Originally published in Forbes on February 20, 2018. Read the article here.
A review of Bit by Bit: Social Research in the Digital Age, Matthew J. Salganik, Princeton University Press, 2017. 445 pp.
Bit by Bit: Social Research in the Digital Age (2017).
The Promise of Research for Business
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In this Internet Monitor research bulletin, Berkman Klein Center Affiliate Simin Kargar analyzes the effectiveness of the Iranian government’s campaign to encourage domestic content consumption and hosting through its National Information Network.
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This two-part, semi-gothic literary essay seeks a provisional definition of “benevolent capital” and a working description of types of artistic and scholarly work that have no value for Capital as such. The paradox observed is that such works may actually appeal to a certain aspect of Capital, insofar as present-day capitalism has within it forms of pre-modern political economy that may actually save Capital from its mad rush toward self-immolation.
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Bereits seit 2013 lädt die HHU zusammen mit der Bezirksregierung Düsseldorf und der Industrie- und Handelskammer zu Düsseldorf Lehrerinnen und Lehrer an die Universität ein. Im Mittelpunkt der jährlichen Lehrerfortbildung stehen die Fächer Biologie, Chemie, Informatik, Mathematik und Physik. Die Teilnehmerinnen und Teilnehmer erfahren aus erster Hand, wie sich die Wissenschaft in ihren Fächern weiterentwickelt.
Introduction to “Perspective”: “Discussing things you care about can be difficult. The threat of abuse and harassment online means that many people stop expressing themselves and give up on seeking different opinions….Perspective is an API that makes it easier to host better conversations. The API uses machine learning models to score the perceived impact a comment might have on a conversation.
RICardo (Research on International Commerce) is a project dedicated to trade between nations over a period spanning the beginning of the Industrial Revolution to the eve of the Second World War. It combines a historical trade database covering all of the world’s countries and a website which invites to an exploration of the history of international trade through data visualizations. The project has recently released a web application and accompanying dataset, which is freely available under the Open Database License.
In welchem Umfang der Staat Ungleichheit in Einkommen oder Vermögen durch Umverteilung reduzieren soll, ist nicht nur unter Ökonomen ein strittiges Thema. Im Gegensatz dazu gibt es breiten Konsens, dass Chancengleichheit eine zentrale Voraussetzung für einen fairen Wettbewerb der Talente darstellt. Dennoch hängen die Startbedingungen von Kindern in Deutschland stark vom sozioökonomischen Status ihrer Familie ab.
The Internet Society was recently approved as a Liaison Member of TF-CSIRT, the European Forum for Computer Security Incident Response Teams, and therefore took the opportunity to participate in the FIRST/TF-CSIRT Symposium that was held 5-7 February 2018 in Hamburg, Germany.
Für eine Karriere in der Wissenschaft ist die Einwerbung von Forschungsgeldern von großer Bedeutung. Der Forschungsfördertag 2018 versammelt alle relevanten Institutionen und Organisationen zu diesem Thema an der HHU. Sie stellen hier ihre Programme für den wissenschaftlichen Nachwuchs vor und beantworten alle Fragen zum Thema.
Forschungsfördertag 2018 Mittwoch, 07.03.2018, 09:30 Uhr - 16:00 Uhr Hörsaal 3D, Gebäude 23.01
Gabriella A. B. Barros et al at arXiv: “This paper presents a framework for generating adventure games from open data. Focusing on the murder mystery type of adventure games, the generator is able to transform open data from Wikipedia articles, OpenStreetMap and images from Wikimedia Commons into WikiMysteries. Every WikiMystery game revolves around the murder of a person with a Wikipedia article, and populates the game with suspects who must be arrested by the player if guilty of the murder or absolved if innocent.
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Most bankers, economists and investors after a couple of drinks, will admit that money is not wealth. Money is a metric, like inches and centimeters, for tracking real wealth: human ingenuity and technological productivity interacting with natural resources and biodiversity undergirding all human societies along with the daily free photons from our Sun, as described in “Valuing Today’s Circular Services Information Economies”.
In the spring of 2016, Elon Musk and his company Tesla stopped enforcing their patents, and Google, Facebook, Microsoft and IBM are all going open source with various robotics, artificial intelligence and phone projects. A trend is emerging: Is future manufacturing open source?
In October 2015, a 3-judge bench of the Supreme Court of India referred challenges to the Aadhaar program to a constitution bench. One of the primary concerns of this petition was to decide on the existence of a fundamental right to privacy, which has since been upheld. Other similar petitions, concerned with the legitimacy of […]
NDSS 2018 is in full swing in San Diego this week and a couple of papers that really grabbed my attention were both in the same session on Network Security and Cellular Networks yesterday.
African experts are gathered for two days (19-20 February 2018) in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia to contribute to the development of the African Privacy and Personal Data Protection Guidelines. The meeting, facilitated by the African Union Commission (AUC) and supported by Internet Society, explored the future of privacy and data protection and provided some practical suggestions that African states can consider in implementing the Malabo convention provisions related to online privacy.