From tkaczn at unimelb.edu.au  Tue Nov  2 00:15:27 2010
From: tkaczn at unimelb.edu.au (nathaniel tkacz)
Date: Tue, 2 Nov 2010 10:15:27 +1100
Subject: <CPOV> Economies of the Commons 2
Message-ID: <AANLkTikX-f2KO6vRPW_zr=nGbW=3n-w5qx+SecEifAGO@mail.gmail.com>

Hi All - some on this list might be interested in this upcoming event.


A  N  N  O  U  N  C  E  M  E  N  T

Economies of the Commons 2
Paying the costs of making things free

International conference, seminar and public evening programs

Amsterdam & Hilversum
November 11 ? 13, 2010

Economies of the Commons 2  is a critical examination of the economics of
on-line public domain and open access resources of  information, knowledge,
and media (the ?digital commons?).  The past 10 years have seen the rise of
a variety of such open content resources attracting millions of users,
sometimes on a daily basis. The impact of projects such as Wikipedia, Images
of the Future, and Europeana testify to the vibrancy of the new digital
public domain.  No longer left to the exclusive domains of digital
?insiders?, open content resources are rapidly becoming widely used and
highly popular.

While protagonists of open content praise its low-cost accessibility and
collaborative structures, critics claim it undermines the established ?gate
keeping? functions of authors, the academy, and professional institutions
while lacking a reliable business model of its own. Economies  of the
Commons 2 provides a timely and crucial analysis of sustainable economic
models that can promote and safeguard the online public domain. We want to
find out what the new hybrid solutions are for archiving, access and reuse
of on-line content that can both create viable markets and serve the public
interest in a competitive global 21st century information economy.

Economies of the Commons 2 consists of an international seminar on Open
Video hosted by the Netherlands Institute for Sound and Vision on November
11 in Hilversum, a two day international conference and two public evening
programs on November 12 and 13 at De Balie, centre for culture and politics
in Amsterdam. The event builds upon the successful Economies of the Commons
conference organised in April  2008.

Confirmed speakers include:

Charlotte Hess (Syracuse University - Keynote), Ben Moskowitz (Open Video
Alliance), Simona Levi (Free Culture Forum), Bas Savenije (Royal Library The
Hague), Michael Edson (Smithsonian Commons), Yann Moulier Boutang
(Multitudes), Peter B. Kaufman (Intelligent Television), Harry Verwayen
(Europeana), James Boyle (Duke University), Rufus Pollock (Open Knowledge
Foundation), Jeff Ubois (DTN), Sandra Fauconnier (NIMK), Volker Grassmuck
(USP Sao Paulo), Dymitri Kleiner (Telekommunisten), Jaromil (NIMK Artlab),
Marco Sachy (Erasmus University Rotterdam), Nathaniel Tkacz (Melbourne
University), Dolf Veenvliet (Blender), Michael Dale (Open Media for
Wikipedia), Lucie Guibault (University of Amsterdam), a.o.

Organisers:
Images for the Future Consortium / Netherlands Institute for Sound and
Vision / De Balie / Institute of Network Cultures University of Amsterdam,
Department of New Media

For detailed program information check our website:
www.ecommons.eu



Nate Tkacz

School of Culture and Communication
University of Melbourne

Twitter: http://twitter.com/__nate__
Homepage: www.nathanieltkacz.net
Current project: http://networkcultures.org/wpmu/cpov/about-2/
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From Johanna.Niesyto at uni-siegen.de  Wed Nov 10 21:06:38 2010
From: Johanna.Niesyto at uni-siegen.de (Niesyto, Johanna)
Date: Wed, 10 Nov 2010 21:06:38 +0100
Subject: <CPOV> Digital politics: Collective action born in and from the
	Internet
Message-ID: <4109080A6B8F554E9C8EFDCA3DE7500F01AA740D5DF0@MAIL40.uni-siegen.de>



Hi everyone

Mayo and me managed to create a panel at the next ecpr conference on digital politics. We are looking forward to discuss with you!

Bests
Johanna

ps: apologies for cross-posting


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CfP Panel at the 6th ECPR General Conference, 25-27 August 2011 in Reykjavik, Iceland.

Panels: Digital politics: Collective action born in and from the Internet
Section: Internet and Politics: Bridging Current Research and Outlining Future Directions

Panel chairs: Johanna Niesyto, University of Siegen and Mayo Fuster Morell, European University Institute.
Discussant: Sigrid Baringhorst, University of Siegen

So far, political science research has focused on the use of the Internet by collective political actors that had their main operational base in the offline realm. First studies on the Internet and politics mainly concentrated mostly on well-established and traditional actors such public administration and political parties. Then the cope of research widened to include interest groups, NGOs and social movements looking at the impact of the Internet and the type of Internet use carried out by those groups. In particular, given the growing importance of political campaigns and other forms of collective action that are launched and carried out by networks of political actors, that mainly, if not completely operate and mobilize for their issues online, the debate on the Internet and politics could benefit further from considering actors who mainly operation with an online base. Interestingly, the emergence of collective action in online environments apparently follows new forms of action and collaboration that are said to be different from political actors with a mainly offline base. The panel "Digital politics" aims to iniciate a discussion on the main organizational and democratic logic of the collective action born in and from the Internet addressing questions such as: What are the main characteristics of participation in online base collective action? How are boundaries drawn between the individual and the collective in such forms? How can we deal with the dialectics of individualization on one hand and the effects of de-personalization on the other hand that are inscribed in online spaces? How is the online space governed and how does its architecture structure online interaction? Finally, which methods are best suited to analyze the practices and dynamics of collective action online adequately?.

Abstracts with a maximum of 500 words should be upload by 1 February 2011 at the ECPR website: https://www.ecprnet.eu/myecpr/login.asp

You can contact the panel chairs at Mayo Fuster Morell <mayo.fuster at eui.eu> and Johanna Niesyto <johanna.niesyto at uni-siegen.de>.

Further information on the panel at the conference is available at: http://www.ecprnet.eu/conferences/general_conference/Reykjavik/panel_details.asp?panelid=517





From dqamir at bezeqint.net  Mon Nov 29 13:41:04 2010
From: dqamir at bezeqint.net (Dror Kamir)
Date: Mon, 29 Nov 2010 14:41:04 +0200
Subject: <CPOV> BBC Arabic report about the Middle East conflict and
	Wikipedia
Message-ID: <4CF39F60.70507@bezeqint.net>

Hello,

This report is entirely in Arabic, so I suppose most of you won't 
benefit from it, and yet, you never know when a source of information in 
a language you don't understand might come in handy. Besides, yours 
truly pops up in this report twice talking Arabic in a bad accent.
The trigger for this report by BBC Arabic is the workshops organized by 
some Israeli right-wing organizations on how to introduce "Zionist 
edits" into Wikipedia. For the time being, I haven't seen any 
significant influence of these groups. Anyway, I was asked to give my 
five cents about the reflection of the Middle East conflict on 
Wikipedia. A few extra dimes were given by a Palestinian editor. Then 
there is a long interview with an Arabic-speaking Huffington Post 
reporter about how the new media changes the nature of the Middle 
Eastern conflict.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=86vokoQBom0

Dror K