How services delivered by companies like Amazon, Google, Microsoft, and Uber can only function smoothly thanks to the judgment and experience of a vast, invisible human labor force
The social media have been accused of contributing to everything from terrorism to genocide. They have also been the only space in which activists and journalists at risk are…
A Book Talk with author David Weinberger and Joi Ito
VIDEO & PODCAST: In his new book, Everyday Chaos, David Weinberger points to accepted ways we work on the Internet that in fact undo our old assumptions about how the future works…
PODCAST & VIDEO: Berkman Klein community members will share their research, passions, and musings in 5 minute Ignite talks. These topics may range from misinformation online to…
Insights from a decade of multi-stakeholder collaboration (and an argument with Steve Jobs)
PODCAST & VIDEO: In conversation with Chinmayi Arun, David Sullivan draws upon a decade of work with technology companies (and a heated argument with Steve Jobs) to offer insights…
Told in the sinister style of a neon, cyberpunk thriller, The Cleaners charts social media’s evolution from a shared vision of a global village to a dangerous web of fake news,…
Featuring Kate Klonick and Thomas Kadri with members of the BKC community
PODCAST & VIDEO: We're never going to get a global set of norms for online speech but do the platforms pick our global values and constitutionalize them? Something to tie them to…
PODCAST & VIDEO: The delay between call and response has always been a vital piece of the messages we send. In this talk, Farman and Gasser discuss the impact that technology has…
Featuring Dr. Jon Cornwall, Centre for Early Learning in Medicine
Digital innovation is transforming health care, and the amount of digital health care data being generated will likely have increasing research utility over time. Despite the…
Our featured author series, hosted by Berkman Klein Center Executive Director Urs Gasser and Farah Pandith, featured an in-depth conversation about big…
PODCAST & VIDEO: Join us for a conversation with author Nanjala Nyabola and 2017 Berkman Klein Fellow Grace Mutung'u about Nanjala's book, Digital Democracy, Analogue Politics:…
The Battle to Control the Design of New Technologies
PODCAST & VIDEO: The dominant model for regulating privacy focuses on giving people control over their information and regulating data practices. This focus ignores the role that…
libraries, digital placemaking, and emancipatory design
An immersive library experience that gives visitors control over light, color, sound, and space to create the ideal environment for whatever brings them through the library's…
Featuring the author Roger McNamee in conversation with Lawrence Lessig
PODCAST & VIDEO: A former mentor to Mark Zuckerberg explains the danger posed by Facebook, Google and other internet platforms and what we must do about it.
VIDEO & PODCAST: In the past years, workers across the tech industry have engaged in an unprecedented series of actions challenging their companies. What do these actions mean-…
Measuring the Impact on Global Access to Medicines
Market concentration in technology industries has become a subject of interest to scholars and policy analysts. This talk presents some of the first empirical results on how the…
