Deibert, Palfrey, Rohozinski, Zittrain (eds.): Access Contested: Security, Identity, and Resistance in Asian Cyberspace (2011)

A daily battle for rights and freedoms in cyberspace is being waged in Asia. At the epicenter of this contest is China–home to the world’s largest Internet population and what is perhaps the world’s most advanced Internet censorship and surveillance regime in cyberspace. Resistance to China’s Internet controls comes from both grassroots activists and corporate giants such as Google. Meanwhile, similar struggles play out across the rest of the region, from India and Singapore to Thailand and Burma, although each national dynamic is unique. Access Contested, the third volume from the OpenNet Initiative (a collaborative partnership of the Citizen Lab at the University of Toronto’s Munk School of Global Affairs, the Berkman Center for Internet and Society at Harvard University, and the SecDev Group in Ottawa), examines the interplay of national security, social and ethnic identity, and resistance in Asian cyberspace, offering in-depth accounts of national struggles against Internet controls as well as updated country reports by ONI researchers.

The contributors examine such topics as Internet censorship in Thailand, the Malaysian blogosphere, surveillance and censorship around gender and sexuality in Malaysia, Internet governance in China, corporate social responsibility and freedom of expression in South Korea and India, cyber attacks on independent Burmese media, and distributed-denial-of-service attacks and other digital control measures across Asia.

Edited by Ronald Deibert, John Palfrey, Rafal Rohozinski, Jonathan Zittrain
Publisher MIT Press, 2011
Information Revolution and Global Politics series
ISBN 0262516802, 9780262516808
414 pages

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A Peer-Reviewed Newspaper, 1(2): In/Compatible Research (2012)

“World of the News – The world’s greatest peer-reviewed newspaper of in/compatible research presents cutting edge in/compatible research in an accessible FREE tabloid format. The newspaper partly addresses academia’s increasing demand for publication of academic peer-reviewed journal articles. Perhaps researchers need new visions of how to produce and consume research?

The content of the newspaper derives from a Ph.D. workshop and conference held in November 2011, at University of the Arts, Berlin (organised by Aarhus University in collaboration with transmediale/reSource for transmedial culture and the Vilém Flusser Archive). This provided an insight into current research from academics, practitioners, and Ph.D. researchers from an open call. Leading up to that event, and subsequent to it, a blog (this blog) has been gathering draft articles and discussions, reflecting on the key issues. This collaborative ‘peer-review’ process is further developed during the festival itself, on 01 February, 2012. So, although this may seem like old news in many ways, in terms of research practices, it breaks with some of the current academic conventions of peer-review, academic reputation, and what constitutes proper scholarly activity.”

Contributions by Christian Ulrik Andersen, Cesar Baio, Tatiana Bazzichelli, Zach Blas, Morten Breinbjerg, Geoff Cox, Lina Dokuzović, Jacob Gaboury, Kristoffer Gansing, Baruch Gottlieb, Jakob Jakobsen, Ioana Jucan, Dmytri Kleiner, Thomas Bjoernsten Kristensen, Magnus Lawrie, Giannina Lisitano, Aymeric Mansoux, Alex McLean, Rosa Menkman, Gabriel Menotti, Andrew Murphie, Jussi Parikka, Søren Pold, Morten Riis, Lasse Scherffig, Cornelia Sollfrank, Mathias Tarasiewicz, Tiziana Terranova, Marie Thompson, Nina Wenhart, Carolin Wiedemann, Siegfried Zielinski.

Edited by Geoff Cox and Christian Ulrik Andersen
Published by transmediale, Berlin, and Digital Aesthetics Research Centre, Aarhus University, Aarhus, January 2012
Creative Commons BY-NC-SA License
ISBN 8791810205
32 pages

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Circulations of Culture: On Social Distribution of Content: A Research Report (2012) [Polish/English]

This report reconsiders a vision often encountered in the public debate: that of the cultural sphere destroyed by ‘pirates’ who illegally download and copy books, music and movies. The study was conducted by an interdisciplinary team of sociologists, anthropologists and media theorists from Centrum Cyfrowe Projekt: Polska, led by Mirek Filiciak, Justyna Hofmokl and Alek Tarkowski. Centrum Cyfrowe Projekt: Polska is a Polish non-governmental organization and research institution working with digital technologies towards greater civic and cultural engagement.

The research results demonstrate that the border between legal and illegal circulations of culture are often fluid and undefined – as the internet grows and changes faster than its regulation by the legal system. Three times more Poles participate in informal circulations of culture (mainly online) than they do in formal, market circulations (putting aside the issue of TV viewing). Surprisingly, those who obtain content informally, through the internet are among those who most often buy content in stores.

This report is the first of its kind to demonstrate in detail the character of informal participation of Poles in culture. Based on empirical data we show that the internet is not killing culture in Poland.

(in Polish)
Raport ‘Obiegi kultury. Społeczna cyrkulacja treści’ stawia pod znakiem zapytania obraz świata kultury niszczonego przez ‘piratów’ poprzez nielegalne ściąganie i kopiowanie muzyki, filmów i książek. Przeprowadzone przez zespół badaczy z Centrum Cyfrowego Projekt: Polska badanie pokazuje, że granice między legalnymi a nielegalnymi obiegami kultury są płynne i często niezdefiniowane, bo internet rozwija się szybciej, niż legislacja.

Pomijając telewizję, Polacy aż trzykrotnie częściej korzystają z kultury w sposób nieformalny niż formalny (odpowiednio 39% i 13%) – pożyczając sobie książki, oglądając filmy online lub ‘ścigając’ pliki z Sieci. Co zaskakujące, to właśnie te osoby które najczęściej ‘zdobywają’ treści kulturowe za pośrednictwem internetu również najczęściej kupują książki w księgarni, są klientami sklepów muzycznych i najczęstszymi bywalcami seansów kinowych.

Publikowany raport po raz pierwszy pokazuje nieformalny kontekst uczestnictwa Polaków w kulturze i podważa powtarzaną często tezę, że internet zabija kulturę.

Obiegy kultury. Społeczna cyrkulacja treści: Raport z badań
Written by Mirosław Filiciak, Justyna Hofmokl, Alek Tarkowski
Published by Centrum Cyfrowe, Warsaw, January 2012
Creative Commons License BY-SA 3.0 Polska
100 pages

English edition
Published in September 2012
125 pages

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commentary (Glyn Moody, Techdirt, November 2012)

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