University of Ottawa, Faculty of Law
Common Law Section
57 Louis Pasteur
Ottawa, ON K1N 7P5
Canada
www.anonequity.org
Équipe Réseaux, Savoirs & Territoires
École normale supérieure
45, rue d'Ulm
F-75230 Paris cedex 05
France
http://barthes.ens.fr
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| On the Identity Trail University of Ottawa, Faculty of Law Common Law Section 57 Louis Pasteur Ottawa, ON K1N 7P5 Canada www.anonequity.org |
Atelier Internet Équipe Réseaux, Savoirs & Territoires École normale supérieure 45, rue d'Ulm F-75230 Paris cedex 05 France http://barthes.ens.fr |
Journée Sphère privée et réseaux
| 8:00 - 8:30 | Informal Breakfast |
| 8:30 - 9:00 | Welcome (Éric Guichard) Setting the Stage:
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| 9:00 - 10:20 | Panel 1: Theoretical Perspectives on Identity
and Privacy Moderator: Klaus Schönberger
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| 10:20 - 10:50 | BREAK |
| 10:50 -12:00 | Panel 2: Technical Solutions Moderator: Paul Mathias
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| 12:00 - 13:00 | LUNCH |
| 13:00 - 14:45 | Panel 3: Security, Territory, Every Day
Practices and Representations in Popular Culture Moderator: Ian Kerr
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| 14:45 - 15:15 | BREAK |
| 15:15 -16:30 | Panel 4: Authorship, Intellectual Property and
Privacy Moderator: Jane Bailey
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| Éric Guichard | Associate Professor, ENSSIB. Responsible of the team of research Réseaux, Savoirs & Territoires, ENS |
| Ian Kerr | Canada Research Chair in Ethics, Law & Technology, Faculty of Law, University of Ottawa, Canada |
| Klaus Schönberger | Forschungskolleg Kulturwissenschaftliche Technikforschung, Wissenschaftlicher Koordinator, Institut für Volkskunde der Universität Hamburg, Germany |
| Paul Mathias | Director of Programm, Collège International de Philosophie, Paris, team of research Réseaux, Savoirs & Territoires, ENS |
| Steven Davis | Professor, Department of Philosophy, Carleton University, Canada Director, Centre on Values and Ethics (COVE) |
| David Matheson | Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Philosophy, Carleton University, Canada |
| Jacques Beigbeder | Director of the Service de Prestations Informatiques, ENS, Paris |
| Latanya Sweeny | Associate Professor of Computer Science, Technology & Policy, Carnegie Mellon University, USA |
| Valerie Steeves | Assistant Professor, Department of Criminology, University of Ottawa, Canada |
| Veronica Johansson | Institutionen Biblioteks- och Informationsvetenskap Bibliotekshögskolan, and Swedish School of Library and Information Science, University College of Borås, Sweden |
| Jacquelyn Burkell | Associate Professor, Faculty of Information and Media Studies, University of Western Ontario, Canada |
| Henri Desbois | Associate Professor, Univ. Paris-X Nanterre, team of research Réseaux, Savoirs & Territoires, ENS |
| Jane Bailey | Assistant Professor, Faculty of Law, University of Ottawa, Canada |
| Eva Hemmungs-Wirtén | Docent, Associate Professor, Swedish Research Council Postdoctoral Research Fellow, The Department of ALM (Archival Science, Library- and Information Science, Museology), Uppsala University, Sweden |
| Alex Cameron | Doctoral Candidate (Law & Technology), Faculty of Law, University of Ottawa, Canada |
| Paul Mathias | Quite early in the 90's, theorizing the Subject as
experiencing the
Net was inspired by and deeply rooted into deconstructionism.
Cyberspace would have the virtue to dissolve the boundaries of
subjectivity into text and the multiplicity of the Self, and to allow
the reconstructing of one's personality into as many representations
as allowed by imagination, creativity, and code.
Though some of these postulates may be true to some extent, I would like to argue that they serve as veils to "cover and forget" some more dramatic and practical problems, such as the connection between social and online identities, an illusory distinction between the "real" and the "virtual" selves, and in fact the way our Net experience is shaped into conventional and quite authoritarian patterns. It is not as if the Internet had simply opened new worlds allowing self-replication, freedom of expression, and radically "new" intellectual and social experiences. It is more like institutions, corporations, and new forms of power (at the "code level" of programs and the network) had developed through unclear policy making into a new economy of intellectual instrumentation of the Internet as well as the "Subject". |
| Steven Davis | We are asked to identify ourselves and are identified in banks, schools, businesses, stores, government offices, hospitals, and on the internet. It would be difficult for modern post industrial societies to function without these actions. My main goal is to get clear about the nature of identifying and identification. To this end, I shall begin by distinguishing between non-reflexive and reflexive identifying. Within these categories I shall describe acts of identifying that are speech acts and those that are not. I shall then turn to an example of identifying and discuss it in some detail concentrating on its epistemic elements. I shall argue that context plays a role in warranting identifying. Finally, I shall discuss whether machines can identify and conclude that although they can be an aid in identifying, they do not have the capacities that would enable them to perform such actions. |
| David Matheson | The overarching thesis of this paper is that the surveillance society risks undermining the ability of its citizens to develop moral virtues for the same sort of reason that overprotective parenting can impair the moral development of children. In Section 1, I review the psychological evidence linking overprotective parenting of a certain sort to impaired moral development in children. In Sections 2 and 3 I go on to offer an explanation of this link: the overprotection carries with it an overt, disaffective excess of surveillance that vitiates a plausible condition on the development of virtues derived from Aristotle. I conclude in Section 4 by pointing out that the networked monitoring systems that pervade the surveillance society carry with them a similar kind of surveillance, which makes that society's citizens as unlikely to meet the development condition as the overprotected children. |
| Jacques Beigbeder | coming soon |
| Latanya Sweeny | This paper discusses the threats to online privacy caused by the unnecessary revelation of identifying information and describes a technology that has been designed to discover threats to privacy and alert persons whose identities have been compromised of the potential threats so that they can take remedial action. |
| Valerie Steeves | This paper will explore representations of surveillance in popular science fiction films, with special emphasis on cult classics like Bladerunner, The Terminator and the Matrix. The methodology draws on the work of discourse theorist Tuen van Dijk who argues that meaning is socially constructed through the cognitive processes inherent in language. The films will be analysed to identify the cognitive scripts and models that underlie popular culture representations of technology, surveillance and power, and to identify the potential within these films to resist dominant meanings. |
| Veronica Johansson | Digital curation can be described as any measures designed to improve the conditions for collection, management, preservation, re-use and even refinement through "value-adding" of digital research data and other digital material. The objective is typically described by curation actors as the assurance of long-term sustainability, reusability, flexibility, validity and accessibility of digital data - aspects that are also taken to mean that value is added, knowledge creation is supported and that synergistic research effects are achieved in the process. From a slightly different perspective, data curation can also be understood as the creation of tools for the scientific process and for the creation of knowledge. And to be involved with data means to be involved in processes of constructing knowledge (or at least potential knowledge); this is where foundations and conditions for the links between what might be called the "empiricalworld", and theories of the nature and workings of that world, can be said to come into being. Data curation, thus, is characterised by complex interdependent functions and roles of the intermediary as both data curator and knowledge constructor. Social science data raises particular dilemmas since it spans the entire range of quantitative and qualitative empirical material, and is often concerned with human conditions. The reliance on human related data introduces issues of confidentiality, personal integrity, trust and security, and in the sense that data curation is also knowledge creation, the processes may similarly, and because of these aspects, construct the human study participants, research subjects, or objects of investigation, in various ways and extents. In this talk, I will concentrate on such specific examples of problems and possibilities that may arise in social science data curation practices and their relations to scientific knowledge production in areas where humans are concerned. |
| Jacquelyn Burkell | Instant Messenger (IM) use among many adolescents and young adults has become an integral part of their everyday lives (Livingstone, Bober, and Helsper, 2004; Lenhart, Rainie, and Lewis, 2001; Grinter and Palen, 2002). Almost half of adolescents who use the Internet use IM each time they sign on, and two-thirds use the system at least once a week (Lenhard et al., 2001). Although IM has found widespread application in the workplace, the primary use of IM among adolescents and undergraduates is social: they use these systems to stay in touch with friends and relatives (Huang and Yen, 2003; Lenhart et al., 2001; Flanagin, 2005). In this context, an interesting but understudied aspect of IM is the extent to which it is used as an "awareness monitoring" technology among members of small, informal groups (Zweig and Webster, 2002); indeed, IM facilitates an extremely high degree of "presence awareness" (Cameron and Webster, 2004) such that users can monitor the location, activities and social status of other users. Accordingly, this paper uses data arising from focus groups, structured observation, and interviews with undergraduate IM users to identify the information they collect about others, their motives for collecting it, how they interpret it, and the tactics they use to prevent others from collecting the same information about them. The paper argues that the "work" involved in surveilling others and in neutralizing or evading surveillance directed towards oneself is a key constituent of the impression management implicit in much IM use. |
| Henri Desbois | coming soon |
| Eva Hemmungs-Wirtén | In my paper I want to address the relationship between the public domain and intellectual property rights, and particularly focus on the rhetorical construction of the public domain. What symbols, discourses, and metaphors do we rely on when we talk about the public domain? |
| Alex Cameron |
For nearly three centuries since the enactment of the world's first
copyright statute, individuals have been free to travel the kingdom of
copyright as countrymen, enjoying the delightful objects to be found there,
in private and without any notice taken. Historically, neither copyright law
nor copyright holders have interfered with individuals' freedom to enjoy
copyright works in private. This centuries-old relationship between
copyright and privacy has changed dramatically in the recent past. Copyright and privacy have increasingly come into conflict over the course of the past decade. This conflict has reached a point where some of the most fundamental questions about the appropriate limits of copyright holders? rights have come to be synonymous or interdependent with questions about the appropriate limits of personal privacy in connection with the enjoyment of copyright works. To date, the product of this conflict has unquestionably been a diminishment of privacy. Although there is a developing contemporary literature on the intersection between copyright and privacy, the topic has not received the attention that it increasingly merits. Failure to gain a richer understanding of the conflict and relationship between copyright and privacy may ultimately leave us with little or no room to travel our vibrant copyright kingdoms in private, free from the prying eyes of copyright holders. Less directly, permitting privacy to be diminished in the name of copyright may lead to the impoverishment of the very copyright kingdoms that we purport to be enriching in so doing. |
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