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Academic Jobs: Senior Lecturer in Social Media & Communications , Lecturer in Media and Lecturer in Radio at Macquarie University
by Margie Borschke 03 Feb '17

03 Feb '17

Three full time continuing positions in the Department of Media Music Communication and Cultural Studies at Macquarie University<http://jobs.mq.edu.au/cw/en/listing/> in Sydney! Senior Lecturer in Social Media and Communications (closes Feb 27) http://jobs.mq.edu.au/cw/en/job/499806/senior-lecturer-in-social-media-and-… The Department currently has an opportunity for a Senior Lecturer with scholarly expertise in social media and communications (including knowledge around mobile technologies, digital culture, convergence, media innovation and networked communication). This position will teach across a number of key media-communications units and produce high quality research in this field, and come with a national and international research profile. This position is crucial to ensuring graduates are appropriately skilled to be successful in a fast evolving media environment. Lecturer in Media (closes March 26) http://jobs.mq.edu.au/cw/en/job/500401/lecturer-in-media The Department currently has an opportunity for a Lecturer with scholarly expertise in media (including at least two areas of expertise around media theory and/or media technologies and/or film-visual theory, and/or media communications). This position will teach across a number of key media, film/visual theory and mass communication units and produce high quality research in this field. This position is crucial to ensuring graduates are appropriately skilled to be successful in a fast evolving media environment. Lecturer in Radio (Closes February 19) http://jobs.mq.edu.au/cw/en/job/498750/lecturer-in-radio The Department currently has an opportunity for a Lecturer with scholarly expertise in Radio theory and production. The successful applicant will be expected to make a contribution to research; teach units in related disciplines within MMCCS at an undergraduate and postgraduate level. The applicant will also be expected to contribute to the administration of the Department, Faculty and University. Regards, Margie Borschke Senior Lecturer, Journalism and Media Postgraduate Coursework Director Department of Media, Music, Communication and Cultural Studies Room 159, Y3A Building Macquarie University, NSW 2109, Australia T: +61 (2) 9850 2159 | M: + 61 425 226 705 E: margie.borschke(a)mq.edu.au | mq.edu.au<http://mq.edu.au> [Macquarie University]<http://mq.edu.au> CRICOS Provider 00002J. Think before you print. Please consider the environment before printing this email. This message is intended for the addressee named and may contain confidential information. If you are not the intended recipient, please delete the message and notify the sender. Views expressed in this message are those of the individual sender and are not necessarily the views of Macquarie University and its controlled entities.

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NYU Information Law Institute Research Fellowships Available for 2017-18
by Seda Guerses 02 Feb '17

02 Feb '17

I can only recommend applying to this position! Best, s. > > > NYU Information Law Institute Research Fellowships Available for 2017-18 > > The Information Law Institute <http://www.law.nyu.edu/centers/ili> at NYU is accepting applications for research fellowships to begin in Fall 2017. The initial fellowship term is for one year, with the possibility of renewal for a second year. Applicants should hold a law degree or a Ph.D. in a relevant area, and show interest and promise in conducting research and writing. We will give preference to applicants with demonstrated interest in ILI areas of focus, including privacy, algorithms and automated decision-making, and information/data ethics and politics. > > Research fellows will devote time to their own research, to collaborative projects, and to planning ILI events. Teaching may be an option, depending on availability and interest. Collaborative projects will be supervised by ILI faculty. > > Fellows are expected to reside in the New York area, participate in Information Law Institute activities, attend weekly meetings of ILI’s multidisciplinary Privacy Research Group <http://www.law.nyu.edu/centers/ili/privacy_research_group>, and participate in regular Fellows’ meetings. They will also have ample opportunity to interact with faculty in the School of Law and other departments at NYU, and to take part in the lively intellectual life of the university and New York City. > > Applications (by email) and inquiries should be addressed to ILI administrator Nicole Arzt, nicole.arzt(a)nyu.edu <mailto:nicole.arzt@nyu.edu>, and should include: a CV, copies of 2 relevant publications or writing samples, a transcript of graduate work (unofficial is acceptable), the names and contact information of three references, and a cover letter summarizing the candidate’s relevant background and accomplishments and outlining his or her perceived fit with the ILI. We will begin reviewing applications on February 15 and continue until the positions are filled. > > Further information about the ILI and the Privacy Research Group, can be found at, http://www.law.nyu.edu/centers/ili/index.htm <http://www.law.nyu.edu/centers/ili/index.htm>. > > ** NYU is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer ** > Helen Nissenbaum, Professor > NYU + Cornell Tech > http://www.nyu.edu/projects/nissenbaum/ <http://www.nyu.edu/projects/nissenbaum/>

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Denver 2017 Media & Career Workshop "Finding Your Voice"
by Dr Samita Nandy 02 Feb '17

02 Feb '17

*The following media & career workshop might be of interest to Internet studies scholars examining social media. * *CFP deadline: February 15, 2017 *www.esicore.org/events/denver2017.html *Centre for Ecological, Social, and Informatics Cognitive Research (ESI.CORE) * *Inaugural Moving Forward International Conference * *Moving Forward: Where is the Journalist in Social Media?* *Metropolitan State University of Denver Denver, Colorado June 23-24, 2017* *Featured Media Workshop * “Finding Your Voice: Being Heard in the Press Rather than Being Part of the Herd” http://www.esicore.org/events/denverworkshop2017.html @esicore <http://www.twitter.com/esicore> On May 7, 2004, *The New York Times *printed: “Most people, having given up on getting a set of unadorned facts, align themselves with whichever spin outlet seems comfortable.” In this two-hour workshop, participants will learn how the traditional news media industry works and how to be heard by press outlets and fellow citizens. Those in attendance will also learn how to deal with social media news consumers who often operate without a complete informational picture. Find out how to be both a critical consumer of the news and an active participant in societal debates in this innovative workshop. *Key Speakers* *Josh Nathan* graduated from Northwestern University, Magna cum Laude, in Journalism before spending 10 years working on-air as a television reporter and a National Weather Association certified meteorologist. His final position in TV was with the NBC affiliate in Hawaii, where he was also finishing his graduate degree. A professor with The Art Institutes in Critical Thinking and Communication, he began teaching for the University of Colorado Denver last year. He serves as an Academic Critic for the Centre for Media and Celebrity Studies (CMCS) and is co-chair of its NYC 2017 conference. Quoted on a variety of subjects in international forums with several journal publications to his credit, Nathan wrote his first book about the ways in which news changes the collective memory of events, altering historical narratives. His second book, *Too Mad to Trust *(2015), was a departure aimed at curbing rising communicative disorders in children, and he is currently completing his PhD in Education and Human Resource Studies at Colorado State University. *William Huddy* earned his Ph.D. in Communication Studies from the University of Denver (2012). Prior to academia, Huddy worked as a journalist and anchored television newscasts in Colorado Springs, Colorado, El Paso, Texas, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, and Fort Myers, Florida. He’s a Past-President (2007) of the Rocky Mountain Communication Association, and an active member of the National Communication Association since 2001. He teaches Political and Campaign Communication, Communication Research and Theory Building, Interpersonal Communication and Public Speaking at Metropolitan State University of Denver (since 2013), with a research focus on student engagement and communication activism. His most recent publication came from the Sept. 2-3, 2015 Centre for Media and Celebrity Studies Conference presentation of his paper, “Corporate Colonization and the Myth of Authentic Journalism.” *Conference URL*: www.esicore.org/events/denver2017.html *Join our conversation on Twitter*: @esicore <http://www.twitter.com/esicore> #MF2017

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Fwd: [COMPOS] PETIÇÃO INTERNACIONAL DE APOIO À UERJ EM 5 IDIOMAS
by Marco Schneider 01 Feb '17

01 Feb '17

INTERNATIONAL PETITION TO SUPPORT THE UNIVERSIDADE DO ESTADO DO RIO DE JANEIRO. SIGN AND SHARE! Send your name ans institution to save.uerj(a)gmail.com. The Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro (UERJ), founded in 1950, is one of the most important public academic institutions for higher education and research in Brasil. The current bankruptcy of the State of Rio de Janeiro is now threatening the university with closure. In 2016 the UERJ obtained less than two thirds of its usual budget, and is now unable to pay staff wages and student grants or to ensure minimal maintenance on campus. The start of the next term has been postponed indefinitely. We the undersigned, academics and researchers from all over the world, wish to express our deepest concern for the future of the UERJ, show solidarity for all the students and staff and draw the attention of Brazilian authorities to the scientific, social and cultural disaster that would result from the destruction or weakening of the UERJ. La Universidad del Estado de Rio de Janeiro, fundada en 1950, es una de las principales instituciones públicas y gratuitas de investigación y de formación de Brasil. Se encuentra, actualmente, en peligro de cierre a causa de la bancarrota del estado de Rio de Janeiro, del que depende. En 2016, la Uerj recibió menos de dos tercios de su presupuesto y ya no está en condiciones de pagar a sus trabajadores, de abonar las becas a 9.000 alumnos humildes ni de garantizar una manutención mínima de sus campus. La vuelta a clase en 2017 ha sido aplazada sin estar prevista una fecha de inicio concreta. Nosotros, universitarios e investigadores extranjeros, manifestamos nuestra preocupación sobre el futuro de la Uerj, y manifestamos nuestra solidaridad con sus estudiantes y con sus trabajadores. Alertamos a las autoridades brasileñas sobre el desastre científico, social y cultural que significaría el cierre o el debilitamiento de la Uerj. L’Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro (UERJ), fondée en 1950, est une des principales institutions, publique et gratuite, de recherche et de formation du Brésil. Elle est actuellement menacée de fermeture en raison de la faillite de l’État de Rio de Janeiro dont elle dépend. En 2016, l’UERJ a reçu moins des deux tiers de son budget et n’est plus en mesure de payer ses fonctionnaires ni de verser des bourses à 9 000 étudiants modestes ni d’assurer une maintenance minimale sur son campus. La rentrée 2017 est repoussée sine die. Nous, universitaires et chercheurs étrangers, exprimons notre inquiétude sur l’avenir de l’UERJ et témoignons notre solidarité à ses étudiants et à l’ensemble de ses personnels. Nous attirons l’attention des autorités brésiliennes sur le désastre scientifique, social et culturel que constituerait la disparition ou l’affaiblissement de l’UERJ. L’Università statale di Rio de Janeiro (UERJ), fondata nel 1950, è una delle principali istituzioni, pubbliche e gratuite, di ricerca e di formazione del Brasile. Al momento rischia la chiusura a causa del fallimento dello Stato di Rio de Janeiro da cui essa dipende. Nel 2016 l’UERJ ha ricevuto meno di due terzi del suo badget e non è più in condizione di pagare i suoi impiegati, di assegnare borse ai 9000 studenti bisognosi o di assicurare una manutenzione minima nel suo campus. La riapertura del 2017 è rinviata a data da destinarsi. Noi, universitari e ricercatori stranieri, manifestiamo la nostra preoccupazione per il futuro dell’ UERJ ed esprimiamo la nostra solidarietà nei confronti dei suoi studenti e di tutto il suo personale. 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Call for articles and thought pieces for the AoIR Blog
by Michelle, AoIR Association Coordinator 01 Feb '17

01 Feb '17

Hello Air-l Readers, In early December AoIR's President put out a call for individuals to email in articles or thought pieces - basically any online readable or streamable content - to be featured on AoIR's blog. These scholarly toned pieces should be about all things related to the Internet from a member of AoIR. The piece should be Creative Commons licensed to allow us to share it. Please feel free to email me ac(a)aoir.org with ideas for something you would like to contribute or with recommendations and links for cross-posting from other CC sources. Regards, Michelle AoIR Association Coordinator https://aoir.org *Upcoming #AoIR2017 Deadlines:* 1 MARCH 2017 Submissions due for PAPERS, PANELS, ROUNDTABLES and FISHBOWLS, EXPERIMENTAL SESSIONS, and PRE-CONFERENCE WORKSHOPS 1 APRIL 2017 Nominations for Nancy Baym Book award and Best Dissertation Award due 20 MAY 2017 Applications due for conference travel SCHOLARSHIPS and for DOCTORAL COLLOQUIUM 1 AUGUST 2017 Early Bird Registration Deadline for all presenters 30 SEPTEMBER 2017 Deadline for uploading accepted, non-blind, final version of paper and panel submissions

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FYI: HR 482 and SB 103 - attack on geospatial information, antiracism work, and affordable housing
by Jack Jen Gieseking 01 Feb '17

01 Feb '17

Dear AoIR colleagues, Colleagues and I just posted this collaboratively written email to various geography lists. Please help us get the word out and encourage AoIR, @theAAG (American Association of Geographers), and other disciplinary groups (AAA, ASA, ASA, MLA, AHA, et al) to take action. With you, Jack ** Dear Geographers, We are writing to bring your attention to the US HR 482 and SB 103, which are an attack on the collection, storage, and distribution of geospatial information, antiracism work, and affordable housing (see below). The text of the bill <https://www.congress.gov/bill/115th-congress/house-bill/482/text?r=117>, “Local Zoning Decisions Protection Act of 2017,” will nullify HUD's 2015 “Affirmatively Furthering Fair Housing” report to "have no force or effect," and does so by eliminating the data to support social change. In other words, the bill stands at odds with the pursuit of knowledge about human geography, including census data. The bill would prohibit a significant amount of the work we do on race, racism, and fair housing in the US, as well as GIS research more broadly, all of which thwart work towards social justice. A key section reads as follows: SEC. 3. PROHIBITION ON USE OF FEDERAL FUNDS. Notwithstanding any other provision of law, no Federal funds may be used to design, build, maintain, utilize, or provide access to a Federal database of geospatial information on community racial disparities or disparities in access to affordable housing. We encourage feedback, wisdom, and action among our respective lists, AAG specialty groups, other collectives and collegial relationships, and the AAG leadership. We ask you to share word about this bill with colleagues in other disciplines and on social media, using the hashtags #datarefuge and #datarescue when doing so to connect this issue to larger issues of public data and public data collection erasure, obfuscation, and elimination. We also encourage US citizens to reach out to your congressional representatives or to organize from afar in solidarity to stop this bill. Full links to the Senate and House bills are below. Thanks to Euan Hague for bringing this to the CRIT-GEOG list's attention, and for Reed Underwood's response. Onward together, Jack Gieseking, Trinity College Emily Mitchell-Eaton, USCS Hector Agredano, CUNY Graduate Center Elizabeth R. Johnson, Hobart & William Smith Colleges Naomi Adiv, Portland State University Ryan Burns, University of Calgary -- Jen Jack Gieseking Assistant Professor of Public Humanities American Studies Program, Trinity College 300 Summit Street, Hartford, CT 06106 www.jgieseking.org www.peopleplacespace.org @jgieseking <https://twitter.com/jgieseking>

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Stanford Liberationtech List Reminder
by Yosem Companys 01 Feb '17

01 Feb '17

We are Stanford Liberationtech. We are housed in the Freeman Spogli Institute in the Center for Democracy, Development, and the Rule of Law. Our home page is here: http://cddrl.fsi.stanford.edu/libtech. To sign up to our 4K-strong mailing list, click here: https://mailman.stanford.edu/mailman/listinfo/liberationtech. We have also curated a list of Liberationtech content at https://twitter.com/Liberationtech. If you prefer to read our list as a newspaper, you could always check our Paper.li account: http://paper.li/Liberationtech#/ Our Liberationtech blog has been dead for a while, but we are working on reviving it. If you are interested in helping out, please let us know. We also have a series of listservs on topics related to Liberationtech. The most important lists are the following: - Events: https://mailman.stanford.edu/mailman/listinfo/libera tiontech-events - Jobs: https://mailman.stanford.edu/mailman/listinfo/liberationtech-jobs - CfP: https://mailman.stanford.edu/mailman/listinfo/liberationtech-cfp For the aforementioned lists, we try to compile a list of all events, job opportunities, and call for papers related to Liberationtech from all over the world. It's not a comprehensive list, so your assistance would be helpful. If you hear of a job, event, or cfp that would be of benefit to Liberationtech subscribers, please let us know. Finally, we want to take Liberationtech to the next level. What that means, we don't know. But the world has changed a lot since we started back in 2008: Censorship is on the rise. Internet freedom is on the decline. And we have become much more of a community of hackers and cybersecurity professionals who seek to protect vulnerable communities around the world. So if you have ideas of projects you would like to see us take on, please let us know. We want the Liberationtech community to drive the process. Any idea is welcome. Dream big or small. Just let us know how you think we can best help. Thanks, Yosem (One of the moderators)

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CFP: Gendered violence online: a scholarly ‘slam’
by Emma A. Jane 01 Feb '17

01 Feb '17

- apologies for cross-posting – Gendered violence online: a scholarly ‘slam’ Dear colleagues This is a call for expressions of interest for participants for an experimental, workshop-based symposium on gendered cyberhate to be held on Friday July 7, 2017, in Sydney, Australia. The event will be staged in an off-campus (and also an off-beat) setting and will be hands-on rather than presentation-based. It aims to bring academics, policy makers, police, platform managers, gendered cyberhate targets, and other stakeholders together in working groups to formulate potential responses to the problem of misogyny online. The event has three key aims: 1) to steer the conversation about gendered cyberhate away from identifying problems and critiquing existing structures, and towards modes of intervention; 2) to avoid potentially unhelpful ‘knowledge silos’ by facilitating interdisciplinary dialogue, as well as discussion between scholars and non-scholars; and 3) to formulate – and disseminate – potential solutions to misogyny online which are novel and innovative, yet also informed and feasible. Those interested in attending are asked to please send a 200-word expression of interest to emma.jane(a)unsw.edu.au <mailto:emma.jane@unsw.edu.au> by February 28, 2017. This should explain your area of expertise as well as your reasons for wishing to attend. For more information, visit: http://www.cyberhateproject.unsw.edu.au/ <http://www.cyberhateproject.unsw.edu.au/> Many thanks Emma A. Jane Senior Research Fellow, School of the Arts and Media, University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia http://emmajane.info/ <http://emmajane.info/> https://sam.arts.unsw.edu.au/about-us/people/emma-a-jane/ <https://sam.arts.unsw.edu.au/about-us/people/emma-a-jane/> BACKGROUND Rape threats and other forms of gendered violence have become increasingly prevalent <http://www.unwomen.org/~/media/headquarters/attachments/sections/library/pu…> online. Problematic practices include mob pile-ons, cyberstalking, and revenge porn (that is, the uploading of sexually explicit material – usually of a former female partner – without the consent of the pictured subject). While the problem of gendered cyberhate has received a high level of international media coverage, arguably little progress has been made in terms of identifying and implementing workable solutions. Indeed, police, policy makers, and platform operators have received harsh criticism for failing to adequately support the female targets of cyberviolence. The aim of this symposium is to move beyond critique and to stimulate discussion about potential interventions. This event will bring together a diverse range of scholars and stakeholders with the aim of stimulating conversation between people who might not otherwise spend a day chatting with each other. The format is experimental, and is designed to be challenging for participants. The rationale is that it is easy for us to occupy professional and personal echo chambers in which we find ourselves talking mostly to people with whom we share views, and paradigmatic ways of looking at and making sense of the world (that is, within various online and offline versions of ‘filter bubbles'). While participants in this event may find themselves outside their academic/professional comfort zones, we will have the symposium equivalent of safe words! Also, the word on the street is that the food is going to be f a n t a s t i c ....

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