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breaking news and fake news - the wash post's russian power grid hackers story
by kalev leetaru 07 Jan '17

07 Jan '17

I'm sure many of you saw the Washington Post's story on Friday that Russian hackers had penetrated the US power grid through a utility in Vermont and also the unraveling of that story over the following half day. What is so fascinating about this case from a "fake news" perspective is that it brings into sharp relief once again A) how the mainstream media forms a trust echochamber in which once one outlet runs a story, everyone follows without performing their own fact checking, B) the absolute trust frequently placed in government sources as "truth", C) the lack of fact checking even at tier one outlets like the Post and the lack of transparency in those processes (while answering other questions, the Post declined for a second time to comment in any way on how it fact checks articles and the level of rigor it requires prior to publication), D) how once an article is published, even if it is retracted or substantively changed, how that is often not clearly communicated to readers. I thought many of you would find of interest in particular the chronology of edits to the Post page courtesy of the Internet Archive's Wayback Machine and how it was almost a full day after the article had been rewritten that the Post finally appended an editors note acknowledging the wholesale changes - again points both to how newspapers now constantly rewrite their online articles over the course of a day or more and the immense power of the Archive in allowing us to trace those edits over time. To me, perhaps the most interesting piece here from a "fake news" perspective is how often "breaking news" becomes "fake news" as major details change once more facts become available. Given that in this case the Post was constantly rewriting the article over more than 12 hours after publication, it also raises the question of how we leverage all of these initiatives that look at news rewriting to help flag when articles are retracted or heavily edited and communicate that back to the general public - the tools are all there, but in terms of helping getting that back to the public. http://www.forbes.com/sites/kalevleetaru/2017/01/01/fake-news-and-how-the-w… Kalev

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Fake News
by Yosem Companys 06 Jan '17

06 Jan '17

Anyone know of any academic studies showing that fake (social media) news influenced the 2016 presidential election outcome? Thanks, Yosem

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Tenure track jobs in an information school
by Zeynep Tufekci 06 Jan '17

06 Jan '17

Hello everyone, My school is hiring two tenure track faculty. We've started reviewing them but are still accepting applications. We are an information school but have people from a variety of background with focus on socio-technical systems, our faculty ranging from Computer Science people to humanities. Ethics, policies and the interaction between technical design and equity, accountability and access are big themes in the school. https://sils.unc.edu/news/2016/faculty-search Please share as appropriate and feel free to ask me questions off the list. -z ---- Zeynep Tufekci, Ph.D. Associate Professor, University of North Carolina Faculty Associate Harvard Berkman Center for Internet and Society Newsletter: http://tinyletter.com/zeynepnotes Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/@zeynep Website: http://www.technosociology.org

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[Extended Deadline Alert] Submit your work to the Int.Conf on Social Media & Society (Toronto, Canada, July 28-30, 2017)
by Anatoliy 06 Jan '17

06 Jan '17

***Apologies for cross-posting*** Happy New Year! Due to many requests, the paper submission deadline for the 2017 International Conference on Social Media & Society (Toronto, Canada, July 28-30) has been extended. Both work-in-progress (WiP) and full papers are now due January 31st, 2017. The organizing committee invites scholarly and original submissions that relate to the broad theme of Social Media & Society. We welcome both quantitative and qualitative work which crosses interdisciplinary boundaries and expands our understanding of the current and future trends in social media research. IMPORTANT DATES . Full and Work-in-Progress (WIP) Papers - Due January 31, 2017 (extended!) . Posters and Panels - Due March 6, 2017 . Conference Dates - July 28-30, 2017 Full and WIP (short) papers presented at the Conference will be published in the conference proceedings by <http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=2930971&CFID=847001369&CFTOKEN=15617273&p reflayout=flat#prox> ACM International Conference Proceeding Series (ICPS) and will be available in the ACM Digital Library. All conference presenters will also be invited to submit their extended conference papers to a special issue of the <http://sms.sagepub.com/> Social Media + Society journal ( <http://sms.sagepub.com/> http://sms.sagepub.com/) published by SAGE. For more information, please see CfP at https://socialmediaandsociety.org/2016/cfp-2017-international-conference-soc ial-media-society/ or visit the Submission Page at https://socialmediaandsociety.org/submit/ ORGANIZATION: * 2017 #SMSociety Organizing Committee: * Anatoliy Gruzd, Ryerson University, Canada - Conference Chair * Jenna Jacobson, University of Toronto, Canada - Conference Chair * Philip Mai, Ryerson University, Canada - Conference Chair * Hazel Kwon, Arizona State University, USA - Poster Chair * Bernie Hogan, Oxford Internet Institute, UK - WIP Chair * Jeff Hemsley, Syracuse University, USA - WIP Chair * Advisory Board: * William H. Dutton, Michigan State University, USA * Zizi Papacharissi, University of Illinois at Chicago, USA * Barry Wellman, INSNA Founder, The Netlab Network, Canada * Programme Committee: o Visit: http://socialmediaandsociety.org/about/ If you have any questions, please contact us via email at ask(a)socialmediaandsociety.org <mailto:ask@socialmediaandsociety.org> or on Twitter at @SocMediaConf <https://twitter.com/SocMediaConf>

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Academic articles on social media hostility/abuse/harassment
by Galen Panger 05 Jan '17

05 Jan '17

I'd like to get smarter on the topic of hostility/abuse/harassment in social media. Had some interesting findings in my dissertation. Can anyone recommend a good academic article or two? Thanks very much and happy new year! Sincerely, Galen Panger

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Re: [Air-L] Social Media and Self Branding
by Helen Kennedy 05 Jan '17

05 Jan '17

Alison Hearn is best at this, but so unlikely to self-brand that not enough people know her excellent work. Here are some classics: Hearn, A. (2008) ‘“Meat, mask, burden”: probing the contours of the branded “self”’, *Journal of Consumer Culture,* 8(2): 197-217. Hearn, A. (2010) ‘Structuring feeling: Web 2.0, online ranking and rating, and the digital “reputation” economy’, *Ephemera: theory & politics in organisation, *10(3/4). Available at: http://www.ephemeraweb.org/. Helen On 4 January 2017 at 23:39, Joshua Braun <jabraun(a)journ.umass.edu> wrote: > Brooke Erin Duffy's forthcoming book seems like it will have a lot to say > on this issue: > > http://yalebooks.com/book/9780300218176/not-getting-paid-do-what-you-love > > Cheers, > Josh > > On 2017-01-04 17:14, Julie Grinberg wrote: > >> Please recommend recent critical literature that addresses social >> media as sites for self promotion/branding. Looking for work that >> explores social media participation as (socially) compulsory vs >> personal choice. >> _______________________________________________ >> 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/ >> > > -- > Josh Braun, Ph.D. > Assistant Professor of Journalism Studies > Journalism Department > University of Massachusetts Amherst > > @josh_braun > Skype: wideaperture > http://wideaperture.net/ > new book: http://yalebooks.com/book/9780300197501/program-brought-you > > "Maybe the only gift is a chance to inquire, to know nothing for certain. > An inheritance of wonder and nothing more." > William Least Heat-Moon > _______________________________________________ > 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/ -- Professor Helen Kennedy, Chair in Digital Society Department of Sociological Studies / Faculty of Social Sciences Elmfield, Northumberland Road Sheffield S10 2TU T: 0114 2226488 E: h.kennedy(a)sheffield.ac.uk LATEST BOOK: *Post, Mine, Repeat: social media data mining becomes ordinary* (Palgrave Macmillan)

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CORRECTED! - WEBCAST FRIDAY: ISOC DC IGF 2016 Debrief
by Joly MacFie 05 Jan '17

05 Jan '17

Aaagh. Yes, this has correct day and year! Tomorrow morning! If linking in via zoom please remember to mute your microphone. joly posted: "On Friday January 9 2016 the Microsoft Innovation & Policy Center and the Greater Washington DC Chapter of the Internet Society (ISOC-DC) present a Debrief of the 2016 Internet Governance Forum (IGF) held from December 6 - 9, 2016 in Guadalajara, Mexi" [image: Livestream]On *Friday January 6 2017* the* Microsoft Innovation & Policy Center <https://www.facebook.com/microsoftipc/>* and the *Greater Washington DC Chapter of the Internet Society <http://isoc-dc.org>* (ISOC-DC) present a *Debrief of the 2016 Internet Governance Forum* <https://www.eventbrite.com/e/igf-2016-debrief-tickets-30565642660> (IGF) held from December 6 - 9, 2016 in Guadalajara, Mexico. The discussion will be facilitated by *Carolyn Nguyen* of Microsoft and *David Vyorst* of ISOC-DC. Discussants: *Liesyl Franz* - U.S. Department of State; *Andrew Mack* - AMGlobal Consulting; *Barbara Wanner* - U.S. Council for International Business; *Dustin Phillips* - ICANNWiki. Plus brief remarks concerning IGF National and Regional Initiatives (NRIs) from *Marilyn Cade* - mCADE ICT Strategies. The event will webcast live on the *Internet Society Livestream Channel <https://livestream.com/internetsociety/igf2016debrief/>*. Remote participation will be available via *Zoom <https://zoom.us/j/271108543>*. * What: a Debrief of the 2016 Internet Governance Forum <https://www.eventbrite.com/e/igf-2016-debrief-tickets-30565642660> (IGF) Where: Microsoft Innovation & Policy Center, Washington DC When: Friday January 6 2017 9am-10:30am EST | 14:00-15:30 UTC Webcast: https://livestream.com/internetsociety/igf2016debrief <https://livestream.com/internetsociety/igf2016debrief> Zoom: https://zoom.us/j/271108543 <https://zoom.us/j/271108543> Facebook event: https://www.facebook.com/events/104780100028904/ <https://www.facebook.com/events/104780100028904/> Twitter: https://twitter.com/hashtag/igf2016 <https://twitter.com/hashtag/igf2016>* Comment <http://isoc-ny.org/p2/8879#respond> See all comments <http://isoc-ny.org/p2/8879#comments> *Permalink* http://isoc-ny.org/p2/8879 -- --------------------------------------------------------------- Joly MacFie 218 565 9365 Skype:punkcast -------------------------------------------------------------- -

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WEBCAST FRIDAY: ISOC DC IGF 2016 Debrief
by Joly MacFie 05 Jan '17

05 Jan '17

Tomorrow morning! If linking in via zoom please remember to mute your microphone. joly posted: "On Friday January 9 2016 the Microsoft Innovation & Policy Center and the Greater Washington DC Chapter of the Internet Society (ISOC-DC) present a Debrief of the 2016 Internet Governance Forum (IGF) held from December 6 - 9, 2016 in Guadalajara, Mexi" [image: Livestream]On *Friday January 9 2016* the* Microsoft Innovation & Policy Center <https://www.facebook.com/microsoftipc/>* and the *Greater Washington DC Chapter of the Internet Society <http://isoc-dc.org>* (ISOC-DC) present a *Debrief of the 2016 Internet Governance Forum* <https://www.eventbrite.com/e/igf-2016-debrief-tickets-30565642660> (IGF) held from December 6 - 9, 2016 in Guadalajara, Mexico. The discussion will be facilitated by *Carolyn Nguyen* of Microsoft and *David Vyorst* of ISOC-DC. Discussants: *Liesyl Franz* - U.S. Department of State; *Andrew Mack* - AMGlobal Consulting; *Barbara Wanner* - U.S. Council for International Business; *Dustin Phillips* - ICANNWiki. Plus brief remarks concerning IGF National and Regional Initiatives (NRIs) from *Marilyn Cade* - mCADE ICT Strategies. The event will webcast live on the *Internet Society Livestream Channel <https://livestream.com/internetsociety/igf2016debrief/>*. Remote participation will be available via *Zoom <https://zoom.us/j/271108543>*. * What: a Debrief of the 2016 Internet Governance Forum <https://www.eventbrite.com/e/igf-2016-debrief-tickets-30565642660> (IGF) Where: Microsoft Innovation & Policy Center, Washington DC When: Friday January 9 2016 9am-10:30am EST | 14:00-15:30 UTC Webcast: https://livestream.com/internetsociety/igf2016debrief <https://livestream.com/internetsociety/igf2016debrief> Zoom: https://zoom.us/j/271108543 <https://zoom.us/j/271108543> Facebook event: https://www.facebook.com/events/104780100028904/ <https://www.facebook.com/events/104780100028904/> Twitter: https://twitter.com/hashtag/igf2016 <https://twitter.com/hashtag/igf2016>* Comment <http://isoc-ny.org/p2/8879#respond> See all comments <http://isoc-ny.org/p2/8879#comments> *Permalink* http://isoc-ny.org/p2/8879 -- --------------------------------------------------------------- Joly MacFie 218 565 9365 Skype:punkcast -------------------------------------------------------------- -

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CFP: Join a "research hackathon" on commenting!
by Alex Leavitt 05 Jan '17

05 Jan '17

Conceptualizing, Creating, & Controlling Constructive and Controversial Comments: A CSCW 2017 Research-athon http://comp.social.gatech.edu/comments-cscw2017/ Many social media platforms provide features for commenting, which often provide affordances for people to give feedback to others. Around the theme of advancing research about online comments, this workshop aims to bring together a diverse range of researchers for cross-discipline community building and productive mixed-methods research. The workshop is structured around a research “hackathon,” where participants actively work on producing initial stages of research, theory, and design related to a central dataset (in the case of this workshop, public comments from a historical reddit.com corpus). Participants will form collaborative teams to tackle questions of interest that move forward current thinking around online comment behaviors, participants, quality, and design. The one-day workshop is led by 5 researchers, and it will accommodate up to 32 participants. Call for Workshop Applications The CCCCCCCR workshop aims to bring together researchers and practitioners to work collaboratively in a "research-athon/hackathon" style workshop. We invite participants with both qualitative and quantitative backgrounds to collectively investigate a shared commenting dataset (everyone will be granted access to a collection of shared, similar datasets from Reddit) in order to generate immediate questions, hypotheses, findings, designs, and theories. We invite proposals from academic, industry, public sector, and activist researchers that touch on commenting in relation to: - Behaviors: commenting participation, norms, and quality - People: comment posters, repliers, and audiences - Moderation: commenting promotion, deletion, and control - Design: comment threads, replies, and interaction The workshop will be held on Sunday February 26th, 2017, from 8:30-5:00. Additionally, two weeks before CSCW, participants will be expected to attend a 1-hour pre-conference online video conference meeting, where workshop organizers will provide access to datasets, organize topic areas with suggested teams (based on workshop applications, but these are flexible), and answer any questions. We will also point participants with specific interests to particular portions of the dataset. (For any participants who wish to explore qualitative methods – e.g., conduct interviews during workshop time – we will ask them to consider plans for this work at this point before the workshop.) We invite short applications of no more than 4 pages including references in the ACM Extended Abstract Format. A PDF-version of the Extended-Abstract-formatted application should be sent to CSCW17CommentWorkshop(a)gmail.com by 8:00pm PST on January 10th. --- Alex Leavitt, Ph.D. Quantitative UX Researcher, Facebook Research http://alexleavitt.com Twitter: @alexleavitt <http://twitter.com/alexleavitt>

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call for contributions, remixing Life O̶n̶l̶i̶n̶e̶
by Katrin Tiidenberg 05 Jan '17

05 Jan '17

Dear all, please join us / share with people who you think might be interested in this call. Call for contributions: Remixing Life O̶n̶l̶i̶n̶e̶ In 1998, Annette Markham proposed a framework of the internet as a tool, as a place and as a way of being. In the introduction of her book “Life Online: Researching Real Experience in Virtual Space” she writes: “I wanted to know why people spent so much time online. I wondered what cyberspace meant to them, how it affected or changed their lives. I wanted to know how they were making sense of their experiences as they shifted between being in the physical world and being in these textual worlds created by the exchange of messages, where they could re-create their bodies, or leave them behind. I decided to go online to talk with some of the people who spend extensive time there. In this book, I tell the story of what it took for me to get connected and of what and whom I encountered once I was there. Through my experiences and my conversations with others, I provide an interpretation of some of the ways users (including myself) are making sense of their experiences online.” Since 1995-6, when this research was conducted, various metaphors have thrived and dwindled to help us make sense of and explain our experiences with and in digital, web, internet-mediated, or technologically saturated contexts. Cyberspace and the Electronic Frontier gave way to The Information Superhighway. The Net became the World Wide Web, which morphed into social networks, networked societies, and convergence culture. What was once called digital is now often called smart. As the internet has become more mobile and ubiquitous, it is predominantly experienced as a way of being. We suggest this as a starting point for thinking about how people experience their everyday lives in the 21st century. We are now inviting collaboration for a book that extends Markham’s 1998 ethnographic work “Life Online.” We are inviting stories of life o̶n̶l̶i̶n̶e̶ twenty years later. This book will combine ethnographic accounts with evocative interludes. Thus, we welcome proposals for creative renderings in addition to more traditional qualitative or ethnographic scholarship. Please send a 250-300 word abstract for scholarly contributions or short proposals for creative pieces to katrin.tiidenberg(a)gmail.com <http://t.umblr.com/redirect?z=mailto%3Akatrin.tiidenberg%40gmail.com&t=Njg1…> by February 1, 2017. We anticipate that all collaborators will work closely to create something that is more like a co-created yet curated exhibition than a traditional edited volume of isolated pieces around a single theme. Therefore, if you have an idea in early stages of formation, please contact us to brainstorm. The book is curated by Annette Markham and Katrin Tiidenberg. It will be in English, but we hope to create a work that is both transnational and intersectional. The call is also available here:http://kkatot.tumblr.com/post/153912730442/call-for-contributions-remi… <http://kkatot.tumblr.com/post/153912730442/call-for-contributions-remixing-…> thank you, Kat Tiidenberg Aarhus University, postdoctoral researcher Tallinn University, Associate Professor of Social Media and Visual Culture @kkatot http://kkatot.tumblr.com/ <http://kkatot.tumblr.com/>

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