Jonathan Zittrain
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Jonathan L. Zittrain (born December 24, 1969) is an American professor of
Zittrain works in several intersections of the
Family and education
Zittrain is the son of two attorneys, Ruth A. Zittrain and Lester E. Zittrain. In 2004 with Jennifer K. Harrison, Zittrain published The Torts Game: Defending Mean Joe Greene, a book the authors dedicated to their parents.[3] His brother, Jeff, is an established Bay Area musician.[4][5] His sister, Laurie Zittrain Eisenberg, is a scholar of the Arab and Israeli conflict[6] and teaches at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh.[7]
Zittrain, who grew up in the suburb of Churchill outside of Pittsburgh, graduated in 1987 from
He was law clerk for Stephen F. Williams of the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit and served with the U.S. Department of Justice and, in 1991, with the Department of State, as well as at the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence in 1992 and 1994.[11] He was a longtime forum administrator, or sysop, for the online service CompuServe, serving for many years as the chief administrator for its private forum for all of its forum administrators.[10]
Later career
Zittrain joined the staff of the University of Oxford in
Zittrain taught, or taught with others, Harvard's courses on Cyberlaw: Internet Points of Control, The Exploding Internet: Building A Global Commons in Cyberspace, Torts, Internet & Society: The Technologies and Politics of Control, The Law of Cyberspace, The Law of Cyberspace: Social Protocols, Privacy Policy, The Microsoft Case, and The High Tech Entrepreneur.[14] He searched for novel ways to use technology unobtrusively in the classroom at Harvard,[15] founded H2O[16] and used the system to teach his classes. Students are polled, assigned opposing arguments, and use H2O to develop their writing skills. Students enrolled in his The Internet and Society class could participate both orally and via the Internet. A teaching fellow seated in the classroom supplied Zittrain with the comments received from students in real time via e-mail as well as through "chat" or "instant message" from students participating in the class while logged into Second Life. (www.secondlife.com)[17]
He has been critical of the process used by ICANN, the International Telecommunication Union and the World Summit on the Information Society.[18] Although he describes their approach as, in some ways, simple and naïve, Zittrain sees more hope in the open Internet Engineering Task Force model and in the ethical code and assumption of good faith that govern Wikipedia.[19] He wrote in 2008, "Wikipedia—with the cooperation of many Wikipedians—has developed a system of self-governance that has many indicia of the rule of law without heavy reliance on outside authority or boundary."[19]
In 2009 Zittrain was elected to the Internet Society's board of trustees for a four-year term.[20] In February 2011 he joined the board of the Electronic Frontier Foundation.[21] In May 2011 Zittrain was made for Federal Communications Commission Distinguished Scholar.[22] In May 2012 he was made for Chair at Federal Communications Commission Open Internet Advisory Committee.[23]
Internet filtering
The
Building on the work completed at the Berkman Center, ONI published special reports, case studies, and bulletins beginning in 2004,[25] and as of 2008, offered research on filtering in 40 countries as well as by regions of the world.[26] As of 2016, Zittrain remains a principal investigator at ONI, together with Ronald Deibert of the University of Toronto, John Palfrey, who was previously the executive director of the Berkman Center (now the head of School at Phillips Academy in Andover, Massachusetts[27]), and Rafal Rohozinski of the University of Cambridge.[28]
In 2001, Zittrain cofounded
Copyright
On October 9, 2002, Zittrain and
Security
After Zittrain joined the staff at Oxford, Zittrain and
One of StopBadware's goals is to "preempt" the stifling of the Internet.[38] The founders think that centralized regulation could follow a serious Internet security breach, and that consumers might then choose to purchase closed, centrally managed solutions like tethered appliances that are modified by their vendor rather than owner, or might flee to services in walled gardens. In Zittrain's word, "generative" devices and platforms, including the Internet itself, offer an opening forward.[1] In 2007, he cautioned, "...we're moving to software-as-service, which can be yanked or transformed at any moment. The ability of your PC to run independent code is an important safety valve."[39]
Reactions in the Boston Review accompanied the publication of his book, The Future of the Internet and How to Stop It, in 2008. Support came from David D. Clark and Susan P. Crawford. Criticism ranged from Richard Stallman's finding no evidence of a flight to closed systems and his message that software developers need control and software patents must end,[40] to a request for cost-benefit analysis,[41] to the belief that netizenship will not scale to the business world[42] to faith that consumers will buy only open, non-proprietary systems.[43]
Directed by Palfrey and Zittrain, StopBadware receives high-level guidance from its advisory board:
Stock markets and spam
Writing with Laura Freider of
In February 2019, Zittrain interviewed Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg as part of a seminar for students at Harvard.[48]
Recent publications
- Zittrain, Jonathan (April 14, 2008). The Future of the Internet and How to Stop It (PDF). Yale University Press. ISBN 978-0-300-12487-3.
- Deibert, Ronald J.; Palfrey, John G.; Rohozinski, Rafal; Zittrain, Jonathan, eds. (February 29, 2008). Access Denied: The Practice and Policy of Global Internet Filtering. MIT Press. ISBN 978-0-262-54196-1.
- Frieder, Laura; Zittrain, Jonathan (March 14, 2007). "Spam Works: Evidence from Stock Touts and Corresponding Market Activity". Berkman Center Research Publication No. 2006-11. SSRN 920553.
- Zittrain, Jonathan (2006). "Searches and Seizures in a Networked World". Harvard Law Review Forum. 83. The Harvard Law Review Association. SSRN 916046.
- Zittrain, Jonathan L. (May 2006). "The Generative Internet" (PDF). Harvard Law Review. 119. The Harvard Law Review Association: 1974. Retrieved September 8, 2015.
- Zittrain, Jonathan (Spring 2006). "A History of Online Gatekeeping" (PDF). Harvard Journal of Law and Technology. 19 (2). Harvard Law School: 253. Retrieved April 20, 2008.
- Zittrain, Jonathan (Winter 2004). "Normative Principles for Evaluating Free and Proprietary Software". University of Chicago Law Review. 71 (1). The University of Chicago Law School via SSRN. SSRN 529862.
Notes
- ^ a b Duffy Marsan, Carolyn (April 9, 2008). "How the iPhone is killing the 'Net". Network World. IDG. Archived from the original on April 14, 2008. Retrieved April 17, 2008.
- Tampa Tribune, March 13, 2016
- ISBN 0-7355-4509-X. Retrieved April 18, 2008.
- ^ Blog post - Musical Interlude
- ^ Jeff Zittrain – Index
- ^ Amazon.com: Negotiating Arab-Israeli Peace: Patterns, Problems, Possibilities (9780253211590): Neil Caplan: Books
- ^ Laurie Zittrain Eisenberg – Department of History – Carnegie Mellon University
- ^ "School Calendar". Shady Side Academy. Archived from the original on July 19, 2011. Retrieved April 16, 2008.
- ^ "Speaker Bio". Province of British Columbia. Archived from the original on October 31, 2006. Retrieved April 16, 2008.
- ^ a b "Jonathan Zittrain". The Connecticut Forum. Retrieved April 27, 2012.
- ^ "Zittrain to be intellectual property lecturer". Case Western Reserve University. Retrieved April 16, 2008.[dead link]
- ^ a b "Professor Jonathan Zittrain". University of Oxford. Archived from the original on April 19, 2008. Retrieved April 18, 2008.
- ^ "Faceoff: Lessig vs. Zittrain". Stanford Law School. Retrieved April 28, 2008.
- ^ "All courses related to Jonathan Zittrain". Berkman Center. Archived from the original on March 15, 2008. Retrieved April 18, 2008.
- ^ a b "Jonathan Zittrain". TechWeb and O'Reilly Media. Archived from the original on May 2, 2008. Retrieved April 21, 2008.
- ^ "Cyberlaw expert Jonathan Zittrain elected to University's first Chair of Internet Governance and Regulation". University of Oxford. March 16, 2005. Archived from the original on July 9, 2007. Retrieved April 18, 2008.
- ^ "Casing the Future". Harvard Magazine. May 5, 2009. Retrieved April 18, 2008.
- ^ Zuckerman, Ethan (April 27, 2006). "Jonathan Zittrain: The Future of the Internet... and How to Stop It". WorldChanging. Archived from the original on October 6, 2008. Retrieved April 19, 2008.
- ^ a b Zittrain, Jonathan. "Chapter 6: The Lessons of Wikipedia, in The Future of the Internet and How to Stop It". Yale Books Unbound, Yale University Press. Archived from the original on February 16, 2009. Retrieved April 19, 2008.
- ^ "Internet Society - Board of Trustees - 2009 BoT Elections". May 5, 2009. Archived from the original on May 12, 2009. Retrieved August 3, 2009.
- ^ Rebecca Jeschke (February 11, 2011). "EFF Appoints Jonathan Zittrain to the Board of Directors". EFF. Retrieved March 15, 2011.
- ^ "Chairman Genachowski Announces Jonathan Zittrain as FCC Distinguished Scholar | FCC.gov". Archived from the original on June 24, 2013. Retrieved January 18, 2013.
- ^ "Open Internet Advisory Committee Members Announced". December 13, 2015.
- ^ Zittrain, Jonathan; Edelman, Benjamin (October 24, 2003). "Documentation of Internet Filtering Worldwide". Retrieved April 17, 2008. and Zittrain, Jonathan; Edelman, Benjamin (October 26, 2002). "Localized Google search result exclusions". Retrieved April 17, 2008.
- ^ "Reports". The OpenNet Initiative. Retrieved April 17, 2008.
- ^ "Research". The OpenNet Initiative. Retrieved April 17, 2008.
- ^ "John Palfrey | Head of School at Phillips Academy". Archived from the original on April 7, 2014. Retrieved April 11, 2014.
- ^ "About ONI". The OpenNet Initiative. Retrieved July 10, 2016.
- ^ "About Us". Chilling Effects. Archived from the original on June 3, 2002. Retrieved November 30, 2008.
- ^ J. Urban & L. Quilter, "Efficient Process or 'Chilling Effects'? Takedown Notices Under Section 512 of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act," Santa Clara Computer & High Technology Law Journal (March 2006)
- ^ "Will Fair Use Survive? Free Expression in the Age of Copyright Control" (2005). (PDF) Free Expression Policy Project
- ^ Maytal, Anat (February 21, 2002). "Professor To Present Case to Supreme Court". The Harvard Crimson. Retrieved April 18, 2008.
- ^ "ELDRED V. ASHCROFT (01-618) 537 U.S. 186 (2003)". Supreme Court collection of Cornell Law School. Retrieved April 18, 2008.
- ^ "The Year of the Copyright". Harvard Law Bulletin. The President and Fellows of Harvard College. Spring 2003. Retrieved April 18, 2008.
- ^ ISBN 978-0-300-12487-3.
- ^ Anthes, Gary (April 7, 2008). "The end of the Internet as we know it? Jonathan Zittrain fears the worst". Computerworld. International Data Group. Archived from the original on January 16, 2009. Retrieved April 16, 2008.
- ^ "StopBadware.org Frequently Asked Questions". StopBadware.org. Retrieved April 16, 2008.
- ^ Talbot, David (March 2006). "Q&A: Jonathan Zittrain". Technology Review. Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Archived from the original on August 14, 2007. Retrieved April 17, 2008.
- ^ Graves, Lucas (January 2007). "End-Time for the Internet". Wired. Vol. 15, no. 1. CondéNet. p. 15. Retrieved April 18, 2008.
- ^ Stallman, Richard (March–April 2008). "The root of this problem is software controlled by its developer". Boston Review. 33 (2). Retrieved April 21, 2008.
- ^ Owen, Bruce M. (March–April 2008). "As long as flexibility has value to users, suppliers will have incentives to offer it". Boston Review. 33 (2). Retrieved April 21, 2008.
- ^ Grimes, Roger A. (March–April 2008). "Fixing Web insecurity requires more than a caring community". Boston Review. Retrieved April 21, 2008.
- ^ Varian, Hal (March–April 2008). "Ultimately, the best protection is an informed buyer who demands openness". Boston Review. 33 (2). Archived from the original on May 14, 2008. Retrieved April 21, 2008.
- ^ "About Us". StopBadware.org. Archived from the original on July 5, 2008. Retrieved April 17, 2008.
- ^ "StopBadware celebrates second anniversary; adds two new sponsors" (PDF) (Press release). StopBadware.org. February 26, 2008. Archived from the original (PDF) on October 29, 2008. Retrieved April 18, 2008.
- ^ a b Hulbert, Mark (September 10, 2006). "Stock Tips From Spam Aren't Just Silly. They're Costly". The New York Times. Retrieved April 19, 2008.
- SSRN 920553.
- ^ Wright, Kim (February 20, 2019). "At Harvard Law, Zittrain and Zuckerberg discuss encryption, 'information fiduciaries' and targeted advertisements". Harvard Law Today. Retrieved February 20, 2019.
External links
Home pages
- "Jonathan Zittrain". Berkman Center for Internet & Society at Harvard Law School. Retrieved April 20, 2008.
Media coverage
- Jonathan Zittrain on Charlie Rose
- Jonathan Zittrain at IMDb
- Jonathan Zittrain at TED