfolio. More information about Youth and Media can be
found at: www.youthandmedia.org.
See what past Youth and Media interns said about their time
at Berkman here.
