Www.pearmagazine.eu. Constraint and Creativity: Is Red Tape the Enemy of Architecture? 05 March 2013 Venue: RIBA, 66 Portland Place London Description: Venice Takeaway Debate The UK is often regarded as a place stifled by red tape and characterised as being risk averse. In contrast, Venice Takeaway exhibitors Liam Ross and Tolulope Onabolu's journey to Lagos revealed a place where individuals freely accept responsibility rather than acted in accordance with regulations. Is the regulation climate in Britain now so intrusive that rather than creating improvements they instead restrict freedoms and discourage individual responsibility?
Discussion chaired by Alastair Donald - British Council with: Liam Ross - Dept of Architecture, Edinburgh University Tom Mullarkey - Chief Executive, Royal Society for Prevention of Accidents and Piers Gough - CZWG Alex Ely - mæ architects Tim Gill - Author of No Fear. Fees: £9/£6.50 (Members and students)Advance booking essential Other events in the series: Organiser: In collaboration with the British Council and the Architectural Association.
Social media life: What privacy? It was almost quaint: Google’s recent apology for privacy violations. Granted, it came in the face of a lawsuit where the company got its hand slapped for “data-scooping,” a wonderful phrase that could be the slogan of our current lives. Google was found to have crossed the line with its Street View Project, where in addition to photographing houses and buildings along the world’s streets and avenues, the Googilians scooped up all manner of personal information from zillions of unencrypted wireless networks. Really? I’m shocked. I look at a bathing suit on line. Every day I am online giving away — not just bits of information but bytes of my soul, or at least that’s the way it feels.
We have signed on for this ride. I see in myself what I see in others, a turn towards the spotlight — or the cyberlight, if you will. There is our now reflexive-compulsive need to run to the laptop or message or tweet. That’s the problem. Obviously there is a loneliness driving a lot of this need. Disruptions: Privacy Fades in Facebook Era. David Paul Morris/Bloomberg NewsPrivacy is a rare commodity today with the high amount of information being posted on social networking sites such as Facebook. As much as it pains me to say this: privacy is on its deathbed. I came to this sad realization recently when a stranger began leaving comments on photos I had uploaded to Instagram, the iPhone photo-sharing app. After several comments — all of which were nice — I began wondering who this person was. Now the catch here is that she had used only a first name on her Instagram profile. You would think a first name online is enough to conceal your identity. Trust me, it’s not.
So I set out, innocently and curiously, to figure who she was. I knew this person lived in San Francisco, from her own photos. There it was: a full name. Creepy, right? Nearly everyone has done something like this. A friend who works in technology recently told me I would never be able to figure out her age online. Ms. Now which one of us is going to do that? Barnes - A Privacy Paradox. The privacy paradox on social network sites revisited: The role of individual characteristics and group norms. 1 VU University Amsterdam, the Netherlands 2 University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany Abstract Users of social network sites (SNS) often state that they are concerned about their privacy, yet they often disclose detailed personal information on their profiles. This paper assessed the privacy settings of users of two large European SNS. More importantly, it also examined which factors predict the choice of specific privacy settings.
The main focus was on the trade-off between privacy concerns and impression management. The paper also looked at the role of the dispositional variables trust and narcissism. Keywords: social network sites, privacy settings, privacy concerns, social norms Introduction Social network sites (SNS), profile sites that also display the connections between users, have become increasingly popular over the last years (boyd, 2006, boyd & Ellison, 2007). The privacy paradox Although alarming, these numbers should be seen as snapshots. Study 1 Method Participants Measures Results.
Privacy no longer a social norm, says Facebook founder | Technology. The rise of social networking online means that people no longer have an expectation of privacy, according to Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg. Talking at the Crunchie awards in San Francisco this weekend, the 25-year-old chief executive of the world's most popular social network said that privacy was no longer a "social norm". "People have really gotten comfortable not only sharing more information and different kinds, but more openly and with more people," he said.
"That social norm is just something that has evolved over time. " Zuckerberg said that the rise of social media reflected changing attitudes among ordinary people, adding that this radical change has happened in just a few years. "When I got started in my dorm room at Harvard, the question a lot of people asked was, 'why would I want to put any information on the internet at all?
But it also represents a remarkable shift from where the Californian company originally started out. Not everybody agrees. Facebook's Eroding Privacy Policy: A Timeline. Since its incorporation just over five years ago, Facebook has undergone a remarkable transformation. When it started, it was a private space for communication with a group of your choice. Soon, it transformed into a platform where much of your information is public by default.
Today, it has become a platform where you have no choice but to make certain information public, and this public information may be shared by Facebook with its partner websites and used to target ads. Research Ethics in the Facebook era. Becoming a Networked Researcher – using social media for research and researcher development. Unable to conduct PhD fieldwork overseas, Dr Sarah-Louise Quinnell found herself searching for new ways to communicate with actors dispersed across the globe. Now, her website, a virtual research environment, has become the hub of her research and she utilises forums, blogs and twitter to interact with more actors and increase her impact through different audiences. I was the first person in my department to actively engage with social media and digital research methods to conduct my PhD research.
I was unable to undertake fieldwork in the traditional sense; spending a period overseas conducting interviews and collecting data, as part of my Geography PhD at KCL. While I had made several trips to a number of institutions, I had to look at different ways to contact and communicate with a large number of globally dispersed actors. Post-PhD I have been engaging with a number of online resources. Dr. How are leading architecture firms using social media tools?
© Knowledge Architecture, 2011 You can download a PowerPoint version of this presentation here. All of the case study examples in the PowerPoint version are hyperlinked to their source. As readers of this blog know, Knowledge Architecture is currently three months into a six month study on web, social media, and R&D activities of over 500 of the largest architecture and engineering firms in North America. I’ve used four industry surveys to come up with the list of firms for our research: Architecture Record Top 250 Firms, Architect 50, Building Design + Construction Giants 300, and Engineering News Record’s Top 500 Firms. I took a break midway through the research to refine our initial hypotheses, draw some tentative conclusions, and share the preliminary findings with clients and friends of Knowledge Architecture. I presented our preliminary research last week in New York at THE Marketing Event 2011, SMPS-NY’s annual marketing conference.
KA Connect Architecture Blog. How Architects Can Avoid Copyright Litigation. Written by Administrator Architects need to pay particular attention to copyright laws. This article explores some of the issues. Copyright Law: The Fundamentals 1. Copyright is one of a number of legal rights which go to make up a body of rights generally referred to as “intellectual property” or “IP” or “IPR”. 2. Copyright originally came about to protect the work of authors of literary works. 3. 4. 5. Originality 6. Copyright Works of Particular Significance to Architects 8. 9. “A graphic work, photograph, sculpture or collage, irrespective of artistic quality”.Graphic works are defined to include:“Any painting, drawing, diagram, map, chart or plan.”
Of less wide application is the protection given by copyright to buildings themselves and models of buildings. Ownership of Copyright 10. 11. 12. 13. 14. 15. Common Copyright Problems Encountered by Architects 16. The Use of Plans Without Consent 17. 18. 19. Copying and / or Amendment of Plans 20. 21. 22. How Can One Copy But Without Infringement? Architecture and design blog | Art and design.
Using Social Media Data for Research: The Ethical Challenges. A Cambridge Digital Humanities Network and DSpace@Cambridge seminar with Fabian Neuhaus (UCL Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis) and Dr Sharath Srinivasan (Centre of Governance and Human Rights, POLIS). Abstract: Fabian Neuhaus Millions of users leave digital traces of their activities, interactions and whereabouts on the world wide web. More and more personal conversations and private messages are being shifted to these on-the-move channels of communication despite the many metadata strings attached.
In recent years, the social science aspects of this data has become increasingly interesting for researchers. Social networking services like Foursquare or Twitter provide programming interfaces for direct access to the real time data stream promoting it as free and public data. In this presentation the use of digital social networks data will be discussed both from a user and from a processing for research standpoint.
About the speaker: Handbook of social media for researchers and supervisors - www.vitae.ac.uk/policy-practice. Studies in Temporal Urbanism; The urbanTick Experiment Fabian Neuhaus. Cycles in Urban Environments: Investigating Temporal Rhythms; Fabian Neuhaus. Newsletter T2 2011 - 7.pdf. UrbanTick. OU_Social_media_handbook - Vitae_Innovate_Open_University_Social_Media_Handbook_2012.pdf. Researchers-of-Tomorrow.pdf. Dan Lockton. E-mail me: dan@danlockton.co.uk About me | CV | Publications About me I specialise in what’s become known as design for behaviour change — understanding and influencing people’s behaviour for social and environmental benefit, through the design of products, services and environments.
In March 2013 I joined the Helen Hamlyn Centre for Design at the Royal College of Art, London, working on the SusLabNWE project (INTERREG), Creative Citizens (AHRC / EPSRC), a number of executive education projects, and Creating Sustainable Innovation through Design for Behaviour Change (AHRC), on which I am a Co-Investigator. I’m particularly interested in what might be termed public understanding of everyday systems — how we interpret and understand the technology and complex systems around us, how we interact with them, and what the consequences could be for design which seeks to influence change. dan@danlockton.co.uk | February 2014 Academic qualifications MPhil Technology Policy, 2004–05. Research interests.