[nexa] Fwd: [icts] CfP Critical Perspectives on Digital Capitalism: Theories and Praxis

[J.C. DE MARTIN]

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Date:   Fri, 10 Mar 2023 11:27:20 +0100
From:   Christian Fuchs 



CfP Critical Perspectives on Digital Capitalism: Theories and Praxis

Special Issue of the journal tripleC: Communication, Capitalism & 
Critique (http://www.triple-c.at)

Edited by Thomas Allmer, Sevda Can Arslan, and Christian Fuchs
(Media Systems and Media Organisation Research Group, Paderborn University)
https://www.triple-c.at/index.php/tripleC/announcement/view/40

Submission deadline: Thursday, April 20, 2023
Please submit abstracts of 250-600 words by e-mailing the completed 
submission form

http://triple-c.at/f/FirstName_FamilyName_tripleC_DigitalCapitalism.docx
to thomas.all...@triple-c.at

This special issue presents critical perspectives on digital capitalism. 
Its contributions show how we can best critically theorise digital 
capitalism and what forms of political praxis exist and are needed in 
social struggles that stand in the context of digital capitalism.


The issue will feature contributions by Jodi Dean, Christian Fuchs, 
Michael Hardt & Antonio Negri, and Sabine Pfeiffer.


Facebook and Google exploit our digital labour. That's digital 
capitalism. In late 2022 and early 2023, Google laid off 12,000 
employees, Microsoft 10,000, Twitter more than 10,000, Amazon 18,000, 
and Facebook 11,000. That's digital capitalism. Algorithms are used by 
corporations for socially sorting and discriminating against customers 
who struggle to make ends meet and live in deprived neighbourhoods. 
That's digital capitalism. Lots of clickwork is conducted by poorly paid 
women in the Global South. That's digital capitalism. Digital fascism, 
fake news, post-truth culture and algorithmic politics circulate on 
capitalist and state-capitalist Internet platforms. That's digital 
capitalism. Information war and echo chambers polarise the digital 
public sphere, making a new World War between imperialist powers that 
compete at the global level for the control of territory, economic power 
and political as well as ideological hegemony and the nuclear 
annihilation of humankind and life on Earth more likely. That's digital 
capitalism.


Recently, digital workers assembling iPhones protested against the poor 
working conditions they faced at Foxconn in Zhengzhou during the 
COVID-19 pandemic. That's a praxis that challenges digital capitalism. 
In 2021, warehouse workers founded the Amazon Labor Union. That's a 
praxis that challenges digital capitalism. The non-profit federated 
Internet platform Mastodon has become a viable digital alternative in 
the light of users' discontent with Elon Musk's takeover of Twitter. 
That's a praxis that challenges digital capitalism. Internet experts and 
users have co-written the Public Service Media and Public Service 
Internet Manifesto that demands turning the Internet into a public good 
and advancing digital democracy. That's a praxis that challenges digital 
capitalism. While fascists spread post-truth on social media, the 
progressive news hour Democracy Now! has since 1996 utilised the 
non-commercial Internet, Public Service Media, as well as community 
radio and television stations for broadcasting a high-quality, 
independent news programme that reaches millions of viewers and 
questions fake news. That's a praxis that challenges digital capitalism.


Digital capitalism matters. Digital capitalism shapes our lives. Digital 
capitalism needs to be better understood. We need critical theories of 
digital capitalism. We need to better understand praxes that challenge 
digital capitalism and aim at fostering digital democracy and digital 
socialism. tripleC's special issue on "Critical Perspectives on Digital 
Capitalism: Theories and Praxis" wants to contribute to establishing 
foundations of critical theories and the philosophy of praxis in the 
light of digital capitalism.


We invite contributions that engage with theoretical and praxeological 
questions.

More information:
https://www.triple-c.at/index.php/tripleC/announcement/view/40

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[nexa] approvata in Italia ieri il decreto di attuazione della direttiva europea in materia di whistleblowing

[Mauro Alovisio]

 Ciao segnalo che il Consiglio dei Ministri ha approvato  il decreto di
recepimento della Direttiva UE 2019/1937 sulla protezione dei
whistleblower, le persone che segnalano illeciti di cui vengono a
conoscenza in ragione del rapporto di lavoro.
https://www.dirittobancario.it/art/direttiva-whistleblowing-approvata-lattuazione-in-italia/
Il decreto è in attesa di pubblicazione su Gazzetta Ufficiale

Un caro saluto

Mauro
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[nexa] [CFP] The Data EConomy (DEC) Workshop 2023 - Deadline Extended

[Martino Trevisan]

[Apologies if you receive multiple copies of this mail]

*The Data EConomy (DEC) Workshop 2023**
**in conjunction with SIGMOD 2023**
**Seattle, June 18, 2023*
*Website: https://sites.google.com/view/data-economy-2023/*


/_*ORGANIZERS AND CHAIRS*_/

 * *Nikolaos Laoutaris*, IMDEA Networks Institute
 * *Georgia Koutrika*, Athena Research Center


/_*WORKSHOP DESCRIPTION*_/
/Data-driven decision making powered by Machine Learning (ML) algorithms 
is changing how the society and the economy work and is having a 
profound positive impact on our daily life. With the exception of very 
large companies that have both the data and the skills to develop 
powerful ML-driven services, the large majority of provably possible ML 
services, from e-health, to transportation and predictive maintenance, 
to name just a few, still remain at the idea or prototype level for the 
simple reason that data, the skills to manipulate them, and the business 
models to bring them to market, seldom co-exist under the same roof. The 
value of data comes from its contextualisation and combination with 
other data. Indeed, this can give way to many new services and products. 
Furthermore, data has to somehow meet with the ML and business skills 
that can unleash its full power for the society and economy. This has 
given rise to a highly dynamic sector around the Data Economy, involving 
Data Providers/Controllers, data Intermediaries, often-times in the form 
of Data Marketplaces or Personal Information Management Systems for 
end-users to control and even monetise their personal data. Despite its 
huge potential and observed initial growth, the Data Economy is still at 
its nascent phase and, therefore, faces a yet uncertain future and a 
series of existential challenges. Such challenges include a broad range 
of technical matters across multiple disciplines of Computer Science 
including databases, machine learning, distributed systems, security and 
privacy, and human computer interaction. /


/_*TOPICS*_/

The mission of the Data Economy workshop will be to bring together all 
the CS skills required for helping the Data Economy liftoff by 
addressing a range of technical challenges including, but are not 
limited, to the ones below:


 * Design, architecture, systems and protocols for Data Marketplaces,
   Data Vendors, and Personal Information Management Systems (PIMS)
 * Consent management and taxonomy of data processing purposes
 * Sending the data to the algorithm vs. sending the algorithm to the data
 * Federated and distributed learning in the data economy
 * Data management and querying in Data Marketplaces
 * Secure data exchange and delivery mechanisms
 * Federated data catalogues and data discovery mechanisms
 * Heterogeneous and federated DBMS, metadata management
 * Information Integration and Data Quality
 * Privacy/data protection and the data economy
 * Data pricing mechanisms for individual and aggregated data
 * How to buy data – data purchase policies and algorithms
 * Protecting data ownership rights for commercial datasets
 * NFTs, blockchains, smart contracts and their role in the data economy
 * Trusted execution, cloud computing, distributed storage  and their
   role in the data economy
 * Data representation and exchange standards in the data economy
 * Understanding the value of data in different applications and
   domains and across the data value chain
 * Cryptographic approaches, including FHE, SMPC, DP, and their role
   and limits in the data economy
 * UX and HCI challenges for data marketplaces and PIMS
 * Understanding and decoding the Terms & Conditions of data
   marketplaces and data transactions
 * Federation and interoperability standards and protocols in the data
   economy
 * Measurement studies related to the data economy
 * Large-scale experiments and validation studies for the data economy


/_*SUBMISSION DETAILS*_/
We solicit papers up to 6 pages long, and demonstrations (up to 4 pages 
long). Submissions will include author names, hence allowing 
single-anonymous reviewing.


/_*IMPORTANT DATES*_/

 * *Paper Submission:* March 20, 2023
 * *Notification of Acceptance: *April 20, 2023
 * *Camera-ready Submission: *April 30, 2023
 * *Workshop Date: *June 18, 2023 (Sunday)
 * *Workshop format: *full-day


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[nexa] Dai droni alle armi autonome: Lasciare l’Apocalisse alle macchine? - F. Farruggia (a cura di) - Prefazione di G. Parisi - Franco Angeli Open Access

[Diego.Latella]

Io normalmente non faccio selfie, anche perche' non li so fare, ma 
soprattutto perche' un certo senso di pudore mi spinge a evitare le 
autopromozioni ...


Pero' ho pensato che poteste essere interessati al libro appena uscito 
in open  access:


Francesca Farruggia (a cura di)
Dai droni alle armi autonome: Lasciare l'Apocalisse alle macchine?
Prefazione di Giorgio Parisi
Scritti di: Fabrizio Battistelli, Sofia Bertieri, Francesca Farruggia, 
Barbara Gallo, Adriano Iaria, Diego Latella, Michael Malinconi, Giorgio 
Parisi, Juan Carlos Rossi, Maurizio Simoncelli, Gian Piero Siroli, 
Guglielmo Tamburrini.

https://series.francoangeli.it/index.php/oa/catalog/book/948

Buona lettura

Diego
--
Dott. Diego Latella - Senior Researcher CNR/ISTI, Via Moruzzi 1, 56124 
Pisa, Italy  (http:www.isti.cnr.it [1])

FM&&T Lab. (http://fmt.isti.cnr.it)
CNR/GI-STS (http://gists.pi.cnr.it)
https://www.isti.cnr.it/People/D.Latella - ph: +390506212982, fax: 
+390506212040

===

I don't quite know whether it is especially computer science or its 
subdiscipline Artificial Intelligence that has such an enormous 
affection for euphemism. We speak so spectacularly and so readily of 
computer systems that understand, that see, decide, make judgments, and 
so on, without ourselves recognizing our own superficiality and 
immeasurable naivete with respect to these concepts. And, in the process 
of so speaking, we anesthetise our ability to evaluate the quality of 
our work and, what is more important, to identify and become conscious 
of its end use.  […] One can't escape this state without asking, again 
and again: "What do I actually do? What is the final application and use 
of the products of my work?" and ultimately, "am I content or ashamed to 
have contributed to this use?"
-- Prof. Joseph Weizenbaum ["Not without us", ACM SIGCAS 16(2-3) 2--7 - 
Aug. 1986]

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Re: [nexa] Dai droni alle armi autonome: Lasciare l’Apocalisse alle macchine? - F. Farruggia (a cura di) - Prefazione di G. Parisi - Franco Angeli Open Access

[Diego Giorio]

Molto interessante, grazie mille, ho già cominciato a leggerlo

Saluti e buon fine settimana a tutti

D.

From: nexa  on behalf of Diego.Latella 

Sent: Friday, March 10, 2023 4:03 PM
To: associ...@uspid.org ; nexa 
Subject: [nexa] Dai droni alle armi autonome: Lasciare l’Apocalisse alle 
macchine? - F. Farruggia (a cura di) - Prefazione di G. Parisi - Franco Angeli 
Open Access


Io normalmente non faccio selfie, anche perche' non li so fare, ma soprattutto 
perche' un certo senso di pudore mi spinge a evitare le autopromozioni ...

Pero' ho pensato che poteste essere interessati al libro appena uscito in open  
access:

Francesca Farruggia (a cura di)
Dai droni alle armi autonome: Lasciare l’Apocalisse alle macchine?
Prefazione di Giorgio Parisi
Scritti di: Fabrizio Battistelli, Sofia Bertieri, Francesca Farruggia, Barbara 
Gallo, Adriano Iaria, Diego Latella, Michael Malinconi, Giorgio Parisi, Juan 
Carlos Rossi, Maurizio Simoncelli, Gian Piero Siroli, Guglielmo Tamburrini.
https://series.francoangeli.it/index.php/oa/catalog/book/948

Buona lettura

Diego
--
Dott. Diego Latella - Senior Researcher CNR/ISTI, Via Moruzzi 1, 56124 Pisa, 
Italy  (http:www.isti.cnr.it)
FM&&T Lab. (http://fmt.isti.cnr.it)
CNR/GI-STS (http://gists.pi.cnr.it)
https://www.isti.cnr.it/People/D.Latella - ph: +390506212982, fax: +390506212040
===

I don't quite know whether it is especially computer science or its 
subdiscipline Artificial Intelligence that has such an enormous affection for 
euphemism. We speak so spectacularly and so readily of computer systems that 
understand, that see, decide, make judgments, and so on, without ourselves 
recognizing our own superficiality and immeasurable naivete with respect to 
these concepts. And, in the process of so speaking, we anesthetise our ability 
to evaluate the quality of our work and, what is more important, to identify 
and become conscious of its end use.  […] One can't escape this state without 
asking, again and again: "What do I actually do? What is the final application 
and use of the products of my work?" and ultimately, "am I content or ashamed 
to have contributed to this use?"
-- Prof. Joseph Weizenbaum ["Not without us", ACM SIGCAS 16(2-3) 2--7 - Aug. 
1986]
--

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Re: [nexa] Dai droni alle armi autonome: Lasciare l’Apocalisse alle macchine? - F. Farruggia (a cura di) - Prefazione di G. Parisi - Franco Angeli Open Access

[J.C. DE MARTIN]

Hai fatto benissimo, grazie!

jc

On 10/03/23 17:03, Diego.Latella wrote:
Io normalmente non faccio selfie, anche perche' non li so fare, ma 
soprattutto perche' un certo senso di pudore mi spinge a evitare le 
autopromozioni ...


Pero' ho pensato che poteste essere interessati al libro appena uscito 
in open  access:

Francesca Farruggia (a cura di)
Dai droni alle armi autonome: Lasciare l’Apocalisse alle macchine?
Prefazione di Giorgio Parisi
Scritti di: Fabrizio Battistelli, Sofia Bertieri, Francesca Farruggia, 
Barbara Gallo, Adriano Iaria, Diego Latella, Michael Malinconi, 
Giorgio Parisi, Juan Carlos Rossi, Maurizio Simoncelli, Gian Piero 
Siroli, Guglielmo Tamburrini.

https://series.francoangeli.it/index.php/oa/catalog/book/948

Buona lettura

Diego
--
Dott. Diego Latella - Senior Researcher CNR/ISTI, Via Moruzzi 1, 56124 
Pisa, Italy  (http:www.isti.cnr.it )

FM&&T Lab. (http://fmt.isti.cnr.it)
CNR/GI-STS (http://gists.pi.cnr.it)
https://www.isti.cnr.it/People/D.Latella - ph: +390506212982, fax: 
+390506212040

===

I don't quite know whether it is especially computer science or its 
subdiscipline Artificial Intelligence that has such an enormous 
affection for euphemism. We speak so spectacularly and so readily of 
computer systems that understand, that see, decide, make judgments, 
and so on, without ourselves recognizing our own superficiality and 
immeasurable naivete with respect to these concepts. And, in the 
process of so speaking, we anesthetise our ability to evaluate the 
quality of our work and, what is more important, to identify and 
become conscious of its end use.  […] One can't escape this state 
without asking, again and again: "What do I actually do? What is the 
final application and use of the products of my work?" and ultimately, 
"am I content or ashamed to have contributed to this use?"
-- Prof. Joseph Weizenbaum ["Not without us", ACM SIGCAS 16(2-3) 2--7 
- Aug. 1986]

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