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Hackademics: AoIR Gathering
by Leonie Tanczer 09 Sep '18

09 Sep '18

For all #Hackademics on this list that are attending AoIR 2018, please see Gabriella Coleman's email below: --- Hi all, Leonie and I have been scheming and would like to propose a lunch gathering on Friday the 12th from 12:30-200. If you can make it, please add your name here https://pad.riseup.net/p/hackademia And I will find a place that can accommodate us. Finally a bit of a side recommendation, especially those staying through the weekend. I do recommend a hike up Mt Royal if the weather is nice and a visit here http://botabota.ca/ for those that need some post or pre-conference R&R. Ok see some of you soon! Biella ________________________________________________________________ Dr Leonie Maria Tanczer Lecturer in International Security and Emerging Technologies Department of Science, Technology, Engineering and Public Policy University College London Twitter: @leotanczt Website: http://www.leonietanczer.net/ Key Fingerprint: 9F21 A6A6 913E 1393 1BC6 73DA EBEF 07A4 F61F 79DA

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Free Webinar: Open Science as a Movement: Mozilla’s efforts to build community and open leadership in science
by Robert Sandusky 06 Sep '18

06 Sep '18

Open Science as a Movement: Mozilla’s efforts to build community and open leadership in science Stephanie Wright, Mozilla Register: https://dataone.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_U29bIC8BTL2t-gNqt95qHw Tuesday September 11th 9 am Pacific / 10 am Mountain / 11am Central / 12 noon Eastern Our goal at Mozilla Science Lab is to maximize access to papers, data, code, and materials so anyone can read and contribute, while also building a community for researchers advocating from openness and collaboration. On the Open Leadership & Engagement team we achieve this by employing open-science events, training leaders, and developing education materials in an effort to make research more open and accessible and help science reach its full potential. Stephanie Wright leads the Mozilla Science program on the Open Leadership & Engagement team of the Mozilla Foundation, funded by the Sloan Foundation, the Helmsley Charitable Trust, and the Siegel Family Endowment. Her team at Mozilla focuses on hosting events such as Working Open Workshops, the annual Global Sprint and Mozfest events, Open Leadership Trainings, developing educational resources such as the Open Data Training Program, and building a community of leaders through Mozilla Fellowships and other activities. Prior to Mozilla, Stephanie worked for the University of Washington where she developed and led the Libraries Research Data Services Unit, served as a Senior Data Science Fellow at the UW’s eSciences Institute, and co-authored the Librarian Outreach Kit as part of the Community Engagement & Outreach Working Group for DataONE. Sponsored by DataONE: http://dataone.org Robert J. Sandusky, Ph.D. Associate University Librarian for Information Technology Associate Professor and Associate Dean UIC University Library 312-413-9822 Pronouns: he, him, his

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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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Submissions open for The Web that Was (June 2019, Amsterdam)
by Michael Stevenson 06 Sep '18

06 Sep '18

The Web that Was: Archives, Traces, Reflections A three-day conference, University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands, June 19-21, 2019. The third biennial RESAW (Research Infrastructure for the Study of Archived Web Materials) conference. Organized by the University of Amsterdam. *** Submissions Open *** Submissions are now open for The Web that Was (RESAW19) and you can upload your submission here: https://easychair.org/my/conference.cgi?conf=resaw19. Please read the conference-specific instructions linked at the top of the submission form. Help with the conference tool can be found here: https://easychair.org/help/how_to_submit. The deadline for submissions is October 19, 2018. *** Keynote speakers *** Megan Ankerson, Assistant Professor of Communication Studies, University of Michigan Wendy Chun, Canada 150 Research Chair, Simon Fraser University Florian Cramer, Professor of Applied Research, Rotterdam University of Applied Sciences Olia Lialina, Professor of New Media, Merz Akademie Fred Turner, Harry and Norman Chandler Professor and Chair of the Department of Communication, Stanford University *** Special event *** The conference will host a lecture-performance by Geert Lovink (Institute of Network Cultures, Hogeschool van Amsterdam) and guests on the history and preservation of Amsterdam’s early internet culture. *** Call for contributions *** As the first generation of web users goes grey, it’s clear that the internet they remember is no longer around. The early web is now simply another object of nostalgia. Tech anniversaries are a dime a dozen, while once cool digital aesthetics have made several ironic comebacks. All of this reinforces a sense that we’ve left behind a digital history that was as clunky and slow as it was idealistic and naïve. How can we rethink this relationship to the web’s past and the past web? This question is crucial today as the open web continues to lose ground to platforms and apps. How can this history be reconstructed and re-evaluated, and how are web archives and web histories impacted by technological change? What do traditional problems of preservation and historiography look like at scale? And what stories capture the diverse transformations and continuities that mark nearly 30 years of web history? There is of course no single web history, materially or conceptually speaking. There is instead a politics of archives, technologies and discourses that needs to be uncovered. How can we expand our view of web history beyond Silicon Valley and celebrated cases? And how can we reveal the technological, social and economic contexts that have shaped not just the present web, but how we access its past? What role do archives play in uncovering the histories of the web, platforms and apps, as well as their production and usage contexts? This conference aims to bring together scholars, archivists and artists interested in preserving, portraying and otherwise engaging with the web that was. In addition to paper submissions, we invite proposals for audiovisual installations, posters, software demos, or other media that connects to the conference themes. Submissions in the form of an abstract may relate to, but are not limited by, the following topics: * Web and internet histories * Historicizing the web and digital culture * Web 1.0, Web 2.0 and critiquing periodizations * Past futures and paths not taken * Platformization and the changing structure of the web * Social imaginaries of the early web * Archives and access * Research methods for studying the archived web * Methods for platform and app histories * Ethics of (studying) web archives * Technicity of web archives * Software histories * Archived audiences and histories of internet use * Identity, intersectionality and web history * Digital activism and web history * Histories of net criticism * Media industries and their online histories * Web histories elsewhere: forgotten and marginalized web cultures * Realtime, time travel and other web temporalities * Future histories and the archive of tomorrow *** Submissions *** Submissions are welcomed from all fields and disciplines, and we would particularly encourage postgraduate students and early career researchers to participate. * Individual papers of 20 minutes length (750-word abstract and a short author bio of 100-150 words). * Panel sessions consisting of three individual papers, introduced by a chair (750-word abstract for each paper, a brief description of 300 words of the purpose of the panel, and a short author bio of 100-150 words for each speaker). * Posters, demonstrations, and audio/video/interactive installations (short abstract of no more than 500 words, a list of A/V or other requirements, and a short author bio of 100-150 words) * Workshops (a 500-word rationale for the workshop, including discussion of why the topic lends itself to a workshop format, and a short author bio of 100-150 words for the workshop organiser(s)). Acceptance will be on the basis of double-blind peer review. *** Timetable *** May 2018 – dates out June 2018 – first call for papers July 2018 – second call for papers August 2018 – third call for papers September 2018 – final call for papers and submissions open 19 October 2018 – deadline submission of abstracts December 2018 – notification of acceptance 19–21 June 2019 – conference *** Organizing Committee *** Anne Helmond, University of Amsterdam, NL Michael Stevenson, University of Amsterdam, NL In collaboration with the RESAW Conference Committee: Niels Brügger, Aarhus University, DK (organiser 2015) Jane Winters, University of London, UK (organiser 2017) Valérie Schafer, University of Luxembourg, LU (coming organiser 2021) *** Program Committee *** Susan Aasman, University of Groningen, NL Gerard Alberts, University of Amsterdam, NL Megan Ankerson, University of Michigan, USA Anat Ben-David, The Open University of Israel, IL Josephine Bosma, independent art critic and theorist, NL Sally Chambers, Ghent University, BE Frédéric Clavert, C2DH Luxembourg Annet Dekker, University of Amsterdam, NL Matthew Fuller, Goldsmiths, UK Sophie Gebeil, Aix-Marseille University, FR Robert W. Gehl, University of Utah, USA Daniel Gomes, arquivo.pt, PT Stefania Milan, University of Amsterdam, NL Ian Milligan, University of Waterloo, CA Francesca Musiani, CNRS, FR Claude Mussou, Ina, FR Janne Nielsen, Aarhus University, DK Camille Paloque-Berges, CNAM, FR Thomas Poell, University of Amsterdam, NL Bernhard Rieder, University of Amsterdam, NL Marta Severo, University of Paris Nanterre, FR Kees Teszelszky, Koninklijke Bibliotheek/Royal Library, NL Fred Turner, Stanford University, USA Peter Webster, Webster Research & Consulting, UK Katrin Weller, GESIS Leibniz Institute for the Social Sciences, DE *** Sponsors *** The conference is financed in part by the Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO) as part of the research program Innovational Research Incentives Scheme Veni in connection with the projects “The Web that Was” (275-45-006) and “App ecosystems: A critical history of apps” (275-45-009). *** Contact *** Website: https://www.thewebthatwas.net Email: organizers(a)thewebthatwas.net

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Google creates search engine to find databases
by Yosem Companys 05 Sep '18

05 Sep '18

https://www.blog.google/products/search/making-it-easier-discover-datasets/

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Multiple iSchool Faculty Positions in Austin
by Amelia Acker 05 Sep '18

05 Sep '18

Hi, The UT iSchool is hiring multiple positions this year, please consider applying! https://www.ischool.utexas.edu/facultysearch The School of Information at the University of Texas at Austin invites applications for four new full-time, tenured/tenure-track faculty positions to start in Fall 2019 or earlier, depending on applicant availability. The rank of each of the positions is specified in the details for that position; rank and salary for successful candidates will be commensurate with qualifications and experience. The four positions include: A Full Professor to hold the endowed Bill and Lewis Suit Professor of Information Technology. This endowed professorship offers a competitive salary and an annual research allowance of approximately $30k. We are particularly seeking a senior scholar with a distinguished track record in information/informatics research in the areas of health, medicine, and/or medical organizations, although exceptional scholars in other areas will also be considered. Details on applying for this full-time tenured position are below. A Tenured Faculty Member, concurrently appointed as Associate Dean for Education, who will be appointed in a 9-month tenured faculty appointment (either as an associate or full professor, depending on current qualifications and experience) at 0.5 FTE and an administrative (12-month) capacity at 0.5 FTE. We are particularly seeking an established exceptional scholar with an active research program who is also an administrator with a proven track record in developing innovative cross-disciplinary teaching programs at the undergraduate and graduate levels. Areas of research and teaching focus are open, but should complement the existing strengths of the iSchool. Details on applying for this full-time tenured position are below. A Tenured Faculty Member, concurrently appointed as Associate Dean for Research, who will be appointed in a 9-month tenured faculty appointment (either as an associate or full professor, depending on current qualifications and experience) at 0.5 FTE and an administrative (12-month) capacity at 0.5 FTE. We are particularly seeking an established exceptional scholar with an active research program who is also an administrator with a proven track record in writing, securing, administering, and disseminating grant-funded research, and leading others in becoming similarly successful. Areas of research and teaching focus are open, but should complement the existing strengths of the iSchool. Details on applying for this full-time tenured position are below. An Assistant Professor in the early stages of their career who demonstrates exceptional potential as a scholar and researcher. Specific areas of research and teaching focus are open, but should complement the existing strengths of the iSchool. Details on applying for this full-time tenure-track position are below. For all of the above positions, we only seek candidates with excellent research, teaching, and leadership abilities and a commitment to shaping the future of the UT Austin iSchool and the field of information more broadly. -- Dr. Amelia Acker Assistant Professor School of Information University of Texas at Austin 1616 Guadalupe Suite #5.434 Austin, TX 78701-1213 http://www.ameliaacker.com/

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The 34th ACM Symposium on Applied Computing (SAC 2019): Final Combined Call for Papers
by Announce Announcements 05 Sep '18

05 Sep '18

*** FINAL COMBINED CALL FOR PAPERS *** The 34th ACM Symposium on Applied Computing (SAC 2019) St. Raphael Resort, Limassol, Cyprus, April 8-12, 2019 http://www.cs.ucy.ac.cy/~george/lm/lm.php?tk=YWlyLUwJCQlhaXItTEBsaXN0c2Vydi… *** Submission Deadline: September 24, 2018 (extended) *** For the past thirty-three years the ACM Symposium on Applied Computing (SAC) has been a primary and international forum for applied computer scientists, computer engineers and application developers to gather, interact and present their work. The ACM Special Interest Group on Applied Computing (SIGAPP) is the sole sponsor of SAC. The conference proceedings are published by ACM and are also available online through ACM's Digital Library. The 34th Annual SAC meeting will be held in April 2019 in Limassol, Cyprus, and is hosted by the University of Cyprus. The conference features the following tracks: · Intelligent Robotics and Multi-Agent Systems (IRMAS) · Knowledge Representation and Reasoning (KRR) · Information Access and Retrieval (IAR) · Software Verification and Testing (SVT) · Computational Intelligence and Video & Image Analysis (CIVIA) · Social Network and Media Analysis (SONAMA) · Selected Areas of Wireless Communications and Networking (WCN) · Recommender Systems: Theory and Applications (RS) · Computer Security (SEC) · Web-based Technologies for Interactive Computing Education (WICE) · Data Mining (DM) · Usability Engineering (UE) · Cloud Computing (CC) · Privacy by Design in Practice (PDP) · Advances in COMputational Biomedical Imaging (COMBI) · Operating Systems (OS) · Software Platforms (SP) · Decentralized Applications (DAPP) with Blockchain, DLT and Crypto-Currencies (DAPP) · Databases and Big Data Management (DBDM) · Requirements Engineering (RE) · Cyber-Physical Systems (CPS) · Software Architecture: Theory, Technology, and Applications (SA-TTA) · Internet of Things (IoT) · Sustainability of Fog/Edge Computing Systems (SFECS) · Software-intensive Systems-of-Systems (SiSoS) · Data Streams (DS) · Programming Languages (PL) · Business Process Management & Enterprise Architecture (BPMEA) · Microservices, DevOps, and Service-Oriented Architecture (MiDOS) · Health Informatics (HI) · Dependable, Adaptive, and Secure Distributed Systems (DADS) · GeoInformation Analytics (GIA) · Knowledge and Language Processing (KLP) · KomIS: Knowledge Discovery meets Information Systems (KomIS) · Next Generation Programming Paradigms and Systems (NGPS) · Communication, Computing and Networking in Internet of Vehicles (CCNIV) · Bioinformatics (BIO) · Embedded Systems (EMBS) · Digital Life for Human Well-being (DLHWB) · Networking (NET) · Semantic Web and Applications (SWA) · Mobile Computing and Applications (MCA) · Software Engineering (SE) · Variability and Software Product Line Engineering (VSPLE) · Smart Human Computer Interaction (HCI) · Web Technologies (WT) · Machine Learning and its Applications (MLA) More information about the topics covered by each track and submission instructions are available on the conference web site and the web sites of the tracks themselves (accessible from the conference web site). Important Dates · Sept 24, 2018: Submission of papers (extended) · Nov 10, 2018: Author notification · Nov 25, 2018: Camera-ready copies · Dec 10, 2018: Author registration Committees http://www.cs.ucy.ac.cy/~george/lm/lm.php?tk=YWlyLUwJCQlhaXItTEBsaXN0c2Vydi…

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Job: Assistant Professor, Latinx/Indigenous Communication
by Robert W. Gehl 04 Sep '18

04 Sep '18

Hello, all -- I'm excited to announce a job opportunity in the Department of Communication of the University of Utah: Assistant Professor of Latinx/Indigenous Communication. The full job ad is here: https://employment.utah.edu/salt-lake-city-ut/assistant-professor/39530 A5BDBDD4B27BAF0AA2230F465BF/job/ I'm a member of the search committee, so feel free to email me (robert. gehl(a)utah.edu) if you have questions about the job, the University of Utah, or life in Salt Lake City. Regards, Rob Gehl

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Associate or Full Professor, Usability Studies, University of Arizona
by Catherine Brooks 04 Sep '18

04 Sep '18

| The School of Information invites applications for an Associate or Full Professor with tenure (January 2019 or August 2019 appointment) with a strong record of research in usability studies, a scholar who is a global leader on research related to augmented reality, immersive media, virtual reality, new media’s impact on society, mobile communications, as well as integration and technology adoption in medicine and growing areas of health informatics. This position requires vision and approaches tied to outreach to underrepresented learners as well as strong pedagogical abilities for teaching a diverse set of students. Experience in academic leadership roles, tight industry partnerships, and research across domains to include health technologies are preferred. Ideal candidates will bring experience with interdisciplinary/multidisciplinary/transdisciplinary funded grant teams, and will exhibit the potential to raise the computational/big tech profile for the University of Arizona. Associate or Full Professor, Usability Studies (UPDATED) | | | | | | | | | | | Associate or Full Professor, Usability Studies (UPDATED) Note: This posting has been updated in its required documents, and in its Contact Information for Candidates. If... | | | |

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new issue of FastCapitalism
by Jeremy Hunsinger 04 Sep '18

04 Sep '18

Introduction to Fast Capitalism 15.1 Timothy W. Luke Since 2005, Fast Capitalism has worked to serve as an academic journal with a political intent. For now thirteen years, fifteen numbers, and nineteen issues (with a 1.2 issue in 2005, a 2.2 issue in 2006, a 5.2 issue in 2009, and an 8.2 issue in 2011), we have been publishing reviewed scholarship and critical essays about the impact of rapidly changing information and communication technologies on self, society and culture in the 21st century. As we announced from the outset, we do not pretend an absolute objectivity, given that the work we publish is written from many perspectives with a viewpoint. Our authors examine how heretofore distinct social institutions, such as work and family, education and entertainment, have blurred to the point of near identity in an accelerated, post-Fordist stage of capitalism. And, we launched this project before there were the nearly 2 billion smart phones and over a billion smart tablets operating everyday around the world in 2018. The scale, scope, and sweep of these means of communication in the existing mode of information makes it difficult for people to shield themselves from subordination and surveillance. The working day continues to expand; there is increasingly less to actually no “down time” anymore. People can “office” anywhere, using laptops, tablets, and other personal mobile devices to stay constantly in touch. But these invasive technologies that tether us to capital and control can also help us resist these tendencies, as we noted during the Great Recession, the “Color Revolutions,” the Occupy movements, and Arab Spring uprisings. People use the Internet as a public sphere in which they can express and enlighten themselves as well as organize others; women, especially, manage their families and nurture children from the job site and on the road, perhaps even “familizing” traditionally patriarchal and bureaucratic work relations; information technologies afford connection, mitigate isolation, and have made way for many new social movements from Occupy Wall Street and Black Lives Matter to #MeToo and March for Our Lives. We are convinced that the best way to study an accelerated media culture and its various political economies and existential meanings is dialectically, with nuance, avoiding sheer condemnation and ebullient celebration. We seek to shape these new technologies and social structures in democratic ways. We invite contributions on these and related issues. Some papers will stick close to the ground of daily life and politics; others will ascend the heights of theory in order to get the big picture. The work we publish is both disciplinary and interdisciplinary, bridging the social sciences and humanities. Culture and capital are keywords. As we always have been from the beginning, we are also are intensely interested in cities, the built environment and nature, and we encourage people who theorize space and place to submit their work. With 15.1, we continue this project with an eclectic mix of essays, beginning with Jacobo Bernardini addressing in his “Nomophobia and Digital Natives” the dark sides of smartphone psychological dependence in contemporary Italy, especially the strong correlations between youth apathy and the massive use of new digital technologies. The second piece by Daniel Broudy, “Flags, Anthems, and Free Speech: A Trump White House,” addresses the emergent national populist regime and nationalist movement being constructed in the United States around perhaps the world’s first full-blown “reality TV” inspired style of daily administration in President Donald Trump’s White House. The third article by Sascha Engel poses the challenge of how to go about “Writing Circuit Histories” by delving deeply into software coding practices to contest the predominant linear narrative devices to which semi-human, semi-machinic assemblages for high technology work are subject: the narrative of “progress.” The next essay by Yasmin Ibrahim deals with the complexities of “The East as a Theatre House of Suffering: ‘Suffering’ Scholarship and the Orientalist Bind” in contemporary media studies. For her, “suffering” is a sustained human predicament, but it has been largely consigned to the East/Global South as a collective human role. In turn, the right to look and serve as the authoritative voyeur of spectatorship is conferred to the West. She effectively disputes this “East-West” dichotomy in the oeuvre of suffering scholarship. On the one hand, it has created a two-fold humanity where one is the bearer of suffering and the other the voyeur or the moral spectator who can accord pity and compassion to the lesser other. And, on the other hand, she notes how the West/Global North is now a key locus of suffering with the war on terror, the plight of displaced populations seeking refuge, and the impact of rapid climate change. The fifth contribution to the issue “Social Movement Uses of Capitalist Infotainment” by JL Johnson is a fascinating evaluation of how different social movements have mobilized techniques from contemporary social media platforms to communicate with issue group organizations supporting the causes of LGBT advancement, food justice, and human rights. The sixth article in this issue by Benjamin Taylor carefully investigates “The Biopolitical Conditions of Sovereign Performativity,” arguing that sovereignty never disappears as a force to be confronted in the everyday workings of states and societies. Instead, the contexts within which it is expressed are constantly shifting as the collective practices of spatial mastery change. In turn, the next piece, Jakob Norberg’s “The Tragedy of the Commonplace: Clichés in the Age of Copyright,” plays with the persistent imageries of overuse and exhaustion, cloaking the concept of the cliché. He illustrates how linguistic statements, as they circulate in everyday usage, can suffer from a “tragedy of the commons,” in which any shared meanings inevitably will be degraded without constraints on use by the community that employs them. Finally, in the concluding article, Timothy W. Luke’s “Have a Heart for the Holocene: The Politics of Ark Activism, Collaborative Conservation, and Sponsored Survival at Museums” explores how the Anthropocene concept is now proliferating rapidly as a powerful cultural script essentially free from the geoscience underpinnings binding it to the science of geological deep time. As a free-floating narrative that generates its own cause, effect, and context, the Anthropocene has morphed into a fascinating intellectual development as well as an event in the planet’s history. This study explores how a number of museums, zoological preserves, and exotic expositions have mobilized its flexible rhetoric in displays about rapid climate change to map out how one might see the interwoven combined demise of the Holocene, or current epoch in deep time, and emergence of the Anthropocene in unique new configurations. Taken together, they could be regarded as the foundations for a global exposition about the Anthropocene epoch in human and natural history. In addition, as we now look to publishing 16.1 in 2019, I will return, once again, to being “the Co-Editor” of Fast Capitalism at Virginia Tech in Blacksburg rather than “the Editor.” And, our current co-editor, David Arditi, in Arlington at the University of Texas (as his colleagues, academic units, and I planned during 2015 in the aftermath of our Founding Editor’s, Ben Agger, unexpected and untimely passing) will be taking on the role of “Editor.” During the recently concluded academic year, David successfully stood for tenure and promotion in the Department of Sociology at the University of Texas at Arlington. One important result of this decision is David now has the security and seniority of an associate professor to devote more time and energy to managing Fast Capitalism at its home campus as “the Editor” of the journal. Going forward, Fast Capitalism will maintain its other current editorial positions with Coordinating Editor Beth Anne Shelton (University of Texas at Arlington); Senior Editor: Matthew Levy (Portland Community College); Production Editor: Alison Torres Ramos (Southwestern Adventist University, Keene, Texas), and Managing Editor: H. Scott Clemens. -- Jeremy Hunsinger Associate Professor Communication Studies Wilfrid Laurier University

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