On the third day of the Post-Precarity Autumn Camp, the participants had the chance to get an insight into alternative financial pathways of the digital art world. Geert Lovink of the Institute of Network Cultures gave an introduction to the research network MoneyLab that seeks to explore alternative revenue models, as well as to pose the ever-relevant questions of (re)defining the concept of money, especially in the context of the possibilities and limitations the digital monetary infrastructures provide.

Radiotelescopio ALMA detectó estos dos cuerpos astronómicos formados cerca del origen del universo y que -hasta ahora- estaban ocultos en medio de abundante polvo interestelar. La investigación, en la que participó el astrónomo de la Universidad de Chile, Valentino González, fue publicada en la prestigiosa revista científica Nature y entrega nuevos antecedentes sobre la formación de galaxias.Un equipo internacional de astrónomos descubrió dos galaxias que existieron en un período del universo cercano al Big Bang.

Este 23 de septiembre se celebra el Día Internacional de las Lenguas de Señas.

El Presidente Sebastián Piñera hizo entrega de las distinciones a las personalidades premiadas este año.

La también llamada rinitis alérgica está relacionada a la mayor presencia de polen de árboles, flores y pasto. Dado que estamos en pandemia y se mantiene el uso de mascarilla, esta puede contribuir y ayudar en el día a día a quienes sufren de irritaciones durante la temporada.

On September 24th Dr. Mintal presented a paper titled “Hide and Seek in Slovakia: Utilizing Tracking Code Data to Uncover Untrustworthy Website Networks”. The paper was jointly prepared by  Jozef Michal Mintal, Michal Kalman, and Karol Fabian
The paper was presented last week during the #MISDOOM symposium, hosted by the Oxford Internet Institute, University of Oxford.
The full paper is available here (preprint available on arxiv): https://lnkd.in/dJTVZiVN

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On September 1st our Co-Director Dr. Mintal presented a paper titled “Examining the tech stacks of Czech and Slovak untrustworthy websites” during the International Conference on Communication and Applied Technologies. The research was conducted with the help of our current research internet cohort. It mapped the technologies underlying Czech and Slovak untrustworthy websites and the possible ways of regulating the untrustworthy landscape through these underlying technologies.

The International Centre for Ethics in the Sciences and Humanities (IZEW) is looking for aStudent assistant (f/m/*) (35/40 hours per month) at the earliest possible date. We are looking for the support of various research projects within the department of Society, Culture and Technological Change (SCRATCH).

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El Rector Vivaldi, en representación de la U. de Chile, asistió presencialmente al foro Chile-Italia este martes, instancia a la que los rectores de las universidades Católica y de Concepción se unieron de manera remota. Inteligencia artificial, cambio climático, astronomía, medicina y ciencias sociales son algunos de los temas en los que se busca promover la colaboración junto a instituciones italianas.

Usando luces para pintar de verde diferentes edificios alrededor del mundo, se busca visibilizar a quienes sufren los efectos de estas enfermedades. En Chile, esta es la "Semana de la Concienciación de las Enfermedades Mitocondriales", razón por la que el próximo 25 de septiembre se iluminarán diferentes espacios públicos. Luis Guerra Burgos, estudiante de derecho de la U.

El llamado principal es a mantener las medidas de autocuidado, como el distanciamiento social, el uso de mascarilla y el lavado constante de manos.

Bei der Aufarbeitung von Fällen sexualisierter Gewalt an Minderjährigen und schutz- oder hilfebedürftigen Erwachsenen hat sich im Bistum Würzburg einiges getan. Unter anderem wurden ein Betroffenenbeirat und eine Unabhängige Aufarbeitungskommission etabliert.

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In this blog series, INC research fellows Natalie Dixon and Klasien van de Zandschulp explore a burgeoning intimate surveillance culture in neighbourhoods across the world.  At the core of this research is a flourishing network of surveillance technologies produced by Silicon Valley and perfectly tailored to a vigilant and paranoid home-owner. This matters. Because being watched by the state is one thing, but being watched by your neighbours invites myriad more questions. In this second essay, we present a WhatsApp case study from South Africa.