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Call For Chapters: A Media Anthropology of India
by Preeti Raghunath 11 Oct '20

11 Oct '20

A MEDIA ANTHROPOLOGY OF INDIA CALL FOR CHAPTERS - Preeti Raghunath and Haripriya Narasimhan CONCEPT NOTE The intertwining of Communication and Media Studies, and the discipline ofAnthropology is not new, in the Indian context. Arjun Appadurai’s (1990) considered takes on global communication flows and mediascapes, Purnima Mankekar’s (1999) landmark work on screen cultures, and the steady engagement of anthropologists like Binod C. Agrawal (1985) in Communication and Media Studies, are some instances of efforts at bringing the two subject areas to influence each other. The growing number of ethnographies in Communication and Media Studies showcase the influence of Anthropology’s methodological and epistemological offerings to study various media-related phenomena. Research on media and cultures is underway in various departments of Cultural Studies and Film Studies, in the country and outside. Similarly, the popularity of digital ethnography, anthropology of popular culture and development, are areas that have caught Anthropology's fancy. Visual Anthropology has emerged as a distinct field within Anthropology, while departments of Sociology carry out ethnographic work on aspects of Communication and Media Studies. These disparate engagements across diverse disciplinary frameworks purport a call for a unification of these efforts. The lack of a reflexive formulation of Media Anthropology as a distinct sub-discipline is strikingly evident., This proposed edited volume on Media Anthropology is a call to recognize, and conceptualize such a sub-discipline in and on India, an area that seems to warrant careful attention in its own right. It is in this context that we seek to lay out the genealogy of such a body of work, take cognizance of the ‘practice’ turn in Communication and Anthropology alike, contend with technology’s current multiple offerings, and provide insights from decolonial and non-Western perspectives. We ask a range of questions: What are the key works that would feature in a genealogy of a Media Anthropology of India? Can one conceptualize such a sub- discipline as comprising only ethnographic work, or do there exist other methodological and epistemological inputs that could go into its formulation? Is media synonymous with technology and related cultures? On a related note, how would such a sub-discipline contend with accusations of technological determinism and evolutionary undertones? How does the ‘practice’ turn in Communication and Media Studies that seeks to go beyond media-centrism (Couldry, 2004; Budka, 2020) propel human-centric work? What are the politics of the digital turn as seen through empirical realities in India? Finally, what does Media Anthropology of India have to offer in terms of critical perspectives and for the current decolonial turn that the social sciences are contending with? [image: page1image26040] [image: page1image26216] In a bid to answer these questions, we propose a set of themes that are not exhaustive by any means: Ø Conceptualising a Media Anthropology of India Ø Genealogical accounts and reviews of media anthropology research in/on India Ø Methodological interventions, including but not limited to multi-modal methods, autoethnographies, policy ethnography, design ethnography and the like Ø Media histories and historiographies, and their linkages to the anthropological Ø Anthropological lenses on media, popular and tech cultures, including but not limited to the study of newsrooms, cinema, AI Ø Accounts of Praxis, drawing on precarities and informality of labour Ø Studies of identities and marginalities of various kinds, also enabled by the recognition of intersectionalities Ø Encountering the Transnational and Global Ø Infrastructures and the Urban Ø Capturing the Datafication of human lives that is currently underway Please email your abstracts to mediaanthrobook(a)gmail.com, by November 10, 2020. The chapters themselves could be written in diverse formats like reflexive essays, commentaries, thick ethnographies, interviews and beyond, facilitating a range of inquiries into the sub-discipline. The editors will work with the shortlisted authors to weave together the edited volume, for which interest has been expressed by a prominent international publisher. ABOUT THE EDITORS Preeti Raghunath is an Assistant Professor at the Symbiosis Institute of Media and Communication (SIMC), Pune, India. Haripriya Narasimhan is an Associate Professor at the Department of Liberal Arts, Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Hyderabad, India. -- Preeti Raghunath, PhD Assistant Professor Symbiosis Institute of Media and Communication (SIMC) Symbiosis International (Deemed University), Pune, India My Book: Community Radio Policies in South Asia: A Deliberative Policy Ecology Approach <https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-981-15-5629-6> Email: preeti.raghunath(a)simc.edu Website: www.preetiraghunath.com Twitter: @preetiraghunath Phone: +919160518081 Vice-Chair, Global Media Policy Working Group, IAMCR <https://iamcr.org/s-wg/working-group/gmp> Visiting Fellow, Nepal Institute of International Cooperation and Engagement (NIICE) <https://niice.org.np> Editor, Media Anthropology Research Collective-South Asia <https://mediaanthropologysouthasia.wordpress.com>

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Autumn Update.
by Gerard Cheshire 10 Oct '20

10 Oct '20

With the usual apologies for any cross-posting. The final piece of the jigsaw puzzle has been slotted into place regarding the provenance of the language and writing system for manuscript MS408. A new paper, titled 'Reintroducing a vanished Romance language' is available here: https://www.academia.edu/44261539/Reintroducing_a_vanished_Romance_language Enjoy and please disseminate to other scholars who may benefit. Kindest regards, Dr. Gerard Cheshire. Research Associate. University of Bristol.

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Open rank, tenure track faculty position Social and Organizational Informatics
by Maitland, Carleen 09 Oct '20

09 Oct '20

Dear AoIR colleagues, Below, we are pleased to share our posting for a tenure track faculty position in the College of Information Sciences and Technology at Penn State University, USA. Tenure-Track Faculty in Social and Organizational Informatics<https://nam01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fpsu.wd1.m…> Carleen Carleen Maitland http://cmaitland.ist.psu.edu/ Associate Professor College of Information Sciences and Technology Pennsylvania State University

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The 4th International Geomedia 2021 Conference: OFF THE GRID // 5-8 May, 2021 / Siegen, Germany
by Sam Hind 09 Oct '20

09 Oct '20

*Apologies for X-posting* //////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////// The 4th International Geomedia conference OFF THE GRID will take place in Siegen, Germany from 5-8 May, 2021. Hosted by Locating Media & Media of Cooperation at the University of Siegen: http://www.locatingmedia.uni-siegen.de/home-en/ & https://www.mediacoop.uni-siegen.de/en/<https://www.mediacoop.uni-siegen.de/de/> It follows successful, and popular, versions in Karlstad, Sweden hosted by the Geomedia team at Karlstad University: https://www.kau.se/en/geomedia See below for the Call for Papers. At present we are planning for either an IRL event, or a digital version, to be confirmed in January 2021. Visuals by https://whateverworks.biz/ to follow. //////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////// Geomedia 2021 – Off the Grid CALL FOR PAPERS: The 4th International Geomedia Conference Siegen, Germany, 5-8 May 2021 The phrase “off the grid” is commonly understood to refer to the voluntary decoupling from established infrastructure networks such as electricity, water or gas supply. The implication is one of material independence and a self-sufficient lifestyle. Going “off the grid” means making yourself invisible by rebuking the social and technological structures that normally organize our lives. It is entering, or returning to, uncharted territory. The grid from which you disappear is often imagined like a web that we are woven into, at once providing security – of cultural connectivity, opportunities to work, or societal participation – while also limiting individual, political or technological agency. The grid also speaks to the geographic coordinate system, an all-encompassing global structure which makes it possible to accurately locate any point on earth. This unified grid represents a dominant ordering principle for everything “locatable”. It is part of the technological infrastructure of many platforms, services and applications which fall under the definition of geomedia, most prominently the Global Positioning System (GPS). In this regard, “off the grid” is a move away from such Cartesian notions of space towards a situated relational account of (quotidian) practices carried out with, through, or in relation to, geomedia. Going off the grid has also been seen as a form of renunciation of the conveniences of the late capitalist (media) world in order to lead a supposedly slower, less stressful and eventually less superficial life – as inspired by the transcendentalism of the likes of Henry David Thoreau and Ralph Waldo Emerson. But with so many people relying on the grid for purposes of work and entertainment in recent times, what does this mean for our relation to geomedia? What does going off the grid look like now? This presupposes, of course, that there is ipso facto a grid – an infrastructure – which one can connect to freely at any time. But a great number of people do not get to choose to decouple from the grid – a fact that speaks to questions of access to the socio-material infrastructures underpinning geomedia and associated communities and practices. Arguably, practices of surveillance and countersurveillance concern the implicit or even involuntary participation in corresponding infrastructures. Here, optimization for a range of tasks and activities routinely involves a certain kind of surveillance; a default setting in the running of all kinds of media platforms used for navigation, video streaming or online gaming. In this, surveillance is wrapped up with profit-seeking practices, and the extraction of value from the ‘data fumes’ of platform users, who enter a form of “cooperation without consensus” as they stream movies, hire taxis, host videoconferences, ride public transport, or go on dates. In these various iterations, surveillance might look different, and/or be practiced in distinct ways to traditional forms of state or corporate surveillance, increasingly dependent on technological protocols and standards that not only underpin the grid but also govern our use of geomedia. One consequence is that the relation between private and public spheres is transformed, and introduces new questions of governance, exploitation and marginalization. It is of crucial importance, who is online, and who is offline might as well not exist. Yet these optimization processes are also subject to countermeasures that constitute new modes of existence – from anonymous accounts and the use of VPNs, to location spoofing, and other tricks and techniques to hide, erase, or obfuscate user activity and location. Yet the grid is not all-encompassing, nor all-powerful. Whilst countersurveillance efforts resist, fight back and oppose, alternative geomedia projects imagine the grid differently – sometimes even plotting its demise. From community broadband initiatives, to independent media organizations, post-capitalist streaming platforms, and citizen science projects; there is a continued, concerted effort to build alternatives to state-based, or company-owned geomedia, operating at various scales from the hyper-local to the global. Through these efforts, organizers and participants question the foundations of our collective social and technological infrastructures, redefining what it is to care, share, distribute, cultivate or reallocate funds, resources, opportunities and ideas – bringing new geomedia, and new imaginaries of hope (or perhaps fear), into existence. Keynote Speakers: Caren Kaplan – University of California at Davis, USA Nanna Verhoeff – Utrecht University, Netherlands Suggested paper topics include, but are not limited to: * Politics, philosophy and ethics of going off grid * Grid as Network, Grid as Default (Geomedia and Infrastructure) * Physical Geography/Relational Geography * Inhabiting Digital Geographies (VR, hybrid spaces) * Geomedia in the Global South * Urban and Rural Geomedia * The ‘geo’ in Geomedia, the ‘media’ in Geomedia * Governing Geomedia (smart city, sensor media, infrastructures, surveillance & countersurveillance) * Geomedia Activism * Digital detox, rationing, quarantine and isolation * Geomedia Histories Geomedia 2021 welcomes proposals for individual papers as well as thematic panels in English. Individual paper proposals: The author submits an abstract of 200–250 words. Accepted papers are grouped by the organizers into sessions of 5 papers according to thematic area. Thematic panel proposals: The chair of the panel submits a proposal consisting of 4–5 individual paper abstracts (200-250 words) along with a general panel presentation of 200–250 words. Conference timeline October 31st 2020: Submission system opens January 7th 2021: Deadline for thematic panel and individual paper proposals January 25th 2021: Notes of acceptance and registration opens March 15th 2021: Last day of registration Conference website Information about registration, conference programme, venue, social events and practical arrangements will be posted continuously on the conference website starting September 1st: www.geomediastudies.com<http://www.geomediastudies.com>. Contact: You can reach us at info(a)geomediastudies.com<mailto:info@geomedia.se>. - Research Associate SFB1187 Media of Cooperation @mediaofcoop<https://twitter.com/mediaofcoop> | University of Siegen hind(a)locatingmedia.uni-siegen.de<Mailto:hind@locatingmedia.uni-siegen.de> https://samhind.com/ <http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/fac/cross_fac/cim/people/student-researchers/sam-…> <http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/fac/cross_fac/cim/people/student-researchers/sam-…>

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CfP Streaming media: production, interfaces, content and users
by Marika Lüders 09 Oct '20

09 Oct '20

Dear list members, CALL FOR PAPERS: Special issue on Streaming media: production, interfaces, content and users JOURNAL: MedieKultur: Journal of media and communication research ABSTRACTS DUE: 15th of October 2020 Streaming is an increasingly used form of content distribution. This special issue of MedieKultur: Journal of media and communication research aims at bringing together articles that contribute to a better understanding of how streaming affects established media industries such as film, television, gaming, music, radio/podcasts, books and audio books. As communication and media scholars we are interested in streaming media, that is the structures, relations and practices including and surrounding streaming as distribution systems. This encompasses (at least) studies of media industries and production, interfaces, content, and use of streaming media. Guest editors: Mads Møller Tommerup Andersen and Marika Lüders For full call and further information, see https://tidsskrift.dk/mediekultur/announcement/view/818 Best wishes, Marika Lüders Marika Lüders Professor, Department of Media and Communication, University of Oslo +47 99 52 52 06

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Hybrid discussion-based courses: how to encourage discussion between in-person & digital participants?
by Cory Robinson 08 Oct '20

08 Oct '20

Hi all, As many of you are facing (and probably mastered!), I will have a hybrid master/PhD discussion-based course. For those that have mastered encouraging participation and discussion between in-person and digital participants, care to share your knowledge? 😊 The course will have approximately 20 in-person students, and 2-4 attending via Zoom. Students will lead discussion in pairs for 2 of 8 course meetings, with each course meeting covering a different topic within Big Data Ethics. Last year, we ran the course in a classroom of 30 students, all seated at an “O” shaped arrangement of tables, where everyone was able to face and view each student and lecturer in the room. Students had name cards in front of them, and we used a discussion prompt where each had 3 paperclips, using 1 every time they spoke, and needing to use all paperclips by the end of the course meeting (this encouraged conversation from those usually a bit inhibited, and lessened “taking over” the conversation by our more dominant course attendees). Many thanks in advance – this listserv is a bunch of rockstars! Best, Cory -- Senior Lecturer/Assistant Professor in Communication Design Linköping University E: cory.robinson(a)liu.se<mailto:cory.robinson@liu.se> http://liu-se.academia.edu/StephenCoryRobinson<http://colostate.academia.edu/StephenCoryRobinson> Founder, Nordic Privacy Center (nordicprivacy.org<https://nordicprivacy.org/>)

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New Report on the Challenges of the Facebook Ad Library and Report
by Jennifer Stromer-Galley 07 Oct '20

07 Oct '20

Hi everyone, My amazing team (with a hat tip to Sarah Bolden) has just released a report of the challenges in using the Facebook Ad Library and Ad Report to help reveal dark money and PAC advertising in the 2020 presidential election. It's also potentially a guide for future researchers on some of the pitfalls in using the FB Ad Library and Report for research around misinformation and advertising on the Facebook and Instagram platforms: https://news.illuminating.ischool.syr.edu/2020/10/06/facebook-political-adv… I welcome any thoughts or feedback. ~Jenny Jennifer Stromer-Galley Senior Associate Dean for Academic and Faculty Affairs 230 Hinds Hall, Syracuse, NY 13244 jstromer(a)syr.edu<mailto:jstromer@syr.edu> https://ccds.ischool.syr.edu/ Illuminating 2020: Helping Journalists Report on the 2020 Election https://illuminating.ischool.syr.edu<https://illuminating.ischool.syr.edu/> Syracuse University

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Online Talk: Cait McKinney on Information Activism: A Queer History of Lesbian Media Technologies hosted by the Centre for Media History at Macquarie University
by Margie Borschke 07 Oct '20

07 Oct '20

The Centre for Media History<https://www.mq.edu.au/research/research-centres-groups-and-facilities/resil…> at Macquarie University invites you to attend an online talk by Cait McKinney on their recently launched monograph Information Activism: A Queer History of Lesbian Media Technologies<https://www.dukeupress.edu/information-activism> (Duke University Press, 2020). The talk will be followed by a Q&A and group discussion. Event: A Public Talk on Information Activism: A Queer History of Lesbian Media Technologies <https://www.dukeupress.edu/information-activism> (Duke University Press, 2020) Presenter: Cait McKinney<http://caitmckinney.com>, Author of Information Activism and Assistant Professor in the School of Communication at Simon Fraser University When: Sydney time: Thursday October 15, 2020 10AM; (Vancouver time: Wednesday October 14, 4PM) Where: Via Zoom; RSVP by October 14 (Sydney time) for link to meeting cmh(a)mq.edu.au<mailto:cmh@mq.edu.au> About the book: For decades, lesbian feminists across the United States and Canada have created information to build movements and survive in a world that doesn't want them. In Information Activism Cait McKinney traces how these women developed communication networks, databases, and digital archives that formed the foundation for their work. Often learning on the fly and using everything from index cards to computers, these activists brought people and their visions of justice together to organize, store, and provide access to information. Focusing on the transition from paper to digital-based archival techniques from the 1970s to the present, McKinney shows how media technologies animate the collective and unspectacular labor that sustains social movements, including their antiracist and trans-inclusive endeavors. By bringing sexuality studies to bear on media history, McKinney demonstrates how groups with precarious access to control over information create their own innovative and resourceful techniques for generating and sharing knowledge. https://www.dukeupress.edu/information-activism <https://www.dukeupress.edu/information-activism> About Cait McKinney<http://caitmckinney.com>: My research is interested in how queer and feminist social movements use digital technologies to build alternative information infrastructures. I focus on how these movements struggle to provide vital access to information using new digital tools, within conditions where that access is often precarious. My research illustrates how information activism by queer and feminist social justice initiatives offers novel approaches to issues of accessibility, data-management, and participation in networked media environments. Methodologically, I draw primarily on archival research and interviews to do my work. This Event hosted by The Centre for Media History at Macquarie University: Please RSVP cmh(a)mq.edu.au<mailto:cmh@mq.edu.au> by October 14. Margie Borschke Senior Lecturer, Journalism and Media Author of This is Not a Remix: Piracy, Authenticity and Popular Music <https://www.bloomsbury.com/au/this-is-not-a-remix-9781501318924/> Department of Media, Communications, Creative Arts, Literature and Language Room 254, Y3A Building Macquarie University, NSW 2109, Australia T: +61 (2) 9850 2159 | M: + 61 425 226 705 E: margie.borschke(a)mq.edu.au | mq.edu.au<http://mq.edu.au> [Macquarie University]<http://mq.edu.au> CRICOS Provider 00002J. Think before you print. Please consider the environment before printing this email. This message is intended for the addressee named and may contain confidential information. If you are not the intended recipient, please delete the message and notify the sender. Views expressed in this message are those of the individual sender and are not necessarily the views of Macquarie University and its controlled entities.

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WEBCAST OCT 5 -9 : Indigenous Connectivity Summit 2020
by Joly MacFie 06 Oct '20

06 Oct '20

While this event has been going for days, if not weeks, the official plenary is about to kick off. ISOC Live posted: "On Monday 05 October 2020 – Friday 09 October 2020 the Internet Society convenes the 2020 Indigenous Connectivity Summit online. The 4th Indigenous Connectivity Summit brings together community network managers and operators, Indigenous-owned Internet ser" [image: LIVESTREAM] <http://livestream.com/internetsociety/2020ICS>On *Monday 05 October 2020 – Friday 09 October 2020* the *Internet Society* <https://www.internetsociety.org/regions/north-america/> convenes the *2020 Indigenous Connectivity Summit <https://www.internetsociety.org/events/indigenous-connectivity-summit/>* online. The 4th Indigenous Connectivity Summit brings together community network managers and operators, Indigenous-owned Internet service providers, community members, researchers, policy makers and Indigenous leaders. We discuss ways to ensure Alaska Native, American Indian, Inuit, Native Hawaiian, First Nations and Métis communities have affordable, high-quality and sustainable Internet access, and talk about how it can support social and economic development. The Summit provides practical, hands-on training to help Indigenous communities connect to the Internet to and creates opportunities to build relationships and share useful knowledge and experience. *LIVESTREAM http://livestream.com/internetsociety/2020ICS <http://livestream.com/internetsociety/2020ICS>* *AGENDA https://www.internetsociety.org/events/indigenous-connectivity-summit/2020/… <https://www.internetsociety.org/events/indigenous-connectivity-summit/2020/…>* *TWITTER #2020ICS <https://bit.ly/2020ics>* *SIMULCASTS* *https://www.pscp.tv/ISOC_Live/ <https://www.pscp.tv/ISOC_Live/>* *https://www.twitch.tv/isoclive <https://www.twitch.tv/isoclive>* *ARCHIVE* *https://archive.org/details/2020ICS <https://archive.org/details/2020ICS>* *Trouble clicking?* Copy and paste this URL into your browser: https://isoc.live/12781/ - -- -------------------------------------- Joly MacFie +2185659365 -------------------------------------- -

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WEBCAST TODAY: ‘Building Cyber Norms’ at the 10th International Cybersecurity Symposium
by Joly MacFie 06 Oct '20

06 Oct '20

Moderated by Internet Hall of Famer Dave Farber. ISOC Live posted: "This week the 10th International Cybersecurity Symposium, hosted by Keio University & The MITRE Corporation, takes place with the overall theme. 'Building Global Trust for Cyber-Deterrence During an Uncontrolled Pandemic'. Today, Tuesday October 6 20" <http://livestream.com/internetsociety/cybernorms2> <http://livestream.com/internetsociety/cybernorms2>This week the *10th International Cybersecurity Symposium <https://10thcysecsymposium.peatix.com/>*, hosted by Keio University & The MITRE Corporation, takes place with the overall theme. ‘*Building Global Trust for Cyber-Deterrence During an Uncontrolled Pandemic*‘. Today,* Tuesday October 6 2020*, at *11:20 UTC* (07:20 EDT | 20:20 JST) the #1 Plenary Panel '*Building Cyber Norms*' will be webcast live via *ISOC.LIVE <https://isoc.live>*. *Panelists*: *Greg Rattray* (Senior Research Professor, Columbia University) *Joshua W. Walker* (President & CEO, Japan Society) *Ken Katayama* (Director of Digital Policy Corporate, External, Legal Affairs (CELA) Microsoft Japan) *Barbara Grewe* (Portfolio Manager International Strategy and Policy, MITRE) *Kazuo Noguchi* (Senior Researcher, Keio University) *Moderator*: *David Farber* (Distinguished Professor, Co-Director, Cyber Civilization Research Center, Keio University) *LIVESTREAM http://livestream.com/internetsociety/cybernorms2 <http://livestream.com/internetsociety/cybernorms2>* *TWITTER #cybernorms <https://bit.ly/34svPbV> * *SIMULCASTS* *https://www.pscp.tv/ISOC_Live/ <https://www.pscp.tv/ISOC_Live/>* *https://www.twitch.tv/isoclive <https://www.twitch.tv/isoclive>* *ARCHIVE* *https://archive.org/details/cybernorms <https://archive.org/details/cybernorms>* *Permalink* https://isoc.live/12805/ -- -------------------------------------- Joly MacFie +2185659365 -------------------------------------- - -- -------------------------------------- Joly MacFie +2185659365 -------------------------------------- -

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