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Enhancing Child Safety & Online Technologies Final Report of the Internet Safety Technical Task Force Berkman Center for Internet and Society at Harvard University; 278 pages...
...compared to 18 in the preceding two decades. Last year alone, the Law School landed six tenured professors, including then-University of Chicago professor Cass R. Sunstein ’75, the most-cited American law professor. Lessig, who was once a researcher at Harvard’s Berkman Center for Internet and Society, said that his primary motivation for coming back to Harvard was the opportunity to research corruption and ethics as director of the Safra Center. “For the next five years we’re going to be doing a major research project...
...Internet] has changed the way people gain access to information and entertainment, and the actual content and form of information and entertainment,” says Jason A. Kaufman ’93. Kaufman, a Research Fellow at the Berkman Center for Internet and Society, recently taught a sociology course called “Media and the American Mind,” which studied American society through advertising, telecommunications, regulation, entertainment, and other forms of media. Kaufman says that as an Internet-based digital culture formed over the past couple decades, the schism between high...
...Media and the American Mind” was one of Harvard’s only courses directly addressing new media topics, but it is no longer offered since Kaufman left the Faculty of Arts and Sciences. At the Berkman Center—Harvard’s main organization for Internet-related studies—Kaufman has been using data from social networks and user-stated cultural preferences on Facebook to study “the nature of affiliation,” which he feels is a central aspect in new media and cultural changes spurred by the Internet...
...music based on a series of factors present in that song or artist’s catalogue. “[Pandora] replicates your best friend, but with almost perfect knowledge of an enormous catalogue of music,” Westergren said at the talk, which was sponsored by the Berkman Center for Internet and Society. A team of musicians measure and score each song using nearly 400 factors, which frame them in what Westergren calls the “musical double helix.” Once a user inputs a given song or artist, a mathematical algorithm creates a playlist...