Research topics:
Online defamation’s laws and contribution to the Weather Reports blog within the Chilling Effects project
Intern
Politecnico di Torino (Italy)
Visiting period at the Berkman Center: June – August, 2013
Maria Serena Ciaburri is a student of computer engineering at the Politecnico di Torino. She got in contact with the Nexa Center for Internet and Society attending “Rivoluzione Digitale“, a course held by Professor Juan Carlos De Martin. She spent 10 weeks at Berkman Center for Internet and Society at Harvard University as summer intern and during this period she joined the Chilling Effects team. As intern, she wrote on Weather Reports (the Chilling Effects blog), and she did research about online defamation’s laws and interviewed Gabriella Colemann (author, anthropologist and professor concerned about hacking and Anonymous).