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with Joi Ito,
Director of the MIT
Media Lab & Joshua
Cooper Ramo, Kissinger
Associates
Tuesday,
April 11
at 12pm
ISIS. Trump.
Uber. The 1%. What
if all these
phenomena reflect
the same forces?
What if you could
understand those
forces? In this
conversation two
friends — Joi
Ito and Joshua
Cooper Ramo —
discuss and debate
the ideas at the
heart of their new
books Whiplash and The
Seventh Sense. They
argue we're at the
start of a power
shift as promising
and dangerous as the
Enlightenment once
was. In this
discussion, they'll
explain why—and what
to do about it.
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with Mr.
Jean-Pierre Blais,
Chairman of the
Canadian
Radio-television and
Telecommunications
Commission
Tuesday,
April 18
at 12pm
Deemed the
modern equivalent of
building roads or
railways, connecting
every person and
business to
high-speed internet
is on the minds of
policymakers,
advocates, and
industry players.
Under the leadership
of Mr.
Jean-Pierre Blais,
the Canadian
Radio-television and
Telecommunications
Commission (“CRTC”)
ruled in December
2016 that broadband
internet access is a
basic and vital
service, thus
ensuring that
broadband internet
joins the ranks of
local phone
service. Join us as
Mr. Blais speaks
about broadband,
internet, and the
future of
connectivity in
Canada and around
the world.
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with Arturo
J. Carrillo, Professor
of Law at The George
Washington University
Law School
Wednesday,
April 19
at 12pm
This talk
will address a range
of issues relating
to digital
incivility with en
emphasis on
cyber-violence. What
are the most common
negative behaviors
online? How are
these perceived and
experienced by
users? What is
cyber-violence? Who
does it target? What
steps can be taken
to prevent such
behaviors? How
should they be
addressed once
they've occurred?
What challenges does
the legal system
face when dealing
with cyber-violence
related offenses?
Arturo Carrillo
will draw from the
Cyber-Violence
Project he
co-directs at GW Law
School to offer
responses to these
and related
questions.
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with Eldar
Haber, Berkman Klein
Faculty Associate
Tuesday,
April 25
at 12pm
The concept
of criminal
rehabilitation in
the digital age is
intriguing. In this
talk, Eldar
Haber
will address how we
can ensure proper
reintegration into
society
for individuals with
a criminal history.
Despite the fact
that their crimes
were expunged by the
state, their
wrongdoings remain
widely available
through commercial
vendors (data
brokers) and online
sources like mugshot
websites, legal
research websites,
social media
platforms, and media
archives. What are
constitutional and
pragmatic challenges
to ensure digital
rehabilitation? Is
there a viable
solution to solve
this conundrum?
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ICYMI:
Catch
up on our most recent
events!
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Virtual
Competition: The Promise
and Perils of the
Algorithm-Driven Economy
Shoppers
with Internet access and a
bargain-hunting impulse can
find a universe of products
at their fingertips. But
while consumers reap many
benefits from online
purchasing, the
sophisticated algorithms and
data-crunching that make
browsing so convenient are
also changing the nature of
market competition, and not
always for the better. In
this talk, Maurice Stucke
takes a harder look at
today’s app-assisted
paradise of digital
shopping.
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Fake
News, Concrete
Responses:
At the Nexus of Law,
Technology, and Social
Narratives
The
propagation of
misinformation, “fake news,”
or propaganda has sparked
much investigation into its
causes and a thorough
mapping of the surrounding
problem space. Solutions,
however, have been in short
supply. Harvard Law School
and the Berkman Klein Center
for Internet & Society
at Harvard University are
pleased to convene a lunch
panel that draws from our
interdisciplinary ecosystem
of experts to discuss the
ways in which we might craft
tools and solutions at the
nexus of law, technology,
and the social sciences.
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Other
Events on Our
Radar
4/5, NYC: Breaking the "Internet Bubble"
4/6, MIT: Barbie and Mortal Kombat 20 Years
Later
4/7, Harvard: Reducing the Spread of Fake News:
Using AI to Nudge
Human Behavior
4/8, Harvard/MIT: Hacking Our Digital Age, Workshop 2
on Automation
4/12, Harvard: Digital Transformation Summit
4/13, Harvard: Future Assembly
4/18, MIT: Business of the Blockchain
4/18, Boston: Damon Krukowski with Amanda Palmer,
The New Analog
4/19, Harvard: How Young People Learn About Current
Events and What This
Tells Us About the
Consumption of
Digital Products
4/20-4/21, Chicago: DPLAfest
4/22, Harvard: Cass Sunstein Book Talk: #Republic:
Divided Democracy in
the Age of Social
Media
4/28-4/30, Toronto: Creative Commons 2017 Global Summit:
Sharing and the
Commons: What’s Next
4/29-31, Brussels: RightsCon
5/1, Northeastern: Connected Futures
5/3, Harvard: Everybody Lies: Big Data, New Data,
and What the
Internet Reveals
About Who We Really
Are
5/19, NYC: Workshop: Propaganda and Media
Manipulation
6/26, MIT: 1st Workshop on Mechanism Design for
Social Good
6/26-6/30, MIT: ACM conference on Economics and
Computation
10/4-10/6, CA: Digital Media & Learning
Conference
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