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2012 Conference on Trends in Knowledge Information Dynamics
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Rebecca Schild
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Jul 16, 2012
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Jul 18, 2012 10:47 AM
The 2012 Conference on Trends in Knowledge Information Dynamics convened a panel on Open Access. There was consensus amongst the panelist that the “big question” facing the open access movement no longer remains "if" or "why" open access, but rather "how" open access. The panel proved instructive for shifting the discussion away from ideology towards concrete questions facing the open access agenda and its implementation.
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Know your Users, Match their Needs!
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by
Rebecca Schild
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published
Nov 23, 2011
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last modified
Feb 27, 2012 03:06 PM
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filed under:
Research,
Featured,
Open Access,
Openness,
Publications
As Free Access to Law initiatives in the Global South enter into a new stage of maturity, they must be certain not to lose sight of their users’ needs. The following post gives a summary of the “Good Practices Handbook”, a research output of the collaborative project Free Access to Law — Is it Here to Stay? undertaken by LexUM (Canada) and the South African Legal Institute in partnership with the Centre for Internet and Society.
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Reconceptualizing Privacy on Social Network(s) Sites
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Rebecca Schild
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Aug 18, 2011 05:07 AM
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Cybercultures
While “privacy” on social network sites remains a highly ambiguous notion, much debate surrounding the issue to date has focused on privacy as the nonpublic-ness of personal information. However, as these social platforms become sites for diverse forms of “networking”, privacy must also be popularly conceptualized as control over personal data flows.
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Free Access to Law—Is it here to Stay? An Environmental Scan Report
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Rebecca Schild
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Sep 04, 2010
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last modified
Mar 20, 2012 06:36 PM
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filed under:
Open Access
The following is a preliminary project report collaboratively collated by the researchers of the "Free Access to Law" research study. This report aims to highlight the trends, as well as the risks and opportunities, for the sustainability of Free Access to Law initiatives in each of the country examined.
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Does the Safe-Harbor Program Adequately Address Third Parties Online?
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Rebecca Schild
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published
Apr 16, 2010
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last modified
Aug 02, 2011 07:19 AM
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filed under:
Privacy,
Internet Governance,
Facebook,
Data Protection,
Social Networking
While many citizens outside of the US and EU benefit from the data privacy provisions the Safe Harbor Program, it remains unclear how successfully the program can govern privacy practices when third-parties continue to gain more rights over personal data. Using Facebook as a site of analysis, I will attempt to shed light on the deficiencies of the framework for addressing the complexity of data flows in the online ecosystem.
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e-Accessibility: A Wiki Project
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Rebecca Schild
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published
Apr 04, 2010
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last modified
Aug 23, 2011 04:51 AM
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filed under:
Accessibility,
Projects
Envisaged and funded by the National Internet Exchange of India, and executed by the Centre for Internet and Society, a Wiki site pertaining to issues of disability and e-accessibility has recently been launched.
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Does the Social Web need a Googopoly?
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Rebecca Schild
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published
Mar 02, 2010
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last modified
Aug 18, 2011 05:06 AM
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Privacy,
Social Networking,
Competition,
Google Buzz
While the utility of the new social tool Buzz is still under question, the bold move into social space taken last week by the Google Buzz team has Gmail users questioning privacy implications of the new feature. In this post, I posit that Buzz highlights two privacy challenges of the social web. First, the application has sidestepped the consensual and contextual qualities desirable of social spaces. Secondly, Google’s move highlights the increasingly competitive and convergent nature of the social media landscape.
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The (in)Visible Subject: Power, Privacy and Social Networking
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by
Rebecca Schild
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Feb 26, 2010
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last modified
Aug 18, 2011 05:06 AM
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filed under:
Social Networking,
Attention Economy,
Facebook,
Privacy
In this entry, I will argue that the interplay between privacy and power on social network sites works ultimately to subject individuals to the gaze of others, or to alternatively render them invisible. Individual choices concerning privacy preferences must, therefore, be informed by the intrinsic relationship which exists between publicness/privateness and subjectivity/obscurity.
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The Role of ICT in Judicial Reform- An Exploration
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by
Rebecca Schild
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Nov 18, 2009
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last modified
Aug 02, 2011 07:17 AM
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filed under:
e-governance
A seminar held this month by the Communications and Manufacturing Association of India (CMAI) explored the role that information and communication technology can assume in the process of India's judicial reform efforts. The broad consensus among panelists was that “law is not keeping pace with technology”. However, whether technology will be harnessed to actually facilitate much needed transparency and access to the justice system, or be simply used to improve efficiency within the judicial branch still remains unclear.
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Is Copyright Law Censoring the Art World?
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by
Rebecca Schild
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Oct 31, 2009
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last modified
Aug 18, 2011 05:09 AM
Last week, ART and the Center for Law and Policy Research held a workshop on “Copyright, Censorship and the Creative Commons” for individuals interested in examining the art/law nexus, and exploring its broader implications for individual artists and the creative commons. While it appears that artists are becoming more rights conscious, the increasing copyrightability of art today is compelling many artists to critically rethink the role of law in the art world.
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