From arne at zeromail.org  Fri Oct 11 18:45:10 2019
From: arne at zeromail.org (arne at zeromail.org)
Date: Fri, 11 Oct 2019 16:45:10 +0000
Subject: <unlike-us> Civic Participation in the Datafied Society,
 28-29 May 2020, Cardiff, UK
Message-ID: <20191011164510.Horde.AgcieX00AFRrM-twDUEbmaS@webmail.zeromail.org>

Civic Participation in the Datafied Society

Date: May 28-29, 2020
Location: Cardiff University in Cardiff, UK.
Host: Data Justice Lab

As the generation, collection and analysis of data continues to  
transform key aspects of our society across economics, politics and  
culture, the question of participation has rarely been so pertinent.  
Democratic processes and traditional avenues for participation are  
facing challenges as state-citizen relations are increasingly shaped  
through data analytics and automation at the same time as alternative  
visions for participatory democracy and decision-making have  
proliferated. As citizens, we are said to be both coerced and active  
participants in this shift, both liberated and exploited in the use of  
digital tools, both more visible and more obscured in data-driven  
systems. How, then, should we understand civic participation in the  
datafied society? In what ways are we positioned as citizens in the  
advancement of datafication? How are decisions made, governance  
carried out, and systems created? What possibilities exist to  
intervene in, influence, create and resist power? Who gets to  
participate and on what terms? How might our institutions and  
government practices need to change? What are strategies for  
democratising the emergent datafied society? And what are avenues for  
enhancing citizen and community participation?

This two-day event explores the relationship between datafication and  
participation. Hosted by the Data Justice Lab at Cardiff University?s  
School of Journalism, Media and Culture (JOMEC), it will bring  
together international scholars, practitioners, activists, and  
community groups to discuss the possibilities and challenges of civic  
participation in a datafied society. Speakers include:

Carly Kind (Ada Lovelace Institute)
Mark Andrejevic (Monash University, Australia)
Nanjira Sambuli (World Wide Web Foundation)
Natalie Fenton (Goldsmiths, University of London, UK)
Rashida Richardson (AI Now)
Tawana Petty (Detroit Digital Justice Coalition)

The conference will include both scholarly contributions and workshops  
with civil society, practitioners and impacted communities in order to  
facilitate and advance knowledge exchange. We therefore welcome  
alternative formats and ideas. Themes for submissions include (but are  
not limited to):

- Citizen juries, assemblies and audits
- Participatory data governance and oversight
- Data commons and co-operatives
- Data activism and resistance
- Participatory design and design justice
- Digital and human labour in data
- Participation, exploitation and coercion
- Geopolitics of participation


Submissions

Deadline for 500-word abstracts: 15th of December, 2019
Submit via EasyChair: https://easychair.org/my/conference?conf=datajustice2020

All submissions must include a title, author name(s), institutional  
affiliation(s) and full contact information (mailing address, email  
address). If you propose a workshop or practical demonstration, please  
provide a clear statement of purpose and a detailed description of  
activities, as well as any infrastructure requirements. Please note  
that time-slots for sessions are 90 minutes. If more is needed, please  
include an explanation.


How to get there

Cardiff is a 2-hour train journey west of London and Heathrow airport.  
The closest airports are Cardiff and Bristol.


Conference fee

Full fee: ?75 (early bird) / ?100
Reduced fee for students and civil society: ?50 (early bird) / ?75

Conference organizing committee: Lina Dencik, Arne Hintz, Joanna  
Redden and Emiliano Trer? (Data Justice Lab, Cardiff University, UK)

For information about the Data Justice Lab, see: http://www.datajusticelab.org
Online CfP: https://datajusticelab.org/data-justice-2020/
Hashtag: #DataJustice2020
Contact for further information: https://datajusticelab.org/contact/



From douglas at publicsphereproject.org  Thu Oct 17 03:54:13 2019
From: douglas at publicsphereproject.org (Doug Schuler)
Date: Wed, 16 Oct 2019 18:54:13 -0700
Subject: <unlike-us> =?utf-8?b?Q2ZQIOKAlCBzcGVjaWFsIGlzc3VlIG9uIOKAnEFJ?=
	=?utf-8?q?_and_its_Discontents=E2=80=9D?=
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CfP for upcoming special issue on AI and its Discontents....  Feel free to
forward.

Thanks!

Artificial Intelligence and its Discontents

Call for Papers for a special issue of Interdisciplinary Science Reviews

Guest Editor: Colin Shunryu Garvey, Fellow, Human-Centered AI Institute,
Center for International Security & Cooperation, Stanford University

Journal Editor: Willard McCarty, Professor emeritus, Dept. of Digital
Humanities, King?s College

This is increasingly the Age of AI. Artificial Intelligence, the suite of
technologies that make machines capable of performing tasks considered
?intelligent? when performed by people, is colonizing an increasing number
of domains, from Internet search and social media to the natural sciences
and even criminal sentencing. AI may soon become ubiquitous; coextensive
with civilization itself, a taken-for-granted feature of modernity like
electricity or running water.

But this does not mean that all is well: AI has, and has always had, its
discontents; those who doubt, question, challenge, reject, reform and
otherwise reprise ?AI? as it is practiced and promoted. With the hope of
scaffolding deeper understandings of both the epochal transformations being
wrought by AI technologies and the range of responses these changes, this
special issue of Interdisciplinary Science Reviews will bring together
reflections from practitioners, assessments from scientists in fields
transformed by AI, and historically-informed accounts of AI and its
critics, both past and present, in order to capture something of the
significance of this historical moment for future generations.

A few questions worth pondering might be:

   -

   Who are AI?s discontents and how have they contended with the
   technology?s advance?
   -

   How has AI been challenged in areas from scientific knowledge production
   to daily life?
   -

   What is being left out of the increasingly dominant ?machine learning?
   paradigm, and why?
   -

   Where is the line drawn between ?AI? and everything else, and who
   patrols that boundary?
   -

   Why has criticism been regarded differently in AI than in other
   technosciences?

   Contributions can range in length from reflective contributions of only
   a few pages to full research articles (maximum of 8000 words including
   citations and references, in most cases). The deadline for
abstracts is November
   15, 2019. Final papers will be collected January 15, 2020. The issue
   will be finalized by mid-March and sent to press for a projected June
   2020 release.

   Please contact Colin Shunryu Garvey with any questions or proposals:
   shunryu at stanford.edu



-- 
Douglas Schuler
douglas at publicsphereproject.org
Twitter: @doug_schuler

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From christian.fuchs at uti.at  Mon Oct 21 12:29:25 2019
From: christian.fuchs at uti.at (Christian Fuchs)
Date: Mon, 21 Oct 2019 11:29:25 +0100
Subject: <unlike-us> Christian Fuchs - new book: Nationalism on the
 Internet: Critical Theory and Ideology in the Age of Social Media and Fake
 News
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Christian Fuchs. 2020. Nationalism on the Internet: Critical Theory and 
Ideology in the Age of Social Media and Fake News. New York: Routledge.

http://fuchs.uti.at/books/nationalism-on-the-internet/
(including reading sample/introduction)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y25je5XtUcQ

In this timely book, critical theorist Christian Fuchs asks: What is 
nationalism and what is the role of social media in the communication of 
nationalist ideology?

Advancing an applied Marxist theory of nationalism, Fuchs explores 
nationalist discourse in the world of contemporary digital capitalism 
that is shaped by social media, big data, fake news, targeted 
advertising, bots, algorithmic politics, and a high-speed online 
attention economy.

The book develops a critical theory of nationalism that is grounded in 
the works of Karl Marx, Rosa Luxemburg, and Eric J. Hobsbawm.




From xdxd.vs.xdxd at gmail.com  Mon Oct 21 14:55:42 2019
From: xdxd.vs.xdxd at gmail.com (xDxD.vs.xDxD)
Date: Mon, 21 Oct 2019 14:55:42 +0200
Subject: <unlike-us> Datapoiesis Fall School in Ivrea, Italy
Message-ID: <CAJ=DDhqg=G+4DaoyEVz4Q-EDD2FW3XehuMbbspVO6nQMdSKeXA@mail.gmail.com>

Dear friends and colleagues,

please excuse me for any crosspostings, we're getting ready for a very
important thing for us: the Datapoiesis Fall School in November 25-30 2019
at the ex Olivetti factories in Ivrea, Italy.

https://datapoiesis.com/home/?page_id=225

"Datapoiesis" is a neologism: it points in the direction of the fact that
data (and the computation needed to process it) can bring into existence
"things" that did not exist before.

Probably the only way in which we can gather understandings about the
planet's complex phenomena (climate change, migrations, markets, energy,
health...) is through enormous amounts of data.

But these data are, most of the time, very far from us, living in the
separation of data centers, in the spectacularization of dataviz, or at the
center of the seriously extractive processes performed by the current data
industry.

Datapoiesis explores the possibility to transform these dynamics. In
Datapoietic processes, we use art and design to create objects and artworks
which are the embodiment of science/tech/art collaborations aimed at using
data to approach complex phenomena.

These objects are totemic, meaning that they are designed to be places
around which people can gather for discussion, collaboration, solidarity
and participatory action, describing neo-rituals for public space, homes,
schools, offices, hospitals etc, in which data and computation become the
occasion for augmented, performative sensibility to the world's complex
issues, individually and as communities, organizations, institutions.

The first object explicitly created to trigger the Datapoiesis phenomenon,
named "Obiettivo", deals with the conditions of extreme poverty and uses
data from the UN, World Bank, OECD. It also questions all of these data
sources, and the strategic, ideological and geopolitical implications of
the ways in which these data are collected, interpreted and represented.
For example, among the data-rituals which we promote around the artwork, is
the possibility to create other copies of it, in which poverty is measured
in different ways, or regarding different territories, etc, to enable forms
of understandings and awareness that are highly enhanced.

After being presented in May 2019, Obiettivo was acquired by the
contemporary art collection of the Farnesina, Italy's Ministry of Foreign
Affairs and Cooperation, as an example of "diplomacy through art".

In the Datapoiesis Fall School, we will bring these concepts to Ivrea,
inside Olivetti's ex-factories.

Olivetti is Italy's best historically known example of the ways in which
business can co-exist together with a positive social and community impact.
Furthermore, Olivetti had really interesting strategic intersections with
art and design, focused towards these goals. Currently, a series of
entrepreneurs are restoring Olivetti's ex-factories to explore the forms in
which contemporary businesses can welcome these social and community
impacts within their strategies.

The first project which will inhabit these factories is Datapoiesis,
promoting a new model for the data and computation industry which is not
extractive, but, rather, aimed at creating rich relational ecosystems which
are able to promote and support people's and communities' rights, freedoms
and well being.

During the Datapoiesis Fall School, people will come together from a
variety of different disciplines to understand what form could be assumed
by an organization that "does Datapoiesis for a living". What is its legal
form? What is its business/sustainability model? What materials, forms of
energy, technologies does it use? What is its process? What kind of
products/services/experiences does it produce? What approaches does it use
to preserve people's rights and freedoms in relation to data, AI biases,
data and AI opacity ..., and to enable people and communities to decide how
their data is used?

We will also design Obiettivo's next step: the first line of datapoietic
objects, which will form a permanent exhibit in the spaces of Olivetti's
factories.

The people who will participate to the Fall School will also be the first
in line, if they want, to be taken into consideration for joining the
Datapoiesis organization, which will form in the beginning of 2020.

The Fall School is free: you only need to come to Ivrea and pay for your
accomodation and food.

Feel free to contact me or the team for any further information.

https://datapoiesis.com/home/?page_id=225

Thank you very much
Best wishes
Salvatore Iaconesi
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From gertml at xs4all.nl  Thu Oct 24 12:37:16 2019
From: gertml at xs4all.nl (gertml)
Date: Thu, 24 Oct 2019 12:37:16 +0200
Subject: <unlike-us> Mark Zuckerberg is a threat to democracy.
Message-ID: <cee949ca0b7020fb80c7374be672202f@xs4all.nl>

Mark Zuckerberg is a threat to democracy.
https://twitter.com/chrisinsilico/status/1187136631888842752




From christian.fuchs at uti.at  Mon Oct 28 12:23:35 2019
From: christian.fuchs at uti.at (Christian Fuchs)
Date: Mon, 28 Oct 2019 11:23:35 +0000
Subject: <unlike-us> Rereading Marx in the Age of Digital Capitalism
Message-ID: <087b626d-9129-b66c-f465-56778fb35069@uti.at>

Fuchs, Christian. 2019. Rereading Marx in the Age of Digital Capitalism. 
London: Pluto Press.

Introduction:
http://fuchs.uti.at/books/rereading-marx-in-the-age-of-digital-capitalism/
Video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=32YXLWXaHMY&feature=youtu.be

"Fuchs rereads Marx in the present, in that tangle of explosive 
contradictions, indicating with clarity and force the necessary path of 
theoretical militancy today"
? Antonio Negri, author of ?Political Descartes: Reason, Ideology and 
the Bourgeois Project?

?Christian Fuchs is the world?s foremost Marxist analyst of contemporary 
capitalist media"
- Jodi Dean, author of ?The Communist Horizon?

The ?end of history? has not taken place. Ideological andeconomic crisis 
and the status quo of neoliberal capitalism since 2008 demand a renewed 
engagement with Marx. But if we are to effectively resist capitalism we 
must truly understand Marx: Marxism today must theorise how 
communication technologies, media representation and digitalisation have 
come to define contemporary capitalism. There is an urgent need for 
critical, Marxian-inspired knowledge as a foundation for changing the 
world and the way we communicate from digital capitalism towards 
communicative socialism and digital communism.
"Rereading Marx in the Age of Digital Capitalism" does exactly this. 
Delving into Marx?s most influential works, such as Capital, The 
Grundrisse, Economic and Philosophic Manuscripts, The German Ideology 
and The Communist Manifesto, Christian Fuchs draws out Marx?s concepts 
of machinery, technology, communication and ideology, all of which 
anticipate major themes of the digital age.
A concise and coherent work of Marxist media and communication theory, 
the book ultimately demonstrates the relevance of Marx to an age of 
digital and communicative capitalism.

Table of Contents
1. Introduction: Rereading Marx in the Age of Digital Capitalism
2. Rereading Marx?s ?Capital? in the Information Age
3. Rereading Marx as Critical Sociologist of Technology
4. Rereading Marx as Critical Theorist of Communication
5. Rereading Marx in the Age of Digital Capitalism: The Case of Industry 
4.0 and the Industrial Internet as the Digital German Ideology
6. Rereading Marx in the Age of Digital Capitalism: Reflections on 
Michael Hardt and Antonio Negri?s Book ?Assembly?
7. Conclusion






From gertml at xs4all.nl  Thu Oct 31 00:02:22 2019
From: gertml at xs4all.nl (gertml)
Date: Thu, 31 Oct 2019 00:02:22 +0100
Subject: <unlike-us> =?utf-8?q?Facebook_agrees_to_pay_=C2=A3500=2C000_fin?=
 =?utf-8?q?e_over_Cambridge_Analytica_=7C_ZDNet?=
Message-ID: <e648b05bc3ce23a24a2075b00d3e8da2@xs4all.nl>

Facebook agrees to pay ?500,000 fine over Cambridge Analytica | ZDNet
https://www.zdnet.com/article/facebook-agrees-to-pay-500000-fine-over-cambridge-analytica/