Harvard-MIT-Yale Cyberscholar Working Group October 7 at MIT

by Laura DeNardis | September 30, 2009 | announcements, news and ideas | 1 Comment

Two ISP Fellows will be presenting at the Harvard-MIT-Yale Cyberscholars Working Group scheduled for Wednesday, October 7 from 6:00-8:30 p.m. in the Roth Room in the 2nd Floor of the MIT Media Lab, 20 Ames Street, 02139, Cambridge, Massachusetts. Directions. Please RSVP at labrune@media.mit.edu. Light snacks provided. Bring the discussion!

Frank Pasquale, Yale ISP fellow, Loftus Professor of Law at Seton Hall Law School, and associate director of the Gibbons Institute for Law, Science & Technology. “Beyond Competition and Innovation: The Need for Qualified Transparency in Internet Intermediaries.” This presentation proposes institutions for “qualified transparency” within the Federal Trade Commission and the Federal Communications Commission to fill a regulatory gap concerning articulated principles of editorial integrity in search engines and net neutrality for Internet carriers. Qualified transparency respects legitimate needs for confidentiality while promoting individuals’ capacity to understand how their reputations—and the online world generally—are shaped by dominant intermediaries.

Christine Greenhow, Yale ISP fellow, University of Minnesota Postdoc, Harvard Ed.D. “Youth, Niche Social Media, and ‘Learning’” Education scholars rarely consider “informal learning” in youth-initiated, self-sustaining online spaces. This talk will showcase one experiment in ‘public media 2.0’ that intersects new media, citizen journalism and education: a topic-focused, niche social media publication launched within Facebook and designed to engage youth (16-25) in environmental issues. We look in particular at knowledge development, digital literacy practices, community formation, and real-world activism as indicators of effective engagement in the content. Implications for new media and education designs will be discussed.

Harvard-MIT-Yale Cyber Scholars Working Group

6:00 pm – 8:30 pm

Wednesday, October 7, 2009

Roth Room (E15-283A), 2^nd floor, Media Lab

20 Ames St, 02139, Cambridge, MA

Directions: http://whereis.mit.edu/map-jpg?mapterms=e15&mapsearch=go

Please RSVP at labrune@media.mit.edu

Light snacks provided

Bring the discussion!

Frank Pasquale, Yale ISP fellow, Loftus Professor of Law at Seton Hall Law School, and associate director of the Gibbons Institute for Law, Science & Technology. http://law.shu.edu/Faculty/display-profile.cfm?customel_datapageid_4018=22642

“Beyond Competition and Innovation: The Need for Qualified Transparency in Internet Intermediaries”

This presentation proposes institutions for “qualified transparency” within the Federal Trade Commission and the Federal Communications Commission to fill a regulatory gap concerning articulated principles of editorial integrity in search engines and net neutrality for Internet carriers. Qualified transparency respects legitimate needs for confidentiality while promoting individuals’ capacity to understand how their reputations—and the online world generally—are shaped by dominant intermediaries.

Christine Greenhow, Yale ISP fellow, University of Minnesota Postdoc, Harvard Ed.D., http://www.cgreenhow.org

“Youth, Niche Social Media, and ‘Learning’”

Youth-initiated, self-sustaining online spaces to interrogate “informal learning” in-the-wild and their implications raise pressing questions. This talk will showcase one experiment in ‘public media 2.0’ intersecting new media, citizen journalism and education: a topic-focused, niche social media publication launched within Facebook and designed to engage youth (16-25) in environmental issues. We look in particular at knowledge development, digital literacy practices, community formation, and real-world activism as indicators of effective engagement in the content. Implications for new media and education designs will be discussed.