Nexa Center for Internet and Society Newsletter Se non visualizzi correttamente questo messaggio clicca qui <https://nexa.polito.it/2018/02/bfrischmann> NEXA Venerdì 29 giugno 2018, ore 14.30 - 16.30 Sala lettura Biblioteca Centrale di Ingegneria <https://www.polito.it/ateneo/sedi/index.php?bl_id=TO_CEN03&fl_id=XPTE&rm_id=...> Politecnico di Torino, Corso Duca degli Abruzzi, 24, Torino https://nexa.polito.it/2018/02/bfrischmann Re-Engineering Humanity Speaker: Prof. Brett Frischmann (Villanova University) Discussant: Philippe Agrain (Sopinspace) In this wide-reaching, interdisciplinary book, Brett Frischmann and Evan Selinger examine what’s happening to our lives as society embraces big data, predictive analytics, and smart environments. They explain how the goal of designing programmable worlds goes hand in hand with engineering predictable and programmable people. Detailing new frameworks, provocative case studies, and mind-blowing thought experiments, Frischmann and Selinger reveal hidden connections between fitness trackers, electronic contracts, social media platforms, robotic companions, fake news, autonomous cars, and more. This powerful analysis should be read by anyone interested in understanding exactly how technology threatens the future of our society, and what we can do now to build something better. [MELANDRI] Venerdì 29 giugno 2018, ore 16.30 - 17.45 Sala lettura Biblioteca Centrale di Ingegneria <https://www.polito.it/ateneo/sedi/index.php?bl_id=TO_CEN03&fl_id=XPTE&rm_id=...> Politecnico di Torino, Corso Duca degli Abruzzi, 24, Torino https://nexa.polito.it/2018/04/jcguedon Recasting the learned periodical in open access: from kingmaker to community content as king Speaker: Prof. Jean-Claude Guédon (Université de Montréal) Silently, learned periodicals have seen their nature shift between 1950 and 1990: society and academic publishers have been displaced by international, commercial, publishers. Digitization has allowed revisiting the processes accompanying learned communication, and has given rise to the Open Access Movement. After first resisting this trend, commercial publishers (and others) have come to embrace open access, but, so doing, have also tried to reshape it to their advantage (e.g. the hybrid journals). Meanwhile, funding agencies, both private and public, are beginning to see that their role too can shift. Deconstructing the "publishing function" is opening up new, improved, vistas for learned communication, while offering the promise of a better economic context for research institutions, libraries, and most learned societies. [MELANDRI] Venerdì 29 giugno 2018, ore 15.00 - 17.00 Dipartimento di Giurisprudenza, Campus Luigi Einaudi, aula H2, secondo piano, D4, Lungo Dora Siena, 100 A, Torino. https://nexa.polito.it/2018/03/lguibault Copyright Law’s Impact on Scientific Research Speaker: Prof. Lucie Guibault (Dalhousie University) Discussant: Massimo Durante (Università degli Studi di Torino) This lecture examines how the European rules on copyright affect scientific research, in particular through text and data mining (TDM). TDM is an increasingly popular research method that uses computational capacity to query mass quantities of information in order to produce new knowledge. TDM involves the reproduction of the information to be queried. The question arises whether this practice amounts to an infringement of copyright. The lecture will analyse the rules in force in selected Member States and will take a critical look at the relevant provisions of the Proposal for a European Directive on Copyright in the Digital Single Market.” [MELANDRI] 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>