What does prediction by algorithms and AI mean? How does AI shift our understanding and production of knowledge? And how do algorithmic forecasts affect our relationship with the future? Elena... MORE
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Paper by Gordon Pennycook and David G. Rand: “The spread of misinformation and disinformation, especially on social media, is a major societal challenge.
After the completion of the project Muskat which was funded by the BMBF a civil report by Marco Krüger was publically released online.download under: http://hdl.handle.net/10900/79947
Written by Liam Murphy and originally published in VoluntaryArts.org, this is a very important development, close to our CopyFair concerns.
The people behind Coops Vidriana wrote to us to let us know about their new gorgeous-looking magazine on Platform Cooperativism. It’s bilingual (German/English) and features a bunch of new articles and some drop-dead stunning design. Jana Pirlein has been kind enough to pen the following intro for the P2PF blog.
In his New Years Speech French president Emmanuel Macron has announced a new law project regarding the propagation of fake news online that shall be submitted until late 2018. This... MORE
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For the last 150,000 or so years of human evolution, not a whole lot changed. That is, until about 10,000 years ago, when in the blink of an eye we began organizing societies in very, very different ways. We went from small bands of hunter-gatherers to massive state societies; from having a relatively low ecological impact to devastating the natural environments we existed in; from relatively horizontal organization to extreme hierarchy and finely articulated division of labor.
Book edited by Btihaj Ajana: “…provides an empirical and philosophical investigation of self-tracking practices. In recent years, there has been an explosion of apps and devices that enable the data capturing and monitoring of everyday activities, behaviours and habits. Encouraged by movements such as the Quantified Self, a growing number of people are embracing this culture of quantification and tracking in the spirit of improving their health and wellbeing.
Dans le cadre des Midi-conférences des jeunes chercheurs, le Centre de recherche en droit public est heureux de présenter la conférence de Grâce Perside Poeri, candidate au doctorat en sciences humaines appliquées à la Faculté des Arts et Sciences de l’Université de Montréal. Sa présentation s’intitule : « La problématique des enfants dits « microbes » en Côte d’Ivoire ».
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Chapter by Walter Castelnovo in Network, Smart and Open: “Citizens’ engagement and citizens’ participation are rapidly becoming catch-all concepts, buzzwords continuously recurring in public policy discourses, also due to the widespread diffusion and use of social media that are claimed to have the potential to increase citizens’ participation in public sector processes, including policy development and policy implementation
Najnowszy przegląd linków o prawie autorskim udowadnia, że nie samą reformą prawa autorskiego powinniśmy się interesować. Parlament Europejski podjął kolejne, choć niedostateczne, kroki w celu zniesienia geoblockingu, Komisja Europejska planuje stworzyć listę stron www naruszających prawa własności intelektualnej, a zmiany w dyrektywie o reuse to tylko kwestia czasu. Poza tym prezentujemy ciekawe polskie kazusy prawne – prokuraturę mającą problemy z prawem autorskim oraz spór prawnoautorski wokół zmian na wystawie w Muzeum II Wojny Światowej. Zapraszamy do lektury.
CIHR Research Colloquium
Every Thursday, we meet in our Berlin office to discuss research projects from members of the CIHR network – our researchers, fellows and collaborators.
When? Every Thursday
Where? CIHR Berlin office, Werner-Voss Damm 54a, 12101 Berlin
How to participate? Send us an email at ue.rhicnull@eciffo
February 15: The Algorithm as your Boss? with Mirela Ivanova
From 4pm – 6pm
Brilliant and practical way of cutting the developers out of lining their pockets once public planning permission is granted. This policy captures what is now unearned income in the hands of private developers for a key public good – to radically increase the affordability of housing. Take a look. Not too complicated. Grounded in Commons sense.
This article from George Monbiot contains a vital insight, to complement our earlier postings on increased corporate functional governance as explained by Frank Pasquale.
Book by Safiya Umoja Noble: “Run a Google search for “black girls”—what will you find? “Big Booty” and other sexually explicit terms are likely to come up as top search terms. But, if you type in “white girls,” the results are radically different. The suggested porn sites and un-moderated discussions about “why black women are so sassy” or “why black women are so angry” presents a disturbing portrait of black womanhood in modern society.
Here’s the problem: The founders of “Mietshäuser Syndikat” (tenements syndicate), a network of cohousing projects in Germany, observed many self-organized cohousing projects struggle and fail. Some couldn’t overcome the challenges in the critical early phases, in terms of dealing with legal issues, finances, and group dynamics, while others created commercially exploited housing projects against their original intentions.
Rachel Botsman at the Guardian: “…Once seen as saviours of democracy, those titans are now just as likely to be viewed as threats to truth or, at the very least, impassive billionaires falling down on the job of monitoring their own backyards.
Dorota Mokrosinska at the Canadian Journal of Law and Jurisprudence: “Among the classic arguments which advocates of open government use to fight government secrecy is the appeal to a “people’s right to know.” I argue that the employment of this idea as a conceptual weapon against state secrecy misfires.