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Digital Singularisation

According to Andreas Reckwitz, we are living in a time of fundamental social change — our society is becoming a society of singularisation. Digitisation is playing a pivotal role in this process. But what exactly does singularisation mean? And what consequences  will it have for the constitution of our society? Marc Pirogan takes a look…
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Future Thinking: Alissa Cooper on the Technical Impact of Internet Consolidation

In 2017, the Internet Society unveiled the 2017 Global Internet Report: Paths to Our Digital Future. The interactive report identifies the drivers affecting tomorrow’s Internet and their impact on Media & Society, Digital Divides, and Personal Rights & Freedoms. While preparing to launch the 2019 Global Internet Report, we interviewed Alissa Cooper to hear her perspective on the forces shaping the Internet’s future.

Launching Muhal: Freedom of expression online watch

We have collected data, including the charges, the punishment, and a description of each case. (Image via Tasharuk)
Join us at 6 PM on Wednesday, February 27 for the launch of Muhal, an open database that documents online freedom of expression violations.

Evolving Toward Cooperation

Published with permission from Kosmos Journal

By Kurt Johnson

David Sloan Wilson’s New Evolutionary Biology

Aral Balkan on Building the People’s Internet

Reposted from NESTA on Youtube.com

​NTU, MIT and Russian scientists develop AI to predict and engineer material properties

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A bunch of media just entered the public domain. Here’s why that matters.

The black-and-white film flickers as a wealthy young woman, sitting on a bench in a garden, bats her eyes at the gardener’s son she is not allowed to marry. In her self-portrait, an artist wears masculine clothes against a bleak urban backdrop, dark eyes meeting the viewer’s gaze from the shadow of a broad-brimmed riding hat. An anarchist writes to a German physician, “I have been familiar with your great work on sex psychology for a number of years.

The Venezuela Myth Keeping Us From Transforming Our Economy

Republished from ellenbrown.com

Parecer sobre desindexação global no caso CNIL vs. Google

Existem muitas formas de se saber mais sobre alguém. Hoje, uma das principais é buscando o nome da pessoa na internet. Na Europa, o reconhecimento de um direito à remoção de resultados de busca na internet por nome (popularizado como desindexação), criou discussão judicial cujo resultado pode afetar todos nós.

Il corso EduHack è online

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Building a more open world: thoughts from our new CEO Catherine Stihler

This is my first week in my new role as Chief Executive of Open Knowledge International.
Digital skills and data use have always been a personal passion, and I can’t wait to work alongside and meet so many talented people fighting for a more open world. It is a privilege to be part of an organisation that has set the global standard for genuinely free and open sharing of information, building on the vision of founder Dr Rufus Pollock who wants to create an open information age.

The Week in Internet News: Google Moves to Make It Easier to Encrypt Cheap Android Devices

Easier encryption? Google engineers have created a new encryption regime that can run on cheap and underpowered smartphones, Wired.com reports. The Google effort takes established cryptographic tools and implements them in a more efficient way.

Crypto-Commonists and Crypto-Libertarians

This post by Mateo PGS was originally published on Medium.com

Framing the ideological divide within crypto-anarchism

*Link to dissertation at the end*

Verleihung des 5. Erna-Brunner-Preises an Dr. Sanil Bathia

Am Freitag wurde ihm in der Uniklinik Tübingen die Urkunde für herausragende Forschungen in der pädiatrischen Onkologie überreicht. Zur Feier kamen u.a. die Staatsministerin Annette Widmann-Mauz, Schirmherrin des Preises.

Lecture by Prof. Dr. Tobias Matzner "Algorithmic Subjectivity and Digital Publics"

Tobias Matzner is professor for “Media, Algorithms, and Society“ at the department of media studies at Paderborn University in Germany. His work combines theories of (digital) media and technologies with approaches from social theory, cultural studies, and political philosophy. This keynote lecture takes place in the context of the Graduate Workshop “Sisterhood on Twitter? ICT-based Collective Action and Narratives of Solidarity and Justice” on February 18, 2019, and is organized by Ms.

Trump signs executive order to boost AI technology

Location

United States

See map: Google Maps

Date published: February 11, 2019The Hill"Ryan Calo, a cyber law expert at the University of Washington, told The Hill that Trump's executive order appears to incorporate some elements of former President Obama's AI plan.

Emergence of Open Construction Systems

Urban Family Gardens grows local food security in Colombia

By Khushboo Balwani. Cross-posted from Shareable.

Félicitations et bienvenue à Madame Alice Friser

Nous avons le plaisir d’accueillir au CRDP, Madame Alice Friser en qualité de chercheure post-doctorante sous la direction du Professeur titulaire Pierre Noreau.

En effet, Madame Alice Friser a soutenu le mercredi 6 février 2019 à l’UQÀM, une brillante thèse intitulée : Éviter la controverse : un regard institutionnaliste sur les habiletés d’une industrie proactive au Canada. Nous lui adressons nos sincères félicitations et lui souhaitons plein succès dans ses travaux au CRDP.

Tage wie dieser: Medizinische Fakultät verleiht 103 Doktortitel

Im Rahmen ihrer Promotionsfeier ehrt die Fakultät außerdem ihre Goldpromovendinnen und –promovenden, die das 50. Jubiläum ihrer Promotion feiern. Mit dabei ist auch Klaus Heydenreich, Chirurg und in den 60er Jahren Profi-Fußballer in der Regionalliga West bei Bayer 04 Leverkusen.