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New book: the insect logic behind our networked societies

new book links insect behaviour to social ‘webs’

insect logic is seen behind contemporary media technologies and network society

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Added by Michel Bauwens on January 4, 2011 at 13:20 — No Comments

Bringing the discussion on The Commons to Dakar at the World Social Forum

Via Biens Communs: http://bienscommuns.org/blog/?p=1180

The World Social Forum and the World Forum on Science and Democracy will be two opportunities for the commoners to interact with other civic and social movements.

A list of discussion is now open for volunteers at :…

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Added by Michel Bauwens on January 4, 2011 at 6:38 — No Comments

eCars needs an open source hardware licensing scheme, please assist

Tere Vaden writes:

the eCars - Now! (http://www.sahkoautot.fi/eng) community is about to launch publishing its material, and needs to adopt an open source hardware licensing scheme. Do you know of any

*actually functioning* open source hardware license? It seems that, for

instance, http://www.ohanda.org/

is still in its early stages. The eCars…

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Added by Michel Bauwens on December 30, 2010 at 12:57 — 1 Comment

Call for Papers: Globalization 2.0 in Education

Via Daniel Araya:

daniel@jgse.org

Vol 1, No 2 (2011)

Globalization 2.0

This issue of the Journal of Global

Studies in Education will focus on the rapid growth of newly

industrializing countries (NICs) in the context of education and

socioeconomic development. In 2003, Goldman Sachs published a startling

report on the growth of NICs in which Brazil, Russia, India, and…

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Added by Michel Bauwens on December 28, 2010 at 2:58 — No Comments

OpenWear: Report on Sustainability, Openness and P2P production in the world of fashion

Via Bertram Niessen:

“We are proud to announce that after nearly one year of research and discussions the research report of the EDUfashion project “OpenWear. Sustainability, Openness and P2P production in the world of fashion” is

finally on-line. We hope that it will ignite discussions, actions and

further researches about sustainability, sharing and micro-economies.

url…

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Added by Michel Bauwens on December 27, 2010 at 1:12 — No Comments

Call for Papers on The Ethics of Sharing

Via Felix Stalder, http://felix.openflows.com

Call for Papers, Deadline extented

International Review of Information Ethics

http://www.i-r-i-e.net/

The Ethics of Sharing

Call for Papers for Vol. 15 - July 2011

• Deadline for extended abstracts: January 31, 2011

• Notification of acceptance to authors:…

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Added by Michel Bauwens on January 22, 2010 at 1:00 — No Comments

Recommended: The Remix the Commons video series

Via ALAIN AMBROSI /ICC VIDEOS

Hello,

You can now access the series of short video interviews made during the

Berlin IC

Conference in November at http://www.vimeo.com/user5449180/videos.

They will soon be available also on Youtube, dailymotion and blip.tv.

These videos are part of the edited takes that will be… Continue

Added by Michel Bauwens on December 23, 2010 at 3:13 — No Comments

The Multitude Project launches infrastructure template for massive activist campaigns

Via Multitude:

"Multitude Project provided the movement against Tom Flanagan with an

infrastructure of communication, collaboration and coordination. This

infrastructure is already up and running, ready to be populated by the

2,286 Facebook subscribers. You can also join this movement.

https://sites.google.com/site/firetomflanagan/home

Multitude Project also…

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Added by Michel Bauwens on December 22, 2010 at 2:57 — No Comments

Commons advocate David Bollier launches new blog

Via David Bollier:

I am thrilled to announce the launch of my new blog/website, www.Bollier.org. It will be the primary showcase for my latest discoveries, adventures and reflections about the commons as I step off in some new directions. I invite you to become a regular reader, get the RSS feed, put me on your blogroll and pass this news along to friends.

Although I am no longer associated with On the…

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Added by Michel Bauwens on December 17, 2010 at 9:30 — No Comments

Tracking the portrayal of Russians during cyberconflict incidents

The following is an excerpt from:

War, Conflict and Commemoration in the Age of Digital Reproduction

The special issue of Digital Icons at http://www.digitalicons.org/

Blame it on the Russians: Tracking the portrayal of Russians during cyberconflict incidents

From Athina…

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Added by Michel Bauwens on December 12, 2010 at 0:00 — No Comments

Russian and Eastern/Central European cyberconflict research update

Our friend and colleague

Athina Karatzogianni

contributed a paper (4.9) on Russian hackers, various cyberconflicts, and media implicating them in the Climategate hack, which is part of an interesting issue of the journal Digital Icons:

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Digital Icons: Studies in Russian, Eurasian and Central European New Media

Issue 4:…

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Added by Michel Bauwens on December 11, 2010 at 4:28 — No Comments

P2P Foundation mailing list getting the Wikileaks treatment from belgian firm Alfahosting

Readers of this blog may know that we also have a very active mailing list, called P2P Research, which is used both for broadcasting p2p news items

and for discussing internal and external p2p issues. It has really been

at the core of our online community building efforts and where most

interaction has taken place. Humanly speaking this list IS the…

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Added by Michel Bauwens on December 6, 2010 at 2:49 — No Comments

Interface journal: voices of dissent: activists' engagements in the creation of alternative, autonomous, radical and independent media

Via Mayo Fuster-Morrell:

enjoy the new issue of "Interface: A journal for and about social movements" on the topic: "Voices of dissent: activists' engagements in the creation of alternative, autonomous, radical and independent media". See below. Cheers! Mayo

Here below the announcement of the new issue of Interface on voices…

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Added by Michel Bauwens on December 2, 2010 at 12:14 — No Comments

Bringing the discussion on The Commons to Dakar In February 2011 at the World Social Forum

Via Frederic Sultan:

The World Social Forum and the World Forum on Science and Democracy will be two opportunities for the commoners to interact with other civic and social movements.

Discussion on the Commons in the World Forum on Science and Democracy (WFSD)

The World Forum on Science and Democracy (WFSD) will be held on February the 4th and 5th. Its objective is twofold : questioning the functioning of the scientific institutions and funding (science and technology… Continue

Added by Michel Bauwens on November 19, 2010 at 14:30 — No Comments

Networked utopias and speculative futures

Via Tiziana Terranova:

CFP- Special Issue for the Fibreculture Journal: Networked utopias and speculative futures

Editors: Susan Ballard, Zita Joyce and Lizzie Muller

http://fibreculturejournal.org/

abstract deadline: February 20, 2011

article deadline: May 30, 2011

publication aimed for: November,…

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Added by Michel Bauwens on November 19, 2010 at 9:45 — 1 Comment

The full documentation of the International Commons Conference in Berlin

Via Silke Helfrich:

Dear ICC participants,

(including those who had to decline at the very last moment)

After more than two days of intense work and discussion, the International Commons Conference is over. But perhaps not really:

as some of you already may have noticed in their mailboxes, the conference may, in truth, be just beginning!

Before the next stage of the ICC begins, however, I want to say a few thank-yous:

Thank you so much for taking… Continue

Added by Michel Bauwens on November 18, 2010 at 14:41 — No Comments

Announcing the DYNDY monetary rhizome project

Via Jaromil:

I'm writing you to bring to your attention the public launch of DYNDY,

for now consisting of this website and various ongoing code

experiments http://dyndy.net

The launch was well followed by interest in the audience in Amsterdam

at the De Balie center for political discourse…

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Added by Michel Bauwens on November 18, 2010 at 14:36 — No Comments

CALL FOR PAPERS ON "PIRACY CULTURES"

---------- Forwarded message ----------

From: Arlene Luck <aluck@law.usc.edu>

Date: Thu, Oct 28, 2010 at 5:57 PM

Subject: [IJoC] Open Call for Papers—"Piracy Cultures"

To: aluck@law.usc.edu

Dear IJoC Readers,

+++OPEN CALL FOR PAPERS ON "PIRACY CULTURES" +++

An International Journal of Communication Special Section on “Piracy

Cultures” to be published in 2011.

Submission Deadline: March 31, 2011.

Manuel Castells, IJoC… Continue

Added by Michel Bauwens on November 11, 2010 at 9:28 — No Comments

Some Thoughts on the Commons for reflection by the Commons movement

* Document: Some Thoughts on the Commons. Prepared by the Steering

Committee, International Commons Conference, to stimulate discussion

and reflection. (David Bollier, Beatriz Busaniche, Silke Helfrich, Julio

Lambing, Heike Löschmann) October 31, 2010

Key Thesis: Commons are the enabler for all other social goals, including environmental ones, which in essence are social.…

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Added by Michel Bauwens on November 4, 2010 at 20:32 — No Comments