The DMRC’s Dr T.J. Thomson was one of two dozen academics announced in April as members of the 2022 fellowship class of the PhDigital Bootcamp, delivered by Texas State University and sponsored by the Knight Foundation.
Last week, Portulans Institute President Soumitra Dutta had the opportunity to interview Sherif Kamel, Dean of The American University in Cairo School of Business, which is a member of PI’s Academic Network. The interview, linked below, highlights his new book Leading Change in Challenging Times: Lessons of Disruption and Innovation from Egypt: Thoughts, Observations, and Reflections.
The 3th of April was the day when all of the world had seen the photos, videos and witnesses of the massacre by russian murderers in Bucha. My social networks accounts were full of “sensitive content” that day, the hashtags #bucha and #buchamassacre blocked by platforms because of extreme violence imprinted in these pictures: tortured people with hands tied behind their back, bodies of citizens lying down on the streets, some of them were killed while riding a bicycle, some with proviant they were carrying home. Raped women and children. Shot animals.
Sowt and the Wikimedia Foundation, have partnered to produce a new season of Sowt’s podcast Manbet. Hosted and written by veteran content creator Bisher Najjar, the educational podcast explores various topics from the fields of humanities and society.
We are very happy to announce that QUT has retained it’s number 1 ranking in Australia and has improved one spot to 15 overall worldwide in the QS World University Rankings for Communication and Media Studies 2022.
Congratulations to the School of Communication and the Digital Media Research Centre and everyone who has been involved in achieving this amazing result.
La notion d’abolition, populaire dans les années 1970, suscite un regain d’intérêt. Portée par des mouvements comme Black Lives Matter et par des éditeurs engagés qui y voient un vecteur des luttes intersectorielles, l’abolition, et plus largement la pensée abolitionniste, fait l’objet de travaux et de publications cherchant à souligner comment les sociétés occidentales et leurs institutions reconduisent inlassablement un schème punitif.
Black Mirror et l'aurore numérique. Nos vies après l'humanisme, 21 avril 2022, 17h à 18h.
L’article 21.4.2022 Hypertextes #11 <br>Claudia Attimonelli et Vincenzo Susca est apparu en premier sur Centre Internet et Société.
This post is about what I consider one of the hardest questions, particularly under laws that create special data-access regimes for researchers. What data are platforms supposed to share, and what personal information will it disclose about Internet users? This question pits privacy goals against data-access and research goals. A strongly pro-privacy answer will curtail research into questions of great public importance. A strongly pro-research answer will limit users’ privacy rights. In between lie a lot of difficult calls and complex trade-offs.
PrtScn: The Lazy Art of Screenshot
Edited by Dunja Nešović
Kakao ist schon seit langer Zeit ein begehrter Rohstoff für die Nahrungsmittelindustrie. Auf den ersten Blick erscheint es darum verwunderlich, dass die Biologie nur wenig über die Bestäubung des Kakaobaums weiß – dabei ist ja genau dieser Prozess die Grundlage für den Fruchtansatz und letzten Endes für den Ertrag.
Moroccan investigative journalist Omar Radi’s phone was hacked using Pegasus spyware in June 2020, after he uncovered the … Digital Censorship and Obstructing Access to Information in MoroccoRead More »
Project by: Karyna Lazaruk and Marc Tuters (project leaders), with Borka Balogh, Marta Ceccarelli, Emillie de Keulenaar, Kiara Khorram, Devin Mitter, Son Nguyen, Stijn Peeters, Emilie Schwantzer, Cemal Tahir and Alexander Teggin.
Auf Grundlage der neuen Bayerischen Infektionsschutzmaßnahmenverordnung (16. BayIfSMV), die seit 3. April 2022 im Freistaat gilt, hat die Universität ihr Infektionsschutzkonzept angepasst.
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Call for proposals for a study on existing policies and literature on different regulatory approaches to digital platforms in Sub-Saharan Africa.
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How can we build our future on the legacies and claims of those who, yesterday as today, have been plunged into existential hardship by the ecological-economic complex? And how can we make such struggles a source of inspiration for a common cause?
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Complex automated decision making systems have become ubiquitous in our everyday lives. Should we even care to understand how AI-based decisions are made?
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