ICTlogy

Unsorted, non-elaborated ideas that showed up on the last session:

OII SDP 2007 Reloaded

Organizing a conference on the previous days of the next edition of the SDP. During this year there’ll be a call for papers & review. This should be extended to the whole pool of SDP students since 2003. A journal or proceedings book would be a good output of the whole work. Seminars and workshops could wrap up the conference. Organizing committee: Vero, María, Karoline, Karen, Alla, Chintan, Daithí, Ismael

The idea of this event is:

a) first, to put together a call for papers (works in progress) to get a nice
feedback about the big (and small) questions that were put on the table in the
course of these last two weeks.

b) Second, this event would take the format of a working conference/workshop,
and invite faculty to comment and discuss ont eh work. In addition, we could
have a keynote speaker or two.

c) Tentative dates could be somewhere between May-June 2008. Ideally, the event
would take place in the OII.

d) In the spirit of having an open intellectual debate and collaboration, we’ll
open the call for papers to fellow OII SDP students from past years.

Led by Veronica Alfaro and María Gómez

Conference on the History of the Internet

Title proposal: From Whence to Whither: Intellectual Property, the Internet and what the Past has to offer the Digital Age. A Commemorative Conference in 2008

Led by Ben Peters

Links brainstorm

• Association of Internet Researchers (mailing list, conference)
• H-Net
• FastWeb
• The Web Experiment List
• Tools for Internet-based data collection
• ecourses demo
• The Personal Research Portal
• Robert Tynes (2007). “Nation-building and the diaspora on Leonenet: a case of Sierra Leone in cyberspace”. In New Media & Society;9 497-518
• Hearn, G., & Foth, M. (Eds.). (2007). Communicative Ecologies. Special issue of the Electronic Journal of Communication, 17(1-2). New York: Communication Institute for Online Scholarship (CIOS).
  
• The Passageways of Paris: Walter Benjamin’s Arcades Project and Contemporary Cultural Debate in the West, by Christopher Rollason
• Announcing Skim: Stop printing – Start Skimming, by Michael O McCracken
• Brian Fitzgerald (2007) Internet and e-Commerce Law – Technology, Law and Policy
• Jealous Computers
• British & Irish Law, Education and Technology Association (BILETA)
• Socio-Legal Studies Association
• Computers and Writing 2007. Virtual Urbanism
• Computers and Writing Clearinghouse
• Computers and Composition
• Kairos
• Ethan Zuckerman: History of the Internet
• Sir Ken Robinson: Do schools kill creativity?
• Discovery Park Learning Center and Games-to-Teach Competition
• iYomu
• That? Oh, that’s the collapsing infrastructure wake-up call; just hit snooze

Credit of the brainstorm goes to all the participants of the course, students and faculty.

Leads: Judith Donath, John Clippinger

Identity, by Judith Donath

Individual identity vs. social identity

Facets of identity, identity signals, identity deception

Intimacy vs. Prestige

Individual Identity, by John Clippinger

Software called Higgins to analyze how identity is used on the internet.

Your immune system does not know who you are… but who you are not.

Important terms of art

• identification: tied to the biological personal (biometric)
• authentication: tied to an accepted identifier (SSL)
• verification: tied to a third party

principle of minimum disclosure: no need to bring more info than just the absolutely necessary to identify you, with user control upon minimum disclosure

My reflections

• Recovering Prof. García Albero reflections about cybercrime, I wonder if there is not a social identity but an identity of the social, an identity of the collective and if it does play a role in one’s actions, as society in the physical world play in i.e. criminals, following García Albero’s line of thought. In case there is, what is and how does it frame one’s acting. In case there’s not, is there a problem?
• Both speakers provide thoughtful insight to these questions, explaining that there has been tested that, effectively, one’s behavior does change in front of a screen. Sometimes, the absence of a human being let’s the person relax and act more sincerely (he/she does not have to “perform” any role in front of the other/s). Sometimes, the absence of other human beings (or living beings in general, such as animals) relaxes the person but not in the sense of “performing” but in the sense of blurring one’s ties to ethics and moral. I.e. it’s easier to shoot an animal remotely that to do it in the flesh (and, my opinion, it’s easier to press the “red button” than to drop the bomb personally from Enola Gay)

Readings

More info

• The Higgins Project website
• Peña-López, I. (2007). “The personal research portal: web 2.0 driven individual commitment with open access”. In Knowledge for Management Journal, 3(1). Amsterdam: KM4Dev Community.
• OII Day 3, by Alla Zollers

As already said, I’d be at the Berkman Center to take part into the Oxford Internet Institute Summer Doctoral Programme 2007. Thus, along the next two weeks I might be reporting “everything” that’ll happen here.

So far, we’ve been provided tons of bibliography to read, whose references will be progressively referenced here:

• Bibliography for the OII Summer Doctoral Programme 2007 at the Berkman Center
• H2O Playlist: Summer Doctoral Program Playlist

When possible, references include direct access to the resource, but keep in mind that we’ve been provided with drafts of unpublished works (lucky us) that for evident reasons cannot be linked here. By the way, you can stay tuned to the bibliographical updates by subscribing to the bibliography RSS feed.

More info

• Technorati tag: sdp2007
• del.icio.us tag: sdp2007
• Flickr tag: sdp2007
• OII/Berkman 2007 Summer Doctoral Programme planet aggregator
• SDP 2007 Wiki
• Presentations Slides

And yet more info

• Summer Doctoral Program(me) Comes to Cambridge, by John Palfrey