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Google Search Algorithms
by Andrew Herman 16 Apr '12

16 Apr '12

All Hail Fellow Aoiristas! I have some students who are looking for background reading on how the Google search algorithms work. Any suggestions here would be most welcome. Thanks in advance, Andrew Andrew Herman, Ph. D. Associate Professor and Chairperson Department of Communication Studies Graduate Program in Cultural Analysis and Social Theory Wilfrid Laurier University Waterloo, Ontario N2L 3C5 CANADA 519 884-1970 x3693

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conference paper
by Jesper 16 Apr '12

16 Apr '12

Dear Colleagues, Here is a link to Michael Paulsen and my paper: "The challenge of social media – between prohibition and indifference in the classroom" http://pure.au.dk/portal/files/45108803/MEA_2012_Taekke.pdf It is a contribution to the Thirteenth Annual Convention of the Media Ecology Association: The Crossroads of the Word. 7 - 10 June 2012 Manhattan College Riverdale, New York. Abstract: Like with the emergence of oral language and the invention of writing, printing, and electronic media, today digital media entail a revolution of society. In our present time we are living through the incunabula of a digital revolution. This means that many things in society find new forms, and we must find new ways of doing things, because our media milieu has changed. Also in schools many things are changing; the classroom is no longer a closed room where interaction is isolated from the external world. Thousands of parallel interaction systems are intermingling within the social situations in classrooms, and many problems arise because of missing adequate norms. Students can now access knowledge in the Internet’s thousands of databases and wikis. The upshot is that the old teacher authority and traditional social norms for guiding teaching can no longer help outline efficient behavior in the classrooms. On this basis, we present the action research project Socio Media Education, which tries to develop new ways of teaching that feed to the new media environment. The aim of the paper is, on an early stage, to report about the challenge of the new social media and how the project tries to find solutions and the philosophy behind these solutions. Best Regards Jesper -- --- Jesper Tække Associate Professor, PhD Information and Media Studies Aarhus University http://www.jespertaekke.dk imvjet(a)hum.au.dk +45 8716 2021

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New book out: 'Technologies of Inclusion: Gender in the Information Society'
by Els Rommes 16 Apr '12

16 Apr '12

Knut H. Sørensen, Wendy Faulkner and Els Rommes 'Technologies of Inclusion: Gender in the Information Society' see: http://butikk.tapirforlag.no/en/node/1744 The Information Society is an evolving project, with new 'ensembles' of social practices and of information and communication technologies (ICTs) emerging all the time. But not everyone is equally included in this project. Breaking new ground with its focus on inclusion, and drawing on an extensive body of European research, Technologies of Inclusion: Gender in the Information Society analyses a range of strategies which succeeded in attracting more women and girls as users or designers of ICTs. This reveals a set of underlying dynamics -- what the authors call technologies of inclusion -- by which different strategies work. It also highlights new gender-ICT ensembles which challenge long-held notions of technology as a masculine domain. Professor Ulf Mellström, Centre for gender research, University of Karlstad wrote about this book: "This book is a must, for scholars interested in shifting gender-technology relations and for practitioners interested in effective digital inclusion. Indeed, for anyone interested in the evolving project of the Information Society. This timely and important volume summarises much of the contemporary scholarly discussions within gender and technology studies. The uniqueness of the book is due to its empirical richness in combination with cutting edge theoretical orientation. As this group of experienced scholars have been able to cross-fertilise in-depth case studies with a long history of theoretical development in GTS, they are able to produce what must be counted as the most inclusive standard scholarly reference for many years to come."

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FYI European Innovation Academy takes place this year in Tallinn!
by Peter Timusk 16 Apr '12

16 Apr '12

FYI European Innovation Academy takes place this year in Tallinn! 16.07-03.08.2012 European Innovation Academy = Creativity + New Start-ups + High League Professionals. Fun? Adventure? Future Success? Yes!!! European Innovation Academy 2012 brings together famous motivational guest speakers. Guest lecturers are innovation experts from world-famous and successful companies MICROSOFT and SAMSUNG. The Key Lecturer of European Innovation Academy 2012 Prof. Dr. Mark Harris (former head of INTEL Higher Education & Research Programmes) is going to talk about Global Innovation, Entrepreneurship and Smart Business Models. Great innovation experts from top European universities Aalto University & Aarhus University! Innovation Academy is suitable for Engineering, Science and Business students as well as professionals who are intending to pursue a career in innovative management. European Innovation Academy 2012 provides with an opportunity to explore the world of Business, Innovation and Technology in the modern and exciting environment of Tallinn University of Technology. Through series of lectures, presentations and workshops students will be able to develop knowledge about turning innovative ideas into a successful venture. Take a look at our BROCHURE: http://gurney.cc.ttu.ee/pdf/European_Innovation_Academy_2012.pdf More information can be found on our website www.ttu.ee/innovationacademy and on our Facebook page European Innovation Academy. Contact person: Ms. Anni Sinijärv, International Relations Office, anni.sinijarv(a)ttu.ee Peter Timusk B.Math statistics. BA legal studies Legal studies of the Information Age School work blog http://notebook.webpagex.org <http://notebook.webpagex.org/> Some papers www.webpagex.org <http://www.webpagex.org/>

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New Issue of Digital Culture & Education - special community issue: Building the HIVe
by Tom Apperley 15 Apr '12

15 Apr '12

Dear colleagues, This special community issue of the open-access journal *Digital Culture & Education* may be of interest to the list. >From the introduction (By Singh & Walsh): The HIVe is a dynamic model that stimulates ongoing systems-wide strategic > collaboration among HIV education, research, policy and practice sectors. The > HIVe <http://www.hiv-e.org/> is an open source universal access research > and education community that continuously grows by sharing effective > digital community-based and led HIV prevention and care interventions for > gay men, other men that have sex with men (MSM) and transgender > communities. The model’s design understands digitally mediated and driven > sexual behaviours pose unforeseen challenges for traditional HIV > prevention. By sharing successful interventions, it hopes to inspire policy > and practice change through community mobilisation by constructing assets > and exchanging resources to challenge stigma and discrimination, and > improve human rights with the aim of stopping new infections (Walsh & > Singh, 2012). * * *Contents List:* * * *Introduction: Harnessing digital technologies to challenge the dominant HIV/AIDS paradigm* *Judy Auerbach* * * *Editorial: Prevention is a solution: Building The HIVe* *Gurmit Singh & **Christopher S Walsh* * * *Bringing sexy back into gay community empowerment for HIV prevention & care: The Poz & Proud approach* *Leo Schenk & Gurmit Singh* * * *Local languages, global exchange: Digital networking, communication and collaboration for the health and human rights of men who have sex with men* *Jack Beck, Lily Catanes, Pato Hebert, Goldie Negelev & George Ayala* * * *The use of the Internet in male sexual encounters by men who have sex with men in Cameroon* E*milie Henry, Yves Yomb, Lionel Fugon & Bruno Spire* * * *ICT & HIV prevention: Experiences from a biomedical HIV prevention trial among men who have sex with men (MSM) in Cape Town, South Africa* *Andrew Scheibe, Ben Brown & Linda-Gail Bekker* * * *Digital media and the Internet for HIV prevention, capacity building and advocacy among gay,* *other men who have sex with men (MSM), and transgender: Perspectives from Kolkata, India* *Rohit K. Dasgupta* * * *Innovative digital HIV/AIDS education and prevention for marginalized communities: Frontline* *TEACH* *Val Sowell, Juliet Fink & Jane Shull* * * *The social technographics of gay men and other men who have sex with men (MSM) in Canada: Implications for HIV research, outreach and prevention* *Dan Allman, Ted Myers, Kunyong Xu & Sarah J. Steele* * * *Sexperts! Disrupting injustice with digital community-led HIV prevention and legal rights education in Thailand* *Nada Chaiyajit & Christopher S Walsh* * * *Funder’s perspective: Building The HIVe* *Kent Klindera* * * *Advocacy perspective: Sexuality, sex education and The HIVe in support of advocacy around the world* *Ryan Ubuntu Olson & Ron MacInnis* * * *Public health perspective: Building The HIVe* *Jonathan Elford* * * *Epilogue: Playing public health* *Tom Apperley & Christopher S Walsh* * * *Read & download all articles www.digitalcultureandeducation.com * Best wishes, Tom -- Tom Apperley Lecturer of Digital Ethnography Office of the Pro Vice-Chancellor (Learning and Teaching) Monash University Room C3.05, Building C, Level 3, Caulfield Campus 900 Dandenong Road, Caulfield East, VIC, 3145 Australia PO Box 197, Caulfield East, VIC, 3145, Australia T: +61 3 990 34087* http://opvclt.monash.edu/ *Follow us on Twitter: @OPVCLTMonash** CRICOS Provider: Monash University 00008C ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- This email (and any files transmitted with it) is intended for the addressee named and may contain confidential information. If you have received this email in error, please delete it and notify the originator of the message. Any views expressed in this message are those of the individual sender, except where the sender, with authority, states them to be the views of Monash University. It is the recipient's responsibility to scan for viruses prior to use. -----------------------------------------------------------------------------

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Fwd: [ciresearchers] FW: [AISWorld] PhD studentship in the Department of Computing, The Open University, UK
by gene loeb 13 Apr '12

13 Apr '12

For your interest This looks good.' Gene ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: michael gurstein <gurstein(a)gmail.com> Date: Fri, Apr 13, 2012 at 8:42 AM Subject: [ciresearchers] FW: [AISWorld] PhD studentship in the Department of Computing,The Open University, UK To: ciresearchers(a)vancouvercommunity.net Cc: shailey_lists(a)yahoo.co.uk -----Original Message----- From: aisworld-bounces(a)lists.aisnet.org [mailto:aisworld-bounces@lists.aisnet.org] On Behalf Of Shailey Minocha Sent: Friday, April 13, 2012 10:08 AM To: aisworld(a)lists.aisnet.org Subject: [AISWorld] PhD studentship in the Department of Computing,The Open University, UK Full-time PhD Studentship, Department of Computing Centre for Research in Computing Faculty of Maths, Computing and Technology Based in Milton Keynes, UK Three-year PhD studentship Project title: Investigating the success factors in the creation and sustenance of online communities This project aims to investigate: the factors that contribute towards the creation and sustenance of online (2D and 3D) virtual communities, and the challenges that communities experience to sustain themselves? The outcomes of this project will be of particular interest to organisations in the e-government and e-commerce domains that are aiming to engage with customers through online communities with the objective of co-designing products and services with their customers. The project builds on our research in the domains of social software and e-society (e.g. e-commerce, e-health and e-government environments). Please see this website for a list of our publications: <http://oro.open.ac.uk/view/person/sm577.html> Skills and background required: Due to the interdisciplinary nature of the proposed research we would like to hear from candidates who have a Masters Degree in Human-Computer Interaction, Psychology, Business, or a related discipline, and have an outstanding research potential with a keen interest in Computer-supported Co-operative Work (CSCW) and social software. Informal enquiries about the proposed research can be made by e-mail to Dr. Shailey Minocha, <s.minocha(a)open.ac.uk>. The Open University is one of the UK’s leading Research Institutions. In the 2008 RAE over 50% of its research was rated as “world leading” or “internationally excellent”. There is a vibrant international community of students studying our MRes and PhD programmes. The Open University provides excellent support for students and offers a full range of training in computer, library and presentation skills. Students are normally expected to live within commuting distance of Milton Keynes. For details on how to apply: please see <http://tinyurl.com/mcb7xw> and <http://www3.open.ac.uk/employment/job-details.asp?id=6175> Closing date: 1 May 2012. Interviews will commence in late May 2012. _______________________________________________ AISWorld mailing list AISWorld(a)lists.aisnet.org To unsubscribe (subscribe) send an email to: sympa(a)vcn.bc.ca with the message unsub (sub) ciresearchers

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CFP reminder - Media, Technology & Society Conference 2012 - Infosocial. Deadline April. 15.
by Ryan Whalen 13 Apr '12

13 Apr '12

My apologies for cross posting. I'm writing to remind list members (and their colleagues and students) of the upcoming Media, Technology and Society program's graduate student conference titled "Infosocial: Where information and the social sciences collide." The extended abstract submission deadline is April 15th (this Sunday). Call details follow in the text below. Please feel free to distribute widely and pass the word along to graduate students and programs. *Call for Papers* *InfoSocial: Where information and the social sciences collide.* A graduate student conference hosted by the Media, Technology, and Society (MTS) program at Northwestern University As the information infrastructure of contemporary social life becomes increasingly complex and visible, disparate modes of inquiry converge. We are surrounded by a proliferation of data that provides a unique window into a wide array of individual and collective behavior. The changes in the visibility and availability of such data have challenged the technical and conceptual boundaries of the social sciences. This, in turn, has triggered a growth in interdisciplinary collaboration, and in methodological and theoretical innovation. Our conference aims to contribute to these collaborative and innovative developments by bringing together graduate student scholarship from across the academic spectrum. We seek papers authored by graduate students that address relevant topics within and across disciplines, including contributions from communication and media studies, sociology, psychology, computer science, science and technology studies, information science, political science, and anthropology, among others. Possible submission topics include (but are not limited to): • Linked data/semantic web and society • Privacy and information management • Measuring online behavior • Collective action and crowd sourcing • Internet skill and literacy • Open source and innovation • Complexity and technological change • History and information • Information at work • Educational technology • Networks and the information society • Methodological developments *Important Information:* Extended abstract submission deadline: April 15, 2012 Acceptance notification date: May 15, 2012 Conference Dates: October 12-13, 2012 Location: Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois Conference URL: http://bit.ly/InfoSocialCFP Email: mtsconference(a)u.northwestern.edu To submit, please visit http://bit.ly/NUMTSconference and upload an extended abstract of no more than 500 words. Note: There will be no fee to attend and/or participate in the conference. Meals will be provided and interested attendees may request to be housed with Northwestern students. While we can make no guarantees, we will do our best to accommodate requests. Best Regards, -- Ryan Whalen PhD Student - Media, Technology & Society Northwestern University School of Communication JD Student - Northwestern Law ryanwhalen.com 773.800.0345

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Announcement Interdisciplinary Privacy Course 2012 (June 27-29)
by Jo Pierson 13 Apr '12

13 Apr '12

================================================================================= http://people.cs.kuleuven.be/~bettina.berendt/teaching/Privacy12 This interdisciplinary course is part of the thematic training of the Leuven Arenberg Doctoral School Training Programme. The course is mainly aimed at Ph.D. students from all disciplines (either from the K.U.Leuven or from other universities), but also open to undergraduate students, post-docs, people working in industry, or anyone else interested on the topic. In a series of lectures, the course will provide an overview of various aspects of privacy from the technical, legal, and social science perspectives. This year’s edition of the course will have a special focus on privacy by design, web search services, and behavioral advertising. In addition to the lectures, this year’s course will feature interactive exercise sessions in which the participants will work in groups. In these exercise sessions the participants will apply what they learn in the lectures to a practical case study (web search application). The participants will be asked to identify the stakeholders and their requirements, define the functionality of the system, select the technologies that would be implemented in the design, and discuss the legal and societal aspects of the system. The participation in all the sessions is required in order to obtain the certificate of attendance to the course. ================================================================================= * When - Wednesday, June 27, from 9:15 to 17:00 - Thursday, June 28, from 9:00 to 17:15 - Friday, June 29, from 9:15 to 16:30 * Where Lecture room: MTC1 02.07 Interactive exercise sessions rooms: MTC1 00.07 and MTC1 00.16 MTC1 Maria-Theresiacollege Sint-Michielsstraat 6 3000 Leuven (Belgium) * Speakers - Claudia Diaz (KU Leuven ESAT/COSIC) - Seda Gürses (KU Leuven ESAT/COSIC) - Eleni Kosta (KU Leuven Law/ICRI) - Bettina Berendt (KU Leuven CS/DTAI) - Jo Pierson (VUB IBBT-SMIT) - Invited speaker(s) - TBA * Registration - The course is free of charge, but attendees are required to register by sending an email to claudia.diaz(a)esat.kuleuven.be - The course will provide coffee breaks for the participants. Lunches are not provided. A number of restaurants are in the vicinity of the course venue. - The registration deadline is: Tuesday, June 20, 2012 * Web page http://people.cs.kuleuven.be/~bettina.berendt/teaching/Privacy12 ================================================================================= *** Programme Wed June 27 09:15 - 09:30 Welcome coffee 09:30 - 10:15 Lecture 1: Introduction (Claudia Diaz) 10:15 - 11:15 Lecture 2: Addressing Surveillance and Privacy during Requirements Engineering: The challenge of search and behavioral advertising (Seda Gürses) 11:15 - 11:40 Coffee break 11:40 - 12:30 Explanation of the practical exercise (Seda Gürses) 12:30 - 14:00 Lunch break 14:00 - 15:15 Exercise session 1 15:15 - 15:40 Coffee break 15:40 - 17:00 Exercise session 2 Thu June 28 09:00 - 09:15 Welcome coffee 09:15 - 10:15 Lecture 3: Web mining and privacy: threats, opportunities, and design issues (Bettina Berendt) 10:15 - 11:15 Lecture 4: Social perspective on (dis)empowerment of users in an internet environment (Jo Pierson) 11:15 - 11:35 Coffee break 11:35 - 12:35 Lecture 5: Technologies for private search (Claudia Diaz) 12:35 - 14:00 Lunch break 14:00 - 15:00 Lecture 6: (Re)introducing privacy by design: the realm of search engines (Eleni Kosta) 15:15 - 15:35 Coffee break 15:35 - 17:15 Exercise session 3 Fri June 29 09:15 - 09:30 Welcome coffee 09:30 - 11:00 Invited talk (tba) 11:00 - 11:20 Coffee break 11:20 - 12:30 Exercise session 4 12:30 - 14:00 Lunch break 14:00 - 15:00 Exercise session 5: preparation of presentations 15:00- 15:20 Coffee break 15:20 - 16:30 Presentations of results of the exercise and discussion ================================================================================= *** Abstracts Lecture 1: Introduction (by Claudia Diaz) This lecture will motivate the need for privacy protection, introduce the arguments in the privacy debate, and review the main approaches to privacy. Some of the questions that we will address in this talk include: Why is privacy important? Why is it so complex? What are the different meanings of "privacy"? How does "privacy" translate to technical properties and how do these relate to classical security properties? Lecture 2: Addressing Surveillance and Privacy during Requirements Engineering: The challenge of search and behavioral advertising (by Seda Gürses) Privacy is a debated notion with various definitions that are also often vague. While this increases the resilience of the privacy concept in social and legal context, it poses a considerable challenge to defining the privacy problem and the appropriate solutions to address those problems in a system-to-be. Surveillance can be summed up as “any collection and processing of personal data, whether identifiable or not, for the purposes of influencing or managing those whose data have been garnered” (Lyon, 2001). One of the main concerns with any type of surveillance is social sorting, a form of classifying people based on surveillance data that may lead to real effects on the life-chances of people. In the context of web-based search, given its current integration with targeted and behavioral advertisement, different parties raise concerns with respect to privacy and surveillance. From an engineering perspective this raises questions about whether and how these matters can be addressed when engineering information systems? Ideally, when engineering systems, the stakeholders of the system step through a process of reconciling the relevant privacy and surveillance definitions and the (technical) privacy solutions in the given social context. We will explore methods to define and elicit concerns based on different privacy and surveillance notions; summarize the desired steps of a multilateral requirements analysis approach; and discuss how these methods can be applied in the context of web based search and behavioral advertising. Lyon, D. (2001). Surveillance society: Monitoring everyday life. Buckingham, UK: Open University Press. Lecture 3: Web mining and privacy: threats, opportunities, and design issues (by Bettina Berendt) Web mining is the application of data mining techniques on Web data such as queries and other records of usage, social-network profiles and friend links, or news, blogs and tweets. Data mining means finding new knowledge that was previously only implicit in data. Web mining thus operates on many personal data that keep growing in volume and interrelatedness, and it0leads to inferences on inferences and groups that may be beneficial for some but unwanted-to-pernicious for others. In this lecture, I will first give an overview of mining techniques and typical uses such as profiling. I will then describe methods that have been proposed for protecting personal data from unwanted inferences (privacy-preserving data mining) or for reducing the risks of releasing these data (privacy-preserving data publishing). I will investigate the roles in the mining process (who is doing the mining on whose data of what sorts) and identify threats and opportunities in different settings that range from business intelligence to feedback and awareness tools for user empowerment. I will conclude with thoughts on what "privacy by design" may mean in the context of Web mining. Lecture 4: Social perspective on (dis)empowerment of users in an internet environment (by Jo Pierson) In a society where people increasing rely on search engines and social media for communication and information sharing, it is vital to investigate these new forms of mediated communication from the social perspective of users/citizens/consumers. However in this transitional digital media ecosystem we observe how people can become simultaneously empowered as well as disempowered, in particularly on the levels of identity, privacy and surveillance. How this works out depends on the interrelationship between how internet systems are being designed (i.e. what they enable) and what people within their social context do with these systems (i.e. are able to do). In this way we notice for example that users of search engines and social media are foremost framed as consumers, and where 'relevance' is foremost posited as 'commercial relevance'. Questions are therefore: How can governance and power manifest itself through the algorithm? To what extent and how are the social practices by citizens and communities following, opposing and/or negotiating the 'governance' of internet systems? In what ways is the social self increasingly being commodified, with personal data becoming the new currency? In what way can a socio-technological perspective offer solutions? Lecture 5: Technologies for private search (by Claudia Diaz) Search queries are closely related to the issues on which we are interested. This raises privacy concerns, as potentially sensitive information can be inferred from these queries, such as income level, health issues, or political beliefs. In this talk we will review different technologies for implementing private search services. This includes cryptographic techniques such as private information retrieval, as well as obfuscation-based private web search based on automatically generating fake queries. Lecture 6: (Re)introducing privacy by design: the realm of search engines (by Eleni Kosta) Building legally compliant systems that process personal information is turning into a nightmare for online business. The quest for finding the balance between the privacy of the users on the one hand, and the maximization of the profit of online business, usually deriving from the processing of user information, on the other, proves to be a difficult task. This lecture will present the initiatives of the European Commission in the frame of the reform of the European Data Protection Directive to achieve such a balance. The case of search engines, who collect and process vast amounts of use information is going to be used as an example. ================================================================================= *** Interactive exercise sessions Exercise session 1 In this session the students will identify the stakeholders and describe their interests and stakes in the system. This will include: their incentives, their interests, and the identification of potential conflicts between their interests. Exercise session 2 In this session the students will specify the functionality, domain, and trust assumptions of the system. They also construct an initial model of the information that is necessary to fulfill the functionality of the system. Exercise session 3 In this session the participants will identify the legal frameworks that apply, describe the legal roles and responsibilities of the stakeholders and their data protection requirements, and discuss the societal implications of the system linked to power relations between different stakeholders. They will also conduct an analysis of the privacy concerns of the stakeholders and the service integrity guarantees (i.e., threat and security analysis). Exercise session 4 In this session the participants will further refine the definition of privacy goals and provide suggestions for privacy technologies that could be used in the system. The participants are asked to apply some of the things they learned in the lectures to the system they are developing. The specific choices of technical solutions to be used in the system will require re-thinking of the applicability of legal frameworks, the concrete functionality and the information model. Exercise session 5 In this session the participants will consolidate their conclusions and prepare the presentation for the rest of the course participants that will take place in the last session of the course.

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Cyber Conflict History Contest
by Karl Grindal 13 Apr '12

13 Apr '12

Readers: The Cyber Conflict Studies Association (CCSA), has partnered with AFCEA International and the Atlantic Council to create a contest for the best case studies in cyber conflict history. The contest comprises three entrant categories: university students, military service members and professionals, with six prizes of up to $1,000 to be awarded for the best submissions. The deadline for submitting topics for the contest is Monday, April 15th by midnight, but the deadline for submitting final papers is not until June 1, 2012. Entries that meet editorial criteria will be considered for inclusion in future CCSA journals or an upcoming Comprehensive History of Cyber Conflict publication. Authors of the winning papers automatically will be considered for an internship or employment at the Atlantic Council or the CCSA. Winners will also be invited to accept their awards at an AFCEA led award ceremony. Additional information about the competition, including the list of case studies and complete competition rules, can be found - http://www. afcea.org/events/cyberessay.asp Please direct all further questions on the content to Karl Grindal, CCSA writing competition project manager, at karl(a)cyberconflict.org. Thanks you! Please feel free to email me directly, -Karl Grindal -- Karl Grindal CCSA History, Project Manage Cell: 952-250-7466

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Fwd: Announcement Interdisciplinary Privacy Course 2012 (June 27-29), Leuven, Belgium
by Seda Guerses 13 Apr '12

13 Apr '12

dear aoirs, you are kindly invited to attend our yearly interdisciplinary course on privacy. the weather in belgium can even be nice sometimes at the end of june. ;) please feel free to distribute to anyone who is potentially interested. best, s. > > ================================================================================= > > http://people.cs.kuleuven.be/~bettina.berendt/teaching/Privacy12 > > > This interdisciplinary course is part of the thematic training of the Leuven Arenberg Doctoral School Training Programme. The course is mainly aimed at Ph.D. students from all disciplines (either from the K.U.Leuven or from other universities), but also open to undergraduate students, post-docs, people working in industry, or anyone else interested on the topic. > > In a series of lectures, the course will provide an overview of various aspects of privacy from the technical, legal, and social science perspectives. This year’s edition of the course will have a special focus on privacy by design, web search services, and behavioral advertising. > > In addition to the lectures, this year’s course will feature interactive exercise sessions in which the participants will work in groups. In these exercise sessions the participants will apply what they learn in the lectures to a practical case study (web search application). The participants will be asked to identify the stakeholders and their requirements, define the functionality of the system, select the technologies that would be implemented in the design, and discuss the legal and societal aspects of the system. The participation in all the sessions is required in order to obtain the certificate of attendance to the course. > > ================================================================================= > > * When > > - Wednesday, June 27, from 9:15 to 17:00 > - Thursday, June 28, from 9:00 to 17:15 > - Friday, June 29, from 9:15 to 16:30 > > * Where > > Lecture room: MTC1 02.07 > Interactive exercise sessions rooms: MTC1 00.07 and MTC1 00.16 > > MTC1 Maria-Theresiacollege > Sint-Michielsstraat 6 > 3000 Leuven (Belgium) > > * Speakers > > - Claudia Diaz (KU Leuven ESAT/COSIC) > - Seda Gürses (KU Leuven ESAT/COSIC) > - Eleni Kosta (KU Leuven Law/ICRI) > - Bettina Berendt (KU Leuven CS/DTAI) > - Jo Pierson (VUB IBBT-SMIT) > - Invited speaker(s) - TBA > > * Registration > > - The course is free of charge, but attendees are required to register by sending an email to claudia.diaz(a)esat.kuleuven.be > - The course will provide coffee breaks for the participants. Lunches are not provided. A number of restaurants are in the vicinity of the course venue. > - The registration deadline is: Tuesday, June 20, 2012 > > * Web page > > http://people.cs.kuleuven.be/~bettina.berendt/teaching/Privacy12 > > ================================================================================= > > *** Programme > > Wed June 27 > > 09:15 - 09:30 Welcome coffee > 09:30 - 10:15 Lecture 1: Introduction (Claudia Diaz) > 10:15 - 11:15 Lecture 2: Addressing Surveillance and Privacy during Requirements Engineering: > The challenge of search and behavioral advertising (Seda Gürses) > 11:15 - 11:40 Coffee break > 11:40 - 12:30 Explanation of the practical exercise (Seda Gürses) > 12:30 - 14:00 Lunch break > 14:00 - 15:15 Exercise session 1 > 15:15 - 15:40 Coffee break > 15:40 - 17:00 Exercise session 2 > > Thu June 28 > > 09:00 - 09:15 Welcome coffee > 09:15 - 10:15 Lecture 3: Web mining and privacy: threats, opportunities, and design issues (Bettina Berendt) > 10:15 - 11:15 Lecture 4: Social perspective on (dis)empowerment of users in an internet environment (Jo Pierson) > 11:15 - 11:35 Coffee break > 11:35 - 12:35 Lecture 5: Technologies for private search (Claudia Diaz) > 12:35 - 14:00 Lunch break > 14:00 - 15:00 Lecture 6: (Re)introducing privacy by design: the realm of search engines (Eleni Kosta) > 15:15 - 15:35 Coffee break > 15:35 - 17:15 Exercise session 3 > > Fri June 29 > > 09:15 - 09:30 Welcome coffee > 09:30 - 11:00 Invited talk (tba) > 11:00 - 11:20 Coffee break > 11:20 - 12:30 Exercise session 4 > 12:30 - 14:00 Lunch break > 14:00 - 15:00 Exercise session 5: preparation of presentations > 15:00- 15:20 Coffee break > 15:20 - 16:30 Presentations of results of the exercise and discussion > > > ================================================================================= > > > *** Abstracts > > Lecture 1: Introduction (by Claudia Diaz) > > This lecture will motivate the need for privacy protection, introduce the arguments in the privacy debate, and review the main approaches to privacy. Some of the questions that we will address in this talk include: Why is privacy important? Why is it so complex? What are the different meanings of "privacy"? How does "privacy" translate to technical properties and how do these relate to classical security properties? > > Lecture 2: Addressing Surveillance and Privacy during Requirements Engineering: The challenge of search and behavioral advertising (by Seda Gürses) > > Privacy is a debated notion with various definitions that are also often vague. While this increases the resilience of the privacy concept in social and legal context, it poses a considerable challenge to defining the privacy problem and the appropriate solutions to address those problems in a system-to-be. Surveillance can be summed up as “any collection and processing of personal data, whether identifiable or not, for the purposes of influencing or managing those whose data have been garnered” (Lyon, 2001). One of the main concerns with any type of surveillance is social sorting, a form of classifying people based on surveillance data that may lead to real effects on the life-chances of people. In the context of web-based search, given its current integration with targeted and behavioral advertisement, different parties raise concerns with respect to privacy and surveillance. From an engineering perspective this raises questions about whether and how these matters can be addressed when engineering information systems? Ideally, when engineering systems, the stakeholders of the system step through a process of reconciling the relevant privacy and surveillance definitions and the (technical) privacy solutions in the given social context. We will explore methods to define and elicit concerns based on different privacy and surveillance notions; summarize the desired steps of a multilateral requirements analysis approach; and discuss how these methods can be applied in the context of web based search and behavioral advertising. > > Lyon, D. (2001). Surveillance society: Monitoring everyday life. Buckingham, UK: Open University Press. > > > Lecture 3: Web mining and privacy: threats, opportunities, and design issues (by Bettina Berendt) > > Web mining is the application of data mining techniques on Web data such as queries and other records of usage, social-network profiles and friend links, or news, blogs and tweets. Data mining means finding new knowledge that was previously only implicit in data. Web mining thus operates on many personal data that keep growing in volume and interrelatedness, and it0leads to inferences on inferences and groups that may be beneficial for some but unwanted-to-pernicious for others. > > In this lecture, I will first give an overview of mining techniques and typical uses such as profiling. I will then describe methods that have been proposed for protecting personal data from unwanted inferences (privacy-preserving data mining) or for reducing the risks of releasing these data (privacy-preserving data publishing). I will investigate the roles in the mining process (who is doing the mining on whose data of what sorts) and identify threats and opportunities in different settings that range from business intelligence to feedback and awareness tools for user empowerment. I will conclude with thoughts on what "privacy by design" may mean in the context of Web mining. > > > Lecture 4: Social perspective on (dis)empowerment of users in an internet environment (by Jo Pierson) > > In a society where people increasing rely on search engines and social media for communication and information sharing, it is vital to investigate these new forms of mediated communication from the social perspective of users/citizens/consumers. However in this transitional digital media ecosystem we observe how people can become simultaneously empowered as well as disempowered, in particularly on the levels of identity, privacy and surveillance. How this works out depends on the interrelationship between how internet systems are being designed (i.e. what they enable) and what people within their social context do with these systems (i.e. are able to do). In this way we notice for example that users of search engines and social media are foremost framed as consumers, and where 'relevance' is foremost posited as 'commercial relevance'. Questions are therefore: How can governance and power manifest itself through the algorithm? To what extent and how are the social practices by citizens and communities following, opposing and/or negotiating the 'governance' of internet systems? In what ways is the social self increasingly being commodified, with personal data becoming the new currency? In what way can a socio-technological perspective offer solutions? > > > Lecture 5: Technologies for private search (by Claudia Diaz) > > Search queries are closely related to the issues on which we are interested. This raises privacy concerns, as potentially sensitive information can be inferred from these queries, such as income level, health issues, or political beliefs. In this talk we will review different technologies for implementing private search services. This includes cryptographic techniques such as private information retrieval, as well as obfuscation-based private web search based on automatically generating fake queries. > > > Lecture 6: (Re)introducing privacy by design: the realm of search engines (by Eleni Kosta) > > Building legally compliant systems that process personal information is turning into a nightmare for online business. The quest for finding the balance between the privacy of the users on the one hand, and the maximization of the profit of online business, usually deriving from the processing of user information, on the other, proves to be a difficult task. This lecture will present the initiatives of the European Commission in the frame of the reform of the European Data Protection Directive to achieve such a balance. The case of search engines, who collect and process vast amounts of use information is going to be used as an example. > > > ================================================================================= > > > *** Interactive exercise sessions > > Exercise session 1 > > In this session the students will identify the stakeholders and describe their interests and stakes in the system. This will include: their incentives, their interests, and the identification of potential conflicts between their interests. > > Exercise session 2 > > In this session the students will specify the functionality, domain, and trust assumptions of the system. They also construct an initial model of the information that is necessary to fulfill the functionality of the system. > > Exercise session 3 > > In this session the participants will identify the legal frameworks that apply, describe the legal roles and responsibilities of the stakeholders and their data protection requirements, and discuss the societal implications of the system linked to power relations between different stakeholders. They will also conduct an analysis of the privacy concerns of the stakeholders and the service integrity guarantees (i.e., threat and security analysis). > > Exercise session 4 > > In this session the participants will further refine the definition of privacy goals and provide suggestions for privacy technologies that could be used in the system. The participants are asked to apply some of the things they learned in the lectures to the system they are developing. The specific choices of technical solutions to be used in the system will require re-thinking of the applicability of legal frameworks, the concrete functionality and the information model. > > Exercise session 5 > > In this session the participants will consolidate their conclusions and prepare the presentation for the rest of the course participants that will take place in the last session of the course. > > > >

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