Analysis and Theory, Blog
We spend less time on TikTok than we fear
February 23, 2024
Alum Elissa Redmiles summarizes her collaborative work on the (in)accuracy of user estimates of TikTok usage, and lays out the implications.
Author Archive
Announcement, Building the Field, Event, Speaker Series
RSM Spring Speaker Series
January 24, 2024
This spring, we’re welcoming an exciting group of social scientists, industry practitioners, and legal academics for a speaker series on social media topics.
Analysis and Theory, Blog
The Right to Information in the Private Sector
December 15, 2023
Visiting Scholar Lisa Austin argues for a rethinking of digital epistemic rights:
“What the right to information requires is that our digitally-mediated world be created in such a way (through law and policy as well as technological means) that it can be independently knowable and interrogated and that this ability is equitably distributed.”
Analysis and Theory, Announcement, Building the Field, Engineering and Policy Development
Call for 2024-2025 RSM Visiting Scholars
November 21, 2023
The Institute for Rebooting Social Media (RSM) welcomes applications for its 2024-2025 cohort of Visiting Scholars. This interdisciplinary cohort will undertake original projects while engaging with RSM faculty, staff, scholars, fellows, students, and the broader Berkman Klein Center (BKC) and Harvard University communities and projects.
Analysis and Theory, Building the Field, Engineering and Policy Development
Harvard’s Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society and Non-Profit Project Liberty Announce Launch of New BKC Lab
October 11, 2023
Project Liberty and The Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society at Harvard University announced today that Frank McCourt and the 501(c)(3) non-profit Project Liberty will support the launch of BKC’s Applied Social Media Lab (ASML) – a first-of-its-kind program to assess and build social media technology in the public interest.
Announcement, Building the Field, Speaker Series
RSM Fall 2023 Speaker Series
September 27, 2023
This fall, we’re welcoming an exciting group of authors, social scientists, industry practitioners, legal academics, and computer scientists for a weekly speaker series on social media topics.
Analysis and Theory, Blog, Engineering and Policy Development
Minus: Radically Finite Social Media and Alternative Futures
August 15, 2023
Assembly Fellow Ben Grosser shares insights from his analysis of Minus, a finite social media platform he built to demonstrate a different kind of social media.
Engineering and Policy Development
Not Just Semantics: Learning from Definitions in Technology Policy Proposals
August 8, 2023
Assembly Fellow Marissa Gerchick explains the state of affairs that motivated term tabs, her Assembly Fellowship project that aggregates and makes searchable important terms in proposed and enacted federal tech legislation.
Engineering and Policy Development
Platform Accountability: Developing Systems to More Meaningfully Assess and Mitigate Platform Harms
August 2, 2023
Assembly Fellow Nate Lubin recaps his fellowship project, a white paper which argues for a series of platform accountability mechanisms informed by the field of public health.
Analysis and Theory
Power in Computer Security and Privacy: A Critical Lens
April 20, 2023
Visiting Scholar Elissa Redmiles and coauthors bring a critical theoretical lens to computer security and privacy.
