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A Refreshing Perspective of Search Engine Caching by Berkant Barla Cambazoglu, Flavio Junqueira, Vassilis Plachouras, Scott Banachowski, Baoqiu Cui, Swee Lim, and Bill Bridge.

INDEXING AND CACHING: Thursday, 3:30PM – 5:00PM, Room 302B

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Object Views: Fine-Grained Sharing in Browsers by Leo Meyerovich and Adrienne Felt (University of California at Berkeley).

BROWSERS 1: Thursday, 1:30PM – 3:00PM, Room 302C

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Factorizing Personalized Markov Chains for Next-Basket Recommendation by Steffen Rendle (Osaka University), Christoph Freudenthaler, and Lars Schmidt-Thieme (University of Hildesheim).

PERSONALIZATION: Thursday, 1:30PM – 3:00PM, Room 302B

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A Contextual Bandit Approach to Personalized News Article Recommendation by Lihong Li, Wei Chu, John Langford (Yahoo! Research) and Robert Schapire (Princeton University).

PERSONALIZATION: Thursday, 1:30PM – 3:00PM, Room 302B

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Selecting Skyline Services for QoS-based Web Service Composition by Mohammad Alrifai, Dimitrios Skoutas and Thomas Risse (L3S Research Center).

SERVICES 1: Thursday, 10:30AM – 12:00PM, Room 302A

Thursday, 9:00–10:00 AM, Ballroom A

danah boyd

With brilliant repetition, an argument is espoused every few years that privacy is now finally dead because of some new web practice. Recently, Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg justified his company’s decision to switch defaults to “everyone” with the logic that the youngest generation no longer cares about privacy. Similarly, Google’s Eric Schmidt claimed, “If you have something that you don’t want anyone to know, maybe you shouldn’t be doing it in the first place.” These arguments are espoused by the most privileged technologists like clockwork.

Amidst this public discourse, individuals are battling out what it means to navigate an ever-shifting public landscape, carving out privacy in ways that are meaningful to them. In doing so, they highlight the complex and intertwined ways in which privacy and publicity operate.

In this talk, I will use various Web 2.0 and social media sites as foils for thinking about how privacy is baked into technology before turning to the practices of people as they seek to make sense of these spaces. I will lay out how we’ve moved from a “private by default, public through effort” culture to one that is now “public by default, private through effort.” I will consider the differences between PII (personally identifiable information) and PEI (personally embarrassing information) to discuss how privacy debates are necessarily shifting. Finally, I will look at the practices of celebrities and micro-celebrities, groups that are seeking publicity in new ways through mediated technologies. Woven into this analysis will be a discussion of youth practices, as their norms and expectations are shaping how privacy and publicity are playing out.

Privacy is not dead, but it is deeply misunderstood. The goal of my talk will be to provide a framework for understanding how privacy and publicity are changing and the implications that this has for designers, developers, scholars, and participants. Read the rest of this entry »

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Privacy Wizards for Social Networking Sites by Lujun Fang and Kristen LeFevre (University of Michigan).

PRIVACY: Wednesday, 4:00PM – 5:30PM, Room 305A.

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AdHeat: An Influence-based Diffusion Model for Propagating Hints to Match Ads by Hongji Bao and Ed Chang (Google).

INTERNET MONETIZATION 1: Wednesday, 4:00PM – 5:30PM, Room 305B

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Time is of the Essence: Improving Recency Ranking Using Twitter Data by Anlei Dong, Ruiqiang Zhang, Pranam Kolari, Bai Jing, Yi Chang, Fernando Diaz, Zhaohui Zheng (Yahoo! Labs) and Hongyuan Zha (Georgia Institute of Technology).

RANKING 2: Wednesday, 4:00PM – 5:30PM, Room 302A

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Reining in the Web with Content Security Policy by Sid Stamm, Brandon Sterne and Gervase Markham (Mozilla Foundation).

PRIVACY: Wednesday, 4:00PM – 5:30PM, Room 305A