IBM Center for Business of Government: “This report is intended for an audience beyond the U.S. Intelligence Community—senior managers in government, their advisors and students of government performance who are interested in the progress of collaboration in a difficult environment. …
Sharona Hoffman at the Hastings Center: “Not long ago I visited the Personal Genome Project’s website. The PGP describes its mission as “creating public genome, health, and trait data.” In the “Participant Profiles” section, I found several entries that disclosed the names of individuals along with their date of birth, sex, weight, height, blood type, race, health conditions, medications, allergies, medical procedures, and more. Other profiles did not feature names but provided all of the other details.
Book by James Wilsdon: Metrics evoke a mixed reaction from the research community. A commitment to using data and evidence to inform decisions makes many of us sympathetic, even enthusiastic, about the prospect of granular, real-time analysis of our own activities. Yet we only have to look around us, at the blunt use of metrics to be reminded of the pitfalls. Metrics hold real power: they are constitutive of values, identities and livelihoods.
Date published: February 6, 2016"Stanford Law professor Barbara van Schewick argues that in a paper on T-Mobile’s BingeOn and Music Freedom programs that regardless of its intentions, T-Mobile prioritizes commercial entertainment video over other types of video as well as other internet use, including educational and non-profit use.
How can we engineer open production at scale, and what can we learn from feminist critiques of technology that could help us achieve those goals? At the Berkman Center this Tuesday (video), Aaron Halfaker talked about the challenges of scaling large-scale cooperation, the values that motivate efforts to keep that cooperation going, and lessons from Feminist Science and Technology Studies for maintaining large-scale socio-technical endeavors like Wikipedia.
Access to Knowledge programme (CIS-A2K) of the Centre for Internet and Society has opened up a Wikipedia Digital Centre at Andhra Loyola College in the city on Wednesday. The centre, which has trained a couple of students in contributing to Wikipedia earlier, has now set up a lab called ‘Wikipedia Digital Centre’ to continue the activity.
G. Umamaheshwara Rao, head of linguist research at Hyderabad Central university observed that there is every possibility for Telugu to be extinct soon. Its responsibility of youth to protect and preserve the language. And it is Wikipedia which would help in doing so.
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Berkman research assistant Muira McCammon, who spent the summer of 2015 interning with Berkman's Freedom of Expression team, interviews four former Berkterns about their summer experiences and post-Berkman paths.
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Entre las preguntas que busca responder el estudio de académicos del Instituto de la Comunicación e Imagen (ICEI) de la Universidad de Chile, se encuentran quiénes son los espectadores de este tipo de propuestas, qué es lo que buscan en los programas televisivos de ficción y cuáles son las razones del éxito de algunos de ellos. Además realizarán fichas pedagógicas para que profesores, de nivel universitario y escolar, puedan utilizarlas en sus trabajos en clases con el fin de formar audiencia crítica.
Anubha Sinha attended this meeting organized by the Office of The Controller General, Patents, Designs & Trade Marks in Mumbai on January 12, 2016
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La infinita capacidad de la ficción para representar mundos posibles
En el acto central del Patrón de la Facultad de Comunicación, Diego San José y Jordi Gasull charlan con los alumnos sobre el poder de la ficción y su influencia en la sociedad
Diego San José, Jordi Gasull y Pablo Castrillo.
FOTO: Manuel Castells
05/02/16 14:00
Nacho G. Ruano
A specter is haunting Europe–the specter of digital sovereignty. Resulting from the 2013 revelation of massive U.S. driven data surveillance European policy-makers as well as stakeholders from EU member states... MORE
In: Exploring Sensible Ways for Paying Copyright Owners?, R.M. Hilty & K.-C. Liu (eds.), Berlin/Heidelberg: Springer 2016, forthcoming.
Taha Yasseri on 5 February 2016 at 10:48AM Since I launched this blog, I always wanted to write something about the dangers of big data! Things that can go wrong easily when you study a large scale transactional data. Obviously, I haven’t done this! But recently we (Bertie, my PhD Student and I) just finished a paper titled: P-values: misunderstood and misused. Of course […] [...]
Blanca Formáriz analiza las posibilidades profesionales de YouTube para los alumnos del Máster de Guión
Antigua alumna de la Facultad de Comunicación, actualmente Formáriz es la coordinadora de la logística y las operaciones diarias de 2tube
05/02/16 11:47
Amaia Urra
HUMANE project on 5 February 2016 at 10:36AM We just posted a new pre-print titled: Dynamics of Disagreement: Large-Scale Temporal Network Analysis Reveals Negative Interactions in Online Collaboration. Disagreement and conflict are a fact of social life and considerably affect our well-being and productivity. Such negative interactions are rarely explicitly declared and recorded and this [...]
Date published: February 5, 2016"Beth Van Schaack, a visiting human rights professor at Stanford Law during the 2014-15 school year, said during a panel discussion in January that the Islamic State has become more sophisticated about spreading propaganda than other groups. Read more » about Twitter suspends more than 125,000 accounts for thre
Date published: February 5, 2016"Neil Richards, a law professor at Washington University and author of “Intellectual Privacy: Rethinking Civil Liberties in the Digital Age,” said he thinks Ms. Howerton’s belief that she can regain control of the footage may be overly optimistic. Read more » about When a Public Family Is Publicly AttackedThe New York Times
Date published: February 5, 2016"T-Mobile has critics, including Barbara van Schewick, a law professor who directs Stanford’s Center for Internet and Society. She recently wrote a lengthy report arguing that Binge On violates key net neutrality principles.