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JOB: Capacity Building Professor in Digital Media and Communication, QUT
by Jean Burgess 23 Jun '17

23 Jun '17

Dear colleagues Applications are now open for a new Capacity Building Professor in Digital Media and Communication. This is an exciting opportunity for a senior person to lead a distinctive program of research as part of the QUT Digital Media Research Centre and School of Communication. We are looking for a star researcher working at the leading edge of their discipline, who can also collaborate, inspire and mentor others. Details at the below link. Feel free to contact either me or the recruiter directly, and/or share onward. http://www2.qut.edu.au/jobs/cbpcif/ Jean

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WEBCAST THU/FRI: Barbados Internet Governance Forum 2017
by Joly MacFie 23 Jun '17

23 Jun '17

This IGF is on its second day. A very high quality of discussion, and media production. Yesterday's sessions, after an intro to IG basics, went deeply into local legislative matters. Today the early session is covering cyber security, after which there will be sessions on Internet Activism, and the Digital Economy. [image: Livestream] <https://livestream.com/internetsociety/igfbb>On *Thursday - Friday June 22-23 2017* the *Barbados Internet Governance Forum 2017 <http://igf%2Cbb/>* will be held in Cave Hill, Barbados. Hosted jointly by the *Internet Society Barbados Chapter <https://www.facebook.com/ISOCBB/>*, the *Barbados Government <http://www.gov.bb/>* and its *Telecoms Unit <http://www.telecoms.gov.bb/>*, this inaugural national *Internet Governance Forum* <https://www.intgovforum.org/> (IGF) will provide Barbadians from all sectors of society with a platform to discuss how they use the Internet and the most pertinent issues affecting them. One of the key outputs from the IGF will be a comprehensive report detailing the critical Internet Governance (IG) issues affecting business, government, civic organizations and ordinary citizens across the island. We also hope to educate citizens about the various processes by which they can become involved to build their knowledge and make valuable contributions to Internet Governance. The event is being webcast live via the *Internet Society Livestream Channel <https://livestream.com/internetsociety/igfbb>* and the *Internet Society Barbados Chapter Facebook Page <https://www.facebook.com/ISOCBB/>*. *What: Barbados Internet Governance Forum 2017 <http://igf%2Cbb/>* *Where: Cave Hill Business School, UWI, Barbados* *When: Thursday - Friday June 22-23 2017* *Agenda: http://igf.bb/ <http://igf.bb/>* *Webcast 1: https://livestream.com/internetsociety/igfbb <https://livestream.com/internetsociety/igfbb>* *Webcast 2: https://www.facebook.com/ISOCBB/ <https://www.facebook.com/ISOCBB/>* *Twitter: #igfbb <https://twitter.com/hashtag/igfbb?f=tweets&vertical=default&src=hash>* Comment <http://isoc-ny.org/p2/9253#respond> See all comments <http://isoc-ny.org/p2/9253#comments> *Permalink* http://isoc-ny.org/p2/9253 -- --------------------------------------------------------------- Joly MacFie 218 565 9365 Skype:punkcast -------------------------------------------------------------- -

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CfPs: ACM IUI 2018 (Tokyo, Japan)
by Christoph Trattner 23 Jun '17

23 Jun '17

*** Please forward to anyone who might be interested *** --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Call for Papers: ACM IUI 2018 to be held in Tokyo, Japan, 7th-11th March 2018 http://iui.acm.org/2018/ --------------------------------------------------------------------------- ACM IUI 2018 is the 23rd annual meeting of the intelligent interfaces community and serves as a premier international forum for reporting outstanding research and development on intelligent user interfaces. In 2018, IUI will be held in the Hitotsubashi Hall in central Tokyo Japan from March 7th - 11th and will co-locate with the Japanese IPSJ Interactions conference. ACM IUI is where the Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) community meets the Artificial Intelligence (AI), with contributions from related fields such as psychology, behavioral science, cognitive science, computer graphics, design or the arts. Our focus is to improve the interaction between humans and machines, by leveraging both more traditional HCI approaches, as well as solutions that involve state-of-the art AI techniques such as machine learning, natural language processing, data mining, knowledge representation and reasoning. ACM IUI welcomes contribution from any relevant arena: academia, business, or non-profit organizations. Along with 25 other topics in AI & HCI, this year we especially encourage submissions on explainable intelligent user interfaces for IUI 2018. ** Why you should submit to ACM IUI ** At ACM IUI, we focus on the interaction between machine intelligence and human intelligence. While other conferences focus on one side or the other, we address the complex interaction between the two. We welcome research that explores how to make the interaction between computers and people smarter, which may leverage solutions from data mining, knowledge representation, novel interaction paradigms, and emerging technologies. We strongly encourage submissions that discuss research from both HCI and AI simultaneously, but also welcome works that focus more on one side or the other. The conference brings together people from academia, industry and non-profit organizations and gives its participants the opportunity to present and see cutting-edge IUI work in a focused and interactive setting. It is large enough to be diverse and lively, but small enough to allow for extensive interaction among attendees and easy attendance to the events that the conference offers, ranging from oral paper presentations, poster sessions, workshops, panels and doctoral consortium for graduate students. - IUI topics of interest include, but are not limited to: - Affective and aesthetic interfaces - Big Data and analytics - Collaborative interfaces - Education and learning-related technologies - Evaluations of intelligent user interfaces - Explainable intelligent user interfaces. - Health and intelligent health technologies - Information retrieval and search - Intelligent assistants for complex tasks - Intelligent wearable and mobile interfaces - Intelligent ubiquitous user interfaces - Intelligent visualization tools - Interactive machine learning - Knowledge-based approaches to user interface design and generation - Modeling and prediction of user behavior - Multi-modal interfaces (speech, gestures, eye gaze, face, physiological information etc.) - Natural language and speech processing - Persuasive and assistive technologies in IUI - Planning and plan recognition for IUI - Proactive and agent-based user interaction - Recommender systems - Smart environments and tangible computing - Social media analysis - User Modelling for Intelligent Interfaces - User-Adaptive interaction and personalization ** Dates ** 1st Oct, 2017: Abstract deadline (compulsory) 8th Oct, 2017: Papers deadline 7th Dec, 2017: Notification 21st Dec, 2017: Camera ready due 7th Mar, 2018: Conference starts ** Submission - Full and Short Papers ** We invite original paper submissions that describe novel user interfaces, applications, interactive and intelligent technologies, empirical studies, or design techniques. We do not require evaluations with users, but we do expect papers to include an appropriate evaluation for their stated contribution. Accepted papers will appear in the ACM Digital Library and citation indices. A selected set of accepted top quality full papers will be invited to submit their extended versions for publication in an ACM Transactions on Interactive Intelligent Systems (TiiS, http://tiis.acm.org) special issue titled "Highlights of IUI 2018". ** Submission Guidelines ** - Full paper (anonymized 10 pages, references do not count toward the page limit) should make substantial, novel, and relevant contribution to the field. - Short paper (anonymized 4 pages, references do not count toward the page limit) is a much more focused and succinct contribution to the field. Short papers are not expected to include a discussion of related work that is as broad and complete as that of Full papers. - Anonymization: ACM IUI uses a double-blind review process. All submissions must be appropriately anonymized according to the following guidelines: -- Author’s names and affiliations are not visible anywhere in the paper. -- Acknowledgements should be anonymized or removed during the review process. -- Self-citations should be included where necessary, but must use the third person. For example, "... as shown in our previous user study [2] ... " is not allowed, whereas "... as shown in Smith et al. [2] " is acceptable (because in this case the citation [2] will NOT be perceived as self-citation). - Failure to follow these guidelines may result in submissions being rejected without review. - Authors should also be aware of the SIGCHI Policy for Submission and Review at SIGCHI Conferences, see: http://www.sigchi.org/ conferences/Conferences%20Policies/chi-review. - Submissions should follow the standard SigCHI format. Use either the Microsoft Word template (http://www.sigchi.org/publications/chipubform/ sigchi-paper-format-2016/view) or the LaTeX template ( https://github.com/sigchi) Accepted full papers will be invited for oral presentation. Accepted short papers will be invited either as oral or poster presentation, depending on the nature and quality of the paper. ** AUTHORS TAKE NOTE ** The official publication date is the date the proceedings are made available in the ACM Digital Library. This date may be up to two weeks prior to the first day of your conference. The official publication date affects the deadline for any patent filings related to published work. (For those rare conferences whose proceedings are published in the ACM Digital Library after the conference is over, the official publication date remains the first day of the conference.) ** Chairs - program2018(a)iui.acm.org ** - Margaret M. Burnett, Oregon State University, USA - Mark Billinghurst, University of South Australia - Aaron Quigley, University of St Andrews, UK ** Senior Program Committee ** - Saleema Amershi, Microsoft Research, USA - Elisabeth Andre, Augsburg University, Germany - Joshi Anirudha, IIT Bombay, India - Lora Aroyo, VU University Amsterdam, Netherlands - Peter Brusilovsky, University of Pittsburgh, USA - Andrea Bunt, University of Manitoba, Canada - Marc Cavazza, University of Kent, UK - Cristina Conati, University of British Columbia, Canada - Sakamoto Daisuke, Hokkaido University, Japan - Jill Freyne, CSIRO, Australia - Ido Guy, Yahoo Labs, Israel - Tracy Hammond, Texas A&M University, USA - Giulio Jacucci, Univeristy of Helsinki, Finland - Anthony Jameson, DFKI: German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence, Germany - Per-Ola Kristensson, University of Cambridge, UK - Antonio Kruger, DFKI: German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence, Germany - Tsvi Kuflik, The University of Haifa, Israel - Henry Lieberman, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA - Brian Lim, National University, Singapore - Sugimoto Maki, Keio University, Japan - Hamasaki Masahiro, AIST: The National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology, Japan - Wendy E. Mackay, INRIA, France - Jeffrey Nichols, Google, USA - Nuria Oliver, Vodafone/Data-Pop Alliance, Spain - Cecile Paris, CSIRO/ICT Centre, Australia - Fabio Paterno, CNR-ISTI, Italy - Barry Smyth, University College Dublin, Ireland - Simone Stumpf, City University London, UK - Nava Tintarev, TU Delft, Amsterdam, Netherlands - Itoh Tkayuki, Ochanomizu University, Japan - Matthew Turk, University of California, Santa Barbara, USA - Nakano Yukiko, Seikei University, Japan -- ------------------------------------------------------- Dipl.-Ing. Dr.techn. Christoph Trattner BSc Assistant Professor MODUL University Vienna Department of New Media Technology E-mail: christoph.trattner(a)modul.ac.at Tel: +43 650 2402801 Homepage: http://christophtrattner.info -------------------------------------------------------

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Re: [Air-L] Meme Tracking
by Taylor-Smith, Ella 22 Jun '17

22 Jun '17

Hi all If we are interested in studying what people are doing on the Internet (what they think they're doing etc.), then we can't ignore that people share images -especially images with words in -that they call memes. The books coming out of the Why We Post project take this line and are rewarded with all sorts of insights about the contemporary use of memes in various cultures. E.g. https://www.ucl.ac.uk/why-we-post/discoveries/14-memes-have-become-the-mora… Miller and Sinanan's book about Facebook use is a good place to start Miller, D. & Sinanan, J. (2017). Visualising Facebook. London: UCL Press. http://www.ucl.ac.uk/ucl-press/browse-books/visualising-facebook If we're interested in the relationship between Dawkins' ideas and the concept of an internet meme, I have a couple of pointers that might help. It seems to be that media scholars use the term meme to study how content spreads across the Internet, by focusing on the content of the content -virality, while virality is a metaphor -people do the spreading, not the content. For Dawkins (in the meme) "the idea of purpose is only a metaphor" (The Selfish Gene). When Godwin introduced the Internet meme idea, he seemed to be taking this concept of virality in order to introduce a counter-meme (Godwin's Law of Nazi Analogies). In this case, the meme's purpose is Godwin's purpose. https://www.wired.com/1994/10/godwin-if-2/ Many definitions of meme emphasise humour e.g. “a piece of culture, typically a joke, which gains inﬂuence through online transmission.” Davison, P. (2012). The Language of Internet Memes. In M. Mandiberg (ed.), The Social Media Reader (pp. 120–34), New York: New York University Press If we lose our sense of humour while studying or discussing memes, we will not be able to understand them at all. Probably best not to underestimate the role of humour in any communications, but especially online. Hope this helps. -Ella Dr Ella Taylor-Smith School of Computing Edinburgh Napier University 10 Colinton Road Edinburgh, EH10 5DT Email: e.taylor-smith(a)napier.ac.uk http://www.iidi.napier.ac.uk/e.taylor-smith http://about.me/EllaTaylorSmith @EllaTasm This message and its attachment(s) are intended for the addressee(s) only and should not be read, copied, disclosed, forwarded or relied upon by any person other than the intended addressee(s) without the permission of the sender. If you are not the intended addressee you must not take any action based on this message and its attachment(s) nor must you copy or show them to anyone. Please respond to the sender and ensure that this message and its attachment(s) are deleted. It is your responsibility to ensure that this message and its attachment(s) are scanned for viruses or other defects. Edinburgh Napier University does not accept liability for any loss or damage which may result from this message or its attachment(s), or for errors or omissions arising after it was sent. Email is not a secure medium. Emails entering Edinburgh Napier University's system are subject to routine monitoring and filtering by Edinburgh Napier University. Edinburgh Napier University is a registered Scottish charity. Registration number SC018373

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Postdoc and PhD Positions at LMU Munich
by sahana udupa 22 Jun '17

22 Jun '17

*Postdoc and PhD positions at LMU Munich * *beginning January 2018* *new media political cultures, India, diaspora* Ludwig Maximilian University Munich is one of Europe’s leading research universities with more than 500 years of tradition. ERC Project ONLINERPOL hosted at LMU Munich invites applications for fully funded *one postdoctoral and two doctoral positions * ONLINERPOL (www.fordigitaldignity.com) is a five year research project (2017-22) on political cultures of new media in India and the diaspora. The project is funded by the European Research Council Starting Grant. ONLINERPOL explores new media practices in India and the diaspora in Europe, and examines the relationship between expanding Internet media and the politics of national belonging mediated by secular-religious-liberal fissures. The project is carried out by a core team of researchers based at the Department of Social and Cultural Anthropology, in cooperation with the Department of Communication and Media Research, LMU Munich, and a global network of collaborators. We seek energetic and committed applicants who can design projects on new media and political cultures, and creatively connect with the objectives of ONLINERPOL. *PhD positions (3.5 years)* *PhD position 1:* *Ethnography of online media, political cultures and Hindu identities among the Indian diaspora in the UK and Germany* The project will carry out an ethnographic study of online practices and narratives around national belonging/Hindu nationalism among the Indian diaspora in the UK and Germany. The project will closely follow particular social media sites and user groups (Facebook/Twitter or website/online discussion group). *PhD position 2: * *Ethnography of online meda, poltiical cultures and Muslim identities among the Indian diaspora in the UK and Germany* The project will carry out an ethnographic study of online practices, Muslim identities and narratives of national belonging among the Indian diaspora in the UK and Germany. The project will closely follow particular social media sites and user groups (Facebook/Twitter or website/online discussion group). The broad objective of the doctoral positions is to understand the dynamics of online use cultures as they mediate diapora experiences and political cultures of national belonging, and how they bring about new, real-time connections between diasporic locations and homeland politics. In both the projects, ethnographic fielwork among online users will be supplmented with an analysis of the design and organization of sampled Facebook groups, Twitter handles or websites, and the social texts and activities they have generated. Candidates with a background in anthropology, media and communication studies, or cultural studies with regional interest in South Asia are invited to apply. PhD researchers will participate in specially designed reading courses on anthropology of digital media; media and religion; and digital media activism, with opportunities to enrol for other courses at the university. They will also have an opportunity to assist/offer undergraduate courses on media anthropology. Candidates will take part in various project related activities, including workshops, conferences and social media contributions. Doctoral positions are funded (TVL E13 50%) for 3.5 years. The project will cover fieldwork expenses and participation in international conferences. *Postdoctoral position (2 years)* *New media and political Islam in India* The study will map and analyze online media engagaemets of a major organization for political Islam in India (for eg., *Jamaat-i-Islami*) using ethnographic techniques and discourse anlaysis. How does the organization engage, organize and regulate its online presence? How does it engage online debates on national belonging and what are the implications for historically configured politics of religious difference? How is authority affirmed and reconfigured in light of the emerging online Muslim publics? Candidates with a background in anthropology, media and communication studies, cultural studies, or Islamic studies with regional interest in South Asia are invited to apply. The posdoctoral researcher is invited to co-design and co-teach the courses on media and religion, and digital ethnography, and actively participate in planning and organizing project related offline and online activities. Postdoctoral position is contracted with TVL E13 100% salary for 2 years. All fieldwork expenses will be covered, and participation in international conferences will be fully funded. **** Successful applicants are expected to begin on or by *1 January 2018*. Proficiency in English is needed. Net savviness is highly desired. Successful candidates will be part of an exciting multidisciplinary conversation on new media, with opportunties to partner with the core research team based in Munich and a global network of collaborators. *Our offer* The university is centrally located in Munich and can be reached very easily by public transport. We offer a stimating work atmosphere with opportunities for further education and growth. Differently abled people are given a priority. Send your application (cover letter, 2 page proposal with a clear research plan and timeline, updated CV, 2 writing samples , names of two referees and copies of degree certificates as a single pdf) by email to ONLINERPOL(a)ethnologie.lmu.de with the subject line ˊApplication for doctoral/postdoctoral position ONLINERPOLˊ or by post to Prof. Dr. Sahana Udupa Professor of Media Anthropology Department of Social and Cultural Anthropology Ludwig Maximilian University Oettingenstr. 67 D-80538 Munich Telefon +49 (0)89 2180-9614 <+49%2089%2021809614> *Deadline for submission: 31 August 2017. * Queries may be addressed to onlinerpol(a)ethnologie.lmu.de <sahana.udupa(a)lmu.de>. For more on the project visit www.fordigitaldignity.com

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CfP EXTENDED: Int. Workshop on Social Network Analysis and Digital Humanities co-located with i-Know 2017
by Christoph Trattner 22 Jun '17

22 Jun '17

** Due to several requests the deadline has been extended ** -------------------------------------------------------------------- CALL FOR PAPERS (Extended Deadline) International Workshop on Social Network Analysis and Digital Humanities to be held in Graz, Austria co-located with i-Know 2017 (http://i-know.tugraz.at/) Website: https://snandig.github.io/ -------------------------------------------------------------------- Important Dates (Extended Deadlines): ===================================== ** July 7th, 2017 - Paper submission deadline ** July 31th, 2017 - Notification to authors ** August 21st, 2017 - Camera-Ready Version ** October 11th/12th, 2017 - 10:30-17:00 - Workshop Workshop Organizers: ==================== Christian Guetl (Graz University of Technology, Austria) Denis Helic (Graz University of Technology, Austria) Elisabeth Lex (Graz University of Technology, Austria) Christoph Trattner (MODUL University Vienna, Austria) Objectives & Topics: ==================== We invite original submissions addressing all aspects of social networks analysis and digital humanities. Online social networks and social media sites enable numerous users to collaboratively create online information by producing new content and by establishing new links between people, information, and services. At the same time, these user leave digital traces on the Web, which provide unparalleled research opportunities for studying questions in sociology, psychology, behavioral science, or political and economic science. While the study of human digital traces has attracted attention from different communities, understanding human social behavior via non-invasive methods remains a challenging task and an open problem. Tackling this challenge requires new methods, instruments and techniques as well as an interdisciplinary effort from researchers across disciplines such as computer science, humanities, social sciences and others. This workshop seeks original submissions on either methods or practices at the crossroads of these various disciplines. We invite submissions that may include the following topics, but are not limited to: ** Studies of online communities ** Communities of practice, online participation ** Graph partitioning and community discovery ** Link prediction ** Location-aware social networks and mobility ** Expertise and trust in online social networks ** Crowdsourcing and social media ** Information diffusion in social networks ** Social influence ** Opinion formation in social networks ** Social bots and their role in shaping of public opinion ** Studies of human culture based on online social networks and encyclopedia, computational methods to assess human culture along different dimensions (such as language, food, music, literature etc.) ** Using social media to study psychological and social phenomena, and corresponding methods to assess such phenomena via web-based investigations ** Biases in social media, such as population biases, channel bias, self-selection bias, etc and computational methods for assessment and correction ** The study of limitations of tools used in digital humanities, extension of traditional source criticism into the development of systematic "tool criticism" ** Social and individual inequalities on the web, e.g. gender or race disparities, computational methods and instruments to assess and track inequalities ** Studies of political processes and dynamics on the web, such as elections, political unrest, grassroots movements ** Predictions with social media, e.g. stock markets, spread of language, culture, memes or diseases ** Longitudinal studies of social phenomena and social change on the web ** Computational methods to assess and improve social and/or individual well-being via the web ** Studies investigating the role and causal impact of algorithms in facilitating social interactions on the web Submissions: ============ Submissions: We solicit research papers (max. 8 pages) in the ACM conference paper style. Acceptance of the papers will be either as full (regular) or short/demo papers with the corresponding presentation slots. Papers accepted as full will be published in the ACM Digital Library and papers accepted as short/demo will be published in special online workshop proceedings. Papers should be submitted in EasyChair: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=iknow2017. Please select "Social Network Analysis" as a track in EasyChair. Submission guidelines: ====================== All submitted papers must be written in English; * contain author names, affiliations, and email addresses; * be formatted according to the ACM SIG Proceedings template (http://www.acm.org/sigs/publications/proceedings-templates) with a font size no smaller than 9pt; * be in PDF (make sure that the PDF can be viewed on any platform), and formatted for US Letter size; All papers will be peer-reviewed, must not be under review in any other conference, workshop or journal (at the time of submission), and must contain novel contributions. Location: ========= The workshop will take place at the Messe Congress Graz, Austria and will be held in conjunction with i-Know 2017. Further information of this location can be found on the i-Know website: http://i-know.tugraz.at/. Contact: ======== Christian Guetl - c.guetl(at)tugraz.at Denis Helic - dhelic(at)tugraz.at Elisabeth Lex - elisabeth.lex(at)tugraz.at Christoph Trattner - christoph.trattner(at)modul.ac.at -- ------------------------------------------------------- Dipl.-Ing. Dr.techn. Christoph Trattner BSc Assistant Professor MODUL University Vienna Department of New Media Technology E-mail: christoph.trattner(a)modul.ac.at Tel: +43 650 2402801 Homepage: http://christophtrattner.info -------------------------------------------------------

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June 28: Critical Theory in the Digital Context: Search Engine Labour and Creative Production
by Christian Fuchs 22 Jun '17

22 Jun '17

Critical Theory in the Digital Context: Search Engine Labour and Creative Production Wed, June 28, 2017, 18:00 WIAS Seminar University of Westminster 309 Regent St, Room UG.04 Registration: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/critical-theory-in-the-digital-context-searc… How are major search algorithms produced? How is their global relevance sustained and promoted? What is the role of creativity in digital games production? How do creative producers cope with contradictions in their precarious workplaces? Focusing on search engines and the digital games industry, Ergin Bulut and Paško Bilić will in two talks explore various angles of critical theory. Concepts such as technological rationality, alienation, bio-political production and exploitation will be evoked to understand the specifics of labour processes in digital contexts. Paško Bilić is Research Associate at the Department for Culture and Communication, Institute for Development and International Relations in Zagreb, Croatia. Ergin Bulut is Assistant Professor at the Department of Media and Visual Arts at Koc University, Istanbul.

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CFP: Global Digital Media Cultures and "Extreme Speech"
by Matti Pohjonen 22 Jun '17

22 Jun '17

CFP WORKSHOP Global Digital Media Cultures and "Extreme Speech" 23-24 February 2018 Ludwig Maximilian University, Munich Abstracts due: 31 August 2017 Convenors: Sahana Udupa (LMU Munich) Matti Pohjonen (Africa’s Voices Foundation) Recent political upheavals in Europe and the US have once again highlighted the paradoxical nature of contemporary digital communication. The celebratory discourse of digital technologies' potential for openness and democracy is now eclipsed by the "dark side" of new media as a platform for promoting hate speech, fake news, terrorism, misogyny and intergroup conflict. Researchers are confronted with a new lexicon of communicative tactics: ecosystems of fake news; disinformation campaigns; coordinated troll attacks; and targeted hacks aimed at influencing elections. Calls to monitor, legislate and remove hateful and violent online speech have also reinvigorated older legal, political and philosophical debates on the boundaries of accepted civility and legitimate forms of political communication. The negative forms of online speech, it is widely argued, threaten the taken-for-granted freedoms commonly associated with digital media cultures across the world and bringing about what some critics have called a “post-truth” society. Despite this heightened sense of urgency, these concerns are, however, by no means new or limited to the Western world. A cursory glance of many examples from the “global South” reveals a long-standing anxiety about the dangers of unbridled speech in situations where it can provoke ethnic and religious conflict, mass violence and social unrest. In Ethiopia, for example, following a series of violent protests and killings, the government has declared a state of emergency and made political commenting on Facebook illegal under the pretext of preserving peace. In India, social media is replete with acrimonious abusive exchange in political debates. Legal stipulations to prevent hate speech on grounds of religious harmony and national security are routinely invoked to regulate online media in India, Pakistan, Malaysia and Sri Lanka. In Myanmar, social media has been used widely by Buddhist groups to ignite violence against its Muslim minority. In all the cases, digital media have also evolved into vibrant forums for political participation and counter-speech. The aim of the Global Digital Media Cultures and Extreme Speech workshop is to examine these paradoxes of contemporary digital communication from a critical-comparative perspective rooted in ethnography. By defining online vitriol as “extreme speech”, we depart from the dominant legal definitions of "hate speech" and narrowly constructed terrorism talk. As a form of digital culture, “extreme speech” pushes the boundaries of legitimate speech along the twin axes of truth-falsity and civility-incivility, raising critical questions about some of the taken-for-granted assumptions of communication and political participation. “Extreme speech” serves to reinforce differences and hatred between groups on grounds of religion, race, political ideology and gender, often with the overt intent to intimidate and agitate target groups and individuals. Yet, its ambivalent nature in certain contexts could also provoke challenges to established hegemony. “Extreme speech” thus foregrounds an approach to digital cultures as forms of situated practice (i.e. what people do that is related to media within specific cultural contexts) in order to avoid predetermining the effects of online volatile speech as vilifying, polarizing or lethal (Pohjonen and Udupa 2017). To advance these aims, the workshop invites a selected number of scholars from across the world to discuss the latest empirical findings, methodologies and theoretical frameworks to understand "extreme speech" in Africa, Asia, Europe and North America. We invite scholars engaged in ethnographic research on the topic using the perspectives of anthropology, critical discourse analysis, history or communication studies. Over two days of presentations and discussions, the participants will explore the different mediatized contexts of digital use and circulation and cultures of digital exchange and securitization, to examine what this dramatic rise of volatile speech means for democratic dialogue and participation across the world. Topics include but are not limited to: - Ethnographies of production and circulation of online extreme speech - Ethnographic analysis of ‘hate speech’ discourse as regulatory/state agenda - Cultural translation of hateful content - Audience ethnographies and the consumption of extreme speech - Ethnographically driven mixed method approaches to study online extreme speech (virtual ethnography, data-driven digital ethnography, offline-online multi-sited ethnography, network ethnography) - Trolling and online aggression - Extreme speech and gender - Extreme speech and ethnic conflict - Political cultures of disinformation and fake news - Forms of resistance to extreme speech - Extreme speech and its challenges to communication theory - Technologies and cultures of extreme speech monitoring Attendance to this closed workshop is fully funded. Organizers will cover the costs of travel, accommodation and food. Workshop papers will contribute to the proposed edited collections (a special journal issue and an edited volume). The workshop will be held at Frauenchiemsee, a picturesque island about an hour away from Munich. Please send your extended abstracts (1200 words) with the subject line “Abstract for the Global Workshop on Extreme Speech” to ONLINERPOL(a)ethnologie.lmu.de before 31 August 2017. We will send notifications of acceptance by 30 September 2017. Abstracts should contain a clear outline of the argument, theoretical framework, methodology and ethnographic material (and findings if applicable), as well as a brief elaboration on how the research links to the overall theme of the workshop. Please also include 3-5 keywords that describe your work, and a Bio note (up to 100 words, stating affiliation). The workshop is part of Project ONLINERPOL (www.fordigitaldignity.com) funded by the European Research Council Starting Grant and hosted at LMU Munich, Germany.

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Published! JVWR new Assembled 2017 issue has arrived
by Tzafnat Shpak 22 Jun '17

22 Jun '17

<http://jvwresearch.us2.list-manage.com/track/click?u=de4fa2a435382cb1fa67cb…> View this email in your browser <http://mailchi.mp/3c47913df567/y9xqtxkmg6?e=790f62627f> <http://jvwresearch.us2.list-manage.com/track/click?u=de4fa2a435382cb1fa67cb…> We are happy to announce the publication of a NEW ISSUE of the Journal of Virtual Worlds Research (JVWR): Volume 10, Number 1: *Assembled 2017* Issue editor: *Victoria McArthur*, University of Toronto, Canada The 2017 Assembled issue of the Journal of Virtual Worlds Research is a collection of four interdisciplinary research papers, representing the diversity that is 'virtual worlds'. They represent a field that truly is 'assembled' - emerging from and supported by passionate scholars from various intellectual backgrounds. Issue Editor Corner Editorial - about the issue <http://jvwresearch.us2.list-manage.com/track/click?u=de4fa2a435382cb1fa67cb…> *Victoria McArthur* Peer Reviewed Research Papers Internet Research in Online Environments for Children: Readability of Privacy and Terms of Use Policies; The Uses of (Non)Personal Data by Online Environments and Third-Party Advertisers <http://jvwresearch.us2.list-manage.com/track/click?u=de4fa2a435382cb1fa67cb…> *Olesya Venger* Using Google Trends Data to Gauge Interest in Virtual Worlds <http://jvwresearch.us2.list-manage1.com/track/click?u=de4fa2a435382cb1fa67c…> *Anthony Crider, Jessica Torrez-Riley* Virtual Worlds, Virtual Reality, and Augmented Reality: Differences in Purchase Intentions Based on Types, Users, and Sex <http://jvwresearch.us2.list-manage.com/track/click?u=de4fa2a435382cb1fa67cb…> *Angie marie cox, Indira Guzman, Sikha Bagui, Kenneth Cromer* Levelling Up: Minors' Play in a Closed-system MMOG <http://jvwresearch.us2.list-manage.com/track/click?u=de4fa2a435382cb1fa67cb…> *Jennifer Jenson, Suzanne de Castell, Victoria McArthur, Stephanie Fisher* ------------------------------ More from JVWR This publication is also an invitation for you, readers, to first explore JVWR’s past issues at our website, and then contribute as authors or even as editors of future special issues. The* Assembled issue* is a place for various papers, on the topic of the journal - that are being collected during the year and published usually once a year. Each issue is managed by one managing Issue Editor with an option for 2-3 co-editors. The managing issue editor is the prime contact person and the leader behind the issue. We are looking for *issue editors* to manage the next* Assembled 2018* issue and a special issue about *Mindfulness and Flow*. Issue editors take full charge of one issue. If you are interested, we'd love hear from you. Please visit For Issue Editors <http://jvwresearch.us2.list-manage.com/track/click?u=de4fa2a435382cb1fa67cb…> page to learn more about becoming a JVWR editor. Things you can do: - Future issues for 2017 are already in the making: Relationships <http://jvwresearch.us2.list-manage.com/track/click?u=de4fa2a435382cb1fa67cb…> and EVE Online <http://jvwresearch.us2.list-manage1.com/track/click?u=de4fa2a435382cb1fa67c…>. Stay tuned for publication. - You are invited to browse JVWR's previous issues <http://jvwresearch.us2.list-manage.com/track/click?u=de4fa2a435382cb1fa67cb…> . - Subscribe <http://jvwresearch.us2.list-manage.com/track/click?u=de4fa2a435382cb1fa67cb…> to our mailing list (on the top left of the Journal of Virtual Worlds Research home page http://www.jvwresearch.org <http://jvwresearch.us2.list-manage1.com/track/click?u=de4fa2a435382cb1fa67c…>) to receive our news and updates (no spam guaranteed.) - Connect with us on twitter <http://jvwresearch.us2.list-manage1.com/track/click?u=de4fa2a435382cb1fa67c…> @TheJVWR and on our Facebook <http://jvwresearch.us2.list-manage.com/track/click?u=de4fa2a435382cb1fa67cb…> page (TheJVWR). Thankfully, *Prof. Yesha Y. Sivan* Editor In-Chief *The Journal of Virtual Worlds Research* http://jvwresearch.org <http://jvwresearch.us2.list-manage1.com/track/click?u=de4fa2a435382cb1fa67c…> <http://jvwresearch.us2.list-manage1.com/track/click?u=de4fa2a435382cb1fa67c…> Assembled 2017 Vol. 10, No. 1 <http://jvwresearch.us2.list-manage2.com/track/click?u=de4fa2a435382cb1fa67c…> <http://jvwresearch.us2.list-manage2.com/track/click?u=de4fa2a435382cb1fa67c…> <http://jvwresearch.us2.list-manage.com/track/click?u=de4fa2a435382cb1fa67cb…> *Copyright © 2017 Journal of Virtual Worlds Research, All rights reserved.*

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Re: [Air-L] [legram] Séminaire DEL 2016-2017 #3 - L'internet contestataire - 22/06/17 Paris
by Romain Badouard 21 Jun '17

21 Jun '17

Bonjour, La séance du séminaire DEL du 22 juin sur "L'internet contestataire" est annulée et reportée à une date ultérieure. Nous vous tiendrons au courant de la date à laquelle la séance sera reportée. Désolé pour cette annulation tardive et pour les éventuels désagréments occasionnés. Bien cordialement, Romain Badouard Le 10 mai 2017 à 22:41, Simon GADRAS sgadras(a)hotmail.com [legram] < legram-noreply(a)yahoogroupes.fr> a écrit : > > > Bonjour, > > La troisième (et dernière!) séance du cycle 2016-2017 des séminaires du > réseau DEL aura lieu *jeudi 22 juin 2017 de 16h à 18h à Paris* (IMI, > salle Descartes). > > Cette séance sera l'occasion de discuter le texte de *Paola Sedda* (CIMEOS, > Université de Bourgogne) : « L’internet contestataire. Comme pratique > d’émancipation Des médias alternatifs à la mobilisation numérique ». *Les > Cahiers du numérique *n°4 vol. 11, 2015, 25-52 (www.cairn.info/revue-les- > cahiers-du-numerique-2015-4-page-25.htm). La séance s'ouvrira par la > discussion du texte par *Erica Guevara* (CEMTI, Université Paris VIII), > suivie des réactions de l'auteure, puis d'une discussion avec les > participant.es au séminaire. > > Les séminaires DEL sont organisés en partenariat par les laboratoires > AGORA (Université Cergy-Pontoise), CEDITEC (UPEC), COSTECH (UTC) et ELICO > (Université Lyon 2). Retrouvez tout le programme et les informations > pratiques pour venir sur http://www.reseaudel.fr/ > programme-des-seminaires-del-2016-2017/ > > Nous espérons vous y voir nombreux/ses. > > S.Gadras > > > > > > __._,_.___ > ------------------------------ > Envoyé par : Simon GADRAS <sgadras(a)hotmail.com> > ------------------------------ > Répondre en mode Web > <https://fr.groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/legram/conversations/messages/13592;…> > • Répondre à expéditeur > <sgadras@hotmail.com?subject=Re%A0%3A%20S%E9minaire%20DEL%202016-2017%20%233%20-%20L%27internet%20contestataire%20-%2022%2F06%2F17%20Paris> > • Répondre à groupe > <legram@yahoogroupes.fr?subject=Re%A0%3A%20S%E9minaire%20DEL%202016-2017%20%233%20-%20L%27internet%20contestataire%20-%2022%2F06%2F17%20Paris> > • Nouvelle discussion > <https://fr.groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/legram/conversations/newtopic;_ylc=X…> > • Toute la discussion > <https://fr.groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/legram/conversations/topics/13592;_y…> > (1) > - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - > Vous recevez ce message parce que vous êtes abonné(e) à la liste du GRAM > (Groupe de recherche sur l'analyse du discours des médias). > Si vous souhaitez mettre fin à cet abonnement, envoyez un message (vide et > sans titre) à : legram-unsubscribe(a)yahoogroupes.fr > L'abonnement à la liste est volontaire, libre et gratuit : pour être > abonné, il suffit d'envoyer un message vide et sans titre à l'adresse : > legram-subscribe(a)yahoogroupes.fr > Pour vous connecter au groupe de discussion : http://fr.groups.yahoo.com/ > group/legram > Pour envoyer directement un message aux abonnés du e-groupe : > legram(a)yahoogroupes.fr > > Aller sur votre groupe > <https://fr.groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/legram/info;_ylc=X3oDMTJlM2kzb2RmBF9…> > > - Nouveaux membres > <https://fr.groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/legram/members/all;_ylc=X3oDMTJmYW0y…> > 4 > > [image: Yahoo! Groupes] > <https://fr.groups.yahoo.com/neo;_ylc=X3oDMTJkOG9laG1oBF9TAzk3NDkwNDY2BGdycE…> > • Confidentialité > <https://info.yahoo.com/privacy/fr/yahoo/groups/details.html> • > Désinscription > <legram-desabonnement(a)yahoogroupes.xn--fr?subject=dsinscription-mfc> • Conditions > d’utilisation <https://info.yahoo.com/legal/fr/yahoo/utos/terms/> > > . > > __,_._,___ > -- Romain Badouard Laboratoire AGORA Université de Cergy-Pontoise

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