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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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Facebook scraper for qualitative analysis
by Alexandra Bahary 26 Dec '18

26 Dec '18

Hi to all, I've been trying to import data form a public Facebook group as dataset, mainly for qualitative analysis. The group includes substantial amounts of data with thousands of users. I would need to extract data (posts and comments) for at least a two months period. I was previously using a NVivo extension (NCapture) to do so, but Facebook recently changes its API, which implies restrictions for dataset import. Tools such as Netvizz don't seem to work at the moment as well. I was wondering if you knew about other ways or ressources to make such a gathering possible. Best, Alexandra

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CfP International (funded) workshop on online extreme speech, 10-11 December 2018
by sahana udupa 22 Oct '18

22 Oct '18

Call for papers International Workshop Global Perspectives on Extreme Speech Online 10-11 December 2018 Venue: The House of Artists, Munich, Germany Organized by Sahana Udupa, University of Munich (LMU), Germany Peter Hervik, Aalborg University, Denmark Iginio Gagliardone, University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa Extended abstract deadline: 1 November 2018 Full papers due: 3 December 2018 Online cultures of political aggression and hateful speech have come to the center of public debate and concern, as right-wing nationalist and populist waves have swept political cultures with a new lexicon of exclusionary moral discourse aimed against minoritized groups. In North America and Europe, the rise of the “far-right” and “neonationalist” movements in the last two decades have triggered and relied on online belligerence of racialized joking, intimidation and “fact-filled” untruths (Banks & Gingrich, 2006; Hervik 2016). In countries like Myanmar, India, Sri Lanka, Kenya and South Africa, major social media services such as Facebook and Whatsapp have not only offered an easy platform to revive vitriol against religious minorities and ethnic “others”, but they have also led to a “subterranean” flow of rumor and fear mongering, injecting a new velocity to mob lynching and targeted physical violence (Gagliardone et al. 2017; Lee, 2019; Udupa, 2018). Digital expressions have pushed back liberal modulations of “civility”, drawing strength from locally approved cultural idioms, globally shared formats of humor and historically sanctioned structures of animosity (Udupa & Pohjonen, 2019). While huge numbers of dispersed, unorganized “ordinary” online users are participating in online extreme speech practices, regimes have also engaged organized production of disinformation by making use of the very infrastructure of globalization around flexible, precarious and outsourced labour (Ong and Cabanes, 2018). We capture these digitally mediated moral outrage and vitriol for overt and implicit political goals as online “extreme speech”. By defining online vitriol of political exclusion as “extreme speech”, we depart from the regulatory-normative debates of “hate speech”. We instead draw attention to media practices and how and why online actors engage in forms of speech that are disapproved in other contexts of interaction. In this international workshop, we extend our effort to place the vitriolic face of the Internet in a critical global conversation backed with ethnographic sensibility – studies that are attuned to the understanding of lived practices and narratives of online actors, historically shaped political structures, and online affordances in situated contexts. We consider online actors to include i. dispersed yet ideologically active individual producers of exclusionary extreme speech, ii. semi-organized groups of volunteers and organized groups for right wing movements and ethnic/racial hatred, iii. minoritized groups targeted by extreme speech (refugees, immigrants, “liberals”, humanists, religious/ethnic groups), iv. politically “agnostic” paid trolls, v. business minded digital influencers, as well as vi. civil society groups, individuals and community associations engaged in creative resistance to online extreme speech. Recognizing the global spread of online extreme speech, we invite submissions that can take the debate beyond the Euro-American concerns around “fake news” and “echo chambers”. We invite submissions that are especially attentive to local idioms, media practices and tensions that have made online extreme speech a daily reality of everyday politics, with profound implications for how belonging is imagined, enacted and brutally enforced in different parts of the world. Attendance to this closed workshop is fully funded. Organizers will cover the costs of travel and accommodation. Submissions will contribute to a planned co-edited volume, and should therefore not be under consideration for publication elsewhere. Please send your extended abstracts (1200 words) to extremespeechworkshop2018(a)gmail.com <extremespeech2018(a)gmail.com> before 1 November 2018. Selected participants will be notified by 10 November 2018. Abstracts should contain a clear outline of the argument, theoretical framework, methodology, ethnographic material (findings if applicable), and a brief note on how your research links to the overall theme of the workshop. Please also include 3-5 keywords that describe your work, and a short bio (max 100 words, stating affiliation). Full papers (6000 words) of selected submissions are due on 3 December 2018. Topics include I Field based media practice research and ethnographic explorations of 1. Common online users and political aggression 2. Organized production of trolls and vitriol 3. Digital rumor, virality and mob violence 4. Internet memes, jokes and exclusion 5. Victims of online extreme speech 6.. Resistance to online extreme speech II New mixed methods using ethnography and data analysis of extreme speech III Field based explorations of regulating online extreme speech with fine grained analysis of the tussles among Internet service providers, social networking sites, state regulators, civil society groups and individual activists. The workshop is hosted by Project ONLINERPOL (www.fordigitaldignity.com) funded by the European Research Council (Grant Agreement Number 714285) at the Ludwig Maximilian University (LMU), Germany.

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Job opening: Assistant Professor in Media and Communications, LSE - please share
by Livingstone,S 15 Oct '18

15 Oct '18

Apologies for cross-posting The Department of Media and Communications at London School of Economics and Political Science is hiring a new Assistant Professor in Media and Communications, to begin September 2019. Applications are invited from outstanding candidates in the field of media and communications. The successful candidate will join an established and successful department, ranked first in the UK’s 2014 Research Excellence Framework evaluation and third in the QS 2016 world university rankings. The Department is known for its distinctive interdisciplinary approach to the field of media and communications, primarily based in the social sciences, but also open to humanities perspectives. Candidates must have expertise in one or more of the following areas of research: audiences and cultural politics, and/or media for development. Within these primary areas, we are particularly (though not exclusively) interested in candidates with research and theoretical expertise in the Global South, with a focus on issues of marginality and social justice, especially around sexuality, race, class and disability. In addition to a competitive salary the benefits that come with this job include an occupational pension scheme, a research incentive scheme with personal reward options, generous research leave (sabbatical) entitlement, a collegial faculty environment and excellent support, training and development opportunities. Queries about the role may be addressed to the Head of the Department, Professor Sarah Banet-Weiser (S.Banet-Weiser(a)lse.ac.uk<mailto:S.Banet-Weiser@lse.ac.uk>). Applications are now open and close on 22 October. You can find full details on LSE Jobs<https://jobs.lse.ac.uk/ViewVacancyV2.aspx?enc=mEgrBL4XQK0+ld8aNkwYmN/UXJPVd…> – please share with your networks. Professor Sonia Livingstone, DPhil, FBA, FBPS, FRSA, OBE London School of Economics and Political Science TW2 7.01, Dept. of Media and Communications, Houghton Street, LSE, London WC2A 2AE Web: www.sonialivingstone.net<http://www.sonialivingstone.net/> Children's rights in the digital environment http://blogs.lse.ac.uk/mediapolicyproject/page/2/?s=sonia+rights Parenting for a digital future blog www.parenting.digital<http://www.parenting.digital/> Twitter @Livingstone_S EU Kids Online www.eukidsonline.net<http://www.eukidsonline.net/> Global Kids Online www.globalkidsonline.net<http://www.globalkidsonline.net/> Publications (mostly open access) http://bit.ly/2tUbcRD Latest bookThe Class: Living and learning in the digital age<http://nyupress.org/books/9781479824243/>

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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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MA Data, Culture and Society, University of Westminster (London) open evening 05/11
by Jacob Johanssen 30 Sep '18

30 Sep '18

Dear colleagues, I would be grateful if you could forward this to amy interested students *New MA course launching September 2019* *MA Data, Culture and Society* (University of Westminster) Information evening Monday, 5 November 5pm-6.30pm Room: C2.14, Cavendish Campus <https://www.westminster.ac.uk/about-us/our-locations/maps-and-directions/ca…> We live in an age where almost everything of what we do is connected to data. Big data and datafication pose great opportunities but also risks for contemporary societies. This new MA course addresses, explores and creatively utilises this transformation. We place an emphasis on current and future technologies and practices such as algorithms, artificial intelligence, big data, blockchain, data analytics and data mining, the Internet of Things, and others. This multidisciplinary course is the first of its kind in the UK in bringing together media / communication studies and computer science. It combines hands-on and applied approaches with theoretical learning and critical analysis. It will encourage collaboration, creative practice, group work and problem-based learning, with students applying tools and technologies to their own data challenges and projects, including from their existing professional or cultural, political, social and economic environments. More information and free registration here: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/information-evening-ma-data-culture-and-soci… The Course Leader Jacob Johanssen can be contacted via j.johanssen(a)westminster.ac.uk

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