Jason Hickel: You can almost feel the planet writhing. This summer brought some of the biggest, most destructive storms in recorded history: Harvey laid waste to huge swathes of Texas; Irma left Barbuda virtually uninhabitable; Maria ravaged Dominica and plunged Puerto Rico into darkness. The images we see in the media are almost too violent to comprehend. And these are the storms that made the news; many others did not.

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Dr. Susanne Keuneke, Vertrauensdozentin des Instituts für Sozialwissenschaften, freute sich über den Erfolg ihrer Absolventen und erklärte dazu: „Die hohe Quote unserer Absolventen unter den Preisträgern zeigt, dass unsere Studiengänge ein hervorragendes Sprungbrett in eine journalistische Karriere darstellen.“
Timo Steppat (Abschluss 2013) arbeitet bei der FAZ, Christoph Winterbach (Abschluss 2014) ist beim Spiegel, Lena Sterz (Abschluss 2013) beim WDR und  Laura Terberl  (Abschluss 2013) arbeitet bei der Süddeutschen Zeitung,

Oliver Roeder at FiveThirtyEight: “The Supreme Court does not compute. Or at least some of its members would rather not. The justices, the most powerful jurists in the land, seem to have a reluctance — even an allergy — to taking math and statistics seriously.

Essay by Joseph E. Stiglitz, Dean Baker and Arjun Jayadev: “Developing countries are increasingly pushing back against the intellectual property regime foisted on them by the advanced economies over the last 30 years.

La iniciativa, que reunió a representantes de diversas facultades e institutos este 5 de octubre en Casa Central, tuvo por objeto trazar un diagnóstico del tema a nivel universitario, articular las diversas visiones al interior de nuestro plantel, y comenzar a plantear nuevos desafíos en este ámbito.Desde la Escuela de Salud publica, el Instituto de la Comunicación e Imagen, y las facultades de Derecho, Ciencias, Economía y Negocios, Filosofía y Humanidades, Veterinaria y Medicina, entre otras, llegaron 35 académicos y académicas de nuestro plantel, al primer Encuen

Gracias a la instalación de cuatro estaciones sismológicas, en el marco de un proyecto colaborativo entre organismos públicos y la U. de Chile, se logrará determinar dónde se produce la sismicidad, lo que permitirá establecer escenarios de vulnerabilidad y exposición para las comunas directamente afectadas, las que se encuentran actualizando sus planes de emergencia en conjunto con ONEMI.Este 5 de octubre el director Nacional de ONEMI, Ricardo Toro, el director del Proyecto Falla de San Ramón y académico del departamento de Geología de la U.

Manuel Pedro Rodríguez Bolívar and Laura Alcaide Muñoz in the International Journal of Public Administration in the Digital Age: “The growing participation in social networking sites is altering the nature of social relations and changing the nature of political and public dialogue.

Ação tramita sob relatoria do ministro Dias ToffoliO Núcleo de Prática Jurídica (NPJ) da Escola de Direito do Rio de Janeiro da FGV (Direito Rio) protocolou, no último dia 28 de setembro, memorial de amicus curiae perante o Supremo Tribunal Federal (STF) nos autos da Ação Direta de Inconstitucionalidade (ADI) nº 5.415, que trata do direito de resposta em veículos de comunicação social.

ADI trata de limites do fundo partidário para campanha de candidatasEm despacho publicado no último dia 4 de outubro, o Ministro Edson Facchin admitiu pedido de amicus curiae formulado pelo Núcleo de Prática Jurídica (NPJ) da Escola de Direito do Rio de Janeiro da FGV (Direito Rio), nos autos da Ação Direita de Inconstitucionalidade (ADI) nº 5.617, que trata de limites mínimo e máximo do fundo partidário para campanhas de candidatas.

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Featuring Katherine Maher, Executive Director of the Wikimedia Foundation, in conversation with Harvard Law School Professor Yochai Benkler

Teaser

Join us for a stimulating conversation highlighting different perspectives of the question, "Will Wikipedia exist in 20 years?"

Parent Event

Berkman Klein Luncheon Series

Event Date

Oct
17
2017
12:00pm

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Projeto visa estimular pautas inovadoras na adminsitração públicaO Laboratório de Políticas Públicas (LAB FGV), organização criada pelos alunos da FGV que visa a promover e fomentar o uso de projetos inovadores na administração pública, tem como uma de suas pautas principais o emprego da tecnologia para modernizar o setor público. 

Am Institut für Informations-, Telekommunikations- und Medienrecht, Zivilrechtliche Abteilung ist ab dem 2. Januar 2018 eine Stelle als
Studentische Hilfskraft (m/w)
mit einer Arbeitszeit von 5 Stunden/Woche zu besetzen.
Die Einstellung ist befristet. Eine längere Zusammenarbeit ist erwünscht.
Die Tätigkeit betrifft die Mitarbeit im ABIDA-Forschungsprojekt, das sich mit Big Data und den damit einhergehenden gesellschaftspolitischen Folgen beschäftigt.

The post Vacancy: Postdoctoral researcher in Information Law, Media, Philosophy or Political Science appeared first on IVIR.

The post Prof. Daniel Gervais benoemd tot hoogleraar Informatierecht appeared first on IVIR.

Paper by Sara Makki et al: “Fraudulent activities (e.g., suspicious credit card transaction, financial reporting fraud, and money laundering) are critical concerns to various entities including bank, insurance companies, and public service organizations. Typically, these activities lead to detrimental effects on the victims such as a financial loss.

Kooperationspartner sind neben der Stadt Düsseldorf die Veranstaltungsorte: Forum Freies Theater, Goethe Museum Düsseldorf/Anton-und-Katharina-Kippenberg-Stiftung, Stiftung Gerhart-Hauptmann-Haus, Stadtbüchereien Düsseldorf.
Die einzelnen Termine:
 

Dom Galeon in Futurism: “As artificial intelligence (AI) development progresses, experts have begun considering how best to give an AI system an ethical or moral backbone. A popular idea is to teach AI to behave ethically by learning from decisions made by the average person.

What we are adept at is digital labor (consider the time and effort we have already put into this posting without recompense), but we have yet to define or form much of an identity around our input or output of information labor. Information may ‘want to be free’, but information labor wants be rewarded in some form because it represents the interests of embodied workers.

Traditional anti-capitalism focused on the ownership of the means of production, yet the modern capitalist doesn’t even want to own the means of production, they want to own the very right to produce. To control the ideas required to produce and simply charge rents for these ideas.