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CFP: TILTing Perspectives 2017 and PLSC-Europe (due Nov. 20)
by Bryce Newell 13 Sep '16

13 Sep '16

Below, please find the call for participation in the TILTing Perspectives 2017 conference as well as the 2nd European edition of the Privacy Law Scholars Conference (PLSC-Europe). The conference has tracks focused on Data Science, Healthcare, Intellectual Property, and Privacy (including PLSC-Europe). The conference will be in Tilburg (Netherlands), from May 17-19, 2017. Deadlines for all submissions are November 20. Information is also available at http://www.tilburguniversity.e du/tilting2017. Cheers, Bryce (apologies for cross-posting) Deze email van Tilburg University *online bekijken* <http://tilburguniversity.m9.mailplus.nl/txt4127855/RzsKGf9g8aXQWux>. <http://www.tilburguniversity.edu/nl/> Tilburg Institute for Law, Technology, and Society TILT NEWSLETTER Extra edition 12 September 2016 TILTing Perspectives 2017: 'Regulating a connected world' 17 - 19 May 2017, Tilburg University Call for papers Conference TILTing 2017 brings together researchers, practitioners, policy makers, and civil society at the intersection of law and regulation, technology, and society to share insights, exchange ideas and formulate, discuss and suggest answers to contemporary challenges related to technological innovation. The conference will include plenary sessions, parallel sessions, and panel discussions with invited speakers, as well as presentations from respondents to this call for papers. The conference features five large tracks: Privacy, Health, Intellectual property, Data Science, and PLSC Europe. But within the context of these general tracks, we are adopting an open and bottom-up organizational strategy: it is up to you (the participants) to determine what happens at the conference and how. With that in mind, we invite scholars, practitioners, policy makers, and others, to propose papers, workshops, panels, mini-symposia and the like, both within and in addition to the large tracks. If you have an idea and would like to check whether it fits the open theme of the conference, feel free to contact: *tilting(a)tilburguniversity.edu* <tilting(a)tilburguniversity.edu> <tilting(a)tilburguniversity.edu> Conference theme Technology is transforming society on many fronts. In recent years, we have seen the rise of social media and the sharing economy, a sustained move from atoms to bits, and the rapid development of cloud computing, big data, smart devices, and robotics. Along with these developments we see a continuous stream of new legal and regulatory issues. For every problem solved, two new problems seem to surface. *Everything seems to be connected* When looking at current phenomena, it is particularly notable that that everything seems to be connected. Individuals are being connected through networks and data flows from and through connected devices; the field of Data Science seems to revolve around connecting the dots between various bits of data and between data and persons. Disciplines and regulatory domains are also increasingly connected: contemporary issues require involvement from legal scholars, regulation and governance scholars, and social scientists, who must work together, but who also occasionally clash. Similarly, different domains of law become intertwined, such as public law and private law or data protection and intellectual property, but do not always coexist harmoniously. Regulation is no longer the prerogative of sovereign states; rather, complex interconnected multi-level governance arrangements are at play. *'Regulating a connected world'* These developments and transformations give good reason to adopt 'Regulating a connected world' as the theme for the 5th Bi-annual TILTing Perspectives conference on the intersection of law, technology, and society. While recent TILTing conferences had a specific focus, ‘robotics and neurotechnologies’ in 2011, ‘health and surveillance’ in 2015, the 2017 conference will open the floor to an entire spectrum of topics and disciplines under the broad umbrella of law, technology and society. *Five large tracks* The conference features five large tracks: Privacy, Health, Intellectual property, Data Science, and PLSC Europe. Tracks *Privacy track and PLSC-Europe* The definition and boundaries of privacy, as both a philosophical concept and a legal right, have been hotly debated in recent years. Indeed, emerging technologies have continually challenged traditional conceptions of privacy that relate to “private life,” the public/private dichotomy, or property (e.g. “my home is my castle”). *Read more * <http://tilburguniversity.m9.mailplus.nl/nct6925806/RzsKGf9g8aXQWux> ------------------------------ *Healthcare track* Healthcare has long been a “protected sector” that relies on a principle of confidentiality between the individuals needing care and the trained professionals able to provide that care. Without this principle of confidentiality, patients would be reluctant to provide the information professionals find necessary to addressing illness and other health concerns and professionals would be unable to provide adequate care to patients. *Read more* <http://tilburguniversity.m9.mailplus.nl/nct6925807/RzsKGf9g8aXQWux> ------------------------------ *Intellectual property track* The digital economy is one of the most important drivers of innovation and economic growth today. Intellectual property rights, conceived as institutions designed to accelerate technological progress, are its important part. Yet, there is mounting criticism that present day’s design of IP rights and/or their enforcement sometimes works against its own purposes. *Read more* <http://tilburguniversity.m9.mailplus.nl/nct6925808/RzsKGf9g8aXQWux> ------------------------------ *Data Science track* Data science —the practice of organizing, analyzing and using new sources of digital data—, is transforming societies around the world, but that transformation is largely invisible. Algorithmic sorting and categorization, machine learning and artificial intelligence, data emitted through people’s use of technology, from the internet of things and by smart environments are contributing to new types of visibility and changing power dynamics between people, corporations and governments. *Read more* <http://tilburguniversity.m9.mailplus.nl/nct6925809/RzsKGf9g8aXQWux> Call for papers We welcome research papers, position papers, work-in-progress presentations and other contributions. We value multidisciplinary work highly and are particularly interested in papers that illustrate a multidisciplinary approach, yet are also open to specialized papers on a relevant topic from any scientific discipline. Accepted papers will be provided to the participants of the conference if authors want to. On the basis of the material submitted, special issues, book volumes and other publications may be produced based on review procedures to be decided. Potential authors will be provided information on these opportunities at a later date, but note that submitting work to the conference does not create any obligation to publish. Abstracts (and full papers) will need to be submitted into the conference system: *https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=tilting2017* <https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=tilting2017> ------------------------------ *General call for symposia, panels and workshops* TILTing 2017 is open for symposia, panels and workshops on specific topics. You can submit proposals for activities spanning (multiples) of 90 minutes (the standard session duration) on specific topics within the overall conference scope or one of the designated tracks. Please enter your proposal into the conference system as a single entry (using the appropriate label) including title, abstract, names of the intended speakers, and abstracts of the individual contributions if desired. *PLSC-Europe call for papers* PLSC is a paper workshop. There are no published proceedings, and after the event, papers are not available. Because authors’ drafts are works in progress, we do not publicly release these writings, nor do we publicize them (no Tweeting, blogging, etc.), as authors’ ideas are often inchoate and need incubation for full development. At PLSC, paper workshops are led by a "commenter" who facilitates a discussion among participants on an author’s paper. Authors are encouraged to participate in "listening" mode. There are no panels or talking head events at PLSC. All participants are expected to read and be prepared to discuss one paper per session, and thus PLSC requires significant preparation. We recommended that participants devote 1.5 to 2 days of reading to prepare prior to the conference. If you want to have your paper discussed in a PLSC setting you are invited to submit an abstract for the PLSC track in the conference system ( *https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=tilting2017* <https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=tilting2017>). Please select the PLSC-Europe track choice during submission. Important dates *20 November 2016* Symposium, panel and workshop proposals *20 November 2016* Submission of paper abstracts and PLSC-Europe proposals *16 December 2016* Notification of acceptance *7 April 2017* Submission of full paper for PLSC *28 April 2017* Submission of full paper, other tracks Conference website All information about TILTing Perspectives 2017 'Regulating a connected world' can be found on: *www.tilburguniversity.edu/tilting2017* <http://www.tilburguniversity.edu/tilting2017> Tilburg Institute for Law, Technology and Society (TILT) - T 013 4668199 *c.r.nauta(a)tilburguniversity.edu* <c.r.nauta(a)tilburguniversity.edu> www.tilt.nl @TilburgU_TILT Copyright © 2014 Tilburg University. All rights reserved.

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International Symposium on Digital Ethics
by Heider, Donald 13 Sep '16

13 Sep '16

The Center for Digital Ethics and Policy at Loyola University Chicago is hosting its Sixth Annual International Symposium on Digital Ethics on Friday, November 4, 2016 on Loyola's Water Tower Campus in downtown Chicago. The keynote speaker will be Lilie Chouliaraki, author of The Spectatorship of Suffering and Professor of Media and Communications at the London School of Economics. Featured Speakers: Whitney Phillips | Assistant Professor, Mercer University | Author of This is Why We Can't Have Nice Things: Mapping the Relationship between Online Trolling and Mainstream Culture Ryan Milner | Assistant Professor, College of Charleston | Author of The World Made Meme: Public Conversations and Participatory Media. Co-author with Whitney Phillips of a new book, Between Play and Hate: Antagonism, Mischief, and Humor Online. Max Schrems | Privacy Activist | Founder of Europe v Facebook | Author of Kämpf um deine Daten (Fight for your Data) and Private Videoüberwachung(Private Video Surveillance Law) Meg Leta Jones | Assistant Professor in Georgetown University's Communication, Culture & Technology Program | Author of Ctrl+Z: The Right to be Forgotten. Julie Carpenter | Author of Culture and Human-Robot Interaction in Militarized Spaces: A War Story. Register here: luc.edu/digitalethics2016 Digital Ethics Symposium Friday, November 4, 2016 Loyola University Chicago Lewis Towers | Regents Hall | 16th Floor 111 E. Pearson 8:30 a.m - 5:00 p.m Don Heider Dean School of Communication Loyola University Chicago

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CDSDS research fellow positions in Tucson (fwd)
by Barry Wellman 12 Sep '16

12 Sep '16

fyi Barry Wellman A vision is just a vision if it's only in your head Step by step, link by link, putting it together Streisand/Sondheim _______________________________________________________________________ NetLab Network FRSC INSNA Founder http://www.chass.utoronto.ca/~wellman twitter: @barrywellman NETWORKED: The New Social Operating System Lee Rainie & Barry Wellman http://amzn.to/zXZg39 _______________________________________________________________________ ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Mon, 12 Sep 2016 21:59:56 +0000 From: "Brooks, Catherine F - (cfbrooks)" <cfbrooks(a)email.arizona.edu> To: Barry Wellman <wellman(a)chass.utoronto.ca> Cc: "Heidorn, Bryan - (heidorn)" <heidorn(a)email.arizona.edu>, "Shmargad, Yotam - (yotam)" <yotam(a)email.arizona.edu>, "Klar, Samara M - (klar)" <klar(a)email.arizona.edu> Subject: CDSDS research fellow positions in Tucson Hi Barry! I hope all is well with you and Bev! I just wanted to share this, as we have new opportunities down here with the Center. Our start and end dates/timing can be negotiated, and we'd love to hear from some of your former students or others you know who may be looking for a posting like the one you can see here: http://uacareers.com/postings/13452 The University of Arizona's (UA) Center for Digital Society and Data Studies, in coordination with faculty from UA's School of Information and School of Government and Public Policy (SGPP), welcomes applications for three (3) postdoctoral fellows beginning in Late October or Early November, 2016 and ending August, 2017 (these are 10-month positions). The fellows will work with Professors Catherine Brooks, Samara Klar, and Yotam Shmargad on a series of projects related to government surveillance, technology use in developing countries, and the role of Big Data in political elections. Working with faculty mentors, fellows will write scholarly research papers, produce opinion pieces for popular media outlets, and communicate with stakeholders such as government officials and think tanks. Fellows will also support proposal development for external grant opportunities that are aligned with these research areas. Fellows should have strong methodological backgrounds and writing skills. We invite applicants from across the methodological spectrum, though priority will be given to those with expertise in statistical modeling, experiments in the lab or field, surveys, or ethnographic interviews. The goals of this project are to generate research findings that will inform policy, create new avenues for advocacy, and inform the broader public. ? Please share and forward, we would very much appreciate that! Sincerely, Catherine ? Catherine F. Brooks, PhD, Director, Center for Digital Society and Data Studies (CDSDS) http://cdsds.arizona.edu/ Associate Director, Arizona's iSchool, School of Information at UA http://si.arizona.edu/ "If only Romeo and Juliet had had mobile phones, they might have lived happily ever after" (Wellman and Rainie).

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Post-doctoral research CDSDS Tucson Arizona
by Catherine Brooks 12 Sep '16

12 Sep '16

We have new post-doctoral opportunities available in Tucson, Arizona, USA, with the Center for Digital Society and Data Studies (the new research center housed in Arizona's iSchool). Our start and end dates/timing can be negotiated, and we'd love to hear from you! | http://uacareers.com/postings/13452 | The University of Arizona’s (UA) Center for Digital Society and Data Studies, in coordination with faculty from UA’s School of Information and School of Government and Public Policy (SGPP), welcomes applications for three (3) postdoctoral fellows beginning in Late October or Early November, 2016 and ending August, 2017 (these are 10-month positions). The fellows will work with Professors Catherine Brooks, Samara Klar, and Yotam Shmargad on a series of projects related to government surveillance, technology use in developing countries, and the role of Big Data in political elections. Working with faculty mentors, fellows will write scholarly research papers, produce opinion pieces for popular media outlets, and communicate with stakeholders such as government officials and think tanks. Fellows will also support proposal development for external grant opportunities that are aligned with these research areas. Fellows should have strong methodological backgrounds and writing skills. We invite applicants from across the methodological spectrum, though priority will be given to those with expertise in statistical modeling, experiments in the lab or field, surveys, or ethnographic interviews. The goals of this project are to generate research findings that will inform policy, create new avenues for advocacy, and inform the broader public. Please share and forward, we would very much appreciate that! Catherine F. Brooks, PhD, Director, Center for Digital Society and Data Studies (CDSDS) http://cdsds.arizona.edu/Associate Director, Arizona's iSchool, School of Information at UAhttp://si.arizona.edu/

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by Bernard Schoenacker 12 Sep '16

12 Sep '16

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by Bernard Schoenacker 12 Sep '16

12 Sep '16

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Professionalization Website
by Jonathan Sterne, Dr. 12 Sep '16

12 Sep '16

Dear Colleagues, Apologies for crossposting. Since 1999, I have maintained a collection of web pages that provides links to useful resources for people on the academic job market in communication studies, though others in critical humanities fields may find the materials useful as well. In recent years, I have added material on other aspects of professional life and will continue to do so. You can find it at: http://sterneworks.org/Academe New this year: links on getting a PhD in the age of social media, the SSRC’s awesome grant writing guide, how to manage grad school if you’re poor, new teaching resources, and more! I am always looking for good suggestions for material to add to the site, and as you'll see, I have used it to archive some material that has been circulated in other fora. If you have a suggestion for a link or a document worth archiving, or a correction to a typo or missing or expired link, please email me at jonathan.sterne(a)mcgill.ca<mailto:jonathan.sterne@mcgill.ca>. Please note that I do not post or keep track of job ads, nor am I interested in promoting commercial services or people's professional website. This is purely for material that’s free and that I judge to be truly helpful for my intended audience. I intend to continue building the site, so suggestions for other areas to cover would be appreciated. Thanks for reading. Sincerely, --Jonathan -- Jonathan Sterne Professor and James McGill Chair in Culture and Technology Department of Art History and Communication Studies McGill University http://sterneworks.org | http://mcgill.ca/ahcs | http://cirmmt.org MP3: The Meaning of a Format<http://www.dukeupress.edu/Catalog/ViewProduct.php?productid=47544>

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Three Free DiscoverText Workshops at USC Annenberg School September 26
by Shulman, Stu 12 Sep '16

12 Sep '16

USC Free DiscoverText Workshops Sign up for one of three free DiscoverText workshops held in room ANN 106 at the USC Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism on September 26 at 10:00 AM, 12:15 PM, or 2:30 PM. https://goo.gl/forms/pf1TNKM4TluKCsf02 Learn to use simple point and click tools to collect and analyze text data from Twitter, surveys, and other sources. Search, filter, de-duplicate, code, and machine-classify text within minutes of getting started. All participants get a 90-day extended free trial of DiscoverText. Ingallina's yummy boxed lunch included for all registered participants in session 1 or 2. Thanks, Stu -- Dr. Stuart W. Shulman Founder and CEO, Texifter LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/stuartwshulman

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Tomorrow! Online Book Launch: Social Media in Industrial China and Social Media in Rural China (UCL Why We Post)
by Major, Alison 12 Sep '16

12 Sep '16

****Apologies for any cross posting **** ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Online Book Launch: Social Media in Industrial China and Social Media in Rural China Date: Tuesday 13 Sep 2016 (Tomorrow!) Time: * London: 3 pm - 4 pm BST (UTC+1 hour) * New York: 10 am - 11 am EDT (UTC-4 hours) * Los Angeles: 7 am - 8 am PDT (UTC-7 hours) * Hong Kong: 10 pm - 11 pm HKT (UTC+8 hours) Register today: http://bit.ly/2b1mVuA -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Join Professor Daniel Miller (UCL Anthropology), Xinyuan Wang (UCL Anthropology) and Tom McDonald (HKU Sociology) for a live and interactive discussion about UCL's groundbreaking Why We Post project. Streamed on Youtube, and hosted by HKU Sociology, this exciting discussion will mark the launch of two brand new Open Access volumes Social Media in Industrial China (UCL Press) and Social Media in Rural China (UCL Press), which detail they key findings of the Chinese section of the UCL Why We Post project. Put your own questions to the authors, and hear them discuss their experiences of conducting ethnographic fieldwork on social media use in China, writing their books, and how the unique case of China has implications for understanding social media use around the world. Register today: http://bit.ly/2b1mVuA -------------------------------------------------------------------------- About the books Wang's Social Media in Industrial China describes social media's role in the biggest migration in human history, an estimated 250 million Chinese people have left their villages in recent decades to live and work in urban areas. Wang describes a second migration taking place: a movement from offline to online. As Wang argues, this is not simply a convenient analogy but represents the convergence of two phenomena as profound and consequential as each other, where the online world now provides a home for the migrant workers who feel otherwise 'homeless'. Find out more: http://bit.ly/2b1qAT7 McDonald's Social Media in Rural China argues that social media allows rural Chinese people to extend and transform their social relationships by deepening already existing connections with friends known through their school, work or village, while also experimenting with completely new forms of relationships through online interactions with strangers. By juxtaposing these seemingly opposed relations, rural social media users are able to use these technologies to understand, capitalise on and challenge the notions of morality that underlie rural life. Find out more: http://bit.ly/2b3w3sK --------------------------------------------------------------------------

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CFP Online Misogyny
by Eugenia Siapera 12 Sep '16

12 Sep '16

Dear AoIRs, Please consider submitting an abstract to the special issue of Feminist Media Studies on Online Misogyny. Deadline: October 1st! Details below and in this link: http://explore.tandfonline.com/cfp/ah/special-issue-online-misogyny-call In recent years, online misogyny has become a major concern for women. As a new wave of feminist / female bloggers, journalists, activists and gamers have attempted to assert their presence on the internet, there has been a concerted backlash against both feminism and women generally. This special issue of* Feminist Media Studies* seeks to identify and theorise the complex relationships between online culture, technology and misogyny. How have the internet’s anti-woman spaces and discourses been transformed by the technological affordances of the internet and social media? How are they being articulated and reproduced in diverse cultural contexts and / or transnationally? Are they borne of the same types of discontents articulated in older forms of anti-feminism or to what extent do they articulate a different constellation of social, cultural and gender-political factors? Despite growing social concern about online misogyny, discussion and debate of this issue has been primarily journalistic to date. Moreover, the focus has been strongly western-/anglo-centric, and has tended to revolve around certain ‘flashpoint’ events. There is a need, therefore, for greater representation of how this phenomenon operates globally across contexts from non-anglophone, technologically advanced cultures to countries in the Global South. It is important to ask, for example, how internet access and local gender landscapes complicate our understanding of this subject. In addition to the more high-profile, anonymous attacks covered by the western media, there are also reports of intimate partner and acquaintance abuse online, which often takes the form of ‘revenge porn’ or unauthorized distribution of sexts by men known to their victims. Moreover, misogyny can and does operate in the more formal contexts of the technology sector. All of these examples should alert us to the importance of progressing academic inquiry on this issue not from a point at which we assume online misogyny to be a stable, recognisable phenomenon but rather by inviting contributions that will expand current knowledge and understanding beyond western experiences, gender-political contexts and epistemological frameworks. What is significant about all of these phenomena is their very real impact on the lives and safety of real women, as well as their success in deterring women from expressing their opinions or putting their work online. Despite this, online misogyny remains under-researched in academia (Jane, 2014). There have, however, been important activist interventions such as #everydaysexism and #freethenipple as well as a raft of feminist groups organizing online to highlight and challenge misogyny. Given that activists, journalists, gamers and filmmakers have effectively led this charge, we consider it important to ask whether these new, more popular expressions of digital feminism are reaching new audiences and shaping new publics, and what impact this might have on theoretical understandings of feminism. Moreover, while it is important to consider the new misogyny in relation to older theorisations of anti-feminism (Faludi, 1991; Kimmel, 1995; Messner, 1997), it is also crucial to build reflexive criticism into narratives that have hitherto excluded non-western cultures as well as other, related forms of online hate speech such as racism, homophobia and transphobia. *Online Misogyny* aims to give this increasingly important area of enquiry the impetus, attention and theoretical cohesion it requires. The increasingly amorphous and anonymous nature of online misogyny and the fluid and dynamic nature of online communication pose considerable challenges for data capture and analysis, and we expect methodological innovation to be a key element of this special issue. We also hope to publish at least one contribution from an activist, artist or non-academic. *Possible topics in relation to this theme may include (but are not limited to):* - Online misogyny and feminist media theorisations - Forms of online misogyny (including threats, abuse, ‘revenge porn’, creepshots, sexting, slut-shaming, technology-enabled intimate partner and acquaintance violence, and others) - Sites and contexts of online misogyny - Discourses and visuality of online misogyny - Global contexts and online misogyny - Transnational travel / global pathways of misogyny - Online misogyny’s articulations with racism, homophobia and transphobia - Technological affordances: the role of algorithims, anonymity, governance, technical design, platform politics, etc. - Social, political and personal impact of online misogyny - Women’s / feminist responses to online misogyny - Performative responses to online misogyny - The role of social media corporations and community managers - Workplace and institutional misogyny: misogyny in the technology / gaming / journalism sectors - Legislation and corporate policy - Digitally networked publics: the impact of online misogyny on democracy and the public sphere - Online misogyny and the post-feminist context *Aims & Scope* *Feminist Media Studies* provides a transdisciplinary, transnational forum for researchers pursuing feminist approaches to the field of media and communication studies, with attention to the historical, philosophical, cultural, social, political, and economic dimensions and analysis of sites including print and electronic media, film and the arts, and new media technologies. The journal invites contributions from feminist researchers working across a range of disciplines and conceptual perspectives. *Peer Review Policy* All research articles in this journal undergo rigorous peer review, based on initial editor screening and anonymous refereeing by at least two scholars. Submission Instructions Please submit a 350-word abstract as well as a short (1-page) CV to Debbie Ging (debbie.ging(a)dcu.ie) and Eugenia Siapera (eugenia.siapera(a)dcu.ie) by *1st October 2016*. Authors whose abstracts are selected will be notified by 15th January 2017 and asked to submit complete manuscripts by 15th June 2017. Acceptance of the abstract does not guarantee publication of the paper, which will be subject to peer review. Editorial information - Guest Editor: Debbie Ging (debbie.ging(a)dcu.ie) - Guest Editor: Eugenia Siapera (eugenia.siapera(a)dcu.ie)

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