The lecture is a general survey of the darker side of Web 2.0-enabled New Media. In particular, I explore some of its frightfully hilarious/hilariously frightful uses by subversive and revolutionary groups on the fringes of contemporary global society. My case studies:
* the French National Front on Second Life;
* the Stormfront White Nationalist Community;
* the global anticapitalism movement (specifically, the IndyMedia Network);
* radical Islamism (specifically, AqsaTube);
* and the Second Life Liberation Army.
I lightly get into some of the theoretical issues, in particular the nature of New Media and today’s internet, and the role culture plays in determining the extent to which a subversive or revolutionary organization goes “high tech.”
The lecture is decidely “low tech,” intended for non-specialists and all-around end-users. However, it may also be of value to those with technical or journalistic backgrounds who may not be aware of the various fringe subcultures forming around the new technology.
Ponencia Congreso Andaluz Sociología, Almeria 25.11.2016 Social media el quin...BO TRUE ACTIVITIES SL
Las redes sociales en Internet han dado voz a los que no la tenían y han tenido un impacto democratizador en todo el mundo, aunque también, como dice Umberto Eco, le dan el derecho de hablar a legiones de idiotas. No obstante, muchos académicos son optimistas acerca de la capacidad del uso de Internet en el ámbito de lo social para incrementar las manifestaciones convencionales de activismo o compromiso social. ¿Cómo se manifiestan los movimientos sociales en Internet? ¿Qué papel juegan los medios de comunicación? ¿Hay personas centrales? ¿Existen patrones comunes en las redes sociales en internet? ¿De qué manera el uso de las redes sociales en internet facilita la discusión y la acción colectiva?
Bad weather and airline woes kept Lee Rainie from traveling to Melbourne, Australia this week to address the VALA – Libraries, Technology, and the Future conference. The slides for his talk and the paper on which it is built are available here. They deal with the democratization of media and the rise of user-generated content.
Ponencia Congreso Andaluz Sociología, Almeria 25.11.2016 Social media el quin...BO TRUE ACTIVITIES SL
Las redes sociales en Internet han dado voz a los que no la tenían y han tenido un impacto democratizador en todo el mundo, aunque también, como dice Umberto Eco, le dan el derecho de hablar a legiones de idiotas. No obstante, muchos académicos son optimistas acerca de la capacidad del uso de Internet en el ámbito de lo social para incrementar las manifestaciones convencionales de activismo o compromiso social. ¿Cómo se manifiestan los movimientos sociales en Internet? ¿Qué papel juegan los medios de comunicación? ¿Hay personas centrales? ¿Existen patrones comunes en las redes sociales en internet? ¿De qué manera el uso de las redes sociales en internet facilita la discusión y la acción colectiva?
Bad weather and airline woes kept Lee Rainie from traveling to Melbourne, Australia this week to address the VALA – Libraries, Technology, and the Future conference. The slides for his talk and the paper on which it is built are available here. They deal with the democratization of media and the rise of user-generated content.
Data Journalism: chapter from Online Journalism Handbook first editionPaul Bradshaw
This chapter is from the first edition of the Online Journalism Handbook. The work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.
Chapter 11 of a university course in media history by Prof. Bill Kovarik, based on the book Revolutions in Communication: Media History from Gutenberg to the Digital Age (Bloomsbury, 2nd ed., 2015).
Digital journalism also known as online journalism is a contemporary form of journalism where editorial content is distributed via the Internet as opposed to publishing via print or broadcast.
This is the text for the talk Christine Gorman gave to the American Journal of Nurses conference in Chicago on Oct. 6, 2009. The title of the talk was "Nurses and the Web: Staking Out Your Territory as an Expert in Health Care."
Online journalism, strengths and weaknesses, citizen journalism, history of online journalism (including comprehensive history of online journalism in Nepal)
Over two billion people signed up for Facebook. This site the most used site for people when using the Internet. People are not watching TV so much anymore - they using Facebook, Youtube and Netflix and number of popular web sites.
Some people denote their time working for others online. What drives people to write an article on Wikipedia? They don´t get paid. Companies are enlisting people to help with innovations and sites such as Galaxy Zoo ask people to help identifying images. And why do people have to film themselves singing when they cannot sing and post the video on Youtube?
In this lecture we talk about how people are using the web to interact in new ways, and doing stuff.
Hyper-Local update: 20 key developments, February - March 2011Damian Radcliffe
Follow on from previous slide packs offering a personal take on hyper-local developments in the UK and USA. These slides include developments I thought were noteworthy in Feb 11 - March 11. Would very much welcome comments, feedback and suggestions.
The bottom-up approach to the internet, and what organisations can learn from that.
A presentation given for the "Knowledge management and IT" course at the University College Maastricht, fall 2006.
Data Journalism: chapter from Online Journalism Handbook first editionPaul Bradshaw
This chapter is from the first edition of the Online Journalism Handbook. The work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.
Chapter 11 of a university course in media history by Prof. Bill Kovarik, based on the book Revolutions in Communication: Media History from Gutenberg to the Digital Age (Bloomsbury, 2nd ed., 2015).
Digital journalism also known as online journalism is a contemporary form of journalism where editorial content is distributed via the Internet as opposed to publishing via print or broadcast.
This is the text for the talk Christine Gorman gave to the American Journal of Nurses conference in Chicago on Oct. 6, 2009. The title of the talk was "Nurses and the Web: Staking Out Your Territory as an Expert in Health Care."
Online journalism, strengths and weaknesses, citizen journalism, history of online journalism (including comprehensive history of online journalism in Nepal)
Over two billion people signed up for Facebook. This site the most used site for people when using the Internet. People are not watching TV so much anymore - they using Facebook, Youtube and Netflix and number of popular web sites.
Some people denote their time working for others online. What drives people to write an article on Wikipedia? They don´t get paid. Companies are enlisting people to help with innovations and sites such as Galaxy Zoo ask people to help identifying images. And why do people have to film themselves singing when they cannot sing and post the video on Youtube?
In this lecture we talk about how people are using the web to interact in new ways, and doing stuff.
Hyper-Local update: 20 key developments, February - March 2011Damian Radcliffe
Follow on from previous slide packs offering a personal take on hyper-local developments in the UK and USA. These slides include developments I thought were noteworthy in Feb 11 - March 11. Would very much welcome comments, feedback and suggestions.
The bottom-up approach to the internet, and what organisations can learn from that.
A presentation given for the "Knowledge management and IT" course at the University College Maastricht, fall 2006.
ARC 211: American Diversity and Design: Ryan PhillipsRyan Phillips
The following presentation documents my responses to the online discussion questions in the Spring 2017 version of ARC 211 American Diversity and Design at the University at Buffalo – State University of New York
Transformed media landscape - and how we can make best use of itcentrumcyfrowe
Presentation on key social trends related to digital technologies, presented at the infoactivism workshop organized by Centrum Cyfrowe Projekt: Polska for the Trust for Civil Society in Central and Eastern Europe.
A focus on various theories and commentators on digital media. Plus a surprise Andy Warhol slide. Contains tios for incorporating theory into Media Studies essays.
Chapter 12 of a university course in media history by Prof. Bill Kovarik, based on the book Revolutions in Communication: Media History from Gutenberg to the Digital Age (Bloomsbury, 2nd ed., 2015).
Web 2.0 2001–PresentAssignment OverviewIt is a truism in the st.docxdavieec5f
Web 2.0: 2001–Present
Assignment Overview
It is a truism in the study of human technology that any tool that gets the public’s attention will eventually be used for purposes entirely unforeseen by its inventor(s) and probably contrary to the general public interest. This has certainly been the case with information technologies and the Internet. E-mail is great, but spam is not. Online video of the grandkids is wonderful; online pornography accessible to little Johnny, not so much. Despite much breast beating, it is difficult to have the good without the bad—and even differentiating the good from the bad is often a matter of opinion. As
Miles’ Law
says, “Where you stand depends upon where you sit.”
Recently, we have become so saturated with and dependent upon social media such as Facebook and Twitter that we have not always noticed the potential “dark side”—most specifically, the ability to use these tools not only to connect individuals in cyberspace but also to mobilize groups for action in the real world. One example is the “flash mob”—defined most generally as a group of people voluntarily assembled at a particular place and time for a particular purpose, coordinated through shared access to social media. This is not altogether a new invention—the telephone and, before that, the telegraph or even a good strong voice have been tools for assembling flash mobs in the past. But what has been recently discovered is how easy it is using modern social media, and how effective such mobs can be.
As we said, whether or not you consider this to be a good development or a bad development depends a lot on how you evaluate the purpose of the mob. Public assemblies to install democracy in an authoritarian state sound pretty good; assembling gang members to break windows and burn cars would not strike most of us as all that great. Here is a sampling of different points of view on this general subject:
Tavoulareas, E. (2011, August 22). Social media: The Jekyll & Hyde of media?
Changemakers
. Retrieved from
http://www.changemakers.com/blog/social-media-jekyll-hyde-media
Goodman, J. (2011, August 17). Debate over social media incitement as flash mobs strike. The Lede: Blogging the News.
New York Times
. Retrieved from
http://thelede.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/08/17/debate-over-social-media-incitement-as-flash-mobs-strike/
Brennan, E. (2011, August 19). Flash Mobs – The dark side of social media revealed. Retrieved from
http://www.i-policy.org/2011/08/flash-mobs-the-dark-side-of-social-media-revealed.html
Lum, R. (2011) Spreading the happiness one flash mob at a time.
CreativeGuerillaMarketin
g. Retrieved from
http://www.creativeguerrillamarketing.com/guerrilla-marketing/spreading-happiness-flash-mob-time/
Optional Reading
Kelly, L. (2011, March 22). Advertising with flash mobs.
JSNCafe
. Retrieved from
http://www.jsncafe.com/advertising-with-flash-mobs/
Heaney, F. (n.d.) The short life of flash mobs.
Stay Free!.
Retrieved from
http://www.alternet.
Builder.ai Founder Sachin Dev Duggal's Strategic Approach to Create an Innova...Ramesh Iyer
In today's fast-changing business world, Companies that adapt and embrace new ideas often need help to keep up with the competition. However, fostering a culture of innovation takes much work. It takes vision, leadership and willingness to take risks in the right proportion. Sachin Dev Duggal, co-founder of Builder.ai, has perfected the art of this balance, creating a company culture where creativity and growth are nurtured at each stage.
Transcript: Selling digital books in 2024: Insights from industry leaders - T...BookNet Canada
The publishing industry has been selling digital audiobooks and ebooks for over a decade and has found its groove. What’s changed? What has stayed the same? Where do we go from here? Join a group of leading sales peers from across the industry for a conversation about the lessons learned since the popularization of digital books, best practices, digital book supply chain management, and more.
Link to video recording: https://bnctechforum.ca/sessions/selling-digital-books-in-2024-insights-from-industry-leaders/
Presented by BookNet Canada on May 28, 2024, with support from the Department of Canadian Heritage.
State of ICS and IoT Cyber Threat Landscape Report 2024 previewPrayukth K V
The IoT and OT threat landscape report has been prepared by the Threat Research Team at Sectrio using data from Sectrio, cyber threat intelligence farming facilities spread across over 85 cities around the world. In addition, Sectrio also runs AI-based advanced threat and payload engagement facilities that serve as sinks to attract and engage sophisticated threat actors, and newer malware including new variants and latent threats that are at an earlier stage of development.
The latest edition of the OT/ICS and IoT security Threat Landscape Report 2024 also covers:
State of global ICS asset and network exposure
Sectoral targets and attacks as well as the cost of ransom
Global APT activity, AI usage, actor and tactic profiles, and implications
Rise in volumes of AI-powered cyberattacks
Major cyber events in 2024
Malware and malicious payload trends
Cyberattack types and targets
Vulnerability exploit attempts on CVEs
Attacks on counties – USA
Expansion of bot farms – how, where, and why
In-depth analysis of the cyber threat landscape across North America, South America, Europe, APAC, and the Middle East
Why are attacks on smart factories rising?
Cyber risk predictions
Axis of attacks – Europe
Systemic attacks in the Middle East
Download the full report from here:
https://sectrio.com/resources/ot-threat-landscape-reports/sectrio-releases-ot-ics-and-iot-security-threat-landscape-report-2024/
Elevating Tactical DDD Patterns Through Object CalisthenicsDorra BARTAGUIZ
After immersing yourself in the blue book and its red counterpart, attending DDD-focused conferences, and applying tactical patterns, you're left with a crucial question: How do I ensure my design is effective? Tactical patterns within Domain-Driven Design (DDD) serve as guiding principles for creating clear and manageable domain models. However, achieving success with these patterns requires additional guidance. Interestingly, we've observed that a set of constraints initially designed for training purposes remarkably aligns with effective pattern implementation, offering a more ‘mechanical’ approach. Let's explore together how Object Calisthenics can elevate the design of your tactical DDD patterns, offering concrete help for those venturing into DDD for the first time!
Securing your Kubernetes cluster_ a step-by-step guide to success !KatiaHIMEUR1
Today, after several years of existence, an extremely active community and an ultra-dynamic ecosystem, Kubernetes has established itself as the de facto standard in container orchestration. Thanks to a wide range of managed services, it has never been so easy to set up a ready-to-use Kubernetes cluster.
However, this ease of use means that the subject of security in Kubernetes is often left for later, or even neglected. This exposes companies to significant risks.
In this talk, I'll show you step-by-step how to secure your Kubernetes cluster for greater peace of mind and reliability.
JMeter webinar - integration with InfluxDB and GrafanaRTTS
Watch this recorded webinar about real-time monitoring of application performance. See how to integrate Apache JMeter, the open-source leader in performance testing, with InfluxDB, the open-source time-series database, and Grafana, the open-source analytics and visualization application.
In this webinar, we will review the benefits of leveraging InfluxDB and Grafana when executing load tests and demonstrate how these tools are used to visualize performance metrics.
Length: 30 minutes
Session Overview
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During this webinar, we will cover the following topics while demonstrating the integrations of JMeter, InfluxDB and Grafana:
- What out-of-the-box solutions are available for real-time monitoring JMeter tests?
- What are the benefits of integrating InfluxDB and Grafana into the load testing stack?
- Which features are provided by Grafana?
- Demonstration of InfluxDB and Grafana using a practice web application
To view the webinar recording, go to:
https://www.rttsweb.com/jmeter-integration-webinar
The Art of the Pitch: WordPress Relationships and SalesLaura Byrne
Clients don’t know what they don’t know. What web solutions are right for them? How does WordPress come into the picture? How do you make sure you understand scope and timeline? What do you do if sometime changes?
All these questions and more will be explored as we talk about matching clients’ needs with what your agency offers without pulling teeth or pulling your hair out. Practical tips, and strategies for successful relationship building that leads to closing the deal.
Epistemic Interaction - tuning interfaces to provide information for AI supportAlan Dix
Paper presented at SYNERGY workshop at AVI 2024, Genoa, Italy. 3rd June 2024
https://alandix.com/academic/papers/synergy2024-epistemic/
As machine learning integrates deeper into human-computer interactions, the concept of epistemic interaction emerges, aiming to refine these interactions to enhance system adaptability. This approach encourages minor, intentional adjustments in user behaviour to enrich the data available for system learning. This paper introduces epistemic interaction within the context of human-system communication, illustrating how deliberate interaction design can improve system understanding and adaptation. Through concrete examples, we demonstrate the potential of epistemic interaction to significantly advance human-computer interaction by leveraging intuitive human communication strategies to inform system design and functionality, offering a novel pathway for enriching user-system engagements.
Essentials of Automations: Optimizing FME Workflows with ParametersSafe Software
Are you looking to streamline your workflows and boost your projects’ efficiency? Do you find yourself searching for ways to add flexibility and control over your FME workflows? If so, you’re in the right place.
Join us for an insightful dive into the world of FME parameters, a critical element in optimizing workflow efficiency. This webinar marks the beginning of our three-part “Essentials of Automation” series. This first webinar is designed to equip you with the knowledge and skills to utilize parameters effectively: enhancing the flexibility, maintainability, and user control of your FME projects.
Here’s what you’ll gain:
- Essentials of FME Parameters: Understand the pivotal role of parameters, including Reader/Writer, Transformer, User, and FME Flow categories. Discover how they are the key to unlocking automation and optimization within your workflows.
- Practical Applications in FME Form: Delve into key user parameter types including choice, connections, and file URLs. Allow users to control how a workflow runs, making your workflows more reusable. Learn to import values and deliver the best user experience for your workflows while enhancing accuracy.
- Optimization Strategies in FME Flow: Explore the creation and strategic deployment of parameters in FME Flow, including the use of deployment and geometry parameters, to maximize workflow efficiency.
- Pro Tips for Success: Gain insights on parameterizing connections and leveraging new features like Conditional Visibility for clarity and simplicity.
We’ll wrap up with a glimpse into future webinars, followed by a Q&A session to address your specific questions surrounding this topic.
Don’t miss this opportunity to elevate your FME expertise and drive your projects to new heights of efficiency.
Encryption in Microsoft 365 - ExpertsLive Netherlands 2024Albert Hoitingh
In this session I delve into the encryption technology used in Microsoft 365 and Microsoft Purview. Including the concepts of Customer Key and Double Key Encryption.
From Daily Decisions to Bottom Line: Connecting Product Work to Revenue by VP...
Log on, tune in, blog out: citizen-journalists, New Media, and subversive activity
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79. The blog-manual is entitled, “Guerillas without Guns.” Its slogan is as stirring as it is haunting: “Ukraine is just the tip of the iceberg…” Thus, although the historical Color Revolutions were a Level-0 on the O’Reilly hierarchy, their spirit on the other hand is a Level-3. Click on the image to visit the blog.
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