http://corinnadigennaro.com Tue, 15 Jul 2008 13:20:45 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en As Miriam Simun from our Digital Natives team is off this morning to present our research findings on digital natives and their attitudes towards privacy at the Harvard CRCS Privacy and Security seminar series, news comes from Italy that the Agenzia delle Entrate – the department of revenue - has ... http://corinnadigennaro.com/2008/04/30/changing-privacy-expectations/ With the primaries in full swing and the upcoming elections, one cannot but ponder what role new technologies such as the Internet are playing in facilitating citizens’ engagement in the political process. Is the Internet actually making a difference? The Internet has certainly lowered the barriers of participation – if one ... http://corinnadigennaro.com/2008/03/05/the-internet-politics-as-usual/ In the last few weeks, a couple of initiatives in the UK have caught the eye of privacy advocates: first, the government proposal of making Internet Service Providers responsible for taking legal action against users who download music illegally over their accounts, thus making them actively responsible for monitoring the ... http://corinnadigennaro.com/2008/02/14/privacy-concerns-increasingly-under-the-spotlight/ (by Corinna di Gennaro and Miriam Simun - cross-posted from Digital Natives blog and Berkman blog) PBS recently aired “Growing Up Online” (and posted the entire episode on their website) - an inquisitive look into the lives of so-called Digital Natives. The program presented a world of young people ... http://corinnadigennaro.com/2008/01/28/frontline%e2%80%99s-%e2%80%9cgrowing-up-online%e2%80%9d-what-about-the-digital-dossier/ On 28 January 2008, the second annual Data Protection Day will take place, organized by the Council of Europe, with different events planned in the different member states. The aim of this initiative is to raise awareness amongst citizens about how personal data is collected about them, why, and what ... http://corinnadigennaro.com/2008/01/24/educating-the-public-about-privacy/ The Pew Research Center for People and the Press has just released a new survey on the role of the Internet in the 2008 US campaign. The report shows that almost half (42%) of 18 to 29 year olds learns regularly about the campaign from the Internet, double the number ... http://corinnadigennaro.com/2008/01/11/the-internet-is-first-source-of-campaign-news-for-young-americans/ Yesterday the New York Times published an article on Italy and its current political malaise and a very good video on the Beppe Grillo phenomenon - Beppe Grillo, comic, now blogger (after being banned from television for his political satire) has managed to rally together a new political movement ... http://corinnadigennaro.com/2007/12/14/beppe-grillo-and-the-power-of-the-web/ Last week I attended The Eric Mindich Conference on Computational Social Science at Harvard, organized by David Lazer (Harvard) and Sandy Pentland (MIT), and co-sponsored at Harvard by the Institute for Quantitative Social Science and the Program on Networked Governance, and at MIT by the Legatum Center for Development and ... http://corinnadigennaro.com/2007/12/11/computational-social-science-the-future-of-social-science/ Our new paper: "Reconfiguring Friendships: Social Relationships and the Internet", co-authored with Professor Bill Dutton of the Oxford Internet Institute (OII) at the University of Oxford, is now available in the new special issue of Information, Communication and Society (Vol. 10, Issue 5) on e-Relationships. In this paper we investigate whether ... http://corinnadigennaro.com/2007/10/22/social-relationships-and-the-internet-a-new-paper/ The Italian Government has recently proposed a draft law aimed at reorganising the legislation of the publishing sector, which requires every citizen engaging in publishing and editorial activities to register them with a central registry. This law covers different media, including the Internet, in practice requiring every Internet user who ... http://corinnadigennaro.com/2007/10/20/italy-and-the-end-of-the-internet/