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    Twitter and Its State-Affiliated Media Label

    Happy end of exams everyone! My paper examined the possibility of introducing regulation to protect free speech on Twitter. One issue I came across in my research which I thought was quite interesting was Twitter’s policy of labelling certain accounts as “state-affiliated media.” I wanted to share a brief opinion piece on the subject: https://readpassage.com/twitter-should-label-cbc-bbc-and-others-as-state-affiliated/ […] Read More

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    Issues in content moderation: algorithmic recommendation systems.

    Hi all! Please check out my presentation if you are interested in content moderation issues. I hope you will enjoy it. I provided the links to interesting articles/my resources in the slides, some are in the comments section. To listen to the presentation, I believe you need to download it. Presentation: https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1NXZN4pH0c5TKhYk_AEtFwyVTkeXVvky6/edit?usp=sharing&ouid=101239288767819880199&rtpof=true&sd=true In addition, here […] Read More

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    Presentation: DRM Technology and User Rights

    Hello everyone. Here is my (Julian) presentation on the use of Digital Rights Management technology. The presentation can be found here: https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1fF14vXgP7fWej6ZfiYeuFWs9iUfddOmI/edit?usp=sharing&ouid=101272977211671000707&rtpof=true&sd=true Here is a transcript of the presentation: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1UqKNYD_IjZRayXaj8YAXp6GY56AbbJuRSoWum-dbS0U/edit?usp=sharing Let me know if you have any thoughts on how laws on DRM should be used to balance the interests of content creators and consumers. […] Read More

The Cloud

By Jon Festinger on August 30, 2016

The Cloud

The “cloud” has come to mean the storing and accessing of data (including programs) over the internet rather than on on our device (computer, phone or otherwise). The official definition of the U.S. National Institute of Standards and Technology is: “Cloud computing is a model for enabling convenient, on-demand network access to a shared pool of configurable computing resources (e.g., networks, servers, storage, applications and services) that can be rapidly provisioned and released with minimal management effort or service provider interaction.”

The origins of the term is discussed here: Where did ‘cloud’ come from?

Whatever its origins, the irony is that the cloud has true to its name added a lot of cloudiness to communications, particularly when it comes to privacy 😉

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The Information Superhighway

By Jon Festinger on August 30, 2016

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In 1994 the Canadian government formed the Information Highway Advisory Council (IHAC). The Council submitted it’s report, which contained 300 recommendations in September 1995 with a final report in 1997. The irony that a copy of either of the reports seemingly cannot be found on-line is truly a breathtaking commentary on (___fill in the blank___).

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The Global Village

By Jon Festinger on August 30, 2016

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Famously this photo was taken from Apollo 8 in 1968. It’s been called “the most influential environmental photograph ever taken.” For our purposes it may be seen as reflecting the illusion of a smaller world that the evolution of communications technologies has delivered to us.

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The Library of Babel

By Jon Festinger on August 24, 2016

The Library of Babel by Jorge Luis Borges is one of my favourite short stories ever. An endless library plays the role of the universe. Not a bad metaphor for the internet. Read it here:  “The Library of Babel”. The above illustration above is by Erik Desmazieres. Fair use, Link

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