Paper presented to Australian and New Zealand Communication Association (ANZCA) 2011 annual conference, Communication on the Edge: Shifting Boundaries and Identities, to be held at the University of Waikato, Hamilton, New Zealand, 6-8 July, 2011.
My closing keynote for the 2013 Social Capital Conference in Ottawa, Canada. The theme is the double standards of transparency in social media, and how we demand honesty from brands, yet we ourselves are not as honest as we'd like to think we are. It also looked at how faux expertise is clouding social media streams, and making it harder for transparent and authentic behaviour to stand out.
Paper presented to Australian and New Zealand Communication Association (ANZCA) 2011 annual conference, Communication on the Edge: Shifting Boundaries and Identities, to be held at the University of Waikato, Hamilton, New Zealand, 6-8 July, 2011.
My closing keynote for the 2013 Social Capital Conference in Ottawa, Canada. The theme is the double standards of transparency in social media, and how we demand honesty from brands, yet we ourselves are not as honest as we'd like to think we are. It also looked at how faux expertise is clouding social media streams, and making it harder for transparent and authentic behaviour to stand out.
We are all at the center again as time’s person of the yearedemocracy
Time’s Person of the year is a tradition that dates back to 1927. It used to be individual mavericks who left their mark on history. Yet twice in recent years Time magazine named as person of the year a collective of individuals that influence bottom up their landscape out of different levels of civic indignation.
I Gotta be Me: Public Reason and the Hardwired Global CitizenDaniel Drache
Global citizens are connecting via the internet, and engaging in public reason - discussing matters that concern a greater good. They are riding the long tail, and using soft power to reconfigure social space, causing power to devolve downward, and ideas to spread outwards.
Speakers: Estelle Massé, Kirsten Fiedler, Maryant Fernández:
We live in an era of ubiquitous surveillance. Surveillance is however seldom a goal in itself, but part of a larger scheme of socio-political domination. This talk will examine a few pieces of the puzzle leading to societal control: control of your activities via the internet, of your thoughts via the media and of your movement via border surveillance.
Two years after the first Snowden revelations, awareness around governmental and corporate surveillance has entered the mainstream media. Yet, broad resistance has been slow to develop - partly because of the intangible nature of surveillance, and because it is just one piece of a much larger game of control. This talk aims at explaining how society is being controlled through the internet, the media and the surveillance of movements.
The Internet is an unprecedented human rights enabler. But governments and companies have developed a vision to connect people and things whose ultimate goal is to have everyone under control. To what extent do we need the Internet of Things? What are the consequences of using self-measurement apps? Do you think twice before posting something online?
In the past years, technological developments have propelled the possibilities for media control to a whole new level. While political spins and newspeak remain the preferred methods to control the public discourse, the growth of new media platforms has reached a point where companies influence what we buy, how we vote and how we feel. On multiple occasions, Facebook's users have already been subject to experiments in civic-engineering. What is media control and how does it affect us?
Historically, governments had an interest in controlling movement not only within their cities but also at their borders. In the past decade, ubiquitous surveillance has opened up a new range of possibilities for the constant monitoring of our movements by governments. Surveillance of air travellers and refugees RFID devices, thermic cameras, drones are just few examples. What are the consequences of this constant tracking on our rights?
The outcome of the three pieces of the puzzle show that we don't have a right to be different, we censor ourselves, we fear consequences of enjoying our freedoms, our life stops being ours. We will present solutions and creative alternatives to the audience.
At the Hill&Knowlton Demystifying Digital event in Amsterdam on April 14 2011, David Ingle from H&K shows the role of social media in the recent middle east turmoil
We are all at the center again as time’s person of the yearedemocracy
Time’s Person of the year is a tradition that dates back to 1927. It used to be individual mavericks who left their mark on history. Yet twice in recent years Time magazine named as person of the year a collective of individuals that influence bottom up their landscape out of different levels of civic indignation.
I Gotta be Me: Public Reason and the Hardwired Global CitizenDaniel Drache
Global citizens are connecting via the internet, and engaging in public reason - discussing matters that concern a greater good. They are riding the long tail, and using soft power to reconfigure social space, causing power to devolve downward, and ideas to spread outwards.
Speakers: Estelle Massé, Kirsten Fiedler, Maryant Fernández:
We live in an era of ubiquitous surveillance. Surveillance is however seldom a goal in itself, but part of a larger scheme of socio-political domination. This talk will examine a few pieces of the puzzle leading to societal control: control of your activities via the internet, of your thoughts via the media and of your movement via border surveillance.
Two years after the first Snowden revelations, awareness around governmental and corporate surveillance has entered the mainstream media. Yet, broad resistance has been slow to develop - partly because of the intangible nature of surveillance, and because it is just one piece of a much larger game of control. This talk aims at explaining how society is being controlled through the internet, the media and the surveillance of movements.
The Internet is an unprecedented human rights enabler. But governments and companies have developed a vision to connect people and things whose ultimate goal is to have everyone under control. To what extent do we need the Internet of Things? What are the consequences of using self-measurement apps? Do you think twice before posting something online?
In the past years, technological developments have propelled the possibilities for media control to a whole new level. While political spins and newspeak remain the preferred methods to control the public discourse, the growth of new media platforms has reached a point where companies influence what we buy, how we vote and how we feel. On multiple occasions, Facebook's users have already been subject to experiments in civic-engineering. What is media control and how does it affect us?
Historically, governments had an interest in controlling movement not only within their cities but also at their borders. In the past decade, ubiquitous surveillance has opened up a new range of possibilities for the constant monitoring of our movements by governments. Surveillance of air travellers and refugees RFID devices, thermic cameras, drones are just few examples. What are the consequences of this constant tracking on our rights?
The outcome of the three pieces of the puzzle show that we don't have a right to be different, we censor ourselves, we fear consequences of enjoying our freedoms, our life stops being ours. We will present solutions and creative alternatives to the audience.
At the Hill&Knowlton Demystifying Digital event in Amsterdam on April 14 2011, David Ingle from H&K shows the role of social media in the recent middle east turmoil
The Kids Aren’t Happy: How Unemployed Youth and Social Media Are Remaking The...Daniel Drache
A Digital Report from the Robarts Counterpublics Working Group
Robarts Centre for Canadian Studies
Daniel Drache
Robarts Centre for Canadian Studies
Daniel Joseph
Research Associate
April 2011
Media and interpersonal communication; till what extend is it accomplished? Certainly, media’s power to affect cannot be understated when it comes to an existing research arena.
Social Media and PoliticsLearning objectivesLearning objec.docxjensgosney
Social Media and Politics
Learning objectives
Learning objectives include an understanding of the following:
· The role of social media in democracy
· The role of social media in advancing political reforms
· How social media create polarization
Introduction
Social Media are now a central component of democracy. The media are increasingly associated with political organizing, elections campaigns, accountability, and generally a more engaged citizenry. Social media are a dominant platform through which everyday citizens can share, organize, and communicate their ideas. People regularly use the media to acquire information about leaders and public policy related areas like the environment, education, health and so on. Many public offices now have websites that include social media functions in their communication with the public. Collectively, social media provide a public sphere where individuals can interact with likeminded people on political issues and provide criticism and support for leaders. However, while social media platforms make many issues accessible to increasingly large groups, the media have the potential to create polarization. Specifically, many blogs are quite subjective while some forms of media promote hatred and intolerance. Additionally, it is also difficult to examine the extent to which social media really alters public opinion as more research is needed. Lastly, questions remain on how much time users are prepared to devote their time on the social media for political problems.
Social Media and Elections
Popular social networks have transformed the use of the internet as a political tool for democratic transitions. Barack Obama’s historic in 2008 win was attributed to a new media strategy inspired by popular networks such as MySpace and Facebook. The campaign’s website My.BarackObama.com, allows supporters to join local groups, create events, sign up for updates and set up personal fund-raising pages. The campaign was spearheaded by Chris Hughes, a co-founder of Facebook. The social networks helped Obama raise more than two million donations of less than $200 each (Stelter, 2008). This success was based on huge investments on social media. The campaign spent $3 million on online advertising that targeted potential voters and online tools providing details of voting locations (Stelter, 2008).
Similarly, social media was extensively used in Canada’s 2011 elections. The elections were dubbed the “social media elections” or “election 2.0.” Harris (2011) observed that the social media served as “a one-stop shopping for parodies, speech remixes, gotcha moments, unconventional ads, and attacks so fiery, they risk scorching your computer monitor.” Two "vote mob" videos simultaneously held spots in the Top 10 on YouTube. A satirical video juxtaposing a Harper speech with an address by Star Wars' evil Emperor Palpatine drew more than 114,000. The University of Guelph's "vote mob" videos were viewed more than 33,000 .
Toward an ethical framework for the digital societyJillian York
I presented this keynote at the German Green Party's Netzpolitischer Kongress #NK16 on October 28, 2016. In this talk, I discussed a framework for developing a more ethical future society.
Dr. Sean Tan, Head of Data Science, Changi Airport Group
Discover how Changi Airport Group (CAG) leverages graph technologies and generative AI to revolutionize their search capabilities. This session delves into the unique search needs of CAG’s diverse passengers and customers, showcasing how graph data structures enhance the accuracy and relevance of AI-generated search results, mitigating the risk of “hallucinations” and improving the overall customer journey.
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.
LF Energy Webinar: Electrical Grid Modelling and Simulation Through PowSyBl -...DanBrown980551
Do you want to learn how to model and simulate an electrical network from scratch in under an hour?
Then welcome to this PowSyBl workshop, hosted by Rte, the French Transmission System Operator (TSO)!
During the webinar, you will discover the PowSyBl ecosystem as well as handle and study an electrical network through an interactive Python notebook.
PowSyBl is an open source project hosted by LF Energy, which offers a comprehensive set of features for electrical grid modelling and simulation. Among other advanced features, PowSyBl provides:
- A fully editable and extendable library for grid component modelling;
- Visualization tools to display your network;
- Grid simulation tools, such as power flows, security analyses (with or without remedial actions) and sensitivity analyses;
The framework is mostly written in Java, with a Python binding so that Python developers can access PowSyBl functionalities as well.
What you will learn during the webinar:
- For beginners: discover PowSyBl's functionalities through a quick general presentation and the notebook, without needing any expert coding skills;
- For advanced developers: master the skills to efficiently apply PowSyBl functionalities to your real-world scenarios.
In his public lecture, Christian Timmerer provides insights into the fascinating history of video streaming, starting from its humble beginnings before YouTube to the groundbreaking technologies that now dominate platforms like Netflix and ORF ON. Timmerer also presents provocative contributions of his own that have significantly influenced the industry. He concludes by looking at future challenges and invites the audience to join in a discussion.
UiPath Test Automation using UiPath Test Suite series, part 5DianaGray10
Welcome to UiPath Test Automation using UiPath Test Suite series part 5. In this session, we will cover CI/CD with devops.
Topics covered:
CI/CD with in UiPath
End-to-end overview of CI/CD pipeline with Azure devops
Speaker:
Lyndsey Byblow, Test Suite Sales Engineer @ UiPath, Inc.
Alt. GDG Cloud Southlake #33: Boule & Rebala: Effective AppSec in SDLC using ...James Anderson
Effective Application Security in Software Delivery lifecycle using Deployment Firewall and DBOM
The modern software delivery process (or the CI/CD process) includes many tools, distributed teams, open-source code, and cloud platforms. Constant focus on speed to release software to market, along with the traditional slow and manual security checks has caused gaps in continuous security as an important piece in the software supply chain. Today organizations feel more susceptible to external and internal cyber threats due to the vast attack surface in their applications supply chain and the lack of end-to-end governance and risk management.
The software team must secure its software delivery process to avoid vulnerability and security breaches. This needs to be achieved with existing tool chains and without extensive rework of the delivery processes. This talk will present strategies and techniques for providing visibility into the true risk of the existing vulnerabilities, preventing the introduction of security issues in the software, resolving vulnerabilities in production environments quickly, and capturing the deployment bill of materials (DBOM).
Speakers:
Bob Boule
Robert Boule is a technology enthusiast with PASSION for technology and making things work along with a knack for helping others understand how things work. He comes with around 20 years of solution engineering experience in application security, software continuous delivery, and SaaS platforms. He is known for his dynamic presentations in CI/CD and application security integrated in software delivery lifecycle.
Gopinath Rebala
Gopinath Rebala is the CTO of OpsMx, where he has overall responsibility for the machine learning and data processing architectures for Secure Software Delivery. Gopi also has a strong connection with our customers, leading design and architecture for strategic implementations. Gopi is a frequent speaker and well-known leader in continuous delivery and integrating security into software delivery.
Smart TV Buyer Insights Survey 2024 by 91mobiles.pdf91mobiles
91mobiles recently conducted a Smart TV Buyer Insights Survey in which we asked over 3,000 respondents about the TV they own, aspects they look at on a new TV, and their TV buying preferences.
GraphSummit Singapore | The Future of Agility: Supercharging Digital Transfor...Neo4j
Leonard Jayamohan, Partner & Generative AI Lead, Deloitte
This keynote will reveal how Deloitte leverages Neo4j’s graph power for groundbreaking digital twin solutions, achieving a staggering 100x performance boost. Discover the essential role knowledge graphs play in successful generative AI implementations. Plus, get an exclusive look at an innovative Neo4j + Generative AI solution Deloitte is developing in-house.
GDG Cloud Southlake #33: Boule & Rebala: Effective AppSec in SDLC using Deplo...James Anderson
Effective Application Security in Software Delivery lifecycle using Deployment Firewall and DBOM
The modern software delivery process (or the CI/CD process) includes many tools, distributed teams, open-source code, and cloud platforms. Constant focus on speed to release software to market, along with the traditional slow and manual security checks has caused gaps in continuous security as an important piece in the software supply chain. Today organizations feel more susceptible to external and internal cyber threats due to the vast attack surface in their applications supply chain and the lack of end-to-end governance and risk management.
The software team must secure its software delivery process to avoid vulnerability and security breaches. This needs to be achieved with existing tool chains and without extensive rework of the delivery processes. This talk will present strategies and techniques for providing visibility into the true risk of the existing vulnerabilities, preventing the introduction of security issues in the software, resolving vulnerabilities in production environments quickly, and capturing the deployment bill of materials (DBOM).
Speakers:
Bob Boule
Robert Boule is a technology enthusiast with PASSION for technology and making things work along with a knack for helping others understand how things work. He comes with around 20 years of solution engineering experience in application security, software continuous delivery, and SaaS platforms. He is known for his dynamic presentations in CI/CD and application security integrated in software delivery lifecycle.
Gopinath Rebala
Gopinath Rebala is the CTO of OpsMx, where he has overall responsibility for the machine learning and data processing architectures for Secure Software Delivery. Gopi also has a strong connection with our customers, leading design and architecture for strategic implementations. Gopi is a frequent speaker and well-known leader in continuous delivery and integrating security into software delivery.
Pushing the limits of ePRTC: 100ns holdover for 100 daysAdtran
At WSTS 2024, Alon Stern explored the topic of parametric holdover and explained how recent research findings can be implemented in real-world PNT networks to achieve 100 nanoseconds of accuracy for up to 100 days.
GraphSummit Singapore | The Art of the Possible with Graph - Q2 2024Neo4j
Neha Bajwa, Vice President of Product Marketing, Neo4j
Join us as we explore breakthrough innovations enabled by interconnected data and AI. Discover firsthand how organizations use relationships in data to uncover contextual insights and solve our most pressing challenges – from optimizing supply chains, detecting fraud, and improving customer experiences to accelerating drug discoveries.
Essentials of Automations: The Art of Triggers and Actions in FMESafe Software
In this second installment of our Essentials of Automations webinar series, we’ll explore the landscape of triggers and actions, guiding you through the nuances of authoring and adapting workspaces for seamless automations. Gain an understanding of the full spectrum of triggers and actions available in FME, empowering you to enhance your workspaces for efficient automation.
We’ll kick things off by showcasing the most commonly used event-based triggers, introducing you to various automation workflows like manual triggers, schedules, directory watchers, and more. Plus, see how these elements play out in real scenarios.
Whether you’re tweaking your current setup or building from the ground up, this session will arm you with the tools and insights needed to transform your FME usage into a powerhouse of productivity. Join us to discover effective strategies that simplify complex processes, enhancing your productivity and transforming your data management practices with FME. Let’s turn complexity into clarity and make your workspaces work wonders!
Threats to mobile devices are more prevalent and increasing in scope and complexity. Users of mobile devices desire to take full advantage of the features
available on those devices, but many of the features provide convenience and capability but sacrifice security. This best practices guide outlines steps the users can take to better protect personal devices and information.
In Tunisia, we know that things wouldn't have happened without Bouazizi. Still, the anti-censorship movement, which overlaps with the broader human rights movement, had been building up momentum. Slim, Lina.
Anti-torture movement Long-term activism Civil society Labor movements Kefaya, April 6 Dynamic blogosphere/citizen media