John Palfrey: 9 books
Safe Spaces, Brave Spaces
Diversity and Free Expression in Education
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2017
How the essential democratic values of diversity and free expression can coexist on campus.
Safe spaces, trigger warnings, microaggressions, the disinvitation of speakers, demands to rename campus landmarks—debate over these issues began in lecture halls and on college quads but ended up...
by John Palfrey
Language: English
Release Date: October 7, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: October 7, 2011
How a flexible and creative approach to intellectual property can help an organization accomplish goals ranging from building market share to expanding an industry.
Most managers leave intellectual property issues to the legal department, unaware that an organization's intellectual property...
Interop
The Promise and Perils of Highly Interconnected Systems
Language: English
Release Date: June 5, 2012
In Interop, technology experts John Palfrey and Urs Gasser explore the immense importance of interoperability-the standardization and integration of technology-and show how this simple principle will hold the key to our success in the coming decades and beyond.
The practice of standardization...
BiblioTech
Why Libraries Matter More Than Ever in the Age of Google
Language: English
Release Date: May 5, 2015
Libraries today are more important than ever. More than just book repositories, libraries can become bulwarks against some of the most crucial challenges of our age: unequal access to education, jobs, and information.
In BiblioTech, educator and technology expert John Palfrey argues that anyone...
Education and Social Media
Toward a Digital Future
Language: English
Release Date: May 6, 2016
Leading scholars from a variety of disciplines explore the future of education, including social media usage, new norms of knowledge, privacy, copyright, and MOOCs.
How are widely popular social media such as Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram transforming how teachers teach, how kids learn,...
Born Digital
How Children Grow Up in a Digital Age
Language: English
Release Date: July 12, 2016
"An excellent primer on what it means to live digitally. It should be required reading for adults trying to understand the next generation." --Nicholas Negroponte, author of Being Digital
The first generation of children who were born into and raised in the digital world are coming...
by Ronald Deibert, John Palfrey, Rafal Rohozinski
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2011
Experts examine censorship, surveillance, and resistance across Asia, from China and India to Malaysia and the Philippines.
Access Denied: The Practice and Policy of Global Internet Filtering
The Practice and Policy of Global Internet Filtering
Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 2008
A study of Internet blocking and filtering around the world: analyses by leading researchers and survey results that document filtering practices in dozens of countries.
Access Controlled
The Shaping of Power, Rights, and Rule in Cyberspace
Language: English
Release Date: April 2, 2010
Reports on a new generation of Internet controls that establish a new normative terrain in which surveillance and censorship are routine.
Internet filtering, censorship of Web content, and online surveillance are increasing in scale, scope, and sophistication around the world, in democratic...