[Air-L] some useful resources for researchers from the VOX-POL project

[Marco Schneider]

Dear all,

Sorry, I shared the old link for the first book, when it was not already
for free.

Follows the right one:

https://www.garamond.com.br/loja/ikritika-ebook

Best regards,

Marco Schneider

Em ter., 9 de jun. de 2020 às 11:16, Marco Schneider <
art68schneider at gmail.com> escreveu:

> Dear all,
>
> for those who can read in Portuguese, follow the links of two books,
> recently available for free in PDF.
>
> *iKritika: critical studies on information*
>
> Authors: Arthur Bezerra, Marco Schneider, Ricardo Pimenta and Gustavo
> Saldanha.
>
> https://www.garamond.com.br/loja/ikritika
>
> According to Rafael Capurro: "This book brings together contributions to a
> critical theory of information from the last 50 years, relating it to its
> history since the 19th century and its roots in modernity, within a broad
> structure that encompasses theories and authors such as Aristotle, Kant ,
> Hegel, Marx, Lukács, Frankfurt School, Bourdieu, Foucault, Žižek, as well
> as the classics of librarianship and information and communication. The
> guiding thread of these texts is social and critical thinking, that is, the
> thinking of information theory as inseparable from an interpretation and
> practice of social, economic and political processes [...] in the face of
> the structural transformations of oppression, control, surveillance and
> discrimination that have emerged since the middle of the 20th century in
> relation to digital technologies ".
>
> *Dialectic of taste: information, music, politics*
>
> Author: Marco Schneider.
>
>
> http://editoracircuito.com.br/website/a-dialetica-do-gosto-informacao-musica-e-politica-marco-schneider/
>
> Its central argument is: whether taste is an expression and measure of the
> use value of material and symbolic goods and, at the same time, the
> sensitive substrate of ideologies, and whether information is the main
> agent responsible for shaping tastes in contemporary societies therefore,
> information has a deeper aesthetic and ethical-political dimension than
> previously thought, as it would act not only on the texture of the notions
> and values that guide the practice of the subjects, as it is known, but
> also on the composition and governance of sympathies and dislikes,
> affections and discontent, fascination, aversion and indifference, of
> tastes, in short, underlying these notions, values and practices, and that
> is why perhaps their role is politically decisive.
>
> Once again in the words of Rafael Capurro: "when we talk and think about
> tastes and cultures in the digital age in the future, we must not ignore
> this book, which is related to what I call intercultural information
> ethics".
>
> Have a good reading,
>
> Best regards,
>
> Marco Schneider
>
> Full Researcher: Brazilian Institute of Information in Science and
> Technology (Ibict)
> Associate Professor: Universidade Federal Fluminense (UFF)
>
> P.S. If anyone gets interested in producing an English version of one or
> both books, which I would certainly appreciate, we can talk privately.
>
> Em ter., 9 de jun. de 2020 às 10:38, Charles M. Ess <c.m.ess at media.uio.no>
> escreveu:
>
>> Dear AoIRists, cc. to Maura Conway,
>>
>> Our colleagues at the VOX-POL project, headed by Maura Conway, have
>> recently gathered a page of "Researcher Resources" - "a directory of
>> tools, datasets, events and other useful links, which are collected and
>> grouped by topic."
>>
>> This is a very valuable collection indeed, including, e.g., a library of
>> resources, datasets and tools, and so on.
>>
>> Allow me to particularly call attention to the first subset on ethics,
>> which includes both the AoIR and NESH guidelines - as well as more
>> specific reports and resources developed and taken up over the course of
>> the venerable VOX-POL project.
>>
>> [In the name of full disclosure, both I and Elizabeth Buchanan served as
>> ethics advisors to the project.]
>>
>> A second subset focuses on "Researcher Welfare 1: Privacy and Security."
>> A defining thematic in the 3.0 revisions of the AoIR ethics guidelines
>> is precisely the rising importance of "protecting the researcher." I
>> think we made a good start in collecting resources for doing so - some
>> of which are also included here: but the additional resources listed
>> here will be very valuable indeed for researchers needing to take ever
>> greater care against becoming a target of the researched.
>>
>> Finally, a third subset is on Researcher Well-Being - also invaluable.
>>
>> I have every confidence that AoIRists will find these resources
>> exceptionally helpful and valuable indeed: a thousand thanks to Maura
>> and her colleagues for making these available.
>>
>> all best,
>> - charles
>> --
>> Professor in Media Studies
>> Department of Media and Communication
>> University of Oslo
>> <http://www.hf.uio.no/imk/english/people/aca/charlees/index.html>
>>
>> Fellow, Siebold-Collegiums Institute for Advanced Studies,
>> Julius-Maximilians-Universität Würzburg, Germany
>>
>> Co-chair & Editor, Internet Research Ethics 3.0
>> <https://aoir.org/reports/ethics3.pdf>
>>
>> 3rd edition of Digital Media Ethics now out!
>> <http://politybooks.com/bookdetail/?isbn=9781509533428>
>>
>> Postboks 1093
>> Blindern 0317
>> Oslo, Norway
>> c.m.ess at media.uio.no
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