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ICA-Preconference "Articulating Voice. The Expressivity and Performativity of Media Practices"
by Leif Kramp 14 Mar '18

14 Mar '18

ICA-Preconference “ARTICULATING VOICE. THE EXPRESSIVITY AND PERFORMATIVITY OF MEDIA PRACTICES” Sponsored by the Philosophy, Theory and Critique (PTC) Division of the International Communication Association Event date: 24 May 2018, 9:00 AM to 5:00 PM, Prague, Czech Republic Location: Main Conference Hotel (Hilton Prague) Organizers: Christian Pentzold (University of Bremen), Kenzie Burchell (University of Toronto), Olivier Driessens (University of Cambridge), Alice Mattoni (Scuola Normale Superiore), John Postill (RMIT University), Cara Wallis (Texas A&M University) “Media matter most when they seem not to matter at all.” (Wendy Chun) But how can we understand the practices through which innovations in media and digital data move from being unexpected, novel, and impactful to the negotiated, embedded, and habitual? The pre-conference takes issue with the mundane yet pervasive nature of media habits, rituals, and customs. It assesses the purchase of practice-based approaches in order to see under what conditions and with what consequences they enter studies in communication and media. In particular, we invite participants to consider the expressive and performative dimension of what people actually do and say in relation to media and to the wider communication ecologies in which these articulations take place. We are especially interested in contributions that examine how voices are expressed, represented, or muted and that study the ways practices of voice combine, overlap, or collide with other mediated activities in contemporary societies. With this, we strive for an explanation and critical appreciation of media practices whose accomplishment is a perennial exercise in which we find ourselves immersed. The Book of Abstracts can be downloaded at: http://www.zemki.uni-bremen.de/fileadmin/redak_zemki/dateien/Tagungen/vario… CONFERENCE PROGRAMME 8:30 Opening by the Convenors: A Practice Turn in Studies of Communication and Media? 8:45 Panel I: Off the Ground: Maintaining the Media-Suffused Everyday Jesper Pagh, Fiona Huijie Zeng & Signe Sophus Lai, U of Copenhagen, Denmark: "Show and Tell – Mapping communicative patterns in everyday life" 9:00 Richard Davis, U of Essex: "Internet use as 'just something I do, rather than something I thought about doing': a study into the domestic practices of UK households, and the significance of habit and routine in online behaviour" 9:15 Claus Toft-Nielsen, Aarhus U, Denmark & Stinne Gunder Strøm Krogager, Aalborg U, Denmark: "Voices of inclusion and exclusion – the intersection of practice theory and media studies" 9:30 Paul Frosh, U of Jerusalem, Israel: "Objects as Practice: The Case of the Screenshot" 9:45 Peter Gentzel, U of Augsburg, Germany: "The Forgotten Subject? Why subjectivity matters after practice and material turns" 10:00 Response: Elisenda Ardèvol, U Oberta de Catalunya, Spain 10:15 Q+A 10:30 Tea & Coffee Break 10:45 Panel II: In the Air: Speaking Practice – Practice Speaking Paddy Scannell, U of Michigan, USA: "Voice(s) on air" 11:00 Mark R Johnson, U of Alberta, Canada & Jamie Woodcock, U of Oxford, UK: "Conversation, Discourse and Play: Interaction and Moderation in Twitch.tv Video Game Live Streaming" 11:15 Margreth Lünenborg, Freie U Berlin, Germany & Christoph Raetzsch, Aarhus U, Denmark: "From Public Sphere to Performative Publics: Developing Media Practice as an Analytic Model" 11:30 Sahana Udupa, U of Munich, Germany: "Enterprise as practice: Fun and aggression in online political discourse" 11:45 Hanna Klien-Thomas, Oxford Brooks U, UK: "Navigating cultural citizenship – Voice and address in transcultural media practices of young Trinidadian women" 12:00 Response: Elizabeth Bird, U of Southern Florida, USA 12:15 Q+A 12:30 Lunch Break 13:00 Panel III: On the Move: Advancing activism Alice Mattoni, Scuola Normale Superiore, Italy: "The mutual anchoring of mundane-oriented and politics-oriented media practices in the construction of voice. The case of anti-corruption movement organizations in Southern Europe" 13:15 Hilde C. Stephansen, U of Westminster, UK & Emiliano Treré, U of Cardiff: "Theorizing citizen media practices: agency, power, and social change" 13:30 Yoav Halperin, NYU, USA: "We Will Not Be Silenced: Algorithmically-Informed Activism and the Amplification of Political Voices on Social Media" 13:45 Philipp Budka, U of Vienna, Austria: "Indigenous Articulations in the Digital Age: Reflections on Historical Developments, Activist Engagements and Mundane Practices" 14:00 Yang Wang, National U of Singapore & Sun Sun Lim, Singapore U of Technology and Design: "Transnational positionality in mediated communication: Digital asymmetries, contextual constraints and strategic negotiation" 14:15 Response: Nick Couldry, LSE, UK 14:30 Q+A 14:45 Tea & Coffee Break 15:00 Panel IV: At a Distance: Reporting and Representing Media Life Steffen Moestrup, U of Copenhagen, Denmark: "The journalist as performance in a crossmedia landscape" 15:15 Kenzie Burchell, U of Toronto, Canada: "Mapping Strategic Interference in Global Reporting Practices" 15:30 Chaim Noy, U of Southern Florida, USA: "Paper voices and performativity in the digital age" 15:45 Nina Grønlykke Mollerup & Mette Mortensen, U of Copenhagen, Denmark: "The Contested Visibility of War: Actors on the Ground Taking and Distributing Images from the War in Syria" 16:00 Christian Pentzold, U of Bremen, Germany & Manuel Menke, U of Augsburg, Germany: "Social practices, communicative practices, discursive practices: Formulating an analytical distinction" 16:15 Response: Maria Bakardjieva, U of Calgary, Canada 16:30 Q+A 16:45 Final Discussion by the Convenors: "What are the future perspectives for a practice-based study of communication and media?“ CONFERENCE WEBSITE: http://www.zemki.uni-bremen.de/en/events/conferences/articulating-voice-the…

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CfP: Algorithmic accountability reporting track at EIJC18 & DataHarvest Conference
by Matthias Spielkamp | iRights.info 14 Mar '18

14 Mar '18

Dear AIR colleagues, I'd appreciate it if you could spread the word! Call for participation: Algorithmic accountability reporting track at EIJC18 & DataHarvest Conference, Mechelen, Belgium, May 24 to 27 Do you have a great story to share of how you investigated an automated decision making (ADM) system? Are you in the middle of doing research on an ADM and can tell us a little about how it's going? Do you have a great idea for probing an ADM system but can't find collaborators to do it with? We’d love to hear your story! At this year’s European Investigative Journalism Conference (EIJC/DataHarvest), Journalismfund and AlgorithmWatch will host a dedicated algorithmic accountability reporting track. For this track, we are looking for examples of stories and ongoing research in the field of ADM. Yours doesn't have to be the next Machine Bias sensation (although we wouldn't mind, of course) – in fact, it could even be a failure, as long as it's an instructive one. We're interested to hear about all kinds of journalistic investigation into automated systems: be it credit scoring, border control, media curation, health technologies or recruitment systems – or something we ourselves have never even thought of. If it's unclear what we mean by ADM systems, have a look at our manifesto. The EIJC/DataHarvest takes place from May 24 to 27 in Mechelen, Belgium. A limited number of travel grants can be made available upon application. Mail before April 1st to ms(a)algorithmwatch.org and brigitte.alfter(a)journalismfund.eu Thanks a lot! Matthias

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Tool to extract Facebook comment thread
by NORDIANA BINTI AHMAD KHARMAN SHAH . 14 Mar '18

14 Mar '18

Dear Colleagues, Can anyone suggests any good online tools that can help extract the Facebook comments, I tried the Crazy Comment Export Tool but it doesn't works. Appreciate your thoughts! -- 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 orcid.org/0000-0001-7461-2462 Editorial Board Menber of *Malaysian Journal of Library & Information Science <https://ejournal.um.edu.my/index.php/MJLIS>* *"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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Just out: On Editorialization by Marcello Vitali-Rosati
by Geert Lovink 13 Mar '18

13 Mar '18

On Editorialization: Structuring Space and Authority in the Digital Age by Marcello Vitali-Rosati INC Theory on Demand #26 Read it and download it for free here: http://networkcultures.org/blog/publication/tod-26-on-editorialization-stru… <http://networkcultures.org/blog/publication/tod-26-on-editorialization-stru…> In On Editorialization: Structuring Space and Authority in the Digital Age Marcello Vitali-Rosati examines how authority changes in the digital era. It is said that authority has vanished in the age of the web, since the spatial relationships that authority depends on are thought to have levelled out: there are no limits or boundaries, no hierarchies or organized structures anymore. Vitali-Rosati claims the opposite to be the case: digital space is well-structured and material and has specific forms of authority. Editorialization is one key process that organizes this space and thus brings into being digital authority. Investigating this process of editorialization, Vitali-Rosati reveals how politics can be reconceived in the digital age. Marcello Vitali-Rosati is Associate Professor in the Department of French Literature at the University of Montreal and holds the Canada Research Chair on Digital Textualities. In his research he develops a philosophical approach to the changes brought by digital technologies. Previous publications include Riflessione e trascendenza: Itinerari a partire da Levinas (ETS, 2003), Corps et virtuel: Itineraires àpartir de Merleau-Ponty (L’Harmattan, 2009), S’orienter dans le virtuel (Hermann, 2012), and Egarements: Amour, mort et identites numeriques (Hermann, 2014). This is his first book in English. Editor: Miriam Rasch. Cover design: Katja van Stiphout. Design: Rosie Underwood. EPUB development: Rosie Underwood. Print on Demand. Publisher: Institute of Network Cultures, Amsterdam, 2018. ISBN: 978-94-92302-20-5.

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CFP HICSS-52> Global, International, and Cross-Cultural Issues in IS
by Fichman, Pnina 13 Mar '18

13 Mar '18

CFP HICSS52 Minitrack title: Global, International, and Cross-Cultural Issues in IS Track: Internet and the Digital Economy January 8-11, 2019 Maui, Hawaii, USA Conference Website: http://hicss.hawaii.edu/ Author Guidelines: http://hicss.hawaii.edu/tracks-and-minitracks/authors/ Globalization has historically been tied to technological innovation, and the present era of a networked information society is no different. Information and communication technologies (ICTs) have provided the infrastructure for multinational businesses, created new cultural connections irrespective of geographic boundaries and distances, and allowed an increasingly mobile global population to be connected to their friends, families, and cultures no matter where they are. The issues surrounding global, international, and cross cultural issues in Information Systems (IS) attracted much scholarly attention and have been explored under myriad contexts. Our minitrack focuses on the sociotechnical dynamics and the ways in which the Internet affects people, groups, organizations, and societies. We are in particular interested in the impact of global, international, and cross-cultural issues on ICT development, implementation and use across the globe. The minitrack welcomes submissions that relate to all aspects of global IS, or IS research situated in a global, international or cross-cultural context. The minitrack is open to all methodological approaches and perspectives. We are interested in empirical and theoretical work that addresses these and related socio-technical issues. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: • The impacts of cultural values on: 1) ICT design, adoption, and use; 2) Policies and practices of big data collection and use. • Cross cultural studies of: 1) ICT adoption, use and development; 2) Quantification of self at work, by individuals or organizations; 3) Big data collection and use. • Issues relating to: 1) Globally distributed teams; 2) Internet adoption and the digital society at the national level; 3) Global knowledge management; 4) Cross-national legislation and regulation; 4) Global ICT governance; 5) Global Cloud sourcing strategies; 6) Effects of global social computing on work organization and practices; Global impacts of big data on governments, multinational companies, NGOs and other organizations. • Single country studies showing implications for other locations or results different from other contexts. • Multi-country studies of ICT adoption, use, and development. IMPORTANT DATES - April 15: Paper submission begins - June 15: Paper submissions deadline - August 17: Notification of Acceptance/Rejection - September 22: Deadline for authors to submit final manuscript for publication - October 1: Deadline for at least one author to register for HICSS-52 Conference Website: http://hicss.hawaii.edu/ Author Guidelines: http://hicss.hawaii.edu/tracks-and-minitracks/authors/ Minitrack organizers Pnina Fichman, School of Informatics, Computing, and Engineering, Indiana University, Bloomington Email: fichman(a)indiana.edu<mailto:fichman@indiana.edu> Edward W.N. Bernroider, Vienna University of Economics and Business (WU), Institute for Information Management and Control, Vienna, Austria Email: edward.bernroider(a)wu.ac.at<https://email.utoledo.edu/owa/redir.aspx?C=ewlHtvCEgk2s8lQgUZYCyrJukYxPLc8I…>

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Fwd: ICL-GNSS 2018 conference -deadline approaching
by Simona Lohan 13 Mar '18

13 Mar '18

fyi -------- Forwarded Message -------- Subject: [SoCinfo] ICL-GNSS 2018 submissions Date: Tue, 13 Mar 2018 15:03:28 +0000 From: Jari Nurmi <jari.nurmi(a)tut.fi> To: socinfo(a)listmail.tut.fi <socinfo(a)listmail.tut.fi> Dear colleagues, the submission time for the 2018 International Conference on Localization and GNSS (ICL-GNSS) is now! Deadline March 24. Please see at http://www.icl-gnss.org <http://www.icl-gnss.org> Hoping to meet you all in Guimaraes, Portugal at the end of June… Regards, Jari Nurmi Adriano Moreira General co-chairs of ICL-GNSS 2018

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Announcement: African American Digital Humanities Conference CFP
by Catherine Knight Steele 13 Mar '18

13 Mar '18

The African American Digital Humanities (AADHum) initiative at the University of Maryland is excited to announce that we are now accepting proposals for our first national conference: *Intentionally Digital, Intentionally Black. * * What happens to digital humanities inquiry when we begin with Black culture, Black thought, and Black persons at the center of our endeavors? How does this shift challenge and expand both the humanities and the digital? What happens to Black and African American humanities research when we lead with the digital? Interdisciplinary inquiry into both the online practices of black users and humanities research focused on black history and culture using digital tools has expanded in the past decade. * *Too often, this work happens on the margins of established disciplines, boundaries, and paradigms. Rather than arriving at black digital research as an afterthought or a tactic to achieve “diversity”, privileging black theory and black culture in our scholarship can provide alternate paradigms through which to understand the digital and the humanistic. * *The first national conference of the African American Digital Humanities (AADHum) Initiative at the University of Maryland will explore how digital studies and digital humanities-based research, teaching, and community projects can center African American history and culture. AADHum invites submissions that may include scholarly inquiry into Black diasporic and African American uses of digital technologies; digital humanities projects that focus on black history and culture; race and digital theory; the intersection of black studies and digital humanities; information studies, cultural heritage, and community-based digital projects; pedagogical interventions; digital tools and artifacts; black digital humanities and memory; social media and black activism/movements, etc. * The conference will take place *October 18-20, 2018 *at the University of Maryland, College Park and feature keynote speakers *Andre Brock *(Univ. of Michigan) and *Jessica Marie Johnson* (Johns Hopkins Univ.). Interested participants are invited to submit proposals for individual papers, panels, digital posters, tools/digital project demonstrations, and roundtables by *April 9, 2018*. Proposals should be submitted online at: https://www.conftool.pro/aadhum2018/. For more information, please see the Call for Proposals on or check out our website: http://aadhum.umd.edu/conference/. Questions can be directed to: aadhum(a)umd.edu. We look forward to reviewing your proposals and seeing you in College Park this Fall!

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Networked (in)justice Information, Communication & Society #AoIR2017 special issue published
by Leurs, K.H.A. (Koen) 13 Mar '18

13 Mar '18

Dear colleagues and friends, Alison and I are extremely excited to announce the publication of the #AoIR2017 special issue Information, Communication & Society, which we have titled Networked (in)justice. The issue can be accessed through https://www.tandfonline.com/toc/rics20/21/6. For the last 10 years, Information, Communication & Society has published a special issue including some highlights from the annual Association of Internet Researchers (AoIR) conference. This, the 11th special issue, continues in the tradition of sharing rigorous, interdisciplinary, critical research from the event. #AoIR2017 was themed on ‘Networked Publics’ and took place from 18 to 21 October in Estonia in the Baltic region of Northern Europe. The conference was hosted by the programme chair Andra Siibak, Professor of Media Studies at the University of Tartu, and facilitated by the Institute of Social Studies and the Centre for the Information Society. Held at the Dorpat Convention Center in picturesque downtown Tartu, the conference drew together attendees from a broad range of national, disciplinary, and methodological backgrounds, and we present here a selection of papers reflecting this broadness and diversity of internet research. Three hundred and thirty-eight participants from 29 countries participated in #AoIR2017, and the programme included the presentation of 129 papers, alongside 18 pre-constituted panels, 4 fishbowl sessions, 10 roundtables, an experimental session, 9 pre-conference workshops and a doctoral colloquium. The pre-conferences focused on topics ranging from visual social media research to digital methods to academic freedom to sessions dedicated to the experiences of early career researchers. This special issue is pleased to share the emphasis on the diverging and contradictory consequences of the formation of networked publics. We have chosen to focus in particular on studies of publics that scrutinize how they may exacerbate injustices or work towards social justice. We propose a focus on networked (in)justice drawing attention to: How mainstream scholarly conceptualizations of publics and platforms prioritize some networked publics and marginalize others How networked publics are shaped as an assemblage of hardware, design, algorithms, discourse, bodies, collectives, and affect How networked publics reflect and shape intersecting power relations of geography, gender, race, and sexuality, among others How networked publics are distinctively local, but simultaneously shaped by transnational and global dynamics. Special issue line-up: #IAmNotAfraidToSayIt: Stories of Sexual Violence as Everyday Political Speech on Facebook Tetyana Lokot Platform vulnerabilities: Harassment and misogynoir in the digital attack on Leslie Jones Caitlin Lawson My life is a mess: Self-deprecating relatability and collective identities in the memification of student issues Kristine Ask, Crystal Abidin Gay men’s digital cultures beyond Gaydar and Grindr: LINE use in the gay Chinese diaspora of Australia Wilfred Wang, Elija Cassidy La revolución digital: Mobile media use in contemporary Cuba Justin Grandinetti, Marie Eszenyi Navigating a new life: Syrian refugees and their smartphones in Vienna Katja Kaufmann The mediatization of leadership: grassroots digital facilitators as organic intellectuals, sociometric stars and caretakers Maria Bakardjieva, Mylynn Felt, Delia Dumitrica See https://www.tandfonline.com/toc/rics20/21/6 to access all articles, Best wishes, Koen Leurs, also on behalf of Alison Harvey Koen Leurs, PhD Assistant professor Gender & Postcolonial Studies | Department of Media and Culture Studies | Utrecht University, the Netherlands | Muntstraat 2a, 3512 EV room 0.05 | T. + 31 30 253 7844| www.koenleurs.net <http://www.koenleurs.net/> Recent publications: -w/ Sandra Ponzanesi. Connected migrants. Encapsulation & Cosmopolitanization. Guest edited special issue of Popular Communication, 16(1), Open access Download link <http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/15405702.2017.1418359>. -Communication rights from the margins. Politicizing young refugees’ smart phone pocket archives. International Communication Gazette, 79 (6-7), 674-698 Open access Download link <http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/1748048517727182>. -Feminist data studies. Using digital methods for ethical, reflexive and situated socio-cultural research. Feminist Review, 115(1), Methods themed issue, 130-154. Download link <https://link.springer.com/article/10.1057/s41305-017-0043-1>.

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Job: Professor/Full Professor + Head of School (3 year term), School of Information and Communication Studies, Dublin
by Kalpana Shankar 13 Mar '18

13 Mar '18

Dear Colleagues: We're hiring for a professorship here at the School of Information and Communication Studies, University College Dublin. Happy to answer informal queries https://medium.com/ucd-ischool/were-hiring-5e8b7c9e7546 Best, Kalpana -- Kalpana Shankar Professor of Information and Communication Studies Head of School 2015-2018 School of Information and Communication Studies University College Dublin Belfield 4 Dublin +353(1) 716-8359 kalpana.shankar(a)ucd.ie

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CFP: More than Critical, More than GIS (a pre-AAG workshop)
by Jack Gieseking 12 Mar '18

12 Mar '18

FYI. Please fwd widely. Apologies for cross-posting. *Call For Participation* *More than Critical, More than GIS *(a pre-AAG workshop) April 9th, 2018 Please join us for a low-key workshop with community partners at the American Association of Geographers meeting in New Orleans <FYI. Please fwd widely. Apologies for cross-posting. 2nd Call For Participation More than Critical, More than GIS (a pre-AAG workshop) April 9th, 2018 Please join us for a low-key workshop with community partners at the American Association of Geographers meeting in New Orleans (Apr 10-14) focusing on new and continuing topics and debates around mapping and GIS that involve political, cultural, and economic processes and attempts to create better alternatives in NOLA and beyond! In recent years, Critical GIS and similar efforts have seen a resurgence in practice and the debate, including the nature of the term Critical GIS itself. Such evaluations and practices involving geographic data, analysis, and mapping run the gamut from housing and gentrification to indigenous mapping to coastlines and climate change to exposés of gerrymandering to anti-capitalist organizing to new narratives and histories of sexual orientation and more. This workshop seeks to build on these exciting developments to bring together new and established voices engaged in the thought and practice of mappings and GIS work that involves political, cultural, and economic processes. We eschew totemic uses of the terms ‘critical’ and ‘GIS’ that can all-to-often be used to demarcate who and what does and doesn’t belong; rather, we wish to encourage anyone interested to join us to better explore how spatial data, technologies, visualization, and analysis may help us create a better world. Thus, this workshop is about ‘more than gis’ and ‘more than critical’ approaches. Building on the energies of the 2014 Critical GIS meeting at Friday Harbor and the 2017 meeting at McGill University, we seek to gather and learn about diverse voices and approaches in New Orleans. An important aim of this workshop is to engage with and learn from the work that local organizations and individuals are doing in New Orleans, and how that can help reimagine the possibilities for what it means to ‘do critical GIS’. Location: New Orleans, near where the AAG conference will be the next day. Workshop date: April 9th (Monday before the AAG). 10 am - 4 pm Tentative Format: Morning: Introductions, lightning-fast presentations of participants’ work Afternoon: Engagement with community partners, potentially including a tour of geographical organizing in New Orleans, talks by those pursuing social and environmental justice in the region, or a hands-on data workshop on a topic important to New Orleans residents. Late afternoon: Drinks and dinner How to join us: While the workshop is open to all interested parties, we ask that you submit a 100 word expression of interest that describes either A. a relevant project you would like to share with the group or B. your thoughts on how you would like to see ‘Critical GIS’ expanded as a field of research. Please email craig.dalton(a)hofstra.edu by the extended deadline of March 26th, 2017. Organizers: (alphabetical) Luis Alvarez Leon, Clark University Craig Dalton, Hofstra University Rina Ghose, University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee Jack Gieseking, Trinity College Liz Mason-Deese, George Mason University Eric Nost, University of Wisconsin - Madison Jim Thatcher, University of Washington Tacoma Clancy Wilmott, University of Manchester Matthew Wilson, University of Kentucky -- Jen Jack Gieseking Assistant Professor of Public Humanities American Studies Program, Trinity College 300 Summit Street, Hartford, CT 06106 www.jgieseking.org www.peopleplacespace.org @jgieseking Pronouns: he/him/his> (Apr 10-14) focusing on new and continuing topics and debates around mapping and GIS that involve political, cultural, and economic processes and attempts to create better alternatives in NOLA and beyond! In recent years, Critical GIS and similar efforts have seen a resurgence in practice and the debate, including the nature of the term Critical GIS itself. Such evaluations and practices involving geographic data, analysis, and mapping run the gamut from housing and gentrification to indigenous mapping to coastlines and climate change to exposés of gerrymandering to anti-capitalist organizing to new narratives and histories of sexual orientation and more. This workshop seeks to build on these exciting developments to bring together new and established voices engaged in the thought and practice of mappings and GIS work that involves political, cultural, and economic processes. We eschew totemic uses of the terms ‘critical’ and ‘GIS’ that can all-to-often be used to demarcate who and what does and doesn’t belong; rather, we wish to encourage anyone interested to join us to better explore how spatial data, technologies, visualization, and analysis may help us create a better world. Thus, this workshop is about ‘more than gis’ and ‘more than critical’ approaches. Building on the energies of the 2014 Critical GIS meeting at Friday Harbor and the 2017 meeting at McGill University, we seek to gather and learn about diverse voices and approaches in New Orleans. An important aim of this workshop is to engage with and learn from the work that local organizations and individuals are doing in New Orleans, and how that can help reimagine the possibilities for what it means to ‘do critical GIS’. *Location: *New Orleans, near where the AAG conference will be the next day. *Workshop date:* April 9th (Monday before the AAG). 10 am - 4 pm *Tentative Format: * Morning: Introductions, lightning-fast presentations of participants’ work Afternoon: Engagement with community partners, potentially including a tour of geographical organizing in New Orleans, talks by those pursuing social and environmental justice in the region, or a hands-on data workshop on a topic important to New Orleans residents. Late afternoon: Drinks and dinner *How to join us:* While the workshop is open to all interested parties, we ask that you submit a 100 word expression of interest that describes either A. a relevant project you would like to share with the group or B. your thoughts on how you would like to see ‘Critical GIS’ expanded as a field of research. Please email craig.dalton(a)hofstra.edu by the extended deadline of *March 26th, 2017*. *Organizers: (alphabetical)* Luis Alvarez Leon, Clark University Craig Dalton, Hofstra University Rina Ghose, University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee Jack Gieseking, Trinity College Liz Mason-Deese, George Mason University Eric Nost, University of Wisconsin - Madison Jim Thatcher, University of Washington Tacoma Clancy Wilmott, University of Manchester Matthew Wilson, University of Kentucky -- Jen Jack Gieseking Assistant Professor of Public Humanities American Studies Program, Trinity College 300 Summit Street, Hartford, CT 06106 www.jgieseking.org www.peopleplacespace.org @jgieseking <https://twitter.com/jgieseking> Pronouns: he/him/his

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