WEDNESDAY: RSM welcomes Carl T. Bergstrom for a talk exploring social media’s impact on the scale of human communication and our mechanisms for creating collective understanding.

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“This feels like a particularly compelling case to do at a moment where people are really concerned about the power of algorithms,” says Faculty Associate Ethan Zuckerman on his lawsuit against Meta to give users more control over their feeds

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Join Initiative for a Representative First Amendment virtually for this can't miss event on bodily autonomy, free expression, and the risks posed by the Comstock Act. Happening May 14!

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ICYMI, Cyberlaw Clinic's me ➡️ [email protected] testified before the copyright office in DMCA hearings

Read more in Ars Technica's 'Can an online library of classic video games ever be legal?'

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'ARTificial: Why Copyright Is Not the Right Policy Tool to Deal with Generative AI' - new must-read piece from Micaela Mantegna🎮 video game lawyer in The Yale Law Journal

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'It seems to be that a lot of the rise in loneliness and mental health issues preceded social media, and a lot of people are turning to social media to try to make sense of their loneliness,' RSM's Jeffrey Hall tells She Persisted | Teen Mental Health Podcast

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'Data colonialism is not a metaphor,' - Ulises Mejias of SUNY Oswego. “We’ve gone from a land grab to a data grab.'

UChicago Law School's Azis Huq argues for public data trusts: 'Data generated in a jurisdiction is owned by the trust & established by statue w/ certain limitations'

Thank you for sharing, and to Lisa Austin Schwartz Reisman Institute and the Institute for Rebooting Social Media for hosting this wide-ranging and encouraging conversation about how researchers can better collaborate to protect privacy, promote transparency, & push for regulatory change.

What data should we be asking for that platforms haven’t made available yet?

Experts from Global Network Initiative Mozilla Data Transfer Initiative and Schwartz Reisman Institute prioritize 'data that is public, low in sensitivity, and massively impactful,' (@baricks), and add: we may not get it👌 the first time.

Academic Ethan Zuckerman is suing Meta to win protections for add-ons that help researchers study the platform and give users more control over their social media feeds. Here's why:

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RSVP for this can't-miss hybrid event on 'Information Foraging in a Social Media World' featuring Carl T. Bergstrom!

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“We are in another crisis of research access to data” says Gabriel Nicholas of Center for Democracy & Technology, citing Twitter’s $4,200/month API, Reddit selling data to gen AI companies, & Meta’s ending Crowdtangle. “But this crisis is happening very slowly, and that’s what makes it really scary.”

I have a new article out today in Businessweek: 'The State of Crypto Is Anything But Strong'

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NEW EVENT Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society! Join RSM on May 8 for a conversation on Democracy and Technology w/ Lessig 🇺🇦 and Claudia Chwalisz (CEO of DemocracyNext), moderated by RSM’s Manon Revel.

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TOMORROW: Join RSM Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society and Schwartz Reisman Institute for the Platforms and the Right to Information workshop feat. RSM’s Lisa Austin + a panel of experts to explore data access and privacy.

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“It’s not even about whether humans or machines do things better, it’s about what better means,” Cyberlaw Clinic & Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society's Christopher Bavitz said in Harvard Law School's Last Lecture for the graduating class

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'These gatherings are essential to speak candidly and share recommendations on how to influence decision-making within tech companies to equally factor in the majority world rather than considering it a liability,' Nadah Feteih and others write in Tech Policy Press…

'It is too late to stop the emergence of AI. Instead, we need to think about what we want next, how to design and nurture spaces of knowledge creation and communication for a human-centric world,' Schneier Blog & Judith Donath @[email protected] write in The Atlantic

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RSM Welcomes Carl T. Bergstrom next Wednesday for a talk exploring social media’s impact on the scale of human communication and our mechanisms for creating collective understanding.

RSVP for this hybrid event: cyber.harvard.edu/events/informa…