Political Turbulence Book on 21 February 2016 at 16:04PM John Naughton referenced Political Turbulence in his column in The Guardian entitled, “#Twitter crisis? Not if it decides that it can be a smaller, smarter platform.” The Guardian Bookshop is also selling Political Turbulence for £17 with free UK shipping! In a thought-provoking new book, Political Turbulence: How Social Media Shape [...]
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This week in Intro to Civic Media, we looked at models of digital inclusion and theories of digital inequality. We were joined by Dr. Paloma Duong who spoke about digital access and infrastructure in Cuba. Focusing on el paquete as illustrative of the "black" and "grey" market forces of Cuba, Duong challenged the typified "post-socialist" narrative of the internet and digital access in Cuba.
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Paper by Thomas Pellissier Tanon et al: “Collaborative knowledge bases that make their data freely available in a machine-readable form are central for the data strategy of many projects and organizations. The two major collaborative knowledge bases are Wikimedia’s Wikidata and Google’s Freebase. Due to the success of Wikidata, Google decided in 2014 to offer the content of Freebase to the Wikidata community.
Vyacheslav Polonski on 20 February 2016 at 09:12AM A conversation about memes and the meaning of lifeContinue reading on Medium » [...]
Date published: February 20, 2016"Among the signatories was Peter Asaro, an assistant professor at The New School for Public Engagement in New York and co-founder of the International Committee for Robot Arms Control.
The government filed a brief today to compel Apple to circumvent its standard security features on the iPhone the government recovered from San Bernadino terrorist Syed Farook. The government argued that the All Writs Act (AWA) authorized the court to require Apple to provide such technical assistance because the AWA has not been limited by Congress and “there is no statute that specifically addresses the issue of Apple’s assistance.” Motion, p. 22.
Ugandan election: Facebook and Whatsapp blocked, BBC On February 18, Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni blocked social media during Uganda’s highlight contested presidential elections. President Museveni, who is seeking to extend his 30-year rule, blocked social media because he felt citizens...
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Date published: February 19, 2016"Apple could argue that being required to create and provide specific computer code amounts to unlawful compelled speech, said Riana Pfefferkorn, a cryptography fellow at Stanford University's Center for Internet and Society.
Zur Intensivierung der langjährigen Partnerschaft des ITM mit der Háskólinn á Akureyri besuchte unser wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter Jonas Völkel im Februar die Universität im isländischen Norden.
Cientista Político Robert Dahl é autor do livroA Constituição norte-americana é democrática? A provocante pergunta é título do livro de Robert Dahl que chega ao Brasil por meio FGV Direito Rio e da Editora FGV. A obra do renomado cientista político americano questiona até que ponto a Constituição norte-americana promove metas democráticas e revela os elementos potencialmente antidemocráticos do texto, em vigor desde 1787.
Informatics Publishing organized an event at Fortune Park JP Celestial in Bangalore on February 17, 2016. Sunil Abraham delivered the inaugural address on the occasion.
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Early in the year 2012 Evgeny Morozov pronounced the death of the cyberflaneur. One could be forgiven for never having heard of this ill-fated figure, but for those whose use of the web stretches back to the 1990s, its behavioral description would certainly be familiar. The cyberflaneur – like the original flâneur – strolls, wavers, and drifts through the web’s streets without any immediate plan or purpose. What has changed in the web’s infrastructure over the years and what ‘killed’ the cyberflâneur?
The ongoing battle between law enforcement agencies and companies who champion the data scrambling technology took a new turn with U.S. Department of Justice attempting to compel Apple to build software that bypass non-encryption features of the iPhone in order to get at its currently encrypted contents. Internet Policy Observatory Pakistan supports Apple in this case and strongly opposes US government’s action.
I am a Master's student studying civic engagement and socially engaged art at the Graduate School of Education at Harvard and am excited to study civic media here. I'm new to the "media" world, and am nearly a luddite when it comes to digital skills. This said, it was a pleasant surprise to find that although I can't construct digital spaces, I can speak the language of participation, social engagement and organizing, which seems to means something around here.
Policy and Internet Blog on 18 February 2016 at 22:59PM The Internet serves not only as a breeding ground for extremism, but also offers myriad data streams which potentially hold great value to law enforcement. The report by the OII’s Ian Brown and Josh Cowls for the VOX-Pol project: Check the Web: Assessing the Ethics and Politics of Policing the Internet for Extremist Material explores [...]
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The report of the 2015 Aspen Institute Roundtable on Information Technology: “In the age of ubiquitous Internet connections, smartphones and data, the future vitality of cities is increasingly based on their ability to use digital networks in intelligent, strategic ways. While we are accustomed to thinking of cities as geophysical places governed by mayors, conventional political structures and bureaucracies, this template of city governance is under great pressure to evolve.