Radio Berkman Podcast
1) A spotlight on Nieman-Berkman Klein Fellow Jonathan Jackson
Jonathan Jackson is a co-founder of Blavity Inc., a technology and media company for black millennials. Blavity’s mission is to "economically and creatively support Black millennials across the Africa...Show More
2) A spotlight on 2018 Berkman Klein Fellow Amy Zhang
Berkman Klein Center interns sat down with 2018 Berkman Klein Center Fellow Amy Zhang, to discuss her work on combating online harassment and misinformation as well as her research as a Fellow.
3) How Youth Are Reinventing Instagram and Why Having Multiple Accounts Is Trending
According to a recent Pew Research Center study, Instagram is the second most popular platform among 13 to 17-year-olds in the US, after YouTube. Nearly 72 percent of US teenagers are on the image sha...Show More
How Youth Are Reinventing Instagram and Why Having Multiple Accounts Is Trending
13:01 | Nov 2nd, 2018
4) When a Bot is the Judge
We encounter algorithms all the time. There are algorithms that can guess within a fraction of a percentage point whether you’ll like a certain movie on Netflix, a post on Facebook, or a link in a Goo...Show More
5) Fake News & How To Stop It
Even before Election Day, 2016, observers of technology & journalism were delivering warnings about the spread of fake news. Headlines like “Pope Francis Shocks World, Endorses Donald Trump For Presid...Show More
6) The Chilling Effect
The effects of surveillance on human behavior have long been discussed and documented in the real world. That nervous feeling you get when you notice a police officer or a security camera? The one tha...Show More
7) Star Wars vs Copyright
"George Lucas built a whole new industry with Star Wars." says Peter S. Menell, devoted science fiction fan and a professor at the UC Berkeley School of Law, who studies copyright and intellectual pro...Show More
8) The Rise and Tumble of the Tumblr Teen
In her article "The Secret Lives of Tumblr Teens," Elspeth Reeve tells the stories of some of Tumblr's most popular bloggers -kids who started their blogs in high school, made a ton of money and then ...Show More
9) How Fair Use Works, in Six Minutes or Less
An artist, musician, or writer can’t just take another person's creation and claim it as their own. Federal law outlines how creators can and can’t borrow from each other. These rules are collectively...Show More
10) Digital Alter Egos
Are you really "you" online? We asked around for stories of digital alter egos — secret identities that people maintain on the web and try to keep separate from their real life identities. And i...Show More
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