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Walter Frick at Harvard Business Review: “It’s campaign season in the U.S., and politicians have no compunction about twisting facts and figures, as a quick skim of the fact-checking website Politifact illustrates.
Can data literacy guard against the worst of these offenses? Maybe, according to research.

March 2016 in Retrospect is available here:
http://www.internetjurisdiction.net/observatory/retrospect/2016-march/

Introducing a methodology to assess patterns of information management on Twitter, article by Jan-Hinrik Schmidt, published in First Monday.This paper argues that previous Twitter research has mainly employed a “broadcast perspective” by focusing on follower relations and concepts such as popularity, reach, or influence. But the microblogging platform is also a tool for users to combine a personalized set of sources.

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Springwise: “Europe is in the middle of a major refugee crisis, with more than one million migrants arriving in 2015 alone. Now, developers in Stockholm are coming up with new ways for arrivals to integrate into their new homes.

RightsCon is the world’s leading event convened around the issues of the internet and human rights. The annual conference convenes business leaders, visionaries, technologists, legal experts, civil society members, activists, and government representatives from across the globe on issues at the intersection of tech and human rights. The event was organized by RightsCon.
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Jenkins A., Croitoru A., Crooks A.T., Stefanidis A. in PLOS: “Place can be generally defined as a location that has been assigned meaning through human experience, and as such it is of multidisciplinary scientific interest. Up to this point place has been studied primarily within the context of social sciences as a theoretical construct. The availability of large amounts of user-generated content, e.g.

This blog post was written by Florence Abena Toffa from Code for Ghana. 

The International Open Data Day is a gathering of citizens in various cities around the world to write applications, liberate data, create visualizations and publish analysis of  open public data. This year, we partnered with National Information Technology Agency (NITA) to provide us with Ghana’s election datasets for the hackathon.

This blog post was written by Florence Abena Toffa from Code for Ghana. 
The International Open Data Day is a gathering of citizens in various cities around the world to write applications, liberate data, create visualizations and publish analysis of  open public data. This year, we partnered with National Information Technology Agency (NITA) to provide us with Ghana’s election datasets for the hackathon.
 

Book by Geoffrey Rockwell and Stéfan Sinclair: “The image of the scholar as a solitary thinker dates back at least to Descartes’ Discourse on Method. But scholarly practices in the humanities are changing as older forms of communal inquiry are combined with modern research methods enabled by the Internet, accessible computing, data availability, and new media.

Sydney Steel at Havard Political Review: “Over the last decade, Africa has experienced previously unseen levels of economic growth and market vibrancy.

Samuel C. Woolley at First Monday: “Over the last several years political actors worldwide have begun harnessing the digital power of social bots — software programs designed to mimic human social media users on platforms like Facebook, Twitter, and Reddit. Increasingly, politicians, militaries, and government-contracted firms use these automated actors in online attempts to manipulate public opinion and disrupt organizational communication.

John Markoff at the New York Times: “From a bluff overlooking the Pacific Ocean, aloud pop signals the catapult launch of a small fixed-wing

Let me start off with a disclaimer: I am not a neutral bystander to the issue that this blogpost is about. I do research about the social glue that holds the... MORE

Date published: April 6, 2016"​Associate Professor David Levine gave a talk in early April to attendees at Yale Law School's Information Society Project's 2016 spring conference "Unlocking the Black Box: The Promise and Limits of Algorithmic Accountability in the Professions."E-Net News

El embajador de la República de Haití en Chile, Jean Víctor Harvel Jean-Baptiste visitó, junto a autoridades de la Universidad Americana de Ciencias Modernas de ese país, la Casa Central de la Universidad de Chile para sostener una reunión con el Rector Ennio Vivaldi.

NIC Chile, organismo de la Casa de Bello en cuya responsabilidad cabe el registro y administración de los dominios con sufijo .cl, ha superado la cifra del medio millón de inscritos; un alza sostenida que demuestra la confianza de los clientes y usuarios en el trabajo de este servicio a la comunidad prestado por el Departamento de Ciencias de la Computación de la Facultad de Ciencias Físicas y Matemáticas.Los dominios de nivel superior genérico son parte de las extensiones más visibles en una dirección URL, a través de la cual se accede a cualquier sitio web.

Mesas redondas, exposiciones y discusiones serán parte de la "Conferencia Internacional sobre el Mejoramiento del Aprendizaje de Biología y otras áreas de las Ciencias Experimentales de los Niveles Parvularios a Educación Media", actividad gratuita que se realizará en nuestra Universidad el 14 y 15 de abril y de la cual el Dr. Jorge Allende, Premio Nacional de Ciencias Naturales 1992 y académico de la Facultad de Medicina, es parte de la organización. "Hay que vivir la ciencia, hacer ciencia, y eso no es fácil", advierte el Allende en la siguiente entrevista.