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    Feminist Cyberlaw

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    This vibrant and visionary reimagining of the field of cyberlaw through a feminist lens brings together emerging and established scholars and practitioners to explore how gender, race, sexuality, disability, class, and the intersections of these identities affect cyberspace and the laws that govern it. It promises to build a movement of scholars whose work charts a near future where cyberlaw is informed by feminism. “This intellectually exciting collection seamlessly draws together highly original research and reflections on the perils and potential of technology—and imagines the digital futures that might be possible if we heed the insights of feminist scholars.” — ALONDRA NELSON, Institute for Advanced Study “An indispensable resource for legal scholars and practitioners alike attempting to understand how the internet could live up to its true democratic ideals.” — IFEOMA AJUNWA, author of The Quantified Worker: Law and Technology in the Modern Workplace “A welcome and brilliant collection that we need now more than ever. Expertly showing how rules for digital technologies have always been about bodies, social dynamics, and power, these contributions provide an urgent and compelling demonstration of how cyberlaw often loses the thread—and of how to do better.” — WOODROW HARTZOG, author of Privacy’s Blueprint: The Battle to Control the Design of New Technologies “Scholarly yet engaging, broad in scope yet cogent in argument, and critical yet hopeful. A must‑read.”—ARI EZRA WALDMAN, author of Industry Unbound: The Inside Story of Privacy, Data, and Corporate Powe

    Feminist Cyberlaw

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    This vibrant and visionary reimagining of the field of cyberlaw through a feminist lens brings together emerging and established scholars and practitioners to explore how gender, race, sexuality, disability, class, and the intersections of these identities affect cyberspace and the laws that govern it. It promises to build a movement of scholars whose work charts a near future where cyberlaw is informed by feminism. “This intellectually exciting collection seamlessly draws together highly original research and reflections on the perils and potential of technology—and imagines the digital futures that might be possible if we heed the insights of feminist scholars.” — ALONDRA NELSON, Institute for Advanced Study “An indispensable resource for legal scholars and practitioners alike attempting to understand how the internet could live up to its true democratic ideals.” — IFEOMA AJUNWA, author of The Quantified Worker: Law and Technology in the Modern Workplace “A welcome and brilliant collection that we need now more than ever. Expertly showing how rules for digital technologies have always been about bodies, social dynamics, and power, these contributions provide an urgent and compelling demonstration of how cyberlaw often loses the thread—and of how to do better.” — WOODROW HARTZOG, author of Privacy’s Blueprint: The Battle to Control the Design of New Technologies “Scholarly yet engaging, broad in scope yet cogent in argument, and critical yet hopeful. A must‑read.”—ARI EZRA WALDMAN, author of Industry Unbound: The Inside Story of Privacy, Data, and Corporate Powe

    Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis

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    The present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed

    Variations on the Author

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    “Variations on the Author” discusses two of Eduardo Coutinho’s recent films (Um Dia na Vida, from 2010, and Últimas Conversas, posthumously released in 2015) and their contribution to the general question of documentary authorship. The director’s filmography is characterized by a consistent yet self-effacing form of authorial self-inscription: Coutinho often features as an interviewer that rather than express opinions propels discourses; an interviewer that is good at listening. This mode of self-inscription characterizes him as an author who is not expressive but who is nonetheless markedly present on the screen. In Um Dia na Vida, however, Coutinho is completely absent form the image, while Últimas Conversas, on the contrary, includes a confessional prologue that moves the director from the margins to the center of his films. This article examines the ways in which these works stand out in the filmography of a director who offers new insights into the notion of cinematic authorship

    Appropriate Similarity Measures for Author Cocitation Analysis

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    We provide a number of new insights into the methodological discussion about author cocitation analysis. We first argue that the use of the Pearson correlation for measuring the similarity between authors’ cocitation profiles is not very satisfactory. We then discuss what kind of similarity measures may be used as an alternative to the Pearson correlation. We consider three similarity measures in particular. One is the well-known cosine. The other two similarity measures have not been used before in the bibliometric literature. Finally, we show by means of an example that our findings have a high practical relevance.information science;Pearson correlation;cosine;similarity measure;author cocitation analysis

    Constructing AI Speech

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    Artificial Intelligence (AI) systems such as ChatGPT can now produce convincingly human speech, at scale. It is tempting to ask whether such AI-generated content “disrupts” the law. That, we claim, is the wrong question. It characterizes the law as inherently reactive, rather than proactive, and fails to reveal how what may look like “disruption” in one area of the law is business as usual in another. We challenge the prevailing notion that technology inherently disrupts law, proposing instead that law and technology co-construct each other in a dynamic interplay reflective of societal priorities and political power. This Essay instead deploys and expounds upon the method of “legal construction of technology.” By removing the blinders of technological determinism and instead performing legal construction of technology, legal scholars and policymakers can more effectively ensure that the integration of AI systems into society aligns with key values and legal principles. Legal construction of technology, as we perform it, consists of examining the ways in which the law’s objects, values, and institutions constitute legal sensemaking of new uses of technology. For example, the First Amendment governs “speech” and “speakers” toward a number of theoretical goals, largely through the court system. This leads to a particular set of puzzles, such as the fact that AI systems are not human speakers with human intent. But other areas of the law construct AI systems very differently. Content-moderation law regulates communications platforms and networks toward the goals of balancing harms against free speech and innovation; risk regulation, increasingly being deployed to regulate AI systems, regulates risky complex systems toward the ends of mitigating both physical and dignitary harms; and consumer-protection law regulates businesses and consumers toward the goals of maintaining fair and efficient markets. In none of these other legal constructions of AI is AI’s lack of human intent a problem. By going through each example in turn, this Essay aims to demonstrate the benefits of looking at AI-generated content through the lens of legal construction of technology, instead of asking whether the technology disrupts the law. We aim, too, to convince policymakers and scholars of the benefits of the method: it is descriptively accurate, yields concrete policy revelations, and can in practice be deeply empowering for policymakers and scholars alike. AI systems do not in some abstract sense disrupt the law. Under a values-driven rather than technology-driven approach to technology policy, the law can do far more than just react
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