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Towards a people's Internet
by Becky Lentz 26 May '15

26 May '15

Hi all, Some have written to me with interest in the 2016 World Social Forum. At the 2015 Forum in Tunis, a new initiative was begun around an Internet Social Forum. It might convene again in Montreal, so this might be of interest to the AOIR community. Here¹s the main website for that: http://www.internetsocialforum.net/?q=Home and here¹s the mailing list if you wish to subscribe: http://internetsocialforum.net/Join_ISF. Below I¹ve clipped a message recently posted to that list. Best, Becky Lentz McGill University > > Now available in English -- a contribution to the debates around the ISF. > Please circulate. > > > > > > > Towards a people¹s Internet <http://www.alainet.org/en/revistas/169787> > No. 503, April 2015 > > The decisions about Internet development, its applications and uses hold > implications for human rights, social and economic justice and democracy. > This raises new challenges that require a public policy framework; yet our > societies have not yet been able to process them adequately. Edition No. 503 > (now in English) of ALAI's magazine Latin America in Movement examines several > key aspects of these challenges. > > > Is another Internet possible? <http://www.alainet.org/en/articulo/169779> > > Sally Burch > > > > The importance of intellectual property malleability > > So open, so closed <http://www.alainet.org/en/articulo/169786> > > Pedro Cagigal > > > > Security versus privacy, the right to resistance > <http://www.alainet.org/en/articulo/169793> > > Montserrat Boix > > > > Technical and political challenges for a secure Internet > <http://www.alainet.org/en/articulo/169796> > > ALAI > > > > Make Cyberpeace not Cyberwar! <http://www.alainet.org/en/articulo/169780> > > Prabir Purkayastha > > > > Toward freer lands on the Internet <http://www.alainet.org/en/articulo/169792> > > María del Pilar Sáenz > > > > Net Neutrality for an egalitarian Internet > <http://www.alainet.org/en/articulo/169781> > > Parminder Jeet Singh > > > > Women in Internet > > Visibility to secure recognition and rights > <http://www.alainet.org/en/articulo/169795> > > Dafne Sabanes Plou > > > > The democratic challenge of Internet > <http://www.alainet.org/en/articulo/169782> > > Norbert Bollow > > > > WSIS+10: issues, actors, what to expect, what to achieve > <http://www.alainet.org/en/articulo/169785> > > Richard Hill > > > > Tunis Call for a People's Internet > <http://www.alainet.org/en/articulo/168669> > > > > > > > http://www.alainet.org/en/revistas/169787 > > > > > > > > > More information: http://alainet.org/index.phtml.en > RSS: http://alainet.org/rss.phtml > Twitter: http://twitter.com/ALAIinfo > > We invite you to sustain ALAI's work. > Contributions: http://alainet.org/donaciones.php > ______________________________________ > Agencia Latinoamericana de Informacion > email: info(a)alainet.org > > Subscriptions: http://listas.alainet.org/listas/subscribe/alai-amlat-en

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Social Media and Society SI
by Ben Light 26 May '15

26 May '15

Just a very quick reminder that the submission deadline is approaching for a planned Special Issue of Social Media + Society (Due 1 June 2015) Do consider making a submission, full details below. Cheers, Ben. Ben Light PhD MSc BA(Hons) Professor of Digital Media Studies Digital Media Research Centre Queensland University of Technology Creative Industries Precinct Z1-515 Musk Avenue Kelvin Grove QLD 4059 Australia Phone: +61 7 3138 8280 Twitter: @doggyb QUT: http://www.staff.qut.edu.au/staff/lightb Open Access Publications: http://eprints.qut.edu.au/view/person/Light,_Ben.html Special Issue of Social Media + Society http://www.sagepub.com/journals/Journal202332 Making Digital Cultures of Gender and Sexuality with Social Media Eds Jean Burgess, Elija Cassidy, Stefanie Duguay, and Ben Light QUT Digital Media Research Centre (DMRC) http://www.research.qut.edu.au/dmrc Sociocultural Internet research has, for most of its history, engaged with questions of gender and sexuality. Early work exploring the emancipatory potential of the Internet, for example, pointed optimistically towards the possibilities for gender fluidity, but more critically towards the problems of gender tourism and the reinforcement of biologically deterministic conceptions of gender roles. Either way, digital cultures are sites of gender construction. Similarly, sexualities have been digitally mediated and re-mediated as people with diverse sexual identities have found support via networked media, experienced the entanglement of physical and digitally mediated embodiments of sexuality, and digital media have been used for both challenging and preserving heteronormativity. This special issue aims to bring together new research and scholarship on onn how digital cultures of gender and sexuality are made, focusing on social media as a particular sociotechnical and cultural site of these processes. Everyday social media activities are comprised not just of exchanges between users but also involve the influence of platform owners, designers, and other stakeholders, such as marketers and data miners. For example, although Facebook¹s decision to allow users to display a custom gender identity (outside the male/female binary) appears to be empowering to users, even this additional element of self-presentation is influenced by programmed specifications, datafiable for profit, and dependent on Facebook¹s corporate policy-makers. The importance of considering digital cultures of gender and sexuality further, and a key reason for this issue, is due to a number of developments. First, more people than ever are participating with digital cultures due to social media. However, the nature of this participation is complicated, mutable and in no way uniform. Second, the sophistication of the devices, infrastructures, functions and interfaces presented by social media to users is, without welcoming in technological determinism, arguably becoming greater. Moreover, this sophistication is at the same time both visible and invisible depending upon a range of considerations such as levels of digital literacy, commercial interests, algorithmic programming, politics and power. This special issue seeks to further interrogate questions of the contemporary making of digital cultures of gender and sexuality with social media. Whilst difference-based approaches to understanding the gendered make up of social media users and audiences have been addressed, this issue focuses upon the ways in which gender and sexuality are constructed and circulated with and by this media. Possible topics might include: * Identity * Harassment, discrimination, and cyberbullying * Activism, resistance, and reappropriation * Cultures and communities * Commodification and political economies * Inscription and regulation of gender and sexuality by software * Circulation of gender and sexuality based controversies * Pornography * Digitally mediated dating and personal relationships * Sexual health and wellbeing * Intersections of gender and sexuality with age, ethnicity, (dis)ability, Etc. Abstracts of 250 words should be submitted to Ben Light (ben.light(a)qut.edu.au<mailto:ben.light@qut.edu.au>) by 1 June 2015. Where appropriate, please nominate an author for correspondence. On the basis of these short abstracts, invitations to submit full papers (of no more than 8000 words) will then be sent out by 14 June 2015. Full papers will be due by 31 August 2015, and will undergo the usual Social Media and Society review procedure. Please note that an invitation to submit a full paper for review does not guarantee paper acceptance.

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left forum panels on media and technology (may 29- 31) NYC
by Seda Gurses 25 May '15

25 May '15

Hi everyone, The Left Forum Conference will take place this coming weekend in NYC. The conference hosts a good number of media/tech related panels. You can find an overview here: http://www.leftforum.org/panels/approved/2015?keys=&field_paneltopics_value… Cheers, s.

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CFP - Ethical-epistemological dilemmas in the Information Age
by Marco Schneider 25 May '15

25 May '15

Call for articles: Liinc em Revista Ethical-epistemological dilemmas in the Information Age Liinc em Revista is accepting submission of articles for the next issue – Volume 11, n.2 – to be published in November 2015. This issue will contain a dossiê on Ethical-epistemological dilemmas in the Information Age, whose editors are Marco Schneider (IBICT and PPGMC-UFF) and Gustavo Saldanha (IBICT and UNIRIO). The dossiê will welcome articles discussing ethical dilemmas underlying theories that approach diverse contemporary informational practices; scientific regulations on ethics; power and epistemic authority; ethics, information, and validation; use of science as ethics and of ethics as science. We accept unpublished articles in Portuguese, English, Spanish and French. Besides the dossiê, the journal also accepts reviews and articles within its fields of interest. See http://revista.ibict.br/liinc/index.php/liinc/about/submissions#onlineSubmi… Send your submissions through http://www.ibict.br/liinc before July 8, 2015. --

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CFP - Ethical-epistemological dilemmas in the Information Age
by Marco Schneider 25 May '15

25 May '15

Call for articles: Liinc em Revista > > Ethical-epistemological dilemmas in the Information Age > > > Liinc em Revista is accepting submission of articles for the next issue > – Volume 11, n.2 – to be published in November 2015. This issue will > contain a dossiê on Ethical-epistemological dilemmas in the Information > Age, whose editors are Marco Schneider (IBICT and PPGMC-UFF) and Gustavo > Saldanha (IBICT and UNIRIO). The dossiê will welcome articles discussing > ethical dilemmas underlying theories that approach diverse contemporary > informational practices; scientific regulations on ethics; power and > epistemic authority; ethics, information, and validation; use of science as > ethics and of ethics as science. > > > We accept unpublished articles in Portuguese, English, Spanish and French. > > Besides the dossiê, the journal also accepts reviews and articles within > its fields of interest. > > > See > http://revista.ibict.br/liinc/index.php/liinc/about/submissions#onlineSubmi… > > > Send your submissions through http://www.ibict.br/liinc before July 8, > 2015. > -- > >

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One week left to register for Data Power, 22nd and 23rd June 2015, Sheffield.
by Data Power Conference 25 May '15

25 May '15

There is only one week left to register for the Data Power conference, which will take place at the University of Sheffield on Monday 22nd & Tuesday 23rd June 2015. Places at the conference are limited, and spaces are filling up fast. So register now to avoid disappointment! Registration will close at MIDNIGHT UK time on Monday 1st June. Registration details can be found here: http://www.sheffield.ac.uk/socstudies/datapower/registration. The conference includes over 100 papers from researchers from around the world, and keynote presentations by Mark Andrejevic, Kate Crawford, José van Dijck, Alison Hearn, Richard Rogers, Evelyn Ruppert and Joseph Turow. Keynote abstracts are here: http://www.sheffield.ac.uk/socstudies/datapower/keynote-abstracts and a draft programme can be found here: http://www.sheffield.ac.uk/socstudies/datapower/programme. Best wishes The Data Power conference team Helen Kennedy, Jo Bates, Ysabel Gerrard

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Women and Technology (Ottawa) schedule and registration
by Nasreen Rajani 25 May '15

25 May '15

Dear colleagues; The schedule of presentations for the 2015 Women and Technology Conference is now available. This year's keynote presentation will be delivered by Gail Carmichael. This conference is taking place on *June 19, 2015 at Carleton University in Ottawa, Ontario*. We are excited to host this second annual event and look forward to seeing many of you there. Schedule of presentations: https://womenandtechcu.wordpress.com/schedule/ Conference registration: http://www.eventbrite.com/e/women-and-technology-conference-2015-registrati… Conference organizers, Nasreen Rajani and Matt Murdoch -- *Nasreen Rajani* PhD student, Communication Studies School of Journalism and Communication Carleton University, Ottawa, ON nasreen.rajani(a)gmail.com | @nrajaa

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The World Social Forum is coming to North America (for the first time) in August 2016 (Montreal) - what might be the AOIR's community's interests in convening there?
by Becky Lentz 25 May '15

25 May '15

To pick up on Elodie¹s question, 'we need to add an international view on how the Internet is defined and used¹, an opportunity is forthcoming to get at least one of some of those views at the forthcoming World Social Forum in August 2016 in Montreal. Might the global aoir community consider proposing a convergence of interested aoir scholars and friends for the next Forum as part of the process of reimagining internet studies given all the changes that have taken place of late and that will clearly continue to evolve re the nature of what we understand to be ¹the internet¹? Some on this list may know about the recent Internet Social Forum conversation convened at the 2015 Forum in Tunis, which is another link that might be cultivated/pursued. Best, Becky ---------------------- Becky Lentz, PhD Assistant Professor of Communication Studies Department of Art History/Communication Studies McGill University 853 Sherbrooke Street West, Arts Building, W-265 (West Wing) Montreal, QC, Canada H3A 0G5 For deliveries, use Arts Building, 265 (East Wing) Phone 514.398.4995 Fax 514.398.8557 Email: becky.lentz(a)mcgill.ca http://www.mcgill.ca/ahcs

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Internet Studies - round two
by Charles Ess 25 May '15

25 May '15

Dear AoIRists, Dear AoIRists, First of all, a thousand thanks to a great number of people who have made substantive comments and critical suggestions regarding a first effort to respond to the questions "What is Internet Studies?" and "What makes Internet Studies hang together?" The initial posting sparked an unusually productive discussion on a certain well-known social networking site, initiated by André Brock: again, a thousand thanks to André Brock, Alex Halavais, Radhika Gajjala, Lois Scheidt, Nancy Baym, Jeremy Hunsinger, Siva Vaidhyanathan, Florence Chee, Christian Sandvig, Lisa Nakamura, Jessie Daniels, Andrew Herman, Adeline Koh, Christian Fuchs, Miriam Sweeney, Niels Ole Finnemann, Jean Burgess, Ingbert Schmidt, Jamey Fletcher, Alice Daer, Jessie Daniels, Safiya Umoja Noble, Teresa Senft, Cliff Lampe, Shane Tilton, As well as on the AoIR list: ditto to Barry Wellman, Becky Lenz, Elodie Crispel, Amanda Lagerkvist, Lisa Heinz, and Pam Estes Brewer. (And very sorry if I missed anyone!) I've now had a chance to substantially revise and expand what increasingly looks like the outline of a massively-multi-authored chapter, if not another anthology ... It can be visited at < https://www.dropbox.com/s/afr83d4vs6lsmk3/Internet%20Studies%20-%20round%20… > Of course, any additional comments and suggestions welcome – obviously, this is a work in progress (I hope there’s progress …) Very best, - charles ess

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CFP *Deadline May 29th* - Available Spaces on "Gaming and IR" and "Crowd-Technologies and IR" Panels at the International Studies Association 2016 Conference
by Nicole Grove 24 May '15

24 May '15

Dear All, We have a few available spots for two panels at the International Studies Association 2016 Conference in Atlanta, GA, to be held March 16-19, 2016. The conference deadline for submissions is June 1st, so we are requesting abstracts be sent by May 29th. Panel #1 - Gaming, Simulation, and International Relations This panel invites abstracts that address the role of video games in international politics, broadly defined. Possible topics may include but are not limited to the military-entertainment complex; gaming as a site of engagement with issues such as international law, immigration, and the treatment of non-combatans during wartime; indigenous games; feminist approaches to gaming and IR; and gaming and new technologies of the body. Panel #2 - Crowd Technologies and International Relations This panel invites abstracts addressing the increasing role of crowdmapping, crowdsourcing and other crowd-technologies in international relations. Possible topics may include, but are not limited to the use of crowd technologies and disaster management response by international organizations; crowdsourcing, development and urban planning; crowd technologies and open source warfare; crowdmapping sexual violence; and crowdsourcing and the production of racial and gendered exclusions in the assembly of data. Please email abstracts of no more than 200 words to Nicole Grove at nsgrove(a)hawaii.edu. ____________________________________________ Nicole Sunday Grove, PhD Assistant Professor of Political Science University of Hawai'i at Manoa 2424 Maile Way, Room 608 Honolulu, HI 96822 Web: www.nsgrove.com Email: nsgrove(a)hawaii.edu

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