AoIR2016: Forced migration and digital connectivity in(to) Europe – communicative infrastructures, regulations and media discourses

Mark Latonero (USC Annenberg School) spoke on they ways in which data is being collected around forced migration flows. Latonera is interested in the technologies that are being used to track and managed refugees' movements across borders. People were stopping at the short border between Serbia and Croatia for a variety of reasons, including to … Continue reading AoIR2016: Forced migration and digital connectivity in(to) Europe – communicative infrastructures, regulations and media discourses →

AoIR2016: Activism

Digital Unmasking: the Ethical Issue of Crowd Surveillance Mathias Klang, University of Massachusetts Boston [This talk opened, rather jarringly, with a quotation from a guy who recently left ToR after multiple accusations of long-term predatory behaviour. I admit that this unsettled me substantially and probably didn't help with my note-taking.] Is there a right to … Continue reading AoIR2016: Activism →

Citizen Lab Summer Institute on Monitoring Internet Openness and Rights, Day 1

The first day of CLSI 2014 started with Ron Diebert talking about the state of the field and the attempt currently under way to build an inter-disciplinary research community around monitoring Internet openness and rights. Fenwick McKelvey has also put up a reading list of papers mentioned at CLSI 2014.The opening panel looked at Network Measurement and … Continue reading Citizen Lab Summer Institute on Monitoring Internet Openness and Rights, Day 1 →

Security for the real world

I'm kicking myself for missing Observe. Hack. Make. - it sounds like it was an amazing event that brought together geek and activist communities in a really interesting and valuable way. Coverage coming through on Twitter also suggested that #OHM2013 hosted political discussions that were informed by a more complex political analysis than the ones … Continue reading Security for the real world →