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1/24: US Communications at a Crossroads; 1/31: Hopeful Institutions and Technologies of Inequality
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Tuesday, January 24
 
Tom Wheeler (Chairman of the Federal Communications Commission), in conversation with Susan Crawford (Harvard Law School Professor)

Tuesday, January 24
at 4pm

As leadership prepares to change hands, FCC Chairman Tom Wheeler and Harvard Law Professor Susan Crawford discuss the state of communications infrastructure, policy, and technology in the United States.

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UPCOMING EVENTS from the BERKMAN KLEIN CENTER
 
Thursday, January 26
at 12pm

Health records are arguably the most valuable and most personal kinds of connected information about a person, and are valuable sources for medical research, social justice, machine learning, and big data, as well as directly related to 5-20% of the activity in terms of GDP. Adrian Gropper, MD will discuss his research into patient-centered and patient-controlled health records on the Internet.

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with Hyperloop One General Counsel Marvin Ammori

Tuesday, February 14
at 12pm

Marvin Ammori will discuss the challenges and opportunities for crafting a new legal framework to govern the next generation mass transportation concept known "Hyperloop" - levitating vehicles zooming passengers through vacuum tubes at 760 miles an hour known as "Hyperloop" is to become a reality, it will require a new framework to govern the deployment of hyperloop systems. 

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with Dan Greene, Postdoctoral Researcher with the Social Media Collective at Microsoft Research New England

Tuesday, January 31
at 12pm

Dan Greene explores how poverty comes to be understood as a ‘digital divide’ and how that framework changes the nature and purpose of public institutions in an era of skyrocketing inequality.

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with Sandra Braman, Abbott Professor of Liberal Arts at Texas A&M University

Tuesday, February 21
at 12pm

Sandra Braman discusses her research into how policy-makers thought and think about policy issues while addressing technical problems. Findings include basic design criteria that serve as constitutional principles; interactions between human and non-human users; tensions between geo- and network-political citizenship; early internationalization; and what Internet designers can teach us about decision-making under conditions of instability in everything from the design subject on.

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with Kishonna L. Gray, Founder of the Critical Gaming Lab at Eastern Kentucky University

It is important to examine the digital manifestations of misogynoir – or what it means to be a Woman of Color existing in the hegemonic spaces of digital technology. In this talk Kishonna L. Gray discusses the frameworks of Black Digital Feminism, useful to not only examine how structures influence practices, but also tools that have been implemented to resist such hegemony.

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Cass Sunstein on Output Transparency vs. Input Transparency
 
From the event Transparency and Freedom of Information in the Digital Age, November 17, 2011 at Harvard Law School.
 
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