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51° Nexa Lunch Seminar - 24 maggio 2017
by Francesco Ruggiero May 15, 2017

May 15, 2017

Nexa Center for Internet and Society Newsletter Se non visualizzi correttamente questo messaggio clicca qui <http://nexa.polito.it/lunch-51> NEXA 51° Nexa Lunch Seminar Mercoledi 24 maggio 2017, ore 13.00 - 14.00 Politecnico di Torino http://nexa.polito.it/lunch-51 Software Heritage: Archiving the Software Commons for Fun and Social Benefit Speaker Stefano Zacchiroli (Università Paris-VII) This event will be webcast live: http://nexa.polito.it/upcoming-events The Software Commons is the vast body of human knowledge embedded in software source code, that is publicly available and can be freely altered and reused. Free and Open Source Software (FOSS) constitutes the bulk of it. Sadly we seem to be at increasing risk of losing this precious heritage built by the FOSS community over the paste decades: code hosting sites shut down when their popularity decreases, tapes of ancient versions of our toolchain (bit-)rot in basements, etc. The ambitious goal of the Software Heritage project is to contribute to address this risk, by collecting, preserving, and sharing *all* publicly available software in source code form. Together with its complete development history, as captured by state-of-the art version control systems. Although still in Beta, Software Heritage <https://www.softwareheritage.org/> has already archived more than 3 billion unique source code files and 700 million unique commits, spanning more than 50 million software development projects from major code hosting sites, distributions, and upstream software collections. /Ingresso libero - Saranno disponibili panini e bibite per coloro che si saranno registrati su http://lunch51.eventbrite.com entro il 22 maggio./ BIOGRAFIE - e informazioni supplementari [ZACCHIROLI] STEFANO ZACCHIROLI is Associate Professor of Computer Science at University Paris Diderot on leave at Inria. His research interests span formal methods, software preservation, and Free/Open Source Software engineering. He is co-founder and current CTO of the Software Heritage project. He is an official member of the Debian Project since 2001, where he was elected to serve as Debian Project Leader for 3 terms in a row over the period 2010-2013. He is a former director of the Open Source Initiative (OSI) and recipient of the 2015 O'Reilly Open Source Award. Letture consigliate e link utili: * Roberto Di Cosmo, Stefano Zacchiroli,/Software Heritage: Why and How to Preserve Software Source Code <https://upsilon.cc/%7Ezack/stuff/software-heritage-draft.pdf%20>/. * Nancy Kranich and Jorge Reina Schement,/Information Commons/, Annual Review of Information Science and Technology 42, 1 (2008), 546-591. * Vinton G Cerf, /Avoiding "Bit Rot": Long-Term Preservation of Digital Information [Point of View]/, Proc. IEEE 99, 6 (2011), 915-916. * Collberg, Christian, et al., /Measuring reproducibility in computer systems research/, Department of Computer Science, University of Arizona, Tech. Rep (2014). 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>

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Presentazione libro " Giovanni Falcone e Paolo Borsellino, le cose non dette, quelle non fatte". Camera dei Deputati, Sala della regina, 23 Maggio, ore 16.
by Fulvio Sarzana May 15, 2017

May 15, 2017

Carissimi, il 23 Maggio, alle 16, anniversario della Strage di Capaci, verrà presentato alla Sala della Regina della Camera dei Deputati il libro di Carlo Sarzana " Giovanni Falcone e Paolo Borsellino, le cose non dette, quelle non fatte", editore Castelvecchi. Alla presentazione parteciperanno Istituzioni e Magistrati che hanno lavorato con Giovanni Falcone come Nino di Matteo e Luca Tescaroli, che è stato Pubblico Ministero del processo relativo alla strage. Saremmo lieti di vederVi in quella sede. La registrazione è obbligatoria allindirizzo info(a)lidis.it <mailto:info@lidis.it> o telefonando al numero 06/3211553. Vi allego comunque invito e programma Un caro saluto a tutti. Fulvio Sarzana Martedì 23 maggio 2017 - dalle ore 16,00 Camera dei Deputati - Sala della Regina Palazzo Montecitorio - Ingresso Principale In occasione del 25° anniversario della Strage di Capaci il 23 maggio sarà presentato alla Camera dei Deputati il libro "Giovanni Falcone e Paolo Borsellino. Le cose non dette e quelle non fatte" di Carlo Sarzana di SantIppolito In occasione del venticinquennale della Strage di Capaci, che ha segnato profondamente la storia non solo giudiziaria del nostro paese, e che ricorre il 23 maggio prossimo, Castelvecchi Editore pubblica il libro del Presidente aggiunto onorario della Corte di Cassazione, Carlo Sarzana di SantIppolito, che ha lavorato con Giovanni Falcone alla Direzione generale affari penali del Ministero della Giustizia. Saluto introduttivo Stefano Dambruoso, Questore della Camera dei deputati Interventi Donatella Ferranti, Presidente della Commissione Giustizia, Camera dei Deputai Renato Balduzzi, Consiglio Superiore della Magistratura Giuseppe Di Gennaro, Primo Presidente Onorario della Corte di Cassazione già Procuratore nazionale antimafia Nino di Matteo, Sostituto Procuratore della Repubblica presso il Tribunale di Palermo Carlo Palermo, Magistrato Umberto Rapetto, Generale a.r. della Guardia di Finanza Luca Tescaroli, Sostituto Procuratore della Repubblica presso il Tribunale di Roma Sarà presente lautore. R.S.V.P. <mailto:info@lidis.it> info(a)lidis.it Tel. 063211553 entro il 19 maggio 2017 ore 12 Le richieste di accredito (comprensive di testata e numero di tessera) per giornalisti e cineoperatori potranno essere rivolte all'Ufficio Stampa della Camera all'indirizzo e-mail <mailto:sg_ufficiostampa@camera.it> sg_ufficiostampa(a)camera.it o al numero di fax 06/6783082. Per l'ingresso gli uomini devono indossare la giacca. --- Questa e-mail è stata controllata per individuare virus con Avast antivirus. https://www.avast.com/antivirus

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Guardian: "How real books have trumped ebooks"
by J.C. DE MARTIN May 14, 2017

May 14, 2017

*How real books have trumped ebooks* / //The digital revolution was expected to kill traditional publishing. But print books are ever more beautifully designed and lovingly cherished/ Alex Preston Books have always had a fetishistic quality to them, with their dusty secretiveness. Now, though, it feels like we’re living through a special moment in the history of book design and beautiful books are everywhere. Take George Saunders’s Lincoln in the Bardo with its marmoreal endpapers or Peter Frankopan’s The Silk Roads, with its cover inspired by mosaic from the Imam mosque at Isfahan; Sarah Perry’s The Essex Serpent, its sumptuous jacket inspired by the tiles of William Morris; 4th Estate’s gorgeous repackaging of Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s backlist, based on vibrant African headwrap patterns; the glimmering Penguin Hardcover Classics reissue of the works of F Scott Fitzgerald, or its clothbound editions of Austen, Brontë and Dickens. It’s hard to know whether to read these books or caress them. […] Continua qui: https://www.theguardian.com/books/2017/may/14/how-real-books-trumped-ebooks…

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How Google Took,Over the Classroom
by Enrico Nardelli May 14, 2017

May 14, 2017

How Google Took Over the Classroom The tech giant is transforming public education with low-cost laptops and free apps. But schools may be giving Google more than they are getting. https://www.nytimes.com/2017/05/13/technology/google-education-chromebooks-… -- 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/ ===================================================================== --

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Fwd: [icts] Book Launch Announcement - Limits of the Digital Revolution
by Fabio Nascimbeni May 13, 2017

May 13, 2017

(Inizio messaggio inoltrato) > Da: Derek Hrynyshyn <derekh(a)yorku.ca> > Data: 13 maggio 2017 17:55:23 CEST > A: CCA-LIST(a)LISTS.MCGILL.CA, icts(a)lists.riseup.net > Oggetto: [icts] Book Launch Announcement - Limits of the Digital Revolution > Rispondi a: Derek Hrynyshyn <derekh(a)yorku.ca> > > I am pleased to announce the publication of my book: > > The Limits of the Digital Revolution: How Mass Media Culture Endures in a Social Media World (Praeger, 2017) > > and to invite anyone in Toronto for the Congress to a launch event: > > Kerr Hall South 369 (40 / 50 Gould St) > Ryerson University > 10:30, June 1, 2017 > > I hope to be able to see you there! More details, as they become available, will be here. > derek > > About the Book: > > Limits of the Digital Revolution challenges the dominant mythology of social media as the source of a radically democratic ‘participatory culture’. By examining the structural differences between social media and traditional mass media systems of representation, it argues that popular culture is more likely to continue to be dominated by a capitalist culture industry, which will be driven by the need to promote consumer behaviour and identity. While social media systems do have important implications for the way that people communicate, the book concludes by demonstrating that without a different social media system, which allows citizens to develop their capacities to express and represent themselves in ways free from the manipulation by capital, social media will not solve the problems in our popular culture. > > > "Derek Hrynyshyn has written a book explaining social media that reveals a wisdom beyond the author's years. This is a thoughtful, original, provocative, thorough and entirely up-to-date examination of the great media revolution in the world today and what it means going forward. It will be required reading for anyone serious about the subject. I give it an unconditional recommendation." > > Robert W. McChesney > co-author, People Get Ready: The Fight Against a Jobless Economy and a Citizenless Democracy > > > "The promise of sharing and connectivity in our age of screens comes under deep and insightful scrutiny in Derek Hrynyshyn’s powerfully argued book. Technological progress in no way guarantees the progress of humanity and Hrynyshyn shows us that the advances of social media have even coincided with distinctly uncivil movements. This is a critical, bracing, but also hopeful analysis of the new media systems that have become foundational myths in our lives." > > Michael Harris > author of Solitude and The End of Absence > > > > -- > Dept of Communication Studies > School of Public Policy and Administration > TEL 3024 York University Toronto Canada > > Author of Limits to the Digital Revolution: How Mass Media Culture Endures in a Social Media World (Praeger, 2017)

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Convegno Circolo Giuristi Telematici - 19 maggio - Camera dei Deputati
by Fernanda Faini May 13, 2017

May 13, 2017

Carissimi, sono felice di comunicare che sono aperte *le iscrizioni* al Convegno annuale del Circolo dei Giuristi Telematici, dal titolo *“Digital Society: le regole di oggi, il diritto di domani”*, che si svolgerà* v**enerdì 19 maggio 2017*, dalle 9.00 alle 16.30, presso la sala del Refettorio della* Camera dei Deputati*(Palazzo San Macuto - via del Seminario 76, Roma). Allego il programma del Convegno, articolato in tre sessioni (Riflessioni su diritto e nuove tecnologie – Le risposte ai nuovi interrogativi – Scenari di futuro) e al quale parteciperanno rappresentanti delle istituzioni, mondo accademico ed esperti in materia; si parlerà di vecchi e nuovi “io”, esplorando il mondo degli umani e dei robot, di universi di dati, che spaziano dai *big data* all’*internet of things *fino alle questioni di privacy, e dei nuovi “utensili” digitali che costellano l’ *e-commerce*, i nuovi processi telematici e la vita in rete. Nel programma, a nome di Nexa, parteciperà l'avv. Massimo Travostino. L’evento è *gratuito *ed è stato accreditato presso l’Ordine degli Avvocati di Roma ai fini della formazione obbligatoria permanente con il riconoscimento di *6 crediti formativi* nelle materie generali. È possibile iscriversi, fino ad esaurimento posti, al seguente link: https://www.eventbrite.it/e/biglietti-digital-society-le-reg ole-di-oggi-il-diritto-di-domani-34405845811 Un caro saluto Fernanda

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TechReview: "Is Automation Warping the Labor Market as Dramatically as We Think?"
by J.C. DE MARTIN May 12, 2017

May 12, 2017

*Is Automation Warping the Labor Market as Dramatically as We Think?* /A new study provides a counter to the conventional wisdom that robots are stealing our jobs./ by Jamie Condliffe May 11, 2017 The received wisdom is that automation is stealing away jobs from humans—maybe quickly, maybe slowly, but stealing nonetheless. A new report attempts to provide a counter to that school of thought. An analysis of 165 years of U.S. labor history by the Information Technology and Innovation Foundation—a think-tank supported by the tech industry—reveals that America isn’t currently experiencing high levels of job churn (that is, the creation of new occupations and destruction of old ones). In fact, the results show the rate of churn is at a record low. ITIF argues that because labor disruption measured by that metric is small, technology isn’t having as profound an effect on jobs as many people seem to think—and it won't in the future, either. […] Continua qui: https://www.technologyreview.com/s/607850/is-automation-warping-the-labor-m…

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Whose Global Village: Rethinking How Technology Shapes Our World
by Antonio Vetrò May 12, 2017

May 12, 2017

Segnalo: Book review: Ramesh Srinivasan, “Whose Global Village: Rethinking How Technology Shapes Our World” http://culturedigitally.org/2017/05/review-srinivasan/ <http://culturedigitally.org/2017/05/review-srinivasan/> un caro saluto antonio -- Antonio Vetrò, Ph.D. Director of Research Nexa Center for Internet and Society DAUIN, Politecnico di Torino https://nexa.polito.it/people/avetro

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King's College London/ENDL workshop "The Gig Economy: Deal or Ordeal?" 5 June 2017
by Antonio Casilli May 12, 2017

May 12, 2017

Dear all, if you are in London on June 5, 2017, King's College London in collaboration with ENDL (European Network on Digital Labour) will hold the workshop "The Gig Economy: Deal or Ordeal?". Speakers include Ursula Huws (U. Of Hertfordshire), Juliet Webster (Gender and ICT), Ivana Pais (U. Cattolica, Milan), James Stewart (Edinburgh), Wing-Fai Leung (King’s College), Marisol Sandoval (City), Arianna Tassinari (Warwick), Alex Wood (Oxford Internet Institute), Alessandro Gandini (King’s College) and a keynote speech by yours truly. This event is free. Please circulate widely to those who might be interested. Registration here: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-gig-economy-deal-or-ordeal-tickets-34316… Cheers, --a

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EU DigComp 2.1: The Digital Competence Framework for Citizens with eight proficiency levels and examples of use
by J.C. DE MARTIN May 12, 2017

May 12, 2017

*DigComp 2.1: The Digital Competence Framework for Citizens with eight proficiency levels and examples of use* Abstract: DigComp 2.1 is a further development of the Digital Competence Framework for Citizens. Based on the reference conceptual model published in DigComp 2.0, we present now 8 proficiency levels and examples of use applied to the learning and employment field. https://ec.europa.eu/jrc/en/publication/eur-scientific-and-technical-resear…

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