:: Observatorio de Violencia de Género - Defensor del Pueblo de la Provincia de Buenos Aires :: ¿Por qué un Observatorio de Violencia de Género en la Defensoría del Pueblo de la provincia de Buenos Aires? El Observatorio de Violencia de Género (OVG) fue creado por el Defensor del Pueblo de la provincia de Buenos Aires, Dr. Carlos Bonicatto, hacia fines del año 2010. Está integrado por un equipo interdisciplinario de amplia formación y trayectoria en cuestiones de género e investigación. Mediante la creación del OVG, el Defensor del Pueblo pretende monitorear e incidir en la formulación de políticas públicas eficaces para la prevención, sanción y erradicación de la violencia de género.
Se propone además atender a un problema prioritario advertido, del cual la provincia de Buenos Aires no posee ninguna instancia unificada de producción, sistematización y análisis de la información en materia de violencia de género. Ello repercute directamente sobre la eficacia de las políticas públicas sobre esta temática. Enlaces de Interés • Caso Maria de Penha Maia Fernandez v. Corte IDH. Corte IDH. Here, there and everywhere. Donde aparece la voluntad de poder o de sometimiento no puede haber amor. Tampoco donde aparezca más la voluntad de cambiar al otro que la aceptación de sus cualidades.
Donde no haya comunicación no puede haber amor. Donde el sentimiento se diga pero no se corresponda con los actos, no puede haber amor. Hijo, ¿sabes cómo debería empezarse el amor? [...] Un árbol. Una roca. Hace aproximadamente dos meses mi madre tuvo un accidente: cayó del techo mientras buscaba al gato. Ocurrió un domingo hacia las diez y media de la mañana. El gato. Como todos nosotros, mi madre creía que era capaz de controlar ciertas cosas en la vida. Hace tiempo que, como en el ensayo que Montaigne tituló Del saber morir, dedico un poco de tiempo cada día a pensar en la muerte. Partí hacia la ciudad de mi madre con la angustia en la garganta y el estómago, pero con la seguridad de encontrarla viva.
Ninguna mujer está preparada para parir a su propia madre. Ese viaje en el bus fue mi último viaje como hija. Latin American professors say U.S. media coverage of Snowden affair is full of bias. The U.S. media, Latin America and Snowden's asylum Edward Snowden, the National Security Agency leaker made famous for revealing classified details of a U.S. surveillance program, has just submitted a request for temporary asylum in Russia. Snowden, whose spent the last several weeks at the Moscow airport claims he could face persecution, torture and even death if he's returned to the United States. If his asylum request is granted he could stay in Russia for the next year. But Russia wasn't the only country that Snowden considered for asylum. There was a long list of countries where, according to WikiLeaks, he could end up. Now, a group of Latin American scholars and professors have sent out a letter to media outlets across the United States addressing the media's portrayal of Bolivia, Ecuador and Venezuela in relation to the Edward Snowden case.
You can read the entire letter here: An Open Letter to the Media - Snowden and Latin America. Public Info Doesn’t Always Want to Be Free. TampaBay.com’s Mug Shots app Matt Waite on the ethics of a news app: Tampa Bay Mugshots In 2009, a senior web editor asked me and another developer a question: could our development group build a new news application for Tampabay.com that displayed a gallery of mug shots? Stories about goofy crimes with strange mug shots were popular with readers. The vision, on the part of management, was a website that would display the mugshots collected every day from publicly available websites by two editors—well paid, professional editors with other responsibilities. Newsrooms are many things. Alive. We thought this idea was nuts.
If only this were the most complex question we would face. Because given enough time and enough creativity, scraping a mug shot website is easy. The complexity comes when you realize the data you are dealing with represent real people’s lives. Problems The first problem we faced, long before we actually had data, was that data has a life of its own. The Googlebot Ethical Data. Humanity interview with James Ferguson, pt. 3: what future politics and development? | Penn Press: Humanity. Humanity: This question of politics connects to the key thesis of The Anti-Politics Machine, concerning the depoliticizing effect of development.
The idea of depoliticization has become the lodestone of much current historiography of development. Now, twenty years on from the initial publication of the book, does the success of this thesis surprise you? Specifically, Nicolas Guilhot has discussed in these pages how the idea of depoliticization has taken on a life of its own, to become a common theme not just in critiques of development, but also in critiques of other fields rooted supposedly in sympathy for the oppressed, such as humanitarianism.[1] What do you make of this broadening of the “depoliticization” narrative? H: It is true that in the case of development work a lot of people are aware of the barely hidden political agendas behind technical initiatives, even if they do not put them in their own report. JF: Ha! H: So here we are in decade seven of the development era. Against Transparency. Against Transparency In 2006, the Sunlight Foundation launched a campaign to get members of Congress to post their daily calendars on the Internet.
"The Punch-Clock Campaign" collected pledges from ninety-two candidates for Congress, and one of them was elected. I remember when the project was described to me by one of its developers. She assumed that I would be struck by its brilliance. I was not. In any case, the momentum was on her side. And not just in politics. How could anyone be against transparency? The naked transparency movement marries the power of network technology to the radical decline in the cost of collecting, storing, and distributing data.
Without a doubt, the vast majority of these transparency projects make sense. But that is not the whole transparency story. With respect to data about campaign contributions, the history of transparency is long. The hope of the naked transparency movement is to change this. This is a crude but powerful beginning. But then, so what? Accountability technologies. Against Transparency. 45 Ways to Communicate Two Quantities. Back in 2010, I was giving a workshop on interactive data visualization in Lima, Perú, discussing whether a dataset has a unique or at least an ideal way to be visualized. For a simple data structure — a list of some hundreds of numbers, for instance — around half of 20 participants were convinced that there’s one way that is clearly better in communicating the data, regardless of the unit of the values, their range, meaning, context and possible aim of the visualization.
This discussion actually came out as a consequence of another idea, which resonated with most participants, as well: that there should be a guide that indicates the best way to visualize each possible dataset. So I proposed the following exercise: let’s try to find all possible ways to visualize a ludicrously small data set of two numbers. Afterwords, let’s try to pick the best visualization. With such a tiny dataset, you would think we would complete both exercises in less than 5 minutes. 75 and 37 2. squares 5. bars [!] Life in the Hole: Inside a Solitary Cell. The Obameter: Tracking Obama's Campaign Promises. Truthiness. American television comedian Stephen Colbert coined the word in this meaning[2] as the subject of a segment called "The Wørd" during the pilot episode of his political satire program The Colbert Report on October 17, 2005.
By using this as part of his routine, Colbert satirized the misuse of appeal to emotion and "gut feeling" as a rhetorical device in contemporaneous socio-political discourse.[3] He particularly applied it to U.S. President George W. Bush's nomination of Harriet Miers to the Supreme Court and the decision to invade Iraq in 2003.[4] Colbert later ascribed truthiness to other institutions and organizations, including Wikipedia.[5] Colbert has sometimes used a Dog Latin version of the term, "Veritasiness".[6] For example, in Colbert's "Operation Iraqi Stephen: Going Commando" the word "Veritasiness" can be seen on the banner above the eagle on the operation's seal.
Adoption of the term by Colbert[edit] Coverage by news media[edit] The New York Times coverage and usage[edit] Are fact-checking sites a symptom of the media not doing its job? | Bronwen Clune. It is a fact universally acknowledged that a journalist in possession of a good story must insist it be based in truth. Or is it? In Australia, where an election looms, we’re about to enter a newly reconfigured media landscape with the launch of three sites dedicated to fact-checking the political statements of those vying for our votes. Does the popularity of these fact-checking sites suggest that journalism is failing to adequately perform its function? Media writer Tim Dunlop thinks it does, and put it rather succinctly in a recent column claiming that fact-checking sites are a symptom of failing media, but not a cure. Facts are, after all, one of the essential building blocks of good journalism: you can’t have good journalism without them.
So if there’s an important role for fact-checking sites to play alongside reporting, does that extend to having facts without good journalism? We are now working on a fact check where the reviewer does disagree with the author. Exactly. How to get out of Guantánamo. Fundación TEM | Contar la historia – Seminario de perfiles y crónicas sobre personajes y hechos del pasado. Studio 20 @ Arthur L. Carter Journalism Institute. This fall, Studio 20 added veteran journalist Kevin Convey to its staff ranks. Having recently parted ways with the New York Daily News, where he oversaw the predominantly print newsroom transition to digital, Convey took over teaching our first-semester “Studio 1” innovation workshop.
Three weeks into the semester, we talk to him about innovation—in the newsroom and in class—and the path he took from well seasoned print journalist to strong digital proponent and, now, graduate professor. You started out as a print journalist but became a strong advocate of the “digital first” school of thinking. Tell us a bit about your background. How did you get from point A to point B? I actually started in journalism at the age of 9 when I printed up a neighborhood newsletter on a toy press my parents had given me for Christmas. Then I went to Boston and started my first stint at The Boston Herald. It was as the Herald and then at the Daily News that I really started pushing the digital thing.
Journalism. The Rise of Longform Newspaper Writing, 1950s-2003. Fink and Schudson document the rise of “contexual journalism” before the longform meltdown. Katherine Fink and Michael Schudson have a fantastic new paper called “The Rise of Contextual Journalism, 1950s-2003,” to be published this summer in the British* scholarly journal, Journalism. It defines—and documents—the rise of a form of reporting that is deeper, more independent, less deferential to government, than conventional, run-of-the-mill news stories. The paper is sort of a high-end prequel to the informal post I did in January, “Major Papers’ Longform Meltdown,” on the stunning decline in longform newspaper writing at four major papers, since 2003. Fink and Schudson here are—in a way—documenting the rise before the fall. The difference is I was just measuring raw story length (word count>2000, for instance) and looked at a slightly different set of papers.
I just saw it as another data point, and I had no idea they were working on their paper. Fink and Schudson define it this way: International Journal of Internet Science. Table of Contents — July 2013, 30 (4) Critical Hacktivism. By Dan McQuillan In this post I want to lay out an approach to social technology that I'm calling critical hacktivism. It tries to connect the affordances of social technology to social innovation in a way that evades capture by existing institutional and knowledge structures.
If the current crisis is a legacy of these structures then critical hacktivism asserts that we can create alternatives through the practice of social prototyping. We begin with the vexed question of technology's impact on society. Are the social effects determined by the technology, or is the meaning and impact of a technology contructed by social narratives? While this question has been debated back-and-forth by researchers in Science & Technology Studies (STS) among others, it has taken on a more urgent edge through the irruptions of the Arab Spring and the way social technologies were embedded[1] in activist movements.
The other precursor of critical hacktivism is hacking itself. . [2] I. . [5] Learning for free? Wp-content/uploads/2011/03/A-Guide-To-FAQs.pdf. The Meme Hustler | Evgeny Morozov. Tim O’Reilly’s crazy talk Evgeny Morozov [from The Baffler No. 22, 2013] While the brightest minds of Silicon Valley are “disrupting” whatever industry is too crippled to fend off their advances, something odd is happening to our language. Old, trusted words no longer mean what they used to mean; often, they don’t mean anything at all. This is not to deny that many of our latest gadgets and apps are fantastic. Fortunately, Silicon Valley, that never-drying well of shoddy concepts and dubious paradigms—from wiki-everything to i-something, from e-nothing to open-anything—is ready to help. Silicon Valley has always had a thing for priests; Steve Jobs was the cranky pope it deserved. The enduring emptiness of our technology debates has one main cause, and his name is Tim O’Reilly.
A stylish and smooth-talking self-promoter with a philosophical take on everything, O’Reilly is the Bernard-Henri Lévy of Route 101, the favorite court philosopher of the TED elites. The coup succeeded. Esp #002-validación de datos en la era digital-traducido. Ciencia Crítica. Using GDELT to forecast violence in Afghanistan | Jay Yonamine. The Global Dataset of Events, Location, and Tone (GDELT) is a new, 230 million (and growing daily) is the first ever machine-coded political event data dataset to provide information on event location. For those attending ISA, Kalev Leetaru and Phil Schrodt will be formally introducing the GDELT dataset. The full dataset will be publicly available soon, but for now you can access an older version here. From a forecasting perspective, the benefits of a machine-coded dataset updated in (near) real-time that provides specific latitude-longitude coordinates are numerous.
In the first ever empirical analysis using GDELT (pdf of paper –> “Predicting Future Levels of Violence in Afghanistan Districts with GDELT“), I build an empirical model that predicts the level of conflict at the district-month level in Afghanistan. Below is .gif that Joshua Stevens built using GDELT that reflects the distribution of conflict events in Afghanistan over time. Gdelt.utdallas.edu/data/documentation/ISA.2013.GDELT.pdf. Counting Civilian Casualties - Taylor B. Seybolt; Jay D. Aronson; Baruch Fischhoff. Jay Aronson is an Associate Professor of Science, Technology, and Society at Carnegie Mellon University. His research and teaching focus on the interactions of science, technology, law, and human rights in a variety of contexts. His first book, Genetic Witness: Science, Law, and Controversy in the Making of DNA Profiling (Rutgers University Press, 2007), examines the development of forensic DNA analysis in the American legal system. He is currently engaged in a long-term study of the ethical, political, and social dimensions of post-conflict and post-disaster DNA identification of the missing and disappeared.
He received his PhD in History of Science and Technology from the University of Minnesota and was both a pre- and post-doctoral fellow at Harvard University's John F. Baruch Fischhoff is Howard Heinz University Professor, in the Departments of Social and Decision Sciences and of Engineering and Public Policy at Carnegie Mellon University. Britta L. Nicholas P. FCJ-118 Faulty Theory | Fibreculture Journal: 17. The Reality Club: THE END OF THEORY. Data's double life. THECOMPUTATIONALTURN.COM. Books.infotoday.com/books/Web-of-Deceit/Web-of-Deceit-Introduction.pdf. Web of Deception: Misinformation on the Internet.
Reports/ethics.pdf. Internet Research Ethics. The Other Jeff: Injustice In, Injustice Out: Social Privilege in the Creation of Data. Studies : Web Ecology Project. What data & algorithms teach us about the language news orgs use. The Other Jeff: Data Mining Ethics at the RMAIR Conference. LIVE Storify: Complexity & Context Data Journalism Symposium. Www.danah.org/papers/2012/BigData-ICS-Draft.pdf. The End of Theory: The Data Deluge Makes the Scientific Method Obsolete. Interview: Simon Garfield, Author Of 'On The Map' Jaron Lanier: 'The online Utopia doesn't exist. We need to reboot' Is uncovering digital vulnerabilities doing more harm than good? Strate.pdf. Information anxiety - Richard Saul Wurman. Minería de datos: una herramienta para que políticos conozcan la opinión ciudadana. Cómo buscar información en la web profunda. The Shape of Design - A book by Frank Chimero.
Interview with Amanda Cox: Visualizing Information at The NYT | SimoleonSense. How journalists can create better explainers. Why We Love Beautiful Things. Visualising Data. The Naked and the TED. Why There's No Such Thing as Global Citizenship - National.