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Have Instagram data
by bartira lins 15 Nov '17

15 Nov '17

Hello, Il Will need to take data from Instagram and blogs for my research. I use nodexl, tags, R, but i dont know how to take thèse data. Some idea? Many thanks, Bartira Lins Doctoral student - Political Science UFPE

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Re: [Air-L] internet infrastructures?
by Zoetanya Sujon 15 Nov '17

15 Nov '17

Hello again Aoir, Just wanted to thank everyone for sharing such useful sources - all of them look really interesting and those I've been able to track down have been very helpful. There are a few other sources I've come across today which might also be helpful: Bratton, B. 2016. *The Stack: On Software and Sovereignty.* MIT Press Cath, C et al. 2017. Media Development in the Digital Age: Five ways to engage in internet governance, CIMA, https://www.cima.ned.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/CIMA-Internet-Governanc… Parks, L; Starosielski, N. 2015.* Signal Traffic: Critical Studies of Media Infrastructures*. University of Illinois Press Also, Nathaniel, I was particularly thinking about the technical / physical infrastructures, although very hard to completely separate out from the social, political, judicial, and governance levels. On that note, Shuli Hallak's photos are amazing! All best wishes, Zoe On Tue, Nov 14, 2017 at 5:35 PM, Alex Reiss Sorokin <rsalex(a)mit.edu> wrote: > I'm actually researching a related topic and stumbled upon this, which > might be useful: > > Christian Sandvig, *the Internet as Infrastructure*, in The Oxford > Handbook of Internet Studies (2013) > > Warm wishes, > Alex > ----------------------- > > Alex Reiss Sorokin > Massachusetts Institute of Technology > History | Anthropology | Science, Technology, and Society > > http://web.mit.edu/hasts/graduate/reiss_sorokin.html > > > > > On Nov 14, 2017, at 12:33 PM, Nathaniel Poor <natpoor(a)gmail.com> wrote: > > My initial thought (that I am sure everyone on the list had) was what is > understanding? Legal? Social? Technical? Hardware? But I think the > suggestions so far are good. > > I would add perhaps you might want some pictures — a friend of mine, Shuli > Hallak, is a professional photographer of infrastructures. Some of her work > focuses on the internet. This way you can have images in your mind about > what in the world we are all talking about in terms of its actual concrete > physicality, not just the more abstract social or technical concepts. Terms > like “the cloud” are easy to understand (for the cloud, at least, it > signals that you don’t need to understand whatever it is but it’s out there > somewhere — Mosco has a good recent book about it, “To The Cloud”), but > what does it look like? Since vision is such an important part of who we > are, this is not a bad idea I don’t think. > > > Here are the four sub-sections of her website with internet photos. Also, > mouse-over each image if you want for some descriptive text. > > Facebook, server farms…. > http://shulihallak.com/fb/ > > Subsea cable deployment from a ship. (I think she was on the ship the > entire time for the deployment, several days.) > http://shulihallak.com/subsea/ > > Fiber deployment in NYC: > http://shulihallak.com/fiber/ > > Interconnection facilities: > http://shulihallak.com/interconnect/ > > > > All her photos are pretty cool, the cargo ones (not internet) are really > impressive imho: http://shulihallak.com/cargo/ > I believe she actually rode on board for the entire trip, whatever it was > exactly. How cool is that! She’s amazing. > > -Nat > ------------------------------- > Nathaniel Poor, Ph.D. > http://github.com/natpoor > http://natpoor.blogspot.com/ > http://sites.google.com/site/natpoor/ > http://www.underwood-institute.org/ > > > On Nov 14, 2017, at 1:44 AM, Zoetanya Sujon <zoe.sujon(a)gmail.com> wrote: > > Good morning AoIR, > > I am looking for up-to-date resources for understanding the infrastructure > of the internet, including the role of mobile and telephone networks in > that infrastructure. > > As a starting point, I've looked at Janet Abbate's 'Inventing the Internet' > (2000) and Kurose and Ross's 'Computer Networking' (2013). I tend to focus > on the social/cultural aspects of the web, so this is a little outside my > own area of focus, and I fear I may be missing some basics. > > Any recommendations gratefully received! > > ____________________________ > Dr Zoetanya Sujon > > Senior Lecturer in Media Theory > > Secondment in Academic and Educational Development > School of Creative and Liberal Arts > > Regent's University London, Regent's Park, Inner Circle, London NW1 4NS > 020 3075 6180 | sujonz(a)regents.ac.uk > <https://mail.regents.ac.uk/owa/redir.aspx?C= > V91qkBM7U02Ve7tJXV85VcAHD1pxP9QIi1a0pohmb22R3CzV9vo2Nyk4_X_ > ebhT8ByRUA51o37s.&URL=mailto%3asujonz%40regents.ac.uk> > | @jetsumgerl <https://twitter.com/jetsumgerl?lang=en> | Blog: > <https://mail.regents.ac.uk/owa/redir.aspx?C= > V91qkBM7U02Ve7tJXV85VcAHD1pxP9QIi1a0pohmb22R3CzV9vo2Nyk4_X_ > ebhT8ByRUA51o37s.&URL=https%3a%2f%2fsujonz.wordpress.com%2f> > https://sujonz.wordpress.com/ > -- > 'You are marvellous. The Gods wait to delight in you.' ('The Laughing > Heart' by Charles Bukowski). > _______________________________________________ > 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/ > > > -- 'You are marvellous. The Gods wait to delight in you.' ('The Laughing Heart' by Charles Bukowski).

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Cyber Science 2018 Conference
by Lynsay Shepherd 15 Nov '17

15 Nov '17

Hi all *Apologies for any cross-posting* This might be of interest to some of you. Cyber Science 2018 will be held from 11-12 June 2018 in Glasgow, United Kingdom and will consist of 4 co-located conferences. One of these conferences, the International Conference on Social Media, Wearable and Web Analytics 2018 might be applicable to members of this mailing list (http://c-mric.org/sm2018) The conference proceedings will be listed in the IEEE Xplore Digital Library and other reputable bibliographic indexes. Authors of the best 20%-25% papers presented at the conference will be invited to adapt their papers for a publication in one of the special issue peer reviewed journals. Submission Deadline 26th January 2018 Conference Dates: 11-12 June 2018 Location: Glasgow If you have any questions, please drop me an email. Thanks Lynsay Local Publicity Chair, Cyber Science 2018 — Dr Lynsay Shepherd Lecturer Room 1556 Division of Cyber Security School of Design and Informatics Abertay University e: lynsay.shepherd(a)abertay.ac.uk<mailto:lynsay.shepherd@abertay.ac.uk> t: 01382 308 685 [Image: Abertay University] The UK's first national centre for excellence in computer games education Follow us: Web Site<http://www.abertay.ac.uk> | Facebook<https://www.facebook.com/AbertayUni> | Twitter<https://twitter.com/AbertayUni> | LinkedIn<https://www.linkedin.com/edu/school?id=12685> [Image: Race Equality Charter Bronze Award] Abertay University is an operating name of the University of Abertay Dundee, a charity registered in Scotland, No. SC016040. Any views or opinions expressed in this email and any attachments are solely those of the author and do not necessarily represent those of Abertay University. This email and any attachments may be confidential and are intended solely for the use of the intended recipient. If you are not the intended recipient, you must take no action based on the email or its attachments, nor must you copy or show them to anyone. Please contact the sender if you believe you have received this email in error.

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seeking Exec. Director for new Center/Consortium for Social Media Responsibility
by Paul Resnick 14 Nov '17

14 Nov '17

We are seeking to hire an executive director for a new center at the University of Michigan School of Information. Please encourage any potential candidates to apply! Link with more info about the job below. http://careers.umich.edu/job_detail/147969/executive_director_center_for_so… -- Paul Resnick Michael D. Cohen Collegiate Professor of Information Associate Dean for Research and Faculty Affairs University of Michigan School of Information

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Jobs: PhD and Postdoc positions in Data Justice at TILT
by Bryce Newell 14 Nov '17

14 Nov '17

Colleagues, Linnet Taylor, my friend and former colleague at the Tilburg Institute for Law, Technology, and Society (TILT) at Tilburg University (Netherlands) is hiring a Postdoc (http://bit.ly/2AETypz) and a PhD student/researcher ( http://bit.ly/2iUcYyG) for her five-year ERC project on Data Justice. More on the project is available here <https://linnettaylor.wordpress.com/2017/09/06/my-new-project-data-justice/> and here <https://linnettaylor.files.wordpress.com/2017/09/datajustice-project-brief.…> . She is particularly interested in finding great candidates from developing countries and/or those involved with relevant activist networks, but everyone with an interest and suitable background is welcome to apply. The deadline for applications is 30 December 2017. Please contact Linnet directly with questions (her email is listed in both jobs ads linked to above). Regards, Bryce -- *Bryce Clayton Newell, JD, PhD* Assistant Professor, School of Information Science <http://ci.uky.edu/sis/> College of Communication and Information University of Kentucky @newmedialaw <http://twitter.com/newmedialaw> | www.bcnewell.com Google Scholar <https://scholar.google.com/citations?hl=en&user=7kICf7kAAAAJ> | ResearchGate <https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Bryce_Newell> | SSRN <http://ssrn.com/author=1576462>

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internet infrastructures?
by Zoetanya Sujon 14 Nov '17

14 Nov '17

Good morning AoIR, I am looking for up-to-date resources for understanding the infrastructure of the internet, including the role of mobile and telephone networks in that infrastructure. As a starting point, I've looked at Janet Abbate's 'Inventing the Internet' (2000) and Kurose and Ross's 'Computer Networking' (2013). I tend to focus on the social/cultural aspects of the web, so this is a little outside my own area of focus, and I fear I may be missing some basics. Any recommendations gratefully received! ____________________________ Dr Zoetanya Sujon Senior Lecturer in Media Theory Secondment in Academic and Educational Development School of Creative and Liberal Arts Regent's University London, Regent's Park, Inner Circle, London NW1 4NS 020 3075 6180 | sujonz(a)regents.ac.uk <https://mail.regents.ac.uk/owa/redir.aspx?C=V91qkBM7U02Ve7tJXV85VcAHD1pxP9Q…> | @jetsumgerl <https://twitter.com/jetsumgerl?lang=en> | Blog: <https://mail.regents.ac.uk/owa/redir.aspx?C=V91qkBM7U02Ve7tJXV85VcAHD1pxP9Q…> https://sujonz.wordpress.com/ -- 'You are marvellous. The Gods wait to delight in you.' ('The Laughing Heart' by Charles Bukowski).

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Matthew Fuller Software Studies Book Launch 24 November Birkbeck
by Joel McKim 14 Nov '17

14 Nov '17

The Vasari Research Centre for Art and Technology at Birkbeck is pleased to invite you to an upcoming event involving many of the key figures in contemporary software studies. The event is free, but please do register via the Eventbrite link below. All best wishes and apologies for cross-posting, Joel *Matthew Fuller How To be a Geek: Essays on the Culture of Software Book Launch – 24th November, Birkbeck* What would an adequate cultural theory of the changes brought about by computing look like? How would it work in relation to established forms of cultural and technical knowledge? What are the aesthetic and political dimensions of things such as algorithms, interfaces, encryption, and programming languages? The diversity and richness of computational processes and structures, as well as their commanding economic and political position, requires engaged and technically informed critical investigation and invention. To mark the publication of Matthew Fuller's new collection of essays *How To Be a Geek: Essays on the Culture of Software*, a panel of co-authors and collaborators on various chapters in this book will convene to present brief overviews of their work in this area. A wine reception will follow the presentations. Matthew Fuller (Goldsmiths, author of *Media Ecologies: Materialist Energies in Art and Technoculture* and co-author of *Evil Media*) M. Beatrice Fazi (Sussex Humanities Lab, author of *Contingent Computation: Abstraction, Experience and Indeterminacy in Computational Aesthetics*) Andrew Goffey (University of Nottingham, co-author of *Evil Media*) Olga Goriunova (Royal Holloway, author of *Art Platforms and Cultural Production on the Internet*) Graham Harwood (Goldsmiths, and YoHa.co.uk) Adrian Mackenzie (Lancaster, author of *Machine Learners*) Nikita Mazurov (Malmo University and SecDev) https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/how-to-be-a-geek-essays-on-the-culture-of-so… http://www.bbk.ac.uk/vasari/ Dr. Joel McKim Lecturer in Media and Cultural Studies Co-Director BA Media and Culture and MA Digital Media Director of Vasari Research Centre for Art and Technology Department of Film, Media and Cultural Studies Birkbeck, University of London 43 Gordon Square, London WC1H 0PD

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4 x six-month post-doc positions + training: ‘Data, Diversity and Inequality in the Creative Industries’
by Helen Kennedy 14 Nov '17

14 Nov '17

*Data, Diversity and Inequality* *in the Creative Industries *is an AHRC-funded project based at the Universities of Leeds, Sheffield, and York. We are recruiting four, six-month Creative Economy Engagement Fellows to start in January 2018 or as soon as possible thereafter. The project aims to explore data about creative industry workers and audiences in order to understand patterns (for example of diversity and inequality) within the sector. The four Creative Economy Engagement Fellows will each work with one partner organization to devise and implement data exploration that is relevant to partners, with supervision and training from the proposing team. You will work in partnership with organizations in the creative economy and will spend time in those organizations. Partnerships can be set up by the Fellows themselves or by the project team. This is an excellent opportunity for recent postdocs to engage in training, develop skills, and gain experience of working with creative industries. These roles will be based at: - Sheffield Methods Institute and Digital Society Network at the University of Sheffield (contacts Mark Taylor and Helen Kennedy) - School of Media & Communications, University of Leeds (contact Kate Oakley) - Digital Creativity Labs, University of York (contact Darren Reed). To apply for one of the two posts at Sheffield, visit https://www.sheffield.ac.uk/jobs and search ‘Creative Economy Engagement Fellow’. To apply for the posts at Leeds and York, visit their jobs pages or contact the staff named above. We hope to interview for all posts on 6th December 2017, and for successful candidates to start as soon as possible in 2018. -- 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 ARTICLE: *'*The Feeling of Numbers: emotions in everyday engagements with data and their visualisation <http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/0038038516674675?journalCode=so…>', *Sociology*, 2017.

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Reminder: Digital Methods Winter School 2018 -- Call for Participation
by Fernando van der Vlist 14 Nov '17

14 Nov '17

Dear all, The Digital Methods Initiative (DMI) will host its 10th annual Digital Methods Winter School from January 8-12, 2018 at the University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands. Below please find the call for participation. This year's theme is: "The Social Lives of Digital Methods: Encounters, Experiments, Interventions". The deadline for application is December 7, 2017. More information is available at https://bit.ly/dmi18-ws-call or email to winterschool(a)digitalmethods.net . Best regards, Fernando van der Vlist -- # CALL FOR PARTICIPATION # DIGITAL METHODS WINTER SCHOOL 2018 # JANUARY 8-12, 2018 # UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM # THE SOCIAL LIVES OF DIGITAL METHODS # ENCOUNTERS, EXPERIMENTS, INTERVENTIONS -- ## DIGITAL METHODS WINTER SCHOOL, DATA SPRINT AND MINI-CONFERENCE The Digital Methods Initiative (DMI), Amsterdam, is holding its annual Winter School on 'the Social Lives of Digital Methods: Encounters, Experiments, Interventions.' The format is that of a (social media and web) data sprint, with hands-on work for telling stories with data, together with a programme of keynote speakers and a Mini-conference, where PhD candidates, motivated scholars and advanced graduate students present short papers on digital methods and new media related topics, and receive feedback from the Amsterdam DMI researchers and international participants. Participants need not give a paper at the Mini-conference to attend the Winter School. For a preview of what the event is like, please view short video clips from a previous edition of the Summer School, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5nTxwl_kA5I. Over the past decade digital methods of various kinds have been put to use by data journalists, national ministries, non-governmental organisations, city governments, media artists, police departments, international organisations, philanthropic funding agencies in the service of a wide variety of projects and objectives. Within the academy digital methods have spread from researchers of the internet, new media and computational culture, leading to encounters and experiments with a wide range of disciplines in the humanities and social sciences, working with their own publics, partners, questions, concerns and modes of inquiry with and about the digital. That one may intervene with digital methods is clear, but the question concerns the positioning. Extremism and counter-terrorism units may wish to map online networks of groups and individuals. Under which circumstances and with which ethics to act? City governments may be interested in how to use platform data to inform their responses to emerging "gig" and "sharing" economies said to be changing the character of housing, transport and work. When an analyst finds concrete instances of over-renting properties, does one share the findings and if so how? Non-governmental organisations would like to know whether their anti-fossil fuel campaigns are reaching audiences outside of their own bubbles. How to make such questions relevant for academic research? Funders would like an issue area and the stakeholders mapped, but what if one finds that the funders are overdetermining the agenda of the field? How might the style of digital methods work on secure messaging apps vary, depending on whether the audience is critical media scholars, privacy advocates or public institutions? Researchers in fields such as science and technology studies and ethnomethodology have long pointed out that methods are not only used by researchers to study social life, they are also a part of social life (see, e.g. Garfinkel, 1984). This notion has been further elaborated and explored through a more recent agenda on the "social life of methods" (Ruppert, Law, & Savage, 2013). Digital methods and data projects can be used to create not only novel styles of analysis, but also different kinds of "interactivity" (Marres, 2017) -- from involving those who are researched in the research process, to different forms of participatory design, public involvement and experimentation. Such encounters may produce changes in the analytical interests and approaches of both researchers and practitioners, and may be considered a substantive part of the research process, rather than a communicative afterthought. At the 2018 Digital Methods Winter School we would like to put forward positioning practices that address working with practitioners together with the projects (and data sets) they bring along. The Winter School has as its goal to take stock and tell stories of interventions and the positionings one was able to take up. How to navigate the space between scholarly research, practitioner expectation and critical output? Additionally the Winter School will make interventions, working together with 'publics with an ask'. ## DIGITAL METHODS MINI-CONFERENCE AT THE WINTER SCHOOL The annual Digital Methods Mini-Conference at the Winter School, normally a one-day affair, provides the opportunity for digital methods and allied researchers to present short yet complete papers (5,000-7,500 words) and serve as respondents, providing feedback. Often the work presented follows from previous Digital Methods Summer Schools. The mini-conference accepts papers in the general digital methods and allied areas: the hyperlink and other natively digital objects, the website as archived object, web historiographies, search engine critique, Google as globalizing machine, cross-spherical analysis and other approaches to comparative media studies, device cultures, national web studies, Wikipedia as cultural reference, the technicity of (networked) content, post-demographics, platform studies, crawling and scraping, graphing and clouding, and similar. ## APPLICATIONS: KEY DATES The deadline for application is 7 December 2017. To apply please send along a letter of motivation, your CV (including postal address), a headshot photo, 100-word bio as well as a copy of your passport (details page only). Notifications of acceptance will be sent on 8 December. If you are participating in the mini-conference the deadline for submission of your paper is 2 January. The mini-conference takes place on Friday 12 January 2018. Please send your mini-conference paper to winterschool@digitalmethods. net . To attend the Winter School, you need not participate in the mini-conference. The full program and schedule of the Winter School and Mini-conference are available on 4 January 2018. -- ## More information: https://wiki.digitalmethods.net/Dmi/WinterSchool2018 -- Fernando N. van der Vlist Research Associate, Collaborative Research Centre "Media of Cooperation", University of Siegen Research Associate, Digital Methods Initiative, University of Amsterdam Lecturer, New Media and Digital Culture, University of Amsterdam fernandovandervlist.nl https://www.fernandovandervlist.nl/ App Studies Initiative http://appstudies.org/

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Re: [Air-L] Air-L Digest, Vol 160, Issue 16
by Uta Meier-Hahn 14 Nov '17

14 Nov '17

Hi Zoetanya, +1 for Ashwin Mathew’s dissertation. My own research goes in a similar direction. I look at how Internet engineers manufacture Internet connectivity, using theoretical frameworks from economic sociology. This talk at the recent RIPE Meeting will give you an idea: https://ripe75.ripe.net/archives/video/101/ <https://ripe75.ripe.net/archives/video/101/> In the extended blog posts below, I am also highlighting some empirical findings: * When Internet interconnection trouble occurrs, immediate coordination kicks in - https://policyreview.info/articles/news/when-internet-interconnection-troub… <https://policyreview.info/articles/news/when-internet-interconnection-troub…> * The secrets of de-peering - https://labs.ripe.net/Members/uta_meier_hahn/the-secrets-of-de-peering <https://labs.ripe.net/Members/uta_meier_hahn/the-secrets-of-de-peering> * The Internet was built on trust. But what does it run on? - https://labs.ripe.net/Members/uta_meier_hahn/the-internet-was-built-on-trus… <https://labs.ripe.net/Members/uta_meier_hahn/the-internet-was-built-on-trus…> * Exploring the Regulatory Conditions of Internet Interconnection – A Survey Among Internet Interconnection Professionals - https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2740312 <https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2740312> Regarding your specific interest in mobile networks, I cannot help, but would be interested in literature myself. Best wishes, Uta Uta Meier-Hahn Doctoral Researcher Alexander von Humboldt Institute for Internet and Society, Berlin Alexander von Humboldt Institut für Internet für Internet und Gesellschaft | Gesellschaftssitz Berlin | Amtsgericht Berlin Charlottenburg | HRB 140911B | USt-ID DE 27/601/54619 | Geschäftsführung: Prof. Dr. Jeanette Hofmann, Prof. Dr. Dr. Ingolf Pernice, Prof. Dr. Dr. Thomas Schildhauer, Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Schulz, Dr. Karina Preiß > Am 14.11.2017 um 11:45 schrieb air-l-request(a)listserv.aoir.org: > > I am looking for up-to-date resources for understanding the infrastructure > of the internet, including the role of mobile and telephone networks in > that infrastructure. > > As a starting point, I've looked at Janet Abbate's 'Inventing the Internet' > (2000) and Kurose and Ross's 'Computer Networking' (2013). I tend to focus > on the social/cultural aspects of the web, so this is a little outside my > own area of focus, and I fear I may be missing some basics. > > Any recommendations gratefully received!

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