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John Palfrey
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John Palfrey is an American educator and law professor whose work focuses on emerging media, Internet freedom, and access to information.
Biography
John Gorham Palfrey VII, born in 1972, is an American educator, scholar, and law professor. His areas of focus include emerging media, Internet freedom, online transparency and accountability, and child safety. He served as executive director of Harvard’s Berkman Center for Internet & Society from 2002 to 2008.
From 2012 to 2019, Palfrey was the 15th Head of School at Phillips Academy in Andover, Massachusetts. In March 2019, he was named president of the MacArthur Foundation, effective September 1 of that year. In BiblioTech, he examines libraries’ role in providing access to information and argues that their transition to a digital future is essential.
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Books by John Palfrey
BiblioTech
BiblioTech argues that libraries are essential to addressing unequal access to education, jobs, and information. It calls for digitizing print collections and making born-digital material publicly available online to help libraries survive and support American democracy.