I School Lectures

Ramesh Srinivasan reports on his fieldwork on technology, culture, and community-driven design from Egypt's Tahrir Square, the Zuni Nation of New Mexico, the Kyrgyz Steppe, and Rural India.

Lada Adamic is a visiting scholar at the UC Berkeley School of Information and an associate professor at the University of Michigan School of Information and Center for the Study of Complex Systems.

New media scholar Rhonda McEwen examines the context for the emergence of social media.

Explore the future of learning design, where we look to transcend learning with truly transformative experiences, with Clark Quinn, Ph.D.

Pamela Samuelson explains why she thinks the failure of the Google Books Settlement was inevitable.

Scott Young, M.D., discusses how the US health care system is responding to health care reform and the economic downturn with patient-centricity, health information technology, and integrated delivery systems.

Jennifer Pahlka, founder of Code for America, discusses how hackers and designers can help re-craft government and build a “citizen Internet.”

Eric Ries is the creator of the Lean Startup methodology and the author of the popular entrepreneurship blog "Startup Lessons Learned".

What challenges and opportunities do grassroots civil society organizations face as they use technology to build their capacity, engage their community, and deliver needed programs?

As the scientific enterprise becomes increasingly computational, new techniques are necessary for transparency and trustworthiness.

Can the information industry import the focus and attention of video games and the massive collaboration of online role-playing games into the workplace?

Eric Goldman is an Internet lawyer and law professor at Santa Clara University

Unexpected privacy consequences in modern information economies, novel privacy risks associated with public information revelation, and ways that well-meaning information security policies can backfire.