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Tic en italie une photographie 2010
by Mariella Berra Dec. 23, 2010

Dec. 23, 2010

http://www.istat.it/salastampa/comunicati/in_calendario/nuovetec/20101223_0… regalino di Natale Internet e IT in italia 2010 Mes meilleurs voeux mariella

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Re: [nexa] YouTube
by a.dicorinto＠uniroma1.it Dec. 23, 2010

Dec. 23, 2010

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Fwd: [ox-en] cfp: Ethics of Sharing
by Andrea Glorioso Dec. 23, 2010

Dec. 23, 2010

Ricevo e volentieri ridistribuisco. -------- Original Message -------- Subject: [ox-en] cfp: Ethics of Sharing Date: Wed, 22 Dec 2010 12:22:19 +0100 From: Felix Stalder <felix(a)openflows.com> Reply-To: list-en(a)oekonux.org To: Geert Lovink <geert(a)xs4all.nl> Call for Papers International Review of Information Ethics http://www.i-r-i-e.net/ The Ethics of Sharing Call for Papers for Vol. 15 - July 2011 • Deadline for extended abstracts: January 31, 2011 • Notification of acceptance to authors: February 8, 2011 • Deadline for full articles: April 30, 2011 • Publication: July, 2011 Sharing has emerged as one of the core cultural and ethical values native to the networked environment. It is built both into the technical protocols that make up the Internet, and holds together distributed, mediated communities and organizations (even if they try to limit sharing to members inside the organizations). In information ethics, sharing has implicitly been discussed in terms of privacy, intellectual property, secrecy, security and freedom of speech, which together define the social character of the information environment. But recent developments such as WikiLeaks have shown that there is a need to go beyond discussing the legitimacy of access or restrictions. We need to address the motivations and ethical positions that compel people to share information, even at considerable risk to themselves. Has sharing of information a special virtue of the information society? How are choices of sharing or withholding information justified? Is sharing subversive of the new global information regime, or an integral aspect of it? This issue of IRIE brings together contributions towards an ethics of sharing that embeds the technological potentialities in lived social experience. In our understanding, information ethics "deals with ethical questions in the field of digital production and reproduction of phenomena and processes such as the exchange, combination and use of information." The task is both descriptive – helping us understand the contemporary complexities of the ethics of sharing as it emerges from practices across a wide range social and cultural contexts – as well as normative – helping us to address blind-spots and clarifying possible ethical frameworks to address unresolved issues. We seeks submission that might address, without being limited to, issues such as • Sharing of information of different kinds, such technical, social and cultural information • Sharing of resources, such as bandwidth and processing power • Ethics of sharing across different cultures • Values that facilitate sharing • Ethics of Sharing in historical perspectives • Values emerging from environments characterized by pervasive sharing • Subjectivities of sharing • Shifting boundaries between the personal/common • Similarities and differences between the sharing of material and of information resources • Ethical limits of sharing, in regard to other values • Ethical economies of sharing • Economies of sharing vs. economies of exchange • Dangers of sharing We aim at addressing this field from a cross-disciplinary and cross cultural perspective, thus we encourage submission from wide range of research disciplines and from Western and non-Western perspectives. Guest Editors Dr. Felix Stalder <felix.stalder(a)zhdk.ch> Zürich University of the Arts Research project "Media Activism" at the University of Innsbruck Dr. Wolfgang Sützl <wolfgang.suetzl(a)uibk.ac.at> Research Project "Media Activism" at the University of Innsbruck Abstracts and Submissions Potential authors are requested to provide an extended abstract (max. 1,000 words) by January 31, 2011. Abstracts may be submitted in the native language of the author though an English translation of this abstract must be included if the chosen language is not English. IRIE will publish articles in English, French, German, Portuguese or Spanish. The author(s) of contributions in French, Portuguese, or Spanish must nominate at least two potential peer reviewers. Abstracts will be evaluated by the guest editors. The authors will be informed of acceptance or rejection by February 8, 2011. Deadline for the final article (usually ca. 3,000 words or 20,000 characters including blanks) is April 30, 2011.. All submissions will be subject to peer review. Therefore the acceptance of an extended abstract does not imply the publication of the final text by July, 2011, unless the article has passed the peer review. All submissions should be sent by email with ‘IRIE Submission’ in the header to: wolfgang.suetzl(a)uibk.ac.at _________________________________ Web-Site: http://www.oekonux.org/ Organization: http://www.oekonux.de/projekt/ Contact: projekt(a)oekonux.de

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Cable on Italy & ACTA
by Paolo Brini Dec. 23, 2010

Dec. 23, 2010

<http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/us-embassy-cables-documents/176810?CMP=twt_…> Ciao, Paolo

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Join Statement on WikiLeaks
by Paolo Brini Dec. 22, 2010

Dec. 22, 2010

*Joint Statement On Wikileaks* December 21, 2010 -- In light of ongoing developments related to the release of diplomatic cables by the organization Wikileaks, and the publication of information contained in those cables by mainstream news organizations, the United Nations (UN) Special Rapporteur on Freedom of Opinion and Expression and the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR) Special Rapporteur for Freedom of Expression see fit to recall a number of international legal principles. The rapporteurs call upon States and other relevant actors to keep these principles in mind when responding to the aforementioned developments. 1. THE RIGHT TO ACCESS INFORMATION HELD BY PUBLIC AUTHORITIES IS A FUNDAMENTAL HUMAN RIGHT SUBJECT TO A STRICT REGIME OF EXCEPTIONS <http://www.cidh.oas.org/relatoria/showarticle.asp?artID=829&lID=1> (il maiuscolo è mio) Ciao, Paolo

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WikiLeaks exposes Internet's Dissent Tax, not Nerd Supremacy
by Masera Anna Dec. 22, 2010

Dec. 22, 2010

#WikiLeaks<http://twitter.com/#!/search?q=%23WikiLeaks> exposes Internet's Dissent Tax, not Nerd Supremacy http://bit.ly/gDzAfq #Lanier<http://twitter.com/#!/search?q=%23Lanier> #The_Atlantic<http://twitter.com/#!/search?q=%23The_Atlantic> (altra lettura consigliata, questa risposta a Jaron Lanier su The Atlantic, di Zeynep Tufekci, assistant professor of sociology at University of Maryland, Baltimore County. She blogs at technosociology<http://technosociology.org/>) http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2010/12/wikileaks-exposes-int…

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Una risposta ispirata, a Jaron Lanier che ha scritto su The Atlantic vs WikiLeaks (e ha fatto chiudere i commenti...)
by Masera Anna Dec. 22, 2010

Dec. 22, 2010

http://www.gearfuse.com/wikileaks-nirvana-and-the-net-of-indra/

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Jaron Lanier su The Atlantic contro WikiLeaks, sic
by Masera Anna Dec. 22, 2010

Dec. 22, 2010

http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2010/12/the-hazards-of-nerd-s…

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Su Wi-fi e "Ley Sinde"...
by Masera Anna Dec. 22, 2010

Dec. 22, 2010

http://www.lastampa.it/cmstp/rubriche/girata.asp?ID_blog=2&ID_articolo=1116…

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Commons and public domain
by Philippe Aigrain Dec. 22, 2010

Dec. 22, 2010

Using Google ngram tool http://ngrams.googlelabs.com I produced this graph of the comparative use of "commons" and public domain" in Google's digitized books in English from between 1920 and 2000. Two points of notice : - The huge surge of use of the word commons in the 1930s - The fact that since 1985 use of both terms grows in parallel (with a slight advantage for commons). Philippe Aigrain

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