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Der Tod des PC ist ein schlimmerer Verlust, als wir in unserer neuen mobilen Netzwelt ahnen, behauptet der Netztheoretiker Jonathan Zittrain. Gegen die faktische Zensur durch das App-Konzept erscheint die Geschäftspolitik von Microsoft in den neunziger Jahren heute geradezu harmlos. Ein Essay auf Technology Review.
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Am 25. Januar 2012 um 17 Uhr beginnt ”Daten & Journalisten” (bis etwa 22 Uhr)
Ort: die tageszeitung, taz, Rudi-Dutschke-Straße 23, 10969 Berlin | Karte
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Professor Yochai Benkler on Radio Berkman: Fear of a Networked Fourth Estate
“Wikileaks” has become something of a neverending story. Coverage has branched out beyond the revelations of the documents allegedly leaked by Pfc. Bradley Manning in 2010, and on to ancillary territory: the flamboyant presence of founder Julian Assange; the legal propriety of Wikileaks’ actions; and the harsh treatment of Manning as a military detainee.
These last two areas have garnered the attention of today’s guest. Harvard Law Professor Yochai Benkler recently co-authored a joint letter condemning the abuse of Bradley Manning that has since been signed by 295 scholars in the legal realm.
He has also spoken out against efforts by government and private entities to stifle Wikileaks. While some have argued that facilitating the release of classified documents is unprecedented and perhaps illegal, Benkler has insisted that Wikileaks’ behavior is not only entirely constitutional, but also not exceptional.
Moreover, he says, the private and governmental response to Wikileaks demonstrates an interesting insight into how networks do battle in the digital age. We sat down with Benkler this week to hear why.
Reference Section:
- Read Bruce Ackerman and Yochai Benkler’s joint letter on Manning’s treatment cosigned by 295 members of the legal academic community
- Benkler’s recent paper A Free Irresponsible Press: Wikileaks and the Battle Over the Soul of the Networked Fourth Estate
- Listen to Jonathan Zittrain & Larry Lessig talk about Wikileaks and the information wars
- Questions for Secretary Clinton concerning “Internet freedom”
- Berkman Center’s Citizen Media Law Project and Cyberlaw Clinic Challenge Injunctions Against Wikileaks and Dynadot
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Jonathan Zittrain on “Leadership in a Networked World”
Jonathan Zittrain, a professor of law and computer science at Harvard University, delivers a fascinating lecture to professor David Gergen’s course “On Becoming a Leader” that looks at how leadership is exerted both on and through the internet.
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Aaron Swartz Internet activist (and friend) has been arrested for downloading too many journal articles from the Library. Please sign the petition of suport and help to spread the word:
Will you click here to sign our petition of support for Aaron? http://act.demandprogress.org/sign/support_aaron
NY Times article: Internet Activist Charged in M.I.T. Data Theft
Aaron Swartz, a 24-year-old programmer and online political activist, has been indicted in Boston on charges that he stole more than four million documents from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and JSTOR, an archive of scientific journals and academic papers.
(Source: The New York Times)
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7 Ways To Ruin A Technological Revolution with James Boyle from Duke University
“If you wanted to undermine the technological revolution of the last 30 years, using the law, how would you do it? How would you undercut the virtuous cycle that results from access to an open network, force technological innovation into stagnation, diminish competition, create monopolies over the basic building blocks of knowledge? How many of those things are we doing now? James Boyle is William Neal Reynolds Professor of Law at Duke Law School, the founder of the Center for the Study of the Public Domain, and a Board Member of Creative Commons. He is also a columnist for the Financial Times New Technology Policy Forum.”
(Source: youtube.com)
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Filmmaker Paromita Vohra talks about her new film Partners in Crime, which explores issues around copyright, copyleft, culture and markets, and suggests that we might need a hybrid notion of copyright in which many forms coexist, just as we may need many markets based on many different ideas of exchange
(Source: infochangeindia.org)
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Must see: The Euro Crisis Song - guardian.co.uk
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Rebecca MacKinnon: Let’s take back the Internet!
In this powerful talk from TEDGlobal, Rebecca MacKinnon describes the expanding struggle for freedom and control in cyberspace, and asks: How do we design the next phase of the Internet with accountability and freedom at its core, rather than control? She believes the internet is headed for a “Magna Charta” moment when citizens around the world demand that their governments protect free speech and their right to connection.
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Der Philosoph Byung-Chul Han über die Gewalt der Transparenz, den Segen des Geheimnisses - und Peter Schlemihl, der seinen Schatten an den Teufel verkaufte.
brand eins: Herr Han, kaum ein Schlagwort bestimmt so sehr den öffentlichen Diskurs wie das der Transparenz. Woran liegt das?
Byung-Chul Han: Derzeit ist offenbar ein Prozess im Gange, der sich zwar in den Begriff Transparenz kleidet, aber in Wirklichkeit weit darüber hinausführt. Was meinen Sie damit? Ich höre etwas Gewaltsames aus diesem Wort heraus. Als würde man gnadenlos durch- und ausgeleuchtet, hätte keinen Rückzugsraum. So gesehen könnten wir von der Gewalt der Transparenz sprechen. Der Begriff setzt sich aus den lateinischen Wörtern trans und parere zusammen. Parere bedeutet ursprünglich: auf jemandes Befehl erscheinen, sichtbar sein. Das Wort parieren bedeutet auch: ohne Widerspruch gehorchen. Im Moment scheint die Transparenz tatsächlich diesen Zwangscharakter angenommen zu haben. Sie erscheint mir wie ein Instrument der Kontrolle und Überwachung.
(Source: brandeins.de)
