School of Information

Distinguished Lecture

Beyond Global: Learning from Many Voices

Wednesday, February 15, 2012

4:10 pm - 5:30 pm

210 South Hall

Chris Riley is a designer and global communications strategist and the founder of Studioriley. He explores the relationship between business and culture through brand strategy and communications design.

Audio & Video

Victoria Stodden: "The Credibility Crisis in Computational Science: An Information Issue"

Audio from February 1 Dean's Lecture (length: 79:09)

Howard Rheingold: "Social Media and Peer Learning: From Mediated Pedagogy to Peeragogy"

Video from January 23 Special Lecture (length: 1:30:56)

Geoff Nunberg's Word of the Year is "Occupy", on NPR's Fresh Air

Audio (length: 5:58)

Summer Session

The School of Information is offering five undergraduate courses during Summer 2012:

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February 14

Consent of the Networked: The Worldwide Struggle for Internet Freedom

A global struggle for control of the Internet is now underway. At stake are no less than civil liberties, privacy, and even the character of democracy in the 21st century. Rebecca MacKinnon addresses the fundamental and urgent question of how technology should support the rights and liberties of all the world’s Internet users.

February 29

Social Substrates: People and the data they make

David A. Shamma is a media artist and research scientist studying creative expression and sharing at Yahoo! Research.

April 18

Net Smart: How to Thrive Online

A discussion with Howard Rheingold, author of the new book Net Smart: How to Thrive Online. How can we use digital media as grounded, well-rounded people rather than multitasking neurotics? Rheingold outlines five fundamental digital literacies, online skills that will help us use social media intelligently, humanely, and, above all, mindfully.

Press Coverage

The I School in the news

Feb 3: Andy Brooks and Steve Weber Ponder Football Hooliganism

Jan 29: AnnaLee Saxenian Discusses Building the Next Silicon Valley, on CBC Radio

Jan 22: The New York Times profiles I School alumna danah boyd (Ph.D. 2008)

Jan 11: Jess Hemerly (MIMS 2011) discusses open-source metadata in the Google policy blog

Breaking News

I School Scholars Present at Computer-Supported Cooperative Work Conference

I School Students and Faculty Prepare for iConference

Annual iConference will be held in Toronto, Canada, February 7–10.

Tapan Parikh to Speak at TEDxBerkeley this Saturday

TEDx is a program of local, self-organized events that bring people together to share a TED-like experience of “ideas worth spreading.” At a TEDx event, TEDTalks video and live speakers combine to spark deep discussion and connection in a small group.

I School's First Endowed Chair Will Be the Hal R. Varian Chair in Information Economics

The School of Information is delighted to announce the creation of its first endowed chair, the Hal R. Varian Chair in Information Economics, thanks to a generous gift from Hal R. Varian, the founding dean of the I School and now the Chief Economist at Google, with matching funds from the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation.