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Social networks transforming how Canadians get the news
by Alfred Hermida 27 Apr '11

27 Apr '11

Dear colleagues Today, the Canadian Media Research Consortium (CMRC) releases its latest report, showing how the rise and popularity of social media are affecting how Canadians get their news - and from whom. The third in the CMRC's series of reports on Canadian news habits, Social Networks Transforming How Canadians Get the News shows that many people now expect the news to come to them, filtered by family, friends and acquaintances, rather than only by professional journalists. While Canadians still consider traditional print and broadcast media as an important source for news, the study found that 36 per cent of adults consider social media as an equally important source of news, with that figure jumping significantly to 61 per cent for younger adults. More than 18 million Canadians are now on Facebook alone. More than two-thirds of those surveyed who use social networks such as Facebook value them as a way of staying informed, with the majority saying social media exposes them to a broader range of news and information than traditional media. The findings help to illustrate the dramatic impact that Facebook, Twitter and other social media platforms are having on news production and consumption in Canada. The report is particularly timely, given concerns that Canadians might share election results online this coming Monday before polls close, flouting a 1938 ban on the early broadcasting of results. To read more of the CMRC report, visit: http://mediaresearch.ca/ Best, Alfred Alfred Hermida: Assistant Professor The School of Journalism | University of British Columbia 6388 Crescent Road | Vancouver | BC | V6T 1Z2 Contact: alfred.hermida(a)ubc.ca Web: http://www.journalism.ubc.ca | Blog: http://www.reportr.net

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CFP: First International Workshop on Securing Services on the Cloud (IWSSC 2011)
by Fulvio Frati 27 Apr '11

27 Apr '11

[Apologies if you receive multiple copies of this message] *************** CALL FOR PAPERS *************** FIRST INTERNATIONAL WORKSHOP ON SECURING SERVICES ON THE CLOUD (IWSSC 2011) Held in conjunction with the 5th International Conference on Network and System Security (NSS 2011) September 6-8, 2011, Milan, Italy - http://sesar.dti.unimi.it/iwssc2011 IWSSC 2011 BACKGROUND AND GOALS The ongoing merge between Service-Oriented Architectures (SOAs) and the Cloud computation paradigm provides a new environment fostering the integration of services located within company boundaries with those on the Cloud. An increasing number of organizations implement their business processes and applications via runtime composition of services made available on the Cloud by external suppliers. This scenario is changing the traditional view of security introducing new service security risks and threats, and requires re-thinking of current development, testing, and verification methodologies. IWSSC 2011 aims to address the security issues related to the deployment of services on the Cloud, along with evaluating their impact on traditional security solutions for software and network systems. The workshop seeks submissions from academia and industry presenting novel research on all theoretical and practical aspects of security of services implemented on the Cloud, as well as experimental studies in Cloud infrastructures, the implementation of services, and lessons learned. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: * Security in Cloud services * Software verification in critical services * Static code analysis of software services * Test-based verification of services * Authentication and access control on the Cloud * Challenges in moving critical systems to the Cloud * Cybercrime and cyberterrorism on the Cloud * Communication confidentiality and integrity * Data security and privacy on the Cloud * Formal methods for the Cloud * Homeland security * Information assurance and trust management * Intrusion detection on the Cloud * Model-based validation of services * Orchestration and choreography * RESTful service security * SOAP security * Security certification of services * Security metrics on the Cloud * Security models and architectures * Security patterns for the Cloud * Security protocols on the Cloud IMPORTANT DATES Paper submission due: June 1, 2011 (midnight Samoa time) Notification to authors: July 11, 2011 Camera-ready due: July 21, 2011 SUBMISSION INSTRUCTIONS Submissions must not substantially overlap papers that have been published or that are simultaneously submitted to a journal or conference/workshop with proceedings. Each submission should be at most 8 pages in total including bibliography and well-marked appendices, and should follow the IEEE 8.5" x 11" Two-Column Format. The final version of the accepted papers must follow the IEEE guidelines available at http://www.ieee.org/conferences_events/conferences/publishing/templates.html Submissions are to be made to the submission web site (http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=iwssc2011) Only pdf files will be accepted. Submissions not meeting these guidelines risk rejection without consideration of their merits. Authors of accepted papers must guarantee that their papers will be presented at the workshop. At least one author of each accepted paper is required to register with the main conference and present the paper. Accepted papers at the workshops will be published in the conference proceedings and in the IEEE digital library. IWSSC 2011 COMMITTEES AND CHAIRS General Chair (NSS General Chair) * Sabrina De Capitani di Vimercati, Universita' degli Studi di Milano, Italy Program Chairs * Claudio A. Ardagna, Universita' degli Studi di Milano, Italy * Ernesto Damiani, Universita' degli Studi di Milano, Italy Publicity Chair * Fulvio Frati, Universita' degli Studi di Milano, Italy Publication Chair * Giovanni Livraga, Universita' degli Studi di Milano, Italy Program Committee * Marco Aimar, Opera21, Italy * Marco Anisetti, Universita' degli Studi di Milano, Italy * Luis Soares Barbosa, Universidade do Minho, Portugal * Michele Bezzi, SAP, France * Simona Brugnoni, Telecom Italia, Italy * Marco Casassa Mont, HP Labs, UK * Richard Chbeir, Universite de Bourgogne, France * Nora Cuppens-Boulahia, Telecom Bretagne, France * Sergio Di Martino, Universita' di Napoli Federico II, Italy * Tharam Dillon, Curtin University of Technology, Australia * Eduardo Fernandez, Florida Atlantic University, USA * Nils Gruschka, NEC Laboratories Europe, Germany * Sigi Guergens, Fraunhofer SIT, Germany * Paul Hofmann, SAP Labs - Palo Alto, USA * Hejiao Huang, Harbin Institute of Technology, China * Renato Iannella, Semantic Identity, Australia * Meiko Jensen, Ruhr-University Bochum, Germany * Michiharu Kudo, IBM Japan, Japan * Giovanni Livraga, Universita' degli Studi di Milano, Italy * Luigi Lo Iacono, European University of Applied Sciences, Germany * Antonio Mana, Universidad de Malaga, Spain * Renato Menicocci, Fondanzione Ugo Bordoni, Italy * Domenico Presenza, Engineering, Italy * Jorg Schwenk, Ruhr-University Bochum, Germany * George Spanoudakis, City University of London, UK * Yanjiang Yang, Institute for Infocomm Research, Singapore IWSSC is technically co-sponsored by IEEE Systems Council (http://www.ieeesystemscouncil.org/) This call for papers and additional information about the conference can be found at http://sesar.dti.unimi.it/iwssc2011 Program chairs can be contacted at iwssc2011(a)unimi.it

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early-bird registration now open - IACAP'11
by Charles Ess 27 Apr '11

27 Apr '11

Dear AoIR-ists, with apologies for cross-postings, duplications, and, in this case, knowing that the conference will not be of interest to everyone on the list ... still, will appreciate your passing on to potentially interested colleagues. - charles === Early-bird registration (available until 15. May) is now open for the 25th anniversary conference of the International Association for Computing and Philosophy (IACAP) - July 4-6, 2011, on the campus of Aarhus University, Aarhus, Denmark. IACAP¹11 is the first international conference of IACAP one celebrating 25 years of Computing and Philosophy (CAP) conferences around the globe that explore the extensive range of fruitful intersections between philosophy and computing. IACAP¹11 continues this exploration with a program of ten tracks (see <http://www.ia-cap.org/IACAP_2011_CFP.pdf> for full track descriptions) as well as five plenary addresses: Presidential address: Tony Beavers, ³Is Ethics Computable, or What Other than Can Does Ought Imply?² Preston Covey Lifetime Achievement Award for Outstanding Research in Computing and Philosophy: Terrell (Terry) Ward Bynum, Professor of Philosophy at Southern Connecticut State University; Director of the Research Center on Computing & Society. Lecture title: ³Information and Deep Metaphysics² Herbert Simon Award for Outstanding Research in Computing and Philosophy: John P. Sullins, Associate Professor, Sonoma State University, California. Lecture title: ³The Next Steps in RoboEthics² Brian Michael Goldberg Memorial Award (for Outstanding Graduate Research in Computing and Philosophy, sponsored by Carnegie Mellon University): Cameron Buckner (Indiana University), ³Computational Methods for the 21st-Century Philosopher: Recent Advances and Challenges in Cognitive Science & Metaphilosophy² Surveillance and Security: ³(In)secure identities: ICTs, trust and bio-political tattoos¹,² Katja Franko Aas, Institute of Criminology and Sociology of Law, University of Oslo. ACCOMMODATIONS. Blocks of rooms have been reserved for IACAP participants in three Aarhus locales, including the University Guesthouse. July is a busy conference and tourist month, however, and so participants are urged to book their rooms as early as possible. Please see <http://www.iacap.org/conferences/iacap11/> for more details, including travel and registration information. HOSPITALITY Our host department the Department of Information- and Media Studies, Aarhus University will sponsor our opening reception on Monday evening, July 4, 2011, as well as provide logistical support throughout the conference. Our conference dinner will be held on Tuesday evening, July 5, 2011, in Nordens Folkekøkken, one of the best restaurants in Aarhus, especially for introducing newcomers to the delights of ³new Scandinavian² cuisine. (Attending the conference dinner requires an additional fee, as noted on the registration website.) AARHUS UNIVERSITY is ranked among the top 100 best universities in the world, and is noted for its fostering a wide range of interdisciplinary centres, institutes, and collaborative projects. It is thus an especially fitting venue for the first international IACAP conference as we celebrate our silver anniversary of fostering interdisciplinary collaboration. Finally, Aarhus, the second-largest city in Denmark, enjoys the reputation of being the happiest city in the happiest country in the world. And for good reasons. Among them: there are many excellent opportunities for lovers of art (Aros Art Museum, ³Sculptures by the Sea,² etc.), Viking and Danish history (including Den Gamle By (the old village) and Moesgaard Museum), open-air markets (Ingerslev), fine food and drink, and nature (including extensive woods, parks, and swimming in Aarhus harbor and neighboring beaches). Additional tourist information can be found at <http://www.visitaarhus.com/international/en-gb/menu/turist/turist-maalgrupp e-forside.htm>. We look forward to welcoming you to Aarhus in July! - charles ess Institut for Informations- og Medievidenskab Helsingforsgade 14 8200 Århus N. Denmark mail: <imvce(a)hum.au.dk> tel: (+45) 8942 9250 Professor, Philosophy and Religion Drury University, Springfield, Missouri 65802 USA Exemplary persons seek harmony, not sameness. -- Analects 13.23

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Survey help: Two varieties
by Johnson, Thomas J 27 Apr '11

27 Apr '11

My colleague Barb Kaye and I are conducting a survey examining the relationship between blogs, social media sites, Twitter, YouTube and political attitudes and behavior. We have a promotion plan for blogs, SNS and Twitter (thanks, in part, from some great advice from people on the site), but we are still looking for an efficient way to survey individuals on YouTube. Any suggestions? We would also love to get the responses from Internet experts. We would appreciate if you participated in the survey and passed the word on to friends and acquaintances http://survey.utk.edu/mrIWeb/mrIWeb.dll?I.Project=SOURCES2011

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ASIST> SIG-SI: 2010 Social Informatics Best Paper Award
by Howard Rosenbaum 26 Apr '11

26 Apr '11

Call for nominations for the Social Informatics Best Paper Award The Special Interest Group for Social Informatics (SIG-SI) is seeking nominations for an award for the best paper published in a peer reviewed journal on a topic informed by social informatics during the 2010 calendar year. The author or authors will present their paper and receive a $1,000 cash award at the 2011 Annual Meeting of the American Society for Information Science and Technology in New Orleans in October, 2011. Nominations letters should be sent to Howard Rosenbaum (hrosenba(a)indiana.edu) or Pnina Shachaf (shachaf(a)indiana.edu) by June 30, 2011 and must include a full citation, a brief explanation for the nomination, and a copy of the article. Self nominations are acceptable. Winners will be notified by July 31, 2011. ASIS&T Special Interest Group for Social Informatics

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Re: [Air-L] the return of SurveyFail
by Tuszynski, Stephanie 26 Apr '11

26 Apr '11

There've been a bunch of posts on blogs and fandom communities about the book: http://www.journalfen.net/community/unfunnybusiness/308440.html Several feminist blogs have also discussed it: http://feministing.com/2011/04/11/feminism-once-again-blamed-for-well-every… http://www.feministe.us/blog/archives/2011/04/12/feminism-makes-boners-sad/ http://yesmeansyesblog.wordpress.com/2011/04/12/inherent-female-submission-… This is probably annoying Scott Adams by stealing some of his thunder. Dr. Stephanie Tuszynski Assistant Professor of Communication Bethany College Message: 2 Date: Thu, 21 Apr 2011 17:54:05 -0500 (CDT) From: Katie Morrissey <morriss9(a)uwm.edu> To: air-l(a)listserv.aoir.org Subject: [Air-L] the return of surveyfail Message-ID: <32261745.136785.1303426445582.JavaMail.root(a)mail04.pantherlink.uwm.edu> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Thought some folks on the list might find this update interesting. Remember "surveyfail" back in 2009? When those two former Boston University students attempted to do a survey of various LiveJournal fanfiction/fandom groups using highly dubious methods and managed to anger whole legions of the internet in the process? They had a book deal at the time (which the research was for) and apparently it's now available for pre-ordering: A Billion Wicked Thoughts: What the World's Largest Experiment Reveals about Human Desire by: Ogi Ogas and Sai Gaddam http://www.amazon.com/Billion-Wicked-Thoughts-Largest-Experiment/dp/0525952… Given the tags the book is being given on Amazon, I'm assuming word of this must be circulating somewhere online. Has anyone here seen any discussion of it? I've been working on a project that discuses surveyfail and I'd like to follow the conversation if I can. Thanks! Katie Morrissey University of Wisconsin Milwaukee morriss9(a)uwm.edu This message may contain confidential information for the use of the addressee(s) above and may contain legally privileged information. If you are not the addressee, or the person responsible for delivering it to the addressee, you are hereby notified that reading, disseminating, distributing or copying this message is strictly prohibited. If you have received this message by mistake, immediately notify us by replying to the message and delete the original message immediately. Thank you.

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IFIP9.5 WG Virtuality and Society Workshop - extended deadline
by Kreps David 26 Apr '11

26 Apr '11

IFIP9.5 WG Virtuality and Society Workshop July 26th 2011 ThinkLab, University of Salford [location] <location> {location;} Call for Papers Workshop Guide IFIP9.5WG’s Workshop 2011 will be a mixed physical and virtual workshop, including physical attendance at the ThinkLab, University of Salford, UK, and virtual attendance by video-conference. It is envisaged that European colleagues will attend physically, and those further afield, virtually, but this is not a hard-and-fast rule. Details concerning virtual participation are included below. It is intended that the entire proceedings will be webcast for those who cannot attend. Call for Papers Smartphones have enjoyed phenomenal growth in the latter part of the first decade of this century. By 2012 sales of such devices are predicted to outstrip sales of PCs, and by 2015 more people will be accessing the internet with such devices than they will be with a PC. Key to the growth and popularity of such devices has been the convergence, not just of telecomms and photographic equipment, which helped drive mobile phone sales, and the addition of internet access, which defined the smartphone, but the addition, following the success of in-car satellite navigation devices, of GPS receivers into mobile internet devices. The integration of GPS technology into smartphones, coupled with the consumer-led approach of Apple’s iPhone, gave birth to a whole new class of location-based services for mobile internet devices, available in particular for the iPhone, but also for Android, and other devices. As our lives become increasingly encroached upon by the digital virtuality of our exponentially advancing information society, will this be at the cost of our humanity? Writers such as Sherry Turkle and others seem to believe this is already happening in circles of people sitting together in silence engaging with their smartphones. When our senses are surrounded by interactive exposure to telepresent realities – the faces of those we are speaking to across the world overlaid upon the world before our eyes, streams of data passing across the pavements and shopfronts as we pass, electronic voices calling our name and tantalising us with goods they know we want (famously envisaged in the movie, Minority Report) – when the worlds around us are both real and virtual, will this grant us additional scope to express our humanity, or constitute such an overload that engagement fatigue exhausts our faculties? At our off-grid holiday resorts in rugged mountainous territory or remote wilderness encampments, luxuriating in isolation-downtime, delighting in the simplicities of one-to-one, face-to-face conversation with no distractions, in natural landscape with no overlaid streams of historical and commercial data, out beyond the boundaries of location aware personal shopping avatars telling us where to get what they already know we would ‘Like’, will we savour a richer, more traditional humanity we feel the hi-tech virtuality-soaked everyday of our lives has come to miss? Or does this vision of a virtu-reality that beckons in the coming decade mistake digital virtuality for something other than simply the latest manifestation of the - very human – dreams our ingenuity and inventiveness has managed to create? Extended Deadline - Submission of papers:April 29th 2011 Submissions must be sent by email to info(a)ifip95wg.org Instructions for virtual participants Virtual participation is welcomed via video-conference link. Please contact David Kreps in the first instance with details of the technologies available to you. Please see www.ifip95wg.org for full details.

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Re: [Air-L] Apple surveilling children ... Ethical? Legal?
by Seda Guerses 26 Apr '11

26 Apr '11

dear michael, from a privacy and surveillance studies perspective, there are a number of ethical questions/issues, which include the following: 1) there is the usual problem of population surveillance and social sorting. as phone companies move onto 4g, i hear from different sources that they are moving towards voip and multi-layer quality system: if the customer pays more she will get better sound and connectivity quality and if not than something that the customer will be happy with (supposedly). given that apple or google or for that matter any other service provider can profile their profitable customers and decide where to improve their services, and where to let the infrastructure remain under-serviced etc. is a typical problem of social sorting. this is not specific to apple. however, thanks to the fact that this data is found, we now know that they have the dataset to do this. whether they do this, and what their criteria are for selecting "good customers" and "unimportant customers" (or what those categories are) is still not transparent to anyone but those companies. 2) for exactly the advantages of counter-surveillance that it makes possible, as well as arguments that say that this data should not only be available to private/for-profit companies, but also to a greater public who might want to use this data for non-profit projects, there is an argument to be made to keep the data accessible and available to whoever owns the phone, to allow them to share this data with peers or parties they want to collaborate with on public projects. 3) the problem with the above is that it assumes that phone owners will always have the legal protections granted to make sure that they can use the data in their phones/backup devices only for whatever it is they want to use it for and the collection of this data by any party is not going to cause any undesirable affects and harms. it turns out this is a naive position. we live in a world, where police and law enforcement have made a practice out of claiming any data they can get their sensors on. we had a similar problem in belgium, although at a much smaller scale: mobib, the access card for public transportation in brussels has an rfid chip that is not encrypted/protected and includes the name, address and the last three locations of the person. since the card includes an rfid chip, it enables anybody in the vicinity to read the contents of the card. while typical ghastly stories are of children being kidnapped, people being stalked, or spouses querying each others' whereabouts (which make popular headlines), the less popular stories are of police profiling protesters, employers their employees, etc. and that without the knowledge of the person holding the card. given that phones have become very important for political action across the world, but also in general to the organization of life, the description of the subject, who is free and has nothing too hide, and who can selectively disclose the location data on her phone is definitely not universal (whether such a subject exists is another question). as you are also pointing out, such a depiction erases matters of gender, age, race, class etc. and dismisses the power relations that are reconfigured through such data. 4) further, the reduction of location data to a series of coordinates also leaves out the fact that this data makes sense when it is connected within and across contexts. especially smart phones collect a lot of other data, which when linked with location data, allows for very elaborate narrations of the subject, to herself, but also to others. i think we need to find a way to talk about the ethical and legal problems, while taking into consideration how the design and use of these technologies reconfigure power relationships globally for different subjects/communities. 5) i can imagine this will be a fun and challenging question for colleagues at the technology and law departments. my intuition is that a question can be raised about the proportionality of the collection of so much potentially sensitive data. but then legislation like the eu data protection directive looks at such collection only in relation to the data collectors and processors: in this case, it is completely legal for telecom providers to collect this data. possibly, the privacy articles from the european convention of human rights have to be invoked to grant legal protection to such data on a device owned/controlled by the user. if i hear something back from some of our colleagues, i would be happy to let you know. i am aware that this is a rather data-centric view of things, i nevertheless hope it is helpful. best, s. Message: 1 Date: Sun, 24 Apr 2011 20:56:37 -0500 From: Michael Zimmer <zimmerm(a)uwm.edu> To: aoir list <air-l(a)aoir.org> Subject: Re: [Air-L] Apple surveilling children ... Ethical? Legal? Message-ID: <A3A290AA-5412-4FD1-8859-C9BBF486B615(a)uwm.edu> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252 That cellphone companies and operating systems track locations of phones isn't all that surprising (how long have you been with your current mobile provider? They have locational data on you for that amount of time, too). Apple, like most everyone else, wants to have a good mapping of locations where its products are used, and it can do that through triangulating cell towers, wi-fi locations, etc (Essentially the same reason that Google was collecting wi-fi data with its Street View cars). The core problem here is that Apple is syncing an unencrypted file with any computer the phone connects with, which seems to serve little use value. I've been digging around, and hope to find time to blog about this. In a nutshell, I'm leaning towards Occam's razor as an explanation (bad code design), rather than evilness. That, certainly, isn't meant to excuse what is happening, but just to contextualize it. Some useful background reading: How Apple tracks your location without consent, and why it matters - Ars Technica http://arstechnica.com/apple/news/2011/04/how-apple-tracks-your-location-wi… Apple Is Tracking You To Build Something Very Valuable: Its Location Database http://techcrunch.com/2011/04/21/apple-tracking-location-database/ Do Apple, Google and Microsoft Know Your Every Step? A Handy Chart - Gizmodo http://gizmodo.com/#!5794891/do-apple-google-and-microsoft-know-your-every-… -Michael Zimmer -- Michael Zimmer, PhD Assistant Professor, School of Information Studies Co-Director, Center for Information Policy Research University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee e: zimmerm(a)uwm.edu w: www.michaelzimmer.org

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Re: [Air-L] Air-L Digest, Vol 81, Issue 23
by pearse stokes 25 Apr '11

25 Apr '11

Thanks for the replies. I'm completely aware that the 'data' is one sided. However, the fact that Google are doing something wrong doesn't excuse Apple doing something wrong. Similarly, I'm aware that questioning the ethics or legality of Apple's actions is inflammatory. However, what I'm trying to open up is the question about data like this being stored when the data relates to legal minors. The 'being sent back to Apple' component of this is not really a valuable component of the data as Apple would argue that the phones do indeed come under their remit and are therefore all little repositories for Apple ... who can collect the data when they see fit. Essentially, what I would like to do, is leaver the fact that younger people use these devices, be they Apple's iPhones, or Android, or software like Chrome, that essentially track, or monitor young people to put a different spin on this topic. As has been pointed out, there's endless reading on this topic. I just wanted to see what people thought about the ethics of monitoring young people. Again, Apple may not have received the information or cared about it, but the device is still doing it. So, is it okay? For those of us in academia, would we monitor respondents without consent? Would we monitor legal minors without consent? Pearse Stokes

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Apple surveilling children ... Ethical? Legal?
by pearse stokes 25 Apr '11

25 Apr '11

I've recently posted the following on my blog. I'd love to hear people's thoughts on this ... So, for the last week there has been a huge debate about Apple and their iOS 4 software’s ‘tracking’ ability. For those who don’t know, Apple’s iPhone’s since iOS 4 have been tracking their owners – keeping a file on the phone and on any computer the deveice has been synced with that records the whereabouts of the phones owner. Clearly the clandestine nature of this applicaiton indicates Apple’s own stance; that this is fundamentally unethical and that they are doing something that their customers would strongly disagree with. That’s all fine, its all fairly cut and dry. The sooner an open source iOS reaches the same level of proficiency of say, Linux on computers, I’ll make the switch. The big question that I want to consider, and I would hope others with an interest in technology and society would consider it too, is ‘What is Apple doing when it stores the information of younger users?’ Essentially, for kids and younger teenagers who own iPhones, Apple has been tracking them. Apple has in fact been surveilling children and legal minors. While some older users or parents may not have an issue with their own whereabouts being tracked, I’m sure they would take issue with someone, anyone, compiling a list of their kids’ whereabouts. So, thoughts? If you are interested, here’s an app that will allow you see your own whereabouts, you’ll be able to see the information that Apple have captured represented on a map. Its interesting; http://dvice.com/archives/2011/04/your-iphone-is.php -- Pearse Stokes http://cyberanthropology.wordpress.com/2011/04/24/apple-surveilling-childre…

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