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Save the date: MoneyLab #7, Amsterdam, November 14 & 15, 2019
by Geert Lovink 17 Apr '19

17 Apr '19

MoneyLab #7: Geo-Politics of Financial Flows Save the date: Tolhuistuin, Amsterdam, November 14 & 15, 2019 The Institute of Network Cultures is proud to announce the return of MoneyLab to Amsterdam: two days filled with presentations, workshops, performances and discussions by and with artists, academics, activists, geeks, and students about pressing financial issues. What is the status of our experiments with alternative finance in the age of Brexit, Trump, and the rise of right-wing nationalism? Can we move beyond the critique of libertarian start-ups and their male preoccupations? What is the role today of artists and designers in this expanding financial ecology? Are platforms becoming the new banks? What are the counter-designs of digital transactions? How do we relate to the emerging regulatory regimes that want to “civilize” fintech? Can we speak of a gentrification of payments, as Brett Scott indicated? Possible topics: Beyond the Blokechain: the Cryptofeminist Agenda Geopolitics of Finance: From Altright to China Investigative Journalism without Consequences? Financial Hacking: From Dark Web Smokescreens to White-Collar Crime Payments and the Platforms: Monetization of Social Media Questioning Financial Visualization AltFin: Experiments from Prototype to Pilot The event consists of a 2-day conference, workshops and an evening program with performances. If you are interested to participate, please contact Geert Lovink <geert(a)xs4all.nl>.

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Conference and Special Issue CfP: Communication Rights in the Digital Age
by Minna Aslama 17 Apr '19

17 Apr '19

Communication Rights in the Digital Age International Conference organized by the Helsinki Media Policy Research Group, the University of Helsinki, the ECREA Communication Law and Policy Section and the Euromedia Research Group, and supported by the IAMCR Communication Policy & Technology Section. 24–25 October 2019, Helsinki, Finland Conference presenters will be invited to submit to a special issue of the Journal of Information Policy, (www.jip-online.org) Abstract submission deadline: 15 May 2019. The rights-based perspective on ethical and political questions presented by the new digital media has recently regained attention in academic and political debates. Due to the importance of communication rights to societies and democracy, it is imperative to understand how those rights are defined, manifested, regulated, and monitored today. The realization of communication rights is further shaped by economic, political and socio-cultural situations. What do we know about these contexts? How can we accumulate a better conceptual and empirical understanding of communication rights? This conference will address the interplay of national and global, universal and specific, characteristics of communication rights. We are interested in analyses of different definitions of communication rights; of policy and other actors defining these rights in national and international contexts; and of current core issues or cases that pertain to communication rights. We welcome conceptual and theoretical interventions as well as empirical approaches. Presenters at the conference will be invited to submit their completed papers for review by the Journal of Information Policy (www.jip-online.org) Now in its 9th year, the JIP brings contemporary scholarly research and analysis of significant information policy issues to the attention of policymakers in a timely fashion via an online format. The JIP is a publication of the Institute for Information Policy at the Pennsylvania State University. The JIP is an open-access journal accessible on the JSTOR platform. Published works in the JIP are licensed under Creative Commons Attribution, which means that all content is freely available immediately upon publication without charge to the user or his/her institution. Please see the detailed call for papers: https://www.helsinki.fi/en/conferences/communication-rights-in-the-digital-… Keynote speaker: Philip M. Napoli, James R. Shepley Professor of Public Policy, the Sanford School of Public Policy, Duke University, United States. Conference submission: Please submit your proposal of max. 500 words, including your affiliation and contact information, by 15 May 2019 to minna.aslama(a)helsinki.fi. You will receive notification of acceptance by 15 June 2019. Registration and fee: Registration will be open 15 June through 15 October. Registration fee: €100 Reduced student fee: €40 For more information and inquiries, please contact minna.aslama(a)helsinki.fi and irina.khaldarova(a)helsinki.fi. -- Dr. Minna Aslama Horowitz @aslama https://minnahorowitz.net/

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A PhD/postdoc position for a native Japanese speaker in a project about values in social media
by Limor Shifman 17 Apr '19

17 Apr '19

*A PhD/postdoc position for a native Japanese speaker in a project about values in social media* If you are from Japan and interested in working on an exciting project for your PhD or postdoc studies (starting fall 2019), this could be a terrific fit for you. The project examines how values are constructed in digital spheres through a comparative analysis of user-generated content in five languages. The positions are fully funded: up to 5 years for PhD students and 2 years (with an extension option) for postdoctoral students. The team will be based at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem (Dept. of communication) with trips to the relevant countries for interview purposes. Candidates with qualitative and/or quantitative training in the social sciences, humanities and computer science are encouraged to apply. For more information, see https://limorshifman.huji.ac.il. To start the application process, please send your CV to the principal investigator, Limor Shifman, at: *limor.shifman(a)mail.huji.ac.il*

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News Images and Surveillance - Online Gods Podcast 15
by Ian M. Cook 17 Apr '19

17 Apr '19

You can now listen to episode #15 of Online Gods – A Podcast about Digital Cultures http://www.fordigitaldignity.com/news-images-and-surveillance/ This month we’re talking about digital news images with Zeynep Gürsel and online surveillance with Nayantara Ranganathan. How are digital interactions remoulding the public sphere in India and elsewhere? What do online cultures and debates do to questions of faith, the nation and belonging? How can anthropologists research the digital world? How can we examine the digital by inhabiting the digital? Online Gods is a monthly podcast on digital cultures and their political ramifications, featuring lively conversations with scholars and activists. Presented by anthropologist Ian M. Cook, “Online Gods” is a key initiative of the ERC funded project ONLINERPOL www.fordigitaldignity.com led by media anthropologist Sahana Udupa at LMU Munich. It is an official podcast collaborator of the American Anthropological Association. OnlineGods represents our collective commitment to multimedia diffusion of research in accessible and engaging formats

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FYI: 6 fully funded PhD positions in Italy, Trento (in English)
by Giuseppe Alessandro Veltri 17 Apr '19

17 Apr '19

FYI 6 PhD Positions at the Department of Sociology and Social Research at the University of Trento. Application Deadline: May, 22nd - 4pm (Rome time) Further information can be found here: https://www.unitn.it/drss/srs/19?fbclid=IwAR2SqJjRvWQ_rklWINPvnzKxvqMa4QMmg… Best wishes, GV -------------------------------------- Dr Giuseppe A. Veltri Work email giuseppe.veltri(a)unitn.it Twitter @gaveltri Skype g.veltri Personal webpage <https://sites.google.com/a/unitn.it/giuseppe-a-veltri/home> | ResearchGate <https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Giuseppe_Alessandro_Veltri?ev=hdr_xprf>

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AI Ethics Guidelines Global Inventory
by Matthias Spielkamp | AlgorithmWatch 17 Apr '19

17 Apr '19

apologies for cross-posting Dear colleagues, the way automated decision-making (ADM) systems should be regulated is hotly disputed. Recent months have seen a flurry of frameworks and principles that seek to set out principles of how ADM systems can be developed and implemented ethically. With our AlgorithmWatch AI Ethics Guidelines Global Inventory, we started to map the landscape of these frameworks: https://algorithmwatch.org/en/project/ai-ethics-guidelines-global-inventory/ Please share! We feel that there are many more out there. Please help us to extend this list by either submitting via the form on the website or replying to this email (not to the list!). Thank you very much! Matthias -- Matthias Spielkamp Executive Director http://algorithmwatch.org/ ms(a)algorithmwatch.org +49.30.99.404.9000 AW AlgorithmWatch gGmbH Bergstr. 22 10115 Berlin Sitz der Gesellschaft: Oranienstraße 19A, 10999 Berlin Amtsgericht Berlin Charlottenburg HRB 186522 B Geschäftsführung: Matthias Spielkamp

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IWPE' 19 - Early Bird Registration deadline April 19th
by Gaurav Misra 16 Apr '19

16 Apr '19

The Fifth International Workshop on Privacy Engineering (IWPE'19) will be co-located with IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy on 23rd May 2019 at Hyatt Regency, San Francisco, CA. The program for the workshop has been published at http://iwpe .info/program.html ***Register <http://iwpe.info/> now to avail early bird pricing (ends on 19th April, 2019)*** The workshop includes 3 technical sessions where the 8 accepted papers will be presented. The technical sessions are: -Privacy Risk Modeling and Assessment -Implementing Privacy -Secure Input, Output and Computation In addition, we will have the chance to listen to our renowned invited speakers, who will introduce two hot topics in the privacy engineering domain: -Lea Kissner (Humu): *"Building for trust, building with respect"* -Carmela Troncoso (EPFL): *"Privacy technologies need to go to the gym: on the challenges of privacy engineering in an Agile world"* This year we have also organized 1 panel on privacy engineering: -Engineering Privacy with Distributed Machine Learning Details on the technical sessions, invited talks and panel are included on the website. We would be thankful if you could help us to disseminate this information among your colleagues and students. Thank you for your support to make this new edition of IWPE a great success again, IWPE'19 Organizing Committee -- *Gaurav Misra* Postdoctoral Associate Institute for Software Research School of Computer Science Carnegie Mellon University Wean Hall 4111 5000 Forbes Avenue Pittsburgh, PA 15213

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Digital Modern Languages seminar series launch (UK)
by Spence, Paul 16 Apr '19

16 Apr '19

Hi All For those interested in digital culture and (modern) languages or multilingualism, this UK-based initiative may be of interest ... Paul ----- We are pleased to announce a new Digital Modern Languages seminar series, bringing together research and teaching in Modern Languages which engages with digital culture, media and technologies. The series is aimed at raising the visibility of digital research and teaching in Modern Languages in the UK, and will include speakers who represent a diverse range of areas of study and languages of specialism. This series is launched as part of the AHRC-funded Open World Research Initiative, and is supported by the Cross-Language Dynamics: Reshaping Community and Language Acts and Worldmaking projects, and by the AHRC Leadership Fellow for Modern Languages (Janice Carruthers). The series is convened by Paul Spence (King's College London) and Naomi Wells (Institute of Modern Languages Research). The series will be launched on Tuesday 21 May with a seminar on 'Points of Intersection: Digital Modern Languages' by Professor Claire Taylor (University of Liverpool). The seminar will take place at Bush House Lecture Theatre 2 BH(S) 4.04 (King's College London) - entrance via Kingsway - between 6 to 8pm, and includes a drinks reception. Attendance is free of charge but please register in advance at: https://modernlanguages.sas.ac.uk/events/event/19629. Further details of the launch and the series can be found on our website, where we will also announce future events: https://digitalmodernlanguages.wordpress.com/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/digmodlang Please contact Paul Spence (paul.spence(a)kcl.ac.uk) and Naomi Wells (naomi.wells(a)sas.ac.uk) if you have any questions or would like further information about the Series. Paul Spence Senior Lecturer, Department of Digital Humanities King's College London | Strand | London | WC2R 2LS Naomi Wells Postdoctoral Research Associate in Translingual Communities and Digital Humanities Institute of Modern Languages Research School of Advanced Study | University of London

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"The 'other' alternatives: Political right-wing alternative media" - a special issue of the Journal of Alternative and Community Media
by Haller, Andre 16 Apr '19

16 Apr '19

Renaud de La Brosse, Kristoffer Holt and me are very pleased to present volume 4, issue 1 (2019) of the Journal of Alternative and Community Media: The 'other' alternatives: Political right-wing alternative media,. This special issue is about populist alternative media and contains latest studies from different national contexts. Vol 4, No 1 (2019) Special issue: The ‘other’ alternatives: Political right-wing alternative media https://joacm.org/index.php/joacm/issue/view/107 Guest editors: André Haller, Kristoffer Holt, Renaud de La Brosse Table of Contents Editorial The ‘other’ alternatives: Political right-wing alternative media André Haller, Kristoffer Holt, Renaud de La Brosse 1-6 Articles Strange fruit: The rise of Brazil’s ‘new right-wing’ and the Non-Partisan School Movement Richard Romancini, Fernanda Castilho 7-22 User profiles for populist counter-media websites in Finland Elina Noppari, Ilmari Hiltunen, Laura Ahva 23-37 Young, free and biased: A comparison of mainstream and right-wing media coverage of the 2015–16 refugee crisis in German newspapers Gerret von Nordheim, Henrik Müller, Michael Scheppe 38-56 Framing the mass media: Exploring ‘fake news’ as a frame embedded in political discourse Jan R Riebling, Ina von der Wense 57-76 US alt-right media and the creation of the counter-collective memory Krzysztof Wasilewski 77-91 -- Best regards, André Dr. André Haller Institut für Kommunikationswissenschaft Otto-Friedrich-Universität Bamberg An der Weberei 5 / Raum 04.069 D-96045 Bamberg Tel.: +49 (0)951/863-2136 Fax: +49 (0)951/863-2159 E-Mail: andre.haller(a)uni-bamberg.de<https://mailex.uni-bamberg.de/owa/andre.haller@uni-bamberg.de> Website: http://www.uni-bamberg.de/kowi Twitter: @andrehaller <https://twitter.com/andrehaller/>

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Critical Issues in Open Access and Scholarly Communications 24 May Goldsmiths
by Kate O'Riordan 16 Apr '19

16 Apr '19

Critical Issues in Open Access and Scholarly Communications Friday 24 May Ian Gulland Lecture Theatre Whitehead Building Goldsmiths, University of London The four UK funding bodies have signalled their intention to move towards an open access policy for long-form publications and to mandate open access book publishing for the Research Excellence Framework exercise due in 2027. UKRI has signed up to Plan S, a Europe-wide coalition that aims to accelerate the transition to full and immediate open access. This event aims to widen the dialogue on open access books, examining the implications of UK policy for research culture and values, the future of scholarly publishing and for the Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences. It will reflect on the most recent findings from the Universities UK open access reports and provide a platform for gathering additional evidence and feedback from across the university sector. Incorporating representatives from funding agencies, the UUK working group on open access monographs, REF panelists and PVCrs, publishers, learned societies, scholarly associations and researchers from a range of institutions - who will highlight both the challenges and opportunities of open access monograph publishing - the event will be structured around the following questions: * What is the current UK policy on open access, and on open access monographs in particular? * What is at stake for REF 2027, research culture and values, ECRs and diversity in scholarly publishing and practice? * Who benefits from open access or from publishing as usual? * What are the challenges of open access monograph publishing? * What kind of experiments are made possible, what collaborations might emerge? * Why publish, and where might online, open and platform-based publishing lead us next? * What changes might be respectively desirable, equitable and feasible at national and global scale? Or result as consequences from open access developments? Speakers include: Chris Banks, Director of Library Services, Imperial College, London David M. Berry, Professor of Digital Humanities, University of Sussex Susan Bruce, Professor of English and Co-Chair, Arts & Humanities Alliance, Keele University Anthony Cond, Managing Director, Liverpool University Press Geoffrey Crossick, Distinguished Professor of the Humanities, School of Advanced Study, University of London Ronan Deazley, Professor, School of Law, Queen's University Belfast Joe Deville, Lecturer in Sociology, Lancaster University Gary Hall, Professor in Media and Performance, Coventry University Steven Hill, Director of Research, Research England Sarah Kember, Professor of New Technologies of Communication, Goldsmiths Peter Mandler, Professor of Modern Cultural History, University of Cambridge Sunil Manghani, Professor of Theory, Practice & Critique, Deputy Head of School, Director of Research and Enterprise, Winchester School of Art Samuel Moore, Researcher and Consultant: critical information/publishing studies John Scott, Honorary Visiting Professor, Universities of Exeter and Essex Graham Stone, Senior Research Manager, Jisc Simon Tanner, Professor of Digital Cultural Heritage and Pro Vice Dean Research, King's College London Sylvia Walby, Professor of Sociology, City, University of London This event is free and open to all, but registration on Eventbrite is required: https://critical-issues-in-oa.eventbrite.co.uk Sarah Kember Professor of New Technologies of Communication https://www.gold.ac.uk/media-communications/staff/kember/ Director of Goldsmiths Press http://www.gold.ac.uk/goldsmiths-press/ Latest book: Whose Book is it Anyway? A view from elsewhere on publishing, copyright and creativity, Open Book Publishers https://www.openbookpublishers.com/product/925

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