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Jovan Maud

Netizens warned against 'liking' photo | Bangkok Post: breakingnews - 0 views

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web 2.0 politics censorship

shared by Jovan Maud on 22 Oct 12 - No Cached
  • Jovan Maud on 22 Oct 12
     
    "Netizens warned against 'liking' photo Published: 19/10/2012 at 06:04 PM Online news: Thai web users have been warned against sharing or "liking" the controversial picture of a Thai reporter standing near a photo of the late Cambodian king visible in a newspaper placed on the ground. Information and communication technology (ICT) permanent secretary Chaiyan Peungkiatpairote warned that anyone doing so may be in breach of the computer crimes law. At a press conference on Friday he appealed to the Thai social network users not to forward or click "like" on the photo or messages associated with it, saying doing so may lead to conflict between the two countries. It may also violate the Computer Crimes Act 2007, which prohibits the dissemination of content deemed threatening to national security. The law provides for a maximum five-year jail sentence, he said. Mr Chaiyan also urged the general public to refrain from disseminating or otherwise circulating the image to help maintain good bilateral ties between Thailand and Cambodia. Cambodia's social media network was abuzz on Wednesday over a photo of Thapanee Eadsrichai, a well-known reporter from Channel 3, in which it appeared she was standing over newspaper photos of King Sihanouk placed on the ground. The photo drew extensive criticism from both Cambodians and Thais. The journalist and her Channel 3 bosses quickly apologised. Ms Thapanee said she had no intention of showing disrespect to king Sihanouk and the newspaper wasn't actrually near her, it just appeared so from the angle the photo was taken. The Thai Foreign Ministry also stepped in to clear the air over the issue. The Cambodian government said in a statement released on Thursday that all Cambodian people should avoid ill-intentioned attempts by some political groups to use the case to stir instability in the country and cause problems with neighbouring countries. "
  • Jovan Maud on 22 Oct 12
     
    This is an interesting case where even "liking" a photo could be deemed a "computer crime" in the Thai context. It is worth noting there that relations between Thailand and Cambodia have been tense for a variety of reasons, and that in both countries placing an image of a respected person below one's feet (which are considered dirty) is deemed a grave insult.
Jovan Maud

Anti-Vaxxers Are Using Twitter to Manipulate a Vaccine Bill | WIRED - 1 views

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social media protest politics Twitter data

shared by Jovan Maud on 09 Jun 15 - No Cached
  • Since anti-vax activists lose on the science and are small in number, they have increasingly begun to rely on social media to inflate their presence. Twitter hashtags are particularly powerful because they transcend organized groups and the standard friend or follower relationships. More than any other social network, Twitter helps citizens to connect and organize in the real world even if they aren’t part of the same physical communities—anyone can participate in a conversation simply by following and using a hashtag.
  • in December 2014, “hashtag organizers” began to publish nightly “Trends and Tips” (TaTips) instruction videos on YouTube, containing instructions on what to tweet to advance the cause, and to improve the SEO of “vaccine questioning” websites. There are over 150 of these videos now—a testament to how much the anti-vax movement prioritizes Twitter.
  • n one unfortunate video, a movement leader encouraged supporters to use Twitter to harass and stalk a lobbyist, who has since filed police reports. In a very recent creation, that same leader excoriates her “Twitter army” for diluting the power of the #cdcwhistleblower movement by creating their own hashtags rather than using the ones they’ve been assigned. She also requests that the entire network tweet at Assembly representatives to inform them that their political careers will be over if they vote in favor of SB277.
  • Jovan Maud on 09 Jun 15
     
    Just one example of the political manipulation of social media.
Jovan Maud

Robot 'pals' are invading social media - and it's time to unfriend them - The Week - 2 views

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robots bots AI social media big data human-machine interactions

shared by Jovan Maud on 09 May 14 - Cached
  • As I argue in my book, behind socialbots stands a massive, powerful network, one we've been hearing a lot about lately: the network of surveillance, comprised both of global corporations who buy and sell our attention and governments who demand our obedience.
  • Jovan Maud on 09 May 14
     
    This article argues that the massive amounts of data that we make available about ourselves online allow bots to become ever more "human" in their self-presenation and interactions. Again referring to Latour: the traceability of so much behavioural data makes the distinction between "social" and "psychological" harder to maintain. At the same time, the availability of data allows machines to parse (and pass) all the more effectively.
Jovan Maud

Shoshanna Zuboff: Dark Google - 0 views

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Google privacy big data surveillance democracy power

shared by Jovan Maud on 09 May 14 - Cached
  • Google’s absolutist pursuit of its interests is now regarded by many as responsible for the Web’s fading prospects as an open information platform in which participants can agree on rules, rights, and choice.
  • In fact, the firms were developing a wholly new business logic that incorporated elements of the conventional logic  of corporate capitalism –especially its adversarialism toward end consumers – along with  elements from the new Internet world – especially its intimacy. The outcome was the elaboration of  a new commercial logic based on hidden surveillance.
  • We often hear that our privacy rights have been eroded and secrecy has grown. But that way of framing things obscures what’s really at stake. Privacy hasn’t been eroded. It’s been expropriated.  The difference in framing provides new ways to define the problem and consider solutions.
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  • A pre-modern absolutismFinally - and this is key - the new concentration of privacy rights is institutionalized in the automatic undetectable functions of a global infrastructure that most of the world’s people also happen to think is essential for basic social participation. This turns ordinary life into the daily renewal of a 21st century Faustian pact.
  • What is Google up to next?  We know it’s secret, but here is how it looks to me. Google is no longer content with the data business.  It’s next step is to build an even more radical „reality business.”  Google sees „reality” as the next big thing that it can carve up and sell. In the data business, the payoff is in data patterns that help target ads. In the reality business, the payoff is in shaping and communicating real life behaviors of people and things in millions of ways that drive revenue to Google. The business model is expanding to encompass the digital you as well as the actual you. The scene is changing from virtual reality to, well, reality. Unsurprisingly, the two entities at the vanguard of this new wave are Google and the NSA.
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      Jovan Maud on 09 May 14
       
      Remember in the Matrix:Reloaded (I think it was?) that Neo realised he could also use his powers in the "real world", not just inside the Matrix...
  • In a 2011 paper,  MIT Professor Alex Pentland explains the value of reality mining. „We must reinvent societies’ systems within a control framework.” He notes that this will require „exponential growth in data about human behavior.”
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      Jovan Maud on 09 May 14
       
      Bruno Latour would argue that the "the social" is becoming ever more "visible" and can be subjected to ever more quantatitive analysis. Or are we seeing a process of convergence, where the distinction between qualitative and quantitative is breaking down? The notion of developing a "control framework", though, illustrates though how the gathering of massive amounts of data is not merely collecting information about the world, but an active intervention in shaping the world.
  • the proliferation of sensors, mobile phones, and other data capture devices will provide the „eyes and ears” of a „world-spanning living organism.”
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      Jovan Maud on 09 May 14
       
      "Distributed sensor networks" -- otherwise known as "the internet of things". 
  • “pattern of life analysis”
  • All this suggests that Google is building capabilities even more ambitious than reality „mining”. The aim is not merely the God’s eye view, but the God’s eye power to shape and control reality.
  • There are two useful ideas for us in the work of historian Karl Polanyi. He described the rise of a new human conception: the self-regulating market economy.  He saw that the market economies of the 19th and 20th centuries depended upon three astonishing mental inventions.  He called them „fictions“. The first was that human life can be subordinated to market dynamics and be reborn as „labor.” Second,  nature can be subordinated and reborn as „real estate.” Third, that purchasing power can be reborn as „money.”  The very possibility of industrial capitalism depended upon the creation of  these  three critical  „fictional commodities.” Life, nature, and exchange had to be turned into things that could be profitably bought and sold.
  • Google brings us to the precipice of a new development in the scope of the market economy. A fourth fictional commodity is emerging as a dominant characteristic of market dynamics in the 21st century. „Reality” is about to undergo the same kind of fictional transformation and be reborn as „behavior.” 
  • Polanyi understood that the pure unimpeded operations of  a self-regulating of the market were profoundly destructive. Society required    countermeasures to avoid such danger. He called this the „double movement”:  „a network of measures and policies...integrated into powerful institutions designed to check the action of the market relative to labor, land, and money.”
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      Jovan Maud on 09 May 14
       
      When Horst and Miller discuss the "dialectics of culture" in their chapter, I think they are referring to something similar. How are the powers of abstraction brought about by digital technologies domesticated in "culture", or into structures of governance? 
  • We are beyond the realm of economics here. This is not merely a conversation about free  markets; it’s a conversation about free people.
  • But such specialized  professional arguments shift the Google debate from the realm of everyday life and ordinary people to the arcane interests of economists and bureaucrats. They obscure the fact that the issues have shifted from monopolies of products or services to monopolies of rights: rights to privacy and rights to reality.  These new forms of power, poorly understood except by their own practitioners, threaten the sovereignty of the democratic social contract.
Jovan Maud

How Covert Agents Infiltrate the Internet to Manipulate, Deceive, and Destroy Reputatio... - 0 views

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protest politics NSA surveillance public sphere hackers hacktivism

shared by Jovan Maud on 25 Feb 14 - No Cached
  • hat these agencies are attempting to control, infiltrate, manipulate, and warp online discourse, and in doing so, are compromising the integrity of the internet itself.
  • 1) to inject all sorts of false material onto the internet in order to destroy the reputation of its targets; and (2) to use social sciences and other techniques to manipulate online discourse and activism to generate outcomes it considers desirable.
  • In fact, the discussion of many of these techniques occurs in the context of using them in lieu of “traditional law enforcement” against people suspected (but not charged or convicted) of ordinary crimes or, more broadly still, “hacktivism”, meaning those who use online protest activity for political ends.
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  • As Anonymous expert Gabriella Coleman of McGill University told me, “targeting Anonymous and hacktivists amounts to targeting citizens for expressing their political beliefs, resulting in the stifling of legitimate dissent.” Pointing to this study she published, Professor Coleman vehemently contested the assertion that “there is anything terrorist/violent in their actions.”
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      Jovan Maud on 25 Feb 14
       
      N.B. Gabriella Coleman, anthropologist and author of "Coding freedom". 
  • Sunstein also proposed sending covert agents into “chat rooms, online social networks, or even real-space groups” which spread what he views as false and damaging “conspiracy theories” about the government. Ironically, the very same Sunstein was recently named by Obama to serve as a member of the NSA review panel created by the White House, one that – while disputing key NSA claims – proceeded to propose many cosmetic reforms to the agency’s powers (most of which were ignored by the President who appointed them).
  • Jovan Maud on 25 Feb 14
     
    A key issue in debates about how digital technologies are transforming political discourse. In this case, what new possibilities are open to states to manipulate opinion, spread misinformation and to discredit opponents?
Jovan Maud

Gamers Have the Skills to Make Great Politicians… « Cyber Anthropology : Anth... - 0 views

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gaming wow mmo

shared by Jovan Maud on 08 Nov 12 - No Cached
  • Jovan Maud on 08 Nov 12
     
    WoW player as US Congresswoman? Wow! ;-)
valeriesiba

Jennifer Golbeck on how your online persona shows in your Facebook likes - 2 views

http://www.ted.com/talks/jennifer_golbeck_the_curly_fry_conundrum_why_social_media_likes_say_more_than_you_might_think

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