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CFP: Visual Data as Accountability, Resistance, and Surveillance
by Bryce Newell 05 Aug '16

05 Aug '16

*(with apologies for cross-posting)* *Call for Papers (abstracts due August 10, 2016)* *Visual Data as Accountability, Resistance, and Surveillance* For a special issue of *Law & Social Inquiry* (Journal links: Wiley <http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/journal/10.1111/(ISSN)1747-4469> *|* American Bar Foundation <http://www.americanbarfoundation.org/publications/lawsocialinquiry.html>) Edited by: Sarah Brayne (UT-Austin), Karen E. C. Levy (Cornell), and Bryce Clayton Newell (Tilburg) *Overview* The capture, analysis, and dissemination of visual data—including video (with or without audio), photographs, and other visual recordings—has become ubiquitous. Facilitated by digitization, globalization, and the proliferation of mobile media, visual data is transforming the documentation of activities in a wide range of contexts, including policing, legal adjudication, war, human rights struggles, and civic action. Visual data is being collected by state actors and individual citizens, each often documenting the actions of the other. The use of this data as evidence (both inside and outside formal legal proceedings) raises significant issues related to privacy and ethics, authentication and credibility, interpretation, inequality, power, and legibility. Law is implicated at both the point of recording (or documentation) and during downstream activities, such as when recordings are shared or posted online, publicly disclosed under freedom of information laws, or introduced into evidence during legal proceedings. Different technologies afford different viewpoints. Visual data constitutes a unique form of information that presents emergent legal and policy questions because of its technical form and social effects. The mobilization of visual data can shape and reshape public opinion, representation, suppression, visibility, inequality, and admissibility of evidence; it can serve to incriminate or exonerate. Visual evidence can legitimize certain accounts of events while calling others into question. And, thanks to the proliferation of mobile devices, more people can capture video and photographs than ever before, at a moment’s notice, simply by pulling out their phones—and can distribute them instantaneously, creating visual records of all types of behaviors and conflicts, from confrontations between citizens and police to political gaffes, from sex tapes to dashboard camera footage of traffic-related events. The recent adoption of police body cameras and the use of video by bystanders as a tool for inverse surveillance demonstrate our increasing reliance on video as a check on power, as well as a source of ostensible authority when accounts about “what really happened” are in conflict. At the same time, the crucial role of interpretation suggests video is not as much of an “objective observer” or independent witness as it is sometimes claimed to be, and visual evidence may have unforeseen implications for weighing evidence in civil or criminal cases—or in the court of public opinion. Permissive freedom of information laws in some jurisdictions have also led to recordings made by the police ending up on websites like YouTube—alongside myriad channels of police misconduct videos filmed by citizens. All of this footage increases the secondary visibility of those captured in recordings, and the video itself can also be analyzed as (potentially) a new form of big data. Audio and video streams contain biometric information that can be detected, analyzed, and compared against existing databases—while also adding new data to these databases in the process. The creation, dissemination, mediation, interpretation, and quantification of visual data are all fundamentally social processes. From citizen video of police (mis)conduct to the visual documentation of human rights abuses, the process of transforming material experience into digital evidence can facilitate accountability or resistance. These citizen-led forms of surveillance also function as forms of resistance to more panoptic forms of state-sponsored video collection and surveillance (e.g. camera-enabled drones, CCTV cameras). On the other hand, police-worn body cameras also act as an accountability mechanism, even though they face away from officers and collect evidence about—and document the conduct of—civilians. These forms of mobile, user-controlled cameras significantly alter earlier reliance on more static and passive video collection. As technological developments far outpace empirical research on—and legal regulation of—visual data, this special paper symposium in Law & Social Inquiry will provide an opportunity to highlight new empirical work with connections to law and policy, serve as a venue to build theory about a rapidly changing subject, and showcase research relevant to a variety of stakeholders—including lawyers, judges, law enforcement, legislators and policymakers, activists and civil and human rights organizations, technologists, and academics in a variety of fields. We welcome contributions that present original empirical research; offer conceptual, critical, or theoretical analyses; or address the unique legal, ethical, and policy questions implicated by visual documentation. We welcome scholarly contributions that come from—or that cross—academic disciplines such as sociology, law, information science, anthropology, science and technology studies, criminology, geography, communications and media studies, and computer science. *We encourage submissions addressing (but not limited to) such subjects as:* - Body-worn cameras, dashcams, policing practices - Citizen video/video as human rights advocacy - Covert and overt recording - Video as surveillance and sousveillance - Resistance to and avoidance of audio or visual surveillance - Design and regulation of audio or visual surveillance systems - Unanticipated consequences of audio or visual records - Use and interpretation of audio or video as evidence in legal proceedings - Data storage, access, and retention policies - Algorithmic practices of metadata extraction from video content - Image processing - Technical means of privacy preservation and authentication - Audio and video analytics and forensics - Audio and video redaction and privacy concerns - Live streaming - Video/audio and public opinion - Voyeurism, victimhood, and the ethics of viewing - Affective aspects of video - Embedding human values into the design of video-related technologies or systems (e.g. value sensitive design or privacy by design) - Implications for inequality - Facial recognition or other forms of biometrics enabled by audio or visual documentation and recording *Deadlines and anticipated timeline:* - *Initial abstract submission deadline (~ 500 words): August 10, 2016 * - Authors notified of (tentative) acceptance: August 30, 2016 - Full papers due (based on accepted abstracts): December 1, 2016 - Papers sent out for peer-review: mid-December, 2016 - Reviews returned to authors (with editorial decisions): expected, Feb.-Mar. 2017 - Publication in 2017 *Specifics about submissions:* Initial abstracts should contain approximately 500 words. Subsequent full paper submissions should contain fewer than 10,000 words (including footnotes and citations), and should contain a 200-word abstract and biographical information about the authors on a cover page. Invited full paper submissions will undergo formal double-blind peer review, which is expected to take between 1 and 3 months (submissions that are not selected for peer-review will be released back to the authors quickly). All submissions should be submitted in editable Word (*.doc/x) or *.rtf formats, and should adhere to the formatting and citation requirements of Law & Social Inquiry (available at http://www.blackwellpublishing.com/pdf/lsi_author_guidelines.pdf) All submissions should be sent to the editors via email to LSIvisualdataspecialissue(a)gmail.com. Please do not submit to this special call via the regular Law & Social Inquiry journal submission portal. Additional questions may be sent to the editors at the same address. *--* *Bryce Clayton Newell, Ph.D., J.D.* Post-Doctoral Researcher Tilburg Institute for Law, Technology, and Society (TILT) Tilburg University, Faculty of Law b.c.newell(a)uvt.nl | SSRN <http://ssrn.com/author=1576462> | @newmedialaw <http://twitter.com/newmedialaw> www.bcnewell.com | www.humanitarianfilm.org

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New open access book: Social Media in Northern Chile
by Major, Alison 05 Aug '16

05 Aug '16

***************Apologies for any cross-posting*************** UCL Press is delighted to announce the publication of an open access book that may be of interest to members of this list: Social Media in Northern Chile --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Social Media in Northern Chile Download free: http://bit.ly/22J6GBz --------------------------------------------------------------------------- This title available in both free open access and print editions (paperback, £15.00 | hardback, £35.00). Based on 15 months of ethnographic research in the city of Alto Hospicio in northern Chile, this book describes how the residents use social media, and the consequences of this use in their daily lives. Nell Haynes argues that social media is a place where Alto Hospicio's residents - or Hospiceños - express their feelings of marginalisation that result from living in city far from the national capital, and with a notoriously low quality of life compared to other urban areas in Chile. In actively distancing themselves from residents in cities such as Santiago, Hospiceños identify as marginalised citizens, and express a new kind of social norm. Yet Haynes finds that by contrasting their own lived experiences with those of people in metropolitan areas, Hospiceños are strengthening their own sense of community and the sense of normativity that shapes their daily lives. This exciting conclusion is illustrated by the range of social media posts about personal relationships, politics and national citizenship, particularly on Facebook. Download a free open access copy: http://bit.ly/22J6GBz --------------------------------------------------------------------------- About Why We Post Why do we post on social media? Is it true that we are replacing face-to-face relationships with on-screen life? Are we becoming more narcissistic with the rise of selfies? Does social media create or suppress political action, destroy privacy or become the only way to sell something? And are these claims equally true for a factory worker in China and an IT professional in India? With these questions in mind, nine anthropologists each spent 15 months living in communities in China, Brazil, Turkey, Chile, India, England, Italy and Trinidad. They studied not only platforms but the content of social media to understand both why we post and the consequences of social media on our lives. Their findings indicate that social media is more than communication - it is also a place where we now live. This series explores and compares the results in a collection of ground-breaking and accessible ethnographic studies. To find out more, visit http://www.ucl.ac.uk/why-we-post About UCL Press UCL Press is the UK's first fully open access university press. Re-established at UCL in 2015, UCL Press publishes peer-reviewed scholarly monographs, edited collections, textbooks and journals, by both UCL academics and non-UCL academics. All its books are made available as free, downloadable PDFs from its website, as well as in print for sale through retailers at affordable prices, and many of its books are also made available on a free, enhanced, browser-based platform. Its mission is to make its published outputs available to a global audience, irrespective of their ability to pay. Find out more at http://www.ucl.ac.uk/ucl-press. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------

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Re: [Air-L] Ethical challenges in qualitative research using Facebook
by inbar michelzon 05 Aug '16

05 Aug '16

Hi Todd Thank you I look in to that Inbar On Thu, 4 Aug 2016 at 18:58 Todd O'Neill <Todd.O'Neill(a)mtsu.edu> wrote: > Not sure if she is on this list or not but danah boyd (correct > capitalization) at Microsoft, author of “It’s Complicated,” might have some > insight on this. Although she seemed to focus on live subjects and > interviews perhaps Microsoft has already plowed this ground??? > > Cheers! > > Todd O'Neill > Assistant Professor, New Media > Electronic Media Communication Department > College of Media and Entertainment > Middle Tennessee State University > todd.oneill(a)mtsu.edu > LinkedIn: toddoneill | FaceBook: OneillTodd | Twitter: mtsunewmedia > > > On Aug 4, 2016, at 5:52 AM, inbar michelzon <inbar.md(a)gmail.com> wrote: > > > > Hi to all > > > > Emily, thank you so much for starting this important discussion, which I > > already learned a lot from. > > > > I hope it is o.k for me to add a question to this debate. You have > mention > > the term special attention you need to give in researching minors and > this > > is my biggest dilemma as a youth research that do digital ethnography. > > > > My question is more about the consent in the case of teenagers. Let me > just > > say that, I also do a discourse analysis and my research involve > teenagers > > (ages 15-19) that I divide in to tow groups: the first one are those I > > interview face to face, and than ask them if I can follow them on FB and > > Instagram. If they agree I give them a paper for their parents, that > > explain about the research and says that if they do not agree that their > > son/daughter will participate in this research, please inform me. > > The teens in the second group are friends of the interviewees, to whom I > > send a follow request with a personal message that explain about the > > research and link with the same latter to their parents. > > I know there is a big chance that they will not pass it on to there > > parents, so I would love to here other suggestion regarding research with > > youth on line. I should also mention that my main question is about > gender > > and class identity and that maybe it will help if I commit not to publish > > in our language, but only in english, which will make it very hard to > > identify the participants. > > Best regards > > Inbar Michelzon Drori > > > > On Thu, 4 Aug 2016 at 05:53 Dan L. Burk <dburk(a)uci.edu> wrote: > > > >> > >> > >> Hi Charles -- > >> > >> I guess I missed that message? (The one about Australia, having a fair > >> use policy.) I know they have been debating whether to adopt a fair use > >> provision (instead of fair dealing), and I thought it got tabled after > >> opposition from their recording industry. But it sounds like I had > >> better go check the status, maybe it succeeded after all. Thanks for the > >> tip. > >> > >> See you in Berlin for sure. DLB > >> > >> On 2016-08-03 14:05, Charles Ess wrote: > >> > >>> Dear Dan, copy to Emily, > >>> with great regret at taking far longer to get to this than I would have > >> liked - our daughter is now moved to Canada from Heidelberg, a project > that > >> took up a good deal of our collective time and energy these past few > weeks > >> as I'm sure you can imagine. > >>> In any event, just wanted to say thanks very much - between this and > the > >> Australian colleague's posting that Australia has a fair use policy, > this > >> got cleared up fairly nicely, I think. > >>> > >>> Again, many thanks and hope to see you in Berlin? > >>> best in the meantime, > >>> - c. > >>> > >>> On 27/07/16 09:00, Dan L. Burk wrote: > >>> Hi Charles -- In any Berne or TRIPs signatory country, copyright will > >> arise automatically when the text is written. So, yes in most countries, > >> certainly Australia. Whether that matters, (for example, whether > Australian > >> fair dealing might allow the posts to be used or quoted for research > >> purposes regardless) is a whole other question that I can't answer off > the > >> cuff. Cheers, DLB On 2016-07-25 23:14, Charles Ess wrote: Hi Emily and > >> colleagues, First of all, kudos for your taking such good care at > looking > >> into these ethical dimensions of your research. Secondly, a couple of > >> questions: are the posts drawn exclusively from Australian FB users - > and > >> if so, what is the Australian law regarding what appears in a public > >> context online? In the U.S., last I knew, such postings are considered > >> automatically copyrighted, and so one ethical-legal issue is, should > this > >> be the law in Australia as well, to recognize the posters as copyright > >> holders. Thirdly, the methodological approach and ! > >> its > >> affiliated ethical challenges as you describe them are, in my somewhat > >> limited experience, rather standard. This means that I've seen similar > >> projects - including ones involving far more sensitive expression - > receive > >> IRB and REB approval, so I would not stop with your worst-case scenarios > >> (though these are clearly and carefully thought out - again, kudos). > Some > >> possibilities. In terms of dissemination / publication - would it be > >> possible to (a) disguise many, if not the majority of posts by way of a > >> paraphrase and/or aggregate identity (if appropriate), thereby avoiding > >> direct citations, while (b) using some direct citations when absolutely > >> necessary - and then requesting permission to do so? While there are > >> difficulties with requesting such permission, as you point out, in my > >> experience (i.e., reading about and/or discussing similar cases in a > >> variety of contexts - the U.S., the E.U., and Scandinavia), these are > not > >> insurmountable. To be sure, one needs to exercise caution > >> regarding identity - though these days, it seems that the vast majority > of > >> FB identities are more or less authentic. Ditto in the case of a > vulnerable > >> group, beginning with legal minors. But with care, permission can be > >> requested when necessary in ethically sensitive and responsible ways. Of > >> course, there will likely be a few instances of "no, thank you" (or less > >> politely) - but with any luck, having to omit perhaps a handful of > choice > >> citations (and relegating them back into more anonymized form if > possible / > >> necessary), will not prevent you from having sufficient evidence and > >> analyses to effectively respond to your research questions. That's at > least > >> my first take - and I only offer these as first thoughts, knowing that > >> there are real experts on this list, including several colleagues in > >> Australia who will have better information about the Aussie context, as > >> well as our colleagues Elizabeth Buchanan, Michael Zimmer, Annette > Markham, > >> and many others in the northern hemisphe! > >> re with > >> extensive experience in these domains as well who will have much more to > >> add. Hope this helps, then, as at least a helpful start in the > discussion. > >> Again, kudos and all best wishes, - charles -- Professor in Media > Studies > >> Department of Media and Communication University of Oslo < > >> http://www.hf.uio.no/imk/english/people/aca/charlees/index.html [1]> > >> Editor, The Journal of Media Innovations < > >> https://www.journals.uio.no/index.php/TJMI/ [2]> Postboks 1093 Blindern > >> 0317 Oslo, Norway c.m.ess(a)media.uio.no <mailto:c.m.ess@media.uio.no> On > >> Tue, Jul 26, 2016 at 7:06 AM, Emily Wolfinger < > emilywolfinger(a)hotmail.com > >> <mailto:emilywolfinger@hotmail.com> wrote: Hi AoIR Community, I am a > PhD > >> Candidate and I have run into some ethical issues in my research, which > I > >> am looking for some guidance on. I am exploring Facebook user > perceptions > >> of sole mother poverty and welfare in Australia, focusing on a period of > >> welfare debate in which sole parent pension amendments were introduced > (May > >> 2012-Janua! > >> ry 2013). > >> I'm undertaking a discourse analysis of a subset of comments across four > >> categories of public pages and groups- media, political parties and > >> ministers, welfare/charity organisations and sole mother networks- that > >> were published in response to the amendments. Although Facebook Data > Policy > >> considers this information public, Internet research ethics guidelines > and > >> other academic papers point to a number of ethical issues around > publishing > >> the comments of users without obtaining their consent. As I am doing a > >> post-structural discourse analysis this is unavoidable unless I consider > >> paraphrasing or similar techniques that aim to protect the identity of > >> users, however this strategy raises questions of scientific rigor and > does > >> not seem to be one that is widely used or indeed fool proof. There are > also > >> issues around contacting users for consent, for example users could be > >> underage or belong to other vulnerable groups. I am left with two > options > >> if I take a worst case scenario approa! > >> ch to > >> these dilemmas - either tweak my research question (for example to look > at > >> the posts of public figures and organisations such as media outlets) or > >> consider alternative research methods which do not present the ethical > >> challenges of discourse analysis or other methods of close analysis, but > >> allow me to answer my research question (What were the Facebook user > >> perceptions of sole mother poverty and welfare in Australia between May > >> 2012 and January 2013?). Any suggestions for readings, tips or advice > >> regarding ways forward including methods would be most appreciated. Many > >> thanks in advance, Emily _______________________________________________ > >> The Air-L(a)listserv.aoir.org <mailto:Air-L@listserv.aoir.org> mailing > list > >> is provided by the Association of Internet Researchers http://aoir.org > >> [3] Subscribe, change options or unsubscribe at: > >> http://listserv.aoir.org/listinfo.cgi/air-l-aoir.org [4] Join the > >> Association of Internet Researchers: http://www.aoir.org/ [5] > >> _______________________________________________ The > >> Air-L(a)listserv.aoir.org <mailto:Air-L@listserv.aoir.org> mailing list > is > >> provided by the Association of Internet Researchers http://aoir.org [3] > >> Subscribe, change options or unsubscribe at: > >> http://listserv.aoir.org/listinfo.cgi/air-l-aoir.org [4] Join the > >> Association of Internet Researchers: http://www.aoir.org/ [5] > >> -- School of Law University of California, Irvine 4500 Berkeley Place > >> Irvine, CA 92697-8000 Voice: (949) 824-9325 Fax: (949)824-7336 bits: > >> dburk(a)uci.edu > >> > >> -- > >> School of Law > >> University of California, Irvine > >> 4500 Berkeley Place > >> Irvine, CA 92697-8000 > >> Voice: (949) 824-9325 > >> Fax: (949)824-7336 > >> bits: dburk(a)uci.edu > >> > >> > >> Links: > >> ------ > >> [1] http://www.hf.uio.no/imk/english/people/aca/charlees/index.html > >> [2] https://www.journals.uio.no/index.php/TJMI/ > >> [3] http://aoir.org > >> [4] http://listserv.aoir.org/listinfo.cgi/air-l-aoir.org > >> [5] http://www.aoir.org/ > >> _______________________________________________ > >> The Air-L(a)listserv.aoir.org mailing list > >> is provided by the Association of Internet Researchers http://aoir.org > >> Subscribe, change options or unsubscribe at: > >> http://listserv.aoir.org/listinfo.cgi/air-l-aoir.org > >> > >> Join the Association of Internet Researchers: > >> http://www.aoir.org/ > > _______________________________________________ > > The Air-L(a)listserv.aoir.org mailing list > > is provided by the Association of Internet Researchers http://aoir.org > > Subscribe, change options or unsubscribe at: > http://listserv.aoir.org/listinfo.cgi/air-l-aoir.org > > > > Join the Association of Internet Researchers: > > http://www.aoir.org/ > >

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PostDoc Fellowship Opportunity at Internet Governance Lab/American University
by Nanette Levinson 04 Aug '16

04 Aug '16

Colleagues, Prof. Derrick Cogburn, Prof. Laura and I are seeking a postdoctoral fellow to join us this coming academic year at the Internet Governance Lab at American University in Washington, DC. More information here and attached: [1]https://jobs.american.edu/JobPosting.aspx?JPID=5829 We would greatly appreciate your help distributing this far and wide to your various networks. (We apologize also for any cross posting.) Please reach out directly to one of us if you have any questions. Best, Nanette Nanette S. Levinson Associate Dean for Faculty Affairs School of International Service American University Washington, DC 20016-8071 nlevins(a)american.edu References 1. https://jobs.american.edu/JobPosting.aspx?JPID=5829

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43rd International Conference on Current Trends in Theory and Practice of Computer Science (SOFSEM 2017)
by Announce Announcements 04 Aug '16

04 Aug '16

Dear colleagues, The 43rd International Conference on Current Trends in Theory and Practice of Computer Science (SOFSEM 2017, see http://www.cs.ucy.ac.cy/~george/lm/lm.php?tk=YWlyLUwJCQlhaXItTEBsaXN0c2Vydi… will take place at Lero in Limerick January 16-20, 2017. SOFSEM (SOFtware SEMinar) is the annual international winter conference devoted to the theory and practice of computer science. SOFSEM aims to present the latest results and developments in research in academia and industry, in leading areas of computer science. DEADLINE EXTENSION Due to the many requests for a deadline extension, we have postponed the deadlines as follows: Abstract and paper deadline: August 10th, 2016 Kindly submit your abstract as early as possible in order to enable the bidding process. You will be able to update your submission until the deadline. PROCEEDINGS The SOFSEM 2017 proceedings containing all invited and contributed papers will be published in the series Lecture Notes in Computer Science by Springer Verlag, in the prestigious subline ARCOSS: Advanced Research in Computing and Software Science. STUDENT RESEARCH FORUM The SOFSEM 2017 Student Research Forum (SRF) will provide young researchers with valuable scientific feedback and networking. Master and PhD students are invited to present their research ideas and projects, discuss them with the scientific community, and establish collaborations in their field of research. See you at SOFSEM 2017! Tiziana Margaria and Mike Hinchey (General Chairs) Bernhard Steffen (Program Chair)

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Re: [Air-L] Ethical challenges in qualitative research using Facebook
by Dan L. Burk 04 Aug '16

04 Aug '16

Hi Charles -- I guess I missed that message? (The one about Australia, having a fair use policy.) I know they have been debating whether to adopt a fair use provision (instead of fair dealing), and I thought it got tabled after opposition from their recording industry. But it sounds like I had better go check the status, maybe it succeeded after all. Thanks for the tip. See you in Berlin for sure. DLB On 2016-08-03 14:05, Charles Ess wrote: > Dear Dan, copy to Emily, > with great regret at taking far longer to get to this than I would have liked - our daughter is now moved to Canada from Heidelberg, a project that took up a good deal of our collective time and energy these past few weeks as I'm sure you can imagine. > In any event, just wanted to say thanks very much - between this and the Australian colleague's posting that Australia has a fair use policy, this got cleared up fairly nicely, I think. > > Again, many thanks and hope to see you in Berlin? > best in the meantime, > - c. > > On 27/07/16 09:00, Dan L. Burk wrote: > Hi Charles -- In any Berne or TRIPs signatory country, copyright will arise automatically when the text is written. So, yes in most countries, certainly Australia. Whether that matters, (for example, whether Australian fair dealing might allow the posts to be used or quoted for research purposes regardless) is a whole other question that I can't answer off the cuff. Cheers, DLB On 2016-07-25 23:14, Charles Ess wrote: Hi Emily and colleagues, First of all, kudos for your taking such good care at looking into these ethical dimensions of your research. Secondly, a couple of questions: are the posts drawn exclusively from Australian FB users - and if so, what is the Australian law regarding what appears in a public context online? In the U.S., last I knew, such postings are considered automatically copyrighted, and so one ethical-legal issue is, should this be the law in Australia as well, to recognize the posters as copyright holders. Thirdly, the methodological approach and ! its affiliated ethical challenges as you describe them are, in my somewhat limited experience, rather standard. This means that I've seen similar projects - including ones involving far more sensitive expression - receive IRB and REB approval, so I would not stop with your worst-case scenarios (though these are clearly and carefully thought out - again, kudos). Some possibilities. In terms of dissemination / publication - would it be possible to (a) disguise many, if not the majority of posts by way of a paraphrase and/or aggregate identity (if appropriate), thereby avoiding direct citations, while (b) using some direct citations when absolutely necessary - and then requesting permission to do so? While there are difficulties with requesting such permission, as you point out, in my experience (i.e., reading about and/or discussing similar cases in a variety of contexts - the U.S., the E.U., and Scandinavia), these are not insurmountable. To be sure, one needs to exercise caution regarding identity - though these days, it seems that the vast majority of FB identities are more or less authentic. Ditto in the case of a vulnerable group, beginning with legal minors. But with care, permission can be requested when necessary in ethically sensitive and responsible ways. Of course, there will likely be a few instances of "no, thank you" (or less politely) - but with any luck, having to omit perhaps a handful of choice citations (and relegating them back into more anonymized form if possible / necessary), will not prevent you from having sufficient evidence and analyses to effectively respond to your research questions. That's at least my first take - and I only offer these as first thoughts, knowing that there are real experts on this list, including several colleagues in Australia who will have better information about the Aussie context, as well as our colleagues Elizabeth Buchanan, Michael Zimmer, Annette Markham, and many others in the northern hemisphe! re with extensive experience in these domains as well who will have much more to add. Hope this helps, then, as at least a helpful start in the discussion. Again, kudos and all best wishes, - charles -- Professor in Media Studies Department of Media and Communication University of Oslo <http://www.hf.uio.no/imk/english/people/aca/charlees/index.html [1]> Editor, The Journal of Media Innovations <https://www.journals.uio.no/index.php/TJMI/ [2]> Postboks 1093 Blindern 0317 Oslo, Norway c.m.ess(a)media.uio.no <mailto:c.m.ess@media.uio.no> On Tue, Jul 26, 2016 at 7:06 AM, Emily Wolfinger <emilywolfinger(a)hotmail.com <mailto:emilywolfinger@hotmail.com> wrote: Hi AoIR Community, I am a PhD Candidate and I have run into some ethical issues in my research, which I am looking for some guidance on. I am exploring Facebook user perceptions of sole mother poverty and welfare in Australia, focusing on a period of welfare debate in which sole parent pension amendments were introduced (May 2012-Janua! ry 2013). I'm undertaking a discourse analysis of a subset of comments across four categories of public pages and groups- media, political parties and ministers, welfare/charity organisations and sole mother networks- that were published in response to the amendments. Although Facebook Data Policy considers this information public, Internet research ethics guidelines and other academic papers point to a number of ethical issues around publishing the comments of users without obtaining their consent. As I am doing a post-structural discourse analysis this is unavoidable unless I consider paraphrasing or similar techniques that aim to protect the identity of users, however this strategy raises questions of scientific rigor and does not seem to be one that is widely used or indeed fool proof. There are also issues around contacting users for consent, for example users could be underage or belong to other vulnerable groups. I am left with two options if I take a worst case scenario approa! ch to these dilemmas - either tweak my research question (for example to look at the posts of public figures and organisations such as media outlets) or consider alternative research methods which do not present the ethical challenges of discourse analysis or other methods of close analysis, but allow me to answer my research question (What were the Facebook user perceptions of sole mother poverty and welfare in Australia between May 2012 and January 2013?). Any suggestions for readings, tips or advice regarding ways forward including methods would be most appreciated. Many thanks in advance, Emily _______________________________________________ The Air-L(a)listserv.aoir.org <mailto:Air-L@listserv.aoir.org> mailing list is provided by the Association of Internet Researchers http://aoir.org [3] Subscribe, change options or unsubscribe at: http://listserv.aoir.org/listinfo.cgi/air-l-aoir.org [4] Join the Association of Internet Researchers: http://www.aoir.org/ [5] _______________________________________________ The Air-L(a)listserv.aoir.org <mailto:Air-L@listserv.aoir.org> mailing list is provided by the Association of Internet Researchers http://aoir.org [3] Subscribe, change options or unsubscribe at: http://listserv.aoir.org/listinfo.cgi/air-l-aoir.org [4] Join the Association of Internet Researchers: http://www.aoir.org/ [5] -- School of Law University of California, Irvine 4500 Berkeley Place Irvine, CA 92697-8000 Voice: (949) 824-9325 Fax: (949)824-7336 bits: dburk(a)uci.edu -- School of Law University of California, Irvine 4500 Berkeley Place Irvine, CA 92697-8000 Voice: (949) 824-9325 Fax: (949)824-7336 bits: dburk(a)uci.edu Links: ------ [1] http://www.hf.uio.no/imk/english/people/aca/charlees/index.html [2] https://www.journals.uio.no/index.php/TJMI/ [3] http://aoir.org [4] http://listserv.aoir.org/listinfo.cgi/air-l-aoir.org [5] http://www.aoir.org/

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Re: [Air-L] Facebook and Twitter user recruitment?
by Galen Panger 03 Aug '16

03 Aug '16

Do others know, perchance, of any subject pools that are open to Internet researchers, where a lowly researcher such as me might be able to list a study? I'm working with my own university's subject pool, but it's summer and they don't anticipate I'll recruit the number of subjects I need. It's going well with this pool so far, but I probably won't hit my numbers there. Looking for any other possible sources. Anyway, thanks to Fabio, Scott and to a couple of others who responded off-list. Fabio, I'll try out the Facebook lead ads! Sincerely, Galen On Fri, Jul 15, 2016 at 11:22 PM, Fabio Giglietto <fabio.giglietto(a)uniurb.it > wrote: > Hi Galen, > have you also tried Facebook lead ads ( > https://www.facebook.com/business/a/lead-ads)? > > Best, Fabio Giglietto > > Il sab 16 lug 2016, 3:36 AM Galen Panger <gpanger(a)gmail.com> ha scritto: > >> Thanks -- to be clear, I'm not looking for my study to be blasted out, at >> least not without talking first about (1) what the population looks like >> and (2) working on the recruitment language. I shared the URLs in case >> people wanted to get a better sense of what the study/ies entail. Thanks >> for any and all ideas/leads/advice, though! >> >> On Fri, Jul 15, 2016 at 6:30 PM, Scott MacLeod <scott(a)scottmacleod.com> >> wrote: >> >> > Hi Galen and AoIR, >> > >> > I just shared your request, Galen, as a Minute as part of World >> > University and School's open monthly business meeting process, as you'll >> > see here - >> > >> > >> http://worlduniversityandschool.blogspot.com/2016/07/minutes-for-wuass-july… >> > - along with some of WUaS's rationales for this, which include as you'll >> > see: "In seeking to become the online Harvards of the Internet in all >> > ~204 countries main languages (accrediting for free CC MIT OCW in 7 >> > languages and CC Yale OYC BS/BA, Ph.D., law and M.D. degrees, as well as >> > I.B. diplomas), this is also a model for how WUaS (and if I become an >> > assistant professor in the MIT Media Lab too) may further seek social >> > science samples for research in both courses and in various languages." >> > >> > Thanks for this interesting and rigorous online social media study. >> > >> > Sincerely, >> > Scott >> > >> > https://twitter.com/WorldUnivAndSch >> > >> > >> > >> > On 7/15/16 2:12 PM, Galen Panger wrote: >> > > Hi all, for my dissertation I'm recruiting separate samples of Twitter >> > and >> > > Facebook users for a multi-part study (see >> > http://facebookstudy.berkeley.edu >> > > and http://twitterstudy.berkeley.edu) I'm having some luck with >> Twitter >> > > ads, and with my university's subject pool for Facebook, but am >> wondering >> > > if folks here might have ideas for recruiting more participants to >> help >> > put >> > > me over the top (I'm hoping to end with usable samples of over 300 >> each). >> > > >> > > I'm paying about $25 (plus a $500 Apple Gift Card drawing) for a total >> > time >> > > of around 90 minutes, with the catch that the second part of the study >> > > involves downloading and using an app, which is a step that results >> in a >> > > fair amount of drop-off (despite my follow-up efforts, which only >> help on >> > > the margin). I've tried Mechanical Turk but there's too much drop-off. >> > > Craigslist also appears to be taking down anything that's not a >> > > face-to-face transaction, and my study is entirely >> online/Qualtrics/app. >> > > Facebook ads haven't worked at all for recruitment for me. >> > > >> > > Anyway -- if your university subject pool is open to outsiders, or if >> you >> > > have a tip that's worked for you in the past, I'm all ears for any >> ideas! >> > > >> > > Sincerely, >> > > Galen >> > > >> > >> > -- >> > - Scott MacLeod - Founder & President >> > - http://worlduniversityandschool.org >> > - 415 480 4577 >> > - PO Box 442, (86 Ridgecrest Road), Canyon, CA 94516 >> > - World University and School - like Wikipedia with best STEM-centric >> > OpenCourseWare - incorporated as a nonprofit university and school in >> > California, and is a U.S. 501 (c) (3) tax-exempt educational >> > organization, both effective April 2010. >> > >> >> >> >> -- >> galen.website >> _______________________________________________ >> The Air-L(a)listserv.aoir.org mailing list >> is provided by the Association of Internet Researchers http://aoir.org >> Subscribe, change options or unsubscribe at: >> http://listserv.aoir.org/listinfo.cgi/air-l-aoir.org >> >> Join the Association of Internet Researchers: >> http://www.aoir.org/ > > -- galen.website

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Post-doctoral researcher in media innovation at Tallinn University
by Indrek Ibrus 03 Aug '16

03 Aug '16

This is an update regarding new post-doctoral position in media innovation at Tallinn University - deadline for applications in in 6 days - August 9th! More detailed description of the post is below. But can be also found here: http://www.tlu.ee/en/personnel-office/Vacancies/Academic-job-offers/postdoc… <http://www.tlu.ee/en/personnel-office/Vacancies/Academic-job-offers/postdoc…> General description The postdoctoral researcher will take part of the work of the Tallinn University Centre of Excellence in Media Innovation and Digital Culture (MEDIT). The main objective of the two-year project is to conduct research work as part of the Cross Motion project, part-financed by Interreg Baltic Sea programme. The aim of the research project is to apply and further develop the innovation systems concept in order to interpret the emergence of ‘cross-innovation’ phenomena in the Baltic Sea Region. The project will focus on the cooperation between audiovisual sector (film production, TV and videogames) and three other sectors – tourism, education and health care. The research fellow is expected to study the interactions and coordination between the innovation oriented institutions and regulative frameworks of these sectors in the region. The project will have to investigate the the ways to improve the coordination between the relevant institutions, frameworks and policy measures. Special attention will need to be given to ways to support the growth of start-up companies in these cross-innovation areas. Project will need to finish with a research report. Job requirements The candidate must fulfill all general requirements of the position of a research fellow stipulated in annex 9 of the Employment Relations Rules of Tallinn University. Additional requirements Candidate’s previous research needs to be related to at least one of the following research fields or topics: innovation studies (especially research on innovation systems), creative industries, media economics or management, cultural policy, media policy or innovation policy. Job responsibilities According to annex 1 and annex 9 of TLU Employment Relations Rules. In addition the researcher will have to take part of the work of Cross Motion project – including writing research reports for partners and for the European Commission, also disseminating information on the research results and presenting the results in Estonia and other countries. Guidelines for the research design and its practical execution will be provided by MEDIT’s head Indrek Ibrus who will be also the supervisor of the research project. This is a two-year project (1.01.2017 - 31.12.2018). Load: 1,0 FTE, including teaching in the volume of at least 5% of the load. Salary: to be agreed, according to Tallinn University Remuneration Regulation. Please consult Indrek Ibrus for details. Location: Tallinn. Language skills: Fluent English is essential; knowledge of Estonian, German, Baltic or Skandinavian languages is beneficial. Additional information: http://www.tlu.ee/en/personnel-office/Vacancies/Academic-job-offers/postdoc… <http://www.tlu.ee/en/personnel-office/Vacancies/Academic-job-offers/postdoc…> Practical questions on the competition should be directed to konkurss(a)tlu.ee <mailto:konkurss@tlu.ee>, questions about the research project and the nature of the work should be sent to Indrek Ibrus (indrek.ibrus(a)tlu.ee <mailto:indrek.ibrus@tlu.ee>).

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Fwd: lawsuit on behalf of researchers who study the Internet
by Christian Sandvig 03 Aug '16

03 Aug '16

OF COURSE I forgot the URL. It is: http://slashpolicy.com/petition/curiosity-is-not-a-crime/ Christian On Wed, Aug 3, 2016 at 3:19 PM, Christian Sandvig <csandvig(a)umich.edu> wrote: > Update: A community of devs interested in public policy started an > petition in support of our court case. This is a case filed on behalf of > AoIR researchers and against the CFAA/US Government. > > It is very sweet of them to make this petition. If you agree, you may want > to sign it. > > Context below. > > Best, > Christian > > > > On Fri, Jul 1, 2016 at 3:25 PM, Christian Sandvig < > christian.sandvig(a)umich.edu> wrote: > >> >> Dear AIR colleagues, >> >> On Wednesday I joined other Internet researchers and filed a lawsuit >> against the US Government to protect the legal right to conduct online >> research. The case was just called "key to the future of social science." >> I thought this issue might be of interest to some of you. If so, please >> feel free to read and share the details below. Note that I filed this >> lawsuit as a private citizen and it does not involve my university. >> >> Yours sincerely, >> Christian >> >> -- >> http://www.niftyc.org >> >> >> >> Why I am Suing the Government >> (or: I write scripts, bots, and scrapers that collect online data) >> >> https://socialmediacollective.org/2016/07/01/why-i-am-suing-the-government/ >> >> Most of What You Do Online Is Illegal. Let's End the Absurdity. >> by Christian Sandvig and Karrie Karahalios >> *The Guardian *(Op-Ed) >> >> https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2016/jun/30/cfaa-online-law-illeg… >> >> Legal Complaint: Sandvig v. Lynch >> https://www.aclu.org/legal-document/sandvig-v-lynch-complaint >> >> Researchers Sue The Government Over Computer Hacking Law >> >> https://www.wired.com/2016/06/researchers-sue-government-computer-hacking-l… >> >> When Should Hacking Be Legal? A Group of Academics and Journalists Say a >> Federal Computer-Fraud Law Criminalizes Their Work >> >> http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2016/07/when-should-hacking-b… >> >> >> >> >

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Re: [Air-L] lawsuit on behalf of researchers who study the Internet
by Christian Sandvig 03 Aug '16

03 Aug '16

Update: A community of devs interested in public policy started an petition in support of our court case. This is a case filed on behalf of AoIR researchers and against the CFAA/US Government. It is very sweet of them to make this petition. If you agree, you may want to sign it. Context below. Best, Christian On Fri, Jul 1, 2016 at 3:25 PM, Christian Sandvig < christian.sandvig(a)umich.edu> wrote: > > Dear AIR colleagues, > > On Wednesday I joined other Internet researchers and filed a lawsuit > against the US Government to protect the legal right to conduct online > research. The case was just called "key to the future of social science." > I thought this issue might be of interest to some of you. If so, please > feel free to read and share the details below. Note that I filed this > lawsuit as a private citizen and it does not involve my university. > > Yours sincerely, > Christian > > -- > http://www.niftyc.org > > > > Why I am Suing the Government > (or: I write scripts, bots, and scrapers that collect online data) > https://socialmediacollective.org/2016/07/01/why-i-am-suing-the-government/ > > Most of What You Do Online Is Illegal. Let's End the Absurdity. > by Christian Sandvig and Karrie Karahalios > *The Guardian *(Op-Ed) > > https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2016/jun/30/cfaa-online-law-illeg… > > Legal Complaint: Sandvig v. Lynch > https://www.aclu.org/legal-document/sandvig-v-lynch-complaint > > Researchers Sue The Government Over Computer Hacking Law > > https://www.wired.com/2016/06/researchers-sue-government-computer-hacking-l… > > When Should Hacking Be Legal? A Group of Academics and Journalists Say a > Federal Computer-Fraud Law Criminalizes Their Work > > http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2016/07/when-should-hacking-b… > > > >

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