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Resisting Digital Culture conference - this Friday at King's College London
by Feldman, Zeena 08 May '19

08 May '19

Dear friends and colleagues, For anyone in London this Friday (10 May), we’d love to see you at the Centre for Digital Culture’s annual conference<https://www.kcl.ac.uk/events/resisting-digital-culture-dystopias-distortion…>. This year’s theme is 'Resisting Digital Culture: Dystopias, Distortions, Disconnections’ and we’ll have keynotes from Antoine Bousquet (Birkbeck), Kylie Jarrett (Maynooth), Benjamin Noys (Chichester) and Alison Winch (UEA). When: Friday 10 May 2019 – registration opens at 9:30am Where: King’s College London, The Strand, WC2R 2LS Registration fee: £10 (register here<https://estore.kcl.ac.uk/conferences-and-events/academic-faculties/faculty-…>) Full programme: http://www.centrefordigitalculture.net/?p=199 All best, Zeena Feldman and Paolo Gerbaudo

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Re: [Air-L] Christchurch Call - relevant research links request
by Tarleton L. Gillespie 08 May '19

08 May '19

Erika, I've been working on a comprehensive list of scholarship on content moderation and platform governance. This is NOT it, at least not yet. Just a briefer sampling. But since you're on a tight schedule, I'm posting it here. (Anyone who feels their missing from this list, my apologies; I do have a longer list, you may be on it, and I'm still working on it. Happy if you send me pointers off list.) Ansd this does not cover the excellent scholarship that looks into specific challenging phenomena - hate speech, harassment, terrorism and social media, misinformation. The focus of the list is how the platforms respond. If you email me directly, I can gently indicate which of these are current, from scholars who might be particularly right for the event you're talking about, etc. Tarleton = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = *Content moderation and platform governance* Gorwa, Robert. 2019. “What Is Platform Governance?” Information, Communication & Society, 1–18. Gillespie, Tarleton. 2018. Custodians of the Internet: Platforms, Content Moderation, and the Hidden Decisions That Shape Social Media. New Haven: Yale University Press. Klonick, Kate. 2018. “The New Governors: The People, Rules and Processes Governing Online Speech.” Harvard Law Review 131: 73. Roberts, Sarah T. 2019. Behind the Screen: Content Moderation in the Shadows of Social Media. New Haven: Yale University Press. Suzor, Nicolas. 2019. Lawless: The Secret Rules That Govern Our Digital Lives (and Why We Need New Digital Constitutions That Protect Our Rights). Oxford University Press. Bengani, Priyanjana. 2018. “Controlling the Conversation: The Ethics of Social Platforms and Content Moderation,” 21. Taddeo, Mariarosaria, and Luciano Floridi. 2016. “The Debate on the Moral Responsibilities of Online Service Providers.” Science and Engineering Ethics 22 (6): 1575–1603. Zarsky, Tal Z. 2014. “Social Justice, Social Norms and the Governance of Social Media.” Pace Law Review. 35: 154-191. Grimmelmann, James. 2014. “Speech Engines.” Minnesota Law Review 98 (3): 868–952. Kaye, David. 2019. Speech Police: The Global Struggle to Govern the Internet. New York, NY: Columbia Global Reports. *Community management in the early web* Dibbell, Julian. 1993. “A Rape in Cyberspace.” The Village Voice, December 23, 1993. Dutton, W. H. 1996. “Network Rules of Order: Regulating Speech in Public Electronic Fora.” Media, Culture & Society 18 (2): 269–90. Kollock, Peter, and Marc Smith. 1996. “Managing the Virtual Commons.” In Computer-Mediated Communication: Linguistic, Social, and Cross-Cultural Perspectives, edited by Susan Herring, 109–128. Amsterdam: John Benjamis. Lampe, Cliff, and Paul Resnick. 2004. “Slash (Dot) and Burn: Distributed Moderation in a Large Online Conversation Space.” In Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, 543–550. ACM. Pfaffenberger, Bryan. 1996. “‘If I Want It, It’s OK’: Usenet and the (Outer) Limits of Free Speech.” The Information Society 12 (4): 365–86. Forte, Andrea, Vanesa Larco, and Amy Bruckman. 2009. “Decentralization in Wikipedia Governance.” Journal of Management Information Systems 26 (1): 49–72. Geiger, R. Stuart, and David Ribes. 2010. “The Work of Sustaining Order in Wikipedia: The Banning of a Vandal.” In Proceedings of the 2010 ACM Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work, 117–126. ACM. Kiesler, Sara, Robert Kraut, Paul Resnick, and Aniket Kittur. 2011. “Regulating Behavior in Online Communities.” In Building Successful Online Communities: Evidence-Based Social Design, edited by Robert E. Kraut and Paul Resnick, 77–124. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press. Lampe, Cliff, Paul Zube, Jusil Lee, Chul Hyun Park, and Erik Johnston. 2014. “Crowdsourcing Civility: A Natural Experiment Examining the Effects of Distributed Moderation in Online Forums.” Government Information Quarterly 31 (2): 317–326. Postigo, H. 2009. “America Online Volunteers: Lessons from an Early Co-Production Community.” International Journal of Cultural Studies 12 (5): 451–69. *The problems of moderation at scale* Amnesty International. 2018. “#ToxicTwitter: Violence and Abuse Against Women Online.” Amnesty International. Citron, Danielle Keats. 2014. Hate Crimes in Cyberspace. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press. Evans, David S. 2012. “Governing Bad Behavior by Users of Multi-Sided Platforms.” Berkeley Technology Law Journal 27 (2). Humphreys, Sal. 2013. “Predicting, Securing and Shaping the Future: Mechanisms of Governance in Online Social Environments.” International Journal of Media & Cultural Politics 9 (3): 247–58. Jeong, Sarah. 2015. The Internet of Garbage. Forbes Media. Kiene, Charles, Andrés Monroy-Hernández, and Benjamin Mako Hill. 2016. “Surviving an ‘Eternal September’: How an Online Community Managed a Surge of Newcomers.” In , 1152–56. ACM Press. Lewis, Rebecca. 2018. “Alternative Influence: Broadcasting the Reactionary Right on YouTube.” Data & Society Research Institute. Phillips, Whitney. 2015. This Is Why We Can’t Have Nice Things: Mapping the Relationship between Online Trolling and Mainstream Culture. Cambridge, Massachusetts: The MIT Press. Roth, Yoel. 2015. “‘No Overly Suggestive Photos of Any Kind’: Content Management and the Policing of Self in Gay Digital Communities.” Communication, Culture & Critique 8 (3): 414–32. York, Jillian C. 2015. “Solutions for Online Harassment Don’t Come Easily.” The Fibreculture Journal, no. 26 (December): 297–301. *The difficulty of drawing contentious lines* boyd, danah. 2012. “The Politics of ‘Real Names.’” Communications of the ACM 55 (8): 29. boyd, danah, Jenny Ryan, and Alex Leavitt. 2010. “Pro-Self-Harm and the Visibility of Youth-Generated Problematic Content.” ISJLP 7: 1. Cohn, Cindy. 2018. “Bad Facts Make Bad Law: How Platform Censorship Has Failed so Far and How to Ensure That the Response to Neo-Nazis Doesn’t Make It Worse.” Georgetown Law and Technology Review 2: 21. Gomes de Andrade, Norberto Nuno, Dave Pawson, Dan Muriello, Lizzy Donahue, and Jennifer Guadagno. 2018. “Ethics and Artificial Intelligence: Suicide Prevention on Facebook.” Philosophy & Technology 31 (4): 669–84. Haimson, Oliver L., and Anna Lauren Hoffmann. 2016. “Constructing and Enforcing ‘Authentic’ Identity Online: Facebook, Real Names, and Non-Normative Identities.” First Monday 21 (6). Ibrahim, Yasmin. 2010. “The Breastfeeding Controversy and Facebook: Politicization of Image, Privacy and Protest.” International Journal of E-Politics 1 (2): 16–28. *The labor of moderation* Matias, J. Nathan, Amy Johnson, Whitney Erin Boesel, Brian Keegan, Jaclyn Friedman, and Charlie DeTar. 2015. “Reporting, Reviewing, and Responding to Harassment on Twitter.” ArXiv Preprint ArXiv:1505.03359. Ghosh, Arpita, Satyen Kale, and Preston McAfee. 2011. “Who Moderates the Moderators?: Crowdsourcing Abuse Detection in User-Generated Content.” In Proceedings of the 12th ACM Conference on Electronic Commerce, 167–176. ACM. Kou, Yubo, and Xinning Gui. 2017. “The Rise and Fall of Moral Labor in an Online Game Community.” In Computer Supported Cooperative Work (CSCW), 223–26. Portland, OR: ACM Press. Matias, J. Nathan. 2019. “The Civic Labor of Volunteer Moderators Online.” Social Media + Society 5 (2): 205630511983677. Roberts, Sarah T. 2016. “Commercial Content Moderation: Digital Laborers’ Dirty Work.” In Intersectional Internet: Race, Sex, Class and Culture Online, edited by Safiya Umoja Noble and Brendesha Tynes, 147–59. New York: Peter Lang Publishing Inc. Roberts, Sarah T. 2019. Behind the Screen: Content Moderation in the Shadows of Social Media. New Haven: Yale University Press. *Technical approaches and their problems* Citron, Danielle, and Benjamin Wittes. 2017. “Follow Buddies and Block Buddies: A Simple Proposal to Improve Civility, Control, and Privacy on Twitter,” 9. Delort, Jean-Yves, Bavani Arunasalam, and Cecile Paris. 2011. “Automatic Moderation of Online Discussion Sites.” International Journal of Electronic Commerce 15 (3): 9–30. Gehl, Robert W., Lucas Moyer-Horner, and Sara K. Yeo. 2017. “Training Computers to See Internet Pornography: Gender and Sexual Discrimination in Computer Vision Science.” Television & New Media 18 (6): 529–547. Geiger, R. Stuart. 2016. “Bot-Based Collective Blocklists in Twitter: The Counterpublic Moderation of Harassment in a Networked Public Space.” Information, Communication & Society 19 (6): 787–803. Jhaver, Shagun, Sucheta Ghoshal, Amy Bruckman, and Eric Gilbert. 2018. “Online Harassment and Content Moderation: The Case of Blocklists.” ACM Transactions on Computer-Human Interaction 25 (2): 1–33. *Thinking beyond Facebook* Busch, Thorsten, Florence Chee, Alison Harvey, Kate Grosser, Lauren McCarthy, and Maureen Kilgour. 2016. “Corporate Responsibility and the Governance of Gender-Based Harassment in Online Game Spaces.” In Gender Equality and Responsible Business: Expanding CSR Horizons, 31–45. Greenleaf. Hestres, Luis E. 2013. “App Neutrality: Apple’s App Store and Freedom of Expression Online.” International Journal of Communication 7: 1265–1280. Kim, Jenny. 2017. “Moderating the Uncontrollable” 10 (3): 9. Reagle, Joseph. 2015. Reading the Comments: Likers, Haters, and Manipulators at the Bottom of the Web. Cambridge, Massachusetts: The MIT Press. Tusikov, Natasha. 2019. “Defunding Hate: PayPal’s Regulation of Hate Groups.” Surveillance & Society 17 (1/2): 46–53. Zeng, Jing, Chung-hong Chan, and King-wa Fu. 2017. “How Social Media Construct ‘Truth’ Around Crisis Events: Weibo’s Rumor Management Strategies After the 2015 Tianjin Blasts.” Policy & Internet 9 (3): 297–320. *User reactions, resistance, and activism* Anderson, Jessica, Kim Carlson, Matthew Stender, Sarah Myers West, and Jillian York. 2016. “Censorship in Context: Insights from Crowdsourced Data on Social Media Censorship.” Electronic Frontier Foundation. Anderson, Jessica, Matthew Stender, Sarah Myers West, and Jillian C. York. 2016. “Unfriending Censorship: Insights from Four Months of Crowdsourced Data on Social Media Censorship.” Onlinecensorship.org. Blackwell, Lindsay, Jill Dimond, Sarita Schoenebeck, and Cliff Lampe. 2017. “Classification and Its Consequences for Online Harassment: Design Insights from HeartMob.” Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction 1 (CSCW): 1–19. Chancellor, Stevie, Jessica Annette Pater, Trustin A Clear, Eric Gilbert, and Munmun De Choudhury. 2016. “#thyghgapp: Instagram Content Moderation and Lexical Variation in Pro-Eating Disorder Communities.” In , 1199–1211. ACM Press. Crawford, Kate, and Tarleton Gillespie. 2016. “What Is a Flag for? Social Media Reporting Tools and the Vocabulary of Complaint.” New Media & Society 18 (3): 410–28. Duguay, Stefanie, Jean Burgess, and Nicolas Suzor. 2018. “Queer Women’s Experiences of Patchwork Platform Governance on Tinder, Instagram, and Vine.” Convergence, 1354856518781530. Fiore-Silfvast, Brittany. 2012. “User-Generated Warfare: A Case of Converging Wartime Information Networks and Coproductive Regulation on YouTube.” International Journal of Communication 6: 24. Gerrard, Ysabel. 2018. “Beyond the Hashtag: Circumventing Content Moderation on Social Media.” New Media & Society. West, Sarah Myers. 2017. “Raging Against the Machine: Network Gatekeeping and Collective Action on Social Media Platforms.” Media and Communication 5 (3): 28–36. *Free speech and censorship* Ammori, Marvin. 2014. “The ‘New’ New York Times: Free Speech Lawyering in the Age of Google and Twitter.” Harv. L. Rev. 127 (8): 2259. Armijo, Enrique. 2018. “Meet the New Governors, Same as the Old Governors (Response to Kate Klonick, ‘Facebook v. Sullivan’).” Emerging Threats. Knight First Amendment Institute. Balkin, Jack M. 2016. “Information Fiduciaries and the First Amendment.” UC Davis Law Review 49 (4). Goldman, Eric. 2010. “Unregulating Online Harassment.” Goldman, Eric. 2012. “Online User Account Termination and 47 USC Sec. 230 (c)(2).” UC Irvine L. Rev. 2: 659. Klonick, Kate. 2018. “Facebook v. Sullivan.” Emerging Threats. Knight First Amendment Institute. Kreimer, Seth F. 2006. “Censorship by Proxy: The First Amendment, Internet Intermediaries, and the Problem of the Weakest Link.” University of Pennsylvania Law Review 155 (1): 11. MacKinnon, Rebecca. 2012. Consent of the Networked: The Worldwide Struggle for Internet Freedom. New York: Basic Books. Pasquale, Frank A. 2016. “Platform Neutrality: Enhancing Freedom of Expression in Spheres of Private Power.” Theoretical Inquiries in Law, Forthcoming. *Section 230 and existing U.S. law* Bankston, Kevin, David Sohn, and Andrew McDiarmid. 2012. “Shielding the Messengers: Protecting Platforms for Expression and Innovation.” Center for Democracy and Technology. Reidenberg, Joel R., Jamela Debelak, Jordan Kovnot, and Tiffany Miao. 2012. “Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act: A Survey of the Legal Literature and Reform Proposals.” Tushnet, Rebecca. 2008. “Power without Responsibility: Intermediaries and the First Amendment.” George Washington Law Review 76: 101. Citron, Danielle Keats. 2015. “Online Engagement on Equal Terms.” University of Maryland Francis King Carey School of Law. Citron, Danielle Keats, and Benjamin Wittes. 2017. “The Internet Will Not Break: Denying Bad Samaritans §230 Immunity.” FORDHAM LAW REVIEW 86: 24. Keller, Daphne. 2017. “SESTA and the Teachings of Intermediary Liability,” 19. Lavi, Michal. 2016. “Content Providers’ Secondary Liability: A Social Network Perspective.” Fordham Intellectual Property, Media & Entertainment Law Journal 26: 855–943. MacKinnon, Rebecca, Elonnai Hickok, Allon Bar, and Hai-in Lim. 2014. “Fostering Freedom Online: The Roles, Challenges and Obstacles of Internet Intermediaries.” United Nations Educational. Mansell, Robin. 2015. “The Public’s Interest in Intermediaries.” Info 17 (6): 8–18. https://doi.org/10.1108/info-05-2015-0035. Citron, Danielle, and Quinta Jurecic. 2018. “Platform Justice: Content Moderation at an Inflection Point.” 1811. Aegis Series. Citron, Danielle Keats. 2018. “Extremist Speech, Compelled Conformity, and Censorship Creep.” Notre Dame Law Review 93: 39. Citron, Danielle Keats, and Benjamin Wittes. 2018. “The Problem Isn’t Just Backpage: Revising Section 230 Immunity.” Georgetown Law and Technology Review 2: 21. Eichensehr, Kirsten. 2019. “Digital Switzerlands.” University of Pennsylvania Law Review, 66. Gillespie, Tarleton. 2018. “Platforms Are Not Intermediaries.” Georgetown Law and Technology Review 2: 19. Zittrain, Jonathan. n.d. “CDA 230 Then and Now: Does Intermediary Immunity Keep the Rest of Us Healthy?,” 5. *Principles of good governance* Busch, T., and T. Shepherd. 2014. “Doing Well by Doing Good? Normative Tensions Underlying Twitter’s Corporate Social Responsibility Ethos.” Convergence: The International Journal of Research into New Media Technologies 20 (3): 293–315. Suzor, Nicolas. 2010. “The Role of the Rule of Law in Virtual Communities.” Berkeley Technology Law Journal 25 (4): 1817–1886. Belli, Luca, and Jamila Venturini. 2016. “Private Ordering and the Rise of Terms of Service as Cyber-Regulation.” Internet Policy Review 5 (4). Centivany, Alissa. 2016. “Values, Ethics and Participatory Policymaking in Online Communities.” Proceedings of the Association for Information Science and Technology 53 (1): 1–10. Cohen, Julie E. 2017. “Law for the Platform Economy.” UCDL Rev. 51: 133. Napoli, Philip M., and Robyn Caplan. 2016. “When Media Companies Insist They’re Not Media Companies and Why It Matters for Communications Policy.” Available at SSRN 2750148. Helberger, Natali, Jo Pierson, and Thomas Poell. 2018. “Governing Online Platforms: From Contested to Cooperative Responsibility.” The Information Society 34 (1): 1–14. Suzor, Nicolas. 2018. “Digital Constitutionalism: Using the Rule of Law to Evaluate the Legitimacy of Governance by Platforms.” Social Media + Society 4 (3): 205630511878781. On 5/7/19, 12:50 AM, "Air-L on behalf of Pearson, Erika" <air-l-bounces(a)listserv.aoir.org on behalf of E.Pearson(a)massey.ac.nz> wrote: Kia ora koutou from NZ As some of you may already be aware, next month NZ and France will be co-chairing a "Christchurch Call" meeting alongside the "Tech for Good" and the "Tech for Humanity" summits as part of the response to the Christchurch attack - here's a news article overview for those not sure what the Call is https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=12226274 . This meeting might consider issues such as online radicalization and hate speech, and perhaps also wider considerations of civil society in a digital era, though the exact agenda has yet to be finalized I have been asked to request of the global research community any recent scholarly works that might be useful for people here to consider as they work through their thinking as to what the Call should - rather than restricting to a particular topic, I'd like to cast the net wide at this stage, as the agenda is still evolving. So could you please send me directly links/cites to your work or works of your colleagues that may help contribute or feed into this important public discussion. There is a tight timeframe here, so if you could get them to me by the 10th May NZ time (which early in the 9th for the US and late in the 9th for Europe) I would be very appreciative. I will pass them onto the team as I get them. Thanking you in advance. Erika (PS: thanks also for making me one of your open seat representatives - I look forward to serving the organisation!) Dr Erika Pearson School of Communication Journalism and Marketing Massey University Wellington _______________________________________________ The Air-L(a)listserv.aoir.org mailing list is provided by the Association of Internet Researchers http://aoir.org Subscribe, change options or unsubscribe at: http://listserv.aoir.org/listinfo.cgi/air-l-aoir.org Join the Association of Internet Researchers: http://www.aoir.org/

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New articles on Automation and Facial Recognition
by sally 07 May '19

07 May '19

Hi Air-L, I’ve been varying my writing a bit and have just had two pieces published in Fast Company on Automation and Facial Recognition. My goal has been to contribute to the ongoing “news” conversation from an anthropological perspective. They may be interesting and/or useful for you and/or your students: S.A. Applin, April 21, 2019, Fast Company (Point of View) What we sacrifice for automation Lessons from an Amazon warehouse, and a world where increasingly anything (and anyone) that can be measured, is. https://www.fastcompany.com/90336550/how-much-are-we-sacrificing-for-automa… S,A, Applin, May 7, 2019, Fast Company (Point of View) The creeping threat of facial recognition (Do those championing new surveillance technology not realize that they too will be affected by it?) https://www.fastcompany.com/90336549/the-creeping-threat-of-facial-recognit… Cheers! Sally Sally Applin, Ph.D. .......... Research Fellow HRAF Advanced Research Centres (EU), Canterbury Centre for Social Anthropology and Computing (CSAC) .......... Research Associate Human Relations Area Files (HRAF) Yale University .......... Associate Editor, IEEE Consumer Electronics Magazine Member, IoT Council Executive Board Member: The Edward H. and Rosamond B. Spicer Foundation .......... http://www.posr.org http://www.sally.com I am based in Silicon Valley .......... sally(a)sally.com | 650.339.5236

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Farmers' use of the internet
by Philippa Smith 07 May '19

07 May '19

Hi Everyone This question might be a bit unusual - but the AOIR community is always so accommodating and if you don't ask you might never know. I'm interested to find out if there are any studies or academic literature about farmers' use of the internet and social media particularly in relation to the management of their farms and the implementation of biodiversity strategies. In other words, I'm looking to assess farmers' uptake of the internet/social media either for knowledge building or for connecting with others in their community either for support or information gathering. Any information about digital tools that are being used eg apps, websites would also be of interest to me. Clearly this is only going to apply to farmers who have internet access - particularly when they are located rurally. Looking forward to your replies! Kind regards Philippa Philippa Smith Senior Lecturer School of Language & Culture Auckland University of Technology Auckland NEW ZEALAND https://www.aut.ac.nz/profiles?id=phsmith&asset=269627

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CFP for South Asia research session at AEJMC Toronto, 2019
by Aikat, Deb 07 May '19

07 May '19

We invite you to present your research at the South Asia Communication Association (SACA)'s refereed-research session at the 102nd annual conference of the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication (AEJMC), Toronto, Canada, Aug. 7-10, 2019. Submit by May 22, 2019 your research for the South Asia session at the ICA 2019 in Washington D.C. Here's the hyperlink to the call http://bit.ly/2vJsa8I Call for Proposals *Present your research on media and communication on South Asia or its diaspora worldwide at the 102nd annual conference of the AEJMC, Toronto, Canada, Aug. 7-10, 2019. *Submit an extended abstract by May 22, 2019 11:59 p.m., EST. Notifications of acceptance: June 3, 2019. *If you have questions, email Dr. Deb Aikat <da(a)unc.edu>, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. >From the SACA Steering Committee (listed by last names) Deb Aikat, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Nandini Bhalla, University of South Carolina. Srividya "Srivi" Ramasubramanian, Texas A&M University. Abhijit Sen, Winston-Salem State University. S. Shyam Sundar, Pennsylvania State University, and Harsh Taneja, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign.

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CFP - YECREA seminar on “Alternative scholarly communication for young scholars” at the University of Helsinki, 21-22 October 2019
by Sofia Caldeira 07 May '19

07 May '19

CALL FOR PARTICIPATION YECREA seminar on “Alternative scholarly communication for young scholars” * at the University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland * * * The Young Scholars Network of ECREA (YECREA) is happy to invite all young scholars - doctoral students, post-docs, junior scholars, and other early-career scholars - to participate in two seminar sessions, organised as part of the joint conference on ‘Infrastructures and Inequalities: Media industries, digital cultures and politics’ in Helsinki. This is a joint initiative of three YECREA Sections: Communication and Democracy; Digital Culture and Communication; and Media Industries and Cultural Production. * * Details: Date: 21-22 October 2019 Location: Metsätalo, University of Helsinki Two parallel sessions (1.5 hours each) The deadline for applications is 15 June 2019 * * Topics this workshop will cover: - Strategies for building researchers networks - exploring research communities, the potential of digital platforms - Broadening scholarly communication - engaging with social media * Seminar description: Scholarly communication is undergoing significant changes and evolutions, particularly in today’s shifting media landscape. For young scholars and early career researchers in particular, issues of disseminating our research on social media platforms, creating alternative communication forms, and establishing sustainable researcher communities are particularly relevant. The shift towards a more diverse array of scholarly communication has already begun. Scholars now share their research and connect with each other on platforms such as Academia.edu, ResearchGate and LinkedIn. As well as these outlets, the traditional article format is being altered by including blog posts, interactive graphics and video. And perhaps most significantly, scholarly conversations are now taking place on social media platforms such as Twitter and Instagram. These seminars aim to help young scholars navigate the process of sharing their research within this digital media environment. * 21 October 2019 The first seminar, facilitated by Professor Kirsi Pyhältö, explores the issue of "How to build and sustain researcher networks”. This workshop, intended for PhD students and young career scholars, aims to facilitate use of researcher communities as a resource for doctoral research and career development, by analyzing the potential of these communities, exploring one’s own communities, and discussing them with peers. The workshop addresses the function of researcher communities in early career researchers’ daily lives, and their role as a central resource for their careers after a doctoral degree. * 22 October 2019 The second seminar, facilitated by Dr. Salla-Maaria Laaksonen, explores the topic “Why bother? Expert communication on social media”. This seminar addresses the issue of the growing diversity of digital platforms for research dissemination, scholarly conversation, and alternative academic networking. It explores how early career researchers can engage with social media, the opportunities and also the pressures that these digital platforms afford, inquiring how young scholars and researchers can benefit from them. * * Please submit a brief expression of interest (max. 200 words) providing a short description of your research interests and why you are interested in attending the seminars. Additionally, please provide a short bionote stating your name, email, affiliation and position, and country. Please be aware that participants commit to attending both seminars. Please send in your expressions of interests and personal information, no later than 15 June 2019, to: Ally.Mccrowyoung(a)hum.ku.dk AnaSofia.PereiraCaldeira(a)ugent.be Giulia.Manica(a)nottingham.ac.uk Selected participants will be notified by the 15th of July 2019 * Participation in these seminar sessions is free of charge. * The organising team: Ally McCrow-Young (YECREA representative of Communication and Democracy Section) Giulia Manica (YECREA representative of Media Industries and Cultural Production Section) Sofia Caldeira (YECREA representative of Digital Culture and Communication Section) ________________________________ We encourage workshop participants to also submit a proposal for the main conference. Please submit your abstract also by 1 June 2019 (300-word abstract for individual proposals; or 300-word panel rationale plus individual 200 word abstracts from a minimum of four speakers for panel proposals). All abstracts for individual as well as panel proposals should be submitted through EasyChair: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=infrastructuresandin For more information, please consult the conference website: https://www.helsinki.fi/en/conferences/infrastructures-and-inequalities

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Christchurch Call - relevant research links request
by Pearson, Erika 07 May '19

07 May '19

Kia ora koutou from NZ As some of you may already be aware, next month NZ and France will be co-chairing a "Christchurch Call" meeting alongside the "Tech for Good" and the "Tech for Humanity" summits as part of the response to the Christchurch attack - here's a news article overview for those not sure what the Call is https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=12226274 . This meeting might consider issues such as online radicalization and hate speech, and perhaps also wider considerations of civil society in a digital era, though the exact agenda has yet to be finalized I have been asked to request of the global research community any recent scholarly works that might be useful for people here to consider as they work through their thinking as to what the Call should - rather than restricting to a particular topic, I'd like to cast the net wide at this stage, as the agenda is still evolving. So could you please send me directly links/cites to your work or works of your colleagues that may help contribute or feed into this important public discussion. There is a tight timeframe here, so if you could get them to me by the 10th May NZ time (which early in the 9th for the US and late in the 9th for Europe) I would be very appreciative. I will pass them onto the team as I get them. Thanking you in advance. Erika (PS: thanks also for making me one of your open seat representatives - I look forward to serving the organisation!) Dr Erika Pearson School of Communication Journalism and Marketing Massey University Wellington

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Special Issue 'Big Data from the South'
by Milan, Stefania 06 May '19

06 May '19

Dear AoiR colleagues and friends We are happy to announce the publication of a Special Issue of Television & New Media exploring ‘Big Data from the South’. Edited by Stefania Milan (DATACTIVE, University of Amsterdam) and Emiliano Treré (Data Justice Lab, Cardiff University), it features six articles and a commentary: Stefania Milan and Emiliano Treré: 'Big Data from the South(s): Beyond Data Universalism’ (Milan/Treré) (>> open access at https://doi.org/10.1177/1527476419837739) Nick Couldry and Ulises A. Mejias: Data Colonialism: Rethinking Big Data’s Relation to the Contemporary Subject Paola Ricaurte: Data Epistemologies, The Coloniality of Power, and Resistance Payal Arora: Decolonizing Privacy Studies Monique Mann and Angela Daly: (Big) Data and the North-in-South: Australia’s Informational Imperialism and Digital Colonialism Jean-Marie Chenou and Carolina Cepeda-Másmela: #NiUnaMenos: Data Activism From the Global South María Soledad Segura and Silvio Waisbord: Between Data Capitalism and Data Citizenship (commentary) You can explore the Special Issue at https://journals.sagepub.com/toc/tvna/current To continue the conversation about Southern and resistant epistemologies of datafication (well beyond the 'Global South'!), visit the webpage of the Big Data from the South Initiative [1], check out the multilingual blog (and consider to contribute to it!), and join the dedicated mailing-list. Enjoy! Stefania Milan y Emiliano Treré [1] https://data-activism.net/publications/big-data-from-the-south/ ------------------- Stefania Milan Associate Professor of New Media and Digital Culture, University of Amsterdam | https://stefaniamilan.net Principal Investigator, DATACTIVE (ERC Starting Grant 639379) | https://data-activism.net Principal Investigator, ALEX (ERC Proof of Concept 825974) | https://algorithms.exposed (coming soon!) @annliffey | @data_ctive +31627875425 | +31(0)205252416 Fingerprint: 5A7B  6330  5684  FC39  3DC0 67D7  08B3  50AE  6AF5  1B63

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Re: [Air-L] Announcing the Results of the 2019-21 AoIR Executive Committee Elections
by Glatt,ZA (pgr) 06 May '19

06 May '19

Dear AoIRists, I just wanted to say thank you so much to those of you who voted in the Executive Committee elections, I'm so excited to be taking over the reins from Kate as Graduate Student Representative in October!! Thank you so much especially to my fellow nominees, there was a great collegial spirit between us and many excellent ideas. Congratulations to Tama, Katrin, Kelly, Crystal, Fabio and Erika (and Lynn and Axel) - I look forward to working with you all over the next two years to make AoIR even better than it already is! 😄 Many thanks, Zoe ________________________ Zoë Glatt www.zoeglatt.com<http://www.zoeglatt.com/> ESRC PhD Researcher in Media & Communications London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE) Managing Editor: Communication, Culture & Critique YouTube channel<https://www.youtube.com/user/Zedstergal> | Twitter<https://twitter.com/ZoeGlatt> | LSE bio<http://www.lse.ac.uk/media-and-communications/people/phd-researchers/zoe-gl…> <http://www.lse.ac.uk/media-and-communications/people/phd-researchers/zoe-gl…> ________________________________ From: Association of Internet Researchers <admin(a)members.aoir.org> Sent: 06 May 2019 21:50:56 To: Glatt,ZA (pgr) Subject: Announcing the Results of the 2019-21 AoIR Executive Committee Elections [https://members.aoir.org/resources/Pictures/aoir_logo3.png] Dear Zoe, We are excited to announce the results of our recent election for the AoIR Executive Committee. But first, some thank yous and some information about the election. AoIR would like to thank our election monitors, Alex Halavais and Andra Siibak, who, in accordance with the terms of our Bylaws certified the results. And of course thank you to everyone who ran for office and everyone who voted. The new Executive Committee will officially take office in October at the Association General Meeting. We hope you'll join us in Brisbane to meet with them and provide your input regarding the future direction of the Association. Here is your 2019-2021 Executive Committee: • President (elected as Vice President in the 2017 Election): Lynn Schofield-Clark, University of Denver • Vice President (becomes President in two years): Tama Leaver, Curtin University • Immediate Past President (elected as Vice President in the 2015 Election): Axel Bruns, Queensland University of Technology • Secretary: Katrin Tiidenberg, Tallinn University • Treasurer: Kelly Quinn, University of Illinois at Chicago • Graduate Student Representative: Zoe Glatt, London School of Economics • Open Seats: 1) Crystal Abidin, National University of Singapore/Jönköping University; 2) Fabio Giglietto, UniversitÃ di Urbino Carlo Bo; 3) Erika Pearson, Massey University Thanks again to everyone who participated in the election. AoIR is excited about our future with such capable members leading the way! Unsubscribe<https://members.aoir.org/Sys/Unsubscribe?et=m%2bJviwUU%2bsvcMTBHj3jlgTXUl9P…>

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Call for papers on special issue on Live Videos in Social Media extended
by Rosanna Guadagno 06 May '19

06 May '19

Dear colleagues, I am writing in my capacity as the Editor-in-Chief of the interdisciplinary journal the *International Journal of Interactive Communication Systems and Technologies*(IJICST for short). This journal covers topics related to digitally-mediated communication across the disciplines of psychology, communication, and human-computer interaction and welcomes manuscripts on these topics employing both quantitative and qualitative research methodologies. Theoretical papers are welcome as well. As the editor, I am looking for scholars to help contribute to the success of the journal - both on the reviewer/editorial board side as well as on the manuscript submission side. So, this is a call for interested parties to consider: 1) nominate/self-nominate as ad hoc reviewers and/or editorial board members and 2) submit manuscripts for expedited review. We also have a current special Issue call for papers on Live Videos in Social Media: https://www.igi-global.com/calls-for-papers-special/international-journal-i…. The submission deadline was just extended to *May 31, 2019.* Here's the overall link to the journal: http://www.igi-global.com/journal/international-journal-interactive-communi… Here's a link to our most recent issues: https://www.igi-global.com/journal/international-journal-interactive-commun… To express interest in joining the editorial board, please check this link: http://www.igi-global.com/journals/become-a-reviewer/?tid=41029 To submit a new manuscript, please check this link: http://www.igi-global.com/calls-for-papers/international-journal-interactiv… Please let me know if you have any questions. Best, Rosanna --- Rosanna E. Guadagno, Ph.D. Director, Information Warfare Working Group, Center for International Security and Cooperation (CISAC), Stanford University Editor-in-Chief, International Journal of Interactive Communication Systems and Technologies: ( http://www.igi-global.com/journal/international-journal-interactive-communi… ) Special Issue call for papers on Live Videos in Social Media: https://www.igi-global.com/calls-for-papers-special/international-journal-i…

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