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Re: [Air-L] Suggestions for literature on adoption of technology as background for our study of mobiles in Myanmar (OPEN)
by john-willy.bakke＠telenor.com 21 Jul '14

21 Jul '14

Hi Rich & the rest of the community Two titles come to my mind - both directly related to the introduction of phones: Assa Doron and Robin Jeffrey: The Great Indian Phone Book: How the Cheap Cell Phone Changes Business, Politics, and Daily Life (2013) Heather Hudson: When Telephones Reach the Village: The Role of Telecommunication in Rural Development (1984) BR, John Willy Bakke -----Original Message----- From: Air-L [mailto:air-l-bounces@listserv.aoir.org] On Behalf Of Rich Ling Sent: 2. juli 2014 09:10 To: air-l(a)listserv.aoir.org Subject: [Air-L] Suggestions for literature on adoption of technology as background for our study of mobiles in Myanmar Dear all, Along with colleagues from Nanyang Technical University, I am starting an ethnographic study of the adoption and diffusion of mobile phones in Myanmar. The study is also being supported by Telenor. Myanmar is one of the last countries in the world without a well developed mobile communication network (the others are North Korea, Cuba and Eritrea). We are starting to put together the literature review and we are interested in gathering suggestions. We are using Jonathan Donner's lives and livelihoods idea to frame the work. Beyond that I would like to get the wisdom of the crowd regarding the articles and books that examine the question of introducing new technology to a society and tracing the social consequences of the technology. I think, for example, of Cottrell's Death by Dieselization or perhaps Sharp's Steel Axes for Stone-age Australians. I know that neither of these two articles are about ICTs and that both are as old as dust, but they focus on socio-technical transitions and their social consequences. What are the other articles and books in this genre that might help us focus on the transition from face to face interaction to mediated communication? Thanks in advance. Rich Ling _______________________________________________ The Air-L(a)listserv.aoir.org mailing list is provided by the Association of Internet Researchers http://aoir.org Subscribe, change options or unsubscribe at: http://listserv.aoir.org/listinfo.cgi/air-l-aoir.org Join the Association of Internet Researchers: http://www.aoir.org/

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Call for Participation: ACM Hypertext 2014, Sept 1-4, Santiago, Chile
by Denis Parra 20 Jul '14

20 Jul '14

We are excited to invite you to participate in the 25th ACM Conference on Hypertext and Social Media, 1–4 Sep 2014, in Santiago, Chile. The venue of the conference is the Central Campus of PUC Chile, located right by some of the most visited places in Santiago such as the Lastarria neighborhood, Santa Lucia and San Cristobal hills, Bellas Artes Museum and neighborhood, and La Moneda Presidential Palace. During the conference you will find and enjoy: 2 amazing keynote speakers: - Cesar Hidalgo, Macro Connections Group, MIT Media Lab - Ricardo Baeza-Yates, VP of Research, Yahoo! Barcelona, Spain 19 full papers and 16 short papers http://ht.acm.org/ht2014/index.php?conference.accepted_papers 16 posters and demos http://ht.acm.org/ht2014/index.php?conference.accepted_posters 3 Workshops - DataWiz: Workshop on Data Visualization. http://datawiz2014.di.unito.it/ - LinkQS: Workshop on Linking The Quantified Self. http://linkqsws.wordpress.com/ - SP 2014: Workshop on Social Personalisation. http://columbus.exp.sis.pitt.edu/sp2014/ 2 tutorials Matrix Algorithms in Social Recommendation Systems by Kunpeng Zhang, University of Illinois, Chicago and Evaluating Recommender Systems: Ensuring Replicability of Evaluation by Alejandro Bellogín, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Spain and Alan Said, Centrum Wiskunde & Informatica, Netherlands To register, visit http://ht.acm.org/ht2014/index.php?venue.registration Find more information at the official conference website http://ht.acm.org/ht2014/ or the Facebook group https://www.facebook.com/acm.ht2014 We look forward to see you in Santiago in September! Denis Parra Local and publicity chair ACM Hypertext 2014 Assistant Professor, CS Department School of Engineering, PUC Chile http://web.ing.puc.cl/~dparra/

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CFP: 2nd Call - Problematizing Cyber Wars
by Vit Sisler 18 Jul '14

18 Jul '14

Problematizing Cyber Wars Call for Papers CyberOrient: Online Journal of the Virtual Middle East Editor-in-Chief: Daniel Martin Varisco Guest Editor: Helga Tawil-Souri Submission deadline: September 30, 2014 (Full Papers) Aim According to military analysts, since the 1991 Gulf War and even more so since the Hezbollah-Israel 2006 war, we have entered a new phase of warfare, in which kinetic and traditional military power are losing importance to symbolic and media power. Perhaps unsurprisingly given a still-widely held Orientalist view in military circles, many such perspectives revolve around wars and conflicts in the ‘Middle East’ or against ‘Islam’ more broadly – taking place in Iraq, Iran, Afghanistan, Israel/Palestine, Syria, but also on cyber networks and mobile phones. While these claims are of course hyperbole, this special issue of CyberOrient invites articles on questions of how we might define wars in a (new) media-age in the region; whether, why, and how (new) media are increasingly sites of warfare; the relationships between ‘virtual’ and ‘real’ battlespaces. Topics could include the significance of targeting (and bombing) telecommunications and media infrastructures; the use of (new) media as outlets for propaganda during wartime; the mediatization of war and the militarization of media; the role of participatory or social media and mobile communications during and in wars; relationships or differences between official, military, alternative, citizen, and grass-roots (new) media uses during war and conflict; the expanding definition of warzones; commemoration and memorialization of war in a digital age; among others. We welcome submissions from across disciplines and methodological approaches that are empirically and critically grounded. About CyberOrient CyberOrient (http://www.cyberorient.net/) is a peer-reviewed journal published by the American Anthropological Association, in collaboration with the Faculty of Arts of Charles University in Prague. The aim of the journal is to provide research and theoretical considerations on the representation of Islam and the Middle East, the very areas that used to be styled as an “Orient”, in cyberspace, as well as the impact of the internet and new media in Muslim and Middle Eastern contexts. Submission Articles should be submitted directly to Helga Tawil-Souri (helga(a)nyu.edu) and Vit Sisler (vit.sisler(a)ff.cuni.cz) Article should be between 6,000 and 8,000 words (including references), and follow the AAA style in referencing and citations. Upon acceptance, articles will be published online with free access in spring 2015. More information can be found here: http://www.cyberorient.net/detail.do?articleId=3682 -- Vit Sisler, Ph.D. Charles University in Prague Faculty of Arts Institute of Information Science and Librarianship New Media Studies http://uisk.jinonice.cuni.cz/sisler/

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Toward an Internet Bill of Rights
by Ian O'Byrne 18 Jul '14

18 Jul '14

Hi all, I'd like to share and invite you in to the early stages of an initiative currently getting started. We'd like to bring the Internet community together to synthesize the prior work and develop an Internet Bill of Rights. There is a good amount of prior work that has been shared online in this area. I'd be interested in bringing together the collective wisdom in the AoIR society to help develop a framework of freedoms and rights we believe to be inherent in online spaces. To that end, I've shared a blog post <http://wiobyrne.com/toward-an-internet-bill-of-rights/>, and Google Doc <https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Ddgjd_AyB2aftB1qrtyTaZqcIcwxgT9AuAM6dku…> to act as a working copy. Please join in and lend your support in this initiative. Once we have a minimum viable product, I'll move the contents of the Google Doc to Wikipedia for further editing and comments. Thanks again, -Ian _________________________ W. Ian O'Byrne, Ph.D. wiobyrne.com University of New Haven Department of Education *"Feet on the Ground and Eyes to the Sky"* 300 Boston Post Road West Haven, CT 06516 (203) 479-4272

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FW: Blogpost: The-information-society-is-in-crisis-and-what-to-do-about-it
by michael gurstein 18 Jul '14

18 Jul '14

This may be of interest to some. http://gurstein.wordpress.com/2014/07/17/the-information-society-is-in-crisi s-and-what-to-do-about-it/ http://tinyurl.com/oehhx8q

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CFP for AAG 2015: Digital Connectivity, Inclusion, and Inequality at the World’s Economic Margins
by Mark Graham 18 Jul '14

18 Jul '14

*Digital Connectivity, Inclusion, and Inequality at the World’s Economic Margins* AAG Annual Meeting <http://www.aag.org/cs/annualmeeting/call_for_papers>, Chicago, April 21-25, 2015 *Organisers: * *Mark Graham <http://www.oii.ox.ac.uk/people/?id=165> and Chris Foster <http://www.oii.ox.ac.uk/people/?id=356>, University of Oxford* We are in the throes of a global transformation of digital connectivity. Over six billion people have access to phones and two and a half billion people use the internet. Meanwhile, governments, international organisations, and corporations are developing plans, projects, and policies to connect the remaining disconnected. Fibre-optic cables, laptops for every child, and drones, balloons, and satellites all beaming down internet access are just some of the strategies being actively planned to bring connectivity to the rest of the world in the coming years. As we approach a situation in which almost half of humanity is online, we need to explore the difference people expect connectivity to make at the world’s economic peripheries. Will connectivity amplify or deepen economic inequalities? Should we expect empowerment, inclusion, and opportunities; or further exploitation and extraversion? This session brings together papers that seek to explore the differences that connectivity makes, and can make, in the contemporary international division of labour and on-going global shifts in economic flows. It will critically explore ‘Bottom of the Pyramid’ networked capitalism, and the opportunities, struggles, and alternatives that it underpins. It will also facilitate a space for research that addresses the central question of ‘who benefits and who doesn’t from the increasing networking of the world’s population?’ *Potential topics include:* - Discourses around connectivity, inclusion, and exclusion in the Global South - ICT and development policies and who they ultimately benefit. - Changes to global value chains or production networks - Opportunities for upgrading or disintermediation - Empirical or theoretical engagements with the idea of ‘connectivity’ and the roles that it can play amongst the world’s poorest - Contemporary or historical treatments of the links between connectivity and inequality - Alternative ways of imagining or envisioning connectivity at the world’s economic peripheries - Case studies of global ‘body shopping’, digital work, or bottom of the pyramid capitalism - Policies and initiatives for digital connectivity which support inclusion and reduced inequality *Submission Procedure:* To be considered for the session, please send your abstract of 250 words or fewer, to: mark.graham(a)oii.ox.ac.uk and christopher.foster(a)oii.ox.ac.uk The deadline for receipt of abstracts is October 1 2014. Notification of acceptance will be before October 7. All accepted papers will then need to register for the AAG conference at aag.org. Accepted papers will be considered for a special issue or edited volume edited by the organisers. ------------------------------------------ Dr Mark Graham Associate Professor and Senior Research Fellow Oxford Internet Institute University of Oxford Research Fellow Green Templeton College University of Oxford Visiting Research Associate School of Geography and the Environment University of Oxford oii.ox.ac.uk/people/graham <http://www.oii.ox.ac.uk/people/graham> | geospace.co.uk <http://www.geospace.co.uk> | Information Geographies <http://geography.oii.ox.ac.uk> | wikichains.org <http://www.wikichains.org> | @geoplace <http://twitter.com/geoplace> | zerogeography blog <http://www.zerogeography.net/> <http://twitter.com/geoplace>

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Fwd: Invitation to Join iLRN: A New Interdisciplinary Collaborative Research Network to Study, Design, and Showcase Immersive Learning.
by Beatrice Hasler 18 Jul '14

18 Jul '14

Dear all I'm forwarding the announcement of the newly founded Immersive Learning Research Network. All the best, Beatrice Hasler www.event-lab.org ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Immersive Learning Research Network <immersivelrn(a)gmail.com> Date: Thu, Jul 17, 2014 at 8:26 PM Subject: Invitation to Join iLRN: A New Interdisciplinary Collaborative Research Network to Study, Design, and Showcase Immersive Learning. To: Beatrice Hasler <hasler.beatrice(a)gmail.com> Display problems? View this newsletter in your browser. <http://csee.essex.ac.uk/ariel/?email_id=3&user_id=15&urlpassed=W3ZpZXdfaW5f…> *University of Essex, Colchester, England, July 14th, 2014* - An international group of researchers, learning organizations, and teaching practitioners announced today the formation of a worldwide interdisciplinary effort to better define, share, and promote the emergent and practical means for learning in digitally-enhanced “immersive” contexts. *The Immersive Learning Research Network <http://csee.essex.ac.uk/ariel/?email_id=3&user_id=15&urlpassed=aHR0cDovL2lt…>*, or *iLRN*, invites developers, educators, researchers, and business professionals working to join and collaborate to develop the scientific, technical, and applied potential of immersive learning. iLRN’s founding board of directors note that there has been growing organizational efforts and innovation focusing on the use of immersive techniques to situate effective learning experiences dating as far back as the late 1980’s. However, they note, a functional infrastructure and means for researchers to collaborate across the disciplines and around the world is conspicuously absent. The *Immersive Learning Research Network* aims to fill that gap by promoting an open interdisciplinary research agenda, global forums, and a comprehensive scholarly toolset for those seriously involved in producing and understanding immersive learning experiences. [image: Read about us] <http://csee.essex.ac.uk/ariel/?email_id=3&user_id=15&urlpassed=aHR0cDovL2lt…> [image: ---] In addition to offering *free membership* to professionals who join before the July 2015 First iLRN Annual Meeting, the new research network is acquiring key partnerships with organizations and institutions with complementary missions. Of this capacity, *Dr. Amy Cheney, Chair of The Applied Research in Immersive Environments for Learning SIG of the American Educational Research Association* said, “*This is an exciting partnership opportunity for ARiEL SIG, one potentially of great benefit to our members. Leveraging the knowledge and capacity of international scholars in immersive environments to both help define this space and grow the knowledge base will be an tremendous benefit for all researchers and practitioners in the field"*. [image: Join us] <http://csee.essex.ac.uk/ariel/?email_id=3&user_id=15&urlpassed=aHR0cDovL2lt…> [image: ---] To join the Immersive Learning Research Network or find out more about the planned July 2015 meeting in Prague, CZ and other initiatives, visit http://immersivelrn.org/ <http://csee.essex.ac.uk/ariel/?email_id=3&user_id=15&urlpassed=aHR0cDovL2lt…> [image: ---] [image: Facebook] <http://csee.essex.ac.uk/ariel/?email_id=3&user_id=15&urlpassed=aHR0cHM6Ly93…> [image: Twitter] <http://csee.essex.ac.uk/ariel/?email_id=3&user_id=15&urlpassed=aHR0cHM6Ly90…> [image: Google] <http://csee.essex.ac.uk/ariel/?email_id=3&user_id=15&urlpassed=aHR0cHM6Ly9w…> [image: Footer] Unsubscribe <http://csee.essex.ac.uk/ariel/?email_id=3&user_id=15&urlpassed=W3Vuc3Vic2Ny…> Immersive Learning Research Network 2014 ©.

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CFP - JoPP Special Issue on Feminism and (Un)Hacking
by Mathieu.O'Neil 18 Jul '14

18 Jul '14

<apologies for repeated posts> Journal of Peer Production (JoPP) CFP for Special Issue on Feminism and (Un)Hacking Editors: Shaowen Bardzell (Indiana University), Lilly Nguyen (University of California - Irvine), Sophie Toupin (McGill University) There has been a recent growth in interest in feminist approaches to practices like hacking, tinkering, geeking and making. What started off as an interest in furthering representations of women in the technical fields of computer science and engineering, often along the lines of liberal feminism, has now grown into social, cultural, and political analyses of gendered modes of social reproduction, expertise, and work, among others. Practices of hacking, tinkering, geeking, and making have been criticized for their overtly masculinist approaches, often anchored in the Euro-American techno-centers of Silicon Valley and Cambridge that have created a culture of entrepreneurial heroism and a certain understanding of technopolitical liberation, or around the German Chaos Computer Club (CCC). With this special issue of the Journal of Peer Production, we hope to delve more deeply into these critiques to imagine new forms of feminist technical praxis that redefine these practices and/or open up new ones. How can we problematize hacking, tinkering, geeking and making through feminist theories and epistemologies? How do these practices, in fact, change when we begin to consider them through a feminist prism? Can we envision new horizons of practice and possibility through a feminist critique? In this call, we understand feminist perspectives to be pluralistic, including intersectional, trans, genderqueer, and race-sensitive viewpoints that are committed to the central principles of feminism--agency, fulfillment, empowerment, diversity, and social justice. We refer to the term hacking with a full understanding of its histories and limitations. That said, we use it provisionally to provoke, stimulate, and reimagine new possibilities for technical feminist practice. Hacking, as a form of subjectivity and a mode of techno-political engagement, has recently emerged as a site of intense debate, being equally lauded as a political ethos of freedom and slandered as an elitist form of expertise. These fervid economic and political ideals have been challenged and at times come under attack because they not only displace women and genderqueer within these technological communities but, more importantly, because they displace gendered forms of reflection and engagement. Drawing on a growing community of feminist scholarship and practices, we hope to build on this momentum to invite submissions that reconceptualize the relationship between feminism and hacking. We aim to highlight feminist hackers, makers and geeks not only as new communities of experts, but as new modes of engagement and novel theoretical developments. In turn, with this special issue, we hope to challenge both concepts of feminism and hacking to ask several questions. How can feminist approaches to hacking open up new possibilities for technopolitics? Historically, hacking discourses center on political and labor aesthetics of creation, disruption, and transgression. How can feminist theories of political economy push technopolitical imaginaries towards alternate ideals of reproduction, care, and maintenance? Conversely, we also ask how notions of hacking can open up new possibilities for feminist epistemologies and modes of engagement? We seek scholarly articles and commentaries that address any of the following themes and beyond. We are also interested in portraits, understood broadly, of feminist hackers, makers and geeks that help us better understand feminist hacker, maker and geek culture. We also solicit experimental formats such as photo essays or other media that address the special issue themes. · What is distinctive about feminist hacking or hackers? How does feminist hacking practices help create a distinct feminist hacking culture? · Why are feminist hacking practices emerging? Which constellation of factors help the emergence of such practices? · What do we know about the feminist hacker spectrum? i.e. what are the differences among feminist hacking practices and how can we make sense of these distinctions? · What tensions in hacking and/or in hacker practices and culture(s) come to the fore when feminist, anti-patriarchal, anti-racist, anti-capitalist and/or anti-oppression perspectives are taken? · What does feminist hacker ethic(s) entail? · What kind of social imaginaries are emerging with feminist hacking and hackers? · What kinds of hacking are taking place beyond the Euro-American tradition? Submission abstracts of 300-500 words due by September 8, 2014, and should be sent to femhack(a)peerproduction.net. All peer reviewed papers will be reviewed according to Journal of Peer Production guidelines; see http://peerproduction.net/peer-review/process/ Full papers and materials (peer reviewed papers around 8,000 words; testimonies, self-portraits and experimental formats up to 4,000 words) are due by January 31st, 2015 for review.

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CFP: CSMC - Digital Labor, Below the Line
by Nina Huntemann 17 Jul '14

17 Jul '14

Please circulate widely and consider submitting your work to this special issue of Critical Studies in Media Communication! CALL FOR PAPERS Critical Studies in Media Communication Special Issue: Digital Labor, Below-the-Line Submission deadline: January 12, 2015 Final drafts due: April 12, 2015 Publication: August 2015 The work required to produce the web and to fill the media devices that increasingly occupy 21st century life is often difficult to see. With a click content appears, images proliferate, and text, sound and video streams across our screens. However, behind the screen exists a globally distributed network of people who toil to create, manage, distribute, promote and update digital content. Their labor reflects new modes of production and shifting divisions of labor that characterize media production in a digital economy. For this special issue of Critical Studies in Media Communication, issue editor Nina Huntemann seeks papers that explore digital media workers “behind the screen.” Submissions should advance scholarship about invisible labor in the digital media industries, and should principally consider the labor produced by those engaged in below-the-line work. Cultural producers in such positions might include social media interns, web content editors and copywriters, online community managers, video game playtesters, 3D animation modelers and riggers, texture artists, video loggers, and digital content asset managers. In addition to workers involved in cultural production, this special issue also invites papers that consider the labor of those working to create and maintain the digital media infrastructure, such as hardware assembly line workers, miners in raw materials extraction, technical support staff (e.g. Genius Bar/Geek Squad), and security personnel at data centers. The editor is particularly interested in manuscripts that consider the special issue theme at the intersections of gender, race/ethnicity, nation/region, sexual orientation, class, and ability. To discuss possible submissions, please email the issue editor Nina Huntemann at nhuntemann(a)suffolk.edu<mailto:nhuntemann@suffolk.edu>. About the Journal Critical Studies in Media Communication (CSMC) <http://www.tandfonline.com/rcsm> publishes scholarship in media and mass communication written from a Cultural Studies and critical perspective. Research articles selected for publication make a substantial contribution to existing literature in media studies, provide novel theoretical insights that have the potential to stimulate further research, and serve as foundational contributions for debates within and beyond the field of communication. While each essay is well researched, primary emphasis is on the theoretical contribution the essay makes through the development of concepts, terms, and ideas that move the field in new and exciting directions. Submission Details All manuscripts must conform to the Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association (6th edition, 2010) and should not exceed 7,000 words including references, notes, figures, and tables. Shorter pieces will be considered. Essays significantly longer than 7,000 words may be returned. All submissions should be made online at Critical Studies in Media Communication’s ScholarOne Manuscripts site<http://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/rcsm>. Please see the journal website<http://www.tandfonline.com/rcsm> for the complete submission instructions for authors. -- Nina Huntemann, PhD. nhuntemann(a)suffolk.edu<mailto:nhuntemann@suffolk.edu> Associate Professor, Suffolk University Book Review Editor, Critical Studies in Media Communication

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Call for Abstract - Ethics and Policies for Cyber Warfare
by Mariariosaria Taddeo 17 Jul '14

17 Jul '14

Apologies for cross-posting The workshop will offer a venue for discussion among ethicists, policy makers, international lawyers and military experts to consider the existing regulatory gap concerning cyber warfare and the ethical problems underpinning it. Over the past few years, the military, international lawyers, ethicists and policymakers have shown an increasing interest in current policies and laws regulating warfare and in their particular application to cyber warfare. A growing number of experts stresses that there is a expanding vacuum of policies and regulations concerning this phenomenon and recognise the development of conceptual and ethical analyses of cyber warfare as a preliminary and necessary step for defining new and effective policies. The issue could not be more pressing and there is a much felt and fast escalating need to share information and coordinate ethical theorising about cyber warfare with public policymaking processes. The workshop on ‘Ethics and Policies for Cyber Warfare’ is the second in a series of three workshops on this subject organised by the Centre in collaboration with the University of Oxford. The first workshop was held in Rome in November 2013 with the proceedings are available here. The workshop is co-directed by Lt Ludovica Glorioso (NATO CCD COE) and Dr Mariarosaria Taddeo (University of Warwick). Important Dates Extended abstracts (2000 words): 9 September 2014 Notification of acceptance: 30 September 2014 Full paper: 31 October 2014 Submission of Papers: Authors are required to submit via EasyChair an extended abstract of the planned paper which should describe the topic and set out the main aspects and structure of the research (up to 2000 words). Following a preliminary review and acceptance of the abstract, authors are expected to submit a full paper meeting high academic standards, which will be considered for inclusion in a volume for Oxford University Press. For additional information, please contact ludovica.glorioso -at- ccdcoe.org. -- Dr. Mariarosaria Taddeo Research Fellow in Cyber Security and Ethics, PAIS, University of Warwick Research Associate - Uehiro Centre for Practical Ethics, University of Oxford President, International Association for Computing and Philosophy http://rosariataddeo.net -- Dr. Mariarosaria Taddeo Research Fellow in Cyber Security and Ethics, PAIS, University of Warwick Research Associate - Uehiro Centre for Practical Ethics, University of Oxford President, International Association for Computing and Philosophy http://rosariataddeo.net -- Dr. Mariarosaria Taddeo Research Fellow in Cyber Security and Ethics, PAIS, University of Warwick Research Associate - Uehiro Centre for Practical Ethics, University of Oxford President, International Association for Computing and Philosophy http://rosariataddeo.net

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