From geert at xs4all.nl  Sun Feb  2 17:58:08 2020
From: geert at xs4all.nl (Geert Lovink)
Date: Sun, 2 Feb 2020 17:58:08 +0100
Subject: <unlike-us> Art Agaist Facebook at 36C3 (via pit)
Message-ID: <9D88A346-5041-478F-BC59-8578E7ED022D@xs4all.nl>

https://media.ccc.de/v/36c3-11178-art_against_facebook <https://media.ccc.de/v/36c3-11178-art_against_facebook>





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From lidia.pmr at gmail.com  Tue Feb 18 13:49:19 2020
From: lidia.pmr at gmail.com (=?UTF-8?Q?L=C3=ADdia_Pereira?=)
Date: Tue, 18 Feb 2020 13:49:19 +0100
Subject: <unlike-us> Announcement: Pervasive Labour Union zine #14 - Special
 Issue: Precademics 85.42.1
Message-ID: <CAL0m4GoGzwBOc3b0Jt04XveaKaZwVwMAobWKkkhfd=0XztScSA@mail.gmail.com>

*Apologies for cross-posting*

The newest special issue of the Pervasive Labour Union zine
<https://ilu.servus.at/> issue is finally out! This issue, prepared by the
collective Precademics 85.42.1, brings experiences of precarity in Greek
academia to the fore.

"This is an attention-seeking act of Greek academic unions to make public
and visible the precarious conditions they find themselves in. Far from
being an academic aporia by our Greek colleagues, this is the past and
future of academia itself." Leandros Kyriakopoulos

You can consult it here (also available as .pdf):
https://ilu.servus.at/category/14-special-issue-precademics-85421.html
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From davies at stanford.edu  Thu Feb 20 19:49:43 2020
From: davies at stanford.edu (Todd Davies)
Date: Thu, 20 Feb 2020 18:49:43 +0000
Subject: <unlike-us> A Corporation for Public Software?
In-Reply-To: <BY5PR02MB62425E4D7D595B5BCC010BFDBB130@BY5PR02MB6242.namprd02.prod.outlook.com>
References: <BY5PR02MB6242743D2F09F54C98903022BB130@BY5PR02MB6242.namprd02.prod.outlook.com>,
	<BY5PR02MB62425E4D7D595B5BCC010BFDBB130@BY5PR02MB6242.namprd02.prod.outlook.com>
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Hi, everyone,

An article I co-wrote with John Gastil of Penn State -- arguing for the creation of a Corporation for Public Software and its possible applications for enhancing democracy -- is now out in the new ACM journal Digital Government: Research and Practice (DGOV):

Digital Democracy: Episode IV?A New Hope*: How a Corporation for Public Software Could Transform Digital Engagement for Government and Civil Society<https://doi.org/10.1145/3342194>

Preprints of this paper came out in October on arXiv<https://arxiv.org/abs/1910.08604> and MediArXiv,<https://mediarxiv.org/2ch7x> and another article<https://knightcolumbia.org/content/the-case-for-digital-public-infrastructure> by Ethan Zuckerman with similar ideas on the funding side, although emphasizing a different set of possible applications, was published last month by the Knight First Amendment Institute at Columbia.

We are currently working with the Digital Civil Society Lab at Stanford to take some next steps in exploring this idea with policy makers, funders, and civil society representatives. Let me know if you are interested in and able to contribute to work in this area in any way, so I can add you to our list.


Todd Davies  (he/him or they/them)

email: davies at stanford.edu

web: web.stanford.edu/~davies<https://web.stanford.edu/~davies>


January 3 - March 29, 2020:

Stanford House

65 High Street

Oxford OX1 4EL UK

phone: +44 (0)1865 253105


after March 29, 2020:

Symbolic Systems Program
Stanford University
Stanford, CA, 94305-2150 USA

phone: +1 650 723 4091

office: 460-040C
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From sguerses at esat.kuleuven.be  Fri Feb 21 14:17:57 2020
From: sguerses at esat.kuleuven.be (Seda Guerses)
Date: Fri, 21 Feb 2020 14:17:57 +0100
Subject: <unlike-us> 3rd Obfuscation Workshop: Call for Submissions and
 Participation, TU Delft, The Netherlands (Registration now open)
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References: <mailman.5.1582282802.10239.unlike-us_listcultures.org@listcultures.org>
Message-ID: <1A05723C-330B-49CB-8F1E-6E2E7D6B1A16@esat.kuleuven.be>

Hi everyone, hope you consider submitting to or joining us at the upcoming workshop on obfuscation.
Best,
Seda


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Call for participation: 3rd Workshop on Obfuscation
May 11-12, 2020. Delft, The Netherlands
http://www.obfuscationworkshop.org
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The 3rd Workshop on Obfuscation (WO2020)
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Obfuscation strategies in the digital domain offer creative ways to evade surveillance, protect privacy, improve security by adding, rather than concealing data, with the intention of making data more ambiguous and difficult to exploit. As the digital expands into the physical, the human and the non-human, we find obfuscation also in decision-making, moral choices, coalition-making and novel forms of resistance to the increasing use of optimization in managing our every day lives.

The aim of this workshop is to foster interaction among diverse communities of research and practice interested in obfuscation. In previous sessions, the workshop focused on obfuscation as the art and science of privacy protection in contexts where actions are being monitored and analyzed by humans, organizations, or information technologies. With this new workshop we aspire to broaden the scope to think of other ways in which obfuscation may (or may not) come to serve people in situations of power asymmetries. We especially would like to include topics like adversarial machine learning, protective optimization technologies (POTs), as well as obfuscation in behavioral decision-making contexts by humans and artificial agents.

This interdisciplinary workshop convenes researchers, scientists, policy makers, developers, journalists, activists, artists and other interested parties to discuss a broad range of approaches to obfuscation, including tools, simulations and experimental methods for people to obfuscate themselves and their environments in asymmetries of power and information.

Participation guidelines
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WO2020 welcomes two types of participation:

-  With submission:
	?* A 2-page position paper on work in progress (references not included in the page limit) OR
	?* A 1-page description of an interesting use case to be discussed at the symposium (this may be an academic or policy/practice-based case) OR
	?* A 2-page description of a demo, exhibit, art project (in any media) or journalistic piece relevant to the topic of obfuscation OR
	?* A 1-page description of hands-on workshops or other interactive formats focusing on obfuscation


	Papers must be written in English. Participants are encouraged to submit their proposals in PDF.  Submission site is already open at https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=wo2020
	Submissions will be peer-reviewed by the workshop?s Organizing Committee and accepted based on relevance and potential to contribute to workshop discussions and goals. 
	Please note that those with accepted proposals are still required to register for the workshop.

- Without submission:
	If you?re interested in attending without a submission, please note that we have a limited number of seats which will be distributed on a first come first serve basis.
	Registration will open on the 20th of February. Please visit the website for the details of the registration process.

For further details on submissions, registration, location and available funding please visit the workshop's website at obfuscationworkshop.org


Important Dates
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- Registration: https://www.obfuscationworkshop.org/wo2020registration/
- Submissions due: March 6, 2020
- Notifications: March 20, 2020
- Workshop: May 11-12

Organizing committee
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Ero Balsa (KU Leuven)
Caspar Chorus (Delft University of Technology)
Seda G?rses (Delft University of Technology)
Helen Nissenbaum (Cornell Tech)

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From douglas at publicsphereproject.org  Mon Feb 24 22:00:14 2020
From: douglas at publicsphereproject.org (Doug Schuler)
Date: Mon, 24 Feb 2020 13:00:14 -0800
Subject: <unlike-us> new article in Digital Government: Can Technology
 Support Democracy?
Message-ID: <CACt_=dLSeZcN=nY88_U6DhYiaYc7oSDmS=d4svRFCZg95Vo5Aw@mail.gmail.com>

Like my friend Todd whose email lists match mine to a large degree, I have
an article in the  new journal on Digital Government:

Can Technology Support Democracy?
https://dl.acm.org/doi/abs/10.1145/3352462

From: Digital Government: Research and Practice (DGOV). Volume 1, issue 1.
January 2020
https://dl.acm.org/toc/dgov/2020/1/1

One of my main points is that "The primary aim of technology in the service
of democracy is not merely to make it easier or more convenient but to
improve society's *civic intelligence*, its ability to address the problems
it faces effectively and equitably."

I suggest that technology can play a role but doing so is not trivial.

As with the article that Todd and John Gastil wrote there I provide several
recommendations. In addition to supporting their proposal my article
recommends re-opening an Office of Technology Assessment to advise the U.S.
congress and my idea of a World Citizen Parliament
<https://interactions.acm.org/archive/view/may-june-2013/creating-the-world-citizen-parliament>,
which is admittedly a utopian idea and somewhat of a thought experiment.

A couple of quotes from my article warns the potential reader where I'm
coming from...

"Weaving technology and democracy together is risky, and technologists who
begin any digital project with the conviction that technology can and will
solve ?problems? of democracy are likely to be disappointed. Technology can
be a boon to democracy if it is informed technology. "

"The goal in writing this essay was to encourage people to help develop and
cultivate a rich democratic sphere. Democracy has great potential that it
rarely achieves. It is radical, critical, complex, and fragile. It takes
different forms in different contexts. These forms are complex and the
solutionism promoted by the computer industry and others is not appropriate
in the case of democracies."

Hopefully this is of interest. Please feel free to get back to me on this!

Thanks!

? Doug


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

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