Since its founding in 1997, the Berkman Center has been at the forefront of the field of Internet and Society, pursuing a unique mix of interdisciplinary scholarship and engagement with legal and policy issues. We are home to a diverse group of scholars, policy experts, and advocates focused on the identification of emerging problems related to digitally-networked society and the search for solutions. We are committed to tackling the most important challenges of the digital age, to think big, to act with ambition and humility, to maintain academic rigor while keeping a focus on tangible real-world impact, and to serve the public interest. At its foundation, the Berkman Center informs and engages in the public interest through four core activities: conducting research, building tools and platforms, education, and creating and cultivating networks. {cyber.law.harvard.edu} Youth and Media encompasses an array of research, advocacy, and development initiatives around youth and digital technology. Located at the Berkman Center for Internet & Society, Youth and Media draws on the knowledge of and experience with various interdisciplinary backgrounds, including psychology, ethnography, sociology, education, media theory, and the law. Through these combined approaches, Youth and Media centers the voices and experiences of youth to research and cultivate the creative, educational, and revolutionary possibilities of youth activity in digital space while addressing the genuine concerns that come with living life online. {youthandmedia.org} Digitally Connected is a collaborative initiative between UNICEF and the Berkman Center building upon a multi-year partnership for analysing digital and social media growth and trends among children and youth globally. Digitally Connected is a network consisting of academics, practitioners, young people, activists, philanthropists, government officials, and representatives of technology companies from around the world. Together, they are addressing the challenges and opportunities children and youth encounter in the digital environment. {digitallyconnected.org} UNICEF promotes the rights and wellbeing of every child, in everything we do. Together with our partners, we work in 190 countries and territories to translate that commitment into practical action, focusing special effort on reaching the most vulnerable and excluded children, to the benefit of all children, everywhere. {unicef.org} Voices of Youth is UNICEF's global digital engagement portal for children and young people. Recognizing and building on the opportunities for advancing children's rights in a digital era, Voices of Youth is a space where the voices of children and young people on issues that matter to them can be heard, and where learning, sharing, inspiration and cross-cultural exchange is actively encouraged. {voicesofyouth.org} Youth and Media

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Light Prop for an Electric Stage was presented in 1930 as a prototype for a new kind of mechanical theater that was meant to spark future partnerships between art and industry. Although it was never put into industrial production, Light Prop circulated as an early example of kinetic sculpture, as documented in a highly composed film, in photographs and in textual accounts. In 2016, the Harvard Art Museums and metaLAB (at) Harvard filmed Light Prop and its 2006 replica under highly controlled conditions. The resulting comparative media reveals how László Moholy-Nagy’s film served as the “design fiction” guiding the replication and conservation of Light Prop.

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