Vikki S. Katz on How Lower-Income Families Respond to Digital Equity Challenges

05/17/16 • 0 min

Berkman Center for Internet and Society: Video Fishbowl

While 94% of parents raising school-age children below the U.S. median household income have an Internet connection, more than half are “under-connected,” in that their Internet connection is too slow, has been interrupted in the past year due to non-payment, and/or they share their Internet-connected devices with too many people. In this talk, Vikki Katz […]

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Ellery Biddle on The Internetish Things of Cuba: Open Source and ‘in the Clear’

What is it like to use the Internet in fits and starts? How do communities with limited access to the global Internet use digital tools? Beyond sensational media narratives about Havana’s WiFi hotspots and the paquete semanal, there is a complex landscape of Internet access, digital media use and open source software development in Cuba. […]

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Michel Bauwens: Are We Shifting to a New Post-Capitalist Value Regime?

Every 500 years or so, European civilization and now world civilization, has been rocked by fundamental shifts in its value regime, in which the rules of the game for acquiring wealth and livelihoods have dramatically changed. Following Benkler’s seminal Wealth of Networks, which first identifies peer production, the P2P Foundation has collated a vast amount […]