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CIM's Matt Spencer has published two new open access papers exploring interdisciplinarity in cyber security.

The first, in the conference proceedings for the New Security Paradigms Workshop (NSPW), explores opportunities to bring a sociological framing to bear on security economics; the second, in Information, Communication and Society introduces a Special Issue focused on 'the fix' as a trope for interdisciplinary cyber security.

Carla Washbourne (Centre for Interdisciplinary Methodologies) and collaborators from University College London and Hong Kong University of Science and Technology have published a new article in Data & Policy: "Behavioural perspectives on personal health data sharing and app design: an international survey study".

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Carlos C谩mara-Menoyo, Fangzhou Zhang (Centre for Interdisciplinary Methodologies) and Nathaniel Tkacz (Goldsmiths, University of London), have coauthored a new article "Eventful migration: Rethinking social media migration with help from Elon Musk鈥檚 sink".

Based on an extensive literature review on social media migration, and empirical data drawing on a survey of Mastodon users after the Twitter's acquisition by Elon Musk in 2022, and social media analysis, the authors propose a new theory of eventful migration. This eventful migration theory widens the conceptual scope for how to approach SocialMedia Migration in ways that more directly tie such movements to specific questions of power, agency and events that ripple through digital cultures. They do so by shifting from pull-push factors to eventfulness, which they divide into five components: (1) X factor; (2) critical voice; (3) collective platform consciousness; (4) migration; and (5) terrain transformation.

The Governor of Santiago, Claudio Orrego, has launched the result of a year-long study by LSE Cities to improve urban policy design and delivery of Chile鈥檚 leading metropolitan region. CIM's Carla Washbourne contributed to this study as an international urban expert in the LSE Santiago Urban Age Task Force. Read more here:

A new paper from CIM member Carlos C谩mara-Menoyo along with Joanna Suchomska, Wojciech Goszczy艅ski, Pia Laborgne, Andrea Pierce, Micha艂 Wr贸blewski, Jo茫o Porto de Albuquerque and Simon Jirka has just been published in Gateways: International Journal of Community Research and Engagement. The paper expands on the work made at Creating Interfaces project and complements the by focussing on the lessons learnt on food procurement through the implementation of an Urban Living Lab methodology.

Abstract:

This article presents a case study on the experimental co-creation process of a digital platform supporting Sustainable Public Food Procurement (SPFP) in public kindergartens in a medium-sized city in Poland. The organisation of SPFP requires a dedicated technological infrastructure to ensure the information flow among food producers, kindergarten employees, children and parents. To this end, a digital platform was designed to enable contact, assessment of food quality and food procurement environmental impact, and the communication of needs and problems among all the actors involved in the food procurement system for kindergartens. The article also discusses the results of the field research and the method of Urban Living Labs, highlighting the key challenges faced by those seeking to combine knowledge about food and the natural environment with public food procurement. The principal difficulties include the availability, accessibility and possible application of data on the environmental costs of food production, the individualisation of needs and motivations related to public catering in educational facilities, and the specific nature of the public sector responsible for public food procurement.

The 鈥楽caling Trust鈥� project is a UKRI Future Leaders鈥� Fellowship examining trust in the cyber security profession. As the initial period of funding comes to an end, CIM academics Matt Spencer and Daniele Pizio have published two policy papers that engage with current challenges in cyber security.

鈥樷�� is a report by Matt Spencer, published through the Research Institute for Sociotechnical Cyber Security (RISCS). It provides a series of recommendations for moving technology assurance policy away from prescriptive standards, and towards the new 鈥榞oal-based鈥� approach that has become influential in cyber policy.

鈥�Deperimeterising Zero Trust: Challenging metaphors in information security鈥� is a policy brief by Matt Spencer and Daniele Pizio, part of the University of 糖心TV鈥檚 Policy Briefing Series. It examines current challenges with the trend towards a 鈥榋ero Trust鈥� paradigm for information security, and draws conclusions aimed at industry, government and academia.

A new paper from CIM members Carlos C谩mara-Menoyo and Greg McInerny, along with Jo茫o Porto de Albuquerque, Joanna Suchomska and Grant Tregonning has just been published in Environmental Science and Policy

The paper, "Co-designing grounded visualisations of the Food-Water-Energy nexus to enable urban sustainability transformations" tackles a particularly significant knowledge gap in the Food-Water-Energy nexus by presenting the experience, decisions and lessons learnt from the co-design process of an interactive tool to visualise these complex interrelations for a particular case: food choices in kindergartens in Poland.

To make the FWE nexus understandable and actionable for the various stakeholders, our approach had two distinctive features: 1) grounding the FWE nexus following a pedagogical/Freirean approach that connects to lived experiences and problematises frames of references to activate transformation; and 2) the use of data visualisations to critically enquiry and learn about the nexus. The combination of these features resulted in data visualisations that 鈥済round鈥� FWE nexus by connecting to lived experiences and problematising frames of references to open transformation pathways.

The outcomes demonstrate a shift in perspectives towards the FWE Nexus that resulted from the design process and the interaction with our visualisation tool. Although further investigation is needed, we see it as a first step to opening new data-enabled transformation pathways to sustainability, not only through improved individual choices, but also by enabling new collective action, change of policies and organisational procedures, as well as new governance arrangements.

Here is a commentary from Meg Davis and co-authors for the somewhat glossy publication, Health: A Political Choice – From Fragmentation to Integration: https://bit.ly/hapc23

The magazine will be published at the World Health Summit, in Berlin, 15–17 October.

Meg's article is "Alternative Futures for Digital Health"

New paper! In 'Creative Malfunction: Finding Fault with Rowhammer, CIM's Matt Spencer examines one of the most significant hardware vulnerabilities of recent years for what it tells us about the nature of repair and transformation in computational systems. http://computationalculture.net/creative-malfunction-finding-fault-with-rowhammer

Click here, to find out more about the new chapter by Pablo Velasco Gonz谩lez and Nathaniel Tkacz in the Handbook of Peer Production