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2nd CFP: Platform Urbanism – AAG 2018, New Orleans, USA
by Scott Rodgers 14 Sep '17

14 Sep '17

Platform Urbanism Call for Papers/Panellists Association of American Geographers Conference 2018 New Orleans, USA, 10-14 April 2018 Organizers Susan Moore (University College London) Scott Rodgers (Birkbeck, University of London) Sponsors Digital Geographies Specialty Group Media and Communication Geography Specialty Group Urban Geography Speciality Group Outline Talk about ‘platforms’ is today all-pervasive: platform architecture, platform design, platform ecosystem, platform governance, platform markets, platform politics, platform thinking. But just what are platforms? And how might we understand their emergent urban geographies? As Tarleton Gillespie (2010) argues, the term ‘platform’ clearly does discursive work for commercial entities such as Facebook, Amazon, Uber, Airbnb and Google. It allows them to be variably (and often ambiguously) described and imagined: as technical platforms; platforms for expression; or platforms of entrepreneurial opportunity. Indeed, as emergent spaces, platforms – both commercial and nonprofit – entail so many ambitions, activities, services, exchanges, forums, infrastructures, and ordinary practices that conceptualizing their general dynamics is difficult, perhaps even pointless. Yet platforms do appear to have considerable implications, geographical as well as political. For Benjamin Bratton (2015), cloud-based platforms such as Facebook, Amazon and Google form a fundamental layer of what he calls planetary-scale computation, perhaps representing new forms of geopolitical sovereignty. This ‘sovereignty’ is, however, neither generalized nor homogeneous: in manifests in geographically uneven intensities and extents. This session invites original research and conceptual reflections that explore, debate and critique the notion of an emergent ‘platform urbanism’. Recently, Nick Srnicek (2016) deployed the phrase ‘platform capitalism’ to encapsulate his argument that platforms not only mark a new kind of firm, but a new way of making economies. Here – in a move similar to Henri Lefevbre’s (1970/2003) in The urban revolution – we suggest a speculative substitution of ‘urbanism’ for ‘capitalism’, placing an emphasis on the possibility of irreducible, co-generative dynamics between platforms and the urban. Contributions may address a wide range of commercial and nonprofit platforms – including those related to social networking, user-generated content, location-based technologies, mapping and the geoweb, goods and services, marketing, and gaming – and their relationships with various forms of urban living and urban spaces. Expressions of Interest We intend to organize 1-2 paper sessions, depending on quantity and quality of submissions, followed by a panel discussion session. Expressions of interest must be emailed to both Susan Moore (susan.moore(a)ucl.ac.uk<mailto:susan.moore@ucl.ac.uk>) and Scott Rodgers (s.rodgers(a)bbk.ac.uk<mailto:s.rodgers@bbk.ac.uk>) by 1 October 2017. Those proposing a paper presentation should send an abstract of 250 words; those interested in participating as a panellist should include a short outline of their intended contribution in their email. References Bratton, B. H. (2016). The stack: On software and sovereignty. MIT press. Gillespie, T. (2010). The politics of ‘platforms’. New Media & Society, 12(3), 347-364. Lefebvre, H. (1970/2003). The urban revolution (originally published as La révolution urbaine). University of Minnesota Press. Srnicek, N. (2016). Platform capitalism. John Wiley & Sons.

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Meme Tracking
by Tanis Grandison 13 Sep '17

13 Sep '17

Hi All, I was wondering if anyone could offer any advice (and useful reading ) on tracking Memes. Specifically, I am wondering if there is a way I can take a meme and look at how it has spread and been shared on different social media? I wouldn’t be doing it in real time, more looking back at significant events and how political memes transcended networks and flowed through social media. Any advice would be greatly appreciated. Thanks Tanis Grandison

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Research Job-Critical data literacy, creative media and social equality
by Aristea Fotopoulou 13 Sep '17

13 Sep '17

*Deadline 27 September* Research Officer (Critical data literacy, creative media and social equality) - 0.3 full-time equivalent University of Brighton, School of Media The University of Brighton wishes to appoint a part-time, fixed-term Research Officer to work with PI Dr Aristea Fotopoulou (http://arts.brighton.ac.uk/staff/aristea-fotopoulou) in the project "Critical data literacy, creative media and social equality". The role will involve undertaking a literature review, as well as organising workshops, interview transcriptions and basic analysis of field work material. You will be based in our new Centre for Research Excellence ''Digital Media Cultures', an interdisciplinary knowledge network spanning computing, social science, media, art and design. In addition to a relevant degree, you will have an MA or equivalent professional qualifications and experience. Experience and/or knowledge of data visualisation, data-driven technologies and society. Competent IT skills are also essential, as are a high level of analytical capability and the ability to communicate information clearly. This role is available immediately for approximately three months. More information about the role and what we're looking for can be found in the job description/person specification. Information about the university and our range of benefits can be found on our website here: https://www.brighton.ac.uk/about-us/working-with-us/jobs/index.aspx *For full ad, please see here: https://jobs.brighton.ac.uk/vacancy.aspx?ref=AE4009-17-337 *Reference: AE4009-17-337 *Closing Date: Wednesday 27 September 2017 *Location: Brighton - MoulsecoombSalary: £29,301 to £32,958 pro rata Best wishes Aristea ----------------------------- Dr Aristea Fotopoulou Senior Lecturer in Media and Communication Course Leader MA Digital Media, Culture and Society School of Media University of Brighton Watts Building, Lewes Road Brighton BN2 4GJ E: A.Fotopoulou(a)brighton.ac.uk Follow me on Twitter: @aristeaf Research blog: www.Loopingthreads.com Webpage http://arts.brighton.ac.uk/staff/aristea-fotopoulou New book: "Feminist Activism and Digital Networks: Between empowerment and vulnerability". Palgrave Macmillan. Order: http://www.palgrave.com/gb/book/9781137504708 ___________________________________________________________ This email has been scanned by MessageLabs' Email Security System on behalf of the University of Brighton. For more information see: https://staff.brighton.ac.uk/is/computing/Pages/Email/spam.aspx

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CFP AAG 2018: My City Is Smarter than Yours: Deconstructing the Buzzwords
by ryan burns 13 Sep '17

13 Sep '17

Call for papers for the 2018 annual meeting of the American Association of Geographers, April 10-14 in New Orleans. My City Is Smarter than Yours: Deconstructing the Buzzwords Open data are at the forefront of smart cities initiatives. In research on both open data and smart cities, however, scholars tend to take complex terms—such as transparent, open, accountable, democratic, empowerment, value, inclusive, and access—as self-explanatory and as inherently worthy objectives. This uncritical treatment of the terms leaves the multiple and contradictory meanings embedded within the terms unexplored and under-examined. This omission constitutes a politics that complicate simple notions around the normative value of the goals open data and smart city advocates laud. It raises fundamental questions, such as smart how? Open how? On whose terms? By what conceptualization? And, perhaps most importantly, raises critical considerations around the meanings attached at particular moments to attain very particular goals, such as private-sector profit, strengthened systems of governmentality, or attentional economy expansion. While there’s a growing number of resources from which we can draw, this remains an oversight within the overall research agenda. Making these considerations has at least three main goals. It can lend important theoretical insights into how smart cities function, particularly in relation to its attendant social and political process. As well, it can inform practitioners’ work as they consider the impacts and implications of open data platforms within smart cities initiatives, and the longstanding goals to which they aspire. It also contributes knowledge to activists’ work around “our digital rights to the city” (Shaw and Graham 2017) and the factors that enable or disable processes of empowerment. This is becoming especially important as smart cities increasingly align with open data and open government initiatives. To that end, we’re inviting paper submissions related to the following topics: - Discourse analysis of smart city or open data keywords - Omissions and strategic absences of “transparency” and “accountability” discourses - Gaps and inequalities in smart cities - What becomes open, and why? - What do prioritized open datasets tell us about social and political values? - How does smart cities or open data lead to open government? Please send your submissions by Friday, 10/13, to Victoria Fast ( victoria.fast(a)ucalgary.ca) and Ryan Burns (ryan.burns1(a)ucalgary.ca) Decisions will be made by Monday, 10/22. The abstract due date is 10/25, and the conference will be held April 10-14 in New Orleans, LA. Ryan Burns, PhD Dept of Geography, University of Calgary

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What Internet do we want? Please participate in the netCommons survey
by Christian Fuchs 13 Sep '17

13 Sep '17

netCommons is an interdisciplinary Horizon2020 EU project studying the social, legal and technological reality and future of the Internet - https://netcommons.eu/ The University of Westminster’s project team conducts a survey among experienced Internet users that asks: What Internet do we want? What are the Internet’s main problems? How can alternatives look like? https://d52netcommons.limequery.com/357528?lang=en We appreciate if you could take approx. 20 minutes to participate in the survey, which helps us to better understand the Internet’s problems and possible solutions. Many thanks! Kind regards, Dimitris Boucas, Maria Michalis, Christian Fuchs (Univ of Westminster netCommons research team)

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Earn a Certificate in Social Media Analysis from Boston University w/ Gratis Access to Crimson Hexagon, DiscoverText, and more
by Jacob Groshek 13 Sep '17

13 Sep '17

Dear Colleagues, With apologies for the cross-posting, after selling out our two initial events, we are hosting a workshop at Boston University this October 20 - 22, 2017 on social media analysis called "Making Social Media Matter: How to Analyze, Visualize & Interpret Social Networks in 3 Days." In addition to covering the theoretical bases of working with and modeling big data, the training in this workshop will include access and use of leading data platforms, namely Crimson Hexagon, NodeXL, the Boston University Twitter Collection and Analysis Toolkit (BU-TCAT), DiscoverText and Gephi. Please let me know any questions and share widely with colleagues, students, or professionals that might be interested to attend. For more details, please visit http://sites.bu.edu/social-media-analysis/ In summary, the tools demonstrated in this workshop for network analysis, geolocation, and machine learning are at the forefront of social media research and will equip attendees — even those with no computational training — with expert understanding of how to collect, analyze, visualize, and interpret social media data for internal and public use. Media researchers, students, and anyone wanting to make sense of social media will benefit from attending this workshop. All participants that successfully complete this workshop will: • Earn a Certificate in Social Media Analysis: Principals and Practices for Big Data from Boston University. • Have free access for 3 weeks to the industry-leading ForSight data analysis platform from Crimson Hexagon as well as enterprise access to DiscoverText. • Receive training in exclusive data analysis tools that can collect, analyze and visualize millions of units of social media content. • Go beyond simple analytic dashboards and dive deep into data to take their analytic skills to the next level. Again, please let me know any questions and share widely with colleagues, students, or professionals that might be interested to attend. Space is limited, and registration is currently discounted 15% with promo code #socialmedia until September 30. Visit https://www.bu.edu/com/social-media-analysis/ for more information and registration. Thanks much, Jacob -- Dr. Jacob Groshek Associate Professor of Emerging Media Studies Associate Director of the Center for Mobile Communication Studies <http://sites.bu.edu/cmcs/> Communication Research Center <http://sites.bu.edu/crc/about-crc/> Fellow Hariri Institute <http://www.bu.edu/hic/> Faculty Fellow Boston University jgroshek.org <http://www.jgroshek.org/> Workshop Director, Making Social Media Matter <http://sites.bu.edu/social-media-analysis/> Founding Editor, *Journal of Communication and Technology <http://www.joctec.org/>* Founding Member, Boston Civic Media Consortium <http://bostoncivic.media/> Previously: Research Fellow, Erasmus Uni <http://www.eshcc.eur.nl/english/research/research_centres/erasmus_research_…> | Full Member, NeSCoR <http://nescor.socsci.uva.nl/>| Visiting Scholar, IAST <http://www.iast.fr/> @jgroshek <https://twitter.com/jgroshek> | google scholar <https://scholar.google.nl/citations?user=G1XXhccAAAAJ&hl=en> 857-615-4709

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Job opportunity - Head of Digital at ARTICLE19 - Deadline September 26
by Niels ten Oever 13 Sep '17

13 Sep '17

Dear all, I am very happy happy to announce that you have the chance to apply for the best job in the world, namely mine. Do you want to become Head of Digital at ARTICLE19, an international freedom of expression organization? You get the work with extremely talented colleagues from all over the world and oversee ARTICLE19s work on the mainstreaming of human rights in Internet Infrastructure. This means engagement with the IETF, ICANN, IEEE, ITU on topics ranging from encryption, privacy, access, algorithms to human rights impact assessments. Can you: - support a global team of talented professionals? - manage a several project on the cutting edge of tech development? - be a bridge between law and tech? - build collaborations with businesses, governments and civil society organizations? - develop new plans and ideas to make the Internet a more rights enabling space? Then please apply here: https://article.peoplehr.net/Pages/JobBoard/Opening.aspx?v=2849051e-979a-44… Application deadline: September 26 All the best, Niels PS I will continue to collaborate with ARTICLE19 and work in the realm of human rights and Internet infrastructure, but will also spend a bit more time working on my PhD (which luckily is on the same topic). -- Niels ten Oever Head of Digital Article 19 www.article19.org PGP fingerprint 2458 0B70 5C4A FD8A 9488 643A 0ED8 3F3A 468A C8B3

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Data Scientist for Librarians, Big Data for Librarians
by NORDIANA BINTI AHMAD KHARMAN SHAH . 13 Sep '17

13 Sep '17

Hello all, Appreciate if anyone would kindly share any references, articles related to this topics. Thank you. -- Best wishes, Dina *Nordiana Ahmad Kharman Shah, **Ph.D (Sheffield)* Department of Library & Information Science Faculty of Computer Science and Information Technology University Malaya 50603 Kuala Lumpur Email: dina(a)um.edu.my CV: https://umexpert.um.edu.my/dina.html Website: www.fsktm.um.edu.my Tel: +603-79676417 *"The impossible possible" * *"It is not enough to be compassionate - you must act." - The Dalai Lama* *"To serve is beautiful, but only if it is done with joy and a whole heart and a free mind." -Pearl S. Buck* -- " PENAFIAN: E-mel ini dan apa-apa fail yang dikepilkan bersamanya ("Mesej") adalah ditujukan hanya untuk kegunaan penerima(-penerima) yang termaklum di atas dan mungkin mengandungi maklumat sulit. Anda dengan ini dimaklumkan bahawa mengambil apa jua tindakan bersandarkan kepada, membuat penilaian, mengulang hantar, menghebah, mengedar, mencetak, atau menyalin Mesej ini atau sebahagian daripadanya oleh sesiapa selain daripada penerima(-penerima) yang termaklum di atas adalah dilarang. Jika anda telah menerima Mesej ini kerana kesilapan, anda mesti menghapuskan Mesej ini dengan segera dan memaklumkan kepada penghantar Mesej ini menerusi balasan e-mel. Pendapat-pendapat, rumusan-rumusan, dan sebarang maklumat lain di dalam Mesej ini yang tidak berkait dengan urusan rasmi Universiti Malaya adalah difahami sebagai bukan dikeluar atau diperakui oleh mana-mana pihak yang disebut. DISCLAIMER: This e-mail and any files transmitted with it ("Message") is intended only for the use of the recipient(s) named above and may contain confidential information. You are hereby notified that the taking of any action in reliance upon, or any review, retransmission, dissemination, distribution, printing or copying of this Message or any part thereof by anyone other than the intended recipient(s) is strictly prohibited. If you have received this Message in error, you should delete this Message immediately and advise the sender by return e-mail. Opinions, conclusions and other information in this Message that do not relate to the official business of University of Malaya shall be understood as neither given nor endorsed by any of the forementioned. "

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ICS Special Issue Deadline Reminder
by Jenny Davis 13 Sep '17

13 Sep '17

Hi All, Just a friendly reminder that submissions for the 2017 ICS-CITAMS Special Issue are Due October 1, 2017. Please see details of the call below. Note you can submit through the main ICS ScholarOne portal. When doing so, please select "Special Issue" and indicate "CITAMS". CFP: You are invited to submit your paper for consideration in a special ‎issue of the journal Information, Communication & Society (ICS). For the 11th year, the journal ICS ‎will publish a special issue in cooperation with CITAMS. Eligible papers are those ‎presented at the 2017 Annual Meeting of the American Sociological Association and the Media Pre-Conference in Montreal, CA. The special issue welcomes papers that focus on any facet of media, technology, communication, information, or related topics. ICS has enabled 'green open access,' meaning that authors may post pre-print versions of their paper on their own website, in an institutional repository or in a subject repository, such as the SocARXIV. Please submit manuscripts for consideration through ScholarOne, available at: http://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/rics<https://l.facebook.com/l.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Fmc.manuscriptcentral.com%2Frics…>. If you do not have an account, you will need to create one. Also, be sure to check the box for “Special Issue” and indicate “CITAMS” in it, so that it will be routed appropriately. All accepted manuscripts must respect a word limit of 6,000-8,000 words (depending on the number of submissions accepted) and conform to the ‎journal's submission guidelines. RELEVANT DATES: Full papers due: October 1, 2017 First round of reviews back to authors: December 1, 2017 Final decisions: March 1, 2018 Special issue publication (anticipated): June 2018 ‎ If you have any questions, please feel free to contact one of the co-editors: Co-Editor Jenny Davis: Jennifer.davis(a)anu.edu.au<mailto:Jennifer.davis@anu.edu.au> Co-Editor Barry Wellman: wellman(a)chass.utoronto.ca<mailto:wellman@chass.utoronto.ca> Associate Editor Jason Smith: Jsm5(a)gmu.edu<mailto:Jsm5@gmu.edu> Jenny L. Davis Lecturer, School of Sociology The Australian National University Co-Editor: Cyborgology<https://thesocietypages.org/cyborgology/> <https://twitter.com/Jenny_L_Davis> Twitter: @Jenny_L_Davis<https://twitter.com/Jenny_L_Davis>

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Examples of local and personal Facebook moderation?
by Nicholas John 13 Sep '17

13 Sep '17

Hello everyone, In Israel, Facebook suspended the account of a journalist after he published - in the popular online newspaper he writes for - an article criticizing an earlier wave of suspensions of Israeli Facebook “celebrities” who had used words that Facebook deemed inappropriate. My question for you folks is this: Have you, in the countries you live, you have come across similar instances of Facebook suspending users for criticizing Facebook? Are there other examples out there of local Facebook offices seemingly taking matters into their own hands in what seem to be individually-targeted acts of moderation? I’m aware of instances of journalists in different countries being suspended or banned for their anti-regime stances; in all the cases I’ve seen Facebook retracted the suspension and said there had been a “mistake”. Here, though, I’m interested in confrontations between Facebook itself and users, resulting in Facebook deploying sanctions against users. Thanks in advance, Nik Nicholas John Department of Communication The Hebrew University of Jerusalem T +972 54 7906073 @nicholasajohn <http://www.twitter.com/nicholasajohn> nicholasjohn.huji.ac.il <http://nicholasjohn.huji.ac.il/> Check out my new book,The Age of Sharing, at Amazon <https://www.amazon.com/Age-Sharing-Nicholas-John/dp/074566251X> or directly from Polity <http://politybooks.com/bookdetail/?isbn=9780745662503> Listen to a podcast <http://newbooksnetwork.com/nicholas-a-john-the-age-of-sharing-polity-press-…> on the New Books Network. Read an excerpt <http://culturedigitally.org/2016/11/the-age-of-sharing-by-nicholas-john-an-…>and responses <http://culturedigitally.org/2016/12/dialogue_nikjohn/>at Culture Digitally.

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