English below.
Español, resúmen: la revista holandesa Greenpepper (Pimienta Verde) está
solicitando contribuciones escritas o visuales para un número especial sobre
la información a ser distribuido simultaneamente con la Cumbre Mundial de la
Sociedad de la Información. Las contribuciones pueden ser sobre temas como
control y autonomía de la información, medios
participativos/comunitarios/piratas, des-información y relaciones públicas,
propiedad intelectual, regimenes de vigilancia y estrategias para
contrarestarlos. La información enviada no especifica el idioma en que
deben ser escritas las contribuciones pero seguramente les interesan textos
de América Latina y tal vez los editores pueden traducir textos en español.
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http://squat.net/cia/gp/greenpepper. La fecha límite para contribuciones es
octubre 30.
English:
please distribute :: please distribute
:: Greenpepper Magazine :: Information Issue :: Call for Contributors ::
GREENPEPPER is an Amsterdam-based environmental and social justice magazine
focusing on direct and autonomist action.
To co-incide with the World Summit on the Information Society to be held in
Switzerland in December 2003, the theme of the next issue of the magazine is
INFORMATION.
GREENPEPPER is currently looking for contributions for the INFORMATION
issue.
Topics to be explored include (but are not limited to) information control
and
autonomy, participatory / community / pirate media, wireless and opensource
media tools, disinformation and public relations, regimes of biotechnology,
intellectual property and surveilance and the tactics of resistance against
them. For more ideas on possible contributions, see the draft structure
included below.
Contributions can be written text (800 - 1800 wds) or other visual/print
media
and must be sent to us by 31 October 2003. More importantly, contributions
should be critical, generative of different ways of thinking about these
issues, and relevant to those engaged in political and cultural struggles
around information and social justice.
For more information or to send contributions contact [log in to unmask] If
you'd like to send us a contribution, please email a brief (50 - 100w)
description or synopsis to us by 14 October 2003. To find out more about
GREENPEPPER go to http://squat.net/cia/gp/greenpepper
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:: draft structure for greenpepper information issue :: ideas for possible
contributions ::
1. EMPIRE
- introductory overview of wsis : neo-liberal trade agenda / countersummit /
communication rights
- piracy : specific articles/interviews/case studies about information
piracy / reasons for piracy / response by state or regulatory bodies.
- informational autonomy : what it means / what types of information
practices
it includes / how and why this approach to information goes beyond the
discourse of 'communication rights' and 'civil society' / importance of
informational autonomy as sites of cultural/political struggle.
- community/micro media resistance : self-organised community experiments in
media practice / specific examples exploring how informational autonomy
might
work.
BIOSPHERE
- biotech and infotech : connections between the parallel development of
biotechnology and information technology / why contesting science and
creating
resistant practices in this area is important for information activism.
- biopiracy and bioinformatics : what are they / international networks of
biotrade / enclosure of the genetic commons / current and future
developments
in this field / possibilities for resistance.
- biotech and intellectual property : international developments in genecode
patenting and intellectual property regimes.
MEDIASCAPE
- institutional disinformation : case study on recent war on iraq / role of
international intelligence in disinfo / scope for alternative information
channels
- radio : the importance of the medium / specific pirate / self-organised /
internet radio experiments / methods of circumventing legal regimes /
practical
d.i.y information about small scale transmitting
- public relations and the production of knowledge : how PR works / the ways
activists can identify and expose pR practices in their struggles.
- structures of participation : specific experiments that challenge and
broaden
the scope of participatory media / ways of making different fields (organic,
financial, scientific etc) readable as information by different groups of
people.
- wireless networks : developments in wireless networking / why wireless is
important / practical 'how to' information for groups on how to set wireless
networks up and use them.
- opensource tools : free opensource media tools that can be used by
different
groups for political practice / appropriation of opensource by infotech
corporations /
DATA CONTROL
- data bodies : the concept of electronic bodies / importance of data bodies
as
a means of altering debates in this area way from the usual liberal
discourse
of privacy / relevance of this approach to understand contemporary
surveillance
and/or border control systems / control of data as means of controlling
movement of people.
- overview of s.11 surveillance systems and expansion of state power (new
laws) : role of the U.S government in co-ordinating extreme international
response / specific examples or contributions from groups being profiled and
targeted
- digital profiling and social sorting : the concept and practice of
digital
profiling / specific ways surveillance works by profiling and sorting people
into differing groups of dangerousness / specific examples of how
surveillance
reproduces racism in targeting black/arab people and communities.
- biometrics : a specific analysis of the U.S led worldwide push to
introduce
biometric identification systems in airports / role of International Civil
Aviation Organization and other international regulatory bodies / how
biometrics work / who it effects and why / likely developments and
consequences
of biometric surveillance.
OURMedia/NuestrosMedios
a global network of activists, academics, and practitioners
working toward stronger alternative, community, and citizens' media.
Una red global de activistas y academic@s apoyando
los medios alternativos, ciudadanos y comunitarios
Contact: Clemencia Rodriguez
University of Oklahoma
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