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Call for interest in Panel for AoIR16 (Berlin) on Instagram
by Jakob Svensson 05 Dec '15

05 Dec '15

Instagram - the new(isn) kid on the social media bloc For the AoIR 2016 we, Jakob Svensson (Uppsala University, Sweden) and Uta Russmann (FHWien University of Applied Sciences, Vienna, Austria), are putting together a panel proposal on Instagram and its relevance in today's communication. We are looking for colleagues who have also started to explore Instagram. Please contact us (jakob.svensson(a)im.uu.se; uta.russmann(a)fh-wien.ac.at) if you are interested. Kindly/ Vänligen Jakob Svensson ____________________________________ PhD, Media and Communication Studies Department of Informatics and Media Uppsala University Kyrkogårdsgatan 10 Box 513 751 20 Uppsala Sweden + 46 (0) 18 4711027

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CfP:: 2016 International Conference on Social Media & Society (#SMSociety) - London, UK - July 11-13, 2016
by Anatoliy 05 Dec '15

05 Dec '15

Apologies for cross-postings. ********************************************************* 2016 International Conference on Social Media & Society (#SMSociety) CALL FOR PROPOSALS WHEN: July 11-13, 2016 WHERE: Goldsmiths, University of London, UK SUBMISSION DEADLINES: Dec 23, 2015(extended!): Workshops/Tutorials/Panels Jan 15, 2016: Full & WIP Papers Mar 4, 2016: Poster Abstracts Conference website: http://socialmediaandsociety.org/submit/ Data, data everywhere. With faster computers and cheaper storage, bigger data sets are becoming abundant. Social media is a key source of big data in the form of user and system generated content. What do we do with all of the social data and how do we make sense of it? How does the use of social media platforms and the data that they generate change us, our organizations, and our society? What are the inherent challenges and issues associated with working with social media data? What obligations do we have as social media researchers to protect the privacy of the users? These are just a few questions that will be explored at the 2016 International Conference on Social Media & Society (#SMSociety). Now, in its 7th year, the conference is an interdisciplinary academic conference focusing exclusively on social media research. The conference brings together top researchers and practitioners from academia and industry who are interested in studying and understanding social media impact and implications on society. This year's conference offers an intensive three-day program comprising of workshops, tutorials, paper presentations, panel discussions, and posters covering wide-ranging topics related to social media research. PUBLISHING OPPORTUNITIES: Full papers presented at the conference will be published in the Conference Proceedings by ACM International Conference Proceeding Series (ICPS). All accepted papers (full and WIP) will also be invited to submit their extended papers to Special Issues of Big Data & Society (BD&S) and American Behavioral Scientist (ABS) published by SAGE Publications. TRAVEL FUNDING OPPORTUNITY: 2016 ISRF Early Career Researcher Essay Competition (http://bit.ly/sms16ISRF ) ORGANIZER: Social Media Lab at the Ted Rogers School of Management, Ryerson University, Canada HOSTS & CO-ORGANIZERS: Big Data & Society Journal (BD&S) and the Centre for Creative & Social Technologies (CAST) at Goldsmiths, University of London, UK TOPIC OF INTERESTS: Social Media & Big Data . Data Visualization . Analytics & Data Mining . Scalability Issues . APIs . Data Curation . Virality & Memes . Big and Small Data . Ethics . Privacy, Surveillance, & Security Social Media Impact on Society . Politics . Journalism . Sports . Health . Public Administration . Business (Marketing, PR, HR, Risk Management, etc.) . Sharing Economy / Crowdsourcing . Academia (Alternative Metrics, Learning Analytics, etc.) . Mobile Theories & Methods . Qualitative Approaches . Quantitative Approaches . Opinion Mining & Sentiment Analysis . Social Network Analysis . Theoretical Models Online / Offline Communities . Case Studies of Online or Offline Communities . Trust & Credibility . Online Community Detection . Measuring Influence . Online Identity (Gender, Private Self/Public Self) 2016 #SMSociety Organizing Committee: Anatoliy Gruzd & Philip Mai, Ryerson University, Canada Jenna Jacobson, University of Toronto, Canada Dhiraj Murthy & Evelyn Ruppert, Goldsmiths, University of London, UK 2016 #SMSociety Conference Advisor: Barry Wellman, University of Toronto, Canada

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CFP: Workshop on Web Education: Teaching Digital Literacies
by Marie Joan Kristine Gloria 04 Dec '15

04 Dec '15

Dear AoIR members - For those interested, we will be hosting a Web Education: Teaching Digital Literacies <http://www.web-education-workshop.net/relevance-motivation/>Workshop at the WWW 2016 Conference <http://www2016.ca/> in Montreal, Canada (April 2016). This type of discussion will be the first for this venue as it is traditionally a more technical (e.g. CS-driven) conference. However, we would like to extend the call to a broader community of academics, practitioners, activists, industry, etc., outside of CS. Details below. If you have any questions, please do note hesitate to contact me directly. Many thanks, Kristine -- Kristine Gloria Visiting Researcher at the Internet Policy Research Initiative at MIT-CSAIL Ph.D. Student, Cognitive Science at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute CTSP Fellow - UC Berkeley @gloriakt gVoice: (562) 448-2697 ****CALL FOR CONTRIBUTIONS *** Download it <http://www.web-education-workshop.net/wp-content/uploads/2015/11/WEW2016-ca…> and submit your paper or poster proposal before *Jan. 15th 2016.* *Relevance*This workshop is the first Web Education / Digital Literacies workshop to be held at a WWW Conference. The dynamics of Web Education and Digital Literacies are among today’s most important issues surrounding the development of the Web as an efficient, safe and universal information system. Too often Web education is understood as teaching web technologies or development techniques. However, teaching the Web itself in all its various aspects has become essential to our understanding of the role of the Web in every dimension of human activity and developing better understandings of its mechanisms for the user. A wide range of disciplines including sociology, economics, political studies, health and management science have integrated courses and specializations to teach the Web, its nature, its realities, its impact its evolution and its integration into every dimension of human activity. We are keen to encourage a very broad community of participants. Whether you are a professor involved in digital literacy programs or courses, a consultant empowering employees in a company, a student or faculty in an interdisciplinary program or an activist in an NGO teaching the Web to kids, you’re invited to submit your proposals to be presented at the Web Education Workshop. *Objectives* - Reflect on the current state of Web Education and digital literacy teaching initiatives in the world - Identify the variety of practices in Web Education across different countries, contexts and educational systems - Find coherence between different approaches to Web Science education - Identify key objectives for this community of practice and establish a roadmap for future activities

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Reminder: CFP - Archives Unleashed - Dec. 7 Deadline
by Matthew Weber 04 Dec '15

04 Dec '15

http://archivesunleashed.ca <http://archivesunleashed.ca/> Robarts Library, University of Toronto 3-5 March 2016 Travel grants available for graduate students, postdoctoral fellows, and contingent faculty Applications due 4 December 2015 The World Wide Web has a profound impact on how we research and understand the past. The sheer amount of cultural information that is generated and, crucially, preserved every day in electronic form, presents exciting new opportunities for researchers. Much of this information is captured within web archives. Web archives often contain hundreds of billions of web pages, ranging from individual homepages and social media posts, to institutional websites. These archives offer tremendous potential for social scientists and humanists, and the questions research may pose stretch across a multitude of fields. Scholars broaching topics dating back to the mid-1990s will find their projects enhanced by web data. Moreover, scholars hoping to study the evolution of cultural and societal phenomena will find a treasure trove of data in web archives. In short, web archives offer the ability to reconstruct large-scale traces of the relatively recent past. While there has been considerable discussion about web archive tools and datasets, few forums or mechanisms for coordinated, mutually informing development efforts have been created. This hackathon presents an opportunity to collaboratively unleash our web collections, exploring cutting-edge research tools while fostering a broad-based consensus on future directions in web archive analysis. This hackathon will bring together a small group of 20-30 participants to collaboratively develop new open-source tools and approaches to hackathon, and to kick-off collaboratively inspired research projects. Researchers should be comfortable with command line interactions, and knowledge of a scripting language such as Python strongly desired. By bringing together a group of like-minded scholars and programmers, we hope to begin building unified analytic production effort and to continue coalescing this nascent research community. At this event, we hope to converge on a shared vision of future directions in the use of web archives for inquiry in the humanities and social sciences in order to build a community of practice around various web archive analytics platforms and tools. Thanks to the generous support of the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada, the University of Waterloo, the University of Toronto, Rutgers University, the University of Québec in Outaouais, the Internet Archive, Library and Archives Canada, and Compute Canada, we will cover all meals and refreshments for attendees. We are also providing sample datasets for people to work on during the hackathon, or they are happy to use their own. Included datasets are: – the .gov web archive covering the American government domain; – the Government of Canada web archive from Library and Archives Canada; – the Canadian Political Parties and Political Interest Groups web archive from the University of Toronto. Those interested in participating should send a 250-word expression of interest and a CV to Ian Milligan (i2millig(a)uwaterloo.ca <mailto:i2millig@uwaterloo.ca><mailto:i2millig@uwaterloo.ca <mailto:i2millig@uwaterloo.ca>>) by 7 December 2015. This expression of interest should address the scholarly questions that you will be bringing to the hackathon, and what datasets you might be interested in either working with or bringing to the event. Applicants will be notified by 18 December 2015.

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2nd CfP: CSCW 2016 Workshop: Developing a Research Agenda for Human-Centered Data Science
by Cecilia Aragon 04 Dec '15

04 Dec '15

[Our apologies if you receive multiple copies of this CfP] ---------------------------------- CALL FOR PAPERS/PARTICIPATION: One-day Workshop on *Developing a Research Agenda for Human-Centered Data Science* in conjunction with CSCW 2016 http://cscw.acm.org/2016/ Sunday, February 28th, 2016 San Francisco, CA, USA Workshop Website: https://cscw2016hcds.wordpress.com/ ---------------------------------- Important dates: - 11th December 2015: Submission of Position Papers - 18th January 2016: Notification of acceptance - 25th January 2016: Camera-ready version - 28th February 2016: Workshop at CSCW 2016 ---------------------------------- TOPIC: The study and analysis of large and complex data sets offer a wealth of insights in a variety of applications. Computational approaches provide researchers access to broad assemblages of data, but the insights extracted may lack the rich detail that qualitative approaches have brought to the understanding of sociotechnical phenomena. How do we preserve the richness associated with traditional qualitative methods while utilizing the power of large data sets? How do we uncover social nuances or consider ethics and values in data use? These and other questions are explored by human-centered data science, an emerging field at the intersection of human-computer interaction (HCI), computer-supported cooperative work (CSCW), human computation, and the statistical and computational techniques of data science. This workshop, the first of its kind at CSCW, seeks to bring together researchers interested inhuman-centered approaches to data science to collaborate, define a research agenda, and form a community. PARTICIPATION: This workshop provides a venue for attendees to discuss a variety of topics in human-centered data science. We welcome researchers interested in exploring how data-driven and qualitative research can be integrated to address complex questions in a diverse range of areas, including but not limited to social computing, urban, health, or crisis informatics, scientific, business, policy, technical, and other fields. Researchers and practitioners working with large data sets (“big data”) and/or qualitative data sets looking to expand their methodological toolbox are invited to participate and share their experiences while learning from the broader community. Topics and themes of interest include, but are not limited to: - Deep ethnographic methods: How do we preserve the richness of traditional qualitative techniques in data science? - Scaling up qualitative data analysis: How do we deal with ever growing qualitative datasets? - Quantitative and behavioral methods: How are quantitative and behavioral methods related to data mining, machine learning, and qualitative methods? - Connecting across levels of analysis: How can we integrate the analysis of personal data with large-scale data? - Ethics and values of data use: What ethical questions should we raise in using large-scale online data? - Privacy of data use: How can we preserve anonymity and privacy within data ecosystems that can easily expose users? - Human-centered algorithm design: How do we design machine learning algorithms tailored for human use and understanding? - Understanding community data: How can we integrate knowledge gained about communities from their aggregate social data as well as their personal experiences? - Health and well-being at micro and macro scales: What understandings can be exposed or occluded by aggregate or granular perspectives on health and well-being? SUBMISSION: Please submit a position paper (from 2 to 4 pages in the CSCW ACM sigCHI EA format – see http://www.sigchi.org/publications/chipubform/sigchi-extended-abstracts-for…) by 11th December 2015 to hcds.cscw2016(a)gmail.com The submissions will be reviewed by the organizers with support of other researchers in a dedicated program committee and selected according to their potential to contribute to the workshop topic and to foster discussion. All accepted contributions (notifications will be sent out by 18 January 2016) will be made available on the website to allow participants to prepare for the workshop. The organizers may consider the publication of revised versions of accepted papers as part of a special issue in a CSCW related journal. ORGANIZERS: Cecilia Aragon, University of Washington. CJ Hutto, Georgia Institute of Technology. Yun Huang, Syracuse University. Wanli Xing, University of Missouri. Gina Neff, University of Washington. Jinyoung Kim, University of Maryland, College Park. Andy Echenique, University of California, San Diego and San Diego Supercomputer Center. Joseph Bayer, University of Michigan. Brittany Fiore-Gartland, University of Washington. CONTACT: For more details, check the workshop website: https://cscw2016hcds.wordpress.com/ For any further information on the workshop please contact hcds.cscw2016(a)gmail.com -- Cecilia R. Aragon, Associate Professor Department of Human Centered Design & Engineering, University of Washington Senior Data Science Fellow, eScience Institute 407A Sieg Hall, Box 352315, Seattle, WA 98195 USA http://faculty.washington.edu/aragon

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FW: CFP "Dislocations and Cultural Conflicts: Migrations, Diaspora, Terrorism, Borders (MDTB)"
by Loreta Georgievska - Jakovleva 04 Dec '15

04 Dec '15

Dear colleagues, I'd like to take this opportunity to pass along the call for papers for the CCCS 2016 Conference "Dislocations and Cultural Conflicts: Migrations, Diaspora, Terrorism, Borders (MDTB)" which will occur in September 2016 in Skopje, Macedonia. Please see the info below Best regards, Prof. Loreta Georgievska - Jakovleva Centre for Culture and Cultural Studies (CCCS) Call for Papers and Panel Proposals Fourth Annual International CCCS Conference 2016: "Dislocations and Cultural Conflicts: Migrations, Diaspora, Terrorism, Borders (MDTB)" September 1-3, 2016, Skopje, Republic of Macedonia Deadline for submitting abstracts: March 15, 2016 Deadline for submitting full papers: December 15, 2016 For additional information please contact organizers on email conference(a)cultcenter.net <mailto:conference@cultcenter.net> or visit conference site http://cultcenter.net/

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CFP - New Media New Intimacies
by Katherine Anne Blackburn Harrison 04 Dec '15

04 Dec '15

Dear all, Please find below a call for chapter abstracts for a new book provisionally titled "New Media – New Intimacies: Connectivities, relationalities, proximities". Deadline for 200 word abstracts is December 20th. I'd be happy to talk more about it with anyone who might be interested in contributing...and I'd be very grateful if you would share this with your wider networks. Many thanks and best wishes Katherine Katherine Harrison, PhD Department of Media, Cognition and Communication University of Copenhagen Karen Blixens Vej 4 DK-2300 Copenhagen S Denmark email: tjx856(a)hum.ku.dk Invitation to contribute to scholarly volume on New Media and Intimacies Call for abstracts We hereby invite contributions to a new volume of critical articles, provisionally titled: New Media – New Intimacies: Connectivities, relationalities, proximities Editors: Rikke Andreassen, Katherine Harrison, Michael Nebeling Petersen and Tobias Raun Deadline for abstract submission: 20 December 2015 New media are increasingly intersecting and intertwined with our daily lives, bodily and intimate practices, and relationships. This volume will investigate how different new media enable and/or produce new intimacies, as well as how practices and understandings of intimacy are both embedded in digitally mediated communication and generate innovative uses or forms of new media. We welcome contributions which address the mediatization and the affordances of new media as equally important as the production and practices of intimacies. We call for theoretical articles as well as empirically-based case studies that investigate the co-constitution and connection of new media and new intimacies. We invite contributions that explore various media sites and forms, including (but not limited to) social medias (characterized by user generated content, participation, interactivity, community), digital medias, online medias and mobile devices. And we invite contributions investigating various intimacies, that could be intimate and/or affective encounters, relationalities, practices, belongings, desires, proximities, kinships, friendships, or communities, as well as online and /or digital affective intensities, viralities, and connectivities. Contributions analysing the bodily and intimate doing of technology, and contributions questioning the boundaries between body, media, technology and affectivity are particularly welcomed. We encourage contributions that pay attention to the cultural, social, and historical context of the interrelation between intimacies, media affordances and media technologies. We are also interested in contributions that specifically address and unfold intimacy as a prism for understanding a shifting mediascape. Proposed publisher for this volume is Routledge, as part of the Routledge Studies in European Communication Research and Education Series under ECREA (European Communication Research and Education Association). Alternatively, it will be published by similar international and well-reputed publisher. Please send your abstract to: newmedianewintimacies(a)gmail.com. Abstracts should be 200 words long and written in English. Please include your name, title, and affiliation. Please also indicate whether you are a member of ECREA. It is not necessary to be a member of ECREA to contribute but we would need to know which of the contributors are members. Deadline for submission of abstracts: Dec. 20, 2015. If accepted, final versions of chapters should be approximately 8000 words long, written in English, and, where appropriate, feature supplementary illustrations. Further instructions will be supplied to accepted authors.

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CFP: Geographies of Interruption: Body, Location, and Experience
by Anderson, Joel Neville 03 Dec '15

03 Dec '15

Geographies of Interruption: Body, Location, and Experience The 23rd Annual Susan B. Anthony Institute for Gender and Women’s Studies International Graduate Conference Keynote Speaker: Jasbir Puar Associate Professor of Women’s and Gender Studies, Rutgers University April 8, 2016 University of Rochester Rochester, NY http://www.rochester.edu/college/wst/grad/conf2016.html Each year, a diverse group of participants gather in Rochester, NY for a graduate conference held by the Susan B. Anthony Institute for Gender and Women’s Studies. This conference aims to foster an environment of interdisciplinary communication, knowledge exchange, and collaboration. We take geography to be the practice and process of mapping bodies, spaces, and experiences. In particular, we hope to inspire questions concerning the interruptions of such geographies, especially those relating to gender and sexuality. Such questions might include, but are not limited to: * How does social, bodily, and geographical mobility complicate the mapping of spaces and bodies? * How do media forms constitute counter-geographies? * Does sharing a photo of a fallen Syrian refugee on one’s Facebook timeline intervene in a meaningful way? * In what ways are sexed and/or sexualized bodies mapped into conceptions of (trans)nationality? * How might race and class interrupt and problematize feminist and queer geography? * What are the affective ramifications of contemporary or historical forms of segregation? * How do gendered perceptions of bodies in pain affect medical treatment or scales of pain? * How does web mapping (e.g. Google Maps) reproduce or resist the gendered, classed, and racial power dynamics of prior methods of mapping? * What are the gendered biases of computer coding languages? We invite graduate students from all disciplines to submit research on questions related to the conference theme and especially in response to the keynote speaker’s research. In addition to more traditional scholarship, we encourage creative interpretations of this year’s theme, performances, and collaborative presentations. Submission Details: Please send a 300-word abstract to the graduate organizing committee at SBAI2016conf(a)gmail.com<mailto:SBAI2016conf@gmail.com> as a Word or PDF document, including name, institutional affiliation, email address, a brief biographical statement, and a list of any equipment needed for your presentation. Presentations will be 20 minutes. Submissions are due no later than February 2, 2016. You will receive the committee’s decision by mid-February.

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CFP: Geographies of Interruption: Body, Location, and Experience (23rd Annual Susan B. Anthony Institute for Gender and Women’s Studies International Graduate Conference, University of Rochester)
by Anderson, Joel Neville 03 Dec '15

03 Dec '15

Geographies of Interruption: Body, Location, and Experience The 23rd Annual Susan B. Anthony Institute for Gender and Women’s Studies International Graduate Conference Keynote Speaker: Jasbir Puar Associate Professor of Women’s and Gender Studies, Rutgers University April 8, 2016 University of Rochester Rochester, NY http://www.rochester.edu/college/wst/grad/conf2016.html Each year, a diverse group of participants gather in Rochester, NY for a graduate conference held by the Susan B. Anthony Institute for Gender and Women’s Studies. This conference aims to foster an environment of interdisciplinary communication, knowledge exchange, and collaboration. We take geography to be the practice and process of mapping bodies, spaces, and experiences. In particular, we hope to inspire questions concerning the interruptions of such geographies, especially those relating to gender and sexuality. Such questions might include, but are not limited to: * How does social, bodily, and geographical mobility complicate the mapping of spaces and bodies? * How do media forms constitute counter-geographies? * Does sharing a photo of a fallen Syrian refugee on one’s Facebook timeline intervene in a meaningful way? * In what ways are sexed and/or sexualized bodies mapped into conceptions of (trans)nationality? * How might race and class interrupt and problematize feminist and queer geography? * What are the affective ramifications of contemporary or historical forms of segregation? * How do gendered perceptions of bodies in pain affect medical treatment or scales of pain? * How does web mapping (e.g. Google Maps) reproduce or resist the gendered, classed, and racial power dynamics of prior methods of mapping? * What are the gendered biases of computer coding languages? We invite graduate students from all disciplines to submit research on questions related to the conference theme and especially in response to the keynote speaker’s research. In addition to more traditional scholarship, we encourage creative interpretations of this year’s theme, performances, and collaborative presentations. Submission Details: Please send a 300-word abstract to the graduate organizing committee at SBAI2016conf(a)gmail.com<mailto:SBAI2016conf@gmail.com> as a Word or PDF document, including name, institutional affiliation, email address, a brief biographical statement, and a list of any equipment needed for your presentation. Presentations will be 20 minutes. Submissions are due no later than February 2, 2016. You will receive the committee’s decision by mid-February.

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Defending Human Rights in a Digital Age (II) - 8 Dec, 6:30PM at Goldsmiths (London)
by Elinor Carmi 03 Dec '15

03 Dec '15

Hi everyone, Please join us to the second edition of Defending Human Rights in a Digital Age! When: Tuesday, 8 December 2015, at 6:30-9:00 PM. Where: Goldsmiths, University of London. Lower Ground Floor Lecture Theatre 1 (LG01) of the Professor Stuart Hall Building. For directions and campus map see http://www.gold.ac.uk/find-us/ What: This second edition of "Defending Human Rights in a Digital Age" continues the conversation from earlier this year. Since then a lot has happened to raise the stakes and reveal the increasing divergence between the way governments and corporations look to gather and retain large databases ("Big Data") and calls for greater protection of civil liberties online. This time panellists discuss the shifting context in which politicians, activists, and researchers perceive the challenges and opportunities for a rights-based and sustainable internet. Future decisions about internet design, access, and use now have to take account of the digital dimension to war, terrorism, migration flows, and refugee movements. They are also still grappling with the implications of the Snowden revelations on how the media, political institutions, judiciaries, and businesses respond to debates around "internet freedom", "cybersecurity", privacy and freedom of expression online, and concerns about the concentration of internet ownership and control in the hands of a few. What are the real and imagined dangers facing citizens and their political representatives at the online--offline nexus? How can rights-based approaches to decisions about internet design, access, and use make a difference? Are our rights online under threat by our own governments? Is there a trade-off between civil liberties and national security online? Is it time to stop giving away so much information when we use commercial social media? Are encryption and obfuscation forms of resistance or compliance? These questions and more will be up for discussion. PANELLISTS: Renata Avila - @avilarenata Sherif Elsayed-Ali - @sherifea Maria Farrell - @mariafarrell Becky Kazansky - @pondswimmer Annie Machon - @anniemachon Carly Nyst - @carlynyst Moderator: Marianne Franklin - @GloComm The event is hosted by the Global Media and Transnational Communications MA Program with the support of the Centre for Investigative Journalism (CIJ), Critical InfoSec, the Centre for Global Media and Democracy, the Digital Journalism MA Program, and openDemocracy. Join the debates on these Hashtags: #netrightsGold, #CriticalInfoSec, #GloComm Looking forward to seeing you, Elinor Carmi, PhD Candidate, Department of Media & Communications, Goldsmiths, University of London. www.pinkeee.com Twitter: @Elinor_Carmi

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