Building the Field

The event included a day of closed-door working sessions with experts from across the tech field as well as a day of public-facing programming.

Harvard Law Professor Lawrence Lessig joins the Decoder podcast to introduce the Applied Social Media Lab and share his thoughts on how to regulate social media while balancing free speech and protecting democracy.

The Institute for Rebooting Social Media is hiring part-time research assistants to work with our 2023-24 Visiting Scholars through the Fall term. 

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.

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.

Assembly Fellow Nathaniel Lubin and his coauthors argue that transparency with regard to tech companies’ experimentation can lead to better and more informed regulation.

The Institute for Rebooting Social Media is thrilled to announce its 2023-24 cohort of Visiting Scholars. These seven visiting faculty members will use their time with the Institute to investigate urgent social media problems and propose mitigations for harmful online phenomena.

The Institute for Rebooting Social Media will welcome this summer a small, interdisciplinary cohort of students with fresh ideas, curiosity, and creative drive. Interns will join the Institute’s growing community of faculty, staff, scholars, and fellows, supporting core programming while pursuing their own projects.

On his latest podcast episode, Visiting Scholar Jabari Evans sits down with Dr. Catherine Knight Steele, Associate Professor of Communication at the University of Maryland and Director of the Black Communication & Technology Lab, to discuss digital Black feminism, resistance, and joy.

RSM Faculty Director Jonathan Zittrain and Jill Lepore test a fascinating idea that just might work: using high school ‘student juries’ to fact-check political ads.