From douglas at publicsphereproject.org Fri Nov 2 20:24:22 2018 From: douglas at publicsphereproject.org (Doug Schuler) Date: Fri, 2 Nov 2018 12:24:22 -0700 Subject: Fifth Workshop on Computing within LIMITS Message-ID: Call for Papers -------------------- LIMITS 2019 Fifth Workshop on Computing within LIMITS June 10-11, 2018 Lappeenranta, Finland http://computingwithinlimits.org/2019/ The ACM LIMITS workshop aims to foster discussion on the impact of present and future ecological, material, energetic, and societal limits on computing. These topics are seldom discussed in contemporary computing research. A key aim of the workshop is to promote innovative, concrete research, potentially of an interdisciplinary nature, that focuses on technologies, critiques, techniques, and contexts for computing within fundamental economic and ecological limits. A longer-term goal is to build a community around relevant topics and research. We hope to impact society through the design and development of computing systems in the abundant present for use in a future of limits. A recent article in the Communications of the ACM provides a good primer on Computing within Limits. This year we are co-locating with ICT4S in Europe. Abstract submission deadline: Feb 1, 2019 Paper submission deadline: Feb 8, 2019 Paper reviews available: March 14, 2019 Camera-ready paper deadline: March 28, 2019 Jay Chen, NYU Abu Dhabi, jchen at cs.nyu.edu, Workshop Co-Chair Oliver Bates, Lancaster University, o.bates at lancaster.ac.uk, Workshop Co-Chair For more information, please visit: http://computingwithinlimits.org/2019/ -- Douglas Schuler douglas at publicsphereproject.org Twitter: @doug_schuler ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Public Sphere Project http://www.publicsphereproject.org/ Mailing list ~ Collective Intelligence for the Common Good * http://scn9.scn.org/mailman/listinfo/ci 4cg-announce* Creating the World Citizen Parliament http://interactions.acm.org/archive/view/may-june-2013/creating-the-world-citizen-parliament Liberating Voices! A Pattern Language for Communication Revolution (project) http://www.publicsphereproject.org/patterns/lv Liberating Voices! A Pattern Language for Communication Revolution (book) http://mitpress.mit.edu/catalog/item/default.asp?ttype=2&tid=11601 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From ycompanys at gmail.com Fri Nov 2 20:28:08 2018 From: ycompanys at gmail.com (Yosem Companys) Date: Fri, 2 Nov 2018 12:28:08 -0700 Subject: Tech for Good & Evil: Please Help Me Collect Resources... In-Reply-To: References:

Message-ID: Hi All, Could you help me collect any and all info that may be available on the use of technology for good and evil? I'm looking bibliographies, syllabi, media resources, and any other materials you may be aware of including seminal and other readings, disciplinary or multidisciplinary readings, country-specific or cross-cultural readings. Below is a list of the topics that I have identified thus far. If I'm missing any others or you believe there's a better way of organizing them, please let me know. Thanks, Yosem - Accountability, Corruption, Openness, and Transparency (e.g., Open Data, Freedom of Information - FOI) - Activism, Protests, and Movements (e.g., Occupy, Anonymous, Hacktivism) - Agriculture, Farming, and Food Security (e.g., eAgri, Fishing, Mariculture, Aquaponics, Aquaculture) - Censorship, Repression, and Freedom (e.g., Freedom of Expression - FoE, Free Speech, NetFreedom, Right to Information - RTI) - Conflict, Disasters, and Resilience (e.g., Crisis Mapping, Robotics, Cyber Attacks/Defense, Cyber War, Harassment, Hate Crimes) - Construction, Housing, and Real Estate (e.g., Smart Homes, Internet of Things) - Democracy, Politics, Elections, and Voting (e.g., Netroots, Tea Party, eVoting) - Development (e.g., Information and Communication Technologies for Development - ICT4D, Tech for Development - Tech4Dev, Global Development - GlobalDev) - Economics (e.g., Participatory Economy, Peer-to-Peer Economy, Commons, Unemployment, Job Creation/Destruction, Consumer Rights) - Education (e.g., Information and Communication Technologies for Education - ICT4E, Open Education, eLearning, MOOCs) - Ethics (e.g., how the design and use values of technology determine whether they're used for good or evil) - Energy and Power (e.g., Microgrids) - Entrepreneurship (e.g., Social Entrepreneurship - socent, Social Innovation) - Environment (e.g., Brownfields, Landfills, Superfund Sites, Climate Change, and Land, Water, and Air Preservation) - Finance (e.g., Microfinance, FinTech, Blockchain, Cryptocurrencies, Participatory Budgeting, Crowdfunding) - Governance (e.g., eGovernance - eGov, Open Governance - OpenGov, Governance 2.0 - gov20, Internet Governance Forum, Civic Tech) - Health (e.g., eHealth, mHealth, Telemedicine) - Human rights - Inequality & Bias (e.g., Digital Divide, Cost of Living, Discrimination, Harassment) - Manufacturing (e.g., Additive Technologies, 3D Printing, Do-It-Yourself - DIY, Robotics, Open Innovation) - Media (e.g., Journalism, Social Media) - Organizing and Organizations (e.g., Nonprofits, Community-Based Organizations, Cooperatives, Labor Unions) - Physical Spaces and Locations (e.g., Libraries, Coworking Spaces, Makerspaces, Hackerspaces, Fab Labs, Tool Sharing Libraries, Smart Cities, Mapping) - Policy and Law (e.g., Policy Innovations, Legal Innovations) - Privacy (e.g., Rules, Regulations, Laws, Frameworks) - Security, Physical or Cyber (e.g., Cybersecurity, Internet of Things, Sexual Harassment and/or Violence, Security by Design) - Social Science (e.g., Impact of Technology on Society) - Transportation and Supply Chain on Land, Water, and Air (e.g., Hyperloop, Autonomous Vehicles, Unmanned Aerial Vehicles, Drones, Smart Roads) - Volunteering (e.g., Crowdsourcing, Participatory Mapping) - Water Security (e.g., Watersheds, Water Purification) -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From dss at secureid.net Fri Nov 2 21:30:27 2018 From: dss at secureid.net (David Stodolsky) Date: Fri, 2 Nov 2018 21:30:27 +0100 Subject: Fifth Workshop on Computing within LIMITS In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <8FC4A764-4AFE-469E-9925-2BD93391D85F@secureid.net> Looks like yet another attempt to bring elitism in via the back door. See appended. This is the space age. If Planetary Resources gets just one big asteroid, the wealth represented by the extracted silver, gold, platinum, etc. will surpass the wealth created throughout human history. https://www.planetaryresources.com dss > On 2 Nov 2018, at 20:24, Doug Schuler wrote: > > > Call for Papers > -------------------- > LIMITS 2019 > Fifth Workshop on Computing within LIMITS > June 10-11, 2018 > Lappeenranta, Finland > http://computingwithinlimits.org/2019/ > > The ACM LIMITS workshop aims to foster discussion on the impact of present and future ecological, material, energetic, and societal limits on computing. These topics are seldom discussed in contemporary computing research. A key aim of the workshop is to promote innovative, concrete research, potentially of an interdisciplinary nature, that focuses on technologies, critiques, techniques, and contexts for computing within fundamental economic and ecological limits. A longer-term goal is to build a community around relevant topics and research. We hope to impact society through the design and development of computing systems in the abundant present for use in a future of limits. A recent article in the Communications of the ACM provides a good primer on Computing within Limits. This year we are co-locating with ICT4S in Europe. > > Abstract submission deadline: Feb 1, 2019 > Paper submission deadline: Feb 8, 2019 > Paper reviews available: March 14, 2019 > Camera-ready paper deadline: March 28, 2019 > > > Jay Chen, NYU Abu Dhabi, jchen at cs.nyu.edu, Workshop Co-Chair > Oliver Bates, Lancaster University, o.bates at lancaster.ac.uk, Workshop Co-Chair > > For more information, please visit: http://computingwithinlimits.org/2019/ > > -- > Douglas Schuler > douglas at publicsphereproject.org > Twitter: @doug_schuler David Stodolsky, PhD Institute for Social Informatics Tornskadestien 2, st. th., DK-2400 Copenhagen NV, Denmark dss at socialinformatics.org Tel./Viber: +45 3095 4070 Begin forwarded message: > From: David Stodolsky > Subject: WHY BIG OIL CONQUERED THE WORLD > Date: 1 November 2018 at 09:31:36 CET > To: collin at hum.aau.dk > >>> This is a remarkably well documented history of elite domination: >>> >>> PART TWO: WHY BIG OIL CONQUERED THE WORLD >>> >>> https://www.corbettreport.com/bigoil/ >>> >>> To save time, read the transcript. >>> >>> >>> >>> dss >>> >>> David Stodolsky, PhD Institute for Social Informatics >>> Tornskadestien 2, st. th., DK-2400 Copenhagen NV, Denmark >>> dss at socialinformatics.org Tel./Viber: +45 3095 4070 >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> Begin forwarded message: >>> >>> From: David Stodolsky >>> Subject: Cosmic ray flux variations that are independent of solar activity appear to have a large effect on climate >>> Date: 25 December 2017 at 15:37:56 CET >>> >>> >>> http://www.sciencebits.com/CosmicRays_Climate_TheMissingLink >>> >>> >>> http://www.sciencebits.com/CO2orSolar >>> >>> As explained above, there is no real direct evidence which can be used to incriminate anthropogenic greenhouse gases as the being the main factor responsible for the observed global warming. > > > David Stodolsky, PhD Institute for Social Informatics > Tornskadestien 2, st. th., DK-2400 Copenhagen NV, Denmark > dss at socialinformatics.org Tel./Viber: +45 3095 4070 > > > > > > > > > > > From chema at rinzewind.org Thu Nov 15 21:41:14 2018 From: chema at rinzewind.org (=?utf-8?Q?Jos=C3=A9=20Mar=C3=ADa=20Mateos?=) Date: Thu, 15 Nov 2018 15:41:14 -0500 Subject: Facebook reportedly discredited critics by linking them to George Soros Message-ID: <1542314474.3188397.1578455096.403C5FD0@webmail.messagingengine.com> https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2018/nov/14/facebook-george-soros-pr-firm-discredit-critics-crisis Facebook hired a PR firm that attempted to discredit the company?s critics by claiming they were agents of the billionaire George Soros, the New York Times reported on Tuesday. Soros is a Jewish philanthropist who is the frequent subject of antisemitic conspiracy theories. At the same time, the social media company urged the Anti-Defamation League to object to a cartoon used by anti-Facebook protesters over its resemblance to antisemitic tropes. News of Facebook?s aggressive attempts to undermine critics came in a damning report by the New York Times, detailing how Facebook executives have struggled to manage the numerous and severe challenges confronting the company, all while lashing out at critics and perceived enemies. -- Jos? Mar?a (Chema) Mateos || https://rinzewind.org From imgeozcan at gmail.com Fri Nov 16 16:03:40 2018 From: imgeozcan at gmail.com (Imge Ozcan) Date: Fri, 16 Nov 2018 16:03:40 +0100 Subject: Call for Proposals- Privacy Camp 2019: Platforms, Politics, Participation Message-ID: *Privacy Camp 2019: Platforms, Politics, Participation* Privacy Camp will take place on 29 January 2019 in Brussels, Belgium, just before the start of the CPDP conference. Privacy Camp brings together civil society, policy-makers and academia to discuss existing and looming problems for human rights in the digital environment. Call for Proposals: Platforms, Politics, Participation Privacy Camp 2019 will focus on digital platforms, their societal impact and political significance. Due to the rise of a few powerful companies such as Uber, Facebook, Amazon or Google, the term ?platform? has moved beyond its initial computational meaning of technological architecture and has come to be understood as a socio-cultural phenomenon. Platforms are said to facilitate and shape human interactions, thus becoming important economic and political actors. While the companies offering platform services are increasingly the target of regulative action, they are also considered as allies of national and supranational institutions in enforcing policies voluntarily and gauging political interest and support. Digital platforms employ business models that rely on the collection of large amounts of data and the use of advanced algorithms, which raise concerns about their surveillance potential and their impact on political events. Increasingly rooted in the daily life of many individuals, platforms monetise social interactions and turn to questionable labor practices. Many sectors and social practices are being ?platformised?, from public health to security, from news to entertainment services. Lately, some scholars have conceptualised this phenomenon as ?platform capitalism ? or ?platform society ?. Privacy Camp 2019 will unpack the implications of ?platformisation? for the socio-political fabric, human rights and policy making. In particular, how does the platform logic shape our experiences and the world we live in? How do institutional actors attempt to regulate platforms? In what ways do the affordances and constraints of platforms shape how people share and make use of their data? Participate! We welcome panel proposals relating to the broad theme of platforms. Besides classic panel proposals we are also seeking short contributions for our workshop ?Situating Platforms: User Narratives?. 1. Panel proposals We are particularly interested in panel proposals on the following topics: platform economy and labour; algorithmic bias; democratic participation and social networks. Submission guidelines: ? Indicate a clear objective for your session, i.e. what would be a good outcome for you? ? Indicate other speakers that could participate in your panel (and let us know which speaker has already confirmed, at least in principle, to participate). ? Make it as participative as possible, think about how to include the audience and diverse actors. Note that the average panel length is 75 minutes. ? Send us a description of no more than 400 words. 2. ?Situating Platforms: User Narratives? submissions In an effort to discuss situated contexts with regard to platforms, we will have a session on lived practices and user narratives. Individuals, civil society groups or community associations are welcome to contribute in the format of a short talk or show & tell demonstration. Details and the online submission form are here: https://framaforms.org/your-platform-story-1539768957 Deadline *The deadline for all submissions is 18 November*. After the deadline, we will review your submission and let you know by the end of November whether your proposal can be included in the programme. It is possible that we suggest merging panel proposals if they are very similar. Please send your proposal via email to privacycamp(at)edri.org! If you have questions, please contact Kirsten at kirsten.fiedler(at)edri(dot)org or Imge at imge.ozcan(at)vub(dot)be. For more details about Privacy Camp, please visit https://privacycamp.eu/ -- Imge Ozcan Doctoral Researcher Research Group on Law, Science, Technology & Society (LSTS) Vrije Universiteit Brussel -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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We have clearly seen through its walls how dangerous Facebook really is and that it is absolutely futile to expect it to be of *any positive social use whatsoever*. We (critics) were protected by choosing *not to use it*, but to focus on alternatives instead. Thanks to philosophy and questioning the answers. The fediverse and other (P2P) protocols to connect social media are working. It is getting rid of all the advertising that drives people crazy. It allows for free association, not "recommended" association. It gets rid of central control (and easy surveillance). Anyone who feels like, can run their own instance and *help connect people*. This is what I hoped for and now it is happening. Some may think it goes slow, but perhaps this is an advantage, so we can think about what we're doing and change course if needed. Because code is law. Code determines whether people are all individuals or can also act as a group. Whether people can be consumers or also creators. This is what decentralization makes possible. And with that, we are now changing the system. Let's hope that in our systems, *quality* of life now trumps everything else, so that it can carry free exchange of ideas and become a fertile breeding ground for much more system change. The inflection point came in 2018 and from then on, those who ask to "Follow us on Facebook" were unfortunately making dangerous fools of themselves, not frivolous fools... The medium is the message. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_medium_is_the_message --Gert From geert at xs4all.nl Sat Nov 24 17:28:46 2018 From: geert at xs4all.nl (Geert Lovink) Date: Sat, 24 Nov 2018 17:28:46 +0100 Subject: links Message-ID: <5930CAFB-7F85-4262-9001-4FE3A68E4223@xs4all.nl> The Moral Bankruptcy of Hate Speech on Gab (Facebook and Twitter alternative for alt.right) https://amp.slate.com/technology/2018/10/synagogue-shooter-gab-social-media-hate-speech.html?via=gdpr-consent Facebook?s weapon amid chaos and controversy: misdirection https://techcrunch.com/2018/11/15/chaos-controversy-facebook-fights-misinformation-with-misdirection/ https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-46231284 etc. (there is now too much on Facebook internal chaos) Financial Times critique of Facebook https://www.ft.com/content/041d9b1c-e994-11e8-885c-e64da4c0f98 Robert Reich: Break up Facebook https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2018/nov/20/facebook-google-antitrust-laws-gilded-age Alex Jones on the Downfall of Facebook https://www.infowars.com/exclusive-learn-when-facebook-will-collapse-and-what-comes-next/ /e/, a mobile OS and online-services, in the public interest https://e.foundation/towards-an-e-fairphone Facebook Tracking Exposed https://facebook.tracking.exposed/ -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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Federation* *Mastodon en de Fediverse *https://varia.zone/mastodon-and-fediverse.html* * Op zaterdag 8 december zalWtt?Feen rond-de-tafel gesprek organiseren als algemene introductie over Mastodon en de Fediverse. Hoe werkt het? Wat zijn de onderliggende concepten? Wie heeft het gemaakt? Wat is de geschiedenis erachter? Wat voor soort verschillende gemeenschappen leven er in dit ecosysteem? Wat betekent het om een gemeenschap te hosten? De introductie en het rondetafelgesprek worden gefaciliteerd door een beheerder van een grote Mastodon gemeenschap en een beheerder van een kleine Mastodon gemeenschap. Beiden hebben ook bijgedragen aan het vertalen van Fediverse software. Als onderdeel van deze editie van Wtt?F zullen we ook de middag samen doorbrengen om de documentatie en vertaling van het Mastodon-project te bekijken. Hoe worden open-source projecten vertaald? In welke taal worden projecten gecommuniceerd? Hoe kunnen de technische concepten toegankelijk worden gemaakt voor een groter publiek zonder hun betekenis te verliezen? Als je wilt deelnemen aan deze werksessie, schrijf je dan vooraf in door een korte mail te sturen naar info[at]varia.zone. *Publiek gesprek* /Een algemene inleiding in Mastodon en het Fediverse/ Zaterdag 8 december 2018 20:00u - 21:30u *Werksessie* /Vertaling en documentatie van het Mastodon-project/ Zaterdag 8 december 2018 14:00u - 18:00u Deze bijeenkomst vindt plaats in Varia, Gouwstraat 3 in Rotterdam. Meer informatie kan je vinden op https://varia.zone/wttf/ --- *Welcome to the ? Federation* *Mastodon and the Fediverse *https://varia.zone/en/mastodon-and-fediverse.html* *On the Saturday 8th of December Wtt?F will host an evening roundtable as a general introduction into Mastodon and the Fediverse. How does it work? What are the underlying concepts? Who made it? What has been the history behind it? What kind of different communities inhabit this Fediverse? What does it mean to host such a community? It will be hosted together by an administrator of a large Mastodon community and an administrator of a small Mastodon community. Both are also contributors to the fediverse. As part of this edition of Wtt?F we will also spend the afternoon together to look at the documentation and translation of the Mastodon project. How does the translation of open source projects work? How are projects communicated? How can the technical concepts be made accessible for larger audiences without diluting their significance? If you would like to join the worksession, please register in advance by sending a mail to info[at]varia.zone. *Public conversation** */A general introduction into Mastodon and the Fediverse/ Saturday 8 December 2018 20:00h - 21:30h *Worksession** */Translating and documentation of the Mastodon project/ Saturday 8 December 2018 14:00h - 18:00h This gathering takes place in Varia, Gouwstraat 3 in Rotterdam. 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University and the CAMRI (Communication and Media Research Institute), University of Westminster https://www.umu.se/en/events/critical-digital--social-media-research_7318389/ Keynote speakers: Mark Andrejevic, Christian Fuchs, Kylie Jarrett, Simon Lindgren, Evgeny Morozov, Tiziana Terranova This combined symposium and PhD workshop aims at showing that critical theories, critical methodologies and critical practices are cornerstones of digital and social media research and how they act as tools for questioning big data fetishism and the dominance of overly data-driven analytics. The event, aside from the keynotes, presents an opportunity for PhD students and postdocs to present a short paper and receive feedback from CAMRI and DIGSUM researchers, and prominent international participants. Applications to take part in the conference are accepted on a running basis starting November 29 2018, and the first 16 candidates to be accepted will have their participation (all travels and accommodation) fully funded by DIGSUM and CAMRI.