June 2019 - nexa - server-nexa.polito.it

Facebook a induit la Commission européenne en erreur lors du rachat de WhatsApp

by Luigi Scorca

https://www.lemonde.fr/economie/article/2019/06/03/facebook-a-induit-la-com…

June 4, 2019

120° Mercoledì di Nexa | 12 giugno 2019

by Nexa Media

Nexa Center for Internet and Society Newsletter Se non visualizzi correttamente questo messaggio clicca qui <http://nexa.polito.it/mercoledi-120> NEXA 120° Mercoledì di Nexa Mercoledì 12 giugno 2019, ore 18.00 - 20.00 Politecnico di Torino http://nexa.polito.it/mercoledi-120 Beyond smart cities. Co-design the commoning for a wise and smart urban ecosystem Speaker Vincenzo Maria Bruno Giorgino (Università degli Studi di Torino) This event will be webcast live: https://nexa.polito.it/nexa-hangout-on-air This transdisciplinary volume puts forward proposals for wiser, socially just and sustainable socio-economic systems in transition. There is growing support for the view that the end of capitalism is around the corner, but on which conceptual and ethical basis can we interpret these times? With investigations into feminist economics, post-growth environmentalism, socio-technical digital design, collaborative and commons economics, the editors create*a dialogue between radical knowledge/practices and contemplative social sciences to transgress disciplinary boundaries and implement new visions of reality*. This important book challenges our ways of thinking and outlines a pathway for new research. The multifaceted and elusive features of the emerging distributed ledger technologies for social good clearly address our tacit knowledge and our inner social skills (life skills). They are the fundamental pillars that, silently, almost inadvertently, take care of the delicate intertwining of internal and external interactions,*making the collective becoming sustainable and joyful*. The co-designing of a fair ecosystem needs to orient cognitive intelligence through practical wisdom. BIOGRAFIE - e informazioni supplementari [GIORGINO] *Vincenzo Maria Bruno GIORGINO* is Aggregate Professor in the Department of Economic and Social Sciences at the University of Turin, Italy. For the past 20 years he has been working towards the integration of social sciences and contemplative knowledge in action-research and higher education. His main research interests focus on: wise co-designing collaborative commons economies, grounded theory methodology, contemplative commons, health and well being. He is currently involved in two H2020 funded programs: Co-City (Urban Innovative Actions Program) <%20http://www.uia-initiative.eu/en/uia-cities/turin> and CO3 <https://www.projectco3.eu/>. *Letture consigliate e link utili:* * Giorgino V., McCown D. 2018 “Life skills for peer production: Dancing together in a space of “not-knowing” <http://bit.ly/2pSNrJV%C2%A0> Journal of Peer Production, issue #11 City. * Kabat-Zinn J. 2018 /Vivere momento per momento/, TEA. * Con Antonini et al. 2018 chapter 11 “First Life: From Maps to Social Networks and Back” in co-editor with Zack Walsh 2018 /Co-Designing the Economies of Becoming in the Great Transition. Contemplative social sciences in dialogue with radical approaches/, London, Palgrave MacMillan. * McCown D. 2011 /Teaching Mindfulness: A Practical Guide for Clinicians and Educators/, Springer Con Xabier Renteria Uriarte 2017 “Is The Practical Wisdom Literature Actually Wise On Its Ontological ‘Right To Speak’?” in Kupers W. and Gunnlaugson O. (eds.) /Wisdom Learning: Perspectives on Wising-Up Business and Management Education London/, Routledge. 140-159 pages. * Purser, R. E., Forbes, D, Burke, A. (Eds.) 2016 /Handbook of Mindfulness. Culture, Context, and Social Engagement/, Springer. * Giorgino V. 2015 “Contemplative Methods Meet Social Sciences: Back to Human Experience as It Is” /Journal for the Theory of Social Behaviour/, Volume 45, Issue 4 December 2015 Pages 461–483. Che cosa sono il Centro Nexa e i cicli di incontri “Mercoledì di Nexa” e “Nexa Lunch Seminar” <https://www.facebook.com/nexa.center/> <https://twitter.com/nexacenter> <https://www.youtube.com/user/NexaCenter> #smartcities <https://twitter.com/search?src=typd&q=%23smartcities> #nexawednesday <https://twitter.com/search?q=%23nexawednesday&src=typd> #Commoning <https://twitter.com/search?q=%23commoning&src=typd> 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. Responsabile Comunicazione Centro Nexa su Internet & Società: *Francesco Ruggiero*, tel: +39 011 090 7219, Mob: +39 349 1335082, francesco.ruggiero(a)polito.it <mailto:francesco.ruggiero@polito.it>. 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>.

June 4, 2019

Chomsky and Herman's Propaganda Model Foretells a Weaponized Facebook

by J.C. DE MARTIN

https://truthout.org/articles/chomsky-and-hermans-propaganda-model-foretell… (Sent from my wireless device; please excuse brevity and typos (if any))

June 3, 2019

Re: [nexa] Cos'è l'Informatica?

by Giacomo Tesio

On 07/02/2019, armeo(a)mail.nexacenter.org <meo(a)polito.it> wrote: > caro Giacomo, > > mi associo alla richiesta di Luca. Se > mi mandi qualche "learning object" tuo - testo, immagini, filmato - lo > pubblico su fare.polito.it . Cari amici, non è un "learning object" perché a dire il vero non li so fare. Però sarei felice di conoscere la vostra autorevole opinione su queste riflessioni (che volenti o nolenti avete contribuito a produrre :-D) http://www.tesio.it/2019/06/03/what-is-informatics.html Mi fate sapere cosa ne pensate? Giacomo PS: mi scuso per la lunghezza. E' un lavoro di settimane... ma non sono riuscito ad essere più conciso.

June 3, 2019

Re: [nexa] IEEE - Compliance with U.S. Trade Restrictions Should have Minimal Impact on IEEE Members Around the World

by Stefano Zacchiroli

On Mon, Jun 03, 2019 at 08:49:28AM +0200, Enrico Nardelli wrote: > Fortunatamente il buon senso alla fine ha prevalso > https://www.ieee.org/about/news/2019/statement-update-ieee-lifts-restrictio… Un'ottima notizia. Avallare il fatto che le decisioni geopolitiche (a prescindere da chi le prende) possono impattare direttamente le politiche di peer review scientifica è stato un errore madornale di IEEE. Delle due, anche se fossero stati obbligati (e a quanto pare non lo sono), avrebbero dovuto fare obiezione di coscienza. -- Stefano Zacchiroli . zack(a)upsilon.cc . upsilon.cc/zack . . o . . . o . o Computer Science Professor . CTO Software Heritage . . . . . o . . . o o Former Debian Project Leader & OSI Board Director . . . o o o . . . o . « the first rule of tautology club is the first rule of tautology club »

June 3, 2019

How Tanks on Tiananmen Square Defined China's Model for Control - Bloomberg

by Alberto Cammozzo

<https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-05-31/how-tanks-on-tiananmen-s…> Western capitals are fuming about Beijing’s actions, Chinese companies face unprecedented sanctions and the nation’s exports are being punished. The same was true in 1989 after tanks rolled into Tiananmen Square on June 4 to crush student protests. In that 30-year interlude, China has gone from global pariah to a nation slugging it out on the international stage with the world’s biggest superpower. Those three decades are a story not just of the transformation of China’s fortune, but of the shift in technology and ideas that altered global politics and is increasingly turning developing nations toward China’s model of central control. [...] But China’s success in fostering economic growth and power while managing to avoid widespread political reform has proven an attractive model for leaders in countries rich and poor who are looking to emulate that creation of wealth. "The Chinese government has become increasingly confident about its mode of governance," said Maya Wang, a senior China researcher at Human Rights Watch. "It increasingly believes that the kind of dictatorship that can be economically powerful and at least on the surface stable could be attractive to other governments." [...] Those changes show that, while China marks the 30th anniversary of Tiananmen by censoring any reference to the event, the world is still grappling with the consequences of the path Beijing took that night. "Free speech was the norm and censorship was the exception" in the early days of the internet, said Lokman Tsui, a professor at the Chinese University of Hong Kong and a former Asia policy executive at Google who focused on free expression. "The whole climate has changed. Governments are looking to China as a model."

June 3, 2019

Una Rete per unire, non dividere

by don Luca Peyron

"L’era delle Rete ci dice che il mondo della comunicazione non è più, se mai lo è stato, un mondo a parte, fatto di professionisti, giornalisti, mediatori. È il nostro mondo. È il mondo degli uomini. Se saranno i miliardi di fruitori della Rete a esigere per se stessi e per tutti un futuro caratterizzato dalla condivisione della regola di base che tutti ci unisce, allora la Rete saprà farci riscoprire come membra gli uni degli altri". Buona lettura e buona settimana dl https://www.agensir.it/chiesa/2019/06/01/53a-giornata-mondiale-per-le-comun… _________________________ www.universitari.to.it via XX settembre 83, Torino tel. 011 5156239

June 3, 2019

Justice Department Is Preparing Antitrust Investigation of Google - WSJ

by J.C. DE MARTIN

https://www.wsj.com/articles/justice-department-is-preparing-antitrust-inve… (Sent from my wireless device; please excuse brevity and typos (if any))

June 3, 2019

Re: [nexa] IEEE - Compliance with U.S. Trade Restrictions Should have Minimal Impact on IEEE Members Around the World

by Enrico Nardelli

Fortunatamente il buon senso alla fine ha prevalso https://www.ieee.org/about/news/2019/statement-update-ieee-lifts-restrictio… Ciao, Enrico Il 03/06/2019 01:21, Giacomo ha scritto: > È triste. > > > "IEEE is the world's largest technical professional organization dedicated to advancing technology for the benefit of humanity." > > > Dov'è il bug tracker che gli segnalo di sostituire humanity con un contesto più attinente? > > > Giacomo > _______________________________________________ > nexa mailing list > nexa(a)server-nexa.polito.it > https://server-nexa.polito.it/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/nexa > -- EN ===================================================================== Prof. Enrico Nardelli Dipartimento di Matematica - Universita' di Roma "Tor Vergata" Via della Ricerca Scientifica snc - 00133 Roma tel: +39 06 7259.4204 fax: +39 06 7259.4699 mobile: +39 335 590.2331 e-mail: nardelli(a)mat.uniroma2.it home page: http://www.mat.uniroma2.it/~nardelli blog: http://www.ilfattoquotidiano.it/blog/enardelli/ http://link-and-think.blogspot.it/ ===================================================================== --

June 3, 2019

Facebook and Twitter are growing into the mainstream | Media | The Guardian

by Alberto Cammozzo

<https://www.theguardian.com/media/commentisfree/2019/jun/02/social-platform…> [...] Facebook had fielded Monika Bickert to answer questions from Anderson Cooper on CNN about the video. Bickert is Facebook’s most thoughtful and knowledgeable executive, heading its product policy and counter-terrorism. Her talking points were very familiar: Facebook’s approach is to flag when something is false, to reduce its reach through algorithmic throttling, but not to remove material altogether unless immediate harm flows from it. Hence terrorism and scientifically inaccurate claims about vaccinations are gone, but Holocaust denial and a clearly misleading clip that affects the democratic process are not. “We are not in the news business,” Bickert told Anderson Cooper. “We are in the social media business.” Engineers and lawyers in Silicon Valley are often mocked for their lack of facility in communications, but over the years they have been remarkably effective in constructing a whole language which casts a gauzy blanket of euphemism over a heap of ugly truths. They have eradicated all meaning and distinction around dramatically different social, cultural and political interactions by labelling them “content”, they have made the diseased metaphor of “virality” a virtue, and rebranded sales people “influencers”. Even the phrase “social media” is a positive denominator which hides a multitude of sins. The business Facebook is in is advertising (to be clear), and the “social media business” is not only the news business (increasingly), it is also the politics business, the public health business, the terrorism business, the education business, the everything in bytes business. In fact, the approach that Bickert described of flagging material as false, and reducing the reach of it, telling people who have seen it that it is wrong, is not a bad strategy and it exceeds the measures taken by many media outlets with their own material who would readily criticise Facebook. It is a necessary measure but not sufficient. In other matters, Facebook is on shaky ground. Its stated policy from its founder, Mark Zuckerberg, is that people should decide what they believe for themselves up to and including Holocaust denial, which is arguably incompatible with its position on removing material which creates the potential of immediate harm. These are wide philosophical questions that cannot be used as the basis of rules that robots execute. There is not yet a computational way to correctly decide one slowed-down video is an attack on democracy and another is a piece of satire. What Facebook proposes, in one dimension, is the assembly of an independent content body, which will advise on such matters. I am pretty sure that there would be a split in how any diverse council would come to a conclusion on Pelosi: editors, whose job it is essentially to safeguard the publishing of very little material and stop incorrect information reaching the public domain, would say take it down. Those who think in a more long-term or philosophical dimension about free speech would say keep it up. Facebook, Twitter, YouTube and whoever else outsources decision-making on these issues will eventually have to internalise them, too, and have a recognisable culture, set of rules, appeals process and communications system which is capable of responding quickly to information crises. The disruption that minor calls about malicious material creates are too much for any corporate system to withstand, unless it has been designed to deal with them. The inevitable outcome will be a narrowing of the type of material promoted and circulated. The platforms are no longer innovators in terms of speech, publication and the public sphere; they are incumbents, gatekeepers, publishers, however you want to describe them. In other words they are done with disruption, and will therefore inevitably become perpetuators of incumbency themselves. As the experiment of levelling access to tools and speech comes to a shuddering halt, the platforms will increasingly favour the establishment, whether that is among a narrow band of mainstream media suppliers, a smaller number of high-follower influencers, a tiered system of political actors or a particular class of advertisers. [...]

June 3, 2019