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Topics in Internet & Society Interdisciplinary Studies 2016

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Politecnico di Torino, Doctoral School
23, 27, 28, and 29 June 2016
image: Super sticky: 0Featured Event: 0Data evento: Thu, 23/06/2016 - 10:00 to Tue, 28/06/2016 - 13:00luogo: Politecnico di Torino, Italy

US Policy on Transitional Justice

Author(s): Beth Van SchaackPublication Date: June 29, 2016Publication Type: Other WritingThe US State Department and the Agency for International Development recently published a series of policy papers on the US approach to transitional justice.

Airbnb's legal argument: Don't hold us accountable for the actions of our hosts

Date published: June 29, 2016"And its odds of winning are high, said Daphne Keller, director of intermediary liability at Stanford University’s Center for Internet and Society, who said many companies have successfully used the CDA as a defense."
Los Angeles Times

Man arrested after Twitter threats are made against U.S. senators

Date published: June 29, 2016"“The accused in this case could (and may well) raise . . . First Amendment challenges” to the Twitter ban, Scott Shackelford, a professor of cybersecurity law at Indiana University said in an email. But, he added, “the threatening nature of the Tweets in question” could be used to justify the ban."
The Washington Post

TRU-BLISS: Succesvolle resultaten voorgesteld tijdens infosessie bij Febelfin

CiTiP is één van de vele partners binnen dit project.

Comunidad acordó aunar posición sobre reforma a la educación superior

En el contexto de las movilizaciones estudiantiles que buscan incidir en la tramitación de la reforma a la educación superior, el Rector Ennio Vivaldi convocó a los distintos organismos representativos y de gobierno de la institución a una jornada de diálogo sin precedentes para debatir sobre la posibilidad de contar con una posición común en defensa de la educación pública.

José Morandé asume como director transitorio en el IEI

Con la misión de seguir avanzando en el crecimiento y mejoramiento continuo de la calidad de la educación impartida en el IEI, el profesor Morandé asume a la cabeza del Instituto, luego de haber sido director de la Revista Estudios Internacionales y ser uno de los docentes más destacados de la institución.El Instituto de Estudios Internacionales está en un proceso de expansión en el alcance de la labor de investigación y extensión que realiza.

Estudiantes crearon nuggets de verduras y legumbres para niños

Pensando en una manera de reemplazar los cuestionados -pero apetecidos- nuggets del mercado, los estudiantes de la carrera de Ingeniería en Alimentos de la Facultad de Ciencias Químicas y Farmacéuticas, Carla Schilling y Cristóbal González, crearon una alternativa basada en betarraga, zapallo y espinaca, con legumbres y tres variedades de sabor: pollo, tocino y carne. La elaboración del producto se enmarca dentro de la XII Expoferia de Alimentos Funcionales, iniciativa que impulsa que estudiantes de último año de la carrera elaboren nuevos alimentos.

Due Diligence? We need an app for that

Ken Banks at kiwanja.net: “The ubiquity of mobile phones, the reach of the Internet, the shear number of problems facing the planet, competitions and challenges galore, pots of money and strong media interest in tech-for-good projects has today created the perfect storm. Not a day goes by without the release of an app hoping to solve something, and the fact so many people are building so many apps to fix so many problems can only be a good thing. Right?

Crowdsourcing privacy policy analysis: Potential, challenges and best practices

Blurring the Boundaries Through Digital Innovation

Book edited by D’Ascenzo, F., Magni, M., Lazazzara, A., Za, S: “This book examines the impact of digital innovation on organizations. It reveals how the digital revolution is redefining traditional levels of analysis while at the same time blurring the internal and external boundaries of the organizational environment. It presents a collection of research papers that examine the interaction between Information and Communication Technology (ICT) and behavior from a threefold perspective:

What determines social behavior? Investigating the role of emotions, self-centered motives, and social norms.

Special issue of Frontiers in Human Neuroscience edited by Corrado Corradi-Dell’Acqua, Leonie Koban, Susanne Leiberg and Patrik Vuilleumier: “In the last decade, a growing research effort in behavioral sciences, especially psychology and neuroscience, has been

​NTU’s Earth Observatory of Singapore leads international sea expedition to study the 2012 Great Earthquake

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The Irish Question

Author(s): Henry FarrellPublication Date: June 28, 2016Publication Type: Other WritingThe United Kingdom’s historic decision to leave the EU has stunned Brussels and sent shock waves through Europe. The Scottish governmenthas threatened to hold a second referendum on independence, jeopardizing the kingdom’s unity.

If A Self-Driving Car Gets Into An Accident, Who Is To Blame?

Date published: June 28, 2016"In that regard, the liability system won’t have to change much to adapt to self-driving cars, says Bryant Walker Smith, assistant professor of the School of Law at the University of South Carolina. Thanks to a series of laws governing liability, called tort law, drivers can currently seek compensation from a manufacturer for a faulty airbag or a defective tire.Vocativ

The Next Great ‘Space Race’ Is Here: Driverless Cars

Date published: June 28, 2016"“If the U.S. doesn’t get thoughtful about robotics policy, we will wind up losing out to these other nations,” Ryan Calo, an expert in cyber law and robotics at the University of Washington School of Law, tells Vocativ. Vocativ

The Meaning and Downsides of Academic Fellowship: What I Learned by Receiving the Harvey Fellowship

What does it mean to receive an academic fellowship? Are fellowships just polite language for recognition and money? Or do great fellowships offer something deeper by giving us meaningful networks of friendship and support?
This gif from a 2015 article uses a novel method called 'GLO-Roots' to visualize and comparethe growth of roots in water deficient (left) and control conditions (right).

The Surprising History of the Infographic

Clive Thompson at the Smithsonian magazine: “As the 2016 election approaches, we’re hearing a lot about “red states” and “blue states.” That idiom has become so ingrained that we’ve almost forgotten where it originally came from: a data visualization.

Congreso internacional sobre cine documental en la Facultad de Comunicación

Congreso internacional sobre cine documental en la Facultad de Comunicación
Nueva edición del Congreso CICOM

27/06/16 16:50
Efrén Cuevas

Civic Innovation Workshop in Mérida, Mexico

What does civic innovation look like in México?  There are efforts across the nation to build skills, interest, and capacity for civic technology.  Last week I contributed to these by facilitating a workshop for youth in Mérida, Mexico on the topic of Civic Innovation.