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Tuesday, February 28, 2017

#cyberculture agenda: A report- “Protecting Sources and Whistleblowers in a Digital Age

Information Law and Policy Centre launches new report: Protecting Sources and Whistleblowers in a Digital Age

The emergence of an everyday digital culture and the increasing use of legal instruments by state actors to collect and access communications data has led to growing concern about the protection of journalistic sources and whistleblowers.

With the support of Guardian News and Media, the Information Law and Policy Centre has published a new report to consider these developments entitled ‘Protecting Sources and Whistleblowers in a Digital Age’. The report is open access and available for download.

Authored by Dr Judith Townend and Dr Richard Danbury, the report analyses how technological advances expose journalists and their sources to interference by state actors, corporate entities or individuals.

The report also looks at how journalists can reduce threats to whistleblowing; examines the rights and responsibilities of journalists, whistleblowers and lawmakers; and makes a number of positive recommendations for policymakers, journalists, NGOs and researchers.

The report’s findings are based on discussions with 25 investigative journalists, representatives from relevant NGOs and media organisations, media lawyers and specialist researchers in September 2016.

Protecting Sources and Whistleblowers in a Digital Age was officially launched on 22 February 2017 at the House of Lords.

Alongside the report, the Information Policy Law and Policy Centre has also published a range of open access resources on journalistic sources and whistleblowing which are available here.

Acknowledgements: to Dr Andrew Scott (LSE) and Gillian Phillips (Guardian News and Media) for their input to the report (though errors remain the authors’ own); and to Dr Daniel Bennett, Jenna Corderoy and Dr Aljosha Karim Schapals for additional research assistance.

Europe’s exports of spy tech to authoritarian countries revealed

information.dk – Lasse Skou Andersen – Feb 22, 11:54 AM

Human rights activists and organisations were celebrating when the EU introduced restrictions on the exports of surveillance technology by the end of 2014. Finally, more than three years after revelations in the aftermath of the Arab Spring had

We’re Halfway to Encrypting the Entire Web

EFF.org Updates by Gennie Gebhart

The movement to encrypt the web has reached a milestone. As of earlier this month, approximately half of Internet traffic is now protected by HTTPS. In other words, we are halfway to a web safer from the eavesdropping, content hijacking, cookie stealing, and censorship that HTTPS can protect against.

Uber has a sexism problem, and so does Silicon Valley

The Social Software Weblog

On Sunday, a former Uber engineer published details about the sexual harassment and rampant sexism that she claims she and other women experienced at the company. But despite reporting the incidents to HR on several occasions, Susan J. Fowler was rep..

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This semester’s issue on my “Issues in Cyberculture Studies (MED 512)” course: “Web history and digital archiving”

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Former President Turgut Özal, opening up “a new computer system” at Middle East Technical University in 1990. Source: http://ift.tt/2m7zWGo

This semester I have mobilized my classes and academic environment to create a database for Turkey’s internet history. There will be a series of works attached to this project (including a wiki based database) but in the mean time in one of my graduate level courses at Istanbul Bilgi University, Communication School, I have decided to take a highly theoretical approach to web history and digital archiving in general. Here is the reading and discussion list. Enjoy!

Week 2 Intros

Atkinson, S., & Whatley, S. (2015). Digital archives and open archival practices.

Salmond, A. (2012). Digital subjects, cultural objects: Special issue introduction.

Were, G. (2013). Imaging digital lives.

Brügger, N. (2013). Web historiography and Internet Studies: Challenges and perspectives. New Media & Society, 15(5), 752-764.

Week 3 Narratives

Bory, P., Benecchi, E., & Balbi, G. (2016). How the Web was told: Continuity and change in the founding fathers’ narratives on the origins of the World Wide Web. new media & society, 18(7), 1066-1087.

Stevenson, M. (2016). The cybercultural moment and the new media field. new media & society, 1461444816643789.

Beer, D., & Burrows, R. (2013). Popular culture, digital archives and the new social life of data. Theory, culture & society, 30(4), 47-71.

Week 4 Historiography

Schafer, V., & Thierry, B. G. (2016). The “Web of pros” in the 1990s: The professional acclimation of the World Wide Web in France. new media & society, 18(7), 1143-1158.

Brügger, N. (2013). Web historiography and Internet Studies: Challenges and perspectives. New Media & Society, 15(5), 752-764.

Ankerson, M. S. (2012). Writing web histories with an eye on the analog past. new media & society, 14(3), 384-400.

Musso, M., & Merletti, F. (2016). This is the future: A reconstruction of the UK business web space (1996–2001). new media & society, 18(7), 1120-1142.

Week 5 Archiving

Winget, M. A., & Aspray, W. (Eds.). (2011). Digital media: Technological and social challenges of the interactive world. Scarecrow Press. 1-136

Lothian, A. (2013). Archival anarchies: Online fandom, subcultural conservation, and the transformative work of digital ephemera. International Journal of Cultural Studies, 16(6), 541-556.

Isaac, G. (2015). Perclusive alliances: digital 3-D, museums, and the reconciling of culturally diverse knowledges. Current Anthropology, 56(S12), S286-S296.

Week 6 Archiving

McQuire, S. (2013). Photography’s afterlife: Documentary images and the operational archive. Journal of Material Culture, 18(3), 223-241.

Newell, J. (2012). Old objects, new media: Historical collections, digitization and affect. Journal of Material Culture, 17(3), 287-306.

Dalziell, T., & Genoni, P. (2015). Google comes to Life: Researching digital photographic archives. Convergence, 21(1), 46-57.

Week 7 Archiving

Huc-Hepher, S. (2015). Big Web data, small focus: An ethnosemiotic approach to culturally themed selective Web archiving. Big Data & Society, 2(2), 2053951715595823.

Udupa, S. (2015). Archiving as History‐Making: Religious Politics of Social Media in India. Communication, Culture & Critique.

Pietrzyk, K. (2012). Preserving digital narratives in an age of present-mindedness. Convergence, 18(2), 127-133.

Abba, T. (2012). Archiving digital narrative: Some issues. Convergence, 18(2), 121-125.

Week 8 Institutional responses

Popple, S. (2015). The new Reithians: Pararchive and citizen animateurs in the BBC digital archive. Convergence, 21(1), 132-144.

Sean Cubitt, Library. Theory, Culture & Society (http://tcs.sagepub.com) (SAGE Publications, London, Thousand Oaks, CA and New Delhi) Vol. 23(2–3): 581–606. DOI: 10.1177/0263276406063783

Week 9 Erasure

Harris, S. K. (2015). Networked erasure Visualizing information censorship in Turkey. Convergence: The International Journal of Research into New Media Technologies, 21(2), 257-278.

Aufderheide, P., Milosevic, T., & Bello, B. (2016). The impact of copyright permissions culture on the US visual arts community: The consequences of fear of fair use. new media & society, 18(9), 2012-2027.

Week 10 Memory

Reading, A. (2014). Seeing red: a political economy of digital memory. Media, Culture & Society, 0163443714532980.

Cooke, G., & Reichelt-Brushett, A. (2015). Archival memory and dissolution: The after| image project. Convergence, 21(1), 8-26.

Keightley, E., & Schlesinger, P. (2014). Digital media–social memory: remembering in digitally networked times. Media, Culture & Society, 36(6), 745-747.

Week 11 Cases

Frick, C. (2015). Repatriating American film heritage or heritage hoarding? Digital opportunities for traditional film archive policy. Convergence, 21(1), 116-131.

Ben-David, A. (2016). What does the Web remember of its deleted past? An archival reconstruction of the former Yugoslav top-level domain. new media & society, 1461444816643790.

Knifton, R. (2015). ArchiveKSA: Creating a digital archive for Kingston School of Art. Convergence, 21(1), 27-45.

Week 12 Cases

De Kosnik, A., El Ghaoui, L., Cuntz-Leng, V., Godbehere, A., Horbinski, A., Hutz, A., … & Pham, V. (2015). Watching, creating, and archiving: Observations on the quantity and temporality of fannish productivity in online fan fiction archives. Convergence, 21(1), 145-164.

Ageh, T. (2015). Digital public space. h ttp://thecreativeexchange. org/launchpad. Accessed, 8.

Liew, K. K., Pang, N., & Chan, B. (2014). Industrial railroad to digital memory routes: remembering the last railway in Singapore. Media, Culture & Society, 0163443714532984.

Week 12 Cases

Edwards-Vandenhoek, S. (2015). You aren’t here Reimagining the place of graffiti production in heritage studies. Convergence: The International Journal of Research into New Media Technologies, 21(1), 78-99.

Blanco, P. P., Schuppert, M., & Lange, J. (2015). The digital progression of community archives, from amateur production to artistic practice: A case study of Belfast Exposed. Convergence, 21(1), 58-77.

Week 13 Cases

Kaun, A., & Stiernstedt, F. (2014). Facebook time: Technological and institutional affordances for media memories. New Media & Society, 16(7), 1154-1168.

Ashuri, T. (2012). (Web) sites of memory and the rise of moral mnemonic agents. new media & society, 14(3), 441-456.

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Sunday, February 28, 2016

Journalism agenda: “Source verification: Beware the bots…

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Source verification: Beware the bots

firstdraftnews.com by Meedan

Verifying your sources is key to any online investigation. When you find some compelling footage or images, getting to the “who” of where they came from is essential, and First Draft’s Visual Verification Guides give a great overview of things to consider when getting to the source:

The ideal scenario, of course, is to be able to speak directly to a source, if possible and appropriate, on the phone or in person. Even then, mistakes can still happen, especially when a source is pretending to be something or someone they’re not. Often these people are just hoaxers, but there’s a growing trend of accounts acting as sockpuppets: fake online identities set up to push or derail certain political or social agendas….

STOP THE PRESSES! The Independent is Dead. Long Live the Independent.

BuzzMachine by Jeff Jarvis

I will sound like a native of some isolated tribe where death is celebrated — and I might well be accused of dancing on print’s grave — but I think it is wonderful news that London’s Independent is turning off its presses … yet living on.

New York Times threatens to sue publisher of an art book critical of the paper’s war coverage

Boing Boing by Mark Frauenfelder

war-is-beautiful

The critically acclaimed War Is Beautiful: The New York Times Pictorial Guide to the Glamour of Armed Conflict examines the ways in which the newspaper happily propagated the Bush Administration’s lies about weapons of mass destruction in Iraq that resulted in a senseless war that hurt millions of people and immensely enriched Halliburton, Blackwater, the Carlyle Group and other companies with close ties to the Bush and the Cheney families.

Tool for newsgathering: Find geolocated pics with Yomapic

firstdraftnews.com by First Draft

What is Yomapic? A tool for finding photos posted to Instagram and Russian-language network VKontakte by their location, either in your web browser or through the smartphone app.

Do I have to pay for it? Nope, it’s totally free.

So how do I use it? When so many people carry a smartphone in their pocket, eyewitnesses to a news event are likely to snap a picture and post it to their social network of choice within minutes.

Inside ESPN’s mobile strategy: “If we’re thinking about anything else, we’re failing the audience”

Nieman Journalism Lab by Joseph Lichterman

ESPN is at a crossroads. Its business model, which has long been dependent on cable subscription fees, is becoming tenuous as more people cut the cord. ESPN president John Skipper said last week that the network is in discussions to offer broadcast options on additional streaming services.

How The Associated Press wants to help ‘democratise virtual reality’

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AP wants to reach both viewers with VR headsets and those who watch 360-degree videos on their phones

A Q&A with Google’s head of news Richard Gingras on its vision for the Accelerated Mobile Pages project

Nieman Journalism Lab by Shan Wang

The Accelerated Mobile Pages project has officially arrived. From idea to implementation to launch on Wednesday, it’s been just nine short, frantic, productive, promising months, Google’s head of news and social productsRichard Gingras told me, and less than five months months since Google’sofficial announcement in October.

Why journalists interested in drones should be watching an FAA reauthorization bill

Nieman Journalism Lab by Matt Waite

Chances are good you haven’t been following the day-to-day workings of the House Transportation Committee. But something happened there recently that should have journalists and journalism educators paying attention.

Attached to a Federal Aviation Administration budget reauthorization bill is a little provision that does away with the FAA’s regulation of small drones — clearing the way for journalists, journalism educators, and many others to use flying cameras with fewer rules.

Nearly half of Reddit users go there for 2016 election info

Nieman Journalism Lab by Laura Hazard Owen

Reddit users are feeling the Bern: That’s one finding from a Pew report, released Thursday, that looks at the role of Reddit as both a news source in general and a destination for information about the 2016 presidential election in particular.

The report found that seven percent of U.S. adults use Reddit. Of those:

[The] user base…is more likely to be young, male and liberal than the general public. 78 percent of Reddit users say they get news there. What’s more, 45 percent of Reddit users learn about the 2016 presidential campaign in a given week from the site. This is on par with the portion of Facebook (52 percent) and Twitter users (43 percent) who get news and information about the election on those platforms and outpaces most other social networking sites asked about.