A new research initiative, the Public Interest Technology Lab at Harvard, a collaboration among faculty across Harvard University and working with a network of other universities, was formally launched today. It is based at Harvard Kennedy School, and supported by a $3 million grant from the Ford Foundation. The new lab, to be housed at […]
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The Shorenstein Center on Media, Politics and Public Policy at Harvard Kennedy School (HKS) is proud to announce the release of a new white paper from the Technology and Social Change project (TaSC) – Human Rights in Survival Mode: Rebuilding Trust and Supporting Digital Workers in the Philippines. Historically known as the most active civil
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Dr. Joan Donovan, Shorenstein Center Research Director and Director of the Technology and Social Change Project, is featured in this month’s Harvard Magazine profile on disinformation. Read on for an excerpt from the article: When “Stop the Steal” turned violent on January 6, few were less surprised than Donovan. Hours before the Capitol was breached
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In a new paper published today in the journal Nature Human Behaviour, a global team of researchers argue that we are seeing the rise of an important new scholarly approach – affectivism – that will grant new insights into the foundations of human behavior. The scholars, who come from disciplines ranging from computer science to philosophy, highlight
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This event aired on May 28, 2021 as part of the Shorenstein Center’s new Alumni Fellows Network speaker series, featuring former Shorenstein fellows discussing major topics in the news, and their current work. The trial of Derek Chauvin sparked national conversations about violent policing and racial injustice. In its wake, how should policy makers, police, and journalists
At a ceremony on Wednesday, May 26, 2021, Harvard University’s Graduate School of Arts and Sciences (GSAS) awarded the Centennial Medal to Marvin Kalb, AM ’53, Edward R. Murrow Professor of Practice, Emeritus, Harvard Kennedy School. The critical importance of truth and ethics in American journalism has never been clearer—and Marvin Kalb, is one of
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Ann Cooper was a 2020 Joan Shorenstein Fellow. She previously served as executive director of the Committee to Protect Journalists from 1998 until June 2006 and, is professor emerita at the Columbia University School of Journalism. In her latest article for Nieman Reports, she explains the context and implications of the recent diversion of a
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The Shorenstein Center on Media, Politics, and Public Policy at the Harvard Kennedy School is proud to announce the Harvard Shorenstein News Leaders Summit, a new program to help newsroom leaders fight misinformation and media manipulation. Launching this fall, with support from the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation, the program will bring together
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Part of the Speaker Series on Misinformation, co-sponsored by the NULab at Northeastern University. This event occurred on May 5, 2021. More about the speaker and the research can be found below the video. Users’ perspectives on what f*ke news and misinformation is and isn’t, who drives it, and where people say they see it are important
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Vassilis Coutifaris, program manager of the Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies (CES), moderated a conversation with Marvin Kalb, nonresident senior fellow with the Foreign Policy program at Brookings, senior advisor at the Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting, and founding director of the Shorenstein Center, about his new book “Assignment Russia: Becoming a Foreign
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The Shorenstein Center on Media, Politics and Public Policy and the Institute of Politics at Harvard Kennedy School, and the USC Shoah Foundation, joined Harvard President Lawrence S. Bacow and University of Southern California President Carol Folt on April 27, 2021 for an event celebrating Harvard University’s subscription to USC Shoah Foundation’s Visual History Archive, making the archive available
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This book talk with the authors of “Power to the Public: The Promise of Public Interest Technology” took place on April 22, 2021, hosted by Professor Latanya Sweeney, Kathy Pham, and David Eaves. It was co-sponsored by the new Public Interest Tech Lab at the Shorenstein Center, and supported by the Teaching Public Service in
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