"El fin de la paciencia" - Marta García Aller

Nos parece insoportable tener que esperar una respuesta de alguien que no está temporalmente localizable

Os melhores cartoons de 2018: "The Network"

It’s ironic that the world becomes ever more connected, more and more people are lonely. Osval from Cuba has created this clever visual, where the web connecting us is made up of walls that separate us.

Osval

"The Era of Fake Video Begins" - Franklin Foer

The digital manipulation of video may make the current era of “fake news” seem quaint.

"Brasil Eleições 2018: Como combater a desinformação na Internet?" - Ariel Kogan & Marcio Vasconcelos

Google, Facebook e Twitter devem realizar esforços tecnológicos para fornecer respostas e combater algoritmicamente a distribuição da desinformação e da polarização no contexto das próximas eleições presidenciais.

"India’s Social-Media Lynch Mobs" - Shashi Tharoor

Over the last decade, India's ruling Bharatiya Janata Party has cultivated an army of cyber warriors to propagate its message of Hindu chauvinism and hyper-nationalism – and to launch vicious attacks on its opponents. Now, a BJP leader has become a victim of the party's own monster.

Dia Mundial da Internet

"Facebook and the Future of Online Privacy" - Jeffrey D. Sachs

The EU has taken the lead in responding to abuse by the likes of Facebook, thanks to its new privacy standards and proposed greater taxation of peddlers of online personal data. Yet more is needed and feasible.

"The people owned the web, tech giants stole it. This is how we take it back" - Jonathan Freeland

Social media gave the powerless a weapon but it was wrenched away by firms such as Facebook and Cambridge Analytica

"Blockchain’s Broken Promises" - Nouriel Roubini

Boosters of blockchain technology compare its early days to the early days of the Internet. But whereas the Internet quickly gave rise to email, the World Wide Web, and millions of commercial ventures, blockchain's only application – cryptocurrencies such as Bitcoin – does not even fulfill its stated purpose.

"Russia’s surveillance state is giving us a false sense of security" - Damir Gainutdinov

The Russian state’s mass expansion of surveillance online and offline is not making citizens any safer.

"Cuba y su ejército de troles" - Abraham Jiménez Enoa

...Los “guardianes” del ciberespacio cubano no solo existen en el Ministerio del Interior. La mayoría de las instituciones estatales cubanas también realizan la misma labor añadiéndole al objeto social de sus trabajadores la misión de “combatir” en Internet....

"Chinese Citizens Evade Internet Censors to Remember Liu Xiaobo"

The death on Thursday of China’s most prominent political prisoner, Liu Xiaobo, set off a frenzied effort by government censors to block discussion of his legacy online.Candle emoticons and the phrase “R.I.P.” were banned on Weibo, a popular Chinese microblogging site. On many sites, searches of Mr. Liu’s name turned up zero results.

"How technology disrupted the truth" - Katharine Viner

Social media has swallowed the news – threatening the funding of public-interest reporting and ushering in an era when everyone has their own facts. But the consequences go far beyond journalism

"Home Monitoring Will Soon Monitor You" - Ian Bogost

When the Internet of Things begins to track electrical usage, houses could become more measured—and scrutinized—than ever.

"HOW VIDEO GAMES ARE INFLUENCING WAR PROPAGANDA IN SYRIA" - Murtaza Hussain

The generation that grew up playing modern video games is now making media about war that reflects those influences, including in Syria, where militias are producing sophisticated propaganda films employing tropes from Western popular culture.

"What Searchable Speech Will Do To You" - James Somers

We are going to start recording and automatically transcribing most of what we say. Instead of evaporating into memory, words spoken aloud will calcify as text, into a Record that will be referenced, searched, and mined. It will happen by our standard combination of willing and allowing. It will happen because it can. It will happen sooner than we think.

"A FAMED HACKER IS GRADING THOUSANDS OF PROGRAMS — AND MAY REVOLUTIONIZE SOFTWARE IN THE PROCESS"

AT THE BLACK HAT cybersecurity conference in 2014, industry luminary Dan Geer, fed up with the prevalence of vulnerabilities in digital code, made a modest proposal: Software companies should either make their products open source so buyers can see what they’re getting and tweak what they don’t like, or suffer the consequences if their software failed. He likened it to the ancient Code of Hammurabi, which says that if a builder poorly constructs a house and the house collapses and kills its owner, the builder should be put to death.

Parabéns ao "Twitter"!

O meu Twitter

20 anos do "Google"

20 anos do Google.

Google lança novo visual e revela história do logotipo do buscador

"Observatório da Grécia" - um blogue para seguir

A nossa missão

O Observatório da Grécia é um site de informação independente que parte da constatação de que a evolução na situação económica e política da Grécia se reveste de enorme interesse para o nosso país, na medida em que partilhamos problemas comuns e o trajeto dos programas de ajustamento que ambos os países percorreram. O Observatório da Grécia parte também da necessidade de disponibilizar mais informação do que a que se pode atualmente encontrar, favorecendo uma leitura informada sobre os acontecimentos naquele país.

O Observatório da Grécia trabalhará sobre as muitas fontes disponíveis, quer na imprensa nacional e internacional, quer nas instituições que disponibilizam informação sobre a economia e sociedade gregas, procurando cruzar essa informação, confrontar posições, confirmar factos e fornecer informação tão completa e isenta quanto possível. Sendo este um site de iniciativa cidadã, agradecemos todos os contributos que os leitores nos possam fazer chegar que possam enriquecer este site e contribuir para os seus objetivos. Os autores permanentes deste Observatório são:

Ana Bastos
André Albuquerque
Andreia Quartau
Catarina Principe
Daniel Oliveira
Elísio Estanque
Eugénia Pires
Filipa Vala
Frederico Pinheiro
Isabel Moreira
Joana Lopes
João Madeira
João Ramos de Almeida
José Gusmão
José Luís Albuquerque
Margarida Santos
Mariana Avelãs
Nuno Tito
Paula Cabeçadas
Paula Gil
Ricardo Noronha
Rui Bebiano
Tiago Mota Saraiva

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