Berlin, 3 Feburary 2021 – What social power and responsibility do platforms have? To what extent do international perspectives on their use, significance and regulation differ? The Alexander von Humboldt Institute for Internet and Society (HIIG) and its partners are looking to develop a global research network with the aim of bringing scientific expertise more…

Deux entretiens dans la presse avec Olivier Alexandre (CNRS-CIS) au sujet de la création du premier syndicat au sein de Google.
L’article Création d’un syndicat chez Google est apparu en premier sur Centre Internet et Société.

Many concepts ‘meet’ each other in the practices of online sex work; physical & digital, pleasure & power, intimacy & publicness, body & labour. Not to forget how gender, race, class, ethnicity, and sexuality intersect in this type of work. How can we engage in meaningful ways with these complexities and entangled realities? INC member, artist and communication scholar Antonia Hernandez and writer, researcher, activist, and porn performer Lorelei Lee will discuss how art, writing, and play might provide methods for engagement with the multifaceted nature of online sex work.

Am 15. Februar 2020 war die „Fastnacht in Franken“ eines der letzten „normalen“ Großereignisse vor der SARS-CoV-2-Pandemie. Bevor das Virus Europa erfasste und bevor im März auch in Würzburg die ersten Covid-Fälle auftraten, konnte die Kultsendung des Bayerischen Rundfunks (BR), die jedes Jahr von fast vier Millionen Menschen gesehen wird, noch live aus den Mainfrankensälen in Veitshöchheim gesendet werden.

Digital Asia Hub formally launched the Platform Futures Expert Network initiative with a members-only meeting (online) on February 3, 2021. The meeting notes below capture some of the highlights of the discussion with all comments from members anonymized in keeping with the Chatham House rule.
Platform Futures

From the environment to the economy, the Internet is reshaping and disrupting several sectors of our society. What might future patterns of disruption look like? How will these changes affect all of us, particularly those on the margins of society? What new solutions can we generate today, to address the challenges of tomorrow?

(re)programming is a season of close encounters with world-class thinkers debating key issues, from infrastructure and energy to community and AI, hosted by the Spanish author Marta Peirano and live-streamed every third Monday of the month.

February 2, 2021. The Wikimedia Foundation, the nonprofit that administers Wikipedia, launched a first-of-its-kind Universal Code of Conduct that expands on the project’s existing policies to create a global set of community standards for addressing negative behavior on the site.

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Hacking Institutional Strategy for Rapidly Deployed Digital Education
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Was arbeiten Absolventen der Julius-Maximilians-Universität Würzburg (JMU)? Um den Studierenden verschiedene Perspektiven vorzustellen, hat Michaela Thiel, Geschäftsführerin des zentralen Alumni-Netzwerks, ausgewählte Ehemalige befragt. Diesmal ist Alumna Dr. Franziska Rieß an der Reihe. Sie hat an der JMU Biologie studiert. Heute arbeitet sie als Director Process Improvement bei der eResearch Technology GmbH in Estenfeld.

Nous sommes heureux d’annoncer que le vendredi 5 février aura lieu la soutenance de thèse de doctorat en droit de Cristiano Therrien, qui fût dirigé par le professeur Pierre Trudel. Sa thèse s’intitule : «Law in the Present Future : Approaching the Legal Imaginary of Smart Cities with Science (and) Fiction ».

Membres du Jury

Disinformation bots: Apple CEO Tim Cook raised concerns about social media algorithms promoting disinformation during a speech at an international privacy conference, ZDNet reports.

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ML-based credit scoring systems could facilitate wider financial inclusion on the market for credit. Yet, automated consumer profiling threatens to reinforce rather than resolve financial inequalities. Consumers’ rights, privacy and autonomy are undermined in a fast-paced online environment mined with manipulative UX-patterns. Consumer autonomy on the market for credit In the blogpost 1 we argued…

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Marco Rondina (Politecnico di Torino)
INCONTRO IN PRESENZA e ONLINE
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Theory on Demand #40
COVID-19 from the Margins.
Pandemic Invisibilities, Policies and Resistance in the Datafied Society
Edited by Stefania Milan, Emiliano Treré and Silvia Masiero

 

Am 31. März 2021 tritt Unipräsident Professor Alfred Forchel nach einer knapp zwölfjährigen Amtszeit in den Ruhestand; am 1. April übernimmt sein Nachfolger Professor Paul Pauli, Inhaber des Lehrstuhls für Psychologie I, die Amtsgeschäfte. Jetzt hat Pauli der Öffentlichkeit die Vizepräsidentinnen und Vizepräsidenten vorgestellt, mit denen er in den nächsten Jahren gemeinsam die Julius-Maximilians-Universität Würzburg (JMU) leiten will.