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The Platform
by The Platform
Interviews, conversations, and stories from the intersection of the Internet, law, and society. Produced by Daniel Dennis Jones out of the Berkman Klein Center for Internet and Society at Harvard University.
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A spotlight on Nieman-Berkman Klein Fellow Jonathan Jackson
Jonathan Jackson is a co-founder of Blavity Inc., a technology and media company for black millennials. Blavity’s mission is to "economically and creatively support Black millennials across the African diaspora, so they can pursue the work they love, and change the world in the process." Blavity...
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A spotlight on 2018 Berkman Klein Fellow Amy Zhang
Berkman Klein Center interns sat down with 2018 Berkman Klein Center Fellow Amy Zhang, to discuss her work on combating online harassment and misinformation as well as her research as a Fellow.
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How Youth Are Reinventing Instagram and Why Having Multiple Accounts Is Trending
According to a recent Pew Research Center study, Instagram is the second most popular platform among 13 to 17-year-olds in the US, after YouTube. Nearly 72 percent of US teenagers are on the image sharing platform. Our Youth & Media team looked at how teens are using Instagram to figure out who...
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When a Bot is the Judge
We encounter algorithms all the time. There are algorithms that can guess within a fraction of a percentage point whether you’ll like a certain movie on Netflix, a post on Facebook, or a link in a Google search. But Risk Assessment Tools now being adopted by criminal justice systems all across…
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Fake News & How To Stop It
Even before Election Day, 2016, observers of technology & journalism were delivering warnings about the spread of fake news. Headlines like “Pope Francis Shocks World, Endorses Donald Trump For President” and “Donald Trump Protestor Speaks Out, Was Paid $3500 To Protest” would pop up, seemingly…
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The Chilling Effect
The effects of surveillance on human behavior have long been discussed and documented in the real world. That nervous feeling you get when you notice a police officer or a security camera? The one that forces you to straighten up and be on your best behavior, even if you're doing nothing wrong?...
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Star Wars vs Copyright
"George Lucas built a whole new industry with Star Wars." says Peter S. Menell, devoted science fiction fan and a professor at the UC Berkeley School of Law, who studies copyright and intellectual property law. "But what funds that remarkable company is their ways of using copyright." And he's...
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The Rise and Tumble of the Tumblr Teen
In her article "The Secret Lives of Tumblr Teens," Elspeth Reeve tells the stories of some of Tumblr's most popular bloggers -kids who started their blogs in high school, made a ton of money and then inexplicably disappeared. In this episode we talk to Reeve about what she discovered when she…
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How Fair Use Works, in Six Minutes or Less
An artist, musician, or writer can’t just take another person's creation and claim it as their own. Federal law outlines how creators can and can’t borrow from each other. These rules are collectively called "copyright law," and essentially they give creators the exclusive right to copy, modify,...
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Radio Berkman: Urs Gasser
From February 4th, 2009 A first glimpse into the challenges and opportunities the Berkman Center faces in 2009, with the Center’s new Executive Director, Urs Gasser. CC-licensed music this week: Brad Sucks – “Gasoline” Greg Williams – “Teagarden Blues and Rain”
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Interviews, conversations, and stories from the intersection of the Internet, law, and society. Produced by Daniel Dennis Jones out of the Berkman Klein Center for Internet and Society at Harvard University.
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Interviews, conversations, and stories from the intersection of the Internet, law, and society. Produced by Daniel Dennis Jones out of the Berkman Klein Center for Internet and Society at Harvard University.
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