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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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Funded PhDs on Social Research in "Just" (as in justice) Technology with ESC at the University of Michigan
by Christian Sandvig 05 Nov '21

05 Nov '21

Dear AoIR colleagues, I decided to go to grad school when one of my profs suggested it. I was not very clear about what a PhD was. That conversation changed my life. I'm writing to ask you to consider having this conversation with your promising students right now. It's that time of year. It's a little personally embarrassing, but in order to improve our outreach to prospective students I've been experimenting with video. My video is a little bit like a late-night TV ad for a used-car lot, except I'm advertising getting a PhD in Information OR Communication & Media with my lab group. Here it is: https://lab.csandvig.people.si.umich.edu/join/ Some additional details: Infra.Lab is a multi-disciplinary research group at the University of Michigan dedicated to “just” technology (as in justice) at the ESC Center. We investigate the intermingled social and technical aspects of computing and digital media technologies and their implications for society. Our approaches include human-computer interaction; science and technology studies; policy research on politics, laws, and institutions; design; software development; artistic practice; and more. Our recent work has focused on racial and gender discrimination by algorithmic systems, negative consequences of targeted advertising, inequality and social media use, and the future of technology policy. We are recruiting prospective Ph.D. students with interests in tech and human rights, civil rights, social justice, racial justice, and inequality. We are building a diverse, equitable, and inclusive community. We particularly want applications from people who are interested in addressing the perspectives or needs of groups that have been historically underserved by academic research, computing, and digital media. - The deadline is usually December 1 every year. - The GRE exam isn’t required. - If the application fee (US$70-90) is a barrier to your application, we will waive the fee. Write to the relevant graduate program’s email address (see link above) for help with this. - The Ph.D. is full-time. Part-time degrees are not possible. - The Ph.D. takes about 4 years to complete. Usually the first 2 years involve mostly coursework, the last 2 years involve mostly research. - You do not have to pay tuition to get a Ph.D. Successful applicants are paid for 4 years as apprentice teachers and/or researchers. During this time you will make about US$45,000 per year for about 8 months of work each year. Summer funding is also possible. You also receive health, life, and dental insurance. - You don’t need a master’s degree to apply, but it may help you stand out from other applicants. - You DO need a bachelor’s degree to apply, but it does not have to be in these particular fields. You can apply with any bachelor’s degree if you make the case that you have some relevant background or experience. - We offer additional funding and incentives to those students whose admission will reduce disparities in graduate education. You do not need to apply separately for this funding, you will automatically be considered. - You do not need to be a US Citizen to be admitted, or to receive the funding described here. International students are common. - Either qualitative or quantitative skills/interests are relevant to us. - You do not need to be a computer programmer. - You do not need to have gone to a fancy school for your undergraduate degree. There is more information at the URL above. Please feel free to forward this email. Sincerely, Christian -- Christian Sandvig Director, Center for Ethics, Society, and Computing (ESC) H. Marshall McLuhan Collegiate Professor Information, Communication & Media University of Michigan http://esc.umich.edu/ -- http://umich.edu/~csandvig/

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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 for VR and the culture industries
by Jordan Frith 30 Nov '20

30 Nov '20

Hi all, My colleague and I are putting together an edited collection that focuses on different uses of VR in the culture industries (broadly defined). We'd love to get submissions from people on this list, and we're open to various disciplinary approaches. If you're doing work on VR or know anyone who is, I hope we hear from you. Oh, and feel free to email me off list if you want to chat. Thank you! Here's the CFP: https://vernonpress.com/proposal/143/0666a6e42f3a9101cc45607dc1ace13e -- Jordan Frith, Ph.D. Pearce Professor of Professional Communication Clemson University Pronouns: He/Him Book review editor of the *Journal of Business & Technical Communication* My Amazon author page <https://www.amazon.com/Books-Jordan-Frith/s?i=stripbooks&rh=p_27%3AJordan+F…>

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Re: [Air-L] Air-L Digest, Vol 196, Issue 31
by Gerald Goodnight 30 Nov '20

30 Nov '20

unsubscribe ________________________________ From: Air-L <air-l-bounces(a)listserv.aoir.org> on behalf of air-l-request(a)listserv.aoir.org <air-l-request(a)listserv.aoir.org> Sent: Saturday, November 28, 2020 1:47 PM To: air-l(a)listserv.aoir.org <air-l(a)listserv.aoir.org> Subject: Air-L Digest, Vol 196, Issue 31 Send Air-L mailing list submissions to air-l(a)listserv.aoir.org To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit https://urldefense.com/v3/__http://listserv.aoir.org/listinfo.cgi/air-l-aoi… or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to air-l-request(a)listserv.aoir.org You can reach the person managing the list at air-l-owner(a)listserv.aoir.org When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific than "Re: Contents of Air-L digest..." Today's Topics: 1. Call for book chapters (Hakikur Rahman) 2. Data rights (Amy Ruckes) 3. Re: Data rights (Alicia Takaoka) 4. Re: Data rights (Mutlu Binark) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Message: 1 Date: Sat, 28 Nov 2020 13:20:50 +0600 From: Hakikur Rahman <email(a)hakik.org> To: AOIR <air-l(a)listserv.aoir.org> Subject: [Air-L] Call for book chapters Message-ID: <CALzwnR2MH6aEfFdDD14NKqiRTKWp4tjk5M7bMeud08fZGcgTTQ(a)mail.gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Call for Book Chapters: Greetings! Due to the Coronavirus pandemic call for the book has been extended and this is the final call for book chapters, for the following book: *Achieving Organizational Agility, Intelligence, and Resilience Through Information Systems**.* Organizational agility may be termed as a set of processes that allows an organization to sense changes in the internal and external environment, respond proficiently and efficiently in a timely and cost-effective manner. Agility is advocated as an underlying characteristic for business survival and competitiveness. Organizational Agility is the ability of an organization to renew itself, adjust, change quickly, and succeed in a rapidly shifting, ambiguous, turbulent environment. On the other hand, organizational intelligence is the competence of an organization to create knowledge and utilize it to strategically adapt to its environment or marketplace. Finally, organizational resilience is the ability of an organization to anticipate, prepare for, react and adapt to incremental alteration and sudden disruptions in order to survive and prosper. *Information system **can be seen as* an integrated set of components for collecting, stockpiling, and processing data and for providing information, knowledge, and digital products to the external world. Business firms and other organizations rely on information systems to carry out and manage their operations, interact with their clients and suppliers, and compete in the marketplace. At the same time, information systems are also used to run inter-organizational supply chains and electronic markets. For instance, corporations use information systems to process financial accounts, to manage their human resources, and to reach their potential customers with online promotions. *Achieving Organizational Agility, Intelligence, and Resilience Through Information Systems* is an authoritative reference source for the latest scholarly research on the widespread integration of technological innovations around the globe and examines how organizational agility, intelligence and resilience interprets, effects and improves the entrepreneurships around the globe. Featuring emergent research from theoretical perspectives and case studies, this book is ideally designed for professionals, students, practitioners, and academicians. *Topics Covered* - Organizational agility - Organizational intelligence - Organizational resilience - *Information system*s and Organizational agility - *Information system*s and Organizational intelligence - *Information system*s and Organizational resilience - *Information system*s and entrepreneurships development - *Information system*s and human empowerment - *Information system*s and knowledge management - *Information system*s and international cooperation - *Information system*s and socio-economic development - Policy making with regard to *Information system*s for entrepreneurship development If you have any completed research, or near completion, you can take this opportunity to publish your work in this book. Please submit your full book chapter by December 30, 2020 for the review process. You may limit the word count to 10000 words for a full book chapter. The book will be published by the IGI Global, USA ( https://urldefense.com/v3/__http://www.igi-global.com__;!!LIr3w8kk_Xxm!-bTA… ) . For any other questions or queries, please contact me. Thanking you, Hakikur Rahman Editor, *Achieving Organizational Agility, Intelligence, and Resilience Through Information Systems* IGI Global, USA*.* Email: email(a)hakik.org ------------------------------ Message: 2 Date: Sat, 28 Nov 2020 08:30:06 +0100 From: Amy Ruckes <amyruckes(a)gmail.com> To: "air-l(a)listserv.aoir.org" <air-l(a)listserv.aoir.org> Subject: [Air-L] Data rights Message-ID: <CAOq4bjDNGN4u4m9Puo8aKYm7ruLS9eHr=h4+nErPOFvjcZ4-oA(a)mail.gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Dear AoIR researchers, I have a data rights question concerning data collection. If anyone has experience and knowledge concerning university policies concerning data collection using Search APIs and then who has the rights to access the data collected, I would greatly appreciate corresponding with you. Thank you! Wishing you all a very restful weekend! Best regards, Amy Ruckes -- Amy Ruckes *Independent Researcher* Disinformation and Society https://urldefense.com/v3/__http://ruckes.website2.me/__;!!LIr3w8kk_Xxm!-bT… ------------------------------ Message: 3 Date: Fri, 27 Nov 2020 22:03:51 -1000 From: Alicia Takaoka <ajwilson(a)hawaii.edu> To: Amy Ruckes <amyruckes(a)gmail.com> Cc: air-l(a)listserv.aoir.org Subject: Re: [Air-L] Data rights Message-ID: <857B069B-9898-49B9-B86B-96A101C9D0EB(a)hawaii.edu> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Hi Amy. Each study has different rights for access depending on funding. Some data is not publicly available at all, and that is a part of the IRB process and informed consent documents. You should check with the PI of the study you are interested in and that university?s Office of Research Compliance. Best wishes, Alicia Alicia JW Takaoka Doctoral Candidate, Communication and Information Sciences (Social Informatics and Human-Computer Interaction) English Department ASIS&T Governance Committee Member ASIS&T SIG-SM Archivist ASIS&T SIG-AH Secretary ASIS&T SIG-STI Secretary/Treasurer > On Nov 27, 2020, at 9:30 PM, Amy Ruckes <amyruckes(a)gmail.com> wrote: > > ?Dear AoIR researchers, > > I have a data rights question concerning data collection. If anyone has > experience and knowledge concerning university policies concerning data > collection using Search APIs and then who has the rights to access the data > collected, I would greatly appreciate corresponding with you. > > Thank you! > Wishing you all a very restful weekend! > > Best regards, > Amy Ruckes > -- > > Amy Ruckes > > *Independent Researcher* > > Disinformation and Society > > https://urldefense.com/v3/__http://ruckes.website2.me/__;!!LIr3w8kk_Xxm!-bT… > _______________________________________________ > The Air-L(a)listserv.aoir.org mailing list > is provided by the Association of Internet Researchers https://urldefense.com/v3/__http://aoir.org__;!!LIr3w8kk_Xxm!-bTAkkjiizh_yW… > Subscribe, change options or unsubscribe at: https://urldefense.com/v3/__http://listserv.aoir.org/listinfo.cgi/air-l-aoi… > > Join the Association of Internet Researchers: > https://urldefense.com/v3/__http://www.aoir.org/__;!!LIr3w8kk_Xxm!-bTAkkjii… ------------------------------ Message: 4 Date: Sat, 28 Nov 2020 11:18:29 +0300 From: Mutlu Binark <binark(a)hacettepe.edu.tr> To: Amy Ruckes <amyruckes(a)gmail.com>, Alicia Takaoka <ajwilson(a)hawaii.edu> Cc: "air-l(a)listserv.aoir.org" <air-l(a)listserv.aoir.org> Subject: Re: [Air-L] Data rights Message-ID: <BDA8BCE6-E649-A34A-8D88-0C1938DA9319(a)hxcore.ol> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Dear Amy Needs to check the data is publicly accessible but also informed consent to use those data even publicly accessible. I always use the guidance of ethics 2.0 to use publicly available data, not to harm ordinary people. warm regards mutlu binark M. BINARK, Ph.D. Hacettepe University ------------------------------ Subject: Digest Footer _______________________________________________ The Air-L(a)listserv.aoir.org mailing list is provided by the Association of Internet Researchers https://urldefense.com/v3/__http://aoir.org__;!!LIr3w8kk_Xxm!-bTAkkjiizh_yW… Subscribe, change options or unsubscribe at: https://urldefense.com/v3/__http://listserv.aoir.org/listinfo.cgi/air-l-aoi… Join the Association of Internet Researchers: https://urldefense.com/v3/__http://www.aoir.org/__;!!LIr3w8kk_Xxm!-bTAkkjii… ------------------------------ End of Air-L Digest, Vol 196, Issue 31 **************************************

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