PANOLA: A Personal Assistant for Supporting Users in Preserving Privacy

Privacy is the right of individuals to keep personal information to themselves. When individuals use online systems, they should be given the right to decide what information they would like to share and what to keep private. When a piece of information pertains only to a single individual, preserving privacy is possible by providing the right access options to the user. However, when a piece of information pertains to multiple individuals, such as a picture of a group of friends or a collaboratively edited document, deciding how to share this information and with whom is challenging. The problem becomes more difficult when the individuals who are affected by the information have different, possibly conflicting privacy constraints. Resolving this problem requires a mechanism that takes into account the relevant individuals’ concerns to decide on the privacy configuration of information. Because these decisions need to be made frequently (i.e., per each piece of shared content), the mechanism should be automated. This article presents a personal assistant to help end-users with managing the privacy of their content. When some content that belongs to multiple users is about to be shared, the personal assistants of the users employ an auction-based privacy mechanism to regulate the privacy of the content. To do so, each personal assistant learns the preferences of its user over time and produces bids accordingly. Our proposed personal assistant is capable of assisting users with different personas and thus ensures that people benefit from it as they need it. Our evaluations over multiagent simulations with online social network content show that our proposed personal assistant enables privacy-respecting content sharing.

Art of the Constructive Academic Social Brag to Improve Competition and Performance for Social-Shared Teaching and Learning

If social media is about the social brag and the pose, academic social media has dedicated platforms that enable such shares: learning content sharing platforms (educational channels on social video sharing sites and social image sharing sites, learning object referatories, digital libraries, slideshow sharing sites), research sharing sites, publications and review metrics platforms, social learning sites (MOOCs, LMSes), and others. The academic social brag does not have to be negative or offending; it can be designed and harnessed to improve competition and performance among peer academics (in their social sharing), given the reliance on learner/user numbers to justify the original creation and sharing. This work explores academic social bragging across various academic social sharing platforms, dimensions for how these are judged (positively or negatively), and ways to turn academic social brags into something constructive for social-shared teaching and learning.

Tactical and Substantive Educational Templates on Formal Open Learning Content Sharing Repositories and Referatories

To enable more efficient work, educational templates have been created for various contexts: online learning, assessments, video creation, document creation, and others. This work involves the exploration of 191 template-related digital learning objects shared on a learning object repository/referatory, an LMS-related object-sharing site, social slideshow sharing site, and social video sharing site, as an environmental scan. This work culminates in a definition of a “tactical and substantive educational template” (TASET) as a collaborative object and various requisite features for quality and heritability.

Effects of employee identity salience on content sharing in social networks

PurposeThis research explores whether, when and why employee identity salience influences content sharing of employee's friends in social networks and further investigates two moderating conditions of network overlap and deal content.Design/methodology/approach In Study 1, the authors analyzed a field data related to 20,715 users on the largest social network platform in China. In Studies 2 and 3, the authors verified the findings of Study 1 and tested the underlying mechanism with two experiments.Findings The results showed that employee identity salience could increase sharing likelihood of content receiver, especially when the employee had higher network overlap with receiver. However, when the content contained deal-related information, the receiver was less likely to share this content from employee with salient identity. The authors also found that perceived information credibility acted as a mediator in above relationships.Originality/value This research is the first to test the effects of employee identity salience on content sharing by considering both content type and network characteristics. The authors also provide insights into the mediating role of information credibility, which enriches the content sharing and social network literature.

Konvergensi Digital Radio Republik Indonesia Yogyakarta di Masa Pandemi Covid-19

Penelitian ini berjudul “Konvergensi Digital Radio Republik Indonesia Yogyakarta dimasa pandemi Covid-19”. Perkembangan teknologi informasi menghadirkan tantangan-tantangan baru khususnya dimasa pandemi Covid-19. Bukan hanya di indonesia, di berbagai belahan dunia juga menghadapi tantangan yaitu konvergensi media. Konvergensi Media adalah penggabungan dari beberapa jenis media dan hadir dalam bentuk digital. Perkembangan teknologi internet menimbulkan perubahan dan perkembangan dalam dunia komunikasi massa. Kemunculan new media tersebut mengubah cara masyarakat dalam mendapatkan informasi dan berita, terutama mengubah dalam sebuah newsroom di media. Penelitian ini bertujuan untuk mengetahui bagaimana praktek konvergensi kontinum di Radio Republik Indonesia (RRI) Yogyakarta pada era konvergensi media. Dalam konvergensi kontinum ini meliputi 5 (lima) tahapan yaitu Croos Promotion, Clooning, Content Sharing, Coopetition, dan Full Convergence. Metode dalam penelitian ini menggunakan metode penelitian kualitatif. Sedangkan teknik pengumpulan data yang digunakan adalah studi kepustakaan, internet, observasi, dokumentasi, dan wawancara mendalam. Hasil penelitian ini menunjukan bahwa Radio Republik Indonesia (RRI) Yogyakarta dalam praktek konvergensi kontinum sudah mencapai tahapan terakhir yaitu full convergence, dalam pengembangan produk Radio Republik Indonesia (RRI) Yogyakarta, disesuaikan dengan perkembangan teknologi dengan melakukan adaptasi dan mengedepankan karya inovatif dan kreatif.

Democratic Discourse in the Digital Public Sphere: Re-imagining Copyright Enforcement on Online Social Media Platforms

Within the current European Union (EU) online copyright enforcement regime—of which Article 17 of the Copyright in the Digital Single Market Directive [2019] constitutes the seminal legal provision—the role of online content-sharing service providers (OCSSPs) is limited to ensuring that copyright owners obtain fair remuneration for content shared over their platforms (role of “content distributors”) and preventing unauthorized uses of copyright-protected content (“Internet police”). Neither role allows for a recognition of OCSSPs’ role as facilitators of democratic discourse and the duty incumbent on them to ensure that users’ freedom to engage in democratic discourse are preserved. This chapter proposes a re-imagining of the EU legal framework on online copyright enforcement—using the social planning theory of copyright law as a normative framework—to increase its fitness for preserving and promoting copyright law’s democracy-enhancing function.

Too Small to Matter? On the Copyright Directive’s Bias in Favour of Big Right-Holders

This chapter shows how Art 17 of the Copyright in the Digital Single Market Directive (DSM Directive) contains an inherent bias favouring large right-holders to the prejudice of small creators. It studies the likely trajectories and incentives of the relevant actors and concludes that the licensing model of Art 17 is tailored to the needs of powerful content owners. Only smaller right-holders must monitor the market, review the use of their works by third parties, and approach each online-content sharing service provider separately. The enforcement mechanism of Art 17 has similar effects on amateur creators, who will often have to rely on exceptions to copyright when creating content in distinction to larger units that can typically resort to licensing. Collective licensing could offer a potential solution to alleviate the identified problems in unequal treatment of different types of copyright owners. The chapter discusses these effects from the perspective of the principle of equal treatment, protected under Art 20 of the EU Charter. It argues that, unless Member States resort to legal mechanisms—such as collective licensing—that can better balance competing rights and interests and not discriminate between different actors, the end-result will be unconstitutional.

Traces of Time through Space

Technology have long been a partner of workplace meeting facilitation. The recent outbreak of COVID-19 and the cautionary measures to reduce its spread have made it more prevalent than ever before in the form of online-meetings. In this paper, we recount our experiences during weekly meetings in three modalities: using SAGE2 - a collaborative sharing software designed for large displays - for co-located meetings, using a conventional projector for co-located meetings, and using the Zoom video-conferencing tool for distributed meetings. We view these meetings through the lens of effective meeting attributes and share ethnographic observations and attitudinal survey conducted in our research lab. We discuss patterns of content sharing, either sequential, parallel, or semi-parallel, and the potential advantages of creating complex canvases of content. We see how the SAGE2 tool affords parallel content sharing to create complex canvases, which represent queues of ideas and contributions (past, present, and future) using the space on a large display to suggest the progression of time through the meeting.

Konvergensi Surat Kabar Harian Riau Pos dalam Persaingan Media Siber

Konvergensi menjadi langkah mutlak bagi Surat Kabar Haraian Riau Pos untuk dapat mempertahankan eksistensi di tengah ketatnya persaingan media. Media massa harus berjalan beriringan dengan globalisasi dan internet untuk terus bertahan, apalagi di tengah pandemi yang memperparah badai industri media kini.Penelitian ini menggunakan metode kualitatif dengan teori Konvergensi Kontinum dari Daily, Demo, Spillman.Hasil penelitian menemukan, Riau Pos telah melaksanakan seluruh tahapan Konvergensi Kontinum.Cross Promotion, Clonning, Coopetition, dan Content Sharing yang dilakukan Riau Pos bersama-sama dengan media di bawah Riau Pos Grup (RPG) dan perusahaan utama yakni Jawa Pos Group (JPG). Dasar dari pelaksanaan konvergensi ini adalah kolaborasi yang saling menonjolkan karakteristik masing-masing platform. Full convergence telah terlaksana meskipun belum sempurna, dengan pengimplementasian 3M yakni Multichannel, Multimedia, dan Multiplatform. Seluruh tahapan konvergensi inilah yang dimaksudkan dalam Teori Konvergensi Kontinum. Dalam mengatur tarif iklan, Riau Pos melakukan adaptasi tarif semenjak adanya website dan media sosial. Selain itu dilakukan pula strategi bina relasi dan seasonal promotion.