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Piattaforme digitali e censura: un questionario per la raccolta di casi di censura online
by Maurizio Borghi July 6, 2023

July 6, 2023

Gentili partecipanti alla lista Nexa, Vi segnalo il progetto Piattaforme digitali e censura online: la moderazione dei contenuti tra libertà di pensiero e contrasto alla disinformazione e hate speech in rete <https://nexa.polito.it/piattaforme-digitali-censura-online>, da me coordinato e condotto dalla dott.ssa Beatrice Balzola. Il progetto si propone di raccogliere *evidenza empirica* sulle politiche di censura adottate dalle principali piattaforme di condivisione, con particolare riferimento ai tipi di intervento, alla natura dei contenuti oggetto di provvedimenti e al livello di trasparenza nei confronti degli utenti. A questo scopo, il progetto intende raccogliere un cospicuo numero di “casi studio” di censura online attraverso la compilazione di un *questionario*: *https://survey.nexacenter.org/index.php/637786?lang=it* <https://survey.nexacenter.org/index.php/637786?lang=it> Se avete subito un *provvedimento di censura* – ad esempio la sospensione dell’account, la rimozione di contenuti o il loro oscuramento (“shadowbanning”) – o se siete a conoscenza di persone che hanno subito tali provvedimenti, Vi chiediamo anzitutto di compilare il questionario e poi di *condividerlo *con altre persone attraverso le vostre reti di conoscenza. Il vostro contributo sarà fondamentale per la buona riuscita del progetto. Cordialmente, -- _______________ *Maurizio Borghi* Università di Torino https://www.dg.unito.it/persone/maurizio.borghi Co-Director Nexa Center for Internet & Society <https://nexa.polito.it/>

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Social media could be as harmful to children as smoking or gambling – why is this allowed? | Devi Sridhar | The Guardian
by Alberto Cammozzo July 6, 2023

July 6, 2023

<https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/jul/04/smoking-gambling-chil… WhatsApp is for old people. That is, people over 30. At least that’s what my first-year medical students tell me. WhatsApp has become the realm of government backchats about Covid-19 policy, or family groups sharing graduation photos and past-their-prime memes. Young people, especially teenagers, communicate through Snapchat, an app that reaches 90% of 13- to 24-year-olds and 75% of 13- to 34-year-olds across the UK. It has more than 21 million active users in Britain per month, which is almost one-third of the population, and each accesses the app on average more than 50 times a day. If we go back to the 1980s and 1990s, parenting was often about keeping children physically safe. A moody 14-year-old wanting to be alone in their room was a normal thing– in fact this was sufficient to protect them. Parents had clear oversight over who their kids were around at home, and the physical materials they were consuming. Fast-forward to 2023 and children are in their rooms at home, but while physically safe, they’re exposed to an entire virtual world with almost no regulation over the content they see, how much time they’re spending on devices or the boundary between necessary social communication with friends and a much darker world of harmful or pornographic material, and predatory influencers. Compounding the problems facing teenagers and parents is the fact that apps are often designed deliberately to be addictive, or used compulsively. They regularly turn social interactions into games – like Snapchat’s “Snapstreak” feature that scores a user for the number of consecutive days they share a picture with each contact, encouraging them to be available on the app constantly. Apps also come with many safety and oversight concerns. Snapchat popularised disappearing messages, meaning parents can’t check what their child has been viewing or posting, and many apps share the user’s location with others by default. Teenagers and children may not even know that they’re sharing live data on their location throughout the day. The potential harms of these apps are increasingly being called out. The US surgeon general, Vivek Murthy, issued an “advisory” last month on the effects social media use has on young people’s mental health. He said: “The most common question parents ask me is, ‘is social media safe for my kids?’ The answer is that we don’t have enough evidence to say it’s safe, and in fact, there is growing evidence that social media use is associated with harm to young people’s mental health. We are in the middle of a national youth mental health crisis, and I am concerned that social media is an important driver of that crisis.” The president of the American Medical Association, Jack Resneck Jr, used even stronger words: “With near-universal social media use by America’s young people, these apps and sites introduce profound risk and mental health harms in ways we are only now beginning to fully understand.” The evidence of its mental health impact is concerning. The latest Centers for Disease Control Youth Risk Behaviour survey in 2021 illustrates the scale of the problem: 42% of high school students surveyed had experienced persistent feelings of sadness over the last year, while 22% had seriously contemplated suicide. Research cited by Murthy shows that adolescents who spend more than three hours per day on social media have double the risk of depression and anxiety. Furthermore, 46% of adolescents aged between 13 and 17 say social media makes them feel worse about their body image, and 64% of that age group are “often” or “sometimes” exposed to hate-based content. Yet children themselves feel unsure of how to cope: one-third or more of girls aged 11 to 15 say they feel “addicted” to certain apps, and more than half of teenagers say they would find it hard to give up social media. A study by researchers at the University of Bath looked at the mental health effects of a week-long social media break, which on average freed up about nine hours of their week. Even after only seven days, participants had significant improvements in wellbeing, depression and anxiety compared to a control group. There is growing consensus among health experts about the negative chronic health effects of social media use. And yet we are largely leaving it up to parents, and other concerned adults, to find solutions to a side-effect of universal smartphones. The burden is on the government to recognise the negative health impact that certain social media apps have, create policies to regulate companies to ensure they’re not selling a dangerous product to children, and work towards collective solutions. This could include working with these companies to make design and development decisions in their product that prioritise safety and health. Companies may resist this because it’s in their financial interest to keep users on their platforms for as long as possible. Screen time is their revenue stream: 99% of Snapchat revenue is from displaying advertising to its users; the figure for Meta, which owns Facebook and Instagram, is about 98%. The longer that kids spend on their platform, the more money they make. And the cost, maybe, is paid in the mental health of the next generation of society. In April 2023, a bipartisan group of senators in the US put forward new legislation, the protecting kids on social media bill, which would require a minimum age of social media use at 13, parental consent for children between 13 and 18, and would ban platforms from using certain algorithms on young users. As one of the senators proposing the US legislation, Brian Schatz, said: “The growing evidence is clear: social media is making more kids more depressed and wreaking havoc on their mental health. While kids are suffering, social media companies are profiting. This needs to stop.” This is exactly what public regulation is for. Like policies for tobacco, alcohol or gambling, it can ensure that when private companies sell a product with potential negative health impacts, they do so in a way that follows certain guidelines and protects vulnerable users from being completely exposed. Devi Sridhar is chair of global public health at the University of Edinburgh

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Francia. Come si può fare integrazione in una società che si disintegra?
by don Luca Peyron July 6, 2023

July 6, 2023

Un pezzo che mi ha fatto riflettere, che tocca i nostri temi solo in modo tangenziale, ma forse neppure troppo se ci pensiamo. Buona lettura a chi lo desidera dl https://www.avvenire.it/opinioni/pagine/come-si-pu-fare-integrazione-in-una… _________________________ don Luca Peyron Direttore Ufficio per la Pastorale Universitaria Arcidiocesi di Torino www.universitari.to.it via XX settembre 83, Torino tel. 011 5156239

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Una bocciatura intelligente
by de petra giulio July 5, 2023

July 5, 2023

Vi segnalo questa intervista che racconta che cosa sta avvenendo al liceo Albertelli di Roma https://centroriformastato.it/piano-scuola-4-0-avrei-preferenza-di-no/

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Mercoledì di Nexa del 12 luglio 2023, ore 17.00
by Nexa Media July 5, 2023

July 5, 2023

Gentilissime, gentilissimi, Vi segnaliamo che il *Mercoledì di Nexa del 12 luglio prossimo*, nonostante il rinvio dell'ospite come precedentemente annunciato, rimane *confermato*: vista la prossimità con la chiusura dell'Anno Accademico, si è pensato di organizzare un *incontro dedicato alle riflessioni sull'anno appena passato*, un incontro aperto a tutti, alla nostra comunità, al pubblico che da sempre ci segue, e che ha contribuito nel tempo ad accrescere il dibattito interno al centro, e a chiunque avrà piacere di unirsi a noi. *L'incontro si terrà in un locale in centro a Torino (che indicheremo a breve), mercoledì 12 luglio alle ore 17.00*, cogliendo così l'occasione per salutarci ed augurarci buone vacanze con un brindisi tutti insieme. *Per questo incontro non sarà prevista la possibilità di partecipare da remoto.* Per maggiori informazioni e per rimanere aggiornati sul luogo dell'incontro è possibile consultare la pagina: https://nexa.polito.it/mercoledi-brindisi-chiusura-anno-accademico Cordiali saluti, -- Anita Botta Communication Manager Nexa Center for Internet & Society Politecnico di Torino – DAUIN Corso Duca degli Abruzzi, 24 - 10129 Torino web: https://nexa.polito.it/ mail: anita.botta(a)polito.it tel: 011 090 7219

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The Vatican Wrote a Handbook on AI Ethics
by Daniela Tafani July 5, 2023

July 5, 2023

The Vatican Wrote a Handbook on AI Ethics In partnership with Santa Clara University’s Markkula Center for Applied Ethics, the Vatican created a new organization called the Institute for Technology, Ethics, and Culture (ITEC<https://www.scu.edu/institute-for-technology-ethics-and-culture/>). Focused on the betterment of humanity amid developments in technology, the ITEC started the ball rolling with a handbook detailing how the world can navigate ethically ambiguous technology. The handbook, titled "Ethics in the Age of Disruptive Technologies: An Operation Roadmap," isn’t a strict instruction manual for organizations. Rather, it’s just a guide for readers to create their own framework for technology. The Institute for Technology, Ethics, and Culture (ITEC) and the "ITEC Handbook" was featured in an article by GadgetMatch.<https://www.gadgetmatch.com/vatican-ai-ethics-handbook/> Jun 29, 2023 https://www.scu.edu/ethics/media-mentions/stories/the-vatican-wrote-a-handb… Qui il libro: https://www.scu.edu/institute-for-technology-ethics-and-culture/

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Toyota says solid-state battery breakthrough can halve cost and size
by Luigi Scorca July 5, 2023

July 5, 2023

https://www.ft.com/content/87cb8e92-8e82-4755-8fc3-2943f8f63e1d "Solid-state batteries have long been heralded by industry experts as the most promising technology to solve EV battery problems such as charging time, capacity and the risk of catching fire. They replace a liquid electrolyte with a solid one and use lithium metal at the anode instead of graphite, the current standard in lithium-ion batteries." Luigi

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Calendario dei "Mercoledì di Nexa" 2023 | RIMANDATO l'appuntamento con Guglielmo Tamburrini all'8 novembre 2023
by Nexa Media July 5, 2023

July 5, 2023

Gentilissime, gentilissimi, nell'ambito del calendario dei "Mercoledì di Nexa", vi segnaliamo che l'appuntamento con *Guglielmo Tamburrini *(Università di Napoli Federico II) previsto per mercoledì 12 luglio è stato rimandato a *mercoledì 8 novembre 2023*. È possibile consultare la pagina dell'evento al seguente link: https://nexa.polito.it/mercoledi-166 Confermiamo invece che l'appuntamento con *Gabriele Balbi* (Università della Svizzera italiana di Lugano) si terrà, come precedentemente annunciato, *mercoledì 13 settembre 2023*. Sperando di vedervi numerosi ai prossimi appuntamenti del Centro Nexa, vi ringraziamo per l'attenzione e vi porgiamo i nostri più cordiali saluti. -- Anita Botta Communication Manager Nexa Center for Internet & Society Politecnico di Torino – DAUIN Corso Duca degli Abruzzi, 24 - 10129 Torino web: https://nexa.polito.it/ mail: anita.botta(a)polito.it tel: 011 090 7219

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Re: [nexa] relatività della rete in azione (was Re: Rant against centralising e-mail in big-tech silos, and breaking the internet in the process)
by Andrea Bolioli July 4, 2023

July 4, 2023

Grazie mille, non si smette mai di imparare! :-) Andrea Il giorno mar 4 lug 2023 alle ore 10:41 380° <g380(a)biscuolo.net> ha scritto: > Buongiorno > > Andrea Bolioli <andrea.bolioli(a)gmail.com> writes: > > > se clicco sul link che hai condiviso, finisco nella pagina di login. > > Screenshot in allegato. > > Sto sbagliando qualcosa? > > no: è la "relatività della rete" (cit.) a livello HTTP(s) in azione :-D > > a me funziona, anche se - dopo averlo **attentamente** esaminato per > vedere dove intende farmi andare - invece di clikkare sull'URL sotto [1] > l'ho copia-incollato nella barra del browser che uso di solito > (ungoogled-chromium); ho provato più volte e ha sempre funzionato > > ...però, provando a salvarlo sia sulla Wayback Machine che su archive.is > vedo che le richieste vengono renidirizzate su > https://login.microsoftonline.com > > se apro il link on eww di Emacs (un browser solo testuale) mi esce errore > 403 (forbidden) ma se chiedo a eww di aprirlo con il browser esterno di > default (ungoogled-chromium) la pagina col bilancio si apre tranquillamente > > se apro il link con Firefox (versione binaria distribuita da Debian 11) > vengo rediretto alla pagina di login > > sicuramente c'è un Javascript Cerbero scemo, che ungoogled-chromium è in > grado di aggirare... _magicamente_ :-O > > considerato che il documento è scemo-cerbero-walled > > considerato che mi fido di Paolo Del Romano (grazie!) che ha > pubblicamente dichiarato che i Sacri Testi™ stabiliscono che il bilancio > è pubblico > > visto che è "solo" di 4.1M > > ho deciso di includere in allegato il bilancio 2022 dell'UNI Pisa > (vediamo se passa) a vantaggio di tutti gli interessati meno fortunati > di me, mi perdonino gli amministratori della lista! > > > [...] > > >> > https://unipiit.sharepoint.com/sites/AmministrazioneTrasparente2/Shared%20D… > > happy hackng! 380° > > > > [1] una schifezza immonda di URL che NON punta al documento ma a uno > script .aspx > > -- > 380° (Giovanni Biscuolo public alter ego) > > «Noi, incompetenti come siamo, > non abbiamo alcun titolo per suggerire alcunché» > > Disinformation flourishes because many people care deeply about injustice > but very few check the facts. Ask me about <https://stallmansupport.org>. >

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Vacancy notice
by Alessandro Brolpito July 3, 2023

July 3, 2023

Buongiorno, Per chi fosse eventualmente interessato: >>Two new EC JRC vacancies for researchers with experience in Trustworthy Algorithmic Systems. Join us to develop science for a human-centred AI in Europe. Deadline 03/09/2023 http://recruitment.jrc.ec.europa.eu/?site=SVQ <https://t.co/obWmp45vtN> @DigitalEU <https://twitter.com/DigitalEU> @EUScienceHub @stephen_quest <https://twitter.com/stephen_quest> @landabaso1 <https://twitter.com/landabaso1> @PaoloCanfora <https://twitter.com/PaoloCanfora> @emiliagogu <https://twitter.com/emiliagogu><< Fate ovviamente girare a colleghi eventualmente intressati Cordiali saluti, Alessandro

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