On friday the program group had a meeting at the university from Amsterdam. First we discussed the criteria for selecting the reviews and found out the most important criteria. After that we had a look on all the reviews and discussed them. You can believe it was a hard work!
Furthermore we visited the nice rooms from the location for the conference.
Despite the many work – it was a nice meeting and now the final planning of the program can start!

Discussing the programme

The authors will know if their paper got accepted tomorrow (on November 1st). After getting their acceptance e-mail, the authors will have one month of time to submit their final paper, meaning that final version is due on December 1st.
Speeches presenting your paper shouldn’t take longer than 20 minutes. The time limit for workshop is 90 minutes. The template for final versions will be up soon

Our programme commitee

Read more about them:

Geert Lovink
A World Beyond Facebook: Alternatives in Social Media
Internet culture and IT in general has a constant tendency to create monopolies. In the past these were IBM, Microsoft and recently Google, and now we’re in the midst of a social media crazy with Facebook and Twitter as its main players. Many geeks, artists and activists do not agree with this unprecedented concentration of power. Why don’t we focus more on the distributed nature of networks? In this lecture we will move from the critique of social media (such as privacy) to alternative platforms that are current under development.
Geert Lovink is a Dutch-Australian media theorist, internet critic and author of Zero Comments (2007) and Networks Without a Cause (2012). Since 2004 he is research professor (‘lector’) in the School for Communication and Media Design (CMDA) at the Amsterdam University of Applied Sciences (HvA) where he is the founding director of the Institute of Network Cultures. He also teaches in the new media masters program at Mediastudies, University of Amsterdam and is media theory professor at the European Graduate School.

Karin Spaink
Privacy is the cornerstone of personal safety
We’ve been led to believe that giving up bits and pieces of our privacy and having our everyday lives minutely scrutinized, will enhance our security. But somehow it hasn’t. More and more people are being flagged simply because they demonstrate ‘odd behaviour’ and suddenly find themselves redefined as a security risk. Governments are wasting billions on tracking innocent citizens.
And nobody is paying much attention to the security of these amassed data. Data leaks run rampant. The same government agencies that are bent on identity checks, don’t seem to understand the concept of identity fraud, nor that their efforts make identity fraud more enticing. We need to push the notion of ‘data hygiene’: creating secure storage and safe protocols for the handling of personal data. Otherwise, these data collections will merely become a new target for criminals and a new vulnerability for citizens.
Meanwhile, governments and companies are inventing and enforcing all kinds of ICT-practices, -stratagems and -devices that are far from safe: from electronic public transportation vouchers and voting machines to hackable pacemakers and insulin pumps. Data privacy is essential. The lack of it can kill you – literally.
Karin Spaink has been writing about technology, internet, health, digital rights and politics since the early nineties. She’s written eleven books and hundreds of columns. Scientology sued her for ten years over alleged copyright infringement on the net, and she won. Her hack of two major Dutch hospitals in 2005 – proving the vulnerability of electronic patient records – caused a major debate in Parliament. She’s working on a book on the history of the public internet in The Netherlands. She was the chair of Bits of Freedom (the Dutch digital rights organization) from 1999 to 2006, and she’s the chair of the Dutch Big Brother Awards.

Have you noticed that Facebook has launched some changes to their website? Besides some individual opinions about whether it looks nice or not, it is important to realize that this has an impact on your privacy. Besides some features that can be changed in your privacy settings, there is a new alarming revelation. Nik Cubrilovic revealed that Facebook can track the pages you visit, even when you are logged out. What do you think about this development?

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