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Job opening: International Expert to Support the Open Data Portal @ Kyrgyzstan
by Sam Aitymbetov 29 Aug '18

29 Aug '18

INTERNATIONAL EXPERT TO SUPPORT PREPARATION, IMPLEMENTATION AND EVALUATION OF THE OPEN DATA PORTAL <http://donors.kg/en/vacancies/4601-international-expert-to-support-preparat…> *Agency:* WB project *Deadline:* 30 August 2018 г. State committee on Information and Communication Technology of the Kyrgyz Republic for implementation of the Digital CASA. Kyrgyz Republic Project, (Grant ECAPDEV № TF071624 and Grant Open Data № TF0A5660), announces selection of: INTERNATIONAL EXPERT TO SUPPORT PREPARATION, IMPLEMENTATION AND EVALUATION OF THE OPEN DATA PORTAL Additional information on qualification requirements and term of references you can find here <http://donors.kg/images/TOR_for_intern_expert_OD_eng.pdf> or at www.ict.gov.kg, zakupki.gov.kg CV in Russian and English must be sent not later than 17:00 pm August 30, 2018 (Bishkek time) by e-mail address: stepscitc(a)mail.ru Only the most appropriate candidates will be invited for an interview. --- Samagan Aitymbetov Digital Development Consultant The World Bank's Office Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan Moskovskaya Str., 210 samagan.aitymbetov(a)fulbrightmail.org

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CFP - CSCW 2018 Workshop on Power Struggles in the Digital Economy
by Airi Lampinen 29 Aug '18

29 Aug '18

Hello AoIR! A group of us are co-organizing a workshop titled *Power Struggles in the Digital Economy: Platforms, Workers, and Markets* at the 2018 Computer Supported Cooperative Work and Social Computing (CSCW) conference. The full-day workshop takes place on November 3, 2018, in Jersey City (USA) and we aim at discussing interdisciplinary and critical perspectives on the power dynamics of digitally mediated labor. Participants from all backgrounds are welcome to submit position papers. More details, including the call for participation, are available on the workshop website: https://cscw2018digitaleconomy.wordpress.com/ The deadline for 2-4 page position papers is already on August 31 2018, 5pm PDT. If you have any questions, feel free to reach out to me or any of the organizers. Best, Airi -- Airi Lampinen Department of Computer and Systems Sciences (DSV) Stockholm University airi(a)dsv.su.se | @airi_ | airilampinen.fi Weekly newsletter: tinyletter.com/airi_/

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Fwd: 2019 DMRC Summer School 11-15 February - Applications Now Open
by Jean Burgess 29 Aug '18

29 Aug '18

-------- Original message -------- From: Jean Burgess <je.burgess(a)qut.edu.au> Date: 29/8/18 11:41 am (GMT+10:00) To: "'dmrc-community(a)qut.edu.au'" <dmrc-community(a)qut.edu.au> Subject: 2019 DMRC Summer School 11-15 February - Applications Now Open Dear colleagues, Please spread this news far and wide and encourage your advisees or peers to apply! Many on this list have already had some involvement in past summer schools and we can't wait to add another group of participants to the DMRC's extended family. ------ 2019 DMRC Summer School 11-15 February, Brisbane, Australia – Applications now open #dmrcss19 * Applications open: 29 August 2018 * Applications close: 30 September 2018 Building on the success of the 2017<https://research.qut.edu.au/dmrc/2017/03/13/dmrc-summer-school-2017-wrap-up/> and 2018<https://research.qut.edu.au/dmrc/2018-dmrc-summer-school/> DMRC Summer Schools, we are looking forward to welcoming another cohort of participants from all over the world to Brisbane next February. This diverse group of PhD students and early career researchers will come together to share their knowledge and to develop new skills and critical methods for studying for our rapidly changing digital media environments and increasingly datafied societies. In addition to the week-long program of hands-on digital methods workshops, participants will be able to get feedback and mentoring on their own projects, to work on new collaborations, and to learn how to engage with industry, government and community stakeholders. The fee for the week-long program is $1500 (Australian dollars). The fee covers daytime catering, staff support and social events. In order to maximise the diversity of the cohort, we will be offering up to two fee waiver scholarships to successful applicants who score highly in the selection process, with preference given to applicants from non-OECD countries. For more information and how to apply, see https://research.qut.edu.au/dmrc/2019-dmrc-summer-school/ Contact: dmrc(a)qut.edu.au<mailto:dmrc@qut.edu.au> Jean

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CFP - Rural Computing: Beyond Access and Infrastructure (CSCW 2018)
by Jean Hardy 28 Aug '18

28 Aug '18

Hello AoIR! A group of us are co-organizing a pre-conference workshop on rural computing for the 2018 Computer Supported Cooperative Work and Social Computing (CSCW) conference happening in the New York City area this November. If any of you are interested in that topic, it'd be a great place to meet other folks. The short call is below and I'm happy to answer any questions. You can check out all the info (including about the conference itself) at www.ruralhci.info. Best, Jean ---- *Call for Participation for CSCW 2018 Workshop, "Rural Computing: Beyond Access and Infrastructure"* Are you interested in computing research in rural areas? Please consider joining us on Sunday, November 4, 2018 for our workshop, “Rural Computing: Beyond Access and Infrastructure” at CSCW 2018 in Jersey City, NJ. There is increasing interest in the fields of computer supported cooperative work (CSCW), social computing, and human computer interaction (HCI) in rural areas. In particular, scholars have begun to investigate how to make these sites more central to computing research and design, and not solely as sites with failing or falling behind infrastructure or low technology adoption rates. In this workshop, we will foreground how the study of rural areas and their relationships to technology draw attention to significant topics in CSCW and HCI, including biases inherent in crowd computing platforms, sustainable practices, design, and aging populations. We invite interested participants to submit a 2-4 page position or research paper that addresses the workshop theme (rolling deadline starting September 5). More information, including a full CFP, is available at: www.ruralhci.info. Please direct any questions to ruralcomputingworkshop(a)gmail.com. -- Jean Hardy PhD Student | University of Michigan School of Information jkhardy(a)umich.edu | c. 206.696.0707 | pronouns: he/him/his

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new open "diff" catalog of global online news changes
by kalev leetaru 28 Aug '18

28 Aug '18

For those interested in measuring the fluidity of the online sphere and in particular how much online news coverage changes over time (from 404's to redirects to title and text editing), we've released this morning the new GDELT GDG, which recrawls every article monitored by GDELT again after 24 hours and after one week and catalogs all of the changes it observes. Text changes record only changes to the article text itself, not the surrounding page. Changes are reported at the "word" level for space delimited languages and character level for others (currently for Burmese, Chinese, Dzongkha, Japanese, Khmer, Laothian, Thai, Tibetan and Vietnamese, with more being added shortly). We're particularly excited about the ability to assess change globally across countries and languages and at scale, across everything GDELT monitors each day. The resulting global change log is all open data and available in one minute updates as JSON files, a BigQuery table and an RSS feed for web archives (allowing them to recrawl changed pages). This is an alpha grade release, so you will undoubtedly find some rough edges, but we're incredibly excited to see what people are able to do with it! https://blog.gdeltproject.org/announcing-the-gdelt-global-difference-graph-… You can also couple this with our global frontpage outlink monitoring (35 billion outlinks to 240 million unique URLs to date) to assess what percent of homepage links are edited over time: https://blog.gdeltproject.org/announcing-gdelt-global-frontpage-graph-gfg/ Kalev

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Re: [Air-L] Looking for information on youths, leisure and technology uses
by Duque, Nina 28 Aug '18

28 Aug '18

Thank-you all for your wonderful suggestions. They are very appreciated. I have much interesting reading ahead! Kindly Nina On Aug 28, 2018, at 5:33 AM, Jutta Haider <jutta.haider(a)gmail.com<mailto:jutta.haider@gmail.com>> wrote: You might find Cecilia Andersson's work interesting: http://portal.research.lu.se/portal/en/persons/cecilia-andersson(7a999fed-c… especially: Andersson, C. (2017). “Google is not fun”: An investigation of how Swedish teenagers frame online searching. Journal of Documentation, 73(6), 1244–1260. /Jutta On Sun, 26 Aug 2018 at 20:42, Duque, Nina <duque.nina(a)courrier.uqam.ca<mailto:duque.nina@courrier.uqam.ca>> wrote: Hello, I am looking for articles and documentation (not necessarily or exclusively scientific) that deals with the use/impact/role of technology by teenagers and the pursuit of leisure activities. I have a lot of information on Youths and Technology, but very little that deals specifically with leisure activities… Any help would be more than welcome, Thank you so much! Nina Duque PhD candidate UQAM _______________________________________________ The Air-L(a)listserv.aoir.org<mailto:Air-L@listserv.aoir.org> mailing list is provided by the Association of Internet Researchers http://aoir.org<http://aoir.org/> Subscribe, change options or unsubscribe at: http://listserv.aoir.org/listinfo.cgi/air-l-aoir.org Join the Association of Internet Researchers: http://www.aoir.org/

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Looking for information on youths, leisure and technology uses
by Duque, Nina 27 Aug '18

27 Aug '18

Hello, I am looking for articles and documentation (not necessarily or exclusively scientific) that deals with the use/impact/role of technology by teenagers and the pursuit of leisure activities. I have a lot of information on Youths and Technology, but very little that deals specifically with leisure activities… Any help would be more than welcome, Thank you so much! Nina Duque PhD candidate UQAM

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Call for Proposals: Edited volume on Twitter and civic debate
by Judith Rosenbaum-Andre 27 Aug '18

27 Aug '18

*CFP: #Talkingpoints – Twitter and civic debate* With its hashtags, trending topics, and 280-character messages, Twitter has become the place to watch ideas, movements, and communities develop and become part of a global consciousness. While some scholars and social commentators are excited at the increased visibility of groups and ideas commonly excluded from mainstream discourse, as well as the possibility of dialogue between groups, others have expressed concern about the presence of echo chambers and filter bubbles, as well as the lack of “real” interaction. This raises the question what discussions on Twitter actually look like. Is there real engagement? What voices are heard and magnified, and which ones are backgrounded, or missing altogether? What kinds of conversations unfold on the platform, and do they contribute to or even qualify as civic debate? This volume, edited by Gwen Bouvier and Judith E. Rosenbaum, seeks to shed light on the nature of the debates witnessed on Twitter through a consideration of a multitude of methodological and theoretical viewpoints. We are seeking contributions from a variety of backgrounds that consider the various types of conversations on Twitter, the users who engage in these conversations, and the impact these conversations have. We welcome abstracts from across disciplines and methods, although proposals that present findings based on empirical analysis, including quantitative, qualitative, ethnographic or political economic, are preferred. Studies can focus on a range of aspects, from the smaller details of conversation to trends that point to broader changes and patterns in use and participation, as well as issues of resistance, marginalization of voices, off-line/ on-line relations, community management, patterns in uses of platforms and campaigning and/or activism. Please send abstracts (300-450 words) and a CV to the editors Dr. Gwen Bouvier (Maynooth University, Ireland gwen.bouvier(a)mu.ie) and/or Dr. Judith E. Rosenbaum (University of Maine, USA judith.rosenbaumandre(a)maine.edu ). Deadline: October 30, 2018. -- Judith E. Rosenbaum, PhD Assistant Professor Department of Communication and Journalism University of Maine 414 Dunn Hall Orono, ME 04469 www.juditherosenbaum.com/ @JudithRBaum

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Final Reminder! CFP 'Sites Queer: Technologies, Spaces and Otherness'
by Regner Ramos Ramirez 27 Aug '18

27 Aug '18

*Sites Queer: Technologies, Spaces and Otherness* *University of Puerto Rico School of Architecture, Río Piedras Campus* *Abstract Submission Deadline: 31 August 2018* *Conference Date: February 7-9, 2019* Much of queer theory, history, art and performance have been discussed from Anglo American and European perspectives. *Sites Queer* is an interdisciplinary three-day conference exploring the multiple ways in which LGBTQ+ spaces and identities get reconfigured, performed and contested through the technologies and spatial politics of diverse ethnic cultures. Although we welcome submissions from all cultural backgrounds, we are particularly interested in inviting research projects rooted in Latin American, Asian, Aboriginal and African cultures. >From within the Caribbean island of Puerto Rico, *Sites Queer* will be a space to discuss, foreground and analyze divergent queer histories, narratives and spatial practices. Subsequently, playing off the word 'site' as a physical locale as well a digital space, the conference will problematize the ways the Internet, digital technologies, mobile apps and social networks are informing, changing, shaping or contesting queerness for ethnic minorities at urban and rural levels. The outcome of the conference will be to create a book proposal acting as a critical, cultural memory; a written and visual record; and a speculative, spatial cartography of queer spaces for ethnic minorities, drawing them out from their Otherness and situating them within contemporary sociopolitical debates. Potential themes and sub-themes of the conference include but are not limited to: *-Autoethnography, Autobiography and Performance* *-Non-normative Relationship Structures* *-Intimacy and Romance* *-Chem-sex* *-Digital Economies and Transactions* *-Distance and Proximity* *-Postcodes and Addresses* *-Urban Infrastructures* *-Ephemerality, Transcience and Permanence* *-Nighttime Culture and Economies* *-Migration* *-Bias and Marginalization* *-Looking for Others and Being Found* *-Politics of Space* *-Citizenship and Otherness* *-Tourism and Mobility* *-Activism and Resistance* *Sites Queer* is funded by Dr. Regner Ramos’s FIPI research grant at the University of Puerto Rico School of Architecture. We are inviting research papers, performances, films, roundtable sessions and pre-constituted panels to participate. Please send 250-word abstracts and a 150-word biography to regner.ramos(a)upr.edu . In the case of group submissions, please provide biographies for each individual. *Submission Deadline: 31 August 2018* For more details: http://elsite.xyz/calendar/sites-queer *We are delighted to confirm the following three keynote speakers at Sites Queer:* Dr. Sharif Mowlabocus is a Senior Lecturer in Digital Media, at the University of Sussex. Since 2001, he has been involved in research that explores intersections between digital media technologies, gender and sexuality. He is the author of *Gaydar Culture: Technology Embodiment and Gay Male Culture* (Ashgate, 2010), which offered one of the first detailed explorations of gay men’s digital culture outside of the USA. He was one fo the first scholars to publish research on hook-up app culture, and he has worked with health organisations, commercial enterprises and public institutions. He was a visiting researcher at Microsoft Research New England in 2017, and a visiting scholar at Stanford University in 2018. Richard Miskolci is Associate Professor of Sociology at the Federal University of São Paulo and researcher of the National Council on Scientific and Technological Development (CNPq). He is also the coordinator of Quereres - Research Group on Differences, Human Rights and Health ( www.quereres.sites.unifesp.br) One of the founders of Queer Studies in Brazil, Miskolci has published in 2017 *Desejos Digitais: uma análise sociológica da busca por parceiros online *(*Digital Desires: a sociological analysis of the online search for partners*). Ben Campkin is the author of *Remaking London: Decline and Regeneration in Urban Culture* (IB Tauris, 2013), which won the Urban Communication Foundation’s Jane Jacobs Award, 2015. He is co-editor of three anthologies: *Dirt: New Geographies of Cleanliness and Contamination* (IB Tauris, 2007), *Engaged Urbanism: Cities and Methodologies* (IB Tauris, 2016) and *Sexuality and Gender at Home: Experience, Politics, Transgression* (Bloomsbury, 2017), and of the series *Urban Pamphleteer* (2013-). Ben is Professor of History of Architecture and Urbanism at the Bartlett School of Architecture, University College London, where he directs the Architectural and Urban History doctoral programme. He is Co-director of the UCL Urban Laboratory and was Director from 2011-18. We are also happy to announce that *Sites Queer's *main workshop will be run by Lucas LaRochelle, founder of *Queering The Map <http://queeringthemap.com>*, a community-generated mapping project that geo-locates queer moments, memories and histories in relation to physical space. *Queering the Map* aims to collectively document the spaces that hold queer memory, from park benches to parking garages, to mark moments of queerness wherever they occur. -- *Dr. Regner Ramos* PhD - The Bartlett School of Architecture UCL Assistant Professor - School of Architecture University of Puerto Rico Creative Director & Editor-in-Chief LOBBY Magazine Editor-in-Chief *in*forma Journal Editor/Writer Glass Magazine www.elsite.xyz Instagram: @regner.xyz <http://www.instagram.com/regner.xyz>

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EXTENSION-CFP: Special Issue of "Convergence": Digital Culture Meets Data: Critical Perspectives
by Aristea Fotopoulou 27 Aug '18

27 Aug '18

**EXTENSION** Call for Papers **Extended Deadline: 30th September 2018** Digital Culture Meets Data: Critical Perspectives Special Issue of Convergence: The International Journal of Research into New Media Technologies Guest Editors: Aristea Fotopoulou (University of Brighton) and Helen Thornham (University of Leeds) Algorithms and big data shape our sociocultural and technical relations and our everyday experiences. Considerations of data, algorithms and infrastructure are now central to our critical perspectives on, and approaches to digital culture. The ‘data logical turn’ has been talked about as a necessary critical consideration for digital culture, not least because communication, media infrastructures, practices and social environments become increasingly ‘datafied'. But what does this turn to data mean for our research, scholarship and pedagogic practice? What does it mean for broader epistemological and ontological frameworks? Has the data paradigm arrived as an unquestionable unifying concept for studies of digital culture and digital media, communication, technology? It may be that a shift of focus on algorithms and data is fundamentally disruptive to the ways in which we see our research and disciplines. It may even appear to limit the theoretical and methodological tools through which we increasingly try to understand mediation, the formation of identity, social life, politics and the creative industries. To others, the data logical turn may be plainly repeating the processes of earlier instances of technological innovation. And for some, it may provide an opportunity to frame new theoretical concepts and methodological tools for a whole new set of social, cultural and political phenomena. The focus of this special issue emerges from the ECREA conference of late 2017 and is motivated by conceptual and critical questions about the relationship between digital culture and data. We ask: What theoretical and empirical perspectives on data and digital culture can be used to augment and diversify our research and educational approaches? How might we challenge data paradigms or aim to show alternative or complementary ways to address digital culture and communication? We invite contributions that critically engage with digital culture and data specifically in relation to research, scholarship and pedagogic practice. We invite contributions that include (but are not reduced to) the following Themes: § Media studies and datafication § Researching media and culture using data methods § Data visualisation, art and design § Data cultures and neoliberalism § Data activism and citizen engagement § Data literacy § Data and audiences § Data and gender, race, class inequalities § Datafication and the creative industries § Feminist approaches to data § Machine learning and AI § Data and the body § Smart cities, data and sustainability § Social bots and the management of sociality Articles should be in the range of 6000- 8000 words (including all references). Please send a 500-word abstract and a 100-word biography to the editors: A.Fotopoulou(a)brighton.ac.uk and H.Thornham(a)leeds.ac.uk by 30th September 2018. Authors of accepted abstracts will be notified by 30th October 2018. Full papers will be submitted 31st December 2018 and will undergo peer review following the usual procedures of the journal. The invitation to submit a full article does not guarantee acceptance into the special issue. The Special Issue will be out in 2020, and in time for REF. Brief Bio of Guest Editors: Dr. Aristea Fotopoulou is Principal Lecturer in Media and Communications at the University of Brighton, where she leads the MA Digital Media, Culture & Society. Her research focuses on critical aspects of digital and emerging technologies, with current emphasis on critical data literacy, digital health, and AI. She serves as Chair of the European Communication Research & Education Association (ECREA) Digital Culture and Communication Section. Publications include: Fotopoulou, A. (2018) From networked to quantified self: Self-tracking and the moral economy of data sharing. In Papacharissi, Z. (ed.) A Networked Self: Platforms, Stories, Connections. New York: Routledge. Fotopoulou, A. (forthcoming) Citizen Media and Gender. In Baker, M., Blaagaard, B. and Pérez-González, L. (eds) The Routledge Encyclopedia of Citizen Media. New York: Routledge. Fotopoulou, A. (forthcoming) Understanding citizen data practices from a feminist perspective: embodiment and the ethics of care. In Stephansen, H. and Trere, E. (eds) Citizen Media and Practice. Taylor & Francis/Routledge: Oxford. Fotopoulou, A. (2017) Feminist activism and digital networks: between empowerment and vulnerability, Palgrave Studies in Communication for Social Change, Palgrave MacMillan. (monograph). Fotopoulou, A. and O'Riordan, K. (2016) Training to self-care: Fitness tracking and the knowledge-able consumer. Health Sociology Review. Fotopoulou, A. and Couldry, N., (2015) Telling the story of the stories: online content curation and digital engagement. Information, Communication & Society, 18(2), pp.235-249. Dr.Helen Thornham is an Associate Professor of Digital Cultures at Leeds University and has published widely on the social and cultural transformations of digital technologies. Her interdisciplinary work has been funded across RCUK, including AHRC Knowledge Infusion Grant (AH/H500065/1), EPSRC Community and Cultures Network+ (EP/K003585/1), and ESRC Defence, Uncertainty and Risk Project (ES/K011170/1). Publications include: Thornham, H (2018 forthcoming) Gender and Digital Culture: Irreconcilability in the Digital. Taylor Francis Thornham, H & Gómez Cruz (2017) Not Just a Number? NEETS, Data and Datalogical Systems. Information, Communication & Society Thornham, Helen & Maltby, Sarah (2017) ŒBeyond Pseuydonmity¹: The socio-technical structure of online military forums. New Media and Society DOI 10.117/1461444817707273 Thornham, H & Gómez Cruz (2016) Hackathons, Data and Discourse: Convolutions of the data(logical) in Big Data and Society DOI: 10.1177/2053951716679675 Thornham, Helen & Maltby, Sarah (2016) The Digital Mundane and the Military Media, Culture and Society DOI: 10.1177/0163443716646173 Thornham, Helen & Gómez Cruz, Edgar (2016) [Im]mobility in the Age of [im]mobile phones: young NEETs and digital practices. New Media and Society DOI: 10.1177/1461444816643430 Best wishes Aristea ----------------------------- Dr Aristea Fotopoulou Principal Lecturer in Media and Communication Course Leader MA Digital Media, Culture and Society School of Media University of Brighton Watts Building, Lewes Road Brighton BN2 4GJ A.Fotopoulou(a)brighton.ac.uk |@aristeaf Research blog: www.Loopingthreads.com | Webpage http://arts.brighton.ac.uk/staff/aristea-fotopoulou New book: "Feminist Activism and Digital Networks: Between empowerment and vulnerability". Palgrave Macmillan. Order: http://www.palgrave.com/gb/book/9781137504708 New book chapter: From networked to quantified self: Self-tracking and the moral economy of data sharing in https://www.routledge.com/A-Networked-Self-and-Platforms-Stories-Connection s/Papacharissi/p/book/9781138722682 ___________________________________________________________ This email has been scanned by MessageLabs' Email Security System on behalf of the University of Brighton. For more information see: https://staff.brighton.ac.uk/is/computing/Pages/Email/spam.aspx

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