Book edited by Georg Aichholzer, Herbert Kubicek and Lourdes Torres: “There is a widely acknowledged evaluation gap in the field of e-participation practice and research, a lack of systematic evaluation with regard to process organization, outcome and impacts. This book addresses the state of the art of e-participation research and the existing evaluation gap by reviewing various evaluation approaches and providing a multidisciplinary concept for evaluating the output, outcome and impact of citizen participation via the Internet as

“The Berkman Center is pleased to announce the publication of a new paper from the Privacy Tools for Sharing Research Data project team.

Phil Howard on 2 April 2016 at 18:39PM Phil Howard visited the Knight Foundation’s IdeaDrop house at SXSW 2016 to talk about his new book. How the Internet of Things Can Set Us Free (Maybe) from Idea Drop & ER&L on Vimeo.
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Political Bots on 2 April 2016 at 18:34PM Project collaborators Phil Howard and Sam Woolley presented a coauthored paper, “Campaign Bots & The Law”, authored by Ryan Calo, Lisa Manheim, Sam Woolley and Phil Howard. It was presented at the Yale Information Society Project’s “Unlocking the Black Box” conference, and we identify the ways in which bots, when [...]

Phil Howard on 2 April 2016 at 18:27PM Here is an interactive Prezi on our recent paper “Campaign Bots & The Law”, authored by Ryan Calo, Lisa Manheim, Sam Woolley and Phil Howard.  We presented this at the Yale Information Society Project’s “Unlocking the Black Box” conference, and we identify the ways in which bots, when used by […]
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Political Bots on 2 April 2016 at 18:15PM Here is an interactive Prezi on our recent paper “Campaign Bots & The Law”, authored by Ryan Calo, Lisa Manheim, Sam Woolley and Phil Howard.  We identify the ways in which bots, when used by political campaign managers, may make politicians run afoul of election and campaign regulations. [...]

New book by The Tow Center: “This is a book about the principles behind data journalism. Not what visualization software to use and how to scrape a website, but the fundamental ideas that underlie the human use of data. This isn’t “how to use data” but “how data works.”

Nehaa Chaudhari will be speaking at this conference to be organized by Jamia Milla Islamia on April 5, 2016 in New Delhi.
Session I
11:30 a.m. -1:00 p.m.Introducing the programme: Prof. Biswajit DasChair: Prof. G. Ravindran Issues and areas in communication

Panelists

• Prof Biswajit Das
• Dr. Durgesh Tripathi

Lunch
Session II
2:00 p.m. – 3:00 p.m.Chair: Vibodh ParthasarathiIndentifying course curriculum for Moocs programme,UGCPanelists:

The V Annual IP Teaching Workshop- 2016 was organised by the Centre for Innovation, Intellectual Property and Competition (CIIPC), at National Law University Delhi in association with National Academy of Law Teaching, NLU-D, on March 31 and April 1, 2016 in Delhi. Nehaa Chaudhari was a speaker.
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BLOGGER SENTENCED AMID CLAMPDOWN IN VIETNAM, CPJ On March 30, the Ho Chi Minh City People’s Court sentenced Nguyen Ngoc Gia, a prominent Vietnamese blogger, to prison in Hanoi for disseminating “propaganda against the state.” Gia was sentenced to four...

Payal Arora at the International Journal of Communication: “To date, little attention has been given to the impact of big data in the Global South, about 60% of whose residents are below the poverty line. Big data manifests in novel and unprecedented ways in these neglected contexts.

Karen E.C. Levy and David Merritt Johns in Big Data and Society: “Openness and transparency are becoming hallmarks of responsible data practice in science and governance. Concerns about data falsification, erroneous analysis, and misleading presentation of research results have recently strengthened the call for new procedures that ensure public accountability for data-driven decisions. Though we generally count ourselves in favor of increased transparency in data practice, this Commentary highlights a caveat.

Political Bots on 1 April 2016 at 19:00PM 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 [...]

GovLab is thrilled to announce the newest member to the Open Data Global Network: Canada.
Canada joins an international network of researchers, open data organizations and government agencies from the U.S., Mexico, Italy, Korea and Australia that seek to understand how open data is used by businesses to create new lines of activities or jobs and drive innovation.

This blog post by M. Rajshekhar and Anumeha Yadav was published in Scroll.in on March 24, 2016. Sunil Abraham was quoted.

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We need to reboot the Aadhaar debate by asking why we want to create a centralised biometric database of Indian residents in the first place.
The article by Reetika Khera was published in the Wire on March 23, 2016.

Alleged perpetrator files counter-complaint with ombudsman’s office after being publicly identified.
The article was published in the Wire on March 24, 2016.

From the #PoliticalAnalytics2016 website: Political Analytics is a one-day conference at Harvard University featuring top minds from media, politics, and academics. We are starting an exciting conversation about the growing role of data and analytics in determining the winners and losers in politics. Our goal is to promote new methods, technology, and discussions for the improved analysis of politics.

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The Berkman Center is pleased to announce the publication of a new paper from the Privacy Tools for Sharing Research Data project team. In this paper, Effy Vayena, Urs Gasser, Alexandra Wood, and David O’Brien from the Berkman Center, with Micah Altman from MIT Libraries, outline elements of a new ethical framework for big data research.

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