Open Day introduction – Thanassis Tiropanis, Associate professor, University of Southampton, United Kingdom

Chair: Anna Satsiou, Senior Researcher in the Informatics and Telematics Institute (ITI), Center for Research and Technology Hellas, Greece

This session will present the Network of Excellence in Internet Science (EINS) main achievements about the understanding of Internet networks and their co-evolution with society, followed by the presentation of projects proposals of common interest in the field of Internet Science.

Real time analysis and visualization of controversies around Wikipedia articles, EINS Open Call Project CONTROPEDIA – Andreas Kallenbrunner, Scientific Director, Social Media Research Group; Barcelona Media, Spain

Interdisciplinary explorations of self-organisation in practice, EINS Open Call Project COMPARE – Panayotis Antoniadis, Senior Researcher, Communication Systems Group ETH Zürich, Switzerland

Cross-disciplinary Participation in Open Source Communities, EINS Open Call Project CPiOSC – Wifak Gueddana, Research Associate, Information Systems and Innovation Group, London School of Economics, United Kingdom

Virtual Communities, EINS JRA6 – Chris Marsden, Professor of Internet & Media Law, University of Sussex, United Kingdom

Emergence Theories and Design Methodologies, EINS JRA2 – Clare Hooper, Research Engineer, IT Innovation Centre, University of Southampton, United Kingdom

From Smart Cities to Engaged Citizens, 3rd EINS Summer School – Anna Satsiou, Senior Researcher in the Informatics and Telematics Institute (ITI), Center for Research and Technology Hellas, Greece

Chair: Hugo Vivier, Unit Manager, Emerging Technologies & Media, Sigma Orionis, France

During this session, round tables chairs will present the main issues of the discussions held in their respective round table in order for participants to decide the round table they will join.

Engaging citizens in the smart city project through DIY networking – Panayotis Antoniadis, Senior Researcher, Communication Systems Group ETH Zürich, Switzerland

Global Internet Governance Policy Architecture: Case studies and interdisciplinary research challenges – Chris Marsden, Professor of Internet & Media Law, University of Sussex, United Kingdom

Internet Research Ethics: Striking a balance between conflicting interests – Luce Jacovella, Research Coordinator at Centre for Commercial Law Studies, Queen Mary University of London, United Kingdom, Bendert Zevenbergen, Doctor of Philosophy student and Research Assistant, Oxford Internet Institute, United Kingdom

Join a round table and take part in an open and interactive discussion session with topic experts. The three topics are detailed below.

We aim to frame the Do-It-Yourself networking paradigm as a boundary object that facilitates transdisciplinary interactions between researchers, activists, artists, and practitioners toward a common goal: to produce tools and knowledge that empower citizens to shape their hybrid urban space, together, according to their local environment.

Do-It-Yourself networking allows citizens to build local networks that can facilitate local interactions, outside the public Internet, using low-cost off-the-shelf hardware and wireless technology. Such networks offer a rich set of special characteristics, such as the local ownership and control of the whole design process and information produced; the de facto physical proximity of those connected without disclosing private location information to third parties; the easy and inclusive access through the use of a local captive portal; the option for anonymous interactions; and the materiality of the network itself. These characteristics can be exploited by designers to build locally owned and customized ICTs that encourage information sharing between strangers, promote conviviality, and empower citizens to claim their right to the (hybrid) city.

The roundtable is organized by a computer scientist, an urban planner and an artist who invite participants to 1) bring their own disciplinary or personal perspective in the study of hybrid space design using DIY networking, and 2) work in groups to design a few simple urban interventions for different imaginary or actual situations.

Panayotis Antoniadis, Senior Researcher, Communication Systems Group ETH Zürich, Switzerland

Internet governance now involves a range of processes including the settling of disputes and creation of norms far from enforcement practices and regulatory discussions engaged in normal “legitimate” legal forums.

The question then arises as to how this governance might be mapped or understood – including through algorithmic regulation – and what these new actors or processes might imply for further research on Internet governance and regulation. Panel members introduce three topics of importance in relation to Internet policy and governance:

1. The role of new actors in Internet governance, including civil society actors, individuals participating in campaigns, and intergovernmental organizations;
2. The role of algorithmic regulation in relation to policy decision-making;
3. Challenges in inter-disciplinary analysis of regulation/governance including Internet measurement ethics.

Read the EINS final report on regulation and governance

Chris Marsden, Professor of Internet & Media Law, University of Sussex, United Kingdom

Our Round table will explore ethical approaches on internet experimentation. We will explore ethical issues from case studies directly proposed by the participants looking at the different perspectives of the researchers, private companies, internet users and other data subjects. The aim is to find viable solutions to practical ethical dilemmas in experimental design. Some of the issues that will be addressed are: consent, legitimate interest, private/public research, censorship, value sensitive design, data protection, research ethics governance.

Luce Jacovella, Research Coordinator at Centre for Commercial Law Studies, Queen Mary University of London, United Kingdom

Bendert Zevenbergen, Doctor of Philosophy student and Research Assistant, Oxford Internet Institute, United Kingdom

One more hour to discuss the 3 main topics of this Open Day ! (Sessions are described above)

Chair: Athena Vakali, Professor, Aristote University of Thessaloniki, Greece

Each of the three round table chairs will present the main insights discussed in their session to all the audience. This session will be a short wrap up of:

Engaging citizens in the smart city project through DIY networking – Panayotis Antoniadis

Global Internet Governance Policy Architecture: Case studies and interdisciplinary research challenges – Chris Marsden

Internet Research Ethics: Striking a balance between conflicting interests – Luce Jacovella, Bendert Zevenbergen

Programme Introduction – Thanassis Tiropanis, Associate professor, University of Southampton, United Kingdom

Chair: Thanassis Tiropanis, Associate professor, University of Southampton, United Kingdom

Security and Intelligence Activities: Shift from Espionage to Surveillance – Motohiro Tsuchiya, Global Security Research Institute (G-SEC), Keio University, Japan

Technology innovation and its legal implications – Andrea M. Matwyshyn, Microsoft Visiting Professor, Center for Information Technology Policy, Princeton University, United States

Chair: Jonathan Cave, Senior lecturer in the Department of Economics, University of Warwick, United Kingdom

During this session, researchers will present and share their work on “Internet Science in Reflection”.

A Disciplinary Analysis of Internet Science – Clare J. Hooper, Bruna Neves and Georgeta Bordea

Analysing an academic field through the lenses of Internet Science: Digital Humanities as a Virtual Community – Almila Akdag Salah, Andrea Scharnhorst and Sally Wyatt

EINS Evidence Base: A Semantic Cataloguing for Internet Experimentation and Measurement – Xin Wang, Thanassis Tiropanis, Thanasis Papaioannou and Federico Morando

Living with Listening Services: Privacy and Control in IoT – Donald McMillan and Antoine Loriette

Chair: Laura Sartori, Associate Professor, University of Bologna, Italy

During this session, researchers will present and share their work on “Internet Science and Societal Challenges”.

Privacy and empowerment in connective media – Jo Pierson

Engaging with Charities On Social Media: Comparing interaction on Facebook and Twitter – Christopher Phethean, Thanassis Tiropanis, Lisa Harris

Empowering female-owned SMEs with ICT in selected Arab countries and Brazil – Mona Badran

#CELEBGATE: Methodological approaches to the 2014 celebrity photo hacks – Rebecca Fallon

Chair: Athena Vakali, Professor, Aristote University of Thessaloniki, Greece

Towards a new social compact for internet freedom – Marietje Schaake, Member of the European Parliament for the Dutch Democratic Party, Netherlands

Leveraging Internet/Web/Network Science(s) to address Grand Societal Challenges – Noshir Contractor, Science of Networks in Communities (SONIC) Research Group, Northwestern University, United States

Fabrizio Sestini, Senior Expert, Digital Social Innovation, DG CONNECT, European Commission

Closing remarks – Thanassis Tiropanis, Associate professor, University of Southampton, United Kingdom

Chair: Anna Satsiou, Senior Researcher in the Informatics and Telematics Institute (ITI), Center for Research and Technology Hellas

Who is a Data Controller? – Marcelo Thompson, Professor of Law, Law and Technology Centre at the Faculty of Law, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong

Is the internet the Internet? –Christian de Larrinaga, Founder of the Internet Society, United Kingdom

Chair: Franco Bagnoli, Researcher, University of Florence, Italy

During this session, researchers will present and share their work on “Internet & Innovation”.

Communication Forms and Digital Technologies in the Process of Collaborative Writing – Kaja Scheliga

Ethics of personalized information filtering – Ansgar Koene, Elvira Perez, Christopher James Carter, Ramona Statache, Svenja Adolphs, Claire O’Malley, Tom Rodden and Derek McAuley

IAA: Incentive-based Anonymous Authentication Scheme in Smart Grids – Zhiyuan Sui, Ammar Alyousef and Hermann de Meer

Mediated community from an intergroup perspective: A literature review – Vilma Lehtinen, Eeva Raita, Mikael Wahlström, Peter Peltonen and Airi Lampinen

Chair: Thanassis Tiropanis, Associate professor, University of Southampton, United Kingdom

This session is a panel discussion about the future of Internet Science and its distinct contribution. It is also about the expected contribution of Internet Science in the next 5 years and in Horizon 2020 as well as about synergies with Network Science, Data Science and Web Science.

Panelists:

Fabrizio Sestini, EINS scientific officer, DG CONNECT, European Commission

Chris Marsden, Professor of Internet & Media Law, University of Sussex, United Kingdom

Jonathan Cave, Senior lecturer in the Department of Economics, University of Warwick, United Kingdom

Kave Salamatian, Professor of Computer Science, University of Savoie, France

Laura Sartori, Associate Professor, University of Bologna, Italy

Chair: Laura Sartori, Associate Professor, University of Bologna, Italy

During this session, the best selected paper (co-)written by a student will be rewarded with a 500€ gift-cheque.

Mario Campolargo, Director, Net Futures, DG CONNECT, European Commission

Thanassis Tiropanis, Associate professor, University of Southampton, United Kingdom