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Deadline extended - CFP AAG 2018, Making Smarter Environments: The Environmental Politics and Practices of Smart Cities
by ryan burns 04 Oct '17

04 Oct '17

Hello all, Please find below our CFP for the 2018 American Association of Geographers Meeting in New Orleans below. Best, Ryan --- Within smart cities debates, the dominant discourse suggests that smart technologies will improve sustainability, efficiency, and environmental control, yet much of these claims have been taken for granted, furthering post-political urban environmentalism. We see this as an opportunity for critical geographers and political ecologists to investigate the politics of urban environmentalism at the nexus of big data, smart technologies, and data-driven governance. Recent work has brought attention to these issues. For example, Gabrys (2014) identifies the ways in which smart cities enroll environments - surroundings, natural processes, and technological milieu - to shape the range of possible ways of being in the city. Likewise, Luque-Ayala and Marvin’s (2016) work on urban atmospheric control and “nowcasting” shows how computational power extends a logic of control onto natural processes, such as storm surges and flooding in the city. Recent work on “environmental big data” has also pushed forward concerns about the practices, devices, and subjects involved with environmental monitoring, raising new questions about epistemologies and ontologies of nature in the city as well as the politics of socio-environmental control (Gabrys 2016; Lippert 2016; Garnett 2016; Fortun et al 2016). Critical questions are still to be answered, however, as smart cities and IoT agendas proliferate. They include questions of the decision-making practices around the geographic-ecological placements of data centers, the implications of sensors for real-time monitoring of air and water pollution, and the nature of the performativity and social construction of open data categories such as "environmental" data. To this end, we are soliciting abstracts for a series of organized sessions to be held at the annual meeting of the American Association of Geographers, to be held April 10-14 in New Orleans, LA. We would be particularly interested in work addressing the following topics, although we are in no way limiting our solicitation to this list: - How do smart cities and/or urban data mobilize particular conceptions of “the environment”, and what are the implications of this process? - What are the politics and environmental considerations/limitations around the locations of data centers or other data infrastructures? - What sorts of more-than-human assemblages are enrolled to understand, manage, and respond to smart cities’ environmental implications? - What roles do smart infrastructures play in the production, management, representation, extraction of value, and economies of “natures”? - How does “environmental stewardship” and “corporate responsibility” play into discourses of smart cities’ environmental implications? - How are particular publics “called into being” by smart infrastructures in response to socio-environmental concerns? - How are environmental justice movements mobilizing smart technologies or environmental data to fight injustices? Fortun, K., Poirier, L., Morgan, A., Costelloe-Kuehn, B., & Fortun, M. (2016). Pushback: Critical data designers and pollution politics. Big Data & Society, 3(2), 2053951716668903. Gabrys, J. (2014). Programming environments: environmentality and citizen sensing in the smart city. Environment and Planning D: Society and Space, 32(1), 30-48. Gabrys, J., Pritchard, H., & Barratt, B. (2016). Just good enough data: Figuring data citizenships through air pollution sensing and data stories. Big Data & Society, 3(2), 2053951716679677. Garnett, E. (2016). Developing a feeling for error: Practices of monitoring and modelling air pollution data. Big Data & Society, 3(2), 2053951716658061. Lippert, I. (2016). Failing the market, failing deliberative democracy: How scaling up corporate carbon reporting proliferates information asymmetries. Big Data & Society, 3(2), 2053951716673390. Luque-Ayala, A. & Marvin S. (2016). Urban Atmospheric Control: Nowcasting and the Modulation of Infrastructure. Presentation at 2016 AAG. Participants should send abstracts to both Anthony Levenda ( anthony.levenda(a)ucalgary.ca) and Ryan Burns (ryan.burns1(a)ucalgary.ca) by October 17th. -- Ryan Burns, PhD Dept of Geography University of Calgary http://burnsr77.github.io

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CFP: AAG 2018 Popular Geopolitics across multiple mediums
by Darren Purcell 04 Oct '17

04 Oct '17

CFP: AAG 2018 Popular Geopolitics across multiple mediums Session organizers: Katrinka Somdahl-Sands & Darren Purcell Popular geopolitics is a subfield of geopolitics, which studies how cultural products intervene in the pre-existing geopolitical practices. Most of the popular geopolitics literature has focused on the scale of the state and how popular culture influences ideas of nationalism. Papers of that kind are welcome to submit for inclusion, however in this panel we are also looking for papers that look at different scales, multiple media forms, and those that push past the Anglo-American centric analyses that have dominated the subdiscipline. Those interested please send your abstract and pin to somdahl-sands(a)rowan.edu by October 15th, 2017 -------------------------------------------------------- Darren Purcell Associate Professor Dept. of Geography and Environmental Sustainability <http://geography.ou.edu> Film and Media Studies <http://cas.ou.edu/fms/> Affiliate Faculty AAG <http://www.aag.org> regional councilor for SWAAG <http://www.sw-aag.org/> University of Oklahoma Email: dpurcell(a)ou.edu http://darrenpurcell.us Twitter - @profpurcell Google Scholar Profile <http://scholar.google.com/citations?user=UHLQWCUAAAAJ&hl=en> Skype: profpurcell

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WEBCAST THURS: NY-Metro Joint Cyber Security Conference inc. Olaf Kolkman keynote
by Joly MacFie 03 Oct '17

03 Oct '17

It's very exciting to have *Olaf Kolkman* back in NYC to help launch *National Cyber-Security Awareness Month* <https://www.dhs.gov/national-cyber-security-awareness-month>. His major theme will be *IoT*, but he will hopefully touch on other issues such as the recent *KSK rollover postponement* <https://www.internetsociety.org/blog/2017/09/icann-postpones-dnssec-root-ks…>. He'll be on at 9am (13:00 UTC) There are plenty of other great sessions across the day. New post on *ISOC-NY NOTICE BOARD* [image: NYMJCSC] <http://nymjcsc.org/>On *Thusday October 5 2017* the *NY-Metro Joint Cyber Security Conference <http://www.nymjcsc.org/>* will take place in NYC, featuring an opening keynote by* Internet Society Chief Internet Technology Officer* *Olaf Kolkman <https://www.internetsociety.org/author/kolkman/>*. The *NYMJCSC* is an annual collaborative event cooperatively developed, organized and sponsored by the leading area information security industry organizations and chapters, including *InfraGard <http://www.nym-infragard.us/>*, *ISACA <http://www.isaca.org/chapters2/new-york-metropolitan/Pages/default.aspx>*, *OWASP <https://www.meetup.com/OWASP-NYC/>*,* (ISC)2 <https://isc2chapternj.org/>* , *ISSA <http://www.nymissa.org/>*, *HTCIA <https://htcia.org/>, *and* ISOC-NY <http://isoc-ny.org/>*in support of the Department of Homeland Security's *Cyber-Security Awareness Month <https://www.dhs.gov/national-cyber-security-awareness-month> (NCSAM)*. The conference will be webcast live via the *Internet Society Livestream Channels <http://bit.ly/nymjcsc17>.*. Please *register <https://www.eventbrite.com/e/new-york-metro-joint-cyber-security-conference…>* for the webcast (free). *What: NY-Metro Joint Cyber-Security Conference 2016 <http://www.nymjcsc.org/>Where: Microsoft Tech Center, NYCWhen: Thursday October 5 2017 9am - 5:30pm EDT | 13:00-21:00 UTCAgenda: http://nymjcsc.org/schedule/ <http://nymjcsc.org/schedule/>Webcast: http://bit.ly/nymjcsc17 <http://bit.ly/nymjcsc17>Twitter: #nymjcsc http://bit.ly/nymjcsctweets <http://bit.ly/nymjcsctweets>* Comment <http://isoc-ny.org/p2/9424#respond> See all comments <http://isoc-ny.org/p2/9424#comments> *Permalink* http://isoc-ny.org/p2/9424 -- --------------------------------------------------------------- Joly MacFie 218 565 9365 Skype:punkcast -------------------------------------------------------------- -

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Public event on "Studying the Social Life of Fake News Online", King's College London, Wed 11th October, 6-7.30pm
by Gray, Jonathan 03 Oct '17

03 Oct '17

For those of you near London, we’re hosting a public event on "Studying the Social Life of Fake News Online" at King's College London, Wed 11th October, 6-7.30pm. Further details are copied below and at the following link (where you can also register): http://sociallifefakenews.eventbrite.co.uk https://twitter.com/kingsdh/status/915194927100960768 This draws on the Field Guide to Fake News by a network of researchers around the Public Data Lab<http://publicdatalab.org/>, which we’re currently developing into a book project: http://fakenews.publicdatalab.org/ Any help in sharing this to relevant friends and colleagues would be much appreciated. All the best, Jonathan -- Jonathan Gray | jonathangray.org<http://jonathangray.org/> | @jwyg<http://twitter.com/jwyg> Lecturer in Critical Infrastructure Studies Department of Digital Humanities King’s College London DESCRIPTION How can fake news be studied? What can we learn from efforts to map and understand the production, circulation and reception of fake news online? At this event two leading digital methods researchers – Tommaso Venturini<http://www.tommasoventurini.it/> and Liliana Bounegru<http://lilianabounegru.org/> – will present new empirical research on fake news and misinformation online, including the Public Data Lab<http://publicdatalab.org/>'s Field Guide to Fake News<http://fakenews.publicdatalab.org/>. Studying the social life of fake news tells us not only about the practices of misinformation producers and the counter-responses of debunkers. We can also learn about the broader effects and dynamics of online platforms and digital media ecosystems in organising public deliberation, attention, culture and politics in the contemporary moment. The event will be hosted by Mark Coté<https://www.kcl.ac.uk/artshums/depts/ddh/people/academic/cote/index.aspx> and Jonathan Gray<http://jonathangray.org/> at the Department for Digital Humanities<https://www.kcl.ac.uk/artshums/depts/ddh/index.aspx>, King's College London<http://kcl.ac.uk/>. On the Study of Popular Subjects or Confessions of a Fake News Scholar - Tommaso Venturini Because of their relative simplicity (fake stories are usually "flatter" than ordinary news stories), their exaggeration (which makes it easier to detect and follow them), their geographical diffusion (scholars have identified examples of it in most countries of the world), their rapid reproduction and elevated mutation rate (fake news rise and fall in weeks and often in days), fake news may be the drosophila melanogaster of media studies. The drosophila is a little and relatively common fly (often found around ripe fruits), which assumed a crucial importance in the history of genetics. Because of reasons similar to the ones just listed, the drosophila became the ‘model organism’ for genetic research allowing to qualify and quantify a series of intuitions about gene reproduction (Kohler, 1994). As the drosophila facilitated the birth of experimental chromosome mapping, so fake news may help the development of new forms of empiricalmedia mapping. Not unlike rumours, digital viral contents provide a perfect illustration of the mechanism through which social phenomena are constructed according to Gabriel Tarde (1890). In his famous dispute with Emile Durkheim, Tarde refused the idea that underlying structures were the basis of social phenomena and claimed instead that their existence was to be searched in the imitation and alteration of individual behaviours (Latour, 2002). Tarde, however, found it difficult to defend its position empirically, because the research methods available at the time did not allow to follow the transmission and transformation of collective actions at the scale and with the sharpness demanded by his argument. This may be possible today thanks to the capacity of digital technologies to store and retrieve each of these movements of diffusion and mutation (Latour et al., 2012 and Boullier, 2015). This paper will illustrate the opportunity offered by viral news to map the ‘regimes’ of circulation and mutation occurring of contemporary media systems by analysing two empirical case studies from the latest French presidential election: the “Macron is gay” hoax and the “Penelope Fillon” scandal. Tommaso Venturini is recipient of the of an advanced research fellowship of INRIA (French Institute for Research in Computer Science and Automation) to work on social modelling at the Institut des Systèmes Complexes Rhône-Alpes. He is also a co-founder of and associate researcher at the médialab<http://medialab.sciences-po.fr/> of Sciences Po (Paris), and co-founder of the Public Data Lab<http://publicdatalab.org/>. More about him can be found on his website at tommasoventurini.it<http://www.tommasoventurini.it/wp/> and he is on Twitter at @tommasoventurin<https://twitter.com/tommasoventurin>. Fake News in Digital Culture – Liliana Bounegru This talk will present findings, challenges and lessons learned from a series of collaborative research projects examining fake news as a digital culture phenomenon. The projects were undertaken by the Public Data Lab, an interdisciplinary network convening researchers from digital humanities, media studies, Internet studies, digital sociology, and science and technology studies to facilitate research, public debate and engagement around the future of the data society. The talk draws on two publications. The first is A Field Guide to Fake News, which explores the use of digital methods to trace the production, circulation and reception of fake news online and which received media mentions in the New York Times, BuzzFeed News, NRC, Der Standard and Columbia Journalism Review. The second is Five Provocations About Fake News, a forthcoming research article drawing on insights and cautionary tales from science and technology studies to challenge some of the themes and assumptions that underlie current research and debates around fake news and proposing some concepts and analytical lenses to support future empirical social research around this topic. Liliana Bounegru is a joint doctoral candidate in the Communication Sciences department at Ghent University, Belgium and the Media Studies and Journalism department at the University of Groningen, the Netherlands. Her research examines the extension of digital platforms and datafication into journalism. She is also co-founder of the Public Data Lab, member of the Digital Methods Initiative (University of Amsterdam) and research associate at the médialab (Sciences Po, Paris). More about her can be found at lilianabounegru.org<http://lilianabounegru.org/>and and she is on Twitter at @bb_liliana<http://twitter.com/bb_liliana>.

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Definitions for Social Media Sites
by Hayes, Rebecca M 03 Oct '17

03 Oct '17

First of all I have found this group to be an amazing resource. So thank you. Second, I am a criminologist who researches social media, so I am still learning. That said, I am looking for a good and trusted academic resource for definitions for social media sites. It could be a book, or a website, but I am attempting to provide appropriate definitions for reddit, 4chan, YikYak, etc. What is a go-to source for that? Thank you in advance! Best, Becky Rebecca Hayes, Ph.D. Sociology, Anthropology & Social Work Central Michigan University

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Job Ad -CAMRI Policy Observatory Research Fellow
by Anastasia Kavada 02 Oct '17

02 Oct '17

CAMRI Policy Observatory Research Fellow (Fixed Term - 9 months , Part Time - 0.8 fraction) Ref. 50048490 Salary: £31,602 (incl. L.W.A.) Department: Westminster School of Media, Arts and Design Location: Central London https://vacancies.westminster.ac.uk/Hrvacancies/default.aspx?id=50048490 http://www.jobs.ac.uk/job/BEL523/camri-policy-observatory-research-fellow/ The University of Westminster is well-known for its academic excellence in the study of media and communication and its vibrant and diverse research environment. The Communication and Media Research Institute (CAMRI) has been a leading centre of media and communications research in the UK for almost 30 years. In the most recent Research Excellence Framework (REF 2014), 52 per cent of our research was judged to be "world-leading", with 87 per cent of the total rated "internationally excellent". The CAMRI Policy Observatory Research Fellow will work in the newly launched CAMRI Policy Observatory. The post will involve monitoring the policy environment nationally and internationally and mapping important policy issues; identifying key policy areas where CAMRI members can make interventions; cultivating links with policy stakeholders (including civil society); producing policy briefings for key policy areas; aiding CAMRI members in the organisation and publicity of networking events with policy-makers; publicising our impact on policy through blog posts on the CAMRI blog or social media activity; identifying funding opportunities and applying for funding for the CAMRI Policy Observatory. Successful applicants will have PhD or the equivalent in professional qualifications and experience. A high level of analytical capability, as well as the ability to communicate information clearly are also essential. Job reference number: 50048490 Closing date: 18 October 2017 Interviews are likely to be held on: 30 October 2017 Administrative contact (for queries only): Recruitment(a)westminster.ac.uk<mailto:Recruitment@westminster.ac.uk> Please note: We are unable to accept any applications by email. All applications must be made online. CVs in isolation or incomplete application forms will also not be accepted. The University of Westminster is a charity and a company limited by guarantee. Registration number: 977818 England. Registered Office: 309 Regent Street, London W1B 2UW. This message and its attachments are private and confidential. If you have received this message in error, please notify the sender and remove it and its attachments from your system.

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