Some broad topics of interest at the Center include (but are not limited to): Education, Libraries, & Digital Humanities Ethics and Governance of AI Governance of Technology & the Internet Internet Health Justice, Equity, & Inclusion Media, Democracy, & Public Discourse Privacy & Security and Technology & the Law.
Within each cohort of fellows we encourage and strive for wide inquisition and focused study, and these areas of speciality and exploration vary from fellow to fellow and year to year. As well, the Center works to support our exemplary alumni network, and beyond a period of formal affiliation, community members maintain ongoing active communication and mutual support across cohorts.Īlongside and in conversation with the breadth and depth of topics explored through the Center’s research projects, fellows engage the fairly limitless expanse of Internet & society issues. These entrepreneurial, collaborative ventures – ranging at once from goal-oriented to experimental, from rigorous to humorous – ensure the dynamism of a fellowship experience, the fellowship program, and the Berkman Klein community. While engaging in both substance and process, much of what makes the fellowship program rewarding is created each year by the fellows themselves to address their own interests and priorities. In addition to each fellow’s personal research agenda, together fellows actively design and participate in weekly all-fellows sessions, working groups, skill shares, hacking and development sessions, and shared meals, as well as join in a wide-range of Berkman Klein Center events, classes, brainstorms, interactions, and projects. Over the course of the year fellows advance their research and contribute to the intellectual life of the Center and fellowship program activities as they learn with and are influenced by their peers, fellows have the freedom to change and modify their plans. These might include focused study or writing projects, action-oriented meetings, the development of technical tools, capacity-building, testing pedagogical approaches, or efforts to intervene in public discourse and trialing new platforms for exchange. From their diverse backgrounds and wide-ranging physical and virtual travels, Berkman Klein Center fellows bring fresh ideas, skills, passion, and connections to the Center and our community, and from their time spent in Cambridge help build and extend new perspectives and actions back out into their home networks, communities, and fields.Ī non-traditional appointment that defies any one-size-fits-all description, each Berkman Klein fellowship carries a unique set of opportunities, responsibilities, and expectations based on each fellow’s goals.įellows appointed through this open call come into their fellowship with a personal research agenda and set of ambitions they wish to conduct while at the Center. The program encourages and supports fellows in an inviting and playful intellectual environment with community activities designed to foster inquiry and risk-taking to identify and expose common threads across fellows’ individual activities and to bring fellows into conversation with the students, staff, faculty, and broader community at the Berkman Klein Center. Inspired by our mission statement, the Berkman Klein Center’s fellowship program provides an opportunity for some of the world’s most innovative thinkers and changemakers to come together to hone and share ideas, find camaraderie, and spawn new initiatives.
Our method is to build out into cyberspace, record data as we go, self-study, and share. We are a research center, premised on the observation that what we seek to learn is not already recorded. “The Berkman Klein Center's mission is to explore and understand cyberspace to study its development, dynamics, norms, and standards and to assess the need or lack thereof for laws and sanctions.
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