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Last Friday I went to ROFLCon, the “rolling on the floor laughing” convention. It was a two-day event organized by an enterprising group of Harvard undergrads (and sponsored by the Berkman Center) to celebrate and explore internet memes and culture. Why is this an appropriate topic for blog on digital activism, you might ask. Although the conference was ostensibly about funny Internet memes it was really about how Internet is fueling the growth of user-generated culture - cultural democracy, if (Leer más)

Larry Lessig, Stanford intellectual extraordinaire and founder of Creative Commons, is here at Harvard Law School to talk about his new campaign Change Congress as part of the Berkman@10 lecture series.He begins with a quote from Ronald Reagan: "A Democracy cannot exist as a permanent form of government. It can exist only until the voters discover that they can vote themselves largesse from the public treasury. From that moment on, the majority always votes for the candidates promising the most (Leer más)

This is how Istanbul looked last week - cold and overcast.On Sunday I got back from 4 days in Istanbul for "Digitally-Empowered Acitivists," a conference I co-organized for the Berkman Center for Internet and Society. We had a great group of activists and academics from around the world. You can read the agenda here and read a blog post about the event here on the I&D Blog.I was pretty busy with event logistics (not enough wireless internet connections, room only (Leer más)

I wrote this report for the Internet and Democracy Project at the Berkman Center for Internet and Society at Harvard Law School. The paper investigates the influence of the citizen journalism Web site OhmyNews during the 2002 South Korean Presidential election. It begins with a discussion of the phenomenon of citizen journalism and the importance of an independent media to democracy. It next moves to a discussion of the motivation for the creation of OhmyNews by Oh Yeon Ho and (Leer más)

Today I attended the Berkman Center luncheon presentation by Victoria Stodden of Stanford University on “The Internet and Democracy: Problems and Ideas.” (The event was webcast live.) Her talk inspired an animated discussion of what empirical methods are most appropriate for studying the Internet's effect on the democracy. Victoria said that the Internet could potentially affect democracy in three way: 1. by disseminating information (increase in accessibility of information, increased accountability, more informed citizens) 2. as a tool for democratic (Leer más)