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Educational Mashup - Wikipedia e Creative Commons: la rivoluzione del sapere
by Giuseppe Futia Feb. 6, 2012

Feb. 6, 2012

*Giovedì 9 febbraio 2012* *Ore 14.30-17.30* *Auditorium ITI Ettore Majorana* *Via Cantore, 119 - Grugliasco (TO)* L'ITI Majorana <http://www.itismajo.it/default.aspx> e l' associazione Dschola <http://www.associazionedschola.it/default.htm>, in collaborazione con Wikimedia Italia <http://www.wikimedia.it/index.php/Pagina_principale>, Centro NEXA su Internet & Società <http://nexa.polito.it/> e CSP <http://www.csp.it/> promuovono un seminario di approfondimento su Wikipedia e sulle licenze Creative Commons per la creazione e la condivisione di risorse didattiche aperte. Il seminario è gratuito e rientra nelle manifestazioni per la celebrazione del Public Domain Day 2012 <http://publicdomainday.org/>. Ai partecipanti sarà rilasciato l'attestato di partecipazione. Per ulteriori informazioni è possibile consultare il programma <http://www.associazionedschola.it/edumashup/Default.aspx> e il volantino <http://publicdomainday.org/sites/publicdomainday.org/files/edu-mashup.pdf> dell'iniziativa.

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The Death of the Cyberflâneur
by bernardo parrella Feb. 5, 2012

Feb. 5, 2012

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/02/05/opinion/sunday/the-death-of-the-cyberflan… (by Evgeny Morozov) Transcending its original playful identity, [the Internet] is no longer a place for strolling --- it's a place for getting things done. Hardly anyone "surfs" the Web anymore. The popularity of the "app paradigm," whereby dedicated mobile and tablet applications help us accomplish what we want without ever opening the browser or visiting the rest of the Internet, has made cyberflânerie less likely. That so much of today's online activity revolves around shopping --- for virtual presents, for virtual pets, for virtual presents for virtual pets --- hasn't helped either. Strolling through Groupon isn't as much fun as strolling through an arcade, online or off. THE tempo of today's Web is different as well. A decade ago, a concept like the "real-time Web," in which our every tweet and status update is instantaneously indexed, updated and responded to, was unthinkable. Today, it's Silicon Valley's favorite buzzword. .... In a way, we have all become such sandwich board men, walking the cyber-streets of Facebook with invisible advertisements hanging off our online selves. The only difference is that the digital nature of information has allowed us to merrily consume songs, films and books even as we advertise them, obliviously. full article: http://www.nytimes.com/2012/02/05/opinion/sunday/the-death-of-the-cyberflan…

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Comunicazione pubblica online in Italia
by Daria Santucci Feb. 3, 2012

Feb. 3, 2012

Care/i tutte/i, seguo sempre con interesse la ML e vi ringrazio per gli interessantissimi spunti che condividete. Vi scrivo, in questa occasione, poiché sto lavorando a un report di inquadramento sulla comunicazione pubblica online in Italia. Mio obiettivo - in questa fase - è raccogliere informazioni generali (seguiranno poi ulteriori sviluppi). Sono dunque a domandarvi cortesemente se avete segnalazioni su: - dati sull'utilizzo del web nella PA (inclusi social media) - più recenti novità normative di riferimento - best practices innovative (in particolare buone prassi di e-participation) che ritenete di particolare rilevanza. Vi ringrazio e vi auguro un'ottima giornata, Daria -- Daria Santucci, Ph.D. Professor of Web Communication Semiotics Communications Professional Journalist +39 347 2512926 www.vitaminapubblica.org www.progetto-rena.it/author/daria_santucci<http://www.vitaminapubblica.org/>

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recensioni libro Rebecca McKinnon
by bernardo parrella Feb. 3, 2012

Feb. 3, 2012

Nuovo libro sulla battaglia globale per la libertà di Internet http://it.globalvoicesonline.org/2012/02/nuovo-libro-sulla-lotta-globale-pe… New Book on Global Struggle for Internet Freedom http://advocacy.globalvoicesonline.org/2012/02/02/new-book-on-global-strugg…

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Fwd: [IP] Do you like online privacy? FBI/DOJ think you may be a terrorist if you say yes!
by J.C. DE MARTIN Feb. 2, 2012

Feb. 2, 2012

-------- Original Message -------- Subject: [IP] Do you like online privacy? FBI/DOJ think you may be a terrorist if you say yes! Date: Thu, 2 Feb 2012 14:14:30 -0500 From: Dave Farber <dave(a)farber.net> Reply-To: dave(a)farber.net To: ip <ip(a)listbox.com> ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: *Lauren Weinstein* <lauren(a)vortex.com <mailto:lauren@vortex.com>> Date: Thu, Feb 2, 2012 at 1:12 PM Subject: [ NNSquad ] Do you like online privacy? FBI/DOJ think you may be a terrorist if you say yes! To: nnsquad(a)nnsquad.org <mailto:nnsquad@nnsquad.org> Do you like online privacy? FBI/DOJ think you may be a terrorist if you say yes! http://j.mp/ABtmo9 (public intelligence) "A flyer designed by the FBI and the Department of Justice to promote suspicious activity reporting in internet cafes lists basic tools used for online privacy as potential signs of terrorist activity. The document, part of a program called "Communities Against Terrorism", lists the use of "anonymizers, portals, or other means to shield IP address" as a sign that a person could be engaged in or supporting terrorist activity. The use of encryption is also listed as a suspicious activity along with steganography, the practice of using "software to hide encrypted data in digital photos" or other media. In fact, the flyer recommends that anyone "overly concerned about privacy" or attempting to "shield the screen from view of others" should be considered suspicious and potentially engaged in terrorist activities." - - - --Lauren-- Lauren Weinstein (lauren(a)vortex.com <mailto:lauren@vortex.com>): http://www.vortex.com/lauren Co-Founder: People For Internet Responsibility: http://www.pfir.org Founder: - Network Neutrality Squad: http://www.nnsquad.org - Global Coalition for Transparent Internet Performance: http://www.gctip.org - PRIVACY Forum: http://www.vortex.com Member: ACM Committee on Computers and Public Policy Blog: http://lauren.vortex.com Google+: http://vortex.com/g+lauren Twitter: https://twitter.com/laurenweinstein Tel: +1 (818) 225-2800 <tel:%2B1%20%28818%29%20225-2800> / Skype: vortex.com <http://vortex.com> _______________________________________________ nnsquad mailing list http://lists.nnsquad.org/mailman/listinfo/nnsquad Archives <https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/247/=now> <https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/rss/247/14798382-eb93fc78> | Modify <https://www.listbox.com/member/?member_id=14798382&id_secret=14798382-58a8a…> Your Subscription | Unsubscribe Now <https://www.listbox.com/unsubscribe/?member_id=14798382&id_secret=14798382-…> [Powered by Listbox] <http://www.listbox.com>

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Rodotà: "DAI RICORDI AI DATI L' OBLIO È UN DIRITTO?
by J.C. DE MARTIN Feb. 2, 2012

Feb. 2, 2012

Sul tema dell'oblio, segnalo il recente articolo di Stefano Rodotà su la Repubblica. Notate che sul sito di Repubblica (v. link sotto), evidentemente per una svista o malfunzionamento, l'articolo appare monco della sua prima parte (parecchie frasi!) juan carlos DAI RICORDI AI DATI L' OBLIO È UN DIRITTO? 30 gennaio 2012 --- pagina 50 sezione: CULTURA ***** MANCA LA PRIMA PARTE **** * di "rendere silenzioso" il chip grazie al quale si raccolgono i dati personali. La cancellazione della memoria, l' oblio forzato sono antiche tecniche sociali. A Roma, per i condannati per fatti gravissimi, v' era la damnatio memoriae, l' eliminazione d' ogni traccia che potesse mantenerne il ricordo: scomparso il nome dalle iscrizioni, distrutte le immagini e le statue. In Francia, nel 1598, dopo una stagione di guerre laceranti, l' Editto di Nantes stabilì "che la memoria di tutte le cose accadute da una parte e dall' altra, dall' inizio del mese di marzo 1585 fino al nostro avvento al trono, rimanga spenta e assopita come di cosa non avvenuta. Vietiamo a tutti i nostri sudditi, di qualunque ceto e qualità siano, di rinnovarne la memoria". Solo la liberazione dalle tossine del ricordo poteva consentire il ritorno alla normalità sociale. [...] Continua qui: http://ricerca.repubblica.it/repubblica/archivio/repubblica/2012/01/30/dai-…

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Call for Papers for the 2012 ISHTIP workshop
by aura.bertoni＠unibocconi.it Feb. 2, 2012

Feb. 2, 2012

Buongiorno a tutti, inoltro questo call for papers di possibile interesse per gli iscritti alla lista NEXA. Aura *********************** *Call for Papers Intellectual Property as Cultural Technology *Fourth Annual Workshop of the*International Society for the History and Theory of Intellectual Property (ISHTIP) *London School of Economics 25-26 June 2012 Intellectual property rights are generally supposed to function as means of stimulating and diffusing cultural production. This instrumentalist understanding of how intellectual property works as a cultural technology has survived for more than two centuries; it has been amplified and refined by a long tradition of economic analysis and economic history, and it has now been retrenched as the basic premise of contemporary debates about public domains, digital commons, and the expansion of corporate semiotic power. How plausible or illuminating is this pervasive representation of the agency of intellectual property rights? There are some familiar ways of testing this representation. Lawyers and economists ask whether patent laws work as they should in the domains of, for example, software or biomedical innovation, they speculate as to the reasons why creativity in the fashion industry seems to flourish in a 'negative space' (a domain unframed by copyright law), and they ask how formal intellectual property rights work with 'social norms'. But these lines of inquiry still reduce culture to what can be rendered in terms of scarcity, efficiency, and instrumentality. The theme of this workshop seeks to elicit alternative approaches to the cultural implications of intellectual property and cultural property laws. A rubric that turns on the terms 'culture' and 'technology' can only be open-ended, but the following questions might be taken as a rough starting point for reflection: (1) How might we understand the implication of different forms of intellectual or cultural property in economic, political, aesthetic, or scientific cultures? How might we schematize the 'functions' or 'effects' of intellectual property law in terms other than those of instrumentality, efficiency, or repressive power? (2) Do intellectual property regimes themselves have specific cultures? Here, ethnographic, historical, or sociological analyses might reveal the specific practices, techniques and media that condition the existence and effects of intellectual property forms. (3) Might we understand intellectual property as a mode of cultural creativity in its own right? Intellectual property law has evolved a complex set of fictions, semantic artifacts, themes, and figures that have an existence in broader cultural life, not just as agents of encouragement or constraint, but as conceptual resources that have shaped the discursive fields of various social cultures. Somewhat more abstractly, regimes of intellectual property have turned the improbable notion of 'intangible property', or of 'intangible things', into common currency. So, instead of seeing legal forms as secondary ratifications of cultural figures, might we instead explore intellectual property law's own cultural intelligence and authorship? We invite contributions from established and doctoral scholars working in the broad field of the humanities and the social sciences, including anthropology, economic history, history of science, media studies, literary theory, science studies, and critical theory, as well as legal history and legal theory. Papers selected for presentation at the workshop will be circulated in advance to registered participants. A maximum length of 9,000 words is recommended. Abstracts of proposed papers (together with a brief author bio) should be submitted by*1 March 2012*. *Important dates *Submission of proposal (abstract and bio):*1 March 2012 *Notification of acceptance:*31 March 2012 *Submission of paper:*1 June 2012 *Workshop:*25-26 June 2012 Contacts *For information and program updates visit the ISHTIP website at: _http://www.ishtip.org _Please also visit the 2012 LSE workshop website at: _http://www.lse.ac.uk/collections/law/IPconference.htm _Abstracts and author bios can be submitted to any of the following for circulation among the Program Committee: Alain Pottage -- r.a.pottage(a)lse.ac.uk Tatiana Flessas -- t.flessas(a)lse.ac.uk Dev Gangjee -- d.gangjee(a)lse.ac.uk Aura Bertoni Bocconi University Department of Law Via Roentgen 1 20136 Milan Italy +39 02 5836 5581

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Maintain. Hardline. Kopimi.
by Paolo Brini Feb. 1, 2012

Feb. 1, 2012

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