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WEBCAST NOON TODAY: IS SOCIAL MEDIA A THREAT TO DEMOCRACY?
by Joly MacFie 02 Oct '18

02 Oct '18

Great viewing!. DiResta, Godwin and Szoka going at it. <https://livestream.com/internetsociety/DigitalCooperation> [image: livestream] <https://livestream.com/internetsociety/reboot2018> Today *Tuesday October 2 2018* at *Noon EDT* (16:00 UTC) the *Internet Society Livestream Channel <https://livestream.com/internetsociety/reboot2018>* will webcast the opening panel – *Is Social Media A Threat To Democracy? Fake News, Filter Bubbles, and Deep Fakes* – of the *REBOOT 2018 Conference <http://joinlincoln.org/events/2018/reboot-2018>*, which took place in San Francisco on September 21 2018. As social media companies are under increasing scrutiny for their effect on American society. According to critics, these platforms promote hyper-partisanship, disinformation, extremism and even violence. They are also blamed for facilitating Russian-sponsored voter manipulation during the 2016 election. The panel discussed these challenges as well as their implications for the upcoming election. Speakers: *Mike Godwin*, Distinguished Senior Fellow at the R Street Institute; *Renee DiResta*, Policy Lead at Data for Democracy; *Berin Szoka*, Executive Director at TechFreedom; *Lorelei Kelly*, Senior Fellow at the Beeck Center at Georgetown University (Moderator). *VIEW ON LIVESTREAM: http://joinlincoln.org/events/2018/reboot-2018 <http://joinlincoln.org/events/2018/reboot-2018>TWITTER: #REBOOT2018 http://bit.ly/2Rj0voA <http://bit.ly/2Rj0voA>* *Permalink* https://isoc.live/10587/ <https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0/%E2%80%8Bhttps://isoc.live/10587/%E2%80%8B> -- --------------------------------------------------------------- Joly MacFie 218 565 9365 Skype:punkcast -------------------------------------------------------------- -

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Recommendations of data extraction tools for LinkedIn
by Cristian Camilo Jiménez 02 Oct '18

02 Oct '18

Hi community! I hope all of you are having good times, It is very simple: I am currently working on a project that implies to map profiles and professions, and I thought that LinkedIn would be a great source of data extraction. But I have not found a tool to extract data from this platform. Have you got any suggestions? I really would appreciate it. Thanks a lot Best regards -- Cristian Jiménez Ruiz @CristianCJRuiz M.a. Communication Sciences SMART Research Member iNovaMediaLab – NOVA/FCSH E4Value Research Member IN+ – UL/IST

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Job Posting: Two tenure-track positions, Université de Montréal, Canada
by Aleksandra Kaminska 02 Oct '18

02 Oct '18

* Deux postes au Département de communication à l'Université de Montréal - Two tenure-track positions in the Department of Communication at the Université de Montréal * For posting in French, please visit: http://fas.umontreal.ca/faculte/postes-de-professeur/ Posting no: FAS 09-18 / 14 The Département de communication is seeking applications for two full-time tenure-track positions at the rank of Assistant Professor in Communication from candidates specializing in one or more of the following areas: -- Social media studies, digital platforms and networked publics, especially as these intersect with studies of participative culture, mobile culture, digital activism, online interaction and collaboration, new forms of communities associated with network technologies, and/or algorithmic publics and new forms of digital sociability. -- Digital creation, especially studies and practices of visual culture, new forms of digital storytelling/narration (podcasts, web documentary, etc.), design of user interfaces and experiences, and/or visualization of information and data. -- Journalism studies, especially in the areas of digital and multiplatform journalism, investigative and data journalism, and/or alternative media. RESPONSIBILITIES: The successful candidates will be expected to teach at all three levels of the curriculum, supervise graduate students, engage in ongoing research and publication, and contribute to the academic life and reputation of the University. REQUIREMENTS: Ph.D. (or near completion) in Communication or a related field; Strong research record; University teaching experience; An adequate knowledge of the French language (written and spoken) or a strong commitment to mastering the proficiency level required*. Deadline: November 12, 2018 Starting date: On or after August 1st, 2019 The application must include the following documents: - Cover letter - Curriculum vitae - Copies of recent publications and research - Evidence of teaching effectiveness - Statement of research interests - Statement of teaching interests Three letters of recommendation should also be sent directly to the Department Chair by the referees. Applications may be submitted to the Department Chair by post or by email. By post, send to: Thierry Bardini, Chair Département de communication, Pavillon Marie-Victorin Université de Montréal C. P. 6128, succursale Centre-ville Montréal (QC) H3C 3J7 CANADA By email, send to: thierry.bardini(a)umontreal.ca Please visit the Department website for more information: www.com.umontreal.ca POLICIES * Language Policy: The Université de Montréal is a Québec university with an international reputation. French is the language of instruction. To renew its teaching faculty, the University de Montréal is intensively recruiting the world’s best specialists. In accordance with the institution’s language policy, the Université de Montréal provides support for newly-recruited faculty to attain proficiency in French. Confidentiality: The Université de Montréal application process allows all regular professors in the Department to have access to all documents unless the applicant explicitly states in her or his cover letter that access to the application should be limited to the selection committee. This restriction on accessibility will be lifted if the applicant is invited for an interview. Equal Access Employment Program: Through its Equal Access Employment Program, the Université de Montréal invites women, Aboriginal people, visible and ethnical minorities, as well as persons with disabilities to apply. During the recruitment process, our selection tools will be adapted to meet the needs of people with disabilities who request it. Be assured of the confidentiality of this information. The Université de Montréal is committed to the inclusion and the diversity of its staff and also encourages people of all sexual and gender identities to apply. Immigration Requirements: We invite all qualified candidates to apply at UdeM. However, in accordance with immigration requirements in Canada, please note that priority will be given to Canadian citizens and permanent residents. -- Aleksandra Kaminska, PhD Professeure adjointe / Assistant Professor Université de Montréal Département de communication a.kaminska(a)umontreal.ca

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CFP Radio as a Social Media - ECREA Radio Research Conference - Siena 2019
by tiziano bonini 02 Oct '18

02 Oct '18

Hello, some of you might be interested in this conference we are going to organize next year in Siena: CALL FOR PAPERS: ECREA Radio Research Conference 2019: Radio as a Social Media: community, participation, public values in the platform society. *website: http://www.congressi.unisi.it/ecrea2019/ <http://www.congressi.unisi.it/ecrea2019/>* 19-21 September 2019 University of Siena (Italy) The next conference of the Radio Research Section of ECREA will be held at the Department of Social, Political and Cognitive Sciences of the University of Siena, from 19 to 21 September 2019. The topic In the age of platformization of culture (Nieborg & Poell 2018) every media is being turned into a digital platform and every audience is being datafied and commodified. What is the role of radio within this new media ecosystem? Tim Wu (2011) showed how radio broadcasting too was eventually colonized by the ethos of profit, but along its history the radio medium has been able to partially escape its commodification and it has carved out a social role as a public service media and as a community/civic media, more open to audience interaction and participation than television and print media used to be. In a media ecosystem increasingly shaped by algorithms, radio is the only medium that still has a relevant analogue component, especially in non-western areas of the world. The relevance of analogue broadcasting is not only a residual practice but could be also framed as a space of freedom, a practice of resistance to the process of platformization. “Radio as a social media” is the theme of the 2019 ECREA Radio conference. What does it mean to be a “social media” in the era of digital “social media”? Our proposal is that radio, in order to be “social”, needs to be “convivial”, in the sense proposed by Ivan Illich in its work “Tools for Conviviality” (1973), which also inspired the first hackers and makers of home computer’s history. Conviviality is a concept that was introduced by Ivan Illich (1973). He imagined a world where people had an open relationship with the material world surrounding them, including the technologies they used: ‘I choose the term ‘conviviality’ to designate the opposite of industrial productivity. I intend it to mean autonomous and creative intercourse among persons, and the intercourse of persons with their environment’ (1973, p. 11). Conviviality is about being vigorously engaged in relationships, conscious of values and meanings. For Illich, a convivial technology was a tool that people could manipulate, transform, adapt and control. Convivial tools are ‘those which gave each person who uses them the greatest opportunity to enrich the environment with the fruits of his or her vision’ (1973, p. 21). Conviviality according to Illich revolves around the idea of free and equal access to empowering tools. Conviviality, as David Gauntlett noted, “is therefore about having the power to shape one’s own world. Illich makes it clear that individuals *must *retain this power – society must not seek to drain it from them” (2011, p. 168). Is it still possible a social/convivial use of radio in the age of proprietary algorithms-driven journalism and music consumption? *Key note speakers:* Elena Razlogova, Concordia University (Canada); Christina Dunbar Hester, University of Southern California’s Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism (USA), David Hendy, University of Sussex (UK) Enrico Menduni, Università Roma Tre (Italy) David Fernandez Quijada, Media Intelligence Service, EBU This conference aims at gathering together all the scholars that are currently exploring, from different and/or interdisciplinary perspectives, the complex entanglement between radio/audio/digital media and society. The conference will try to situate radio studies within the broader contemporary media ecosystem and aims at starting a dialogue with and accepting contributions from Internet Studies, Platform studies, Social Media studies, critical political economy of the media, Media History, digital media management, Cultural Studies, production studies, ethnography, sound studies, social sciences. ECREA Radio Research 2019 is not only a conference, it wants to be also a festival. A festival for the community of scholars with an interest in radio. DEADLINE for abstract submissions: January 15, 2019 (18:00 hours Greenwich Mean Time) The Scientific Committee of the conference will select the proposals that could deal with the following topics: Radio AS a social media Community/civic/free/pirate/alternative/radical/DIY not for profit radio radio and conviviality (Illich) radio audiences, empowerment, participation radio and the diaspora radio and migration Migration, identity, radio copyright, copyleft and radio creation Radio AND social media Doing radio in the age of social media (Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, WhatsApp, Snapchat…) Datafication of listening radio and music streaming platforms radio curation vs. algorithmic curation music radio programming vs. music platforms programming radio, music platforms and the listener’s agency networked listeners Access, Interaction, Participation (Carpentier) social media for radio: between exploitation and participation radio as an app “haptically-mediated” radio listening Radio AS public media Who care for…Public service radio? Public service radio and innovation radio and cultural diversity Radio and the public sphere(s) Radio (retro)Futurism radio innovation and multi-platform delivery radio-vision radio and Artificial Intelligence Smart speakers and audio/radio listening Transnational radio Analog stories Podcasting the second age of podcasting: a new digital mass media repurposing radio content on new platforms distribution technologies hybrid radio/hybrid future DAB, streaming or LTE broadcasting? Streaming kill the digital (DAB) star What’s the frequency, Kenneth (frequencies and transmission studies) Radio as a Research field Political economy of the radio Radio and gender studies Radio genres Radio art Politics of listening Poetics of listening Philosophy of listening History of listening Audio vs. Radio Radio audiences and commodification Production practices/studies Reception/Production ethnographies Digital ethnography Digital Methods Network analysis Radio history Radio journalism Radio and the music industry Ownership, regulation and governance of radio SPECIAL ISSUE OF “THE RADIO JOURNAL” We invite delegates of the conference to submit their full papers no later than October 30, 2019 to be selected for a special issue of The Radio Journal, edited by the ECREA Radio Research board, to be published in the second issue of 2020. SCIENTIFIC COMMITTEE Tiziano Bonini, University of Siena, Italy Marta Perrotta, Roma Tre University, Rome, Italy Enrico Menduni, Roma Tre University, Rome, Italy Magdalena Oliveira, Universidade do Minho, Braga, Portugal Grazyna Stachyra, Lublin University, Poland Belén Monclus, Autonoma University, Barcelona, Spain Conference website: http://www.congressi.unisi.it/ecrea2019/ TIMELINE Paper and Panel Submission Deadline: January 15, 2019 Final decisions on accepted papers and panels: March 10, 2019 Early registration deadline: May 31, 2019 Late registration deadline: July 15, 2019 Full paper submissions for The Radio Journal Special Issue: October 30, 2019 -- Tiziano Bonini ||| Assistant professor in media studies ||| DISPOC Dipartimento di Scienze Sociali, Politiche e Cognitive Università degli studi di Siena Via Roma 56, 53100 Siena ::: Academia ::: *https://alegrafast.academia.edu/TizianoBonini <https://alegrafast.academia.edu/TizianoBonini>* ::: Audio/Radio ::: http://audioboo.fm/tizianobonini

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IJSC special issue on the topic of social media in sport
by Gashaw Abeza 02 Oct '18

02 Oct '18

Greetings Colleagues, We hope that you are having a good Fall semester. We are pleased to report that our IJSC special issue <https://journals.humankinetics.com/toc/ijsc/current> on the topic of social media in sport is now out and invite you to take a look at the compiled works. We hope that they will help stimulate discussion as well as contribute to advancing scholarship on the topic area. Gashaw, Norm, and Benoit *IJSC* Special Issue on Social Media in Sport: https://journals.humankinetics.com/toc/ijsc/current -- *Gashaw Abeza, PhD* · Assistant Professor Department of Kinesiology <http://www.towson.edu/towson.edu/chp/departments/kinesiology/> – Sport Management Towson University <http://www.towson.edu/> · 8000 York Road · Towson, Maryland, 21252-0001 p. 410-704-5722

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New Open Access Book: Social Media Use in Crisis and Risk Communication
by Sarah Broadley 02 Oct '18

02 Oct '18

+ Apologies for cross-posting + Hi all, Members of this list might be interested in this newly-published Open Access title. Please read and share within your wider networks. Social Media Use In Crisis and Risk Communication: Emergencies, Concerns and Awareness Edited by Harald Hornmoen, Oslo Metropolitan University, Norway, and Klas Backholm, Åbo Akademi University, Finland **The ebook edition of this title is Open Access and is freely available to read online.** https://www.emeraldinsight.com/doi/book/10.1108/9781787562691 Social Media use in Crisis and Risk Communication presents cutting-edge research on the use of social media in crisis communication and reporting. It gives recommendations about how different crisis communicators (information officers, crisis managers, journalists) can improve their ability to gather information, communicate and raise people's crisis awareness by using social media. Chapters address such questions by presenting new research-based knowledge on social media use during different crises: the terrorist attacks in Norway on 22 July 2011; the central European floods in Austria in 2013; and the West African Ebola-outbreak in 2014. The collection also presents research on the development of a tool for gathering social media information, based on a user-centered design. Best wishes, Sarah Sarah Broadley | Senior Marketing Manager Emerald Publishing, Howard House, Wagon Lane, Bingley, BD16 1WA | T: +44 (0) 1274 515671 Emeraldpublishing.com | @EmeraldSoc | @EmeraldEdu | @EmeraldPolSci Winner: 2018 IPG Academic and Professional Publisher of the Year Shortlisted: British Book Awards - Academic, Educational and Professional Publisher of the Year Emerald Publishing Limited, Registered Office: Howard House, Wagon Lane, Bingley, BD16 1WA United Kingdom. Registered in England No. 3080506, VAT No. GB 665 3593 06

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Update: Funded post-doc and 2 MA positions, University of Calgary
by ryan burns 01 Oct '18

01 Oct '18

Dear all, Victoria Fast and I are pleased to announce that our post-doctoral position, announced earlier, *has been expanded to a 2-year position*. We hope that you will consider applying. Please see the full call for positions here: https://geog.ucalgary.ca/opendata/node/9. Please feel free to reach out with questions. Best wishes, Ryan -- Ryan Burns, PhD Department of Geography Engaging Open Data Research O'Brien Institute for Public Health University of Calgary http://burnsr77.github.io

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3rd international Data Power conference, 12th/13th September 2019, Bremen, Germany
by Helen Kennedy 01 Oct '18

01 Oct '18

With increasingly globalized digital infrastructures and a global digital political economy, we face new concentrations of power, leading to new inequalities and insecurities with respect to data ownership, data geographies and different data-related practices. It is not only a concentration of power by a few corporations, but also a concentration of the availability of data in individual regions of the world. This includes (exerting) power about data (infra)structures and processes of data creation, data collection, data access, data processing, data interpretation, data storing, data visualisations. The *Global in/securities* theme of the 2019 Data Power conference attends to questions around these phenomena, asking: How does data power further or contest global in/securities? How are global in/securities constructed through or against data? How do civil society actors, government, people engage with societal and individual in/securities through and with data? What are appropriate ontologies to think about data and persons? How may we envisage a just data society? And what does decolonizing data in/securities look like? This conference creates a space to reflect on these and other critical issues relating to data’s in/security and its decolonizing. Confirmed keynote speakers are: - Virginia Eubanks, University at Albany, USA; - Jack Linchuan Qiu, Chinese University, Hongkong; - Seeta Peña Gangadaran, LSE, UK; - Nimmi Rangaswamy, Indian Institute of Information Technology, IIIT, Hyderabad, India. Papers and panels are invited on the following – and other – topics: - Big data and humanitarianism - ‘Good’ data, data justice and well-being - Data, discrimination and inequality - Data activism, citizen engagement, indigenous data sovereignty and open data - Critical, theoretical and feminist approaches to data in/securities - Data journalism and rhetorics of data visualization - Data-driven governance and open data - Securitization and militarization of data infrastructures - Emerging in/securities through algorithms and automated decision-making - Forensic data, human rights and refugees - Decolonizing data in/securities and data labor - Machine learning, developmentalism and human security *Information/details * - Please submit 250-word-paper proposals, using the online submission system at the conference webpage: https://www.uni-bremen.de/data-power-global-insecurities/ (to be opened soon). - The deadline for paper proposals is *31st January 2019.* - The conference fee is 200 Euro, and 100 Euro for students. There will be travel grants for participants from the global south and PhD student fee waivers (please indicate the need when applying). - The organising committee will select papers for a special theme proposal to be submitted to the peer reviewed journal Big Data & Society. - For information on travel visa, please visit the following web page: https://ec.europa.eu/home-affairs/what-we-do/policies/borders-and-visas/vis… . Letters of invitation will be sent by the conference organizers. -- Professor Helen Kennedy, Chair in Digital Society University of Sheffield T: 0114 2226488 E: h.kennedy(a)sheffield.ac.uk OUT NOW: 'Living with data: aligning data studies and data activism through a focus on everyday experiences of datafication', *Krisis, Journal for Contemporary Philosophy*, 2018, http://krisis.eu.

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Reflecting on Wikipedia at 20 (MIT Press, expected 2020)
by Joseph Reagle 01 Oct '18

01 Oct '18

Wikipedia at 20, MIT Press <https://reagle.org/joseph/2018/wp/at-20> Joseph Reagle (Northeastern University) Zachary McDowell (University of Illinois at Chicago) CALL FOR PARTICIPATION: We welcome essay proposals from all-comers toward a MIT Press collection about Wikipedia, to be developed via open review on MIT’s PubPub platform and resulting in a CC-BY-NC licensed book. Initial abstracts of 300-500 words are due 2018-Nov-01, details are below. DESRIPTION As Wikipedia’s twentieth year anniversary approaches, many of the site’s early peers have fallen by the wayside; those that survived have been overrun with ads and misinformation. Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia founded on radical collaboration and reliable sourcing, persists. What was once a scrappy experiment has become the world’s most popular reference work. Recently, Wikipedia was even enlisted by its peers—unknowingly—to counteract their problems with fake news. Yet, the online encyclopedia was not always looked to as the grownup of the web. Within its first ten years, some labeled the project a fad bound to fail, others claimed it as a harbinger of the Web’s future. Wikipedia did not fail, nor has the open collaboration it exemplifies become the template for most online platforms. Wikipedia’s legacy is an opportunity to reflect on this project and online communities more generally. To see what insights we can draw from _Wikipedia @ 20_, we are asking researchers, Wikipedians, and cultural critics _three questions_: 1. What initially attracted your attention to Wikipedia? 2. What has changed since then? 3. What do these changes portend for the future of Wikipedia, online community, and beyond? We hope that across the domains of _community_, _contributors_, _ecosystem_, and _meaning_ we’ll find compelling and accessible insights to more specific questions, such as: - How has Wikipedia changed? How much of this is unique to Wikipedia and how much is common across online communities? - Was its precipitous growth and plateauing of contributions the problem that it was thought to be at its midlife? - What has come of efforts to increase contributor diversity, increase its global reach, counter systemic bias, and recruit newcomers? - How did Wikipedia succeed or fail to meet the early expectations of proponents and critics alike? - Is Wikipedia the heart of a new data ecosystem or the lone survivor of an older and better web? Our audience will be a general one. Each contribution should be short (three-to-five thousand words) and accessible to anyone interested in Wikipedia. This will be a collection of thoughtful essays (expected 2020), rather than a venue for original research findings. Essays that make use of such research, of course, are welcome. SUBMISSION To participate, please send a 300-500 word abstract/proposal to wp20(a)reagle.org by 2018-NOV-01. Give us a sense of how the three questions above will lead you to a specific insight, argument, or explanation. (If you wish for more detail provocation, see the draft introduction.) Invitations for contributions will be sent by 2018-Dec-20, with submissions due 2019-MAY-15. Submissions will be made available for a two-month open review on MIT’s PubPub platform. Revised essays are due 2019-AUGUST-01 and those included in the printed collection will also be available under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International license.

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Re: [Air-L] Air-L Digest, Vol 170, Issue 32
by Janet Salmons, Ph.D. 01 Oct '18

01 Oct '18

Greetings everyone, This month I am curating a series of blog posts for SAGE Publications MethodSpace community on Research for Social Good <http://bit.ly/2Qj54y3>. If you would like to share something about your own research, including links to articles or resources for researchers/methods instructors, please contact me off-list. The series will run through the month of October. Then we will segue into an Academic Writing Month focus, which can also address social good as it relates to how and where we disseminate findings. Thanks- Janet *Janet Salmons PhD* Did you see this compilation of posts from MethodSpace and TAA Abstract? See Write with Purpose, Publish for Impact <https://www.methodspace.com/write-with-purpose-publish-for-impact/> Free-Range Scholar @ Vision2Lead Methods Guru, SAGE Methodspace Follow Twitter @einterview 2525 Arapahoe Avenue, Suite E4-198 Boulder, Colorado 80302 jsalmons(a)vision2lead.com 303-443-3075

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