Senior Researcher at Harvard University’s Berkman Center for Internet & Society David Weinberger discussed the future behavior of hyperconnected young adults on Minnesota Public Radio’s “The Daily Circuit.”

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One of the best places to begin, if you’re starting up a media-related project, is the Online Media Legal Network at Harvard’s Berkman Center. The center describes itself as “a network of law firms, law school clinics, in-house counsel, and individual lawyers throughout the United States willing to provide pro bono (free) and reduced fee legal assistance to qualifying online journalism ventures and other digital media creators.”

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“We know based on technical testing… that Russia does not technically filter the internet, so I would not expect a Chinese or Kazakh style approach to Internet control,” says Bruce Etling, director of the Internet and Democracy Project at the Berkman Center.

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The official rollout of the foundation was held at Harvard because the university’s Berkman Center for Internet and Society and its Graduate School of Education are offering assistance to the fledgling organization.

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David Weinberger, senior researcher at Harvard University’s Berkman Center for Internet & Society, will join The Daily Circuit to talk about the research.

“Whatever happens, we won’t be able to come up with an impartial value judgment because the change in intellect will bring about a change in values as well,” David Weinberger wrote in the Pew report

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Leaders from the undergraduate LGBTQ community met with researchers from the Berkman Center for Internet and Society and affiliates from the Born This Way Foundation Tuesday morning to provide their input on the foundation’s initiatives.

via Foundation Meets with LGBTQ Groups | News | The Harvard Crimson.

Harvard University’s Berkman Center for Internet & Society said last month it would begin planning a program for both public and private groups looking to participate in this effort.

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“If you look at online safety or privacy stuff, I think schools have already started to respond to that quite a bit,” said Urs Gasser, executive director of The Berkman Center and principal researcher for its Youth and Digital Media: From Credibility to Information Quality study. “But here, where arguably it’s as critical a skill to find stuff online and have to sort through it and make judgments about the quality, that’s still not even on the radar. That’s the finding that bothers me the most.”

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