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Top Stories published by Berkman Klein Center Collection in 2016

2016

andres lombana-bermudez in Berkman Klein Center Collection

Hip-Hop Coding: Exploring the Connections Between Computational Thinking and Hip-Hop Culture

Rachel Kalmar in Berkman Klein Center Collection

Wearables: not the beginning of the end, the end of the beginning

Another day, another wearables company is leaving the market. The announcement that Fitbit will acquire smartwatch pioneer Pebble follows this year’s trend of shutdowns and consolidation in the wearables space. The…

griffey in Berkman Klein Center Collection

Libraries and the State of the Nation

The idea that libraries are neutral spaces has been well and disabused over the last few years. From the services we offer to the collections that we curate, the decisions that libraries and librarians make are political ones that reflect values. Sometimes those…

Ben Green in Berkman Klein Center Collection

If a government does something good and no one has a stake in it, does it make an impact?

How technology can help cities save democracy.

As president, Donald Trump threatens to curb or reverse progress on many important issues such as…

Ryan Budish in Berkman Klein Center Collection

Transparency Reporting: Best Practices

The recent battle between Apple and the FBI was front page news. However, every single day law enforcement agencies and intelligence agencies ask Apple, Google, Microsoft, Twitter, and countless other Internet and telecommunications companies to provide…

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Insights from the Berkman Klein community about how technology affects our lives (Opinions expressed reflect the beliefs of individual authors and not the Berkman Klein Center as an institution.)

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andres lombana-bermudez

Nani Jansen Reventlow

Jonathan Zittrain

Internet Monitor

Christopher Bavitz

Sasha Costanza-Chock

David Weinberger

Cyberlaw Clinic

Jenny Korn ~ Groovy!

metaLAB (at) Harvard

Mariel García-Montes

Vivek Krishnamurthy

Ram Shankar Siva Kumar

Padmashree Gehl Sampath

Juan Ortiz Freuler

Beatriz Botero Arcila

Vasilis Kostakis

Dariusz Jemielniak

Assembly at the Berkman Klein Center

Quentin Palfrey

Network of Centers

Woodrow Hartzog

Lumen Database Team

Jessy Kate Schingler

Doaa Abu Elyounes

Aarathi Krishnan

Micaela Mantegna

Krista L.R. Cezair

Pratika Katiyar

Zeynep U. Kahveci

Elisabeth Sylvan, PhD

Elissa M. Redmiles