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Polymedia
by Traci Belanger 11 Jul '25

11 Jul '25

Hi everyone, does anyone have suggestions for articles on "polymedia" or specifically how polymedia interacts with media ecology? Thanks so much! Traci Belanger --- May all winds at your back inspire you, and may you have harmony and peace today.

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For my US colleagues: an 8 minute survey, where your input might make a difference
by Patricia Aufderheide 08 May '25

08 May '25

I know, exactly what you don't need to do at this crazy point in the semester. At AU, Profs. Aram Sinnreich, Joseph Graf and I have been working with Electronic Frontier Foundation and New Media Rights to design a survey about DMCA exemption language and its accessibility. Would you be interested in taking, sharing with your students and networks, including putting on social media the survey link <http://bit.ly/2nEfY8j>? Here it is again: *http://bit.ly/2nEfY8j <http://bit.ly/2nEfY8j>* Your generosity much appreciated! 👏 -- Patricia Aufderheide, University Professor, School of Communication Founder, Center for Media & -- Patricia Aufderheide, University Professor, School of Communication Founder, Center for Media & Social Impact American University 4400 Massachusetts Av., NW American University, Washington, DC 20016-8017 McKinley Hall 323 @paufder @cmsimpact cmsimpact.org paufder(a)american.edu 202-885-2069 office <202-643-5356> 240-643-4805 mobile <202-643-5356> "The world we have received also belongs to those who follow us." --Pope Francis

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Non-software uses of GitHub
by Jim Herbsleb 16 Apr '25

16 Apr '25

I’m looking for GitHub repositories that are used for things other than software, especially where users are actively collaborating rather than just putting together static collections. So far, we have found a few books being written, some musical transcriptions being error-checked, and some policy documents maintained online. Does anyone know of any examples of these or other categories? Any pointers much appreciated. Happy to share what we find with anyone interested. Jim ---- Jim Herbsleb Carnegie Mellon University http://herbsleb.org/ Google Scholar profile: https://goo.gl/sv3p7l

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CfP: Outlaw innovation and the invention of the outlaw (EASST panel D04)
by maxigas 08 Feb '20

08 Feb '20

CfP: Outlaw innovation and the invention of the outlaw EASST 2018, 25-28th July 2018, Lancaster University, UK Convenors: Johan Söderberg (Göteborg University) & Maxigas (Lancaster University) Deadline for submissions: February 14th 2018. Submit abstracts and contact the conveners at: https://nomadit.co.uk/easst/easst2018/conferencesuite.php/panels/6286 We would like to invite you to submit abstracts to our panel at EASST 2018 The panel investigates innovation processes driven by antagonistic relations between actors on both sides of the law. We invite case studies of how mutual hostilities between actors are pursued through technological change, whereby each actor seeks to gain an edge against their adversary. Three empirical fields that exemplify this dynamic are the surge of legal highs, information security and crypto-currencies. More examples of the same thing can be found in other fields of empirical investigation and suit this panel. What we will examine under the label of "outlaw innovation" is how conflict breeds innovation. Related to this is an awareness of the tenuous relation between legislation and innovation. The "outlaw" is just another word for an innovator. Concurrently, however, capitalism strives relentlessly to subsume and integrate its own outside, turning this unknown into innovation and new markets. >From this observation follows that the purported outsider position ascribed to various grassroots innovators, users, etc., must be scrutinized. States, capital and academic actors work in conjunction with these outlawed/independent researchers to produce a shared language of common concerns around risks and opportunities inherent in technological innovation, such as in the Tor project. The legal grey zone thus emerges as an incubator of innovation for legal businesses. We encourage paper submissions utilizing diverse theoretical approaches and a wide range of case studies to explore the concept of the "outlaw innovator". -- Maxigas, kiberpunk FA00 8129 13E9 2617 C614 0901 7879 63BC 287E D166 Lecturer in Critical Digital Media Practice Center for Science Studies Department of Sociology Lancaster University https://relay70.metatron.ai/ Go, go, go, said the bird: human kind Cannot bear very much reality. ~ Yeats: Burnt Norton

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Be part of the article collection on Big Data Ethics
by Daniel Thomas 22 May '19

22 May '19

Would you like to submit an article to an interdisciplinary article collection on "Big Data Ethics"? In collaboration with the journals (Frontiers in) Genetics, Pharmacology, Sociology, ICT, and Digital Humanities, we are organizing an interdisciplinary article collection on "Big Data Ethics" (Guest Editors: Dov Greenbaum, Daniel R. Thomas). The aim of this project is to bring together international experts to provide a comprehensive view of this topic. Would you like to participate as a contributing author? Manuscripts will be peer-reviewed by experts in the relevant field and, if accepted for publication, will be free to access for all readers, and indexed in relevant repositories. This interdisciplinary collection is cross-listed across several journals and so you will need to submit your article via the journal relevant to your field so that your article is in scope of both the collection and the journal. The abstract submission deadline is 30th March but you do not have to submit an abstract in advance, this is so that we can tell you if your article seems to be in scope before you go to the trouble of writing it. It will also help us ensure we get a balance of articles across different disciplines by allowing us to spot any gaps. The manuscript deadline is 31 August 2018 but you can submit before then and the review and publication process will begin immediately. We aim to complete the review process within 30 days and the journal average of time from submission to publication is 90 days. Further details can be found here: https://www.frontiersin.org/research-topics/7202/big-data-ethics Frontiers is owned by the Nature publishing group and is not a scam publisher. Below my signature you will find some additional information. If you have any questions on the project, please let me know. I look forward to your reply. With best regards, Daniel R. Thomas Guest Associate Editor, ELSI in Science and Genetics https://www.frontiersin.org/ -------------------INFORMATION-------------------- Discover a selection of impactful Research Topics (part of Frontiers latest Spotlight Award finalists: https://blog.frontiersin.org/2017/05/01/finalists-announced-for-2017-spotli… As an author, you will: • Participate in an article collection around a theme relevant to your research • Collaborate and grow your network by working with colleagues from around the world • Track your article impact in real-time with advanced impact metrics • Benefit from the quality seal of rigorous, transparent and fast peer review (conducted on all submissions) • Increase the visibility of your research as part of a highly discoverable content resource E-BOOKS: Frontiers will also compile an e-book (for collections with 10 or more articles), as soon as all contributing articles are published. This can be used as educational material, be sent to foundations that fund your research, to journalists and press agencies, or to your professional network. E-books are free to read and download. FRONTIERS PUBLISHING FEES: Manuscripts accepted for publication are subject to publishing fees, which vary depending on the article type. Research Topic A type articles receive a discount on publishing fees; please see here for a full fee table, and further relevant FAQs: https://www.frontiersin.org/about/publishing-fees Please note, you may be eligible for Open Access fees support via your institution: please see a list of available funding sources here: http://oad.simmons.edu/oadwiki/OA_publication_funds. Frontiers also has central invoicing plans with many universities, see the list here: https://www.frontiersin.org/about/institutional-membership. https://www.frontiersin.org/Registration/Register.aspx -- Dr Daniel R. Thomas Honorary Research Associate, Peterhouse Researcher, Cambridge Cybercrime Centre, University of Cambridge

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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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Cfp: Conference on Journalism and Platforms, Toulouse, January 2019 (reminder)
by Nikos 06 Sep '18

06 Sep '18

Dear colleagues, this is a reminder for the Call of Papers for the conference "Journalism and Platforms" that we're organising in Toulouse, France, on January 23-25 2019. In particular, the conference aims to study the impact of Google, Facebook, Twitter, Snapchat, Apple News and others on journalistic practices, on editorial and business strategies of publishers, on the nature and form of news and on audiences. Proposals will analyse socio-economic, technical, legal and political dimensions of the relations between media and platforms. Oral presentations and proposals can be in English but will be no translation service will be available. So a minimum level of comperehension in French is necessary for participation. A special issue of the Journal Sur le journalisme - About Journalism will be edited after the conference with papers in French, English, Portuguese and Spanish. Proposals should be sent until July 2, 2018 to: lerass.jep2019(a)iut-tlse3.fr Acceptance will be notified by October 17, 2018. The entire Cfp (in French) is available on this link: https://www.lerass.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/01/JEP2019-V2.pdf best (apologies for crossposting) Nikos Smyrnaios University of Toulouse

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Second CFP: Archives Unleashed Datathon, Vancouver, 1-2 November 2018
by Ian Milligan 29 Jun '18

29 Jun '18

This is a quick reminder that the submission deadline for the Archives Unleashed Vancouver Datathon is quickly approaching (July 16th @midnight, EST)! Original CFP follows. Archives Unleashed: Call for Participation Web Data at Scale with the Archives Unleashed Toolkit: Web Archive Datathon Harbour Centre, Simon Fraser University Vancouver Campus 1-2 November 2018 http://archivesunleashed.org/vancouver/ The World Wide Web has had a profound impact on how we research and understand the past. The sheer amount of cultural information that is generated and, crucially, preserved every day in electronic form, presents exciting new opportunities for researchers. Much of this information is captured within web archives. Web archives often contain hundreds of billions of web pages, ranging from individual homepages and social media posts, to institutional websites. These archives offer tremendous potential for social scientists and humanists, and the questions research may pose stretch across a multitude of fields. In short, web archives offer the ability to reconstruct large-scale traces of the relatively recent past. *Archives Unleashed Toolkit* The Archives Unleashed Team has partnered with SFU Library and KEY (SFU’s Big Data initiative) to host the next Archives Unleashed datathon. This event is tailored towards web archives practitioners and researchers. The Archives Unleashed datathon presents an opportunity for librarians, archivists, researchers, computer scientists, and others to collaboratively work with web collections and explore cutting-edge research tools through hands on experience. This event will bring together a small group of approximately 15-20 participants to experiment with the newest release of AUT (Archives Unleashed Toolkit) and the Archives Unleashed Cloud, and to kick-off collaboratively inspired research projects. Participants will have access to analytics software and specialists, and will be exposed to the process of working with web archive files at scale. For more information on AUT and the Cloud, please visit http://archivesunleashed.org/. This will be our second Canadian event, with two additional datathons happening in eastern and western area of the United States. Accordingly, the Vancouver datathon will prioritize regional applicants from western and central Canada and the northwestern United States. *Sponsors + Travel Grants* This event is possible thanks to the generous support of the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, Simon Fraser University Library, SFU Key, University of Waterloo’s Faculty of Arts, York University Libraries, Compute Canada, and Start Smart Labs. The Archives Unleashed team is pleased to offer modest travel grants to help attendees participate in this event. These grants can cover up to $1,000 CAD in travel expenses. If you require financial assistance to attend the event, please indicate in your statement of interest that you would like to be considered for the travel grant. *Submission Guidelines* Those interested in participating should send a 250-word expression of interest and a short one-page CV to the Archives Unleashed Team (archivesunleashed(a)gmail.com) by midnight (EST) on 16 July 2018. This expression of interest should address your background and interests in web archiving, and what you would hope to get out of working with tools and web archive data at scale. Applicants will be notified by 27 July 2018. On behalf of the organizers, Ian Milligan (University of Waterloo), Rebecca Dowson (Simon Fraser University), Nick Ruest (York University), Jimmy Lin (University of Waterloo), and Samantha Fritz (University of Waterloo) -- Ian Milligan | Associate Professor | Department of History University of Waterloo | 200 University Ave W Waterloo ON N2L 3G1 +1 (519) 888-4567 x32775 | http://ianmilligan.ca <http://ianmilligan.ca/> | @ianmilligan1 <https://twitter.com/ianmilligan1>

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COST ARKWORK training school opportunity-due 10 July
by Amber Cushing 29 Jun '18

29 Jun '18

Please share widely. I'm happy to answer any questions. Thanks *COST Action COST-ARKWORK CA15201 Training School 2018 - Call for Trainees* *Theme*: Studying archaeological collections in the digital environment *Date & Location*: Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina, 17-21 September 2018 (5 days) *Local Host*: International Burch University, www.ibu.edu.ba *Venue*: International Burch University, Francuske revolucije bb., 71210 Ilidza, Canton Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina *About this Training School* The training school aims to get participants acquainted with the process of creating, organising, managing and exploring archaeological collections in digital environment, and learn how to examine, evaluate and use different state-of-the art methods and tools to work with archaeological collections. During the training school, participants will examine how archaeologists create digital objects and documents in different contexts, how they integrate these diverse and scattered knowledge sources, and how these insights can be used to inform the development of the state-of-the-art and practical management of the work with archaeological collections. They will also get hands-on experience in using software tools for the analysis of digital archaeological collections. Finally, the participants will examine how this archaeological knowledge work can be disseminated to different stakeholder groups. *Learning outcomes: * Having completed the training school, participants are expected to be able to: · conceptualise a project for creating, managing and organising digital documentation of archaeological collections and the related process steps, actors, methods, tools and resources involved; · describe, critically reflect, understand and evaluate different approaches and tools for creating digital objects/records during archaeological collections documentation; · understand different models and environments used in organising and integrating archaeological knowledge from different sources and repositories; · identify the factors involved in deciding which digital methods and tools to use in a given archaeological project; · select appropriate methods for studying archaeological collections in the digital environment; · use digital tools to analyse, present and interpret knowledge discovered from diverse archaeological data; · recognise the challenges of balancing the archaeological knowledge usage requirements of different stakeholders; *Practical details: * The duration of this Training School is five working days (Trainees to arrive in Sarajevo on 16/09 and depart on 22/09/2018. Part of the days will be spent in the classroom and part in museums. The Grant of 800 EUR (400 EUR for people coming from the neighbouring countries) will be provided for accepted participants as a contribution to the traveling costs, accommodation and subsistence during the Training School. *Organised by ARKWORK * This Action brings together the multidisciplinary work of researchers of archaeological practices in the field of archaeological knowledge production and use. The aim of the network is to make a major push forward in the current state-of-the-art in knowing how archaeological knowledge is produced, how it is used and how to maximise its positive impact on society. The focus of ARKWORK is on training the next generation of scholars and stakeholders by involving future leaders of research as well as high profile experts employed by the industry and public organisations. *Who should apply * Researchers at different ranks are eligible to apply to the training school, including graduate and PhD students, postdoctoral researchers and professionals. Researchers from any branch of archaeology, as well as information science, archival science, informatics, computer science, anthropology, sociology of knowledge, and other disciplines are welcome to apply, provided that they have an interest in archaeological practices and knowledge work in the digital environment. *Eligibility* Those who work/attend an education programme, or have citizenship/residency in the following States: COST Full Members: Austria, Belgium, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Iceland, Ireland, Israel, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Malta, Montenegro, The Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Serbia, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Turkey, United Kingdom and the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia. COST Near Neighbour Countries: Albania, Algeria, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Egypt, Georgia, Jordan, Lebanon, Libya, Moldova, Morocco, the Palestinian Authority, Russia, Syria, Tunisia, and Ukraine. European RTD Organisations: European Organisation for Nuclear Research, European Fusion Development Agreement, European Molecular Biology Laboratory, European Space Agency, European Organisation for Astronomical Research in the Southern Hemisphere, European Synchrotron Radiation Facility, European XFEL Free-Electron Laser Facility, Institut Laue Langevin. *Applicants to the training school asking for funding should submit: * 1. A motivation letter, not exceeding 250-500 words. Note: Must include a clear indication of experience relevant to the topic of the training school; provide a rationale of why you are interested in the training school and how you envisage the training school to contribute to your learning and research objectives. 2. A short CV (2 pages max) 3. An indication of whether you would like to be considered for funding *Via this web form: **https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/PV87HL2* <https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/PV87HL2> *For questions, please write to: * Dr. Amber Cushing (Selection Committee Leader) amber.cushing(a)ucd.ie The applicants will be informed about acceptance for grant via Email. Applicants that will not receive a grant, but do receive an invitation can participate with their own or their institutes funding. *Closing date for applications is 11:45pm IST (Irish summer time) 10th July, 2018* Dr. Amber L. Cushing Lecturer/Assistant Professor Director, Msc & Graduate Certificate in Digital Information Management (formerly Digital Curation) Director, ICS PhD Programme School of Information and Communication Studies University College Dublin Belfield Dublin 4 Ireland +353 01 716 8441 www.amberlcushing.info Office: C117 Neman

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Just Out: Videoblogging Before YouTube by Trine Bjørkmann Berry
by Geert Lovink 29 Jun '18

29 Jun '18

Dear AoIR members, the Institute of Network Cultures is proud to present Videoblogging Before YouTube by Trine Bjørkmann Berry, Theory on Demand #27. The book is available in pdf, epub, and print-on-demand here: http://networkcultures.org/blog/publication/tod-27-videoblogging-before-you… <http://networkcultures.org/blog/publication/tod-27-videoblogging-before-you…> An important hallmark in the research into online video, Videoblogging Before YouTube offers a cultural history of online video, focusing on the critical moment when the internet moved from being a mostly textual medium to a truly multimedia one. Through a close analysis of the early videoblogging community and their creative practices, Trine Bjørkmann Berry argues that early in the new millennium a new cultural-technical media hybrid emerged. which created innovative media forms that have been highly influential on YouTube and other audio-visual media forms such as film and television. Through an ethnographically-informed approach to the cultural history of the videoblogging community, the book examines their practices, which were mostly small-scale, self-funded and bottom-up, and truly experimental. The aesthetic, technical form and content of short-form digital film was an important predecessor to, and anticipator of, our current media ecology. "A compellingly written and highly original study of the practices of the early-adopter video blogging community. This essential study will change the ways in which we think about past, present and future online creative communities and digital platforms.” Catherine Grant, Birkbeck, University of London "A rich and illuminating narrative of the communities, aesthetics and technologies of videoblogging before YouTube. At a moment when the digital media imagination seems to have been captured by corporate behemoths, we need more stories like this.” Jean Burgess, Queensland University of Technology, Australia Trine Bjørkmann Berry is a writer and academic whose research is at the intersection of film theory, digital media and digital vernaculars, with particular emphasis on video and the internet. Bjørkmann Berry is a visiting researcher at the University of Sussex. She publishes on online video, digital culture and aesthetics. Her new research examines the history and practices of the video essay. Cover design: Katja van Stiphout. Design: Rosie Underwood. EPUB development: Rosie Underwood. Print on Demand. Publisher: Institute of Network Cultures, Amsterdam, 2018. ISBN: 978-94-92302-22-9. Published under a Creative Commons license; download your free copy here or order a print edition via Lulu: http://networkcultures.org/blog/publication/tod-27-videoblogging-before-you… <http://networkcultures.org/blog/publication/tod-27-videoblogging-before-you…>.

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