The Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society and the Shorenstein Center on Media, Politics and Public Policy are pleased to host this workshop on Comparative Approaches to Disinformation at Harvard University in Cambridge, MA on October 4, 2019. This by-invitation workshop will feature scholars from around the world discussing their research on the prevalence, […]

Join us for a talk with Dr. Robin DiAngelo, author of White Fragility: Why It's So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism. This talk will provide an overview of the socialization that inculcates white fragility and provide the perspectives and skills needed for white people to build their racial stamina and develop more […]

Join us for a seminar with the Shorenstein Center's Digital Platforms & Democracy Senior Fellows: Tom Wheeler, Dipayan Ghosh, Philip Verveer, and Gene Kimmelman. In recent months, leading U.S. politicians including Senators Elizabeth Warren and Lindsay Graham have raised questions about the monopoly power of internet platform firms like Facebook and Google. But is it […]

Join us for Undesign the Redline: the Transformation of Race, Place, and Class in America, a lecture by April De Simone and Katie Swenson, moderated by Miriam Aschkenasy, Program Manager, Institutional Anti-racism and Accountability. Undesign the Redline: the Transformation of Race, Place, and Class in America is an explorative and visioning framework for addressing systemic […]

Join us for a conversation on careers in public service with Shorenstein Center fellow Kathy Pham, and executive director Setti Warren. Kathy Pham is a computer scientist, product leader, and researcher on ethics and technology. She has held roles in product management, software engineering, data science, and leadership in the private, non-profit, and public sectors. […]

Join us for a discussion with Kristin Gilger and Julia Wallace, authors of "There’s No Crying in Newsrooms: What Women Have Learned about What It Takes to Lead," moderated by Shorenstein Center Director and former editor in chief of TIME Magazine, Nancy Gibbs.   There’s No Crying in Newsrooms tells the stories of remarkable women […]

What began six years ago as an environmentalist youth resistance in the heart of Istanbul marked a sharp autocratic turn for Turkey's strongman, Recep Tayyip Erdoğan. Ever since then, his moves resulted in subordinating journalism and the judiciary; driving wedges into the opposition; brutally crushing dissent; profiting from one crisis to another; and, currently, war. […]

Cosponsored by the Ash Center for Democratic Governance and Innovation. Jane Perlez is a fall 2019 Joan Shorenstein Fellow, and most recently was the bureau chief for The New York Times in Beijing. She has been a long time foreign correspondent for The Times, serving in East Africa, Central Europe, Southeast Asia, and Pakistan. She […]

Join us for a seminar with the Shorenstein Center’s Digital Platforms & Democracy Senior Fellows: Tom Wheeler, Dipayan Ghosh, Philip Verveer, and Gene Kimmelman. The spread of hate speech and violent conduct. The disinformation problem and foreign election interference. Alleged suppression of political speech. Persistent breaches of public trust. These and countless other incidents have led […]

Join us for a conversation with Tara Westover, author and Shorenstein Center A.M. Rosenthal Writer-in-Residence, and Shorenstein Center Director and former editor in chief of TIME Magazine, Nancy Gibbs. You can find more information about the event, and the live stream here. Tara Westover is the author of Educated, and current A.M. Rosenthal Writer-in-Residence at […]

Brandi Collins-Dexter is a fall 2019 Joan Shorenstein Fellow and the Senior Campaign Director at Color Of Change, where she oversees the media, culture and economic justice team. She has led a number of successful and highly visible campaigns for corporate and government accountability and has also worked extensively with Silicon Valley companies on key […]

Join us for an evening of engaging conversation around the public interest technology domain. Organizations that aim to elevate meaningful participation in the public interest technology domain face unique product challenges, and have valuable lessons to share. A couple of experienced founders and product leaders in this space will tell their stories and conduct a […]

Part of the speaker series on misinformation, co-sponsored by the NULab at Northeastern University. The Internet is increasingly the home of democracy. It is where people turn for civic information, engage in political discourse public and private, and turn to mobilize collectively. The virtual structures of the Internet are, in some ways, quite distinct from what […]

Featuring Professor Toni Griffin and Professor Khalil Muhammad Join the Institutional Anti Racism and Accountability Project (IARA) to celebrate the final week of the Undesign the Redline Exhibit at the Kennedy School. The event will include a talk from Professor Toni Griffin from the Harvard Graduate School of Design on her work at the Just […]

Part of the speaker series on misinformation, co-sponsored by the NULab at Northeastern University.   In this talk David Rand will give an overview of his work assessing various interventions against misinformation and "fake news" on social media. He will start by briefly discussing the limitations of two of the most commonly discussed approaches: warnings based on […]

Don Baer is a Spring 2020 Walter Shorenstein Fellow. He has had a career that spans roles as a media and communications executive for a range of business, government, political and non-profit enterprises. Since 2014 he has been the Chair of PBS’s Board of Directors. He is also the lead independent director and member of […]

Part of the speaker series on misinformation, co-sponsored by the NULab at Northeastern University.   Andrew Guess (Ph.D. Columbia University) is an assistant professor of politics and public affairs at Princeton University. His research and teaching interests lie at the intersection of political communication, public opinion, and political behavior. Via a combination of experimental methods, large datasets, […]

Part of the speaker series on misinformation, co-sponsored by the NULab at Northeastern University.   Yochai Benkler is the Berkman Professor of Entrepreneurial Legal Studies at Harvard Law School, and faculty co-director of the Berkman Klein Center for Internet and Society at Harvard University. Since the 1990s he has played a role in characterizing the role of […]

Join us for a panel with Dana Chisnell, Mikey Dickerson, and Mina Hsiang, moderated by Kathy Pham. Former leaders of the United States Digital Service will discuss their on the ground experience building technology in civic tech, public interest tech, and mission focused organizations. They will share experiences on the complexities of working in these […]

Gwyneth Williams, veteran BBC journalist and 2020 Walter Shorenstein Fellow, is joined by philosopher and writer Anthony Appiah and Aleks Krotoski, presenter BBC’s The Digital Human. Atul Gawande, Stephen Hawking, Daniel Barenboim, Grayson Perry, Hilary Mantel, Jeff Sachs, Anthony Appiah….. What do these have in common? They all have big ideas which is why they […]