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Margaret Atwood on freedom
by J.C. DE MARTIN Sept. 18, 2015

Sept. 18, 2015

"Digital technology has made it easier than ever to treat people like domesticated animals farmed for profit." juan carlos *We are double-plus unfree* /Our governments now treat us like cattle – governed by fear, we have surrendered too many of our hard-won freedoms. It’s time to recapture the territory we’ve ceded/ Margaret Atwood Friday 18 September 2015 11.00 BST http://www.theguardian.com/books/2015/sep/18/margaret-atwood-we-are-double-…

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versione italiana di copyright 2.0
by Simone Aliprandi Sept. 18, 2015

Sept. 18, 2015

Ogni tanto alcuni miei studenti mi chiedono se esiste una versione italiana del paper sul copyright 2.0 http://nexa.polito.it/nexafiles/Making%20Copyright%20Fit%20for%20the%20Digi… del nostro Marco Ricolfi? Esiste? Anche una versione in bozza non ufficiale non sarebbe male. Un caro saluto. -- Simone Aliprandi - http://www.aliprandi.org | http://www.array.eu

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Economist: "Digital Taylorism"
by J.C. DE MARTIN Sept. 18, 2015

Sept. 18, 2015

E se lo dice persino l'Economist... juan carlos ..................... *Digital Taylorism* A modern version of “scientific management” threatens to dehumanise the workplace Sep 12th 2015 | From the print edition FREDERICK TAYLOR was the most influential management guru of the early 20th century. His “Principles of Scientific Management” was the first management blockbuster. His fans included Henry Ford, who applied many of his ideas in his giant River Rouge car plant, and Vladimir Lenin, who regarded scientific management as one of the building blocks of socialism. Taylor’s appeal lay in his promise that management could be made into a science, and workers into cogs in an industrial machine. The best way to boost productivity, he argued, was to embrace three rules: break complex jobs down into simple ones; measure everything that workers do; and link pay to performance, giving bonuses to high-achievers and sacking sluggards. […] Continua qui: http://www.economist.com/news/business/21664190-modern-version-scientific-m…

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"Welcome to hell: Apple vs Google vs Facebook and the slow death of the web"
by J.C. DE MARTIN Sept. 17, 2015

Sept. 17, 2015

*Welcome to hell: Apple vs Google vs Facebook and the slow death of the web** * By Nilay Patel on September 17, 2015 08:32 am So let's talk about ad blocking. You might think the conversation about ad blocking is about the user experience of news, but what we're really talking about is money and power in Silicon Valley. And titanic battles between large companies with lots of money and power tend to have a lot of collateral damage. iOS 9 came out yesterday (in fits and starts) and with it, support for content blockers in iOS 9. There is already a little cottage industry of ad blockers available, and you should definitely try one or two — they will radically improve your mobile web experience, because they will... block huge chunks of the web from loading. Those huge chunks — the ads! — are almost certainly the part you don't want. What you want is the content, hot sticky content, snaking its way around your body and mainlining itself directly into your brain. Plug that RSS firehose straight into your optic nerve and surf surf surf 'til you die. […] Continua qui: http://www.theverge.com/2015/9/17/9338963/welcome-to-hell-apple-vs-google-v…

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Fair-use proponents score early win in copyright case
by Alberto Cammozzo Sept. 17, 2015

Sept. 17, 2015

<http://thehill.com/policy/technology/253576-fair-use-proponents-win-early-v…> The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals on Monday ruled that copyright holders must consider fair use before demanding companies such as YouTube remove potentially infringing content. The three-judge panel on the court determined Stephanie Lenz, who posted a YouTube video of her child dancing to a Prince song in 2007, could proceed with her lawsuit seeking damages from Universal Music Corp., which pressed YouTube to remove the video under the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA). “We hold that the statute requires copyright holders to consider fair use before sending a takedown notification, and that failure to do so raises a triable issue as to whether the copyright holder formed a subjective good faith belief that the use was not authorized by law,” according to the majority opinion. The video was eventually restored, but Lenz is seeking damages with help from the Electronic Frontier Foundation. The ruling is an early victory for advocates who argue music and movie publishers are too quick to allege infringement when requesting that Web companies — like YouTube or Twitter — remove copyrighted content. []

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Tribunale di Roma: No alla Rimozione di contenuti su Facebook per diffamazione e violazione privacy. E' contraria all'art 21 della Costituzione.
by Fulvio Sarzana Sept. 16, 2015

Sept. 16, 2015

Tribunale di Roma: No alla Rimozione di contenuti su Facebook per diffamazione e privacy. Prevale la libertà di manifestazione del pensiero riconosciuta dallart 21 della Costituzione. La diffusione di notizie su persone e fatti specifici sui social network, quandanche tali persone non rivestano ruoli pubblici, è protetta dallart 21 della Costituzione, e il diritto di critica e di cronaca sono soggetti alle stesse guarentigie previste dalla disciplina dellattività giornalistica. In particolare si applicano alle notizie fornite sulle proprie pagine Facebook, o su Forum pubblici, laddove esistenti, i principi di tutela del diritto di critica e di cronaca. E quanto ha stabilito la prima Sezione del Tribunale di Roma, con due ordinanze rese di recente, in sede cautelare ed in sede di reclamo. Secondo il Tribunale Capitolino non appare corretto ordinare la rimozione di contenuti sui social network o sui forum, e ciò anche quando siano presenti, come nel caso di specie, dati personali del presunto diffamato. Si tratta del primo provvedimento noto nel quale lart 21 della Costituzione, nella propria interezza ed a prevalenza sul diritto allonore ed alla reputazione ed al diritto alla privacy, viene applicato alle manifestazioni del pensiero che si svolgono attraverso la Rete. La vicenda ha riguardato un Imprenditore molto noto del settore finanziario che aveva a sua volta chiamato in giudizio in sede cautelare un piccolo imprenditore con il quale aveva avuto un rapporto di natura commerciale, conclusosi bruscamente. Il ricorrente aveva agito per ottenere la rimozione dei contenuti posti sulla pagina Facebook del ricorrente, e su diversi Forum finanziari di titolarità di terze persone, vantando lesioni del diritto allonore ed alla reputazione e lamentando la violazione della privacy, per sé stesso, e per alcuni dirigenti della stessa società. Il Collegio presieduto dal Giudice Donatella Galterio, ha rigettato la domanda di rimozione dei contenuti su Facebook ritenendo che si dovesse applicare allo scritto via Internet la disciplina prevista dallart 21 della nostra Costituzione, nonché in quanto espressione del diritto di critica e di cronaca, anche la disciplina più specifica che protegge il diritto di critica e di cronaca prevista dall attività giornalistica. http://www.lidis.it/tribunale-di-roma-no-alla-rimozione-di-contenuti-su-face book-per-diffamazione-e-privacy-e-contraria-allart-21-della-costituzione.htm /#sthash.caW56ioz.dpuf --- Questa e-mail è stata controllata per individuare virus con Avast antivirus. https://www.avast.com/antivirus

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How Are Screens Changing The Face Of War?
by Alessandro Mantelero Sept. 16, 2015

Sept. 16, 2015

How Are Screens Changing The Face Of War? http://www.npr.org/2015/09/11/439195298/how-are-screens-changing-the-face-o… Today airstrikes involve generals dictating - and soldiers carrying out - orders behind screens. Strategist P.W. Singer describes how screens have complicated the nature of war. About P.W. Singer P.W. Singer is considered a leading expert on 21st century security issues. He's a strategist at New America in Washington, D.C. He's also a contributing editor at Popular Science magazine and the founder of NeoLuddite, a technology advisory firm. Singer is the author of several books, including Wired for War and The Robotics Revolution and Conflict in the 21st Century, and most recently, the co-author of Ghost Fleet: A Novel of the Next World War. -- Avv. Alessandro Mantelero Full-Tenured Aggregate Professor, Politecnico di Torino Director of Privacy and Faculty Fellow, Nexa Center for Internet and Society Coordinator, Double Degree program in Management and IP Law, Politecnico di Torino–Tongji University of Shanghai Visiting Professor, Internet Interdisciplinary Institute - Universitat Oberta de Catalunya http://staff.polito.it/alessandro.mantelero http://nexa.polito.it/people/amantelero EMAIL POLICY: twice a day (Mon-Fri)

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Users' Patronage: The Return of the Gift in the "Crowd Society"
by GC F Sept. 15, 2015

Sept. 15, 2015

My last article available on ssrn. Please have a look. Any suggestion is welcome! http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2659659 Giancarlo

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2nd CFP: Workshop Bridging the Gap between HRI and Robot Ethics Research @ ICSR2015
by Ugo Pagallo Sept. 15, 2015

Sept. 15, 2015

Nel caso possa interessare a qualcuno in lista ************************************************************************ *2nd CFP: Workshop Bridging the Gap between HRI and Robot Ethics Research* In conjuction with the 7th International Conference on Social Robotics (ICSR 2015) http://www.icsoro.org/icsr2015/ *Workshop*: October 30, 2015, Paris, France *Submission Deadline*: September 20, 2015 https://bridgingthegapbetweenhriandrobotethicsresearch.wordpress.com/ ************************************************************************ *Introduction* ------------------ Robot ethics is a relatively new domain in which various scholars explore the ethical issues facing computer scientists, engineers, programmers, developers, ethicists and philosophers. There are many different approaches for addressing the ethical issues related to robots (e.g., in both retrospective and prospective manners) as well as many different approaches to what ethics means in relation to robots (e.g., addressing quality of life issues versus usability and acceptance issues). Social robotics researchers need to address legal, societal and ethical issues before robots become widespread within our society. Not only should researchers focus on preventing undesired outcomes, but they also need to investigate the social roles that robots can (not) or should (not) perform in the future according to the opinions of potential future users and in the light of the ethical and societal values at stake. When ordinary people start using autonomous technologies, such as robots, in their everyday lives, robotics researchers need to map all possible interaction scenarios and their potential consequences for both individual users and society as a whole. If the rise of robotics is similar to that of personal computers a few decades ago, we can expect some important legal, societal and ethical issues to emerge from robotics as well. Therefore, robotics researchers need to attend to these issues if we want to anticipate the potential (negative) consequences of the ubiquitous use of robots in our society as well as to design robots that foster our preferred ethical and societal values. *Aim of the workshop* ------------------ This workshop aims to bring together HRI scholars from multiple disciplines to stress the need to incorporate the users’ needs not only from a usability perspective but also from an ethical perspective. We therefore believe it is vital to involve prospective users as active testers in the design process. Their opinions and perceptions help researchers, designers, and engineers to create social robots that fit the special needs and demands of potential future users. We believe that also philosophers, legal scholars, policy makers should be involved in the deliberation process about the design of future robots. *Call for papers* ------------------ Participants are invited to submit a short paper (max. 2 pages) on their ideas for the most pressing issues to address in robot ethics in the next decade including at least one case or scenario. The best ideas will be asked to give a 5 minute pitch during the workshop day to open new discussion topics. Please use the ICSR conference style when preparing your paper. The following list reflects (but is not limited to these) possible topics for the papers: § Lessons learned / Critical reflection on robot ethics in the last 20 years § New methods for discovering, communicating, ethical issues in robot ethics § Evaluations of ethical reflections and resulting technologies § The role of stakeholders (and stakeholder involvement) in robot ethics § Successful methods to pursue § (Ethical) evaluation of potential future applications for social robots § The (societal) impact of social robots in a specific domain § Bridging between academic research and industrial applications § Revealing areas and opportunities for future directions Please send a PDF version of your paper to 3TUrobotics(a)gmail.com. *Organizers* ------------------ *Organizing Committee* Maartje de Graaf, University of Twente, The Netherlands Aimee van Wynsberghe, University of Twente, The Netherlands Filippo Santoni de Sio, Delft University, The Netherlands *Program Committee* Peter Asaro, The New School, USA Charles Ess, University of Oslo, Norway Vanessa Evers, University of Twente, The Netherlands Kevin Macnish, Leeds University, UK AJung Moon, University of British Columbia, Canada Ugo Pagallo, University of Toronto, Italy Tom Sorell, University of Warwick, UK Amanda Sharkey, University of Sheffield, UK Noel Sharkey, University of Sheffield, UK *Important Dates* -------------------------------------- § 20 September 2015: Submission deadline § 1 October 2015: Notification of acceptance § 30 October 2015: Workshop ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------- *UNIVERSITY OF TWENTE.* Maartje de Graaf, PhD Postdoctoral Researcher Media, Communication & Organization Faculty of Behavioral Sciences University of Twente | Drienerlolaan 5 | 7522 NB Enschede Building Cubicus, Room C219 053 489 6094 | 06 8322 5064 053 489 3299 (secretary) http://robonarratives.wordpress.com

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Berkman Center Webcast live oggi ore 18 - When online is offline: the case for hyperlocal webservers and networks
by Giuseppe Futia Sept. 15, 2015

Sept. 15, 2015

When online is offline: the case for hyperlocal webservers and networks https://cyber.law.harvard.edu/events/luncheon/2015/09/Griffey *Berkman Fellow, Jason Griffey* Today, 6.00 pm Webcast live:http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/interactive/webcast <http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/interactive/webcast> http://nexa.polito.it/berkman-webcast-live <http://nexa.polito.it/berkman-webcast-live> The LibraryBox Project (along with other emerging projects like PirateBox, occupy.here, IdeasBox, and others) is an attempt at bridging the divide in delivery of digital information in areas where there is a lack of communications infrastructure or where that infrastructure has been damaged or is overly monitored or controlled. As self-contained, non-connected portable servers, these devices can be used to circumvent governmental firewalls, distribute information in areas of political upheaval, reach the most remote areas to deliver healthcare information, and help recovery efforts after natural disasters. This presentation will be an overview of the LibraryBox project and its current state, goals and development roadmap, and a discussion of possible next directions and needs. About Jason Jason Griffey is the founder and principal at Evenly Distributed (http://evenlydistributed.net) a technology consulting and creation firm for libraries, museums, education, and other non-profits. Jason is a Fellow at the Berkman Center for Internet & Society at Harvard University, where he studies hyperlocal micronetworks such as his LibraryBox project. He has written extensively on libraries and technology, most recently a chapter in The Top Technologies Every Librarian Needs to Know: A LITA Guide. His previous book, Mobile Technology and Libraries, is a part of the award-winning Tech Set series. Named a Library Journal Mover & Shaker in 2009, Griffey has written and spoken internationally on topics such as the future of technology and libraries, personal electronics in the library, privacy, copyright, and intellectual property. A full list of his publications and presentations can be found on his CV. He is one of eight winners of the Knight Foundation News Challenge for Libraries for the Measure the Future project (measurethefuture.net) an open hardware project designed to provide actionable use metrics for library spaces. Griffey is the creator and director of The LibraryBox Project (librarybox.us), an open source portable digital file distribution system. He can be stalked obsessively online, and spends his free time with his daughter Eliza, reading, obsessing over gadgets, and preparing for the inevitable zombie uprising.

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