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
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From: Francesca Musiani <francesca.musiani(a)gmail.com>
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 <announcements(a)iamcr.org>rg>, ecrea(a)listserv.vub.ac.be,
air-l <air-l(a)listserv.aoir.org>
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
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"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
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