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Joe Karaganis on Media Piracy in Emerging Economies [Audio]

Joe Karaganis discusses findings from a forthcoming six-country study of media piracy, including work on Russia, India, Brazil, Mexico, and South Africa. The study provides a rare empirical look at the organization of piracy and enforcement in developing countries, and explores the transformation of both as the optical disk economy give way to digital distribution. [...]

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We’ll be back soon with more full episodes of Radio Berkman. In the meantime, we’d like to share a clip from a short interview we did not long ago with Lawrence Liang of the Alternative Law Forum on piracy, media, and culture. Excerpt: “When culture reaches the point of ephemerality which allows it to flow in the [...]

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How could the transparency of personal information available online erode the rule of law? And what should government be doing about it – if anything? Joel R. Reidenberg – Professor of Law and the Founding Academic Director of the Center on Law and Information Policy at Fordham Law School – explores the erosion of [...]

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8 years ago, Brett Glass — an electrical engineer, inventor, and technology columnist — established LARIAT, the first terrestrial wireless Internet service provider (WISP), in Laramie, Wyoming. What’s it like to roll up your sleeves and roll out high speed connectivity to underserved and unserved areas with, literally, one’s bare hands? What are the logistics? [...]

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Unlike telephone conversations and videoconferences, avatars – representations of people in virtual environments – have the ability to control their physical appearance and behavioral actions in the eyes of their conversational partners, strategically enhancing or hiding features and nonverbal signals in real-time. Jeremy Bailenson – founding director of Stanford University’s Virtual Human Interaction Lab – [...]

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Berkman Faculty Fellow and HLS Visiting Professor Julie Cohen explores the effects of expanding copyright, pervasive surveillance, and the increasingly opaque design of network architectures in the emerging networked information society. Based on a chapter from her forthcoming book, Cohen argues that “access to knowledge” is a necessary but insufficient condition for human flourishing, and [...]

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Though online media platforms such as YouTube and Facebook often make the promise to openly and impartially host all content, they actively make decisions about where the edges of these platforms should be: what should and should not appear, how content should be organized, what should be featured or squirreled away, and how it should [...]

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Different brain systems are used when one produces lies in different ways, such as by fabricating lies spontaneously “on the fly” versus fabricating them on the basis of a previously memorized story. This discovery indicates that there is no single “lie center” in the brain, and makes it unlikely that a single neural pattern of [...]

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Advertising pays for a significant portion of online content and services. But in contrast to other forms of content and service provision, it expects a return on investment despite not being backed by any kind of legal structure or binding agreement, resulting in anxiety on the part of the advertising industry. Fernando Bermejo – Associate [...]

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When under threat from an approaching feline, gazelles will repeatedly leap up and down in the air – even when logically it seems they should run. It’s an example of a signal – used to communicate a concept to trigger a reaction. In this case, “I am strong and fast – if you chase me [...]

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The closing of another year brings with it an excuse for celebration. And what could be more fun than looking back at the year that was and trying to distill some of the top trends in the web, technology, and society? David Weinberger attended Supernova 2009 in San Francisco, where some of the biggest names in [...]

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A nation-wide survey of 1,812 parents of web-savvy children shows parental support for various strategies to protect their children from negative effects. But strategies resulting in the least disagreement from the children in this survey included those that empower the youth to protect themselves, as well as legal consequences or suspension from school for people [...]

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Could we hasten innovation and economic growth by offering rewards for sharing of information and redefining “fairness”? Marshall Van Alstyne – Associate Professor at Boston University and Research Scientist at MIT – looks at property rights and incentives for innovation. Download the MP3 …or download the OGG audio format! Share and Enjoy:

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Is it hard to imagine a world in which people are treated fairly? Paid a fair wage for the work they contribute? Rewarded monetarily for the successful intellectual products that they help to produce? Did you just scoff? If so you might be a knowledge worker who toils day in and day out on information [...]

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Dr. Rey Junco – Associate Professor and the Director of Disability Services in the Department of Academic Development and Counseling at Lock Haven University – is at the helm of one of the first experimental studies to assess whether first-year college students’ use of Twitter affects student engagement and success. Here he talks about some [...]

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How are the tools and philosophies of Web 2.0 making their way into organizations (even traditional ones)? Berkman fellow, MIT Scientist, blogger, and tweeter Andrew McAfee talks about his new book Enterprise 2.0: New Collaborative Tools for Your Organization’s Toughest Challenges. Download the MP3 …or download the OGG audio format! Share and Enjoy:

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Yorick Wilks of the Oxford Internet Institute presents COMPANIONS, an EU project that aims to change the way we think about the relationships of people to computers and the Internet by developing a virtual ‘Companion’. This talk describes the functionality of a Senior Companion (SC), a program that elicits the life memories of the elderly, [...]

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Jonathan Zittrain, Professor of Law at Harvard Law School, explores the evolving world of cloud computing. Cloud computing is not just for computing anymore: you can now find as much mindshare as you can afford out in the cloud, too. A new range of projects is making the application of human brainpower as purchasable and [...]

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Cameran Ashraf presents how social and digital media play a crucial role in helping mass social movements coordinate and communicate effectively. With Iran as a case study, this presentation explores the role new communication technologies are playing in the post-election unrest, how people outside of Iran are helping through digital media, and the Iranian government’s [...]

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Sam Bowles of the Santa Fe Institute explores how the economy of grain and steel is slowly being displaced by the weightless economy of information and network connections. Bowles presents a model and history of the long-term development and transformation of property rights drawing on recent behavioral experiments and econometric estimates of wealth dynamics in [...]

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