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Job opening - Union of Concerned Scientists (Boston, MA USA)
by Joy McNally 01 Feb '19

01 Feb '19

We have a new opening at the Union of Concerned Scientists! Lead, Scientist and Analysts Group Executive Department Cambridge, MA Office https://www.workable.com/j/25F1484A03 You're a scientist. You've had wonderfully supportive work environments that helped you perform effectively, and you know exactly what made them so great. Maybe you've had some not-so-great work environments, too-and you know exactly what you would have done to improve them. Join the Union of Concerned Scientists and use those experiences to help ensure your fellow scientists have the training and tools they need to be effective. If you're committed to equity and inclusion in research, enthusiastic about enhancing the ability of 60+ busy researchers to do science and analysis in support of a healthier planet and safer world, and you have superb research, outreach, communication, and project management skills, UCS invites you to apply. This unique position is based at UCS's office in Cambridge, MA. to apply. See the full list of job openings at http://www.ucsusa.org/about/jobs-ucs Joy McNally Brandow, MS, MA Research Support Coordinator Union of Concerned Scientists | Cambridge, MA | www.ucsusa.org<http://www.ucsusa.org/> T: 617-301-8048 | E: jmcnally(a)ucsusa.org<mailto:jmcnally@ucsusa.org> The Union of Concerned Scientists puts rigorous, independent science to work to solve our planet's most pressing problems. Joining with people across the country, we combine technical analysis and effective advocacy to create innovative, practical solutions for a healthy, safe, and sustainable future. www.ucsusa.org<http://www.ucsusa.org/> | Join our action network<http://www.ucsusa.org/join> or expert network<http://ucsusa.org/jointhesciencenetwork> | Support our work<http://ucsusa.org/donate>. Join the conversation on our blog<http://blog.ucsusa.org/> or follow us on Facebook<https://www.facebook.com/unionofconcernedscientists/>, Twitter<https://twitter.com/UCSUSA>, and LinkedIn<https://www.linkedin.com/company/21535/>.

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Who is researching online influence of non-US media online?
by Rachael Espinet 01 Feb '19

01 Feb '19

Hello everyone, I've been monitoring this list serve hoping to find people who are doing research on the impact of infomediaries on journalism, how media houses can survive the adpocalypse with entities such as Google and Facebook dominating the digital market, and most importantly, how can subaltern media gain influence within their own population while competing with hegemonic Western influence. I would like to apply for a PhD programme. I've set up Google alerts with many key words looking for the right fit. Are any of you internet researchers doing any work in these areas and looking for a PhD candidate to assist? Thank you very much for your time. Kind regards, Rachael Espinet

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2019 Clifford Christians Ethics Research Award Call
by Sarina Chen 01 Feb '19

01 Feb '19

CALL FOR AWARD APPLICATIONS Clifford G. Christians Ethics Research Award Sponsored by Carl Couch Center for Social and Internet Researchhttp://www.cccsir.com/ Carl Couch Center issues an annual call for research papers and published works (i.e., books or articles) to be considered for Clifford G. Christians Ethics Research Award. To be considered for the Christians Award, submissions should interpret or address important theoretical issues in the areas of ethics, mass communication theory, and the relationship between media and technology and culture; interpret and apply concepts employed in Christians' work in new and insightful ways. Submissions will be evaluated based on the quality of (1) mastery of Christians’ approaches and concepts, (2) originality, (3) organization, (4) presentation, and (5) advancement of knowledge. Members of Award Review Committee are Dr. Lee Wilkins, University of Missouri Dr. Melba Velez Ortiz, Grand Valley State University Dr. Deni Elliott, University of South Florida, St. Petersburg Dr. Ronald Arnett, Duquesne University Dr. Robert Fortner, Calvin College Both single and co-authored works are accepted. Applications may only be submitted for award consideration once. Published materials submitted must have appeared no earlier than eighteen months prior to each year’s application. The best work will receive the Christians Award. Those interested please send six copies of the research papers or published works (if the publication is a book, six copies of the table of contents and of one chapter is sufficient) with a 100-word abstract to: Sarina Chen Dept. of Communication Studies Univ. of Northern Iowa Cedar Falls, IA 50614 E-mail: sarina.chen(a)uni.edu Application deadline is *May 5, 2019*. Notification of the award will be sent out by November 1, 2019. Questions and comments about Christians Award application, please contact Sarina Chen, Dept. of Communication Studies, Univ. of Northern Iowa, Cedar Falls, IA 50614; E-mail: sarina.chen(a)uni.edu ***************************************************************

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IAMCR Preconference/Special Issue Information, Communication and Society
by Massimo Ragnedda 01 Feb '19

01 Feb '19

*Call for Paper. IAMCR Preconference/Special Issue Information, Communication and Society* Editor in Chief: Brian Loader Guest Editors: Bruce Mutsvairo (University of Technology Sydney), Massimo Ragnedda (Northumbria University) and Kristin Skare Orgeret (Oslo Metropolitan University) *Era or Error of Transformation? Assessing Afrocentric Attributes of Digitalisation* While the continent of Africa has long been depicted as economically and socially underdeveloped compared with other parts of the world, the potential of its peoples, natural resources and nations has always been recognised. In recent years however, it is the transformative capacity of digital communications media, particularly mobile phones, for young urbanised populations that is seen as heralding sustainable socio-economic growth and political stability. This special issue of *Information, Communication & Society* is intended to throw a rare and critical light upon these claims by examining how new media may be changing the everyday lives of Africans. It will also seek to understand the implications of these technological changes for nation-states within the wider geo-political context of post-colonial relations and the emergence of China as a major investor. What barriers, challenges or possibilities exist for digital literacy, human rights, democratic governance, business innovation and digital access? The special issue will address, although not exclusively, such questions as: · Can African economic and social development leapfrog other countries by adopting broadband and mobile technologies? · What possibilities are available to tame digital disparities in Africa? · What are the implications of social media networking for gender, sexuality, race, class and identity politics? · How do demographic, cultural and socio-economic inequalities influence the way Africans access (first level of digital divide), use (second level of digital divide) and benefit from ICTs (third level of digital divide)? · Is there evidence for digital media transforming health care practices and outcomes? · What innovative methods are being used to provide citizens with access to critical information, which could help improve their lives? · Is social media influencing political engagement and activism? · In what ways have anti-social media regulatory frameworks including Internet shutdowns affected citizens? Accepted papers will be presented in an IAMCR preconference at Madrid 2019 before being considered for publication in a special issue of *Information, Communication and Society* in 2020. Please send your abstract (between 300 and 500 words) and brief bio to bruce.mutsvairo(a)uts.edu.au and in CC, massimo.ragnedda(a)northumbria.ac.uk and kristo(a)oslomet.no *Deadlines and important dates* Abstract submission deadline: *15 March 2019* Notification on submitted abstracts: 30 March 2019 Date of Preconference: *6 July 2019* Time: 9am Venue: To be determined Article submission deadline: 1 February 2020 Best Massimo ______________ *Massimo Ragnedda* <http://northumbria.academia.edu/MassimoRagnedda> Senior Lecturer in Mass Communication Squires Building 306f, Northumbria University, NE8 1ST Newcastle (UK) Tel: 01912437444 Most recent books: Massimo Ragnedda and Bruce Mutsvairo, eds (2018) Digital Inclusion. An International Comparative Analysis <https://rowman.com/ISBN/9781498562126/Digital-Inclusion-An-International-Co…>, Lexington Books. Massimo Ragnedda and Glenn Muschert, eds (2018) *Theorizing Digital Divide* <http://bit.ly/2y9WSLm>, Routledge Massimo Ragnedda (2017) *The Third Digital Divide: A Weberian approach to digital inequalities* <http://bit.ly/2f8FObg>, Routledge. Latest article: Massimo Ragnedda (2018) Conceptualizing Digital Capital <https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0736585318309316?via%3Di…>, Telematics and Informatics Vice chair of Digital Divide Working Group, IAMCR <https://iamcr.org/s-wg/working-group/DID> Co-convenors of NINSO (Northumbria Internet and Society Research Group <https://www.northumbria.ac.uk/about-us/academic-departments/northumbria-law…> )

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10-minute research survey: Risk-taking online and offline in social media users
by Chris O'Mahony 01 Feb '19

01 Feb '19

Dear all, As part of my doctoral research at the University of East London, I am investigating how people who use social media make decisions on whether to take certain risks in both online and offline contexts. I have created an online survey that is completely anonymous, takes 8-12 minutes to complete, and at the end of the survey participants have the opportunity to enter a draw for one of four £25 Amazon vouchers. Anyone over the age of 18 who has used social media within the last three months is eligible to take part. I would appreciate it if list members could complete the survey and/or forward to others, and I am happy to share more information on the study and the eventual results if you contact me on the email address below. The survey link is: https://uelpsych.eu.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_b49UlVaSH9UrncF Thank you and take care, Chris Chris O’Mahony Professional Doctorate in Clinical Psychology candidate, University of East London u1622894(a)uel.ac.uk

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2nd Call Social Media Track at EGOV-CeDEM-ePart 2-4 September, San Benedetto del Tronto, Italy
by Noella Edelmann 01 Feb '19

01 Feb '19

Apologies for cross-posting! Hope you can join us - we look forward to seeing you in San Benedetto del Tronto! Social Media Track @ EGOV-CeDEM-ePart 2019 2-4 September 2019 Conference website: http://dgsoc.org/egov-2019/ Digital and social media are central for government, public administration, democratic and political processes and communication. One the one hand they are increasingly important interface between governments, the public sector and their respective publics, and on the other hand, they also play an important role for innovation in the public sector, improving public service delivery and providing opportunities for public participation. Social media applications and digital tools have also reshaped the nature of collaboration within public organizations, across governance networks, impacting political communication and campaigning. Whilst social media is extensively used in politics and by political figures, governments still struggle to understand how best to use social media and t4 Sepo develop a social media strategy, how to implement them for operational activities and the digital transformation of the organisation, improve services and achieve change and strategic goals. We invite relevant studies on social media in the public sector that draw on conceptual, case study, survey, mixed or other suitable methods. Areas of focus and interest include but are not limited to the following topics: New theoretical perspectives and critical analyses of digital interactions; Strategies and policies for the planning and implementation of social media; Use and significance of social analytics in political communication and public organizations; Organizational issues relevant to the implementation of social media in democratic contexts and the transformation of public administration; Stakeholders and digital publics of government engagement on social media; Enterprise/organizational networking and knowledge sharing applications; Internal and informal digital networks in public administration; The role of social media in digital transformation; The use of technology and social media for co-production, crowdsourcing, citizen-sourcing, co-creation and other crowd-based models (e.g. in regulation, bottom-up initiatives, open source movements); Mobilisation, social movements and other forms of digital engagement enabled by social media; Social media in crisis and emergency management; Ethical, privacy, regulatory and policy issues related to social media; Evaluation of the impact of social media in various contexts; New methods, challenges and opportunities of social media data; Design methods and user experience in digital collaboration; Track Chairs: Noella Edelmann, Danube University Krems, Austria Sara Hofmann, University of Agder, Norway Marius Rohde Johannessen, University of South-Eastern Norway Programme Committee: Rodrigo Sandoval Almazan, Universidad Autonoma del Estado de Mexico Peter Bellström, Karlstad University, Sweden Alessio Maria Braccini, Università degli Studi della Tuscia, Italy Eiri Elvestad, University of South-Eastern Norway Loukis Euripides, University of the Aegean, Greece Montathar Faraon, Kristianstad University, Sweden Mila Gasco, CTG Albany, USA Dimitris Gouscos, University of Athens, Greece Evika Karamagioli, Uni Paris 8, France Azi Lev-On Ariel University, Israel Agnes Mainka, Heinrich-Heine-University Düsseldorf, Germany Yuri Misnikov, University of Leeds, United Kingdom Michael Räckers, University of Münster, Germany Rodrigo Sandoval Almazan, Universidad Autonoma del Estado de Mexico Margit Scholl, TH Wildau, Germany Øystein Sæbø, University of Agder, Norway Ella Taylor-Smith, Edinburgh Napier University, United Kingdom Jolien Ubacht - TU Delft, The Netherlands Elin Wihlborg, Linköping University Qinfeng Zhu, City University, Hong Kong Important Dates: (Hard) deadline for submissions: 17 March 2019 Notification of acceptance: 30 April 2019 Poster submission deadline (non-anonymous-camera ready): 15 May 2019 Poster acceptance: 1 June 2019 Camera-ready paper submission and author registration: 1 June 2019 Conference: 2-4 September 2019 PhD Colloquium: 1 September 2019 Types of Submissions & Publications: We invite individuals from academic and applied backgrounds as well as from business, public authorities, NGOs, NPOs and education institutions to submit their completed and ongoing research papers, reflections, posters as well as practitioner papers, panel or workshop proposals to the topics addressed in the tracks. We also welcome interdisciplinary approaches to the conference topics. Accepted full research papers (max. 12 pages) will be published in the Springer LNCS IFIP EGOV or IFIP EPART proceedings. Papers in the categories of Ongoing Research (max. 8 pages), Reflections and Viewpoints (max. 6 pages), Practitioner Papers (max. 6 pages), projects (max. 8 pages), workshops (max. 2 pages), panel proposals (max. 2 pages), and posters (max. 2 pages) can be published (but do not need to be) in a special conference issue of the eJournal of eDemocracy and Open Government (JeDEM). The EGOV-CeDEM-ePart special issue will be published to coincide with the opening of the conference. Please note that PhD colloquium papers will not be published. Noella Edelmann PhD Senior Researcher Danube University Krems Department for E-Governance and Administration Center for E-Government Dr.-Karl-Dorrek-Straße 30 A-3500 Krems Austria Tel. +43 (0)2732 893 2303 www.donau-uni.ac.at/egov

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Events in London: #DeleteFacebook, broken data, data collaboratives, platform society, data journalism, digital actor-network theory, Spotify teardown, AI, circulation of stock photography, hacking museums, computational knowledge, ...
by Gray, Jonathan 01 Feb '19

01 Feb '19

For those in London, below is a list of upcoming events in our public seminar series on “critical inquiry with and about the digital” at the Department of Digital Humanities, King’s College London. An overview can also be found at the following links: https://blogs.kcl.ac.uk/ddh/events-list/ http://kingsdh.eventbrite.com Please do forward these to friends, colleagues, students and anyone else you think might be interested. Jonathan *** "#DeleteFacebook and Facebook’s Bonds" Tero Karppi (University of Toronto) When? Thu 7th February 2019, 4-5.30pm Where? Bush House Lecture Theatre 3 BH(NE)0.01 Register: https://delete-facebook.eventbrite.co.uk "Broken Data" Minna Ruckenstein (University of Helsinki) When? Wed 13th February 2019, 4pm to 5.30pm Where? KINGS BLDG K6.29 (Anatomy Lecture Theatre) Register: https://broken-data.eventbrite.co.uk "Data Collaboratives: The Emergence of Public-Private Partnerships around Data for Social Good" Stefaan Verhulst (GovLab, NYU) When? Tue 26th February 2019, 4pm to 5.30pm Where? KINGS BLDG K-1.14 Register: http://data-collaboratives.eventbrite.co.uk "The Platform Society" Thomas Poell (University of Amsterdam) When? Wed 6th March 2019, 4pm to 5.30pm Where? KINGS BLDG K6.29 (Anatomy Lecture Theatre) Register: https://platform-society.eventbrite.co.uk "Datafied, Data-Driven, Data-Critical: Data Journalism Within Broader Processes of Datafication" Wiebke Loosen (Hans-Bredow-Institut für Medienforschung) When? Thu 14th March 2019, 6-7pm Where? STRAND BLDG S-2.18 Register: https://data-journalism-datafication.eventbrite.co.uk "Digital ANT: The Agency of Replications" Dominique Boullier (Sciences Po + Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne) When? Wed 27th March 2019, 3.30pm to 5pm Where? Bush House Lecture Theatre 1 BH(S)1.01 Register: https://digital-ant.eventbrite.co.uk "The Spotify Teardown" Patrick Vonderau (Martin Luther University Halle) When? Wed 10th April 2019, 4pm to 5.30pm Where? Bush House Lecture Theatre 1 BH(S)1.01 Register: https://spotify-teardown.eventbrite.co.uk "Neurons Spike Back. The Invention of the Inductive Machine and the Artificial Intelligence Controversy" Dominique Cardon (Sciences Po) When? Wed 24th April 2019, 5pm to 6.30pm Where? KINGS BDLG SAFRA LECTURE THEATRE Register: https://neurons-spike-back.eventbrite.co.uk "Taking stock: Researching generic images across representation, circulation and recontextualization" Giorgia Aiello (University of Leeds) When? Wed 1st May 2019, 4pm to 6pm Where? KINGS BLDG K6.29 (Anatomy Lecture Theatre) Register: https://generic-images.eventbrite.co.uk Talk: "Hacking the Museum? Space and Power at Collections Makerspaces in London Cultural Institutions" Kat Braybrooke (University of Sussex) When? Wed 8th May 2019, 4.30pm to 6pm Where? STRAND BLDG S-2.18 Register: https://hacking-the-museum.eventbrite.co.uk Talk: “How Language Became Data: Speech Recognition and Computational Knowledge” Xiaochang Li (Max Planck Institute for the History of Science) When? Wed 22nd May 2019, 4.30pm to 6pm Where? Bush House Lecture Theatre 2 BH(S)4.04 Register: https://how-language-became-data.eventbrite.co.uk -- Jonathan Gray | jonathangray.org<http://jonathangray.org/> | @jwyg<http://twitter.com/jwyg> Lecturer in Critical Infrastructure Studies Department of Digital Humanities King’s College London Recent publications and projects: * Gray, J. & Bounegru, L. (eds.) (forthcoming) The Data Journalism Handbook: Towards a Critical Data Practice. Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press. Preview of several chapters: http://bit.ly/ddjbook-aup-toc-preview * Gray, J., Gerlitz, C., & Bounegru, L. (2018) Data Infrastructure Literacy. Big Data & Society. https://doi.org/10.1177/2053951718786316 * Gray, J. (2018). Three Aspects of Data Worlds. Krisis: Journal for Contemporary Philosophy. http://krisis.eu/three-aspects-of-data-worlds/ * Bounegru, L., Gray, J., Venturini, T., & Mauri, M. (2018). A Field Guide to “Fake News” and Other Information Disorders. Amsterdam: Public Data Lab. http://fakenews.publicdatalab.org/ * Venturini, T., Bounegru, L., Gray, J., & Rogers, R. (2018). A reality check(list) for digital methods. New Media & Society. https://doi.org/10.1177/1461444818769236 * More available at: http://jonathangray.org/publications/

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