October 2017 - nexa - server-nexa.polito.it

Re: [nexa] Tufekci (NYT): "Zuckerberg’s Preposterous Defense of Facebook"

by M. Fioretti

On 2017-10-02 09:48, J.C. DE MARTIN wrote: > ZUCKERBERG’S PREPOSTEROUS DEFENSE OF FACEBOOK > ... > This doesn’t hold water at all. è il bello è che, oltre a non reggersi in piedi da solo, quel discorso è arrivato solo pochi giorni prima quest'altro bell'annuncio: http://stop.zona-m.net/2017/09/facebook-and-google-forcing-countries-to-tru… -- http://mfioretti.com

Oct. 2, 2017

Amazon's Echo Spot is a sneaky way to get a camera into your bedroom

by Alberto Cammozzo

Telecamera puntata sul letto. Se il mercato accetta questa i professionisti privacy possono darsi all'ippica. <https://www.theverge.com/2017/9/28/16378472/amazons-echo-spot-camera-in-you…> Amazon unveiled six new hardware products at its surprise event in Seattle yesterday, but the Echo Spot has everyone talking. Most people think the Echo Spot is cute; a little alarm clock that’s designed to sit next to your bed. While all the focus is on what the Echo Spot looks like, it’s important to remember that Amazon is using the Spot as a very clever way of making you comfortable with having a camera in your bedroom. It’s also a camera that will probably be pointing directly at your bed. Amazon launched its Echo Look camera earlier this year to judge your outfits. It’s designed to sit in your wardrobe and offer you style advice, and it was Amazon’s first Echo device with a camera. Amazon quickly followed it up with the Echo Show, a touchscreen device that sits in your kitchen and lets you watch tutorials or recipes and participate in video calls. Amazon’s Look device is still only available exclusively by invitation, and in hindsight it now looks like experimental hardware to gauge the reaction of a camera in the bedroom. A litmus test, if you will. []

Oct. 2, 2017

Re: [nexa] Extra Nexa Lunch Seminar - 4 ottobre 2017

by Nexa Media

*REMINDER*: vi ricordiamo che mercoledì 4 ottobre 2017, dalle ore 13 alle ore 14, si svolgerà l’Extra Lunch Seminar, con un incontro dal titolo: *"Understanding and rewiring cities using big data"*. Ospite dell'incontro *Bruno Lepri *(Fondazione Bruno Kessler). Ingresso libero, webcast live all'indirizzo: http://nexa.polito.it/upcoming-events. Maggiori informazioni sono disponibili all'indirizzo: https://nexa.polito.it/lunch-extra1 Cordiali saluti, Francesco 2017-09-27 16:39 GMT+02:00 Nexa Media <media(a)nexa.polito.it>: > Se non visualizzi correttamente questo messaggio clicca qui > <http://nexa.polito.it/lunch-extra1> > [image: NEXA] > > *Extra* Nexa Lunch Seminar > Mercoledi 4 ottobre 2017, ore 13.00 - 14.00 > > Politecnico di Torino > > http://nexa.polito.it/lunch-extra1 > Understanding and rewiring cities using big data > > Speaker > Bruno Lepri (Fondazione Bruno Kessler) > > This event will be webcast live: http://nexa.polito.it/upcoming-events > In the last decades, cities have been largely acknowledged as complex and > emergent systems as opposed to top-down planned entities. Thus, *a new > city science is emerging that aims at an empirical analysis of urbanization > processes*. However, it is evident the lack of understanding of the > dynamics that regulate people interactions, their relationship with urban > characteristics, and their influence on socio-economic outcomes of cities. > Nowadays, massive streams of human behavioural data and urban data > combined with increased analytical capabilities are creating unprecedented > possibilities for understanding global patterns of human behaviour and for > helping researchers to better understand relevant problems for cities and > also whole societies. For example, analysing the digital traces people > leave every day (e.g., mobile phones and social media data, credit card > transactions, etc.) researchers were able, among the other things, *to > estimate the socio-economic status of territories, to monitor the vitality > of urban areas and to predict neighbourhood’s crime levels*. > In my talk, I describe some recent works where we have leveraged data from > public and from commercial entities in order (i) to infer how vital and > liveable a city is, (ii) to find the urban conditions (e.g., mixed land > use, mobility, safety perception, etc.) that magnify and influence urban > life, (iii) to study their relationship with societal outcomes such as > poverty, criminality, innovation, segregation, and (iv) to envision > data-driven guidelines for helping policy makers to respond to the demands > of citizens. > Our results open the door for a *new research framework to study and to > understand cities, and societies*, by means of computational tools (i.e. > machine learning approaches) and novel sources of data able to describe > human life with an unprecedented breath, scale and depth. > > > *Ingresso libero - Saranno disponibili panini e bibite per coloro che si > saranno registrati su http://extralunch.eventbrite.com/ > <http://extralunch.eventbrite.com> entro il 2 ottobre.* > > BIOGRAFIE - e informazioni supplementari > > [image: [LEPRI]] > > BRUNO LEPRI leads the Mobile and Social Computing Lab (MobS) and is > vice-responsible of the Complex Data Analytics research line at Bruno > Kessler Foundation (Trento, Italy). He recently launched an alliance > between MIT and FBK on Human Dynamics Observatories. > He is also a senior research affiliate of Data-Pop Alliance, the first > think-tank on Big Data and Development co-created by the Harvard > Humanitarian Initiative, MIT Media Lab, Overseas Development Institute to > promote a people-centered big data revolution. In 2010 he won a Marie Curie > Cofund post-doc fellow and he has held post-doc positions at FBK and at MIT > Media Lab. He holds a Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of > Trento. > His research interests include computational social science, big data and > personal data, human behavior understanding, and new models for personal > data management and monetization. His research has received attention from > several press outlets and obtained the best paper award at ACM Ubicomp > 2014. His work on personal data management was one of the case studies > discussed at the World Economic Forum. > > Letture consigliate e link utili: > > - M. De Nadai, R. Vieriu, G. Zen, S. Dragivecic, N. Naik, M. > Caraviello, C. Hidalgo, N. Sebe, and B. Lepri,* Are Safer Looking > Neighborhoods More Lively? A Multimodal Investigation into Urban Life > <https://arxiv.org/abs/1608.00462>*, in Proceedings of ACM-MM 2016. > - M. De Nadai, J. Staiano, R. Larcher, N. Sebe, D. Quercia, and B. > Lepri, *The Life and Death of Great Italian Cities: A Mobile Phone > Data Perspective <https://arxiv.org/pdf/1603.04012.pdf>*, in > Proceedings of WWW 2016. > - N. Naik, S. D. Kominers, R. Raskar, E. L. Glaeser, C. Hidalgo,* > Computer Vision Uncovers Predictors of Physical Urban Change > <http://www.pnas.org/content/114/29/7571.full>*, PNAS 2017. > - E. L. Glaeser,* The Triumph of City: How Our Greatest Invention > Makes us Richer, Smarter, Greener, Healthier, and Happier > <https://www.amazon.com/Triumph-City-Greatest-Invention-Healthier/dp/0143120…>* > . > > > > > Che cosa sono il Centro Nexa e i cicli di incontri “Mercoledì di Nexa” e > “Nexa Lunch Seminar” > > Il Centro Nexa su Internet & Società del Politecnico di Torino > (Dipartimento di Automatica e Informatica) è un centro di ricerca > indipendente e interdisciplinare che studia Internet e il suo effetto sulla > società. Maggiori informazioni all'indirizzo: http://nexa.polito.it/about. > > Durante i “*Mercoledì di Nexa*”, che si tengono *ogni 2° mercoledì del > mese* alle *ore 18 in punto*, il Centro Nexa su Internet e Società apre > le sue porte non solo agli esperti e a tutti coloro i quali lavorano con > Internet, ma anche a semplici appassionati e cittadini. Il ciclo di > incontri intende approfondire, con un linguaggio preciso ma divulgativo, i > temi legati alla Rete: motori di ricerca, Creative Commons, social > networks, open source/software libero, neutralità della rete, libertà di > espressione, privacy, file sharing, big e open data, smart cities e molto > altro. > > Al centro di quasi tutti gli incontri un ospite pronto a dialogare con i > direttori del Centro Nexa, il Prof. Juan Carlos De Martin del Politecnico > di Torino e il Prof. Marco Ricolfi dell'Università di Torino, nonché lo > staff e i Fellows del Centro Nexa. > > Maggiori informazioni sui Mercoledì di Nexa, incluso un elenco di tutti i > “Mercoledì” passati, sono disponibili all'indirizzo: > http://nexa.polito.it/mercoledi. > > Si segnala inoltre che dal maggio 2012 *ogni 4° mercoledì* del mese *dalle > ore 13 alle ore 14* il Centro Nexa organizza anche i "*Nexa Lunch Seminar*". > Una lista di tutti i “Lunch Seminar” passati è disponibile all'indirizzo: > http://nexa.polito.it/lunch-seminars. > > See our events calendar <http://nexa.polito.it/events> if you're curious > about future luncheons, discussions, lectures, and conferences not listed > in this email. Our events are free and open to the public, unless otherwise > noted. > > Maggiori informazioni sui Mercoledì di Nexa e i Nexa Lunch Seminar, sono > disponibili all'indirizzo: http://nexa.polito.it/events. Weekly Events > Newsletter. Sign up <http://nexa.polito.it/mailing-lists> to receive this > newsletter if this email was forwarded to you. To manage your subscription > preferences, please click here > <https://server-nexa.polito.it/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/nexa>. > > Connect & get involved: Jobs, internships, and more > <http://nexa.polito.it/get-involved> > > > _______________________________________________ > nexa mailing list > nexa(a)server-nexa.polito.it > https://server-nexa.polito.it/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/nexa > >

Oct. 2, 2017

Tufekci (NYT): "Zuckerberg’s Preposterous Defense of Facebook"

by J.C. DE MARTIN

*Zuckerberg’s Preposterous Defense of Facebook* Zeynep Tufekci SEPT. 29, 2017 Responding to President Trump’s tweet this week that “Facebook was always anti-Trump,” Mark Zuckerberg, the chief executive of Facebook, defended the company by noting that Mr. Trump’s opponents also criticize it — as having aided Mr. Trump. If everyone is upset with you, Mr. Zuckerberg suggested, you must be doing something right. “Both sides are upset about ideas and content they don’t like,” he wrote in a Facebook post. “That’s what running a platform for all ideas looks like.” This doesn’t hold water at all. […] Continua qui: https://www.nytimes.com/2017/09/29/opinion/mark-zuckerberg-facebook.html

Oct. 2, 2017

Genealogia della nozione di “piattaforma”

by Antonio Casilli

Hello, ho a critto un testo (lunghetto e per di più in francese) sulla genealogia della nozione di piattaforma digitale. Nel quale (ovviamente) si parla di Francis Bacon, di Winston Churchill e dei proto-comunisti inglesi del XVII secolo. “De quoi une plateforme (numérique) est-elle le nom ?” http://www.casilli.fr/2017/10/01/de-quoi-une-plateforme-est-elle-le-nom/ -- Antonio A. Casilli Associate Professor, Telecom ParisTech Research Fellow, Edgar-Morin Center (EHESS) Member, Interdisciplinary Institute for Innovation (i3 UMR 9217 CNRS) Faculty Fellow, Nexa Center for Internet & Society

Oct. 2, 2017

WSJ: "Facebook Is Still In Denial About Its Biggest Problem"

by J.C. DE MARTIN

*Facebook Is Still In Denial About Its Biggest Problem * / //In a world where social media is the pre-eminent news conduit, ‘If it’s outrageous, it’s contagious’ is the new ‘If it bleeds, it leads’ / By Christopher Mims Oct. 1, 2017 7:00 a.m. ET 128 COMMENTS It’s a good time to re-examine our relationship with Facebook Inc. In the past month, it has been revealed that Facebook hosted a Russian influence operation which may have reached between 3 million and 20 million people on the social network, and that Facebook could be used to micro-target users with hate speech. It took the company more than two weeks to agree to share what it knows with Congress. Increased scrutiny of Facebook is healthy. What went mainstream as a friendly place for loved ones to swap baby pictures and cat videos has morphed into an opaque and poorly understood metropolis rife with influence peddlers determined to manipulate what we know and how we think. We have barely begun to understand how the massive social network shapes our world. […] Continua qui: https://www.wsj.com/articles/facebook-is-still-in-denial-about-its-biggest-…

Oct. 2, 2017

Terzo convegno annuale AISA - Università di Milano 9-10 novembre 2017

by Roberto Caso

Buongiorno, Segnalo che il programma del terzo convegno annuale dell'Associazione Italiana per la promozione della Scienza Aperta (AISA), organizzato, quest'anno, dall'università di Milano, è visibile a partire da qui: http://aisa.sp.unipi.it/attivita/iii-convegno-annuale/ http://aisa.sp.unipi.it/aisa-3rd-annual-conference/ o dalla notizia pubblicata qui: http://aisa.sp.unipi.it/aisami2017/ Chi è interessato a essere presente può registrarsi qui: http://aisa.sp.unipi.it/attivita/iii-convegno-annuale/registrazione/ soprattutto se desidera prenotare un certificato di partecipazione. Il primo giorno sarà dedicato agli interventi dei relatori invitati e il secondo alle risposte a una call for papers ancora visibile qui: http://aisa.sp.unipi.it/attivita/cfpIII A presto, rc -- Roberto Caso Professore Associato di Diritto Privato Comparato Università di Trento - Facoltà di Giurisprudenza http://www5.unitn.it/People/it/Web/Persona/PER0000633 http://www.lawtech.jus.unitn.it/index.php/people/roberto-caso

Oct. 1, 2017