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• Radio Berkman 137: Cory Doctorow – In Defense of ©

  Is the fate of books a forgone conclusion? Will they just continue to make their way out of print and into digital form? This week’s guest, author Cory Doctorow, suggests that we might want to…

• Nathan Eagle on Big Data, Global Development, and Complex Social Systems [Audio]

  Nathan Eagle, Omidyar Fellow at the Santa Fe Institute, infers behavioral dynamics on a broad spectrum of scales using technology; from risky behavior in a group of MIT freshman, to cholera outbreaks in Rwanda and…

• Nathan Eagle on Big Data, Global Development, and Complex Social Systems

  Nathan Eagle, Omidyar Fellow at the Santa Fe Institute, infers behavioral dynamics on a broad spectrum of scales using technology; from risky behavior in a group of MIT freshman, to cholera outbreaks in Rwanda and…

• Friends of the Show: CBC’s Spark on Lessig and Open Gov’t

  This week Radio Berkman gave a hand to our pals at Spark in their interview with legal scholar, Berkman friend, and author of the recent article Against Transparency about the perils of open government. Check…

• David Weinberger on What Information Was [Audio]

  Berkman Fellow David Weinberger investigates the origin of modern “information”, trying to understand what about it led us to embrace it as the dominant–paradigmatic–way of understanding ourselves and our world. David Weinberger will present an…

• David Weinberger on What Information Was

  Berkman Fellow David Weinberger investigates the origin of modern “information”, trying to understand what about it led us to embrace it as the dominant–paradigmatic–way of understanding ourselves and our world. David Weinberger will present an…

• Radio Berkman 136: The Garden and the Net

  The “Walled Garden” is an oft-used metaphor to describe an area of the web that is somehow closed off – think AOL in the 90s, or any site that lives behind a paywall. To some,…

• Ellen Goodman and Jake Shapiro on Redesigning public media for the 21st Century

  Ellen Goodman of Rutgers University School of Law and Jake Shapiro, Executive Director of the Public Radio Exchange (PRX), discuss public media’s role in providing public discourses, advancing democratic capabilities, and empowering publics to communicate…

• Ellen Goodman and Jake Shapiro on Redesigning public media for the 21st Century [AUDIO]

  Ellen Goodman of Rutgers University School of Law and Jake Shapiro, Executive Director of the Public Radio Exchange (PRX), discuss public media’s role in providing public discourses, advancing democratic capabilities, and empowering publics to communicate…

• Radio Berkman 135: The Quest for a Free Culture

  There are few subjects more potentially divisive as the Free Culture Movement. Free Culture activists believe in a future in which people will be free to remix and distribute creative works like literature, movies, music,…