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The Commercialization of Decision-Making: Towards a Regulatory Framework to Address Machine Bias over the Internet
April 24, 2020
This paper was originally published by the Hoover Institution at Stanford University. Dipayan Ghosh is a Shorenstein Fellow and co-director of the Center’s...
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Platform Accountability: An Interim Measure
April 15, 2019
Download the PDF of this paper here. Introduction The major digital platform companies present a large, complicated array of benefits and problems for...
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Broadband Everywhere
March 5, 2019
Internet access is coming to the other half of the planet through rapid expansion of broadband technologies. Media organizations that recognize the speed...
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The Brain Trust Initiative
December 19, 2018
The Brain Trust Initiative is a vision to unleash the power of digital media as a force for change across sub-saharan Africa. Abstract: Media in sub-Saharan...
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Platform Accountability and Contemporary Competition Law: Practical Considerations
November 20, 2018
The Sherman Act of 1890 was the first federal law to address business monopolies. Are antitrust laws a good framework for regulating today’s digital...
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Digital Deceit II: A Policy Agenda to Fight Disinformation on the Internet
October 2, 2018
The views expressed in Shorenstein Center Discussion Papers are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect those of Harvard Kennedy School or...
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Business Models for Local News: A Field Scan
September 6, 2018
The views expressed in Shorenstein Center Discussion Papers are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect those of Harvard Kennedy School or...
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Business Models for Local News: A Field Scan
September 6, 2018
The views expressed in Shorenstein Center Discussion Papers are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect those of Harvard Kennedy School or...
Business & Economics, Domestic Affairs, Environment, Health & Science, Government Institutions, Papers, Publications, Technology,
Time to Fix It: Developing Rules for Internet Capitalism
August 16, 2018
A Shorenstein Center Fellows Research Paper by Tom Wheeler, former Chairman of the FCC under President Barack Obama, and Senior Research Fellow at Harvard...
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The Atlantic’s Adam Serwer: The Politics of Racism in Trump’s America
March 27, 2018
March 27, 2018—Adam Serwer, senior editor at The Atlantic, discussed the role of race and class in U.S. politics, and its media coverage, during a visit...
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Sarah Smarsh: Reporting on Rural America and Class
April 18, 2017
April 18, 2017—Sarah Smarsh, a reporter on socioeconomic class, politics, and policy for The New Yorker, The Guardian, Harper’s online, and other publications,...
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Sarah Smarsh: Reporting on Rural America and Class
April 18, 2017
April 18, 2017—Sarah Smarsh, a reporter on socioeconomic class, politics, and policy for The New Yorker, The Guardian, Harper’s online, and other publications,...
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Bhaskar Sunkara: The Future of the American Left
April 4, 2017
April 4, 2017—Bhaskar Sunkara, editor and publisher of Jacobin magazine, discussed his views on leftist politics in the United States during a visit to...
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Bhaskar Sunkara: The Future of the American Left
April 4, 2017
April 4, 2017—Bhaskar Sunkara, editor and publisher of Jacobin magazine, discussed his views on leftist politics in the United States during a visit to...
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Dean Doug Elmendorf: Understanding the Congressional Budget Office
March 23, 2017
March 22, 2017— Doug Elmendorf, Dean of Harvard Kennedy School and former director of the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) from 2009-2015, discussed why...
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Dean Doug Elmendorf: Understanding the Congressional Budget Office
March 23, 2017
March 22, 2017— Doug Elmendorf, Dean of Harvard Kennedy School and former director of the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) from 2009-2015, discussed why...
Audio & Video, Business & Economics, Campaigns, Elections & Parties, Domestic Affairs, Past Events, Policy & Issues, Politics & Government, Race & Gender,
Farai Chideya and Zack Exley: Understanding the Electorate
March 7, 2017
March 7, 2017— Farai Chideya, Joan Shorenstein Fellow and senior writer at FiveThirtyEight, and Zack Exley, Joan Shorenstein Fellow and senior advisor...
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Cathy O’Neil—Weapons of Math Destruction: How Big Data Increases Inequality and Threatens Democracy
October 4, 2016
October 4, 2016—Cathy O’Neil, data scientist and author of the new book Weapons of Math Destruction: How Big Data Increases Inequality and Threatens Democracy,...
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2016 Goldsmith Seminar on Investigative Reporting
March 4, 2016
A panel discussion with the winner and finalists of the Goldsmith Prize for Investigative Reporting: Robin McDowell, The Associated Press; Kimberly Kindy,...
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Jaron Lanier: The Digital Economy Since Who Owns The Future?
October 8, 2015
October 8, 2015 — Jaron Lanier, computer scientist and author of Who Owns the Future? and You Are Not a Gadget, discussed how the current digital economy,...
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