[DC3] Fwd: [IAMCR] Release of First Monday special issue "'Reclaiming the Internet' with distributed architectures"

Hi everyone, Some more interesting links for you. Specifically this paper: Local networks for local interactions: Four reasons why and a way forward <http://firstmonday.org/ojs/index.php/fm/article/view/7123> Panayotis Antoniadis *This paper frames the role of community (wireless) networks, and other forms of grassroots DIY networking models, as complementary to the Internet communication infrastructures hosting local services for facilitating local interactions, as drivers for a more convivial and sustainable life in the city. Today, only a few Internet-based global corporations mediate our everyday online interactions, without respecting our rights to privacy, freedom of expression and self-determination; they depend for their own sustainability on the exploitation of the immense collected information and design power toward private, commercial and political objectives. But when communication is meant to take place between people in physical proximity, local community networks can provide an alternative infrastructure owned and designed by those concerned. The paper analyses four key reasons, practical, social, political, and scientific, why such DIY networks should be considered as a viable complementary infrastructure for local communications even when Internet access is available. Through analogies with other relevant domains of local action, namely complementary currencies and cooperative housing, I conclude by addressing the dichotomy between local action and global coordination. I advocate for the co-creation of convivial ICT tools for building local communities, or better hybrid spaces of local cooperation, which are larger in size than the small in “small is beautiful” and smaller, but in many cases more diverse, than recent imaginaries of the “multitude”.* Best, -Michael ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Francesca Musiani &lt;francesca.musiani(a)gmail.com&gt; Date: Thu, Dec 8, 2016 at 12:51 PM Subject: [IAMCR] Release of First Monday special issue "'Reclaiming the Internet' with distributed architectures" To: announcements &lt;announcements(a)iamcr.org&gt;rg>, ecrea(a)listserv.vub.ac.be, air-l &lt;air-l(a)listserv.aoir.org&gt; Dear colleagues, I am delighted to announce the release of the First Monday special issue "'Reclaiming the Internet' with distributed architectures" (the twentieth in the journal's history!), which I co-edited with Cécile Méadel. The set of thought-provoking papers in this First Monday special issue were originally part of the final symposium of the research project ADAM ( adam.hypotheses.org <http://l.facebook.com/l.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Fadam.hypotheses.org%2F&h=BAQGYqKAxAQGOPKMQ27fVGFYudC_AC0iCdaXbtZwT9txJIA&enc=AZO9y9jt-kqWP95OlpX-K6vPRppHhQfLbCBrGqBC-owW8rYFDJtBVcQxIey97vjZXIWgIgyTBQiygD9MAzOSrFDR2yrn8-6kbiD9m-lap-dsaRaep9zP5FC6IdDreiDK2cp9bjJi2Oe6DraxP4I8SR5yhUJd6y6KcAnTaqq8alK04jbiUu5z0VInobRLol-g0UU&s=1>), which from 2010 to 2014 investigated the social, political, economic and legal dimensions of distributed network architectures. Please find the table of contents below and apologies for cross-posting. Kindest regards, Francesca ---------- "Reclaiming the Internet" with distributed architectures: An introduction <http://firstmonday.org/ojs/index.php/fm/article/view/7101> Francesca Musiani, Cécile Méadel The decentralization of knowledge: How Carnap and Heidegger influenced the Web <http://firstmonday.org/ojs/index.php/fm/article/view/7109> Harry Halpin, Alexandre Monnin Monuments of cyberspace: Designing the Internet beyond the network framework <http://firstmonday.org/ojs/index.php/fm/article/view/7112> Paris Chrysos Blockchain technology as a regulatory technology: From code is law to law is code <http://firstmonday.org/ojs/index.php/fm/article/view/7113> Primavera De Filippi, Samer Hassan Peer to party: Occupy the law <http://firstmonday.org/ojs/index.php/fm/article/view/7117> Mélanie Dulong de Rosnay Law encoded: Towards a free speech policy model based on decentralized architectures <http://firstmonday.org/ojs/index.php/fm/article/view/7118> Argyro P. Karanasiou Alternative rules for alternative networks? Tort law meets wireless community networks <http://firstmonday.org/ojs/index.php/fm/article/view/7119> Federica Giovanella Local networks for local interactions: Four reasons why and a way forward <http://firstmonday.org/ojs/index.php/fm/article/view/7123> Panayotis Antoniadis Cosmopolitical composition of distributed architectures <http://firstmonday.org/ojs/index.php/fm/article/view/7128> Dominique Boullier -- International Association for Media and Communication Research | http://www.iamcr.org Join IAMCR | http://www.iamcr.org/join IAMCR on Facebook | http://www.facebook.com/iamcr.org @IAMCRtweets on Twitter | http://twitter.com/IAMCRtweets