Browsing Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society Scholarly Articles by Title
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On the Biomedical Elite: Inequality and Stasis in Scientific Knowledge Production
(Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society, 2017)Researchers and research institutes are increasingly being evaluated using metrics (from bibliometrics to patent counts), which are core instruments of a longstanding effort to quantify scientific productivity and worth. ... -
On the Road to "Pre-K for All": The Launch of UPK in New York City
(Berkman Center for Internet & Society, 2015)Over the spring and summer of 2014, New York City put in place a full-day universal pre-kindergarten (UPK) program. The blistering pace, enormous scale, and administrative complexity of this rollout were all striking: a ... -
Open Data Privacy
(Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society, 2017)Cities today collect and store a wide range of data that may contain sensitive information about residents. As cities embrace open data initiatives, more of this information is released to the public. While opening data ... -
An Open Letter to the Members of the Massachusetts Legislature Regarding the Adoption of Actuarial Risk Assessment Tools in the Criminal Justice System
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Openness and Restraint: Structure, Discourse, and Contention in Saudi Twitter
(The Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society, 2015)report series, which focuses on key events and new developments in Internet freedom. The report maps and analyzes the structure and content of the Saudi Twittersphere and identifies the communities that coalesce around ... -
Organization & structure of open source software development initiatives: challenges & opportunities concerning corporate formation, nonprofit status, & governance for open source projects
(Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society, 2017)This report addresses a number of key considerations that those managing open source software de- velopment initiatives should take into account when thinking about structure, organization, and gov- ernance. The genesis ... -
The Paper of Record Meets an Ephemeral Web: An Examination of Linkrot and Content Drift within The New York Times
(Harvard Innovation Lab, Harvard Law School, 2021-04-26)Hyperlinks are a powerful tool for journalists and their readers. Diving deep into the context of an article is just a click away. But hyperlinks are a double-edged sword; for all of the internet’s boundlessness, what’s ... -
The Paradox of Self-Amendment: A Study of Law, Logic, Omnipotence, and Change
(Peter Lang International Academic Publishers., 1990)The first full-length study of self-reference and paradox in law, this book will intrigue and instruct anyone interested in law, logic, philosophy, or political theory. History shows that self-amendment - for example, the ... -
Partisanship, Impeachment, and the Democratic Primaries: American Political Discourse, January - February 2020
(Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society, 2020-10-22)The decisions voters will make at the ballot box on November 3, 2020 will be influenced in no small part by the media coverage of the candidates and issues, including the reporting by journalists, the media personalities ... -
Partisanship, Propaganda, and Disinformation: Online Media and the 2016 U.S. Presidential Election
(Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society, 2017)In this study, we analyze both mainstream and social media coverage of the 2016 United States presidential election. We document that the majority of mainstream media coverage was negative for both candidates, but largely ... -
Perspectives on Harmful Speech Online
(Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society, 2016)This collection of essays includes perspectives on and approaches to harmful speech online from a wide range of voices within the Berkman Klein Center community. Recognizing that harmful speech online is an increasingly ... -
Planning for the Next Pandemic: A Global, Interoperable System of Contact Tracing
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Platform Accountability Through Digital "Poison Cabinets"
(Knight First Amendment Institute at Columbia University, 2021-04-13)Preserving records of what user content is taken down—and why—could make platforms more accountable and transparent. -
Polarization and the Pandemic: American Political Discourse, March – May 2020
(Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society, 2020-10-29)By the middle of March, the Democratic primary had effectively ended and the enormity of the Covid-19 pandemic and its human and economic cost began to sink in. The response to the pandemic had already been thoroughly ... -
Practical approaches to big data privacy over time
(Oxford University Press (OUP), 2018)Key Points Governments and businesses are increasingly collecting, analysing, and sharing detailed information about individuals over long periods of time. Vast quantities of data from new sources and novel methods ... -
Principled Artificial Intelligence: Mapping Consensus in Ethical and Rights-based Approaches to Principles for AI
(Berkman Klein Center for Internet& Society, 2020-01-15)The rapid spread of artificial intelligence (AI) systems has precipitated a rise in ethical and human rights-based frameworks intended to guide the development and use of these technologies. Despite the proliferation of ... -
Privacy and Cybersecurity Research Briefing
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Privacy and Open Data Research Briefing
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Privacy and Student Data: An Overview of Federal Laws Impacting Student Information Collected Through Networked Technologies
(The Berkman Center for Internet & Society, 2016)Over the past five years, schools have progressively been integrating the use of technology into the classroom, both to help students achieve their goals, and help teachers and administrators alike organize, categorize and ... -
Public Discourse in the Russian Blogosphere: Mapping RuNet Politics and Mobilization
(2010)We analyzed Russian blogs to discover networks of discussion around politics and public affairs. Beginning with an initial set of over five million blogs, we used social network analysis to identify a highly active ‘Discussion ...