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Power point e stupidità
by Nicola Lugaresi June 30, 2015

June 30, 2015

Power point è uno strumento, e può essere (molto) utile se lo si sa usare. Non serve per studiare, ma per rappresentare e trasmettere (e in conferenze internazionali è ancora più utile). L'articolo citato sotto confonde, in modo strumentale e banale, il cattivo uso di Power Point con l'uso di Power Point. Seguendo questo ragionamento, si potrebbe voler vietare quasi tutto, dalle auto alle banane. http://theconversation.com/why-universities-should-get-rid-of-powerpoint-an… Già nei commenti all'articolo ci sono le risposte... NL -- -------------------- Nicola Lugaresi Università di Trento - Dipartimento/Facoltà di Giurisprudenza Via Verdi, 53 - 38100 Trento Sent from a borrowed toaster

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Berkman Center Webcast live oggi ore 18 - Ideology and Text: Classifying and Analyzing Discourse using Machine Learning
by Giuseppe Futia June 30, 2015

June 30, 2015

Ideology and Text: Classifying and Analyzing Discourse using Machine Learning https://cyber.law.harvard.edu/events/luncheon/2015/06/Hashmi <http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/events/luncheon/2014/06/sigal> *with Ali Hashmi* Today, 6.00 pm Webcast live: http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/interactive/webcast http://nexa.polito.it/berkman-webcast-live Typically, text analysis tools uncover patterns in the data without uncovering the 'ideology' embedded in the text. In doing so, they conceal the function of the relation of 'what is being said' to its social, and, more importantly, political context. As part of my research, I have developed a tool that uses data-driven approaches for classifying discourse in news media. My research combines critical discourse analysis (CDA) approaches with corpus linguistics using machine learning and natural language processing (NLP) techniques. The objective of CDA approaches is to make more visible the hidden aspects of discourse by looking at the latent social ideologies that permeate social texts. On the other hand, corpus linguistics is an agnostic way of studying language patterns in large amounts of text. As an instance of this framework, I have developed a tool for analyzing discourse on Islam in the mainstream media. The tool is based on the hypothesis that the media coverage in several mainstream news sources tends to contextualize Muslims largely as a group embroiled in conflict at a disproportionately large level. My hypothesis is based on the assumption that discourse on Islam in mainstream global media tends to lean toward the dangerous "clash of civilizations" frame. To test this hypothesis, I have developed a prototype tool "Said-Huntington Discourse Analyzer" that machine classifies news articles on a normative scale— a scale that measures "clash of civilization" polarization in an article on the basis of conflict. The tool also extracts semantically meaningful conversations for a media source using topic modeling, allowing the users to discover frames of conversations on the basis of Said-Huntington index classification. About Ali Ali Hashmi is a researcher at the MIT Center for Civic Media. At the center, he is developing software tools that machine-classify and analyze discourse in news articles to elucidate the relationships between language, social identities and power. Ali is interested in projects and ideas at the intersection of journalism and technology. In particular, Ali is interested in: 1) understanding the ontology of digital asymmetries on the Internet; and 2) developing relevant media technologies for leveling the inequalities produced by these asymmetries. Prior to MIT, Ali was a McCormick scholar at Medill (Northwestern) and a Knight fellow at the Globe Lab (Boston Globe, NYTCO). He has worked as a software architect and development manager for Bell Canada for nearly nine years, leading business intelligence and data integration teams in Toronto, Montreal, London (Ontario) and Bangalore; he has also worked as a journalist in Pakistan. He holds an MS degree from MIT Media Lab, an MSJ degree from Northwestern University, and a BS degree in Computer Science from the University of Western Ontario.

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pwer Point ci rende stupidi?
by Mariella Berra June 30, 2015

June 30, 2015

*Why universities should get rid of PowerPoint and why they won’t * http://theconversation.com/why-universities-should-get-rid-of-powerpoint-an… e turisti con autorizzazione? http://www.ilfattoquotidiano.it/2015/06/29/copyright-lue-ridiscute-la-liber… June 23, 2015 9.08pm BST -- Prof.ssa Mariella Berra Dipartimento di Culture, Politica e Società Università di Torino tel.+390116702606

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Uber Francia (ar gabbio)
by Antonio Casilli June 29, 2015

June 29, 2015

Io ve la lascio lì, senza commenti, perché la cosa sta ancora succedendo: due dirigenti di Uber Francia sono attualmente sottoposti a fermo di polizia dalla polizia nel contesto di un'inchiesta iniziata l'anno scorso per violazione del codice del lavoro e "dissimulazione di dati informatici" (?) http://www.liberation.fr/direct/element/_11634/ -- Antonio A. Casilli Associate Professor, Telecom ParisTech Research Fellow Edgar-Morin Center (EHESS)

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"La regolamentazione dei contenuti digitali - Studi per i primi quindici anni dell'Autorità per le Garanzie nelle Comunicazioni (1998-2013)"
by Marco Bassini June 29, 2015

June 29, 2015

Cari Tutti, Vi segnalo l'uscita del volume a cura di Oreste Pollicino ed Ernesto Apa con gli studi sui primi quindici anni di attività di AGCOM (qui maggiori dettagli: (http://www.medialaws.eu/la-regolamentazione-dei-contenuti-digitali-studi-pe…) Il volume sarà presentato in occasione di un seminario che si terrà alla Camera dei Deputati il 16 luglio pv., cui parteciperanno, oltre ai presidenti di AGCOM e AGCM, diversi autorevoli studiosi e operatori del settore (qui la locandina dell'evento: http://www.medialaws.eu/presentazione-del-volume-la-regolamentazione-dei-co…) cari saluti, Marco Dott. Marco Bassini Dipartimento di Studi Giuridici "Angelo Sraffa" Università Commerciale "L. Bocconi" Via Roentgen, 1 20136 Milano Stanza 1-C1-07 Tel. +39.02.5836.5611 --- Dai il tuo 5x1000 alla Bocconi: aiuta a studiare chi merita, anche quando non puo'. CF 80024610158. www.unibocconi.it/5x1000 Please note that the above message is addressed only to individuals filing Italian income tax returns. ---

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Nessuno si farà male, ma siamo sicuri che serva?
by Diego Giorio June 28, 2015

June 28, 2015

<http://www.repubblica.it/tecnologia/2015/06/15/news/in_new_mexico_la_smart_…> L'idea è buona, ma ho qualche dubbio che far muovere droni (intesi sia in senso aereo che terrestre) in una realtà disabitata possa davvero essere un banco di prova. D'altra parte sarà come con i farmaci: prima di sperimentare sull'uomo si testano sui ratti Buona settimana a tutti Diego

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Guardian: "Major internet providers slowing traffic speeds for thousands across US"
by J.C. DE MARTIN June 25, 2015

June 25, 2015

*Major internet providers slowing traffic speeds for thousands across US* http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2015/jun/22/major-internet-providers-… Major internet providers, including AT&T, Time Warner and Verizon, are slowing data from popular websites to thousands of US businesses and residential customers in dozens of cities across the country, according to a study released on Monday. The study, conducted by internet activists BattlefortheNet, looked at the results from 300,000 internet users and found significant degradations on the networks of the five largest internet service providers (ISPs), representing 75% of all wireline households across the US.

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WashPost: "Net of Insecurity: The making of a vulnerable Internet" (3 parts)
by J.C. DE MARTIN June 24, 2015

June 24, 2015

Questo è giornalismo. juan carlos * Part 1: A flaw in the design* The Internet’s founders saw its promise but didn’t foresee users attacking one another http://www.washingtonpost.com/sf/business/2015/05/30/net-of-insecurity-part… *Part 2: The long life of a quick ‘fix’* Internet protocol from 1989 leaves data vulnerable to hijackers http://www.washingtonpost.com/sf/business/2015/05/31/net-of-insecurity-part… *Part 3: A disaster foretold — and ignored* LOpht’s warnings about the Internet drew notice but little action http://www.washingtonpost.com/sf/business/2015/06/22/net-of-insecurity-part…

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relazione annuale del Garante privacy in diretta streaming
by Mauro Alovisio June 23, 2015

June 23, 2015

gent.me /mi segnalo in diretta streaming dalla camera la presentazione relazione annuale del Garante Privacy http://webtv.camera.it/eventi a presto Mauro Alovisio

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Berkman Center Webcast live oggi ore 18 - Toward Critical Feminist Technology Studies of Youth Safety: Problematizing Dominant Digital Approaches to Sexual Exploitation of Children Online
by Giuseppe Futia June 23, 2015

June 23, 2015

Toward Critical Feminist Technology Studies of Youth Safety: Problematizing Dominant Digital Approaches to Sexual Exploitation of Children Online https://cyber.law.harvard.edu/events/luncheon/2015/06/thakor <http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/events/luncheon/2014/06/sigal> *Mitali Thakor, PhD student in MIT's HASTS program* Today, 6.00 pm Webcast live: http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/interactive/webcast http://nexa.polito.it/berkman-webcast-live In this talk, I will discuss my ethnographic fieldwork on new digital approaches to addressing child exploitation online, such as the use of avatars and image detection software. What sort of partnerships are necessary between law enforcement, scientists, and non-governmental agencies to make these approaches work? What does a critical feminist analysis of such technoscientific practices look like? I look forward to an open discussion on questions of youth sexuality and rights online, governance and privacy, and possibilities for feminist technology design. About Mitali Mitali Thakor is a PhD student in MIT's HASTS program. She studies sex work, sex trafficking, technology, and digital forensics. Mitali uses Feminist STS, queer theory, and critical race studies to explore the ways in which activists, computer scientists, lawyers, and law enforcement officials negotiate their relationships to anti-trafficking via emergent technologies and discourses of carceral control.

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