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...Over the past year or so, blogging has hit the mainstream and increasingly people have been turning to citizen journalists and bloggers as credible sources of news,” said John G. Palfrey ’94, Executive Director of the Berkman Center for Internet and Society at Harvard Law School (HLS) and Lecturer at HLS, who himself keeps an online blog...
...home of the Berkman Center for Internet and Society, reached what you might call an early puberty with “Weblogs at Harvard Law.” Like all of the center’s projects, this one combined the practical and the academic. By launching a blogging community for anyone with a harvard.edu e-mail address, the Berkman Center aimed not only to create a community but to study...
...they did, the Berkman Center would be getting exactly what it was looking for. The center’s interest in intellectual property and Internet copyright law would meet with its interest in the community aspect of the Internet in an interesting marriage...
...included statements from prominent psychologists on the topic of gender. Johnstone Family Professor of Psychology Steven Pinker suggested that there was adequate evidence to take seriously the hypothesis that men’s and women’s distributions of quantitative and spatial abilities may not be identical. Berkman Professor of Psychology Elizabeth Spelke was far more critical, arguing that gender differences are negligible, that it therefore doesn’t matter whether they stem from biology or upbringing, and that the underrepresentation of women in academic science was far better explained by discrimination (an explanation that Summers also discussed...
Summers “ignores the impediments to women’s progress posed by long-standing patterns of prejudice, unwelcoming environments, and unequal resources: factors that have been documented by a wealth of research over many years,” Berkman Professor of Psychology Elizabeth S. Spelke wrote in an e-mail yesterday...