Technologies of Dissent Talk at 4S
Yale ISP Executive Director Laura DeNardis and ISP fellows Victoria Stodden and Ben Peters are all presenting papers this week in DC at the annual meeting of the Society for the Social Studies of Science (4S). 4S is the primary intellectual community for scholars in the field of Science, Technology, and Society (STS) and [...]
Media Revolution & Citizen Journalism
Gigi Sohn Talk on October 27
The October 27 ISP Speaker Series will feature Gigi Sohn discussing “Content and its Discontents: What Net Neutrality Does and Doesn’t Mean for Copyright.” The event will take place at 4:10 p.m. in Room 121 of Yale Law School. Refreshments will be provided.
Gigi Sohn is an internationally known communications attorney and the founder of Public [...]
Harvard-MIT-Yale Cyberscholar Event
Please join us on November 3, 2009 from 6:00-8:30 p.m. for a special session of the Harvard-MIT-Yale Cyberscholar Working Group. The event will be held in Room B48 of the Hall of Graduate Studies, immediately across York Street from Yale Law School.
This event will feature a “Digital Democracy Debate” with Matthew Hindman, author of The [...]
Yale ISP at Digital Labor Conference
The Yale ISP will participate in the upcoming conference “The Internet as Playground and Factory: a Conference on Digital Labor” scheduled for November 12-14 at Eugene Lang College, the New School in New York City. The Information Society Project is one of the co-presenters of the conference and eight ISP fellows will [...]
Congress gets in on the action
Anyone who has worked in an office on Capitol Hill knows how much the elected members value the “press.” The small staffs inevitably include some combination of Communications Director, Press Secretary, and lowly, underpaid Press Assistant. Thus it hardly comes as a surprise that members of Congress are waking up to the [...]
why surveillance matters
As a follow-up to Nabiha’s great post on terrorism and open access:
As Nabiha said, our interest in terrorism-related issues has to do with the barriers the government places to access.
Our interest in surveillance speaks more generally to the democratic conditions necessary for newsgathering. Newsgatherers cannot properly gather news if they know that they’re being watched. [...]
Fair Use, the DMCA, and YouTube
The ISP is co-sponsoring a talk tomorrow (October 14) by Michael Fricklas, the General Counsel and Executive Vice President of Viacom. The talk–entitled “Copyrights, Markets, and Free Speech: Should We Be Free Not to Be Free?”–will take place during Elizabeth Stark’s course on law and technology, and will deal with Viacom’s arguments in its $1 [...]
what we do and why terrorism matters
Our projects include a lot of national security-oriented topics, including Guantanamo, fusion centers, and the like. One might wonder — hell, we’ve wondered — how this intersects with our core mission to support newsgatherers. In an Information Society Project Ideas Lunch last week, Jack Balkin hit the nail on the head: the current onslaught of [...]
Mark Pittman to Speak about Freedom of Information
You are cordially invited to join us Tuesday, October 13, to hear Mark Pittman of Bloomberg News speaking about “Busting the American Casino: How Freedom of Information Can Tame the Federal Reserve.” The event will take place in Room 121 of Yale Law School at 4:10 p.m. Refreshments will be served. Pittman will speak [...]
Can Judicial Openness Initiatives Disqualify Judges from Access Cases?
The Supreme Court has refused to indulge a stay sought by the Bridgeport Roman Catholic Diocesan Corporation which would have kept 12,000 pages of court records and depositions in a long-running CT clergy abuse case from public view.
The judgment sought to be stayed, Rosado v. Bridgeport Roman Catholic Diocesan Corp., raises some fascinating access issues, [...]
Tweet-Crime?
We’re starting to see more domestic coverage of l’affaire Elliot Madison, the self-described political anarchist who has been charged with using Twitter to apprise protesters of police movements at the recent G20 Summit
Our own Laura DeNardis weighed in via this Reuters story, highlighting the double standard between Twitter activism in Iran and Pittsburgh.
Is there a [...]
PATRIOT Act renewal bill has passed Senate Judiciary Committee
The PATRIOT Act renewal bill has passed the Senate Judiciary Committee without key civil liberties reforms attached.
Missed opportunities for reform include: requiring the government to show a connection to a suspected terrorist or spy in seeking Americans’ records through National Security Letters (NSLs); letting the “lone wolf” wiretapping authority expire; stopping the government from using [...]
