Building the Field

Join Molly White of “Web3 is Going Just Great” fame and RSM Faculty Director Jonathan Zittrain for a wide-ranging fireside chat to ring in the new year. Jan 12, 2023, 12:30 PM ET. Registration required.

RSM Affiliate Aviv Ovadya appears on Casey Newton and Kevin Roose’s “Hard Fork” podcast to discuss platform democracy proposals, which would give users real voice in the platform governance process.

Detailing the strategies used to spread online hate and abuse, RSM Assembly Fellow Kesa White argues that platforms must be attentive to the instrumental role of masked rhetoric and memes.

How can online technologies evolve to provide better safeguards to journalists? PEN America and RSM hosted an interdisciplinary workshop with reporters, academics, civil society experts, and platform representatives to brainstorm solutions.

The Institute for Rebooting Social Media (RSM) is accepting applications from outstanding faculty members committed to improving the current state of social media for its 2023-2024 cohort of Visiting Scholars. This interdisciplinary cohort of roughly eight members will produce original research while engaging with RSM faculty, staff, scholars, fellows, students, and the broader Berkman Klein Center (BKC) and Harvard University communities.

RSM welcomes 13 interdisciplinary professionals who will build new interfaces, implement novel protocols, and create additional artifacts that reimagine digital social space in service of democracy and the public interest.

MetaLAB (at) Harvard & FU Berlin exhibition, featuring RSM Sr. Advisor Sarah Newman, runs through July 3 at Harvard Art Museums.

RSM’s inaugural cohort of Visiting Scholars will be in residence at Harvard University to develop research on the social media landscape and potential interventions to improve our digital ecosystem.

Creative workshop from the Institute for Rebooting Social Media brings people together from around the world.