MediaBerkman

Felipe Heusser on Open Government Data for Open Accountability

Tue, 07 Feb 2012 20:11:58 +0000

Felipe Heusser — Founder and Director of Fundación Ciudadano Inteligente, a Latin American NGO based in Chile that uses information technology to promote transparency and active citizen participation, and a Berkman Fellow — gives an overview the spread of transparency policy through freedom of information regulation, and point out to the rise of ‘Open Government [...]

Felipe Heusser on Open Government Data for Open Accountability [AUDIO]

Tue, 07 Feb 2012 18:15:21 +0000

David Weinberger on Too Big To Know

Fri, 03 Feb 2012 19:10:30 +0000

We used to know how to know. Get some experts, maybe a methodology, add some criteria and credentials, publish the results, and you get knowledge we can all rely on. But as knowledge is absorbed by our new digital medium, it’s becoming clear that the fundamentals of knowledge are not properties of knowledge but of [...]

David Weinberger on Too Big To Know [AUDIO]

Fri, 03 Feb 2012 19:10:03 +0000

Rebecca MacKinnon on The Worldwide Struggle for Internet Freedom

Fri, 03 Feb 2012 17:00:51 +0000

Many commentators have debated whether the Internet is ultimately a force for freedom of expression and political liberation, or for alienation, and repression. Rebecca MacKinnon — Bernard L. Schwartz Senior Fellow at the New America Foundation, cofounder of Global Voices, and a former CNN Bureau Chief for Beijing and Tokyo — discusses her new book, [...]

Rebecca MacKinnon on The Worldwide Struggle for Internet Freedom [AUDIO]

Fri, 03 Feb 2012 16:00:51 +0000

Andres Monroy-Hernandez on Designing for Remixing: Computer-supported Social Creativity

Tue, 31 Jan 2012 18:15:33 +0000

The Scratch Online Community allows young people to share and remix their own video games and animations, as well as those of their peers. In four years, the community has grown to close to a million registered members and more than two million user-contributed projects. Andrés Monroy-Hernández — the developer of Scratch, a post-doctoral researcher [...]

Andres Monroy-Hernandez on Designing for Remixing: Computer-supported Social Creativity [AUDIO]

Tue, 31 Jan 2012 18:08:33 +0000

Beth Kolko on Hackademia: Leveraging the Conflict Between Expertise and Innovation to Create Disruptive Technologies

Tue, 24 Jan 2012 21:35:09 +0000

How and why do nonexperts contribute to innovation? The conflict between expertise and innovation sits uneasily in academia, where the enterprise hinges on doling out official credentials. But a lack of expertise can in fact drive people to create the kind of disruptive technologies that really are game-changers. In this presentation Beth Kolko — Professor [...]

Beth Kolko on Hackademia: Leveraging the Conflict Between Expertise and Innovation to Create Disruptive Technologies [AUDIO]

Tue, 24 Jan 2012 21:35:02 +0000

Justin Reich on How Free and Open Education Might Widen Digital Divides

Tue, 17 Jan 2012 18:18:29 +0000

The explosion of open education content resources create unprecedented opportunities for teachers to design and personalize curriculum and to give students opportunities to collaborate, publish, and take responsibility for their own learning, free of charge. Is it possible, however, that because affluent schools and students have a greater capacity to take up new innovations, that [...]

Justin Reich on How Free and Open Education Might Widen Digital Divides [AUDIO]

Tue, 17 Jan 2012 18:15:29 +0000

Alison J. Head on Modeling the Information-Seeking Process of College Students in the Digital Age

Tue, 10 Jan 2012 19:02:29 +0000

What is it like to be a college student in the digital age? Alison Head — lead researcher for the national study, Project Information Literacy, Berkman Fellow, and Research Scientist in University of Washington’s Information School — presents a working typology of the undergraduate information-seeking process, including students’ reliance on and use of Web sources. [...]

Alison J. Head on Modeling the Information-Seeking Process of College Students in the Digital Age [AUDIO]

Tue, 10 Jan 2012 19:01:29 +0000

RB 189: Peer Pressure

Wed, 21 Dec 2011 19:45:59 +0000

Listen: or download | …also in Ogg We’re so easily influenced by the habits and interests of our friends, you might think that social networks like Facebook would only magnify the power of peer pressure. But recent research from Harvard sociologists Kevin Lewis, Marco Gonzalez, and Jason Kaufman shows that people are more likely to [...]