Lectures

Reception immediately following in 3rd floor open space U.S. Federal policies require that government information technology, both for Federal employees and the public, be accessible for people with disabilities. Despite the clear policies in place, a majority of Federal web sites continue to be inaccessible. Federal policies related to web accessibility for private companies covered […]

Reception immediately following in 3rd floor atrium Not all data is created equal: how and why some materials may be freely shared and others are considered secret or expensive is a matter of debate at the policy and technological level. In this paper, I draw on ethnographic work with two robotic space exploration teams to […]

Reception immediately following in 3rd floor atrium For the most part, U.S. legal and policy scholarship about the networked information society shares a set of first-order commitments—to individual autonomy, to an abstract and disembodied vision of the self, and to the possibility of rational value-neutrality—that derive from the tradition of liberal political theory within which […]

Reception immediately following in 3rd floor atrium The Web has enabled unprecedented levels of communication and sharing, expanding access to information around the globe, while also raising broad concerns about the future of individual privacy. This talk will explore some of the current technology and policy problems under debate - from Do Not Track to […]

Reception immediately following in 3rd floor atrium 2011 is shaping up to be a year of profound political change, possibly on par with 1989, 1968 or 1848. One of the many unanswered questions raised by the Arab Spring, the London Riots, the Occupy Wall Street movement is the relationship between new media and social change. […]