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12 Streams #8- Partnership for Progress on the Digital Divide 25th Anniversary
by Joly MacFie 03 Jan '20

03 Jan '20

Just as 2019 marked 50 years since the first message crossed the APRPANET, it also marked 25 years since the realization that the Internet and its associated technologies were now so vital that they needed to be ubiquitous. It was Larry Irving, then leading the NTIA, who coined the term 'Digital Divide', and Laura Breeden who led the staff effort to ameliorate it. Our stream today kicks off with Lee Rainie providing facts and figures, and includes Vint Cerf, who needs no introduction, but marked the occasion by sporting a 1994 Internet Society pin. <https://twitter.com/JolyMacfie/status/1131925748267118592> ISOC Live posted: "Today, Tuesday December 31 2019, at 7pm EST (00:00 UTC) in the sixth installment of the Internet Society Livestreaming‘s ‘12 Days of Streams‘ annual highlights, we feature three streams that celebrated the 50th anniversary of first message sent across the" <https://livestream.com/internetsociety/arpanet> [image: livestream] <https://livestream.com/internetsociety/ppdd>Today, *Thursday January 2 2020*, at* 7pm EST* (00:00 UTC) in the 8th installment of the *Internet Society Livestreaming* <https://isoc.live/>‘s ‘*12 Days of Streams <https://isoc.live/tag/12-streams/>*‘‘ annual highlights, we feature the *Partnership for Progress on the Digital Divide 2019 International Conference <https://bit.ly/ppddagenda>*, held in Washington in May, which marked the 25th anniversary of the recognition of the digital divide through social scientific research. This was a 3 day 4 track conference, so there were many more speakers than the four we feature today who are, *Lee Rainie*, Director of Internet and Technology Research, Pew Research Center; *Laura Breeden*, former Program Director for Public Computing and Broadband Adoption, N.T.I.A; *Vint Cerf*, Vice President and Chief Internet Evangelist, Google; and *Larry Irving*, President and CEO, Irving Group. A brief Q&A session with Vint Cerf and Larry Irving is also included. *VIEW ON LIVESTREAM: https://livestream.com/internetsociety/ppdd <https://livestream.com/internetsociety/ppdd>* *ORIGINAL STREAM: https://bit.ly/ppddlive <https://bit.ly/ppddlive>* *TWITTER: #12Streams <http://bit.ly/2t8HX2J> #ppdd2019 <https://bit.ly/ppdd2019> #digitaldivide* *Permalink* https://isoc.live/11662/ -- --------------------------------------------------------------- Joly MacFie 218 565 9365 Skype:punkcast -------------------------------------------------------------- -

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Call for Paper proposals: ECPR Panel on 'Social Movements and Digital Organizing'
by Anastasia Kavada 02 Jan '20

02 Jan '20

**Apologies for Cross-posting ** Dear all, Please see below for the Call for Paper proposals for a panel on 'Social Movements and Digital Organizing' which will take place at the next ECPR conference in Innsbruck (26-28 August 2020) as part of the section on "Current Research and Challenges on Political Participation and Mobilization". Please send me your paper proposals (up to 500 words) to A.Kavada(a)westminster.ac.uk<mailto:A.Kavada@westminster.ac.uk> by 10 February 2020. Please do not hesitate to contact me if you have any questions. Many thanks, Anastasia Kavada Reader in Media and Politics Course Leader of the MA in Media, Campaigning and Social Change<https://www.westminster.ac.uk/journalism-and-mass-communication-courses/201…> Co-Leader of the Arts, Communication and Culture Research Community School of Media and Communication University of Westminster Conference of the European Consortium for Political Research (ECPR), Innsbruck, 26-28 August 2020 Panel Title: Social Movements and Digital Organizing Chair: Anastasia Kavada (Reader in Media and Politics, School of Media and Communication, University of Westminster) Discussant: Alice Mattoni (Associate Professor, Department of Political and Social Sciences University of Bologna) Abstract: Internet use is thought to have changed the organizational dynamics of social movements. This panel will take stock of changes and continuities in social movement organizing and coordination through both a historical analysis, looking back at 20 years of digital organizing, and a focus on emerging platforms and trends. The panel invites papers that critically examine the relationship between digital media and different organizing models, posing important questions around the politics and ideology that informs the use of such media and their technical design. Research in this area has investigated whether and how the use of digital media fosters more decentralized and horizontal forms of organizing. It has also questioned the meaning of the term 'organization', asking whether it needs to be expanded to encompass more informal and unofficial practices of organizing that happen without social movement organizations or other institutions of collective action. It has also explored how digital communication practices can produce new organizations from below, as well as hidden hierarchies and power asymmetries that belie the purported drive towards horizontality. A key issue in this respect is how the values, goals, knowledge and experience of different collective actors affect practices of digital organizing. The panel welcomes papers that focus on the role of digital media in mobilizing audiences and in creating communities of hope and indignation. Apart from Twitter and Facebook, that have received significant academic attention in recent years, the panel warmly invites papers that also investigate more private channels of communication, including internal email lists and instant messaging platforms like Telegram and Whatsaapp. It also encourages papers that look at the communication ecology of social movements or that may focus on one platform but locate its use within this ecology. Yet beyond the functions and practices of digital media, this panel also asks critical questions around the significance of these changes (and continuities) in social movement organizing. Why do such changes matter? Research has investigated whether digital media use is facilitating the prefigurative politics of certain movements, helping activists to enact in the present the more democratic forms of organizing that they would like to see in the future. Other research has looked at the impact of such media practices on the mobilizing potential of social movements, on the speed of action and its impact on public opinion and policy makers, as well as on its potential to escape the restrictions of more authoritarian regimes. The panel invites papers that advance our understanding of why and how digital organizing matters for collective action, aiming to make a critical contribution to this field of research. Please send your proposed paper title, keywords (max. 8) and a 500 word abstract to A.Kavada(a)westminster.ac.uk<mailto:A.Kavada@westminster.ac.uk> by 10 February 2020. The University of Westminster is a charity and a company limited by guarantee. Registration number: 977818 England. Registered Office: 309 Regent Street, London W1B 2HW. This message and its attachments are private and confidential. If you have received this message in error, please notify the sender and remove it and its attachments from your system.

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14th International Conference on Research Challenges in Information Science (RCIS 2020): Sixth Call for Papers
by Announce Announcements 02 Jan '20

02 Jan '20

*** Sixth Call for Papers *** 14th International Conference on Research Challenges in Information Science (RCIS 2020) Royal Apollonia Beach Hotel 5*, Limassol, Cyprus May 20-22, 2020, Limassol, Cyprus http://www.cs.ucy.ac.cy/~george/lm/lm.php?tk=YWlyLUwJCQlhaXItTEBsaXN0c2Vydi… Abstract submission deadline: January 20, 2020 Paper submission deadline: January 27, 2020 (AoE) (Proceedings to be published by Springer; Special Issue in DKE, Elsevier) SCOPE AND TOPICS RCIS aims to bring together scientists, researchers, engineers and practitioners from a wide range of information science fields and to provide opportunities for knowledge sharing and dissemination. RCIS 2020 will continue paying attention to traditional topics at the conference; in addition, we solicit submissions aligned the special theme of Information Science in the Days of Artificial Intelligence. We understand AI in a broad sense, including machine learning, self-adaptation, logic-based reasoning, automation, agents and multiagent systems, natural language processing, etc. RCIS welcomes submissions from the whole spectrum of the information science field. The list of themes and topics includes, but is not limited to: Information Systems and their Engineering · Requirements Engineering · Software Testing · Information Security and Risk · Method Engineering User-Oriented Approaches · Social Computing and Social Network Analysis · User-Centred Design · Collaborative Computing · Human Factors in Information Systems Data and Information Management · Databases and Information · Information Search and Discovery · Conceptual Modelling and Ontologies Business Process Management · Business Process Engineering and Reengineering · Process Mining · Enterprise Engineering Domain-specific IS Engineering · E-Health, e-Government, e-Commerce, ... · Industry 4.0 · Web-Based Applications and Services · Smart Cities Data Science · Big Data & Business Analytics · Decision Information Systems · Knowledge Management · Knowledge Discovery from Data Information Infrastructures · Cyber-Physical Systems · Web Information Systems · Grid Computing and Cloud Computing · Internet of Things · Pervasive and Mobile Computing Reflective Research and Practice · Research Methodologies in Information Science · Impact of Information on the Enterprise and the Individual · Lifecycle Models · Design Science and Rationale Tutorials, Doctoral Consortium, Posters & Demos will complement the main conference. SUBMISSION PROCESS Papers shall be formatted according to the Springer LNCS/LNBIP conference proceedings template (for LaTeX and Word): http://www.cs.ucy.ac.cy/~george/lm/lm.php?tk=YWlyLUwJCQlhaXItTEBsaXN0c2Vydi… . Papers that have already been accepted or are currently under review for other conferences or journals will not be considered for publication at RCIS 2020. Papers should be in English and must be associated to one of the following categories: Technical solution papers (max 16 pages Springer) present solutions that are novel or significantly improve existing approaches. A technical solution paper must include a preliminary validation of the proposed solution, and results must be stated clearly enough so that it is possible to validate them in follow-up research. Evaluation papers (max 16 pages Springer) evaluate existing problem situations or validate proposed solutions through scientific means, i.e., by empirical studies, experiments, case studies, simulations, mathematical proofs, etc. The research method must be sound and appropriate. Industrial practice and experience papers (max 16 pages Springer) thoroughly present problems or challenges encountered in practice, elaborate on success or failure with existing approaches, or report on industrial practice (e.g., methods and tools). A paper in this category shall provide a clear context, detail the problem or the industrial practice, and explain the lessons learned. Work in progress papers (max 8 pages Springer) present relevant preliminary results across the spectrum of information science. These papers can either present a novel technical solution, or report on a preliminary evaluation of a technique. Please note that the maximum length of the paper includes references, appendices, etc. The submission site is http://www.cs.ucy.ac.cy/~george/lm/lm.php?tk=YWlyLUwJCQlhaXItTEBsaXN0c2Vydi… . By submitting a paper, the authors agree that at least one of them will register to the conference and present the paper. The appearance of a paper in the Springer proceedings is dependent on the registration of one author within the early registration deadline on March 31, 2020. SPECIAL ISSUE A selection of the best accepted papers of RCIS'20, chosen by a dedicated committee, will be invited to submit an extended version of the RCIS paper to the Data & Knowledge Engineering (DKE) journal published by Elsevier (https://www.journals.elsevier.com/data-and-knowledge-engineering) The selection of the papers to invite will be based on the review scores and arguments, and the potential for extension. IMPORTANT DATES · Regular paper submission deadline: January 27, 2020 (AoE) · Notification to authors and registration opening: March 15, 2020 · Author registration deadline for all paper types: March 31, 2020 · Camera-ready copy deadline for all paper types: March 31, 2020 · Conference: May 20-22, 2020 CONFERENCE COMMITTEES Steering Committee · Saïd Assar, Institut Mines-Telecom Business School, France · Marko Bajec,University of Ljubljana, Slovenia · Pericles Loucopoulos, Manchester University, University Kingdom · Haralambos Moratidis, University of Brighton, United Kingdom · Selmin Nurcan, Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne, France · Oscar Pastor, Universitat Politècnica de València, Spain · Jolita Ralyté, CUI, University of Geneva, Suisse · Colette Rolland, Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne, France General Chairs · George A. Papadopoulos, University of Cyprus, Cyprus · Pericles Loucopoulos, Harokopio University of Athens, Greece Organising Chair · Petros Stratis, Easy Conferences LTD., Cyprus Program Chairs · Jelena Zdravkovic, Stockholm University, Sweden · Fabiano Dalpiaz, Utrecht University, Netherlands Doctoral Consortium Chairs · Raian Ali, Bournemouth University, United Kingdom · Sergio España, Utrecht University, Netherlands Tutorial Chairs · Estefania Serral Asensio, KU Leuven, Belgium · Ignacio Panach, University of Valencia, Spain Posters & Demos Chairs · Elena Kornyshova, Conservatoire National des Arts et Métiers, France · Marcela Ruiz, Zurich University of Applied Sciences, Switzerland

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Fully-funded PhDs at American University SOC
by Aram Sinnreich 02 Jan '20

02 Jan '20

Greetings, felicitations, and happy new year, fellow internet researchers. Please share the news widely: American University’s School of Communication in Washington, DC has several fully-funded PhD lines for our program in Media, Technology & Democracy, for the Fall 2020 semester. Applications are open through January 20th. https://www.american.edu/soc/admissions/graduate-apply.cfm Send us your best and brightest masters students, so they can come work with me, Pat Aufderheide, Laura DeNardis, Saif Shahin, Andy Phelps, and other members of the AoIR community. Many thanks, Aram — Aram Sinnreich<https://sinnreich.com/> Associate Professor Chair, Communication Studies American University<https://www.american.edu/soc/><https://www.american.edu/soc/> School of Communication<https://www.american.edu/soc/> Author<https://sinnreich.com/books> | Musician<https://sinnreich.com/music>

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12 Streams #7- Internet Society Chapterthon 2019 - Connecting the Unconnected
by Joly MacFie 02 Jan '20

02 Jan '20

2020 could well be the year of the community network. These videos give a glimpse of some of the many efforts around the globe to make it so. ISOC Live posted: "Today, Wednesday January 1 2020, at 7pm EST (00:00 UTC) in the 7th installment of the Internet Society Livestreaming‘s ‘12 Days of Streams‘ annual highlights, we feature all 28 projects in the Internet Society 2019 Chapterthon. The Chapterthon is a global" [image: livestream] <https://livestream.com/internetsociety/chapterthon2019>Today, *Wednesday January 1 2020*, at *7pm EST* (00:00 UTC) in the 7th installment of the *Internet Society Livestreaming* <https://isoc.live/>‘s ‘*12 Days of Streams <https://isoc.live/tag/12-streams/>*‘ annual highlights, we feature all *28 projects <https://www.internetsociety.org/grants/chapterthon/2019/projects/>* in the *Internet Society 2019 Chapterthon <https://www.internetsociety.org/grants/chapterthon/2019/>*. The Chapterthon is a global Internet Society Chapters marathon, where all Internet Society Chapters can participate by developing a project within a timeline and budget to achieve a common goal for the development of the Internet. The Internet Society 2019 Chapterthon's common goal was '*Connecting the Unconnected*' - finding innovative solutions to connecting the half of the population who remain unconnected, these projects will go a long way to helping some of the most remote corners of the world get online. *VIEW ON LIVESTREAM: https://livestream.com/internetsociety/chapterthon2019 <https://livestream.com/internetsociety/chapterthon2019>* *ORIGINAL PLAYLIST: http://bit.ly/chapterthon2019 <http://bit.ly/chapterthon2019>* *TWITTER: #12Streams <http://bit.ly/2t8HX2J> #Chapterthon2019* *@ISOC_Community @ISOCBNet @ISOC_Foundation #InternetForEveryone #switchiton* *Permalink* https://isoc.live/11658/ -- --------------------------------------------------------------- Joly MacFie 218 565 9365 Skype:punkcast -------------------------------------------------------------- -

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12 Streams #6 – The Birth of the ARPANET w/Steve Crocker, Vint Cerf, Bob Kahn, Bill Duvall, Len Kleinrock and Charles Kline
by Joly MacFie 01 Jan '20

01 Jan '20

As these Internet 50 year celebrations got underway, one pedantic party pooper pointed out that the original message sent on October 29 1969 was, in fact, between two computers, not two networks. That would come a little later. Nevertheless it was a great leap forward and, in these sessions, we hear from some of the people who made it possible. ISOC Live posted: "Today, Tuesday December 31 2019, at 7pm EST (00:00 UTC) in the sixth installment of the Internet Society Livestreaming‘s ‘12 Days of Streams‘ annual highlights, we feature three streams that celebrated the 50th anniversary of first message sent across the" [image: livestream] <https://livestream.com/internetsociety/arpanet>Today, *Tuesday December 31 2019*, at *7pm EST* (00:00 UTC) in the sixth installment of the *Internet Society Livestreaming*‘s ‘*12 Days of Streams <https://isoc.live/tag/12-streams/>*‘ annual highlights, we feature three streams that celebrated the 50th anniversary of first message sent across the ARPANET, precursor to the Internet, featuring engineers, and *Internet Hall of Fame <https://www.internethalloffame.org/>* inductees, *Steve Crocker*, *Vint Cerf*, *Bob Kahn*, *Bill Duvall*, *Len Kleinrock* and *Charles Kline* in various combinations. The first stream is the 2019 American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) Annual Meeting in Washington DC '*Celebrating 50 Years Since “LO”*' in February 2019. The second is a session '*Before the Beginning*' from the UCLA 50th Anniversary of the Internet Celebration event in Los Angeles in October 2019. The third is a LACNIC webinar '*50 Years Later, Looking Back at the Internet’s Birth*' from November 2019. *VIEW ON LIVESTREAM: https://livestream.com/internetsociety/arpanet <https://livestream.com/internetsociety/arpanet>* *ORIGINAL STREAMS* *https://livestream.com/internetsociety/arpanet50 <https://livestream.com/internetsociety/arpanet50>* *https://livestream.com/internetsociety/internet50 <https://livestream.com/internetsociety/internet50>* *http://livestream.com/internetsociety/internet50lacnic <http://livestream.com/internetsociety/internet50lacnic>* *TWITTER: #12STREAMS <http://bit.ly/2t8HX2J> #ARPANET #Internet50* *@vgcerf @kleinrock @bobkahn_brand @LACNIC @UCLA* *Permalink* https://isoc.live/11641/ -- --------------------------------------------------------------- Joly MacFie 218 565 9365 Skype:punkcast -------------------------------------------------------------- -

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