News from The Economist

[The Economist, April 22 2008] Finding the right picture

[The Economist, May 14 2008] Cores of the problem

[The Economist, April 10 2008] Nomads at last

[The Economist, April 9 2008] Start making sense

[The Economist, April 24 2008] Pain in the aaS

[The Economist, May 16 2008] From literacy to digiracy

[The Economist, May 15 2008] Doctor on call

[The Economist, May 15 2008] The final chapter?

[The Economist, May 22 2008] Dial I for internet

[The Economist, February 14 2008] The electronic bureaucrat

Sources

7. The Economist

6. Stanford Center for Internet and Society

In the heart of the Silicon Valley, legal doctrine is emerging that will determine the course of civil rights and technological innovation for decades to come. The Center for Internet and Society (CIS), housed at Stanford Law School and a part of the Law, Science and Technology Program, is at the apex of this evolving area of law.

5. Lessig Blog

Lawrence Lessig is a Professor of Law at Stanford Law School and founder of the school's Center for Internet and Society. Prior to joining the Stanford faculty, he was the Berkman Professor of Law at Harvard Law School, and a Professor at the University of Chicago. He clerked for Judge Richard Posner on the 7th Circuit Court of Appeals and Justice Antonin Scalia on the United States Supreme Court.

Massachussets Institute of Technology

Cambridge- MIT Partnership Programme (see before)

Center for Information Systems Research (CISR)/ MIT Sloan Center for Information Systems

Comparative Media Studies

MIT Center for Digital Business

MIT Media Lab News

MIT Media Lab

Projects in Media Lab MIT Center for Future Civic Media , MIT Communications Futures Program , Digital Life (plus related research groups) , Next Billion Network etc.

Cars as Media Centers

Stanford professor Clifford Nash is creating the future of communication, once again, with his research. This time it is not only about computer-human relationships, but also cars as media centers.

Stanford Report: Professor studies what cars can learn from drivers’ words

See the clip: Stanford's Nass simulates crashes, sees the car as a media center

By Turo Uskali @ Stanford

Open Access Publishing/Harvard

Once again, Harvard is leading the way.

Harvard Law School, is the next in the line of transforming the old, and almost sacred principles of academic publishing: peer-reviewing, long-waiting-times, and expensive. Now on, Harvard Law's papers are delivered fast, and - free on the web. To be sure, this will create new pressures to traditional academic publishing houses, but also, and happily, this will clearly boost scholarly communication among the best researchers in the world.

"The Harvard Law School faculty produces some of the most exciting, groundbreaking scholarship in the world," said Dean Elena Kagan in Harvard Law School's website. And, she is right.

In addition, Harvard's Berkman Center for Internet and Society is celebrating already its first 10 years. This fine institution is creating the future for media, and journalism as well. You can participate the seminars online by webcasts, and live videoblogging, May 15, and 16, from here.

By Turo Uskali