Analysiert man das Internet als Markt, so zeigt sich: Mit Demokratie und Freiheit hat es nichts zu tun, mit Überwachung und Selbstbegrenzung der menschlichen Vernunft hingegen viel. Dem neoliberalen Vordenker Hayek hätte das gefallen.
Der Streit um die EU-Urheberrechtsreform ist für viele Europaabgeordnete ein Kampf zwischen der europäischen Kultur und den "barbarischen" IT-Konzernen aus den USA.
Die geplante Urheberrechtsreform könnte Plattformen zum Einsatz von Uploadfiltern verpflichten. Der Bundesdatenschutzbeauftragte befürchtet ein Oligopol weniger Anbieter wie
Announcing the SUMO challenge - a contest to encourage the development of algorithms for complete understanding of 3D indoor scenes from 360° RGB-D panoramas with the goal of enabling social AR and VR research and experiences.
The Computational Propaganda Research Project (COMPROP) investigates the interaction of algorithms, automation and politics. This work includes analysis of how tools like social media bots are used to manipulate public opinion by amplifying or repressing political content, disinformation, hate speech, and junk news.
We use perspectives from organizational sociology, human computer interaction, communication, information science, and political science to interpret and analyze the evidence we are gathering. Our project is based at the Oxford Internet Institute, University of Oxford.
As Facebook and Twitter are purging alternative media outlets, a neoconservative operative at a US government-funded think tank says more censorship is on its way. Max Blumenthal and Jeb Sprague discuss how scaremongering over Russia and China is being exploited to silence dissent on social media
By Zeynep Tufekci, part of MIT Technology Review's September/October 2018 Issue. "To understand how digital technologies went from instruments for spreading democracy to weapons for attacking it, you have to look beyond the technologies themselves." and perhaps also to look beyond the USA...
"Dissidents can more easily circumvent censorship, but the public sphere they can now reach is often too noisy and confusing for them to have an impact. Those hoping to make positive social change have to convince people both that something in the world needs changing and there is a constructive, reasonable way to change it. Authoritarians and extremists, on the other hand, often merely have to muddy the waters and weaken trust in general so that everyone is too fractured and paralyzed to act. The old gatekeepers blocked some truth and dissent, but they blocked many forms of misinformation too."
"Perhaps the simplest statement of the problem, though, is encapsulated in Facebook’s original mission statement (which the social network changed in 2017, after a backlash against its role in spreading misinformation). It was to make the world “more open and connected.” It turns out that this isn’t necessarily an unalloyed good. Open to what, and connected how? The need to ask those questions is perhaps the biggest lesson of all."
This article is not going to cover what React is or why you should learn it. Instead, this is a practical introduction to the fundamentals of React.js for those who are already familiar with JavaScript and know the basics of the DOM API.
Premier article d’une série consacrée aux algorithmes et à leur utilisation par les pouvoirs publics. Pour le sociologue Dominique Cardon, l’algorithme accompagne l’évolution d’une société marquée par une individualisation des rapports et une dérive vers la méritocratie.
in a syllabus from June 2017, The Supreme Court of the USA underlines the importance of the internet in relation to the first amendment to the US constitution. The internet's forums are decribed as "what for many are the principal sources for knowing current events, checking ads for employment, speaking and listening in the modern public square, and otherwise exploring the vast realms of human thought and knowledge."
Aug 2017,
"The court continued that although there may have been difficulty in the past identifying the most important places for the exchange of views, today the answer is “clear”—it is “cyberspace,” the “vast democratic forums of the Internet” in general and “social media in particular.”