[Bigbang-dev] An Introduction
Niels ten Oever
niels at article19.org
Wed Aug 31 08:57:16 PDT 2016
Hi Sebastian,
On 08/31/2016 05:39 PM, Sebastian Benthall wrote:
> Thanks for writing in, Niels!
Replying with a bit less of latency :)
>
> Just your mention of Liberation Tech gave me a new idea (maybe it's
> already occurred to some of you).
>
> There's for example the liberationtech at lists.stanford.edu
> <mailto:liberationtech at lists.stanford.edu> list where a lot of people
> with a particular political tendency post.
>
I am not sure whether the ppl that post to Libtech actually are of one
political leaning - that is one of my research questions. Understanding
their ideologies in Internet imaginaires.
> Just like the Panama Papers emails, if we have external data sets of
> email, that can provide additional contextual information about the
> political leanings of the people involved in Internet governance. We can
> then use that data to see which political affiliations are being active
> or influential.
Would be so cool to compare IETF, ICANN, libtech, bestbits, tor and
debian mailinglists for instance.
>
> Niels, very interested to know about the new mailing list for BigBang.
> I'd love to move this off of lists.sudoroom.org
> <http://lists.sudoroom.org> to something we have more control over and
> differently branded.
Should be done by tomorrow!
Cheers,
Niels
>
> cheers,
> Seb
>
>
>
> On Wed, Aug 31, 2016 at 8:29 AM, Niels ten Oever <niels at article19.org
> <mailto:niels at article19.org>> wrote:
>
> i Harsh,
>
> Sorry to be late! It's quite hectic at the moment. I am Niels and part
> of the Datactive research group at the Media Studies Department at the
> Univeristy of Amsterdam [0].
>
> I am currently working on analysing the tactics and strategies (action
> repertoire) and Internet imaginaires of digital civil society. With
> BigBang I am specifically looking at civil society engagement on
> Liberation Tech, BestBits, in ICANN and in the IETF.
>
> I am looking at the penetration of human rights language and how it
> spreads through communities, how it works, and when it doesn't.
>
> Next to that I am also pretty active in the IETF (hrpc.io
> <http://hrpc.io>) and ICANN
> (icannhumanrights.net <http://icannhumanrights.net>) as well, and
> we're spinning up in the IEEE. I'm
> doing this mostly with my Head of Digital at Article19 hat on.
>
> With Davide Beraldo and the other people in our research group we want
> to further develop BigBang to do this research, which we might also
> expand into the Civic Tech communities with out colleague Kersti
> Wissenbach.
>
> Hope that is a useful high level overview!
>
> Again, sorry to be late!
>
> Cheers,
>
> Niels
>
> [0] https://data-activism.net/
>
> PS Am setting up a new mailinglist for this - more soon!
>
> Niels ten Oever
> Head of Digital
>
> Article 19
> www.article19.org <http://www.article19.org>
>
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>
> On 08/22/2016 07:00 AM, Harsh Gupta wrote:
> > At CIS I analyzed technical alternatives of Encrypted Media Extensions
> > (EME) [1] draft specification which were proposed in the discussion on
> > public-html mailing list of W3C. I analyzed the alternatives on the
> > strength of content protection, privacy, security, accessibility and
> > interoperability, which are the major points of debate in the EME
> > controversy. The report is not there is public yet. I also did a
> > diversity analysis on the participants of the debate where I found out
> > that out of 48 participants no one was from Asia, Africa or South
> > America. The notebook for this analysis has been added to BigBang
> as an
> > example [2]. I also spent some time looking at the work of Social Web
> > working group at W3C [3], though nothing concrete came out of it.
> >
> > Before this I've also worked on Wikipedia Human Gender Indicators
> [4], a
> > project which highlights gender gap in biographies of wikipedia. I've
> > started getting into the more social/political sides of tech only
> a year
> > ago, so I don't have a niche yet. My earlier experiences have been
> more
> > software development oriented, including a Google Summer of Code in
> > SymPy and an internship at Continuum.
> >
> > [1]: https://hsivonen.fi/eme/
> > [2]:
> >
> https://github.com/sbenthall/bigbang/blob/master/examples/EME%20Diversity%20Analysis.ipynb
> <https://github.com/sbenthall/bigbang/blob/master/examples/EME%20Diversity%20Analysis.ipynb>
> > [3]: https://www.w3.org/wiki/Socialwg
> <https://www.w3.org/wiki/Socialwg>
> > [4]: http://whgi.wmflabs.org/
> >
> > --
> > Harsh Gupta
> > mail at hargup.in <mailto:mail at hargup.in>
> >
> >
> >
> > On Fri, Aug 19, 2016, at 04:06 PM, Sebastian Benthall wrote:
> >> Hi Harsh,
> >>
> >> Thanks for this introduction and for your contributions so far.
> >> It's great to have you involved in the project.
> >>
> >> Niels or Davide would be better able to represent the work going
> on at
> >> Datactive [1].
> >> I can talk about ideas we've been tossing around at Berkeley's School
> >> of Information [2] and with a contact at the Center for Democracy and
> >> Technology (CDT) [3].
> >>
> >> * CDT has confirmed an interest in measuring the effectiveness of
> >> civil society in pushing the public interest agenda in the IETF. One
> >> project we may work on is finding several cases of public interest
> >> related topics, including both advocacy 'successes' and advocacy
> >> 'failures', and try to map out how communications played out in each
> >> case. The goal for this project would be ideally be to get strategic
> >> insight into effective organizing around these kinds of issues.
> >>
> >> * I have a research interest in the statistical modeling of
> >> communication networks in general. This is related to some of the
> more
> >> advocacy based research but could also be seen as a study in applied
> >> math. I am hoping to use BigBang to develop some novel modeling and
> >> analysis algorithms for communications metadata.
> >>
> >> * An idea that just occurred to me the other day that could be
> >> interest which I haven't discussed with anybody yet.... We could also
> >> look at crossing data from Internet Governance lists with another
> data
> >> set and see what comes up. I'm thinking specifically the Panama
> Papers
> >> <https://panamapapers.icij.org/
> <https://panamapapers.icij.org/>>. It's just possible we could detect
> >> the influence of offshore finance on Internet governance. That would
> >> be quite a find.
> >>
> >> Just a few ideas. The project is at this point very open ended. I'd
> >> really like to hear more about the work you did for CIS, if you don't
> >> mind sharing.
> >>
> >> All best,
> >> Seb
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> [1] : https://data-activism.net/
> >> [2] : http://www.ischool.berkeley.edu/ <http://www.ischool.berkeley.edu/>
> >> [3] : https://cdt.org/
> >>
> >> On Thu, Aug 18, 2016 at 2:27 PM, Harsh Gupta <mail at hargup.in <mailto:mail at hargup.in>
> >> <mailto:mail at hargup.in <mailto:mail at hargup.in>>> wrote:
> >>
> >> Hello BigBang developers,
> >>
> >> I'm Harsh Gupta, a fifth year undergrad student at Indian Institute of
> >> Technology Kharagpur, studying Mathematics and Computing. I was an
> >> intern at CIS India [1] this summer and used BigBang to do diversity
> >> analysis on the participants of the Encrypted Media Extensions (EME)
> >> debate happening at W3C [2]. I met Sebastian at SciPy in July where he
> >> told me about the plans to use to BigBang to analyze ICANN. I'm in
> >> general interested in the social + political dimensions of technology.
> >>
> >> Where can I read more details of the research you plan to carry
> >> out, and
> >> what are the ways I can get involved?
> >>
> >> I'm hoping to churn out a thesis out the work, a part of which I
> >> need to
> >> submit by the end of this semester.
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> [1]: http://cis-india.org/
> >> [2]: https://github.com/sbenthall/bigbang/pull/259
> <https://github.com/sbenthall/bigbang/pull/259>
> >> <https://github.com/sbenthall/bigbang/pull/259
> <https://github.com/sbenthall/bigbang/pull/259>>
> >>
> >> --
> >> Harsh Gupta
> >> mail at hargup.in <mailto:mail at hargup.in> <mailto:mail at hargup.in
> <mailto:mail at hargup.in>>
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