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The Paper of Record Meets an Ephemeral Web: An Examination of Linkrot and Content Drift within The New York Times
(Harvard Innovation Lab, Harvard Law School, 2021-04-26)
Hyperlinks are a powerful tool for journalists and their readers. Diving deep into the context of an article is just a click away. But hyperlinks are a double-edged sword; for all of the internet’s boundlessness, what’s ...
Principled Artificial Intelligence: Mapping Consensus in Ethical and Rights-based Approaches to Principles for AI
(Berkman Klein Center for Internet& Society, 2020-01-15)
The rapid spread of artificial intelligence (AI) systems has precipitated a rise in ethical and human rights-based frameworks intended to guide the development and use of these technologies. Despite the proliferation of ...
Skin in the Game: Modulate AI and Addressing the Legal and Ethical Challenges of Voice Skin Technology
(Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society, 2020-01-06)
This educational toolkit from the BKC Policy Practice on AI includes a case study, a teaching note, and a background primer. Collectively, they comprise a toolkit that can illuminate some of the challenges in moving from ...
The False positive problem of automatic bot detection in social science research
(Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society, 2020-03)
The identification of bots is an important and complicated task. The bot classifier Botometer was successfully introduced as a way to estimate the number of bots in a given list of accounts and, as a consequence, has been ...
Platform Accountability Through Digital "Poison Cabinets"
(Knight First Amendment Institute at Columbia University, 2021-04-13)
Preserving records of what user content is taken down—and why—could make platforms more accountable and transparent.
Polarization and the Pandemic: American Political Discourse, March – May 2020
(Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society, 2020-10-29)
By the middle of March, the Democratic primary had effectively ended and the enormity of the Covid-19 pandemic and its human and economic cost began to sink in. The response to the pandemic had already been thoroughly ...
German Digital Council: An 'Inside-Out' Case Study
(Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society, 2021-04-28)
In 2018, German Chancellor Dr. Angela Merkel appointed a group of nine scholars and practitioners, including BKC’s Urs Gasser, to the German Digital Council (GDC). The GDC was formed with the unusual mission to ask both ...
Youth and the Digital Economy: Exploring Youth Practices, Motivations, Skills, Pathways, and Value Creation
(Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society, 2020-06-08)
Young people’s lives are increasingly shaped by digital technologies. While significant digital divides and participation gaps remain, an increasing number of young people around the globe participate in and contribute to ...
Youth Participation in a Digital World: Designing and Implementing Spaces, Programs, and Methodologies
(Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society, 2021-05-14)
This spotlight seeks to share Youth and Media’s initial insights around ways different stakeholders — such as international organizations, companies, researchers, and educators — can build participation models (e.g., spaces, ...
Partisanship, Impeachment, and the Democratic Primaries: American Political Discourse, January - February 2020
(Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society, 2020-10-22)
The decisions voters will make at the ballot box on November 3, 2020 will be influenced in no small part by the media coverage of the candidates and issues, including the reporting by journalists, the media personalities ...