by Hearsay Culture Network | Feb 14, 2013
Who are hackers, and what does hacking mean for our broader community? You’ve likely heard a lot about hackers releasing information, but you may have heard less about who hackers are. Hearsay Culture discussed with Professor Gabriella Coleman about her surprise...
by Hearsay Culture Network | Aug 28, 2012
Professor of Law, Georgetown University, Author of From Goods to a Good Life: Intellectual Property and Global Justice Intellectual property is often about control and ownership. Here, Hearsay Culture took on the counter-point: How does intellectual property help...
by Hearsay Culture Network | Aug 21, 2012
How Data Leaks May Compromise Your Medical Rights What happens to your health information once you share it with your doctor? Despite the potential of technology to help us retain control over our health information, our electronic health data leaks and flows in...
by Hearsay Culture Network | Jan 18, 2011
In her book, For All the Tea in China, Sarah Rose recounts one of the most massive trade secret thefts in history. In the nineteenth century, the British East India Company tasked Scottish botanist Robert Fortune with stealing tea from China and bringing it back to...
by Hearsay Culture Network | Nov 10, 2010
Dave chats with Tim Wu about the Internet’s monopolies and their control over the flow of information. In the early 2000’s Tim Wu Tim Wu coined the term “net neutrality”—the idea that Internet service providers, like Comcast or Verizon, should treat all content on the...
