Browsing Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society Scholarly Articles by Title
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Content & Control: Assessing the Impact of Policy Choices on Potential Online Businesses in the Music and Film Industries
(Berkman Klein Center for Internet and Society, 2005)The online environment and new digital technologies threaten the viability of the music and film industries' traditional business models. The industries have responded by seeking government intervention, among other means, ... -
Content and Conduct: How English Wikipedia Moderates Harmful Speech
(Berkman Klein Center for Internet& Society, 2019)In this study, we aim to assess the degree to which English-language Wikipedia is successful in addressing harmful speech with a particular focus on the removal of deleterious content. We have conducted qualitative interviews ... -
Cross-Border Data Access Reform: A Primer on the Proposed U.S.-U.K. Agreement
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Culture Change and Digital Technology: The NYPD under Commissioner William Bratton, 2014-2016.
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Designing Successful Governance Groups: Lessons for Leaders from Real-World Examples
(Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society, 2015)In January 2015, the Global Network of Internet & Society Research Centers (NoC) published the results of a globally coordinated, independent academic research project exploring multistakeholder governance models. Facilitated ... -
Differential Privacy: A Primer for a Non-Technical Audience
(Vanderbilt University, 2018)Differential privacy is a formal mathematical framework for quantifying and managing privacy risks. It provides provable privacy protection against a wide range of potential attacks, including those currently unforeseen. ... -
Digital Identity Interoperability and eInnovation
(2009-03-24)This paper, one of three case studies in a transatlantic research project exploring the connection between Information and Communication Technology interoperability and eInnovation, considers the current state and possible ... -
The Digital Learning Challenge: Obstacles to Educational Uses of Copyrighted Material in the Digital Age
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Don't Panic: Making Progress on the "Going Dark" Debate
(Berkman Center for Internet & Society at Harvard Law School, 2016)Just over a year ago, with support from the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation, the Berkman Center for Internet & Society at Harvard University convened a diverse group of security and policy experts from academia, civil ... -
Elements of a New Ethical Framework for Big Data Research
(Washington & Lee University School of Law, 2016)Emerging large-scale data sources hold tremendous potential for new scientific research into human biology, behaviors, and relationships. At the same time, big data research presents privacy and ethical challenges that the ... -
Enabling Competition & Innovation on a City Fiber Network
(Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society, 2017)This report describes how the municipally owned fiber-optic network in Ammon, Idaho, uses a technology known as network virtualization to inexpensively allow retail service providers to compete for users and provide ... -
Encryption Policy and Its International Impacts: A Framework for Understanding Extraterritorial Ripple Effects
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The False positive problem of automatic bot detection in social science research
(Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society, 2020-03)The identification of bots is an important and complicated task. The bot classifier Botometer was successfully introduced as a way to estimate the number of bots in a given list of accounts and, as a consequence, has been ... -
German Digital Council: An 'Inside-Out' Case Study
(Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society, 2021-04-28)In 2018, German Chancellor Dr. Angela Merkel appointed a group of nine scholars and practitioners, including BKC’s Urs Gasser, to the German Digital Council (GDC). The GDC was formed with the unusual mission to ask both ... -
Good Practices For University Open-Access Policies (2013)
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A Harm-Reduction Framework for Algorithmic Fairness
(Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), 2018)In this article, we recognize the profound effects that algorithmic decision-making can have on people's lives and propose a harm-reduction framework for algorithmic fairness. We argue that any evaluation of algorithmic ... -
Holyoke: A Massachusetts Municipal Light Plant Seizes Internet Access Business Opportunities
(Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society, 2015)This case study documents the success of a municipally-owned electric utility in providing Internet access services. Massachusetts has 41 such “munis” –- serving more than 900,000 people and thousands of businesses -– but ... -
Intellectual Debt: With Great Power Comes Great Ignorance
(Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society, 2019-07-24)The boxes for prescription drugs typically include an insert of tissue-thin paper folded as tight as origami. For the bored or the preternaturally curious who unfurl it, there’s a sketch of the drug’s molecular structure ... -
Internet Filtering in Bahrain in 2004-2005: A Country Study
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Internet Filtering in Burma in 2005: A Country Study
(OpenNet Initiative, 2005)