The Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society at Harvard University is delighted to welcome new and returning fellows for the 2026–2027 academic year.

Alexander “amac” Macgillivray was Deputy Assistant to the President and Principal Deputy United States Chief Technology Officer in the Biden Administration and held a similar role in the Obama ...

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Beth Altringer Eagle teaches design at Dartmouth, where she directs the Design Initiative at Dartmouth. Her work is about how people learn to perceive — how professional noses learn to smell, chefs ...

The regulatory landscape for Artificial Intelligence (AI) is shaping up on both sides of the Atlantic, with the U.S. Algorithmic Accountability Act and the EU AI Act among the main (proposed) ...

In this study, we analyze both mainstream and social media coverage of the 2016 United States presidential election. We document that the majority of mainstream media coverage was negative for both ...

This report, based on an ecosystem-wide analysis of political media coverage, spans the period of March, April, and May, when the spread and magnitude of the pandemic in the United States became clear ...

Marc Aidinoff is a historian of science, technology, and the state, as well as a public policymaker. An assistant professor in the Department of History of Science at Harvard University, Aidinoff ...

As people engage in a digital platform ecosystem where the boundaries blur between leisure, play, and work, what key challenges and opportunities do they face? Who can develop skills through their ...

Early on in the development of the Blogosphere, people like Clay Shirky and Joi Ito saw how linking structures led to a powerlaw effect, where bloggers with the most links had more broadcast power ...

In a paper for the Carr Center for Human Rights Policy Discussion Paper Series Sabelo Mhlambi uses the relational Sub-Saharan African philosophy of Ubuntu to show that the harms caused by artificial ...

The Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society at Harvard University proudly welcomes an extraordinary cohort of fellows for the 2024-2025 academic year. The cohort will embrace the three pillars of ...