Content tagged "law"
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Cloud Policy: Anatomy of a Regulatory Crisis
Jennifer Holt examines the legal and cultural crises surrounding the regulation of data in “the cloud.” The complex landscape of laws and policies governing digital data are currently rife with unresolvable conflicts. The challenges of distributing and protecting digital data in a policy landscape that is simultaneously local, national, and global have created problems that often defy legal paradigms, national boundaries, and traditional geographies of control.
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Trial and Error: Medical Marijuana, the Absence of Evidence, and the Allure of Anecdote
Patients, caregivers, scientists, physicians, pharmaceutical companies, and dispensary growers alike are calling for changes to government policies that restrict research. It’s high time to separate politics from science.
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Owning the Code of Life: Human Gene Patents in America
A Supreme Court decision marked a surprising and historic shift in the relationship between patent law and fundamental biology–but questions and uncertainty about a future without gene patents remain.
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Danielle Keats Citron: “Hate Crimes in Cyberspace”
Danielle Keats Citron exposes the startling extent of personal cyber-attacks and proposes practical, lawful ways to prevent and punish online harassment.
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Reading Between the Lines: Blueprints for a Worker Support Infrastructure in the Peer Economy
At its best, the peer economy can reintegrate people who are defined out of the traditional workplace. At its worst, it exploits human labor and degrades human dignity.
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Kate Crawford, “Squeaky Dolphin to Normcore: Anxiety and Big Data Culture”
Kate Crawford is a Principal Researcher at Microsoft Research (Social Media Collective) and a Visiting Professor at the MIT Center for Civic Media. She is currently working on a new book.
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SIGN HERE: Informed Consent in Personalized Medicine
In order for personalized medicine to become a reality, society will have to prepare itself for our ever-changing ethical, technological and scientific landscape.
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Video: Francis Steen, “The News as a Social Process for Improving Society”
Steen examines the global media coverage of the July 22, 2011, attack in Norway, demonstrating that the news is not primarily about reporting what happened but about constructing narratives, performing event surgery, and assigning responsibility.
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A Proposal for a Code of Ethics for Collaborative Journalism in the Digital Age: The Open Park Code
A proposed code of ethics for collaborative journalism in the digital age, the Open Park Code of Ethics and the Global Media Ethics Forum.
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Video: “Communications Forum: Civic Media and the Law”
What about media and the law do citizens need to know when they publicly address legally challenging or dangerous topics?
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Podcast: “Civic Media and the Law”
What about media law do citizens need to know when they publicly address legally challenging or dangerous topics?
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Civic Media and the Law
Micah Sifry and Daniel Schuman address the question: “What are the legal dangers for publishing secrets in the crowdsourced era?”
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Video: Thesis Presentations 2010. Florence Gallez: “Open Park Online News Production: A Proposal for a Code of Ethics for Collaborative Journalism in the Digital Age”
Florence Gallez develops a secure online space for media professionals and their audience to collaborate on news stories’ reporting and writing.
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Podcast: John Bryant and Wendy Seltzer, “Authorship, Appropriation, and the Fluid Text: Versions of the Law”
John Bryant and Wendy Seltzer ask: What are the ethics and legality in the creation, sharing, and ownership of textual versions?
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Authorship, Appropriation, and the Fluid Text: Versions of the Law
John Bryant and Wendy Seltzer ask, how does technology abet appropriation? How might it assist the useful designation of boundaries? Is the law keeping up?
