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2nd CFP - Understanding the Responsibilities of Online Service Providers in Information Societies
by Mariarosaria Taddeo 01 Jun '15

01 Jun '15

Apologies for cross-posting Workshop “Understanding the Responsibilities of Online Service Providers in Information Societies” 2 October 2015 - Oxford Internet Institute, University of Oxford, UK The exponential development of Internet services and resources has brought enormous benefits and opportunities to ever more people. However, it has also greatly outpaced our understanding of their ethical implications, raising unprecedented social challenges, ranging from the protection of individual rights and the regulation of surveillance measures to access to data and information. In this complex scenario, Online Service Providers (OSPs) - such as for example AOL, Apple, Dropbox, Facebook, Google, LinkedIn, Microsoft, Twitter, and Yahoo- are major actors, which significantly influence the informational environment and users’ interactions within it. Such a role is unprecedented and problematic for OSPs as well as for other stakeholders, like governments and citizens’ groups, as proven by recent examples like the PRISM scandal and the debate on the “right to be forgotten”. The need to understand the responsibilities that OPSs bear in contemporary information societies is thus fast escalating and addressing it requires a coordinated interdisciplinary theorising able to consider legal, social, and ethical standpoints. The workshop will be a major occasion to gather leading experts from different fields in order to share information and views. Contributions to the workshop will address issues concerning: · The role of OSPs in contemporary information societies, whether and to what extent their role differs from the one of publishers, mass-media, and gate-keepers; · The moral responsibilities of OSPs in contemporary societies; · Ethical frameworks for the understanding of OSPs responsibilities, e.g. corporate social responsibilities or human rights; · The gap in OSPs’ policies and possible strategies to overcome it; · The gap in existing legal frameworks regulating OSPs. Dates, instructions, and timeline The workshop will be a one-day event and will be held at the Oxford Internet Institute, University of Oxford, on October 2, 2015. 500-word abstracts (in MS Word or PDF format) can be submitted to Dr Mariarosaria Taddeo by August 1, 2015. All submitted abstracts will be reviewed by the workshop organizers, Professor Luciano Floridi and Dr Mariarosaria Taddeo, and authors will be notified of the outcome by August the 17, 2015. Authors of the accepted abstracts will be invited to participate in the workshop and to submit a full paper by November the 2, 2015, for peer-review and publication in a dedicated edited volume. Contact information Mariarosaria Taddeo mariarosaria.taddeo(a)oii.ox.ac.uk <mailto:mariarosaria.taddeo@oii.ox.ac.uk> Oxford Internet Institute, University of Oxford, 1 St Giles Oxford OX1 3JS, United Kingdom -- Dr. Mariarosaria Taddeo Researcher - Oxford Internet Institute, University of Oxford President, International Association for Computing and Philosophy Associate Editor for Ethics, Policy & Technology - Philosophy & Technology, Springer http://www.oii.ox.ac.uk/people/taddeo/ http://rosariataddeo.net

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geographic search and visualization of the online world
by kalev leetaru 01 Jun '15

01 Jun '15

I thought many of you would like some of our latest work on visualizing the geography of global news coverage, including online news media. In essence, these maps look at local news coverage from throughout the world, live-translating it from 65 languages, coupled with city/landmark-level fulltext geocoding, to visualize the geography of leaders, organizations, topics, and emotions across space: http://blog.gdeltproject.org/announcing-gdelt-geographic-news-search/ http://blog.gdeltproject.org/visualizing-the-linguistic-geography-of-the-wo… http://blog.gdeltproject.org/mapping-the-worlds-happiest-and-saddest-news-i… http://blog.gdeltproject.org/embed-this-map/ http://blog.gdeltproject.org/tutorial-instant-news-maps-using-cartodb-gkg-a… This afternoon we released a new geographic network visualization that adapts the Google Arms Globe Visualization to display a different kind of dynamic georeferenced spatial network: co-occurrences of geography in the global news media. In essence, it looks at macro-level patterns in how the global news media as a whole groups countries together in its coverage. In other words, for all news media from anywhere in the world monitored by GDELT, every time a location in South Africa is mentioned in a given week, what are all of the other countries mentioned in that coverage in rank order? Only countries which cooccur at least 10% of the time in a given week are shown to reduce the network to the strongest connections. http://blog.gdeltproject.org/mapping-media-geographic-networks-the-news-co-… http://data.gdeltproject.org/blog/news-cooccurrence-globe/globe_cooccur.html I thought this might be of interest to many of you from the standpoint of the kinds of media studies research, including of online news, that can be done through GDELT ( http://blog.gdeltproject.org/gdelt-2-0-our-global-world-in-realtime/) and for the use of the Google Arms Globe Visualization for high-density time-varying georeferenced networks. Kalev Leetaru http://blog.gdeltproject.org/ http://kalevleetaru.com/

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