Author(s): Henry FarrellPublication Date: June 2, 2016Publication Type: Other Writing"Karen Kornbluh, the former U.S. ambassador to the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD), has a new cyber brief making the case for open cross-border data flows at the Council on Foreign Relations website (full disclosure: I authored an earlier brief in this series).
Date published: June 3, 2016"“The fact is we have made some important progress with regard to the LGBT community; what 50 years ago was a crime is now in some states protected by antidiscrimination law. They have the right to marry, that’s a lot of progress,” said Danielle Citron, a University of Maryland law professor. “But prejudices continue. The suggestion that bigotry and hate is going to somehow disappear because the law has changed is out of touch with reality, and outing someone for being LGBT can still do damage.”"
Author(s): Nabiha SyedPublication Date: June 2, 2016Publication Type: Other WritingThe great 21st-century platforms — Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, Snapchat, and the rest — have this year found themselves in the middle of the speech wars. Twitter is struggling to contain vile trolling and harassment, and Facebook has gotten scalded on the little toe it dipped into curating journalism.
Evangelos Niforatos, Ivan Elhart and Marc Langheinrich in Web Engineering: “Contemporary public display systems hold a significant potential to contribute to in situ crowdsourcing. Recently, public display systems have surpassed their traditional role as static content projection hotspots by supporting interactivity and hosting applications that increase overall perceived user utility.
Lorelei Kelly at TechCrunch: “Smartphone apps have improved convenience for public transportation in many urban centers. In Washington, DC, riders can download apps to help them figure out where to go, when to show up and how long to wait for a bus or train.
Paper by Madsen, A.K.; Flyverbom, M.; Hilbert, M. and Ruppert, Evelyn: “The claim that big data can revolutionize strategy and governance in the context of international relations is increasingly hard to ignore. Scholars of international political sociology have mainly discussed this development through the themes of security and surveillance.
Tina Rosenberg in the New York Times: “Matthew Stubenberg was a law student at the University of Maryland in 2010 when he spent part of a day doing expungements. It was a standard law school clinic where students learn by helping clients — in this case, he helped them to fill out and file petitions to erase parts of their criminal records.
Media leaders have always stood up for a free press and the First Amendment. Now it's Facebook's turn. My Recode column is here: http://www.recode.net/2016/5/31/11821868/facebook-thune-thiel-gawker-con....
May 2016 in Retrospect is available here:
http://www.internetjurisdiction.net/observatory/retrospect/2016-may/
Tom Ladendorf in InTheseTimes: “….Around the world, organizations from political parties to cooperatives are experimenting with new modes of direct democracy made possible by the internet.
“The world has gone through extraordinary technological innovation,” says Agustín Frizzera of Argentina’s Net Party. “But governments and political institutions haven’t innovated enough.”
Phys.org: “Machine-learning algorithms increasingly make decisions about credit, medical diagnoses, personalized recommendations, advertising and job opportunities, among other things, but exactly how usually remains a mystery. Now, new measurement methods developed by Carnegie Mellon University researchers could provide important insights to this process.
Cait Lamberton and Benjamin Castleman in the Huffington Post: “Nudges are all around us. Chances are that someone has nudged you today—even if you didn’t realize it. Maybe it was your doctor’s office, sending you a text message about an upcoming appointment.
The Progressive Policy Institute’s chief economic strategist Michael Mandel will present their study ‘The App Economy in Europe’, in which they found that the EU has a surprising 1.64 million App... MORE
Malka Older’s debut novel: “It’s been twenty years and two election cycles since Information, a powerful search engine monopoly, pioneered the switch from warring nation-states to global micro-democracy. The corporate coalition party Heritage has won the last two elections. With another election on the horizon, the Supermajority is in tight contention, and everything’s on the line.
Executive Summary: “Social media has become diplomacy’s significant other. It has gone from being an afterthought to being the very first thought of world leaders and governments across the globe, as audiences flock to their newsfeeds for the latest news. This recent worldwide embrace of online channels has brought with it a wave of openness and transparency that has never been experienced before. Social media provides a platform for unconditional communication, and has become a communicator’s most powerful tool.
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Más de 600 académicos y académicas de todo el país han adscrito hasta ahora a esta carta que fue entregada en La Moneda y que plantea la necesidad de restituir el valor de la educación pública; reconocerla como un derecho social; la asignación de recursos públicos a instituciones que garanticen su uso en provecho de la equidad y la democracia; entre otros puntos.
El Doctor en Educación, Investigador del Centro de Investigación Avanzada en Educación (CIAE) y académico de la Facultad de Ciencias Sociales de la Universidad de Chile, habla en la siguiente entrevista sobre el impacto del movimiento estudiantil en las políticas educacionales de la última década.Realización audiovisual: Javiera Vilches- CIAE U. de ChileJueves 19 de mayo de 2016
El 19 de mayo se conmemoran diez años de la toma del Instituto Nacional el 2006, hito que marcó el inicio de las masivas movilizaciones de estudiantes secundarios de ese año, las que en su momento más álgido tuvieron paralizados a más de 400 establecimientos en el país. A una década de las protestas que lograron instalar a la educación como un tema permanente en la agenda política local, distintos expertos de la Universidad analizan sus logros y sus consecuencias.