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CFP: EPIC Conf on Agency in an Automated World 9–12 Nov 2019, Providence, Rhode Island
by TANIA LEWIS 11 Mar '19

11 Mar '19

EPIC2019 Call for Participation 9–12 November 2019, Providence, Rhode Island. Submission deadline: April 12 The EPIC2019<https://2019.epicpeople.org/> Program Committee invites your submissions<https://2019.epicpeople.org/call-for-participation> to this year’s conference, the theme<http://2019.epicpeople.org/theme> of which is Agency in an Automated World. What does it mean to have agency in an increasingly automated world? Businesses are investing in ‘intelligent’ technologies that promise to take humans ‘out of the loop.’ But human agency is not disappearing—it’s evolving, and humanistic perspectives are more essential than ever. EPIC2019 will explore how our models of behavior and culture shape spaces of opportunity and risk for diverse people and organizations. The 2019 program includes many different formats for sharing your work. We invite proposals for Papers, Case Studies, PechaKucha, Film, Gallery, and the Graduate Colloquium. We welcome contributors working in any discipline, industry, or organization in the private, public, or nonprofit sectors that creates and applies ethnography to consider attending this exciting conference. General registration<http://2019.epicpeople.org/register> for EPIC2019 opens April 30; it is not necessary to submit a proposal to join us. Conference home:2019.epicpeople.org<https://2019.epicpeople.org/> Call for Participation: 2019.epicpeople.org/call-for-participation<https://2019.epicpeople.org/call-for-participation>

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AoIR 2019-2021 Executive Committee Nominations are Open
by Axel Bruns 11 Mar '19

11 Mar '19

Dear AoIRists, This message has also gone out to all current members of the Association of Internet Researchers: I am happy to announce that AoIR is now seeking your nominations for the new Executive Committee, to take office in October of this year and serve until October 2021. Below, you will find: a) a timeframe for the election, b) a description of the AoIR governance system and of the elected positions, c) our nominations and elections processes, and d) some key questions for candidates. A. Timeframe of the Election: 1. The call for nominations opens on 11 March 2019 and will remain open for fifteen (15) days. 2. Nominations for all positions close on 26 March 2019. 3. Candidates will be listed on aoir.org and further information will be made available on our membership system, where discussion fora will let you ask questions of the candidates. 4. Voting begins on 22 April 2019 at our online balloting site and will remain open for ten (10) days. (Details for accessing this site will be sent in a later message through our membership system.) 5. Voting ends on 1 May 2019, expiring at 12:00 noon, U.S. Eastern Time in the State of Delaware. Election results will be announced on air-l. The new Executive Committee is formally introduced and assumes its duties during the AoIR conference in Brisbane, on 2-5 October 2019. More information about our election processes can be found in the AoIR Bylaws: https://aoir.org/bylaws/ Candidates should familiarize themselves with the duties laid out in the Bylaws. I also encourage persons interested in running for a specific position to contact me or any of the current office-holder(s) with any questions. Please also note that the position of Treasurer, in particular, requires a very specific skillset, which is outlined at https://aoir.org/aoirtreasurer/. Prospective candidates for Treasurer should reflect carefully on whether they have these skills. B. AoIR Governance and Description of Elected Positions: The organizational structure of AoIR is simple. There are 5 officers (President, Vice President, Secretary, Treasurer, and Graduate Student representative). The 9-member Executive Committee consists of these officers, plus the Past President and 3 Open Seat representatives. Elected officials hold their positions for two years. After two years, the Vice President becomes President. Nominations are invited for Vice President, Secretary, Treasurer, Graduate Student representative, and 3 Open Seats. You may nominate yourself or someone else you think would do a good job. Details on the nomination procedure follow below. Duties of the President: Article 4/Section 6 of AoIR's bylaws. Duties of the Vice President: Article 4/Section 7 of AoIR's bylaws. Duties of the Secretary: Article 4/Section 8 of AoIR's bylaws. Duties of the Treasurer: Article 4/Section 9 of AoIR's bylaws. Duties of the Graduate Student Representative: Article 4/Section 10 of AoIR's bylaws. Duties of Open Seat representatives: Represent the membership of AoIR, and contribute to decision-making. Members of the Executive have their membership fees waived for the duration of their term, and pay a reduced conference registration fee. C. Nominations and Elections Processes: Only current members of AoIR can run for a position. They may be nominated by anyone, including themselves. If nominated for more than one position, a nominee must choose to run for one (and only one) position in this election. You may nominate yourself or others. If nominating someone else, confirm with that person that they are willing to run, and eligible to do so. Self-Nominations: Email AoIR Association Coordinator Michelle at and indicate the position for which you are nominating yourself. Please provide in your nomination email a short candidate statement addressing the questions below. Nominating Others: Email AoIR Association Coordinator Michelle at with the name of the person you want to nominate, the position for which you are nominating this person, contact information for the person, and an indication of whether you know if this person would accept this nomination. (If you don't know, we'll contact them and ask.) All candidates for election will be required to provide answers to the questions listed below, have the answers posted to the AoIR election forum, and participate in an online candidate forum. In addition, the Graduate Student candidates must confirm in their response that they comply with the by-laws: the Graduate Student Representative must be actively enrolled in a degree program at the time of nomination and election. Further, because of the specific legal duties and skills requirements for the position of Treasurer, candidates for this position should demonstrate experience with budget management and familiarity with U.S. tax law. Treasurer candidates should provide a detailed statement on their ability to meet the requirements of that role, as outlined at https://aoir.org/aoirtreasurer/. The voting system used by AoIR allows one vote per member for each of the elected positions listed above. Votes will be tallied using a balloting software. In the case of the four directly elected officers, the candidate with the highest number of votes shall be declared the winner; in the case of the Open Seats, the candidates with the highest, second-highest, and third-highest votes shall be declared the three winners of the Open Seats. In the case of tied results for the officer positions, the winner shall be determined by the ballot counters, by drawing of lots, using a method that ensures each of the tying candidates has an equal chance of success and witnessed by at least 1 person independent of the association. In the case of tied results for the open seat positions, the drawing of lots shall be used only when there are more tied candidates than seats available. D. Questions for Candidates (these questions must be answered in your nomination email): 1. What are your qualifications for this position (including prior experience and participation in AoIR)? 2. Please describe two or three short-term goals you would like to achieve through membership on the executive (including a rationale for each and how you would contribute to their achievement). 3. What is your long-term vision for AoIR? 4. What else should voters consider when deciding on whether or not to vote for you? In answering the questions, please be concise and give information specific to the position for which you are nominating, to enable voters to assess your case for election to that position. Candidates for Treasurer should also address the further specific requirements for that position: https://aoir.org/aoirtreasurer/. I sincerely hope that you will consider running, or nominating someone who you think would help advance AoIR and its community of Internet scholars. Many thanks in advance to those willing to serve! Axel Bruns President, Association of Internet Researchers -- Prof. Axel Bruns a.bruns(a)qut.edu.au - @snurb_dot_info ARC Future Fellow, 2014-18 http://www.amazon.com/author/axel.bruns/ Professor, Media & Communication http://mappingonlinepublics.net/ QUT Digital Media Research Centre http://research.qut.edu.au/dmrc/ Creative Industries Faculty, Z6-503, KG http://snurb.info/ Queensland University of Technology +61 7 3138 5548 GPO Box 2434, Brisbane, Qld 4001, Australia CRICOS No.: 00213J

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Webology: Volume 15, Number 2, 2018
by Alireza Noruzi 10 Mar '19

10 Mar '19

Dear All, apologies for cross-posting. We are pleased to inform you that Vol. 15, No. 2 of Webology, an OPEN ACCESS bi-annual journal, is published and available ONLINE now. ==================== Webology: Volume 15, Number 2, 2018 ==================== TOC: http://www.webology.org/2018/v15n2/toc.html This issue contains: ------------------------- Editorial ------------------------- Folks Thesauri or Search Thesauri: Why Semantic Search Engines Need Folks Thesauri? -- Alireza Noruzi -- Keywords: Search thesaurus; Collaborative thesaurus; User-generated thesaurus; Social thesaurus; Social tagging; Folksonomies; Social indexing; Semantic relationships -- URL: http://www.webology.org/2018/v15n2/editorial26.pdf ------------------------- Articles ------------------------ - Constructing an Innovative Model of International Security in Information Society -- Xingan Li -- Keywords: International security; International policy; International law; International politics; Geopolitics; Collective security; Informed formal rationality -- URL: http://www.webology.org/2018/v15n2/a169.pdf - Content Analysis of Indonesian Academic Libraries' Use of Instagram -- Yeni Budi Rachman, Hana Mutiarani, & Dinda Ayunindia Putri -- Keywords: Instagram; Content analysis; Social media; Academic library; Indonesia -- URL: http://www.webology.org/2018/v15n2/a170.pdf - Distributed Denial of Service Attack Detection in Application Layer Based on User Behavior -- Silvia Bravo, & David Mauricio -- Keywords: User behavior; Distributed denial of service; Application layer; Attack detection -- URL: http://www.webology.org/2018/v15n2/a171.pdf - The Impact of Web Knowledge Networks on E-service Innovation in Iraqi Tourism Companies -- Hamad Karem Hadrawi -- Keywords: Tourism; Knowledge management strategy; Knowledge management processes; Knowledge management environment; Structural equation modeling, Iraq -- URL: http://www.webology.org/2018/v15n2/a172.pdf - Method for Ontology Content and Structure Optimization, Provided by a Weighted Conceptual Graph -- Vasyl Lytvyn, Victoria Vysotska, Dmytro Dosyn, & Yevhen Burov -- Keywords: Ontology learning; Adaptive ontology; Conceptual graph; Knowledge base; Intelligent agent -- URL: http://www.webology.org/2018/v15n2/a173.pdf - Ontology Driven Software Development for Automated Documentation -- M.P.S. Bhatia, Akshi Kumar, & Rohit Beniwal -- Keywords: Automatic documentation; Ontology; Ontology driven; Semantic Web; Software’s documentation; Software engineering -- URL: http://www.webology.org/2018/v15n2/a174.pdf - Micro Level Source Code Summarization of Optimal Set of Object Oriented Classes -- Mrinaal Malhotra, & Jitender Kumar Chhabra -- Keywords: Summarization; Optimal set; Object oriented classes -- URL: http://www.webology.org/2018/v15n2/a175.pdf - Effects of Scientific Collaboration between Domestic and Foreign Authors on Quality Indices of Journals -- Masoud Mohammadi, Mohsen Mansouri, Mojtaba Azghandi Shahri, Fatemeh Sheikhshoaei, Auwal Abdullahi Abubakar, Morvarid Daemi, & Maryam Banisafar -- Keywords: Scientific collaboration; Citation; Scientometrics; Medical journals; Iran -- URL: http://www.webology.org/2018/v15n2/a176.pdf ------------------------- Call for Papers ------------------------- -- http://www.webology.org/callforpapers.html ================================== Best regards, Alireza Noruzi, Ph.D. Editor-in-Chief of Webology: Alireza Noruzi, Ph.D. Website: http://www.webology.org ~ The great aim of Open Access journals is knowledge sharing. ~ ~ Scientific knowledge is the result of the knowledge sharing and exchange of experiences. ~

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CFP: Special Issue of Internet Policy Review on Power, Jurisdiction and Surveillance - deadline for abstracts 26 April 2019
by Angela Daly 10 Mar '19

10 Mar '19

CFP: Special Issue of *Internet Policy Review* on *Power, Jurisdiction and Surveillance* Topic and relevance The rise of digital technology has major implications for how states and corporations wield coercive regulatory power through the transnational administration of justice. Increases in data transmitted and stored by public and private actors across jurisdictions raise crucial questions about how individual rights and freedoms can be protected in an era of seemingly ubiquitous transnational surveillance. The expanded development and application of domestic and international law to address behaviour in digital spaces, includes existing law applied to online activities, and new law to cover a growing range of internet-specific conduct. A pertinent site of state and corporate power in the digital realm involves attempts to develop and enforce domestic laws, especially criminal laws, transnationally. These processes generally occur outside existing domestic legislative frameworks, and raises questions about how national sovereignty, extraterritoriality and state and corporate interests are expanding at the expense of individual rights and freedoms in digital societies. Scope of the special issue This special issue considers how the intersections between power, justice and space challenge existing conceptual and theoretical categories of contemporary law, that span the fields of criminology, international relations, digital media and other related disciplines (see e.g. Johnson & Post, 1996; Goldsmith & Wu, 2006; Brenner, 2009; Hilderbrandt, 2013; DeNardis, 2014). The legal geographies of the contemporary digital world require rethinking in light of calls for a more sophisticated and nuanced approach to understanding sovereignty, jurisdiction and the power to exercise control, yet still protect individual rights through law in the electronic age (Svantesson, 2013). These issues raise a host of additional contemporary and historical questions about the authority exerted by the US over extraterritorial conduct in various fields including laws relating to crime, intellectual property, surveillance and national security (see e.g. Schiller, 2011; Bauman et al., 2014; Boister, 2015). Legal geography is an emerging multidisciplinary area of inquiry, concerned with interrogating how law is connected to, and interacts with, the social and physical worlds (Braverman et al., 2014). By emphasising how the legitimate exercise of power occurs in and through space, legal geography is of significant relevance to online environments. Initial arguments about regulating the transnational nature of the internet describe the notion of sovereignty becoming ‘softened’ (Culnan & Trinkunas, 2010), while emphasising the need to move beyond outmoded binary notions of extraterritoriality (Svantesson, 2013; 2014; 2017). The nation-state can assert jurisdictional reach through the extraterritorial exercise of power. This is more likely to involve powerful geopolitical actors such as the United States, which has recently enacted the Clarifying Lawful Overseas Use of Data (CLOUD) Act, and the European Union, via its General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). The emergence of large transnational corporations providing critical virtual and physical infrastructure adds private governance to this equation, which offers further new dimensions to the rule of law and also self- or co-regulation (see for e.g. Goldsmith & Wu, 2006; DeNardis & Hackl, 2015; Suzor, 2018; Brown & Marsden, 2013). Some of the ways jurisdictional tensions emerge in online spaces – with corresponding offline effects – occur through policing and law enforcement practices in the fields of criminal, intellectual property and corporate law. However, the lack of uniformity of these laws at domestic levels can lead to complicated and protracted legal disputes between nations, or amongst different agencies within nations (Palmer & Warren, 2013). Additional concerns arise regarding whether and how due process and human rights protections are maintained through the extraterritorial access to e-evidence (Warren, 2015; Svantesson & Gerry, 2015), the extradition of alleged offenders (Mann & Warren, 2018; Mann et al., 2018), and new and emerging powers many national law enforcement agencies now possess to engage extraterritorial surveillance and offshore government hacking. Focus of the papers Power and jurisdiction are central to understanding justice and regulating the contemporary digital environment. For this special issue, *Internet Policy Review* invites theoretical, empirical, and methodological papers from law, criminology, digital humanities, critical surveillance studies, and related disciplines on the following issues, which bear relevance to European societies and highlight policy implications or make a reference to regulatory debates: - How the concept of legal geography can be applied to activities in, and regulation of, digital spaces; - The impact of the expansion in domestic and international cybercrime, data protection and intellectual property laws on concepts of jurisdiction, sovereignty and extraterritoriality; - The geopolitical impacts of domestic and international cybercrime laws such as the Council of Europe’s Convention on Cybercrime (Budapest Convention), the recent United States CLOUD Act and other lawful access regimes including EU e-Evidence proposals; - The application of due process requirements in the contemporary policing of digital spaces; - The objectives of justice in the study of private governance in online environments; and - The implications of these transnational developments for current and future policy and regulation of online activities and spaces. A selection of contributions will be made from extended abstracts. Authors of papers selected for the special issue will be invited to present and discuss their paper at a workshop to be held in Brisbane, Australia, in late 2019 (aligned with the Association of Internet Researchers annual conference which will be hosted by QUT Digital Media Research Centre). The workshop will enable exchange of ideas on these timely issues, provide peer-feedback for the finalisation of the papers and promote the forthcoming special edition. A sub-selection of papers will be selected for the special issue based on regular peer review. Special issue editors Dr Monique Mann (m6.mann(a)qut.edu.au) Vice-Chancellor’s Research Fellow in Technology and Regulation School of Justice, Faculty of Law Queensland University of Technology Dr Angela Daly (angela.daly(a)cuhk.edu.hk) Assistant Professor Chinese University of Hong Kong Faculty of Law Important dates Release of the call for papers March 2019 Deadline for expression of interest and abstract submissions (500 word abstracts) 26th April 2019 Invitation to submit full text submissions May 2019 Full text submissions deadline All details on text submissions can be found under http://policyreview.info/authors August 2019 Peer review process September 2019 Workshop in Brisbane 1st of October 2019 (attendance is not compulsory) Resubmission of papers following review January 2020 Preparation for publication February 2020 Publication March 2020 References Bauman, Z., Bigo, D., Esteves, P., Guild, E., Jabri, V., Lyon, D. and Walker, R.B.J. (2014). After Snowden: Rethinking the impact of surveillance. *International Political Sociology, 8*(2), 121-144. Doi: 10.1111/ips.12048. Boister, N. (2015). Further reflections on the concept of transnational criminal law. *Transnational Legal Theory, 6*(1), 9-30. Braverman, I., Blomley, N., Delaney, D., & Kedar, A. (2014). *The expanding spaces of law: A timely legal geography*. Stanford, California: Stanford University Press. Brenner, S. W. (2009). *Cyberthreats: The emerging fault lines of the nation state*. Oxford: Oxford University Press. Brown, I., & Marsden, C. T. (2013). *Good governance and better regulation in the information age*. Cambridge, Massachusetts: MIT Press. Clunan, A., & Trinkunas, H. (Eds.) (2010). *Ungoverned spaces: Alternatives to state authority in an era of softened sovereignty*. Stanford, California: Stanford University Press. DeNardis, L. (2014). *The global war for internet governance*. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press. DeNardis, L. & Hackl, A. M. (2015). Internet governance by social media platforms. *Telecommunication Policy, 39*, 761-770. Goldsmith, J. & Wu, T. (2006). *Who controls the internet: Illusions of a borderless world*. New York, Oxford University Press. Hilderbrandt, M. (2013). Extraterritorial jurisdiction to enforce in cyberspace: Bodin, Schmitt, Grotius in cyberspace, *University of Toronto Law Journal, 63*, 196-224. Johnson, D. & Post, D. (1996). Law and borders: The rise of law in cyberspace, *Stanford Law Review, 48*(5), 1367-1402. Mann, M. & Warren, I. (2018). The digital and legal divide: Silk road, transnational online policing and southern criminology. In Carrington, Kerry, Hogg, Russell, Scott, John, & Sozzo, Máximo (Eds.) *Handbook of Criminology and the Global South*. Cham, Switzerland: Palgrave Macmillan, pp. 245-260. Mann, M., Warren, I. & Kennedy, S. (2018). The legal geographies of transnational cyber-prosecutions: extradition, human rights and forum shifting, *Global Crime, 19*(2), 107-124. Palmer, D. and Warren, I. (2013). Global policing and the case of Kim Dotcom. *International Journal for Crime, Justice and Social Democracy, 2*(3), 105-119. Schiller, D. (2011). Special commentary: Geopolitical-economic conflict and network infrastructures. *Chinese Journal of Communication, 4*(1), 90-107. Suzor, N. (2018). Digital constitutionalism: Using the rule of law to evaluate the legitimacy of governance by platforms. *Social Media and Society*, 1-11. Svantesson, D. (2013). A ‘layered approach’ to the extraterritoriality of data privacy laws. *International Data Privacy Law, 3*(4), 278-286. Svantesson, D. (2014). Sovereignty in international law – how the internet (maybe) changed everything, but not for long. *Masaryk University Journal of Law and Technology, 8*(1), 137-155. Svantesson, D., & Gerry, S. (2015). Access to extraterritorial evidence: The Microsoft cloud case and beyond. *Computer Law & Security Review, 31*, 478-489. Svantesson, D. (2017). *Solving the internet jurisdiction puzzle*. Oxford: Oxford University Press. Warren, I. (2015). Surveillance, criminal law and sovereignty, *Surveillance & Society, 13*(2), 300-305.

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Spaces now available: ‘City Maps’ PhD workshop with Clancy Wilmott, 28 Mar 2019
by Scott Rodgers 09 Mar '19

09 Mar '19

Dear all, With apologies for cross-posting – and to those not in London / the Southeast of England – I am emailing to advertise the availability of places on the next City Maps doctoral training workshop<https://www.chase.ac.uk/city-maps>, funded by CHASE<https://www.chase.ac.uk/>, which will take place on Thursday 28 March 2019 at Birkbeck’s University Square Stratford campus (and in the streets and spaces of Stratford, East London). While places in this workshop series are in the first instance reserved for students funded by CHASE, or studying at a CHASE institution, we are pleased to make available up to four places for doctoral students studying at other institutions for the next workshop, with Clancy Wilmott<https://www.clancywilmott.com/> (University of Manchester). The description of the workshop is below. If you would like to participate, please send the following information to Mara Arts (m.arts.12(a)ucl.ac.uk<mailto:m.arts.12@ucl.ac.uk>) by no later than 18 March 2019: * Name * Email Address * Institution * Working thesis title * Summary of your doctoral research (400-500 words) * Dietary requirements * Other requirements Very best, Scott Rodgers Birkbeck, University of London Urban spaces and scalar traces In this workshop, Clancy Wilmott from the University of Manchester will lead a workshop with Scott Rodgers (Birkbeck) that asks participants to consider urban cultural studies through spatial theory - specifically concepts of scale, situatedness, and global-local encounters. Based at Birkbeck’s Stratford Campus, participants will conduct an in-situ geo-graphical exploration of traces across material and digital landscapes, evident and pertinent to their own research, in order to map how different scales – such as global, local, architectural and bodily - blend together, co-forming and conflicting in everyday urban spaces.

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CFP *OPEN LITERACY* (AoIR Satellite Event) Digital Games, Social Responsibility and Social Innovation Symposium, Perth, Western Australia, September 30 & Oct 1
by Tama Leaver 08 Mar '19

08 Mar '19

Hi All, Please find below and attached a call for proposals or papers for ‘OPEN LITERACY’ Digital Games, Social Responsibility and Social Innovation Symposium, held at Curtin University in Perth, Western Australia, September 30 & Oct 1. This is an AoIR satellite event, and we're hoping a number of people will consider visiting Perth first on their way to Brisbane for AoIR! :) -Tama *OPEN LITERACY* Digital Games, Social Responsibility and Social Innovation An international Research Symposium at Curtin University, Western Australia Background “We cannot stress highly enough the importance of greater public understanding of digital information—its use, scale, importance and influence ... Digital literacy should be a fourth pillar of education, alongside reading, writing and maths.” [1] Curtin University’s Centre for Culture & Technology (CCAT) and Tencent are proud to launch the Curtin-Tencent Research Centre at this international research symposium, focusing on digital media and the creative economy, with a special emphasis on digital online games. The event also marks the 20th anniversary of Internet Studies at Curtin University. We invite you to join our researchers, including John Hartley, Katie Ellis, Tama Leaver, Crystal Abidin and others, and share your work with visitors from China and the world. Alternatively, save the date and simply attend the event to participate on the day. International Keynote Speakers: • Henry Jenkins (University of Southern California); • Zizi Papacharissi (Illinois-Chicago); • Tencent games executive/developer VP (tba); • Mathew Allen (Deakin University)––Matt launched Internet Studies at Curtin in 1999. Date: September 30-October 1, 2019, prior to the Annual Conference of the Association of Internet Researchers (AoIR). We are offering this event as a ‘satellite conference’ of AoIR. Scholars will be able to break their journey in Perth before heading to Brisbane in time for AoIR’s pre-conference day. With Tencent’s support, we can offer a limited number of bursaries to international and Australian doctoral students and early career researchers. Selected applicants will be offered $500 towards the PER-BNE leg of their travel costs, and we will waive our Registration fee for presenters. We invite proposals for papers and presentations on what we are calling ‘Open Literacy’. ‘Open’ literacy links the domain of digital popular culture and entertainment, including video and online games, with that of formal knowledge. At a time when there is increasing tension between large-scale, global connectivity on the one hand, and a population marked by division, difference and asymmetries of access on the other, it is more urgent than ever to extend participation in knowledge and social responsibility––science and civics––beyond exclusive institutions and restricted professions. Recent developments in ‘open access’ scholarship, ‘open science’ initiatives and ‘open source’ software offer new ways to update Karl Popper’s vision of ‘the open society’ for the connected age. Focusing on the extension of digital capabilities among a broad global population via smart devices, apps and digital entertainment to smart users, groups and enterprises, we want to explore how opening digital knowledge systems to popular participation may boost innovation and social inclusion and responsibility. Many media scholars are sceptical of the ‘mass media effects’ tradition of research, inherited from anxiety about earlier forms of popular media, from print to broadcasting. At the same time they are mindful that public debate about this topic still depends on outmoded industrial and individualist theories. We want to go beyond that paradigm, to understand the challenges of digital, online media and the possibilities for renewing knowledge systems and social groups in times of technological change and geopolitical uncertainty. In short, what do entertainment systems and knowledge systems––and their users––have in common? In this context, ‘Open Literacy’ refers to the dynamic combination of (i) individual skills, capabilities and creative imagination (developed through ‘purposeless’ play-practice) with (ii) the social networks, teamwork, conflict management and difference needed in public/media environments, to (iii) build new social groups––‘knowledge clubs’ and ‘knowledge commons’––for social innovation under uncertainty. Open literacy is user-centred and system-wide, producing unforeseen network effects that in turn change the rules of the game. Navigating newness raises new questions: • Of what does ‘open literacy’ comprise in the global-digital-connected era? • How do citizens in different contexts, places and opportunity-spaces practice it? • Open knowledge, open science, open access: what should policymakers, educators, arts/literature agencies, sport/exercise bodies and commercial entertainment/ leisure providers do about it? To reflect on these developments and to report on cutting edge research linking games, social innovation and social responsibility, the ‘Open Literacy’ Research Symposium will be held over two days. Papers and presentations––including work by postgraduate and early-career researchers––may address (but is not confined to) the following themes. In the context of pervasive computational and communicational literacy in the digital age, presenters will think through the relationships among games, social innovation and social responsibility: ‘Games’ include digital games and analogue play; o main focus is on video games, internet and online games; o but also branded play (Lego/Barbie); o competitive games (sport/health); o childhood games (indoor/outdoor play). Responsibility includes corporate and individual. o Corporate: what are the social responsibilities of games developers and publishers? What are they doing right or wrong, according to whose criteria? o Individual: rights and duties of players and gamers themselves; how parents and young people achieve and maintain social responsibility through play. Responsibility and control: o how games work in the production of what Michele Willson calls “the ideal child” (Media Culture Society, 2018); o how can games and other online changes be historicised meaningfully; o political, moral, religious, authoritarian crackdowns on games/popular media. The event will also consider a counter-narrative to the rhetoric of responsibility and social innovation through games. ‘Serious Games’ in medical, health, teaching/learning and development contexts. Games and innovation: o Expansion of the creative economy o Games as a mass spectacle (e.g. Korea). What does gaming teach the next generation? o Lessons from China. The event will include presentations from global thought-leaders, scholars and practitioners from the USA, Australia, China and elsewhere. Selected postgraduate students will be eligible for financial assistance (bursaries) for travel and for the preparation of their papers and presentations. The intention is to produce a published report from the proceedings of the day, including selected keynote, specialist and early-career (HDR+ECR) contributions. Potential presenters, please send your abstract, of between 250-500 words, to Dr Huan WU, by April 5, 2019 (huan.wu(a)curtin.edu.au) for a report, paper, presentation or (PhD students only) a short paper (1000-3000 words). We will confirm acceptance during May. Full papers will be due by 1 September. For those with institutional support for their research outreach, there will be a registration fee to cover venue costs and catering. If you wish to attend without presenting a paper, just let Huan know. “See you in September!” [1] Digital, Culture, Media and Sport Committee (14 February 2019) Disinformation and ‘fake news’: Final Report. UK: House of Commons, pp. 85; 87 ( https://publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm201719/cmselect/cmcumeds/1791/1791.… ). -- Associate Professor Tama Leaver Discipline Lead, Internet Studies, School of Media, Creative Arts and Social Inquiry (MCASI) Curtin University GPO Box U1987 Perth WA Australia 6845 Ph: (+61 8) 9266 1258 Email: t.leaver(a)curtin.edu.au Web: www.tamaleaver.net Twitter: @tamaleaver <https://twitter.com/tamaleaver> CRICOS Provider Code: 00301J (WA)

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Open access journals
by Jill Walker Rettberg 07 Mar '19

07 Mar '19

Is there a good list of open access journals in internet research and adjacent fields? Not only would I strongly prefer to publish in a fully open access journal, my funding now requires OA publication and the whole of Norway may require it within a couple of years. So many of the "good" journals are hybrid, so you can pay for OA for your paper, but the journal as a whole is still making a 37% profit for Elsevier. I have found many small OA journals, but they often seem to only publish an issue once a year, and/or the next several issues are devoted to specific special issues. Another issue is that smaller, scholar-run OA journals often aren't indexed by SCOPUS etc, which means the publications and citations don't automatically show up in library catalogues and various databases so the research may be less visible. Here are a few I have found - could anyone help add to the list? ==Well-established, fully OA journals== Social Media + Society (https://journals.sagepub.com/home/sms) First Monday (https://firstmonday.org) Computational Culture (http://computationalculture.net) ==Smaller ones that seem good== Media and Communication https://www.cogitatiopress.com/mediaandcommunication/index Image & Narrative (http://www.imageandnarrative.be) ==Open access journals that encourage papers that do more than PDFs, e.g. using video, hypertext== Kairos: A Journal of Rhetoric, Technology, and Pedagogy (http://kairos.technorhetoric.net) Hyperrhiz: New Media Cultures (http://hyperrhiz.io) VIEW: Journal of European Television History and Culture (http://viewjournal.eu) And there are all the Open Humanities Press journals: http://www.openhumanitiespress.org/journals/titles/ Jill Walker Rettberg Professor of Digital Culture University of Bergen

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WEBCAST TODAY: The Social Mobile Leap: How Digital Connectivity Affects Emerging Economies
by Joly MacFie 07 Mar '19

07 Mar '19

Just about to kick off [image: livestream]Today, *Thursday March 7 2019*, at *3pm EST* (20:00 UTC) the *Internet Society <https://www.internetsociety.org/>* and *Pew Research Center <http://www.pewresearch.org/>* will host an event to launch groundbreaking research from Pew on how mobile technology is shaping communities and the Internet around the world. Mobile Internet usage is quickly becoming a primary means of access in many developing countries. The Social-Mobile Leap will explore the results of Pew Research Center’s upcoming study, *Mobile Connectivity in Emerging Economies <https://pewrsr.ch/2C7ewA4>*, on mobile phone usage and its social impact in 11 countries worldwide. The participating countries include Colombia, India, Jordan, Kenya, Lebanon, Mexico, Philippines, South Africa, Tunisia, Venezuela and Vietnam. The event will also feature a panel entitled Defining Internet access: How mobile trends are shaping online experiences in developing countries. Leading industry experts including Mozilla Policy Advisor *Alice Munyua* and Next Century Cities’ Executive Director *Deb Socia* will discuss how the findings can help inform sound policy on Internet access solutions for the rest of the world to get online. *VIEW ON LIVESTREAM: https://livestream.com/internetsociety/socialmedialeap <https://livestream.com/internetsociety/socialmedialeap>* *REPORT: https://pewrsr.ch/2C7ewA4 <https://pewrsr.ch/2C7ewA4>* *TWITTER: #socialmobileleap http://bit.ly/socialmobileleap <http://bit.ly/socialmobileleap>* *Permalink* https://isoc.live/10962/ -- --------------------------------------------------------------- Joly MacFie 218 565 9365 Skype:punkcast -------------------------------------------------------------- - -- --------------------------------------------------------------- Joly MacFie 218 565 9365 Skype:punkcast -------------------------------------------------------------- -

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New book: Data Journalism and the Regeneration of News
by Hermida, Alfred 07 Mar '19

07 Mar '19

Dear colleagues New book announcement: DATA JOURNALISM AND THE REGENERATION OF NEWS by Alfred Hermida and Mary Lynn Young AVAILABLE FROM: https://www.crcpress.com/Data-Journalism-and-the-Regeneration-of-News/Hermi… Use code FLR40 at checkout for a 20% discount About the book: "Data Journalism and the Regeneration of News" traces the emergence of data journalism through a scholarly lens. It reveals the growth of data journalism as a subspecialty, cultivated and sustained by an increasing number of professional identities, tools and technologies, educational opportunities and new forms of collaboration and computational thinking. The authors base their analysis on five years of in-depth field research, largely in Canada, an example of a mature media system. The book identifies how data journalism’s development is partly due to it being at the center of multiple crises and shocks to journalism, including digitalization, acute mis- and dis-information concerns and increasingly participatory audiences. It highlights how data journalists, particularly in well-resourced newsrooms, are able to address issues of trust and credibility to advance their professional interests. These journalists are operating as institutional entrepreneurs in a field still responding to the disruption effects of digitalization more than 20 years ago. By exploring the ways in which data journalists are strategically working to modernize the way journalists talk about methods and maintain journalism authority, "Data Journalism and the Regeneration of News" introduces an important new dimension to the study of digital journalism for researchers, students and educators. Authors’ bios: Alfred Hermida, PhD, is an award-winning author, media scholar and digital news pioneer. A journalism professor at the University of British Columbia, co-founder and board member of The Conversation Canada, and formerly a BBC journalist, his research explores media innovation, social media and data journalism. Mary Lynn Young, PhD, is a journalism professor at the University of British Columbia, and co-founder and board member of The Conversation Canada. Formerly a journalist and academic administrator, her research interests include gender, newsroom sociology, data journalism, media start-ups and representations of crime.

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Monopolies of Intelligence: Questioning the Political Economy of AI - 28 March
by Feldman, Zeena 07 Mar '19

07 Mar '19

For those in and around London at the end of March, this event may be of interest. Hope to see you there! -Zeena *** MONOPOLIES OF INTELLIGENCE: QUESTIONING THE POLITICAL ECONOMY OF AI *** A panel discussion with Mercedes Bunz, Nick Srnicek, Leif Weatherby WHEN: 28 March 2019 at 16:00-18:00. Reception to follow. WHERE: King’s College London, Bush House Lecture Theatre 3 (BH(NE) 0.01) Artificial Intelligence systems are being applied to many areas of human life. While AI is heavily debated - hyped as our future saviour or feared for their biases - the political economy of AI is rarely being discussed. With this panel discussion framed by short statements, the Department of Digital Humanities at King's College London aims to change this and also welcome the department's current Willard McCarty Fellow Leif Weatherby (NYU). Please join us. Register at https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/monopolies-of-intelligence-questioning-the-p…. In the Clouds - Nick Srnicek (Digital Humanities, KCL) We live in an age dominated by tech giants. Yet for all the attention paid to them, discussions of artificial intelligence have focused on ethical issues around bias and political issues around surveillance. The properly political economic questions have been left aside, or reduced to a simple ‘robots taking our jobs’ narrative. This talk will aim to uncover the political economy of artificial intelligence, with a particular focus on how the technological conditions of AI either facilitate or delineate possibilities for the greater concentration of capital and power. Data as Capital – Leif Weatherby (German, NYU and KCL's Willard McCarty Fellow) A recent report from MIT announces the arrival of a new metaphysical player in the game of business: data capital. This form of wealth forms represents a shift in the relationship between capital and society. Data capital has now driven the market capitalization of the largest platform companies above the "unicorn" value of 1 trillion USD, creating something like intelligent monopolies. But capital as data has to be interpreted to be useful, an operation most often carried out by algorithms called "neural nets." The data is exascale, beyond any human imagination - yet parsed, categorized, interpreted. I propose to call this activity at the heart of modern enterprise "artificial semiotics" in order to analyse how data has altered the structure of capital in the present. On Distributed Intelligence – Mercedes Bunz (Digital Humanities, KCL) Recent advances of AI have resulted in a fundamental shift in programming. However, the conditions of algorithmic production as well as the interfaces to use those programs and new capabilities have largely stayed the same. AI applications are currently mostly black box systems in which systems trained on data are making decisions for users and not with users. By analysing examples of image recognition regarding medical images, this talk will show that this constellation is dangerous and difficult. Automated decision-making in the medical sector transfers medical knowledge and agency from our medical institutions to technology companies without the necessary checks and balances. At the same time, machine learning has great potential to assist with medical decision making. In her talk, Mercedes will discuss two aspects of machine learning –data sets and interfaces – as entry points that could be used to make machine intelligence more accessible, collaborative, and distributed – against monopolies of intelligence. *** Biographies Mercedes Bunz is Senior Lecturer in Digital Society at the Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London. Her research explores how digital technology transforms knowledge and with it power; a question she explores currently specifically regarding medical knowledge with a Wellcome Trust Seed grant. Recent publications: The Internet of Things(Polity 2017) co-published with Professor Graham Meikle, and the small Open Access publication Communication with Finn Brunton (University of Minnesota Press 2019), on how contemporary communication puts us humans not only in conversation with one another but also with our machinery. Nick Srnicek is Lecturer in Digital Economy at King's College London. He is the author of Platform Capitalism (Polity, 2016) and Inventing the Future(Verso, 2015 with Alex Williams). With Helen Hester, he is currently writing After Work (Verso, 2020). Leif Weatherby is Associate Professor of German at NYU, co-founder of the Digital Theory Lab, and Willard McCarty fellow of the Department of Digital Humanities at King’s College London. His research focuses on philosophies of technology - especially the digital - Romanticism and Idealism, and political economy. His book, Transplanting the Metaphysical Organ: German Romanticism between Leibniz and Marx, tracks an early techno-philosophy in the doctrine he calls "Romantic organology." His ongoing work on the relationship between cybernetics and German Idealism has been supported by the National Endowment for the Humanities and the Alexander von Humboldt association. His writing has appeared in venues like SubStance, Grey Room, and the Los Angeles Review of Books.

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