Book by Helen Kennedy that “…argues that as social media data mining becomes more and more ordinary, as we post, mine and repeat, new data relations emerge. These new data relations are characterised by a widespread desire for numbers and the troubling consequences of this desire, and also by the possibility of doing good with data and resisting data power, by new and old concerns, and by instability and contradiction.
Date published: June 22, 2016"But earlier this year a Stanford professor and net neutrality expert published a lengthy document claiming that Binge On "harms competition, innovation and free speech," and is likely illegal. The program constrains consumer choice by enabling users to watch video from Binge On providers but not their competitors, Barbara van Schewick wrote, and gives an unfair edge to content providers that can afford to make their video compliant with the service."
Date published: June 22, 2016"While the legal treatment of online harassment differs from country to country, such incidents point to a growing and broader awareness among the public and law enforcement of taking online threats seriously, said Danielle Citron, a University of Maryland law professor and author of “Hate Crimes in Cyberspace.”
Press Release: “A groundbreaking report published today by ideas42 reveals several innovations that college administrators and policymakers can leverage to significantly improve college graduation rates at a time where completion is more out of reach than ever for millions of students.
Documento faz parte da série Cadernos FGV Direito Rio: Série ClínicasA Escola de Direito da Fundação Getulio Vargas (Direito Rio) e o Instituto Mães SemNome promoveram, no último dia 8 de junho, o lançamento da “Cartilha Jurídica do Luto: orientações práticas e jurídicas aos familiares”. O documento traz orientações práticas e jurídicas para lidar com as burocracias decorrentes da morte.
Este lunes 13 de junio el Rector de la U. de Chile, Ennio Vivaldi y el decano de la Facultad de Medicina, Manuel Kukuljan, junto a un grupo transversal de parlamentarios, entregaron a la ministra de Salud, Carmen Castillo, la propuesta que apunta a aumentar la capacidad de formación de especialistas del Hospital Clínico de la Universidad de Chile (HCUCH) y que contempla una inyección de $ 12.500 millones al recinto universitario.
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Iran's elections in February saw voters decisively sweep away one of the most conservative parliaments in the Islamic Republic's history, and deliver a fresh legislature far friendlier to President Rouhani's political agenda. But how was this victory won?
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Iran's elections in February saw voters decisively sweep away one of the most conservative parliaments in the Islamic Republic's history, and deliver a fresh legislature far friendlier to President Rouhani's political agenda. But how was this victory won?
The article was published in Maharashtra Times on June 15, 2016. Abhinav Garule and Tanveer Hasan have been quoted.
The GovLab, Pivotal and the 21st Century Democracy and Technology Meetup recently hosted a talk by Jen Pahlka, founder and executive director of Code for America and former U.S. Deputy Chief Technology Officer, on deploying simpler, more effective government services for everyone.
Lizzie MacWillie at NextCity: “…By crowdsourcing neighborhood boundaries, residents can put themselves on the map in critical ways.
Digital Communities Special Report: “With urban areas continuing to grow at a substantial rate — from 30 percent of the world’s population in 1930 to a projected 66 percent by 2050, according to the United Nations — getting the urban experience right has become paramount.
Burak Arikan at Medium: “Big data is the term used to define the perpetual and massive data gathered by corporations and governments on consumers and citizens.
Date published: June 22, 2016"“We’re losing some of the granularity between car and driver that we’ve had in other contexts,” said Andrea Matwyshyn, a professor of law and computer science at Northeastern University.
What if “bad drivers” get tracked using the app’s notifications? Do you have the right to know where any given driver might be at any time, even if he or she is on the other side of town?
Paper by Jennifer Larson et al for Political Networks Workshops & Conference 2016: “Pinning down the role of social ties in the decision to protest has been notoriously elusive, largely due to data limitations. The era of social media and its global use by protesters offers an unprecedented opportunity to observe real-time social ties and online behavior, though often without an attendant measure of real-world behavior.
Anupam Chander in the Michigan Law Review (2017 Forthcoming) : “Are we on the verge of an apartheid by algorithm? Will the age of big data lead to decisions that unfairly favor one race over others, or men over women? At the dawn of the Information Age, legal scholars are sounding warnings about the ubiquity of automated algorithms that increasingly govern our lives.
Cass R. Sunstein and Lucia A. Reisch in the Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Climate Science (Forthcoming): “Careful attention to choice architecture promises to open up new possibilities for reducing greenhouse gas emissions – possibilities that go well beyond, and that may supplement or complement, the standard tools of economic incentives, mandates, and bans.
Paper by Jean-Christophe Plantin: “The release of the Google Maps API in 2005 spurred a trend of mapping mashups, adding cartography to online participatory culture. This article will present how the affordances of these “platforms” give shape to the online participation of concerned citizens willing to access information during an environmental crisis.
Political Bots on 21 June 2016 at 19:08PM We are looking for three talented researchers to join our team of computational social scientists at Oxford. Ideally, we’d like to have one person interested in the sociology of algorithmic production, another interested in the policy implications of bots, and another in the computational analysis of political bots and botnets. The full job [...]
Phil Howard on 21 June 2016 at 18:51PM Bots are social media accounts that automate interaction with other users, and they are active on the StrongerIn-Brexit conversation happening over Twitter. These automated scripts generate content through these platforms and then interact with people. Political bots are automated accounts that are particularly active on public policy issues, [...]