“The feeling was, ‘Oh, the Obama Administration is opening Cuba, and so now all Cubans will have access to Internet, they’ll have all these freedoms they didn’t have before,”’ says Ellery Roberts Biddle, a fellow at the Berkman Center for Internet and Society. “That’s really not what’s happening.”
via Renewed diplomacy still leaves Cubans stuck in a dial-up world | Public Radio International.
The Berkman Center for Internet & Society and Youth and Media are excited to announce the release of the new ebook “Digitally Connected: Global Perspectives on Youth and Digital Media,” a first-of-its kind collection of essays that offers reflections from diverse perspectives on youth experiences with digital media and with focus on the Global South. It creatively combines adult voices with written and visual contributions by young people from around the world.
via Digitally Connected: Global Perspectives on Youth and Digital Media | Harvard Gazette.
Mass surveillance by governments and corporations is comparable to child labor or environmental pollution. That is the largely persuasive claim of security expert Bruce Schneier in his new book “Data and Goliath: The Hidden Battles to Collect Your Data and Control Your World.” Resistance is not futile, Schneier thinks, although it will be tricky to fight overreaching securocrats and snooping online advertisers without giving up at least some of the genuine advantages of Big Data.
What motivates everyday people to do things that are civic?
Kate Krontiris is a fellow at Harvard’s Berkman Center for Internet and Society.That’s the subject of some new research by Kate Krontiris, a fellow at Harvard’s Berkman Center for Internet & Society and the Google Civic Innovation team. Krontiris and two of her fellow researchers, Charlotte Krontiris, and Google UX researcher John Webb, presented an early preview of their findings at a Berkman Center luncheon talk at HLS on March 24. Chris Chapman, also of Google, contributed to the research as a fourth collaborator.