From the Associated Press
February 28, 2008
Harvard scholars chosen by MySpace to lead task force
New York - Leading Internet scholars at Harvard University will convene a yearlong task force to explore how children can avoid unwanted contact and content when using MySpace and other popular online hangouts....
... MySpace, a unit of News Corp., created the task force, named its members and chose Harvard's Berkman Center for Internet and Society to run it, but the group will operate independently, said John Palfrey, Berkman's executive director. Its recommendations will be nonbinding....
... Palfrey will head the effort with two Berkman scholars: danah boyd, a University of California, Berkeley, graduate student who is among the leading researchers on social-networking sites, and Dena Sacco, a former federal prosecutor in child-exploitation cases....
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