Cary Coglianese: “The widespread public angst that surfaced in the 2016 presidential election revealed how many Americans believe their government has become badly broken. Given the serious problems that continue to persist in society — crime, illiteracy, unemployment, poverty, discrimination, to name a few — widespread beliefs in a governmental breakdown are understandable. Yet such a breakdown is actually far from self-evident.
John Gastil and Robert C. Richards Jr. in Political Science & Politics (Forthcoming): “Recent advances in online civic engagement tools have created a digital civic space replete with opportunities to craft and critique laws and rules or evaluate candidates, ballot measures, and policy ideas. These civic spaces, however, remain largely disconnected from one another, such that tremendous energy dissipates from each civic portal. Long-term feedback loops also remain rare.
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Trends in Big Data Research, a Sage Whitepaper: “Information of all kinds is now being produced, collected, and analyzed at unprecedented speed, breadth, depth, and scale. The capacity to collect and analyze massive data sets has already transformed fields such as biology, astronomy, and physics, but the social sciences have been comparatively slower to adapt, and the path forward is less certain.
Germany’s economy is at a first glance doing very well: German mashines are sold and admired in the whole world. Accordingly the job market is prospering. But is Germany also... MORE
In a highly contentious move, the Ministry of Information and Broadcasting (‘MIB’) issued an order banning the telecast of the Hindi news channel ‘NDTV India’ on 9th November, 2016. The MIB imposed this ‘token penalty’ on NDTV India following the recommendation of an Inter-Ministerial Committee (‘IMC’). The IMC had found the channel liable for revealing […]
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Más de 25 actividades entre el 7 y el 11 de noviembre contempla este encuentro que reúne a un público diverso en torno prácticas docentes innovadoras e investigaciones recientes en el campo de la educación, realizadas en la Universidad de Chile.
El académico de la Facultad de Economía y Negocios e investigador del COES, fue el panelista del séptimo Encuentro Temático Transversal del proceso interno de discusión.
El taller entregó herramientas enfocadas en el desarrollo de capacidades orales y escritas en la lengua inglesa para la comunicación de resultados de investigación más allá del mundo hispanoparlante.Doce estudiantes de doctorado participaron en el taller "Communication Skills Workshop", taller práctico impartido por especialistas del British Council entre el miércoles 2 y el viernes 4 de noviembre en la Facultad de Arquitectura y Urbanismo de la Universidad de Chile.
La profesora Soledad Etchebarne, académica del Departamento de Administración de la Facultad de Economía y Negocios (FEN), obtuvo el reconocimiento al mejor trabajo de Latinoamérica en la First Conference del Global Entrepreneurship Development Centre (GEDC) de la Kingston Business School realizado en Londres, Inglaterra.
The French DPA's claim that Google should de-list search results globally to comply with "Right to Be Forgotten" laws is inconsistent with the CJEU's ruling in the Google Spain case.
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The U.K.’s Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) and India’s Karmanya Sareen shared a similar concern – how messenger application WhatsApp’s decision to share user data with parent Facebook is a violation of the promise of privacy.
The blog post by Payaswini Upadhyay was published in Bloomberg Quint on November 17, 2016. Sunil Abraham was quoted.
Senator Chris Coons, Democrat from Delaware, offered a bill today that would delay implementation of proposed changes to Federal Rule of Criminal Procedure 41 for six months. Stanford’s Center for Internet and Society and Mozilla have been studying issues related to government hacking including the Rule 41 changes.
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