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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

Yale ISP at Internet:Critical Event

Today marks the first day of Internet Research 10.0 – Internet: Critical, the 10th annual conference of the Association of Internet Researchers (AoIR), an international association for scholars in any discipline in the field of Internet studies. Today’s keynote address features Siva Vaidhyanathan discussing The Googlization of Everything and the Theology of Google.
This year’s [...]

Some ways to get involved with the Yale ISP

Join the Yale ISP mailing list.
Participate in our Tuesday speaker series, every Tuesday at 4:10 p.m. in Room 121 of Yale Law School.

Oct. 13: Mark Pittman from Bloomberg will discuss FOIA, open government, and media access.
Oct. 27: Gigi Sohn from Public Knowledge.

Talk with us on Twitter @yaleisp and on Facebook @Information-Society-Project.

Jimmy Wales talk: this Wednesday at 6pm

Jimmy Wales, the co-founder and de facto leader of Wikipedia, is coming to speak at Yale on October 7 at 6pm. The talk will take place at SSS 114, which is at the corner of Grove and Prospect St in New Haven. The ISP is pleased to sponsor this talk with the Yale Students for [...]

Podcast on sharing scientific data

ISP Fellow Victoria Stodden was interviewed on September 30 by Jon Udell in his Interviews with Innovators Series on ITConversations about Reproducibility in Computational Science. Listen to the podcast here.

Yale ISP Accepting Applications for 2010-2011 Fellowships

The Yale Information Society Project is now accepting applications for 2010-2011 ISP postdoctoral fellowships at Yale Law School.
The Yale ISP resident fellowship is designed for recent graduates of law or Ph.D. programs who are interested in careers in teaching and public service in any of the following areas: law and innovation, media studies, Internet and [...]

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