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CALL: New Book Series From The MIT Press
by Joshua Braun 01 Oct '18

01 Oct '18

We are pleased to announce a new book series with The MIT Press, Distribution Matters. We welcome proposals and inquiries from scholars on this list and hope you will spread the word. For further information, please contact the series editors, Josh Braun and Ramon Lobato (details below and at https://distributionmatters.net) Many Thanks, Josh and Ramon DISTRIBUTION MATTERS A new MIT Press book series Distribution Matters explores how media content, ideas, and information move through the world — and to what effect. Distribution networks — from postal services to social media platforms — affect in essential ways who has access to cultural resources, and on what terms. The Distribution Matters book series explores the impact of strategies, business models, and infrastructures for distribution across the media industries, including screen, print, broadcast, and digital media. It seeks to publish cutting-edge, critical scholarship that offers new ways to understand the movement of media through time and space. The series is open to media scholars within a range of humanities and social science fields, including media studies, communication history, anthropology, sociology, science and technology studies, internet studies, and cultural studies. We welcome proposals from scholars whose work explores how access to cultural resources is variously enabled, constrained, choreographed, and contested in and through distribution. Potential topics include, but are not limited to: * the histories of media distribution networks, their path dependencies, and social consequences * distribution dynamics within particular sectors, such as games, video, publishing, and advertising * logics of digital distribution (platformization, aggregation, recommendation, filtering, blocking, etc.) * governance and regulation of distribution networks * theoretical debates about circulation, networks, mobility, virality, and other issues everyday working practices and cultures of distribution * informal distribution and piracy For further information, please contact the editors: Dr Joshua Braun (University of Massachusetts Amherst) - jabraun(a)journ.umass.edu Dr Ramon Lobato (RMIT University, Australia) - ramon.lobato(a)rmit.edu.au More information and a printable version of this flyer are available at <https://distributionmatters.net/>. -- Josh Braun, Ph.D. Associate Professor of Journalism Studies Journalism Department University of Massachusetts Amherst @josh_braun Skype: wideaperture http://wideaperture.net/ book: http://yalebooks.com/book/9780300197501/program-brought-you "Maybe the only gift is a chance to inquire, to know nothing for certain. An inheritance of wonder and nothing more." William Least Heat-Moon

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Hiring Senior Research Fellows at the Oxford Internet Institute
by Scott Hale 01 Oct '18

01 Oct '18

We are hiring two Senior Research Fellows at the Oxford Internet Institute, University of Oxford. https://www.oii.ox.ac.uk/people/new-positions/ Applicants from Social Data Science, Computational Social Science, Human-Computer Interaction, and similar disciplines are particularly encouraged. I've been at the OII for almost 10 years now and think it is a great, multidisciplinary department. It would be wonderful if you apply or pass this onto colleagues who could be interested. This is a particularly exciting time as we are starting a new master's and doctoral programme <https://www.oii.ox.ac.uk/study/msc-in-social-data-science> in Social Data Science, which has attracted huge interest. Best wishes, Scott -- Dr Scott A. Hale Senior Data Scientist and Research Fellow, Programme Director of the MSc in Social Data Science Oxford Internet Institute, University of Oxford Turing Fellow, Alan Turing Institute http://scott.hale.us/ scott.hale(a)oii.ox.ac.uk

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CASE 1+3 Studentship: "AI at Work" (University of Liverpool)
by Brooker, Phillip 01 Oct '18

01 Oct '18

Dear all Along with Michael Mair (University of Liverpool), Philippe Sormani (STS-Lab Lausanne), Will Dutton (Peak AI, Manchester) and Simon Maskell (PI for Big Hypotheses, University of Liverpool) I'm pleased to announce a new PhD opportunity in Sociology at the University of Liverpool. This is for a 1+3 (Masters and PhD) studentship project called "AI at Work: A Hybrid Study of Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning". As part of the project, the researcher will embed themselves in two AI/Machine Learning work sites and study them from within. The 4 year studentship is open to undergraduate applications but also those currently undertaking a masters degree in a relevant social science discpline (e.g. ethnomethodology/conversation analysis, Science and Technology Studies, Human-Computer Interaction, Computer-Supported Cooperative Work, etc) or in disciplines relevant to data science (e.g. statistics/mathematics). We welcome applications from international candidates, and further details on the project and how to apply can be found at: https://www.findaphd.com/search/ProjectDetails.aspx?PJID=100716 Many thanks! Phil Brooker <https://www.findaphd.com/search/ProjectDetails.aspx?PJID=100716> [https://www.findaphd.com/images/logo-square-200px.png]<https://www.findaphd.com/search/ProjectDetails.aspx?PJID=100716> AI at Work: A Hybrid Study of Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning ResearchCASE 1+3 Studentship (Masters and PhD) at University of Liverpool on FindAPhD.com<https://www.findaphd.com/search/ProjectDetails.aspx?PJID=100716> www.findaphd.com PhD Project - AI at Work: A Hybrid Study of Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning ResearchCASE 1+3 Studentship (Masters and PhD) at University of Liverpool, listed on FindAPhD.com

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Recruiting for a Research Fellow in Social Data Science
by Victoria Nash 01 Oct '18

01 Oct '18

Dear colleagues, We are looking to hire a Grade 8 Research Fellow with expertise in the social, behavioural and computational sciences or digital humanities to support teaching and research at the Oxford Internet Institute at the University of Oxford. More details are available at: https://www.recruit.ox.ac.uk/pls/hrisliverecruit/erq_jobspec_details_form.j… I'd be happy to field any questions, but do share with excellent potential candidates. Best Vicki Nash Dr Victoria Nash Deputy Director Senior Policy Fellow Oxford Internet Institute University of Oxford http://www.oii.ox.ac.uk/ Tel: 01865 287231 Tw: VickiNashOII

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Editorship of an impact factor journal
by Eileen Breen 01 Oct '18

01 Oct '18

Dear all 2018 conference exhibitor Emerald Publishing,<http://www.emeraldgrouppublishing.com/index.htm> is seeking expressions of interest in the editorship of an Information Research journal. Publisher Ms Eileen Breen will be at her exhibition table in the Montreal breaks to talk to interested parties. Library Hi Tech <http://www.emeraldgrouppublishing.com/products/journals/journals.htm?id=LHT> is concerned with technology-assisted information systems that support libraries & cultural memory, education & the academy, health & medicine, and government & citizenship. The journal has a 2017 Impact Factor of 0.759 and a 5-year Impact Factor of 1.014. Alternatively, e-mail Eileen on ebreen(a)emeraldgroup.com<mailto:ebreen@emeraldgroup.com> for details of what's involved in this role. Candidates must be well networked and have some experience of scholarly book or journals editorship. Thanks and best wishes Ms Eileen Breen Publisher | Emerald Publishing Tel: +44 (0) 1274 785172 | Fax: +44 (0)1274 785200 ebreen(a)emeraldgroup.com<mailto:ebreen@emeraldgroup.com> | emeraldpublishing.com | emeraldinsight.com<http://www.emeraldinsight.com/> 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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CFP: Platform Surveillance (Special Responsive Issue of S&S)
by Monahan, Torin 01 Oct '18

01 Oct '18

Call for Contributions: Platform Surveillance A special responsive issue of Surveillance & Society http://www.surveillance-and-society.org<http://www.surveillance-and-society.org/> edited by David Murakami Wood and Torin Monahan https://ojs.library.queensu.ca/index.php/surveillance-and-society/announcem… Responsive issues are a new initiative by Surveillance & Society to deal with urgent current global priorities and transformations. They present a larger number and range of contributions than for a typical issue but each contribution is typically much shorter (around 2500 words), more current and polemical, and written to a tighter deadline. The idea is that the issue will serve as a concise guide to a particular debate or development. Our first responsive issue was on ‘Surveillance and the Global Turn to Authoritarianism’,https://ojs.library.queensu.ca/index.php/surveillance-and-society/issue/view/authority. This issue of Surveillance & Society calls for short contributions from scholars analyzing the surveillance dimensions and politics of large-scale digital platforms. Recently, the profound influence digital platforms has been thrust—once again—into the public imaginary with controversies surrounding issues as diverse as Facebook’s data-sharing practices, censorship on Chinese social media, and cities’ profligate courtship of Amazon’s second headquarters, but surveillance-driven digital platforms possess the capacity to remake social, economic, political and cultural life in multiple arenas, typically without significant public awareness or debate. This responsive issue will feature papers that grapple with different dimensions or types of platform surveillance. Contributions can focus on: * specific platforms (e.g., Facebook, Twitch, Uber, Airbnb, etc.) * domains (e.g., policing, transportation, education, etc.) * concepts and technologies (internet of things, smart cities, blockchain, the cloud etc.) * practices (e.g., cultural production, consumption, appropriation etc.), or * politics (ideologies, democracy, cooperativism, utopianism, etc.) However, the emphasis should be on the surveillance functions and ramifications of digital platforms. We are especially interested in submissions that acknowledge the social, political and economic importance of platforms and do not fall back on simple technological determinist arguments (whether for or against). Submissions will be considered in a two-stage review process. 1. In the first instance, we invite brief proposals in the following format: * Name(s) * Affiliation(s) * Contact e-mail * Platform or Theme to be covered * Brief abstract (150 words) The deadline for proposals is October 24th 2018 to: dmw(a)queensu.ca <mailto:dmw@queensu.ca> <mailto:dmw@queensu.ca>The editors will then generally select one proposal per platform or theme (there may be exceptions for proposals which cover different aspects of a specific platform) and get back to the chosen authors by October 31st 2018. At this stage we may ask authors to adjust, narrow or expand their focus a little depending on other proposals. 2. Selected contributors should deliver papers of around 2500 (to a maximum of 4000) words by November 30th 2018. These should be uploaded to the website as any normal submission. See here: http://ojs.library.queensu.ca/index.php/surveillance-and-society/informatio… Papers will be mutually reviewed by another author in the same issue, so authors will be expected to review one other paper from the issue. This process will be complete by January 14th 2019. Any revisions will be expected by February 7th 2019. Issue publication: February 2019 https://ojs.library.queensu.ca/index.php/surveillance-and-society/announcem… Torin Monahan, Ph.D. Professor Director of Graduate Studies Department of Communication The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill www.torinmonahan.com<http://www.torinmonahan.com/> Co-Director, Surveillance Studies Network<http://www.surveillance-studies.net/> Editor-in-Chief, Surveillance & Society<http://www.surveillance-and-society.org/> Recent Publications: Monahan, T. 2018. Ways of Being Seen: Surveillance Art and the Interpellation of Viewing Subjects<http://publicsurveillance.com/papers/Monahan_Ways-of-being-seen.pdf>. Cultural Studies 32(4): 560-581. Monahan, T. 2018. Algorithmic Fetishism<http://publicsurveillance.com/papers/Algorithmic_fetishism.pdf>. Surveillance & Society 16(1): 1-5.

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