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Polymedia
by Traci Belanger 11 Jul '25

11 Jul '25

Hi everyone, does anyone have suggestions for articles on "polymedia" or specifically how polymedia interacts with media ecology? Thanks so much! Traci Belanger --- May all winds at your back inspire you, and may you have harmony and peace today.

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For my US colleagues: an 8 minute survey, where your input might make a difference
by Patricia Aufderheide 08 May '25

08 May '25

I know, exactly what you don't need to do at this crazy point in the semester. At AU, Profs. Aram Sinnreich, Joseph Graf and I have been working with Electronic Frontier Foundation and New Media Rights to design a survey about DMCA exemption language and its accessibility. Would you be interested in taking, sharing with your students and networks, including putting on social media the survey link <http://bit.ly/2nEfY8j>? Here it is again: *http://bit.ly/2nEfY8j <http://bit.ly/2nEfY8j>* Your generosity much appreciated! 👏 -- Patricia Aufderheide, University Professor, School of Communication Founder, Center for Media & -- Patricia Aufderheide, University Professor, School of Communication Founder, Center for Media & Social Impact American University 4400 Massachusetts Av., NW American University, Washington, DC 20016-8017 McKinley Hall 323 @paufder @cmsimpact cmsimpact.org paufder(a)american.edu 202-885-2069 office <202-643-5356> 240-643-4805 mobile <202-643-5356> "The world we have received also belongs to those who follow us." --Pope Francis

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Non-software uses of GitHub
by Jim Herbsleb 16 Apr '25

16 Apr '25

I’m looking for GitHub repositories that are used for things other than software, especially where users are actively collaborating rather than just putting together static collections. So far, we have found a few books being written, some musical transcriptions being error-checked, and some policy documents maintained online. Does anyone know of any examples of these or other categories? Any pointers much appreciated. Happy to share what we find with anyone interested. Jim ---- Jim Herbsleb Carnegie Mellon University http://herbsleb.org/ Google Scholar profile: https://goo.gl/sv3p7l

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Instagram Posts and Discussion Data Gathering Tool
by DeNel Rehberg Sedo 29 May '21

29 May '21

Hello all, can you recommend a data collection tool that is more dynamic than rss.app? One of my graduate students wants to capture images, videos, and discussions on two separate accounts during the fall election season. I would very much appreciate any advice you can give, DeNel DeNel Rehberg Sedo, PhD (she/her) Professor Department of Communication Studies Mount Saint Vincent University McCain Centre 306C, Box M64, 166 Bedford Hwy Halifax, NS B3M 2J6 Canada dr_rehberg_sedo on Twitter denelrehbergsedo.info

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CfP: Gamevironments Regular Issue - Deadline 1. Feb 2020
by Lisa Kienzl 25 Feb '21

25 Feb '21

Dear Colleagues, below you find the Call for Papers for the online journal GAMEVIRONMENTS (Regular Issue) -- due Feb. 1 2020. We are looking forward to your contributions! Best, Lisa ---------------------------------------------------- Call for Papers: journal GAMEVIRONMENTS Regular Issue 2020 ================ To further explore the multilayered socio-cultural and political contexts of video games and gaming, the international peer-reviewed journal GAMEVIRONMENTS is calling for submissions for its Regular Issue 2020. https://www.gamevironments.uni-bremen.de/ DEADLINES The journal follows a fixed timeline for the Regular Issue each year: 01.02. Full Chapter Submission 15.03. Review Results Returned 01.05. Revised Chapter Submission summer Online-Publication GAMEVIRONMENTS seeks to explore both established approaches and new frontiers of researching video games/gaming as related to religion, culture, and society. The journal encourages inter- and multidisciplinary works combining for example Cultural Studies, History, Religious studies, Theology, Ludology, and Psychology. All submitted articles will be reviewed on a double-blind peer-review basis. PAPER TYPES We include different categories of texts in the journal: a) regular academic articles Normally, articles should be between 5.000 words and 10.000 words in length. In general, a clear structure is of course helpful to understand your argumentation (introduction, discussing the relevance of your idea, theoretical frame, used method(s), case study and amount of new knowledge). b) interviews Next to academic articles we are interested in projects related to games, gamers, gaming and religion, culture, and society. For instance, if you have an interview with a game designer, a pedagogue working with games, etc., please feel free to share it in our journal! c) research reports Sometimes you may just want to give an impression of your current research, an introduction to a new project, or just have a longing for acclamation of about the 5% of successful third part funding that we get for this "weird stuff" – please feel free to do so :) In general, such research reports should be short descriptions between 3000 and 5000 words in length. They are not peer-reviewed, but we as journal editors will give some revisions if necessary. d) book reviews There was a flow in publications concerned with games and religion/culture in the last years, so it could be interesting to introduce and discuss some of them. If you are reading a new book which you think can be helpful for other researchers, feel free to propose a review. Reviews should be around 1000 words. Please note that in most cases, the journal will not be able to provide a free copy for reviews, but will try to source a free copy for you. e) game reviews Due to the fact that we are a games journal that wants to collect, systematize and further develop the various recent multidisciplinary approaches in the research area, we need to know our way around in our field, namely GAMES! So if you are playing a game which you think can be an interesting and promising object of investigation, please send us proposals for a game review. Reviews should be around 1000 words. Please note that in most cases, the journal will not be able to provide a free copy for reviews. Video games are full of images, so it would be a good idea to include some of them, illustrating your argumentation. But, for any image, you need to hold the copyright. Please ensure that! Before publishing with the journal, you need to sign a copyright declaration which we provide. Please send all images as .jpg file(s) to us due to formatting issues. Besides your contribution and images, we need keywords (up to 10), an abstract of up to 200 words, and a brief biographical paragraph (100 to 150 words) with your current institutional address and email address. Please consult the gamevironments submission style sheet before submitting your paper, as well as the Help Desk for some general principles. There is no article processing charge. If you are ready, please send your contribution as an RTF file to the managing editor: kienzl(a)uni-bremen.de. https://www.gamevironments.uni-bremen.de/ -- Dr.Dr. Lisa Kienzl, MA wissenschaftliche Mitarbeiterin | postdoctoral researcher Arbeitsgebiet Literaturen und Medien der Religionen | Literature and Media of Religions Universität Bremen | University of Bremen Institut für Religionswissenschaft und Religionspädagogik | Institute of Religious Studies and Religious Education Sportturm (SpT) Postfach 330 440 D-28359 Bremen T. +49 (0)421 218 67912 https://www.gamevironments.uni-bremen.de/

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Gamevironments: Special Issue on "National(ism), Identity and Video Gaming" out now
by Lisa Kienzl 30 Dec '20

30 Dec '20

Dear Colleagues, we are really happy to share with you today news of GAMEVIRONMENTS newest Special Issue on "National(ism), Identity and Video Gaming" edited by Lisa Kienzl and Kathrin Trattner with contributions from: * "Glory to Trumpland! Critically Playing Border Games" by Melissa Kagen * Round Table Discussion on Nation(alism), Identity and Video Gaming with Megan Condis, Marijam Didžgalvytė, Georg Hobmeier and Souvik Mukherjee * "Playing America. An Introduction to American Culture through Video Games" by Michael Fuchs and Stefan Rabitsch * "Research Report on Curse the Fiends, Their Children, Too: Cultural Heritage and Subversion of Fictional Tropes in Bloodborne" by Sarah Zaidan, Richard Pilbeam and Elin Carstensdottir * Interview with Mira Wardhaningsih from StoryTale Studios on the Indonesian Horror Game "Pamali" * Interview with Déyfou-lah Sani Bah-Traore on the Togolese Game "Origin – the Rise of Dzitri" * "We. The Revolution, a Review. Vive la Révolution or Death and All His Friends" by Kevin Recher * "Kingdom Come: Deliverance. A Bohemian Forest Simulator" by Eugen Pfister You find all further information here: https://www.gamevironments.uni-bremen.de/completed-quests/. Best wishes, Lisa Kienzl managing editor gamevironments -- Dr.Dr. Lisa Kienzl, MA wissenschaftliche Mitarbeiterin | postdoctoral researcher Arbeitsgebiet Literaturen und Medien der Religionen | Literature and Media of Religions Universität Bremen | University of Bremen Institut für Religionswissenschaft und Religionspädagogik | Institute of Religious Studies and Religious Education Sportturm (SpT) Postfach 330 440 D-28359 Bremen T. +49 (0)421 218 67912 https://www.gamevironments.uni-bremen.de/

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Re: [Air-L] non-Zoom platforms....again
by Ushnish Sengupta 07 Dec '20

07 Dec '20

Thank you for the excellent summary document on Zoom Mehitabel I am also concerned about the racial inequity issues of automated online proctoring systems, that are used in conjunction with videoconferencing systems such as Zoom. >From what we know of bias in facial recognition and detection algorithms, these systems that try to detect student faces changing direction (potential cheating) during online exams have a significant number of racial injustice issues. Ushnish Sengupta Message: 2 Date: Wed, 29 Jul 2020 22:28:45 -0400 From: Mehitabel Glenhaber <glenhabe(a)usc.edu> To: alexandre.hocquet(a)univ-lorraine.fr Cc: air-l(a)listserv.aoir.org Subject: Re: [Air-L] non-Zoom platforms....again Message-ID: <CAMASph4WHCA1xi1xxpuDwR5A4nFKqoSioyvenLbcTdUJkVaXag(a)mail.gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Hi Alexandre and everyone, This is maybe a bit adjacent to your question, but I have also been concerned watching Zoom rapidly gobble up a near-monopoly on remote education in the United States. Here is an informal resource that I created at the start of the pandemic, and recently updated, warning about the dangers of Zoom becoming a monopoly, and advising educators about alternatives, and how to minimize the harms of using Zoom in the classroom: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1o7Eq17jdWCtu2CaC15JBbdVU1p7fx2_jReH6qoF… I hope it's helpful to you in writing your article, and also generally to folks on this list going into teaching remotely the next semester. I think the situation in the US is very similar to the one you describe in France (with the exception, perhaps, that there was less of an existing open source infrastructure which Zoom replaced - though that's just my impression) Cheers, Mehitabel On Wed, Jul 29, 2020 at 7:41 PM Alexandre Hocquet < alexandre.hocquet(a)univ-lorraine.fr> wrote: > Dear AoIRers, > > long time lurker, first time poster*. A recent inquiry to the list > asking for non-Zoom platforms gave me the idea to ask advice here > regarding a project for an opinion piece I have about the recent taking > over of online conferencing by Zoom (and Microsoft Teams) in Academia. > > My point is that the Covid crisis has led (in France at least, and I'm > willing to have the opinion about academics in other countries) to the > complete outsourcing to those two corporate platforms for online > teaching (and scholarly conferencing), which means > > 1) the renouncement to a once functional dedicated national > infrastructure (namely, in France, the use of free software Jitsi within > the state-sponsored "Renater" academic infrastructure) > > 2) the surrendering of Academia to corporations well known to abuse the > extraction and commodification of data (Zoom) and well known to > "embrace, extend and extinguish" anything within their reach (Microsoft) > > My point is that it is completely contradictory to a supposed general > institutional trend towards "open science", and that open software is > often forgotten besides open litterature and open data, and that the > pandemic has accelerated the disintegration of an academic national and > open infrastructure. > > So my questions are : > > 1) Is anybody aware of an already existing piece expressing that concerns ? > > 2) Is anybody willing to share what is the situation in their country > regarding this issue ? > > Best, > > > * for a little background and as a newcomer presentation, I am a > historian of science and my area is the issue of openness within > scientific modelling software . > > > > -- *Key Articles:* The Future of Social Economy Leadership and Organizational Composition in Canada: Demand from Demographics, and Difference through Diversity <http://interventionseconomiques.revues.org/2794> Indigenous Cooperatives in Canada: The Complex Relationship Between Cooperatives, Community Economic Development,Colonization, and Culture <http://www.jeodonline.com/sites/jeodonline.com/files/articles/2015/08/13/6s…> Indigenous Communities and Social Enterprise in Canada:Incorporating Culture as an Essential Ingredient of Entrepreneurship <http://anserj.ca/anser/index.php/cjnser/article/view/196>

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CfP Misinformation and Disinformation on Digital Platforms in the Pandemic Special Issue
by Rafael Grohmann 14 Nov '20

14 Nov '20

Misinformation and Disinformation on Digital Platforms in the Pandemic Fronteiras Special Issue Guest editors Ronaldo Henn (Unisinos University, Brazil) Carlos d’Andréa (Federal University of Minas Gerais, Brazil) Fronteiras Journal, an open access journal, invites submissions to our special issue “Misinformation and Disinformation on Digital Platforms in the Pandemic”. The special issue encourages submissions that explore one or more of the following issues: - Adjustments and innovations in journalism practice; - Changes in scientific practices; - Governance policies on digital platforms; - Production and manipulation of data around pandemic; - Disinformation, misinformation and social/digital inequalities; - Tensions between politics and public health; - Empirical studies on disinformation and misinformation on digital platforms; - Culture of hate and misinformation; - Celebrities, influencers and digital activists in the circulation of disinformation and misinformation; - Fear, panic and anxiety in the circulation of narratives about Covid-19; - Role of bots, deepfakes and AI in circulation of disinformation and misinformation; TIMELINE November 30, 2020 Closing date for submission of 500-word abstract - [1]revistafronteiras(a)gmail.com December 15, 2020 Invitations to submit full-length papers February 15, 2021 Deadline for submitting full-length papers (between 5,000 and 8,000 words) April 30, 2021 Publication of special issue More information: [2]http://revistas.unisinos.br/index.php/fronteiras/announcement/view/4 2 References 1. https://mail.uol.com.br/compose?to=revistafronteiras@gmail.com 2. http://revistas.unisinos.br/index.php/fronteiras/announcement/view/42

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Call for Applications - SMART Data Sprint 2021 Lisbon
by Smart Inovamedialab 11 Nov '20

11 Nov '20

Hello, Please find below the call for applications of the SMART Data Sprint 2021, organised by iNOVA Media Lab and held online and at NOVA University of Lisbon. The sprint is part of the Digital Media Winter Institute, an annual event that is committed with innovative approaches to study Internet culture and social media, with a particular focus on digital methods approach. This year the theme is about the current state of platformisation - a phenomenon that shows how digital platforms have been mediators of different structures of society, while (re) organizing and making our daily life increasingly dependent on their infrastructure. If you have any questions or need any kind of information, please let us know. On behalf of iNOVA Media Lab, Ana Marta M. Flores Elena Pilipets Janna Joceli Omena ******* Digital Media Winter Institute | SMART Data Sprint 2021 NOVA University of Lisbon 1 - 5 February 2021 | Lisbon, Portugal iNOVA Media Lab invites applications for the SMART Data Sprint 2021, which will be held from 1 to 5 February in a hybrid format — online and in-person, at NOVA University of Lisbon. The Sprint is part of the Digital Media Winter Institute, an annual meeting focused on digital methods. The next edition theme is about The Current State of Platformisation. Participants from around the world will connect to attend keynote lectures, short talks and join applied research projects. This year we will bring even more innovative formats for practical labs, including an exclusive track made for researchers non-familiar with digital methods. Applications open on November 1st and close on January 18, 2021. Main audience: doctoral students and scholars interested in developing research from the perspective of digital methods. See the call for applications on the #SMARTDataSprint research blog https://smart.inovamedialab.org/2021-platformisation SMART Data Sprint | The Current State of Platformisation The deadline for submissions is January 18, 2021. ************************************ Digital Media Winter Institute | SMART Data Sprint 2021 NOVA University of Lisbon 1 - 5 February 2021 | Lisbon, Portugal Keynotes *José van Dijck (Utrecht University) *Anne Helmond (University of Amsterdam and Digital Media Initiative) *Fernando van der Vlist (App Studies Initiative and Digital Methods Initiative) Masterclass *Ariadna Matamoros-Fernández (School of Communication at QUT and Digital Media Research Centre). Projects Participants can choose from different projects to work on. More information on projects will be available on the website soon. Practical Labs An International team of senior researchers, doctoral students and designers will also be leading Short Talks and Practical Labs. In 2021, SMART Data Sprint will offer an innovative format for practical labs, including an exclusive track made for researchers non-familiar with digital methods. More information on practical labs will be available soon. If you have questions, contact the organising committee at smart.inovamedialab[at]fcsh.unl.pt. *Ana Marta M. Flores Universidade NOVA de Lisboa, iNOVA Media Lab, Portugal *Elena Pilipets Alpen-Adria-Universität Klagenfurt, Austria *Janna Joceli Omena Universidade NOVA de Lisboa, iNOVA Media Lab, Portugal -- SMART ˚ ˚ Social Media Research Techniques I #SMARTDataSprint <https://smart.inovamedialab.org/> iNOVA Media Lab <http://inovamedialab.org/> I NOVA FCSH I Universidade NOVA de Lisboa

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Online collaborative timeline/drawing tools?
by Jaime García Iglesias 01 Nov '20

01 Nov '20

Hi. I'm currently working on a project evaluating service delivery during COVID-19 and we're interested in having focus groups of staff members generate their own timelines of change (alongside emotional and affect). However, we're doing this online and we'd like the creation to be somewhat collaborative. I was wondering if there's any of you with any experience of doing this, ideas for software or websites where this can be done? Thanks a ton!

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