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Global Media and China Webinar: Mediating Borders: New Boundaries for Hong Kong Studies
by Xiao Han 26 Oct '20

26 Oct '20

Dear All, The SAGE journal Global Media and China, sponsored by the Communication University of China, is pleased to announce its webinar series. The first webinar will take place on ZOOM: Join Zoom Meeting https://cuhk.zoom.us/j/91865769066?pwd=VW9selYvN1FTMWhTYzNLUDlLVFFCUT09 <https://cuhk.zoom.us/j/91865769066?pwd=VW9selYvN1FTMWhTYzNLUDlLVFFCUT09> Meeting ID: 918 6576 9066 Passcode: 236266 Time: October 29, 20.30 - 22.30 (Beijing/HK Time) October 29, 14.30 - 16.30 (UTC/GMT) Theme There are myriad methods and tactics to study and examine Hong Kong as a former crown colony and a current Chinese special administrative region. Using the idea of border as a critical tool as well as the subject of critique, this webinar highlights and addresses a political and historical fact that the bordering, debordering and transbordering of Hong Kong, as long taken-for-granted through the media, has never been a fixed and stable boundary. To think of the borderscape of Hong Kong is to see border as always in process, which will generate new possibilities in sustaining and reconfiguring the city’s cultural infrastructure to meet new demands and challenges. If political binarism and cultural parochialism have walled up Hong Kong cultures from national or transnational transformations, this webinar seeks to initiate new discussions and revisit old discovery of Hong Kong amid the ebb and flow of nationality, transnationality and globality. Speakers Prof. Yiu-Wai Chu, Professor and Director, Hong Kong Studies Programme, The University of Hong Kong Dr. Helena Wu, Lecturer and Research Fellow, Institute of Asian and Oriental Studies, University of Zurich, Switzerland Dr. Danny Weng-kit Chan, Lecturer, College of Professional and Continuing Education, Hong Kong Polytechnic University Abstracts Yiu-Wai Chu, “Hong Kong (in China) Studies: Hong Kong Popular Culture as Example” Hong Kong’s integration into the Mainland has become a topic that is pertinent to the consideration of the future of Hong Kong culture and the city as a whole. Through the cross-border ventures of Hong Kong cultural industries, this talk examines the implications of a new version of “northbound imaginary” in Hong Kong cinema, television and popular songs. It endeavors to use these cross-border experiences as examples to contribute an additional dimension to Hong Kong studies, which is seen as important as the worlding of Hong Kong culture. Hopefully, this will also shed light on a cultural studies response to the new configuration of the Greater Bay Area. Helena Wu, “Sports as a Lens: The Making of Athletes' and Spectators' Identities in Postmillennial Hong Kong” This talk explores the trajectories of local and national belonging in various forms and degrees, which, in turn, bespeak the evolving Hong Kong-China relationship in the larger socio-political context of post-handover Hong Kong. It examines the multifarious articulations of local and national identifications registered in the athletes’ and the spectators’ performing bodies, their mediated images and embodiments. Through the media representation and repercussion of cross-border sports competitions and athletes’ image, the talk explores the athletes’ and the spectators’ performing bodies and their mediated identities and embodiments, in order to tease out the body and identity politics embedded in sports practice and viewership partaken in different scenarios. Danny Wen-kit Chan, “Beyond Nationhood: Border and Coming of Age in Hong Kong Cinema” The 50s of Hong Kong manifests the initiation of a communal imagination oscillating in between the sovereignty of a British colony and the reality of a Chinese territory. The influx of immigrants from the north and, as a result, the establishment of a border during the 50s not only restructured the demographic composition of the city, but also brought along new momentum for mass cultural productions. Capitalizing on two titles produced in the early 50s and in the late 90s of Hong Kong cinema, namely Fung Fung’s The Kid (1950) and Fruit Chan’s Little Cheung (1999), this talk aims to explore the correlation between border, community and nationality through the life adventures of the child protagonists, whose transitions and explorations are entangled with a political and territorial border that polarizes our Sinophonic imagination in the ongoing present of China-Hong Kong division. Dr HAN Xiao Research Associate, Social Media Centre, Communication University of China (CUC) Commissioning Editor, Global Media and China http://journals.sagepub.com/home/gch <http://gch.sagepub.com/>

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Oxford Global Media Policy Seminar Series - Upcoming Online Talks!
by Kira Allmann 24 Oct '20

24 Oct '20

Dear all, We’re excited to announce a wonderful list of speakers for our PCMLP Global Media Policy Seminar series this term! Please register to attend online: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/o/programme-in-comparative-media-law-and-polic… *We have seen the enemy…and he is us: When engineering culture collides with human rights advocacy online* Corinne Cath-Speth (University of Oxford) November 3rd, 14:00 (UTC) *When good is the enemy of great: Rural broadband in a time of COVID*Christopher Ali (University of Virginia) November 10th, 16:00 (UTC) *Technology Does Not Operate in a Vacuum: The Impact of Women’s Mobile Phone Ownership on Economic Well-being in Tanzania*Philip Roessler (The College of William and Mary) November 17th, 16:00 (UTC) *The role of norms in the Internet infrastructure: the infrastructural norm of interconnection and human rights*Niels ten Oever (University of Amsterdam) December 3rd, 16:00 (UTC) **More details on these talks and links to register: http://pcmlp.socleg.ox.ac.uk/events/** Best wishes, Kira *Dr Kira Allmann*Postdoctoral Research Fellow in Media Law & Policy Centre for Socio-Legal Studies Faculty of Law University of Oxford kira.allmann(a)csls.ox.ac.uk

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NEW: The Financial Times ties to Cambridge Analytica
by Dr. Emma Briant 23 Oct '20

23 Oct '20

Dear Colleagues, A year long investigation from my upcoming book on Cambridge Analytica 'Propaganda Machine' - excerpt now available in Byline Times examines the Financial Times relationship with CA and their attempts to cover it up during the scandal. One of Britain’s most respected media companies, the *Financial Times,* published an article on 7 October asserting in its headline that ‘Cambridge Analytica probe finds no evidence it misused data to influence Brexit’. They neglected to mention the FT's concerning ties with Cambridge Analytica - My article based on important new documents, interviews and emails reveals the FT's cover-up of their own links to the company. Can they even tell readers what happened to the FT's US subscriber list? READ NOW: DARK IRONIES The Financial Times AND Cambridge Analytica <https://emma-briant.us10.list-manage.com/track/click?u=e7f9f1379bf0f0311ebb…> OR SHARE ON TWITTER <https://emma-briant.us10.list-manage.com/track/click?u=e7f9f1379bf0f0311ebb…> Thank you for checking it out. Best wishes to all, Emma -- Dr Emma L Briant Independent Researcher/Author/Analyst Associate Researcher at Human Rights Program Bard College, Annandale on Hudson New York Website: www.emma-briant.co.uk Author of: *Propaganda and Counter-Terrorism: Strategies for Global Change *from Manchester University Press Co-Author of: *Bad News for Refugees* with Prof. Greg Philo and Dr. Pauline Donald from Pluto Press. Follow me on Twitter @emmalbriant <https://www.avast.com/sig-email?utm_medium=email&utm_source=link&utm_campai…> Virus-free. www.avast.com <https://www.avast.com/sig-email?utm_medium=email&utm_source=link&utm_campai…> <#DAB4FAD8-2DD7-40BB-A1B8-4E2AA1F9FDF2>

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PostDoc in Copenhagen: Natural language processing of legal texts and bias
by Sebastian Felix Schwemer 23 Oct '20

23 Oct '20

Dear Air-L community, I am looking for a Postdoc to join me at the Centre for Information and Innovation Law (University of Copenhagen) on a project on natural language processing of legal texts and questions on bias etc. The deadline is really tight (6 November), but I would highly appreciate if you could disseminate this to relevant candidates or ping me if you have someone in mind who I should reach out to ☺. The job ad (excerpt below) can be found here: https://jobportal.ku.dk/videnskabelige-stillinger/?show=152568 Thank you and best regards, Sebastian ==== *LegalTech PostDoc at the Faculty of Law, University of Copenhagen* A 2-year (with possible extension of one year) full-time PostDoc position is available at the Centre for Information and Innovation Law (CIIR) of the Faculty of Law at the University of Copenhagen. The position is part of the GrandSolutions project “LEGALESE – Danish language Processing for Legal Texts” and financed by the Innovation Fund Denmark. The position is available from 1 December 2020 or later and for the duration of 2 years (with possible extension of one year). Job description We are seeking an enthusiastic and outstanding post-doctoral candidate with a strong interest on the intersection of law and computer science. LEGALESE is a joint venture by the University of Copenhagen’s Faculty of Law and Department of Computer Science, the private company Schultz, and Ankestyrelsen. The aim of LEGALESE is to research and develop a product that facilitates efficient legal information retrieval and automated recommendation using cutting-edge natural language processing (NLP). Bias detection and removal (debiasing) are essential for the trustworthiness and legality of such NLP system. The PostDoc will work on the related cutting-edge legal issues with a view to establishing a standard for NLP implementations in terms of both privacy and bias and shall focus research on how debiasing may be implemented in operational NLP systems. The research will be conducted in ongoing collaboration with the Department of Computer Science as well as the involved practice partners, Schulz and Ankestyrelsen. Applicants are encouraged to familiarize themselves with the faculty's research areas and education programmes by visiting the Faculty’s website: www.jura.ku.dk<https://www.jura.ku.dk/>. The Faculty actively supports the effort to learn Danish. Questions For further information about the position, please contact Associate Professor Sebastian Felix Schwemer, sebastian.felix.schwemer(a)jur.ku.dk. For further information on the employment procedure, please contact HR South and City e-mail: hrsc(a)hrsc.ku.dk<mailto:hrsc@hrsc.ku.dk>. Qualifications * Candidates must have obtained a PhD degree in law (or closely related areas) and a demonstrated interest in relevant areas such as at the digitalization of law or administration, legal informatics, LegalTech, bias in automated decision making, or legal/ethical challenges in relation to automation of legal services and the use of AI. * Excellent English communication skills, both oral and written, are prerequisite for the successful candidate. Danish or another Scandinavian language is not a requirement but advantageous. * The successful candidate will have the ambition to produce high quality research and a keen interest in interdisciplinary work bridging research and practice. * The successful candidate will have a solution-oriented, organizational and positive mindset. The ability to work in a collaborative environment both independently and as part of the team is essential. Application The University wishes our staff to reflect the diversity of society and thus welcomes applications from all qualified candidates regardless of personal background. The application (in English or a Scandinavian language), must be submitted electronically by clicking APPLY NOW below. The application must include: * Motivation letter; * Research plan (maximum 5 pages; it should describe your research ideas and goals in relation to the LEGALESE project as well your long-term research vision); * Curriculum vitae; * List of publications; * Copy of diplomas/degree certificate(s) (foreign applicants are advised to attach an explanation of their university's grading system); and * Three references (incl. e-mail and phone number). The recruitment process Further information on the recruitment process at University of Copenhagen can be found here: https://employment.ku.dk/faculty/recruitment-process/ Terms of Employment * Further information on qualification requirements as postdoc can be found in the Memorandum on Job Structure for Academic Staff at Danish Universities 2019 here: https://employment.ku.dk/faculty/criteria-for-recognising-merit/dokumenter/… * Terms of appointment and salary is in accordance with the Danish Confederation of Professional Associations (Akademikerne). * The salary range starts at DKK 34,655 per month + a 17.1 % contribution to the pension scheme. It is possible to negotiate salary supplements on an annual basis. An Equal Opportunity Workplace The University of Copenhagen is committed in its pursuit of academic excellence to equality of opportunity and to creating an inclusive working environment and therefore encourages all qualified candidates to apply, regardless of personal background, gender, sexual orientation, age, disability, ethnicity etc. For more on the diverse working place environment at the University and the University’s participation in the HRS4R HR Excellence in Researrch, see https://employment.ku.dk/working-at-ucph/eu-charter-for-researchers/ International applicant? The University of Copenhagen offers a broad variety of services for international researchers and accompanying families, including support before and during your relocation and career counselling to expat partners. Please find more information about these services as well as information on entering and working in Denmark here: https://ism.ku.dk/<https://ism.ku.dk/%20> The closing date for applications is 23:59 CET, 6 November 2020. Applications or enclosures received thereafter will not be considered. @schwemer<https://twitter.com/schwemer> +45 35 33 10 16

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Please join us for the AoIR 2020 Pre-conference: Algorithms and the future of agency
by Jakob Linaa Jensen 23 Oct '20

23 Oct '20

Dear all Our AoIR pre-conference: "Algorithms and the future of agency" will take place online Monday October 26th at 17.00 UTC. Descriptions and program below. Organizers are: Jakob Linaa Jensen, Stefania Milan, Mark Andrejevic, Dylan Wittkover, Andrew Iliadis, Emiliano Treré, Aline Shakti Franzke. Sign up here: https://forms.gle/sS64W8MXX8ej3AsQ8 Zoomlink to be provided to participants the day before Idea: As more and more daily and social life is mediated through platforms, algorithms play an increasing role determining our information and capacity for action. For instance, the increasing use of automated decision-making, by insurance companies, hospitals, police and government in general raises important ethical and philosophical questions on the future of agency. First, in algorithmic procedures and decision-making, it is difficult to ascribe agency and thereby responsibility. Second, if our independent agency, also known as the free will, is severely limited by algorithmic decision-making and algorithmically defined horizons of information (for instance on Facebook and Google), it bears important and far-reaching consequences for liberal democracy as we know it. Responsibility, accountability and agency are fundamental prerequisites of democracy. If it is impossible to identify power and keep certain actors accountable, democracy and individual rights are at stake. In this pre-conference, we invite participants to explore and discuss such issues. To initiate and facilitate the discussions, a range of scholars with different background and interests, but all interested and engaged in the topic, will provide igniting talks discussing aspects of algorithmic agency. The first four talks sketch the problems from political, democratic, semantic and ethical perspectives. The last three talks sketch possible solutions, both conceptual and practical. We hope by the talk to inspire discussions based on specific experiences with algorithmic agency and to provoke suggestions for possible solutions in order to save agency and, ultimately, life and democracy as we know it in an increasingly algorithmic world. Program In the first half we will discuss the problems of algorithmic agendy and the first four organizers will give igniting talks (app. 10 minutes each followed by questions and comments from the audience). In the second half, we will discuss possible solutions to the problems, based on the igniting talks by the last three organisers. At the end of the session we will try to draw a map of these issues and questions that might form a backbone of a coming joint publication for interested participants. PART I – The problems of algorithmic agency Political agency in the age of AI: The case of facial recognition tech Stefania Milan How does artificial intelligence, and facial recognition technology in particular, alter the exercise of political agency? Taking the perspective of ordinary citizens, the contribution will touch upon two key aspects of democratic life, namely political participation and the relation between the state and its citizens. Briefly teasing out the possibilities and the perils for active citizenship entrenched in the expansion of AI into society, this contribution will raise questions on the future of democracy in relation to a technology which will have unparalleled consequences on human life. Semantic Agency: Graphing Knowledge on Web Infrastructures Andrew Iliadis Agency is tied to the power to name, classify, categorize, and organize. In today’s web infrastructures, knowledge about entities and relationships that exist in the world is codified into semantic web code/syntax that undergird countless information products, from Google knowledge panels to the Wikidata that feeds into virtual assistants. Such graphing of knowledge impacts areas as diverse as news consumption, fact checking, advertising, and logistics. This contribution draws on recent theoretical work on the philosophy and politics of web semantics (Monea 2016; Hui 2016; Thomas 2018) while also drawing on empirical research and case studies that focus on the work of platform companies and organizations who build and maintain semantic infrastructures on the internet. Algorithmic agency and the future of democracy Jakob Linaa Jensen Agency is closely related to the power we willingly or unwillingly impose towards ourselves in the platform economy, for instance when we sacrifice privacy for convenience. But such power is blurred and difficult to identify. It is a fundamental democratic principle that actors can be held responsible for their actions. If this is not possible, it has far-reaching consequences for liberal democracy as we know it. Ethical challenges of algorithmic agency Aline Shakti Franzke Agency has been a key term of ethics since Aristotle. In order to hold something accountable classical definitions have ever since focused on intentionality and mental representation. These human centered definitions, however, are stressed when applied to algorithms. Therefore, new ethical challenges occur along three lines a) meta-ethical concerns b) the agency of algorithms themselves and c) the implications of algorithms for human agency. The talk will map existing ethical debates along these axes. PART II – Possible solutions >From autonomy to respectful interdependence Dylan Wittkower Postphenomenological analysis is less frequently used by Internet researchers, and offers distinctive contributions to an understanding of the future of agency. Postphenomenology avoids the reductive extremes of technological neutrality or technological determinism by offering descriptions of the lifeworld as constituted by hybridized human-technology agents (in embodiment technics) that interact with hybridized technology-world objects (in hermeneutic technics). I argue that this postphenomenological description of technological mediation encourages us to seek the future of agency not in autonomy or control, but in in respectful interdependence as articulated by feminist ethics of care. How “smart” technologies bypass subjective agency Mark Andrejevic Recent Foucault-inflected work on "environmentality" explores the ways in which environmental level monitoring and modulation (as envisioned in some versions of the "smart" city, for example) can operate as a strategy for control that bypasses subjective agency. The so-called libertarian paternalism of "nudge" economics, for example, might be described as a popularized form of environmentality that manipulates behavior below the threshold of reflexive consciousness. Such forms of manipulation come to rely on increasingly comprehensive forms of data capture designed to generate correlational predictions about future behavior under modulated circumstances. These developments emerge alongside ongoing attempts to bypass mediation by tapping straight into the human brain (as in the case, for example, of Elon Musk's Neuralink). I'll talk about possible alternatives and challenges to such developments. Resisting algorithms Emiliano Treré & Tiziano Bonini In this talk, we propose a conceptual framework to map the practices that citizens perform to shape, interfere and resist algorithms. Mobilizing the concept of the moral economy, we first situate the various forms of algorithmic agency along a continuum shaped by the two competing moral economies of the users and the platforms. Secondly, we bring into the equation the type of power held by those who enact specific forms of algorithmic resistance, adding the strategic vs. tactical poles. Finally, we discuss our framework drawing on examples including data obfuscation, streaming frauds, audience boosting, rating improvement, profile optimization, visibility enhancing, engagement groups, etc.

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Phd Program in Info & Media at MSU
by Rabindra Ratan ♬ 23 Oct '20

23 Oct '20

[apologies for cross-posting] Dear Future PhD Students (and scholars who forward emails to them), If you are interested in the field(s) of Information & Media, please consider applying for our PhD program at Michigan State University <https://comartsci.msu.edu/academics/academic-departments/advertising-public…>. We specialize in: - Human-computer interaction, games and meaningful play (e.g., my lab group <https://www.spartielab.comartsci.msu.edu/>) - Social media and social computing - Management info system (policy and economics) - Health (media, ICT and development) For more details, check out our faculty directory <https://comartsci.msu.edu/directory?department=6&type=20> and dept page <https://comartsci.msu.edu/departments/media-and-information>. MSU is now be offering several prestigious fellowship opportunities for outstanding applicants. For our Fall 2020-21 cohort, applicants will compete for these following fellowships, which are offered in addition to our standard stipend, health insurance, tuition remission, and generous travel allowance (last year we funded every doctoral student’s trip to major conventions where they had a refereed paper!): Dean’s Award ($10,000) Brandt Outstanding Doctoral Award ($7,500) Brandt Doctoral Award ($5,000) Thanks for considering/passing this along to any excellent undergrad or MA (or unhappy PhD ;) students in your department! If you have any questions about the program, feel free to reach out to me or the director of our program (Patricia Huddleston, huddles2(a)msu.edu) And hope you're all weathering the pandemic/presidential pandemonium as peacefully as possible. Robby Ratan _ _ __ _ _ Rabindra (Robby) Ratan Associate Professor and AT&T Scholar Dept of Media & Info, Michigan State University robbyratan.com _ _ __ _ _

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WEBCAST TODAY: a11yvr – Designing Augmented Reality Systems to Empower People with Low Vision @YuhangZhao1 #a11y #XR
by Joly MacFie 22 Oct '20

22 Oct '20

This has just started ISOC Live posted: "On Thursday October 22 2020 at 7pm EDT / 23:00 UTC / 8am JST (Fri) the Accessibility VR Meetup hosts ‘Designing Augmented Reality Systems to Empower People with Low Vision‘ on Mozilla Hubs. Low vision is a visual impairment that falls short of blindness " [image: livestream] <https://livestream.com/internetsociety/a11yvr10>On *Thursday October 22 2020* at *7pm EDT* / 23:00 UTC / 8am JST (Fri) the *Accessibility VR Meetup <https://www.meetup.com/A11yVR/>* hosts ‘Designing Augmented Reality Systems to Empower People with Low Vision <https://www.meetup.com/a11yvr/events/273466936/>‘ on Mozilla Hubs. Low vision is a visual impairment that falls short of blindness but cannot be corrected by eyeglasses or contact lenses. Unlike people who are blind, low vision people have residual vision and extensively use their vision in daily activities. However, prior research has mainly focused on providing only audio and tactile feedback for blind users, overlooking low vision people’s residual vision and unique needs. To address this gap in low vision accessibility, *Yuhang Zhao*, a postdoctoral researcher at Cornell Tech, seeks to leverage the residual vision that low vision people have, and design intelligent augmented reality (AR) systems that provide direct visual augmentations according to the users’ visual abilities and tasks. *LIVESTREAM: https://livestream.com/internetsociety/a11yvr10 <https://livestream.com/internetsociety/a11yvr10>* *PARTICIPATE: https://hubs.mozilla.com/G6edX79/a11yvr-project/ <https://hubs.mozilla.com/G6edX79/a11yvr-project/>* *REAL TIME TEXT: https://www.streamtext.net/player?event=a11yvr <https://www.streamtext.net/player?event=a11yvr>* *TWITTER: @a11yvr <http://bit.ly/A11yVR> @YuhangZhao1* *SIMULCASTS:* *https://youtu.be/xwWx5B_W0AI <https://www.pscp.tv/ISOC_Live/>* *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/a11yvr10 <https://archive.org/details/a11yvr10>* *Permalink* https://isoc.live/12881/ - -- -------------------------------------- Joly MacFie +2185659365 -------------------------------------- -

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Job Announcement - Assistant Professor of Public & Applied Humanities (University of Arizona)
by Judd Ruggill 22 Oct '20

22 Oct '20

The Department of Public & Applied Humanities at the University of Arizona is seeking a tenure-track Assistant Professor. The top candidate will be able to contribute expertise, leadership, and imagination to the department’s efforts to theorize and prefigure responses to the future of the human being. Candidates for the position should be highly collaborative, exploratory, and hardworking, with a humanities-oriented and publicly engaged research specialization in one or more of the following areas: the environment (natural or built), health (epidemiological, dis/ability-related, and/or societal), technology (digital, analog, biological), narrative knowledge (place-based, embodied, digital), or similar cross-cutting and emergent research areas, including areas related to the curricular emphases of the BA in Applied Humanities. Experience with Hispanic Serving Institutions and understanding of Indigenous/First Nations/Native lifeways will be of particular interest given the Department’s institutional and geographic location.The teaching load is two courses per semester. More information about the position may be found at: https://arizona.csod.com/ux/ats/careersite/4/home/requisition/2634?c=arizona

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Feminist and Accessible Publishing/ Communications Technologies Series
by Jessica McLean 22 Oct '20

22 Oct '20

Hi AoIR people Thought I would share to this list information about the Feminist and Accessible Publishing/Communications Technologies Series. Dr Alexander Ketchum, McGill University, is leading this series and it includes talks that many people here are likely to be interested in joining. Here's the current schedule: https://www.feministandaccessiblepublishingandtechnology.com/p/schedule-of-… The talks are live captioned and recorded for later distribution. I was pleased to contribute to the series with a talk yesterday on digital (un)sustainability. For more information about the series, here is an excerpt from their website: The Feminist and Accessible Publishing, Communications, and Technologies Speaker and Workshop Series seeks to bring together scholars, creators, and people in industry working at the intersections of digital humanities, computer science, feminist studies, disability studies, communications studies, LGBTQ studies, history, and critical race theory. The series will bring forward critical approaches to publishing practices, innovative communication strategies, and techniques for making research dissemination more accessible. Part of the motivation of this series is that while humanities scholars will critique "traditional" academic publishing and communications strategies as being sexist, classist, racially biased, and inaccessible, the kinds of solutions proffered (such as open access, such as "innovative new technologies," etc) often romanticize and fetishize technological alternatives and do not look at how inequity can be perpetuated or only shifted (especially at the level of algorithms!). The technologies behind open access scholarship, self-publishing, website design, and other communicative technologies that humanities and social science scholars use as alternatives to traditional academic publishing in order to communicate with the public are not neutral. It is vital that humanities and social science scholars engage with computer scientists and engineers if we seek to truly expand accessibility and create ways of communicating our scholarship in a socially just and feminist way. The Feminist and Accessible Publishing, Communications, and Technologies Speaker and Workshop Series of 2019, 2020, and 2021 is timely as Montreal grows into “the world’s leading Artificial Intelligence and Deep Learning Hub.” Samsung, Facebook, Google Brain, Element AI, and Microsoft all have or are developing AI campuses within the city. In 2017, the Forum on the Socially Responsible Development of Artificial Intelligence unveiled the Montreal Declaration for a Responsible Development of Artificial Intelligence. It is important that humanities and social science scholars enter into these conversations as AI and machine learning undergirds the kinds of technologies we utilize as we seek to make publication and information distribution more accessible. This series includes speakers from across Canada and the United States. Over the course of the year, there will be guest lectures, discussion sections, and practical workshops covering topics such as discrimination in algorithms, open access, data set design, feminist bookstores, podcasting, and website design. In order to make the series as accessible as possible, lectures will be livestreamed and recorded when possible. The recorded lectures will be hosted on The Feminist and Accessible Publishing, Communications, and Technologies Speaker and Workshop Series Youtube Channel. These videos will also be embedded on the The Feminist and Accessible Publishing, Communications, and Technologies Speaker and Workshop Series website and will be publicized on The Feminist and Accessible Publishing, Communications, and Technologies Speaker and Workshop Series Facebook Page (@FeministandAccesiblePublishingandCommunication) and Twitter account (@feministandacc1). In addition, in order to build connections between Montreal’s academic, artistic, and industrial institutions, some speakers will present more than one presentation in order to speak to both industry insiders and outsiders. Dr Jessica McLean Senior Lecturer Department of Geography & Planning<http://www.mq.edu.au/about_us/faculties_and_departments/faculty_of_arts/dep…>, Room 414, Level 4, 25B Wally's Walk Macquarie University, NSW 2109, Australia| T: +61 9850 6295 || E: jessica.mclean(a)mq.edu.au<mailto:jessica.mclean@mq.edu.au> [logo]<http://mq.edu.au/> CRICOS Provider Number 00002J Please consider the environment before printing this email. This email (including all attachments) is confidential. It may be subject to legal professional privilege and/or protected by copyright. If you receive it in error do not use it or disclose it, notify the sender immediately, delete it from your system and destroy any copies. 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Post-doctoral research associate position on 'drones in visual culture' research project
by Elisa Serafinelli 22 Oct '20

22 Oct '20

Hello everyone, I am currently hiring a postdoc to work with me on my new project. *Drones in Visual Culture: Developing a New Theory of Visual Mobile Communication*, led by Dr Elisa Serafinelli (me) & funded by the AHRC, aims to understand whether and how the use of drone technology in society is changing the way people see the world and our visual culture more broadly, and to extend and innovate current theoretical approaches to visual mobile communication. More information can be found here: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=AH%2FT012528%2F1 . I am appointing a post-doctoral research associate for one year, 50% FTE. The successful applicant will have, or be in the process of submitting, a PhD in a relevant area. Knowledge of relevant theories in the fields of visual communication, cultural studies and digital media, along with experience in qualitative research and visual analysis would be advantageous. Experience of conducting research under the national research ethics framework is essential. Effective communication skills, both written and verbal, report writing skills, and experience of delivering presentations are also essential along with strong IT skills. *Job Reference Number:* UOS026614 *Contract Type:* Fixed-term for 12 months *Working Pattern:* Part-time working 50% FTE, days of working to be agreed *Salary:* Grade 7: £31,866 - £34,804 pro-rata per annum. *Closing Date:* 11th November 2020 More details of the post can be found HERE <https://jobs.shef.ac.uk/sap/bc/webdynpro/sap/hrrcf_a_posting_apply?PARAM=cG…>, or you can email me. Best, *Dr Elisa Serafinelli* *Research Fellow* Sociological Studies University of Sheffield Western Rd Sheffield S10 2TU Tel: 0114 222 6470 (external), 26470 (internal) Room: Elmfield, 110 Serafinelli E. (2020): Networked Remembrance in the Time of *Insta-Memories,* *Social Media + Society, *1-12. https://doi.org/10.1177/2056305120940799

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