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A digital divide resource for educators with a Canadian focus
by David Brake 05 Oct '18

05 Oct '18

Dear all, To prepare for an upcoming course at the University of Alberta I have assembled a set of recent resources on digital divides for my students to refer to - selected survey-based statistics on internet and social media use in Canada, supplemented by a few major US, UK and global links and a bit of context on internet use in the territories (the far North of Canada) where there seems to be very little survey data. I hope you will find it useful for your own courses - I have shared it with you with “commenting” enabled in case you have comments or further resources to suggest - particularly, of course, Canadian ones. I know it is nothing like comprehensive in its non-Canadian data sources but if I have missed anything huge let me know. While the document I have shared is concentrating on sources of data, I would be interested separately if you could recommend by email recent scholarly articles that provide an overview of Canadian digital divide issues. https://docs.google.com/document/d/1qDDAw0KYuxGkzmvSjyODZTv3pb3KUq1QVog1G7i… Regards, Dr David Brake, Researcher and Educator http://davidbrake.org/, @drbrake Author of "Sharing Our Lives Online: Risks and Exposure in Social Media” https://www.facebook.com/sharingourlivesonline <https://www.facebook.com/sharingourlivesonline>

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WEBCAST TODAY: New Dark Age: Technology and the End of the Future – NYC Book Event
by Joly MacFie 04 Oct '18

04 Oct '18

Is the Internet half-empty or half-full? Tune in tonight! <https://livestream.com/internetsociety/DigitalCooperation> [image: livestream] <https://livestream.com/internetsociety/newdarkage/%22%3Ehttps://livestream.…> Today, *Thursday October 4 2018*, at *7pm EDT* (23:00 UTC) *Eyebeam <https://www.eyebeam.org/> *presents a book event – *New Dark Age: Technology and the End of the Future <https://www.eyebeam.org/events/welcome-wednesday-new-dark-age-technology-an…>*. In this new work Eyebeam alum *James Bridle* offers us a warning against the future in which the contemporary promise of a new technologically assisted Enlightenment may just deliver its opposite: an age of complex uncertainty, predictive algorithms, surveillance, and the hollowing out of empathy. Surveying the history of art, technology and information systems he reveals the dark clouds that gather over discussions of the digital sublime. Today he will speak about the book with current Eyebeam Journalism R&D Resident, *Ingrid Burrington*. The event will be webcast live on the *Internet Society Livestream Channel <https://livestream.com/internetsociety/>* and YouTube <https://youtu.be/_a-Dkoq59bA>. *VIEW ON LIVESTREAM: https://livestream.com/internetsociety/newdarkage/ <https://livestream.com/internetsociety/newdarkage/>VIEW ON YOUTUBE: https://youtu.be/_a-Dkoq59bA <https://youtu.be/_a-Dkoq59bA>BOOK: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B076NR24RZ/ <https://www.amazon.com/dp/B076NR24RZ/>TWITTER: #NewDarkAge https://bit.ly/newdarkage <https://bit.ly/newdarkage>* *Permalink* https://isoc.live/10601/ <https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0/%E2%80%8Bhttps://isoc.live/10601/> -- --------------------------------------------------------------- Joly MacFie 218 565 9365 Skype:punkcast -------------------------------------------------------------- -

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WEBCAST TODAY – LikeWar: The Weaponization of Social Media – NYC Book Event
by Joly MacFie 04 Oct '18

04 Oct '18

This event was so packed I couldn't livestream it, but I did record. This was the official launch event. Today the authors are in DC for two more sessions New America <https://youtu.be/a5F5Wi1exhI> and CSIS <https://youtu.be/OFwCpBiePuk>. One of them just tweeted that, one day after release, the book is already on its 2nd printing. <https://livestream.com/internetsociety/DigitalCooperation> <https://livestream.com/internetsociety/dataprivacy> [image: livestream] <https://livestream.com/internetsociety/likewar>Today, *Thursday October 3 2018*, at *3pm ET* (19:00 UTC) the *Internet Society Livestream Channel <https://livestream.com/internetsociety>* will webcast yesterday’s *NYC launch <https://www.newamerica.org/nyc/events/likewar/>* of* LikeWar: The Weaponization of Social Media <https://www.amazon.com/LikeWar-Weaponization-P-W-Singer/dp/1328695743>*. In this new book authors *Peter W. Singer* and *Emerson T. Brooking *study what social media has been doing to politics, news, and war around the world, drawing upon everything from historic cases to the latest in AI and machine intelligence. At this event, hosted New America NYC, the authors were joined in conversation by *Kate Brannen*, Editorial Director, Just Security, as they tackled the questions that arose during their five years of research: What can be kept secret in a world of networks? Does social media expose the truth or bury it? And what role do ordinary people now play in international conflicts? *View on Livestream: https://livestream.com/internetsociety/likewar <https://livestream.com/internetsociety/likewar>Twitter: #LikeWar http://bit.ly/2RrrYov <http://bit.ly/2RrrYov>* *Permalink* https://isoc.live/10598/ <https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0/%E2%80%8Bhttps://isoc.live/10598/%E2%80%8B> -- --------------------------------------------------------------- Joly MacFie 218 565 9365 Skype:punkcast -------------------------------------------------------------- -

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14th International Conference on Wireless and Mobile Computing, Networking and Communications (WiMob 2018): Call for Participation
by Announce Announcements 04 Oct '18

04 Oct '18

*** CALL FOR PARTICIPATION *** 14th International Conference on Wireless and Mobile Computing, Networking and Communications (WiMob 2018) St. Raphael Resort, Limassol, Cyprus, 15-17 October, 2018 http://www.cs.ucy.ac.cy/~george/lm/lm.php?tk=YWlyLUwJCQlhaXItTEBsaXN0c2Vydi… WiMob is an international forum for the exchange of knowledge and experience among researchers, developers and practitioners of wireless and mobile technology. For fourteen years, the International WiMob conference has provided unique opportunities for researchers and developers to interact, share new results, show live demonstrations, and discuss emerging directions in a number of contemporary topics in wireless and mobile computing. WiMob 2018 features keynote talks by Mohammad S. Obaidat, Fellow of IEEE and Fellow of SCS on "Wireless Network Systems as Key Enabling Technology for Smart Homes and Cities and Samples of our Related Recent Works", and Markus Gruber, Nokia Bell Labs, Germany on "5G as an End-to-End Vision". The technical program comprises 100 accepted contributions in a number of technical sessions, including 6 workshops. There are also a number of travel grants awards for student authors. Please visit the conference web site for detailed and updated information.

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New Book out now: Interdiscursive Readings in Cultural Consumer Research
by george rossolatos 04 Oct '18

04 Oct '18

*Title: *Interdiscursive Readings in Cultural Consumer Research *Publishing house: *Cambridge Scholars Publishing *ISBN (print): *978-1-5275-1372-3 *Author: *George Rossolatos *Release date: *August 2018 *Pages: *350 The cultural consumption research landscape of the 21st century is marked by an increasing cross-disciplinary fermentation. At the same time, cultural theory and analysis have been marked by successive ‘inter-’ turns, most notably with regard to the Big Four: multimodality (or intermodality), interdiscursivity, transmediality (or intermediality), and intertextuality. This book offers an outline of interdiscursivity as an integrative platform for accommodating these notions. To this end, a call for a return to Foucault is issued via a critical engagement with the so-called practice-turn. This re-turn does not seek to reconstitute venerably Foucauldianism, but to theorize ‘inters-’ as vanishing points that challenge the integrity of discrete cultural orders in non-convergent manners. The propounded interdiscursivity approach is offered as a reading strategy that permeates the contemporary cultural consumption phenomena that are scrutinized in this book, against a pan-consumptivist framework. By drawing on qualitative and mixed methods research designs, facilitated by CAQDAS software, the empirical studies that are hosted here span a vivid array of topics that are directly relevant to both traditional and new media researchers, such as the consumption of ideologies in Web 2.0 social movements, the ability of micro-celebrities to act as cultural game-changers, the post-loyalty abjective consumption ethos. The theoretically novel approaches on offer are coupled with methodological innovations in areas such as user-generated content, artists’ branding, and experiential consumption. https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1527513726/ref=dbs_a_def_rwt_bibl_vppi_i7 https://www.cambridgescholars.com/download/sample/64776 http://www.cambridgescholars.com/interdiscursive-readings-in-cultural- consumer-research https://books.google.gr/books?id=6no-ugEACAAJ&dq=Interdiscursive+Readings+in +Cultural+Consumer+Research&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwiLwL6M5svdAhUFBywKHQAZDhwQ 6AEIKDAA https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3163301

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Call for papers: International Journal of Marketing Semiotics & Discourse Studies Vol.VII (2019)
by george rossolatos 04 Oct '18

04 Oct '18

*Call for papers: International Journal of Marketing Semiotics & Discourse Studies Vol.VII (2019) * www.ijmarketingsemiotics.com *Submissions for Vol. VII are accepted from now and until the end of 2019 and will be published immediately upon acceptance based on our new all-year-round publishing policy (see relevant announcements).* *About IJMS&DS* The *International Journal of Marketing Semiotics **& Discourse Studies* is an open-source, double blind-reviewed academic journal that covers a wide spectrum of interdisciplinary marketing/semiotic/discourse analytic research streams, spanning: - Conceptual approaches and empirical research across the 5 P's by drawing on different semiotic (post-structuralist, sociosemiotic, Peircean, structuralist, cultural, textual, visual, multimodal) and discourse analytic (CDA, DHA) perspectives. - Consumer cultural theory and research - Cultural experiences, artefacts, practices, spectacles - In virtual, ‘real’, hyperreal environments - In individual or community settings - Methodological frameworks for conducting research into product/service/retail branding, brand identity development, brand equity, packaging design, competitive packaging analysis, new product development, pricing, advertising, IMC development and competitive analysis, consumer behavior (offline and online). - Comparing and contrasting existing marketing research conceptual and methodological frameworks with discourse analytic/semiotic ones. - Cross-disciplinary approaches on marketing research issues that combine discourse analysis and semiotics with perspectives from the social sciences and the humanities, such as anthropology, literary studies, psychoanalysis, anthropology, rhetoric, sociology. *Acceptable contents and content formats include the following: * - Academic conceptual and empirical research papers (see Submission Guidelines @ https://ijmarketingsemiotics.com/submission-guidelines-2/) - Practitioners’ (agencies’) case-studies - Academic presentations (either as part of taught curricula or as delivered in academic conferences) - Full books or individual chapters (either printed or in print) - Book reviews If you wish to contribute to the *International Journal of Marketing Semiotics **& Discourse Studies*, please send your content to: Dr. George Rossolatos email: georgerossolatos123(a)gmail.com

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recruiting PhD students for the Media Archaeology Lab via the Intermedia Arts, Writing, and Performance Program
by Lori Emerson 03 Oct '18

03 Oct '18

Dear all, I would be so grateful if you would share this announcement far and wide to anyone you think might be interested and/or a good fit. In short, I'm trying to recruit a new PhD student to develop programming in and around the Media Archaeology Lab as part of their degree. Details below! many thanks, Lori Emerson *** Applications are now being accepted for the University of Colorado at Boulder's four-year, fully-funded, practice-based PhD in Intermedia Art, Writing and Performance. In particular, I am recruiting a fully funded PhD student to work in the Media Archaeology Lab as part of the student's own research agenda and/or artistic practice and as part of the research assistantship they will take up in the lab for semesters throughout their degree. I am interested in applicants who work in any combination of the following fields: media archaeology, retrocomputing, history of computing, history of technology, (alternative/experimental) networks, (alternative/experimental) curatorial and archival practice, digital preservation, digital literature, and net art. In short, the successful student will be expected to develop programming in the MAL in a way that benefits both the student's career trajectory as well as the needs of the lab. The Intermedia Art, Writing and Performance (IAWP) program is entering its fourth year and is an interdisciplinary digital arts and humanities research unit with a practice-based PhD. Located in the University of Colorado's College of Media, Communication and Information, IAWP's core faculty collaboratively investigate past and present forms of digital art, writing, and performance and offer graduate students a hands-on, experiential-based learning environment in which to explore emerging forms of creativity triggered by practice-based research methodologies. The program concentrates its curriculum on digital forms of creativity so as to cultivate cutting-edge investigations into the practice, theory, history, and philosophy of media and its relationships to creativity, communication, technology, and information. IAWP’s internationally-renowned and affiliated faculty network collaborate with graduate students probing the significance of a digitally-expanded, process-based research environment located in a cluster of interdisciplinary research labs. The program provides a flexible pedagogical structure that will lead to the creation of new and hybridized forms of art, writing, performance, scholarship, theory, design, curation, exhibition, and publication appropriate for our current cultural moment. Note that while I am looking for a student to work in the MAL, we are also interested in students working in emerging forms of electronic literature, net art, and digital publishing. Application deadlines: International: December 1, 2018 // Domestic: January 1, 2019 To find out more about IAWP as well as application guidelines and program requirements, please visit: http://www.colorado.edu/cmci/academics/phd-intermedia-art-writing-and-perfo… For more on the IAWP faculty, please visit: http://www.colorado.edu/cmci/people/intermedia-art-writing-and-performance -- Lori Emerson Associate Professor | Director, Media Archaeology Lab Department of English and Intermedia Arts, Writing, and Performance University of Colorado at Boulder Hellems 101, 226 UCB, Boulder, CO 80309-0226 traditional territories of the Arapaho, Cheyenne, and Ute Nations loriemerson.net | mediaarchaeologylab.com

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2 Instructor positions at the School of Journalism and Communication at Carleton University.
by Tracey P. Lauriault 03 Oct '18

03 Oct '18

Come and join us! https://carleton.ca/provost/2018/21821/ https://carleton.ca/provost/2018/journalism-and-communication-communication… -- *Tracey P. Lauriault* Assistant Professor Critical Media Studies and Big Data Communication Studies School of Journalism and Communication Suite 4110, River Building Carleton University 1125 Colonel By Drive Ottawa (ON) K1S 5B6 1-613-520-2600 x7443 Tracey.Lauriault(a)Carleton.ca @TraceyLauriault Skype: Tracey.P.Lauriault https://carleton.ca/sjc/people-archives/lauriault-tracey/

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CFP: “Networks: The Creation and Circulation of Knowledge from Franklin to Facebook”
by Jack Gieseking 03 Oct '18

03 Oct '18

Apologies for cross-posting. Please forward widely. ** *CFP: “Networks: The Creation and Circulation of Knowledge * *from Franklin to Facebook” * *June 6-7, 2019* *American Philosophical Society* *Philadelphia, PA* The American Philosophical Society Library invites scholars in all fields to submit paper proposals for an interdisciplinary symposium that will explore the ways that social, scientific, and intellectual networks have influenced the pursuit of “useful knowledge” from the eighteenth century until the twenty-first century. The symposium is inspired by the American Philosophical Society’s recent digitization of Benjamin Franklin’s postal records <https://diglib.amphilsoc.org/islandora/compound/franklin-post-office-book-1…> and by its involvement in “The Cybernetics Thought Collective: A History of Science and Technology Portal Project.” <https://archives.library.illinois.edu/thought-collective/> The program committee is currently accepting proposals for the symposium. Potential topics include (but are not limited to): · The role of networks in producing and disseminating knowledge · The structure of networks over time · Studies of the institutions and individuals who have promoted, established, and sustained networks · The different kinds of knowledge and exchanges facilitated by social, scientific, and intellectual networks · The impact of different technologies (maps, communication infrastructures, etc.) in creating and maintaining networks · The ways in which social, political, and technological changes affected the construction and use of networks over time · The influence that ideas about networks as systems had on the development of new scientific concepts and practices, especially in the past century · The use of digital tools for enabling the formation of networks today and for recreating and visualizing networks of the past Applicants should submit a title and a 250-word proposal along with a C.V. by *November 16, 2018 *via Interfolio: http://apply.interfolio.com/55529. <http://apply.interfolio.com/55529.%20> Decisions will be made by January 2019. All presenters will receive travel subsidies and hotel accommodations. Accepted papers will be due a month before the conference and pre-circulated to registered attendees. Papers should be no longer than 15-double spaced pages. Presenters may also have the opportunity to publish revised papers in the APS’s *Proceedings*, one of the longest running scholarly journals in America. For more information, visit https://www.amphilsoc.org/, or contact Adrianna Link, Head of Scholarly Programs, at alink(a)amphilsoc.org. FORWARD BY -- Jen Jack Gieseking Assistant Professor of Geography University of Kentucky Lexington, Kentucky 40506 www.jgieseking.org www.peopleplacespace.org @jgieseking <https://twitter.com/jgieseking> Pronouns: he/him/his

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New Special Issue on (In)Equalities and Social (In)Visibilities in the Digital Age
by Inês Amaral 03 Oct '18

03 Oct '18

[With apologies for cross posting] The journal Interações is pleased to announce the publication of a Special Issue on (In)Equalities and Social (In)Visibilities in the Digital Age. The articles in the volume present research results and/or theoretical reflection on social visibilities and invisibilities created by dynamics of media and digital inclusion and exclusion, relations between the digital and inequalities in different geographical, social and professional contexts, digital literacy and vulnerable social groups, conditioning created by technology to the individual in social context, among others. The Special Issue brings together seven papers, an essay and a preface. To access the Special Issue, please go to https://www.interacoes-ismt.com/index.php/revista/index *ESSAY* An Era of AI-personation & Self(ie) Surveillance Chris Campanioni *PREFACE* (In)Equalities and Social (In)Visibilities in the Digital Age *ARTICLES* Invisibility, Inequality and the Dialectics of the Real in the Digital Age Matteo Stocchetti Digital Inequality in Theory and Practice: Old and New Divides in the Broadband Era Luca Cigna The Three Levels of the Digital Divide: Barriers in Access, Use and Utility of Internet among Young People in Spain Daniel Calderón Gómez Media Shy: The Perils of Bashfulness in the Digital Age, an Era of Speed, Satisfaction, and Spectacle Natasha Chuk Utilization of Digital Literacy in Retirement Planning Among Ghanaian Formal and Informal Sector Workers Delali A. Dovie Sustainability of the Black Press as Social Justice: A Digital Technology Gap Study Indhira Suero Acosta, Bernardo H. Motta Click to Feed. Mobile Phone Applications’ Role in Improving Food Access in Romania Ioana Ionita

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