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Data rights
by Amy Ruckes 28 Nov '20

28 Nov '20

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 http://ruckes.website2.me/

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Call for book chapters
by Hakikur Rahman 28 Nov '20

28 Nov '20

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 ( www.igi-global.com) . 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

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Reminder: You're Invited to Submit a Session Proposal for Mozfest 2021 (Deadline Nov 30th)
by Ahmed Medien 27 Nov '20

27 Nov '20

Hi everyone, Mozest (Mozilla Internet Festival) is a unique hybrid: part art, tech and society convening, part maker festival, and the premiere gathering for activists in diverse global movements fighting for a more humane digital world. This year, I'm co-chairing the *openness* space. I'm especially interested in scholarly research work that interrogates digital content safety on online service platforms, content detection and moderation practices, and their repercussions on freedom of expression and digital safety. That’s why I’m excited to invite you <https://www.mozillafestival.org/get-involved/proposals/>and your community to participate in the first-ever virtual MozFest! Submit A Session Idea for MozFest This Year <https://www.mozillafestival.org/get-involved/proposals/> We’re excited to use the programming that we’ve honed over a decade of festivals – participant-led sessions, immersive art exhibits, space for spontaneous conversations, inspiring Dialogues & Debates – to address current and global crises. Through our Call for Session Proposals (where you're invited to propose an interactive workshop to host at the festival), we’ll seek solutions together, through the lens of trustworthy artificial intelligence. If you or someone you know is interested in leading a session at MozFest this year, you can submit your session idea here <https://www.mozillafestival.org/get-involved/proposals/>! The deadline is *November 30th.* Kind regards, Ahmed Medien Researcher hackshackers.com Advancing Content Digital Content Safety | weforum <http://weforum.org/>

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Free Online Seminar: sex and social media, a conversation with Dr Katrin Tiidenberg and Dr Emily van der Nagel. Thursday 3rd December, 9:00-9:45 GMT
by Harry Dyer (EDU - Staff) 27 Nov '20

27 Nov '20

The British Sociological Association is proud to be hosting a free online seminar titled 'sex and social media, a conversation with Dr Katrin Tiidenberg and Dr Emily van der Nagel' on Thursday 3rd December, 9:00-9:45 GMT. To register for the event, please visit: https://forms.gle/jPzMcaHExZSdHLKS7 This talk brings together Dr Katrin Tiidenberg and Dr Emily van der Nagel to discuss their recent book 'Sex and Social Media' published under Emerald Publishing's influential 'Society Now' series. The book explores the nuances of modern sexual practices as they intertwine with, on, in, through, and despite social media. This accessible, entertaining, and thought-provoking text opens up discussions of community, identity, practice and platforms at the intersection of sex and digital technology. Dr Katrin Tiidenberg in an Associate Professor of Social Media and Visual Culture at the Baltic Film, Media, Arts, and Communication School of Tallinn University, Estonia. She is the author of 'Selfies: why we love (and hate) them' and serves on the Executive Board of the Association of Internet Researchers and the Estonian Young Academy of Sciences. Dr Emily van der Nagel is a Lecturer in Social Media in the School of Media, Film, and Journalism at Monash University, Australia. She has been published in the M/C Journal: A Journal of Media and Culture, Media International Australia, Continuum: Journal of Media and Cultural Studies, Internet Histories, and First Monday. It is truly a rare occasion to bring together two researchers from Australia and Estonia. This digital format offers the opportunity to hear from both authors together in conversation. The discussion will be facilitated by Dr Harry T Dyer, Lecturer in Education at the University of East Anglia. He is the recent author of 'Designing The Social: Unpacking Social Media Design and Identity', and serves as Editor of Digital Culture and Education This event is organised by the British Sociological Association's Digital Sociology Study Group. Please register by visiting https://forms.gle/jPzMcaHExZSdHLKS7. We will email you with information of how to access the digital event. Any questions should be sent to harry.t.dyer(a)uea.ac.uk

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Engels@200: Friedrich Engels in the Age of Digital Capitalism
by Christian Fuchs 27 Nov '20

27 Nov '20

Engels@200: Friedrich Engels in the Age of Digital Capitalism, edited by Christian Fuchs, special issue of tripleC: Communication, Capitalism & Critique https://www.triple-c.at/index.php/tripleC/issue/view/43 The journal tripleC: Communication, Capitalism & Critique’s special issue “Engels@200: Friedrich Engels in the Age of Digital Capitalism” was published on the occasion of Engels’s 200th anniversary. It consists of eleven articles that outline the relevance of Engels’s works and thought for the critical analysis of digital capitalism and show the relevance of Engels in the 21st century. In an episode of the tripleC podcast that accompanies the special issue, Christian Fuchs introduces the relevance of Engels for the critical analysis of digital capitalism: https://www.podbean.com/eu/pb-gizhy-f336e9 Table of Contents Engels@200: Friedrich Engels in the Age of Digital Capitalism. Introduction. pp. 1-14 Christian Fuchs Engels@200: Friedrich Engels and Digital Capitalism. How Relevant Are Engels’s Works 200 Years After His Birth? pp. 15-51. Christian Fuchs Engels’s Theory of Social Murder and the Spectacle of Fascism: A Critical Enquiry into Digital Labour and its Alienation. pp. 52-67 Aishik Saha Digital Capitalism and Coal Mine Workers. pp. 68-77 Akın Bakioğlu Revisiting Friedrich Engels’s Dialectics of Nature in an Age of Digital Idealism. pp. 78-96 Christopher Leslie Break or Continuity? Friedrich Engels and the Critique of Digital Surveillance. pp. 97-112 Dimitrios Kivotidis The Digital Economy of the Sourdough: Housewifisation and Exploitation as Self-Exploitation. pp. 113-124 Julianna Faludi and Michelle Crosby On the Categories of Possibility, Limiting Conditions and the Qualitative Development Stages of Matter in the Thought of Friedrich Engels. pp. 125-139 Klaus Fuchs-Kittowski Freedom, Distribution and Work from Home: Rereading Engels in the Time of the COVID-19-Pandemic. pp. 140-153 Saayan Chattopadhyay and Sushmita Pandit The Conditions of the Global Digital Working Class: The Continuing Relevance of Friedrich Engels to Theorising Platform Labour. pp. 154-170 Shahram Azhar The Political Economy of Working-Class Social Media Commerce: Digital Capitalism and the Engelsian Concept of Working-Class “Property”. pp. 171-194 Suddhabrata Deb Roy

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Deadline approaching: PhD position (4 years) and Postdoc (2 years) on Population Scale Social Network Analysis
by Eelke Heemskerk 27 Nov '20

27 Nov '20

(apologies for multiple postings) Dear all, This is a gentle one-time reminder that the application deadline for the PhD and postdoc position on Population-Scale Social Network Analysis is in one week from now, so on December 3. Full-time Postdoc (2 years) in Computational Social Science at the University of Amsterdam https://www.uva.nl/en/content/vacancies/2020/11/20-691-postdoctoral-researc… Full-time PhD Candidate (4 years) in Computational Social Science at the University of Amsterdam https://www.uva.nl/en/content/vacancies/2020/11/20-690-phd-candidate-in-com… Looking forward to your (student's) applications! Eelke and Frank --- POPNET platform on Population Scale Social Network Analysis Are you a passionate and committed young researcher and well versed in cutting-edge computational social science approaches? Would you like to be involved in frontier research on large-scale network analysis and official register data and work with highly qualified researchers in an interdisciplinary academic environment? Effective immediately, we are seeking a PhD candidate and Postdoc on Population Scale Network Analysis. You will be part of the POPNET platform, and your position is hosted by the University of Amsterdam. As an ideal candidate for this position, you find yourself at home in the international computational social science research community. You have a well-developed skillset in scientific programming and an affinity with network analysis in particular. You are able to work with very large data and have the creativity and curiosity to develop new network measures and statistics. You are keenly aware of the ethical issues related to using large scale social register data and want to contribute to a responsible scholarly practice on big data analytics. You may have a disciplinary background in either social sciences, humanities or computational sciences, but you strongly believe in interdisciplinary collaboration. You are a creative team player who does not shy back from entering new scholarly terrain. You have creativity, precision, and perseverance. You do not believe universities should be ivory towers but rather sites for independent thought and academic progress, working together with stakeholders inside and outside academia. You take initiative, have excellent communication skills, and you are well able to work in a team as well as independently. You like to collaborate both with academics and non-experts and you can present complex statistical models to both groups in a bespoke manner. You care more about (social) impact of your work than impact factors, but because you are ambitious you always aim for the top. The project is a collaboration of the University of Amsterdam (UvA), Leiden University (UL) and Statistics Netherlands (CBS). The researcher will work in an interdisciplinary social data science environment, bringing together computer science with the social sciences and humanities. POPNET-SSH is a novel digital infrastructure and research community with the aim of unlocking longitudinal social network data on the entire population of the Netherlands for academic research purposes. A first-of-a-kind research infrastructure tailored in terms of hard- and software specifically for large-scale social network analysis will be developed. The available data includes the complete social network (at population-scale) of the 17 million inhabitants of Netherlands, including all family, neighborhood, school and work relations, as well as demographic information. From this, actionable insights into key issues including segregation, substantive social change, and UN sustainable development goals such as reducing inequality can be obtained. We invite candidates to think about what they would want to investigate using this data, and elaborate on this in their motivation letter. Do you recognize yourself? Do you want to be involved in frontier computational social science research? Are you thrilled by the opportunity to work in a truly interdisciplinary research environment? Find the full vacancy text and details on how to apply at the URLs below. Full-time Postdoc (2 years) in Computational Social Science at the University of Amsterdam https://www.uva.nl/en/content/vacancies/2020/11/20-691-postdoctoral-researc… Full-time PhD Candidate (4 years) in Computational Social Science at the University of Amsterdam https://www.uva.nl/en/content/vacancies/2020/11/20-690-phd-candidate-in-com… --

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VIDEOS: Trolling in Chinese and English
by Matthew Moore 27 Nov '20

27 Nov '20

Evita March - The Psychology of Internet Trolling: https://youtu.be/i5qkZ369MPI Huixin Tian - “I'm in the center of the vortex”: Mapping the experience of trolling victims: https://youtu.be/RJOHCbvj6BQ Jay Daniel Thompson - Is Trolling Freedom of Speech?: https://youtu.be/To4bPIGiXzE Speaker Panel: https://youtu.be/zR5xcr0ggOQ Online trolling can be a minor annoyance, a life-threatening nightmare or even a danger to our public institutions. But what are its causes, its true effects, and what can and should we do about it? In this seminar, three experts examine trolling from different perspectives and across cultures (with a focus on Australia and China): - How does trolling behaviour play out in different environments? - What drives trolls from a psychological perspective? - How does trolling relate to freedom of speech issues? Evita March obtained her PhD in evolutionary and social psychology and is currently employed as a senior lecturer and researcher at Federation University Australia. Evita’s research interests include interpersonal relationships, cyberpsychology, and personality. In particular, Evita is interested in how people behave online, and she has explored a range of online behaviours including cyberbullying, cyberstalking, online dating, trolling, and self-presentation. Huixin Tian is a PhD student in Information Science, Department of Information and Library Science, Indiana University Bloomington. She received a bachelor’s degree in archaeology from Peking University, and a master’s degree in Anthropology from Indiana University Bloomington. Her research interests include materiality of digital mediation, virtuality and work, immigrant labor in the global information industry, and innovation industry. Her dissertation project will focus on the community of Chinese immigrant programmers in the United States. Dr. Jay Daniel Thompson is a Lecturer in Professional Communication in the School of Media and Communication at RMIT University. He is researching the fraught relationship between trolling and freedom of speech. Dr. Thompson has also published extensively on the politics and ethics of media controversy. UTS CRICOS Provider Code: 00099F DISCLAIMER: This email message and any accompanying attachments may contain confidential information. If you are not the intended recipient, do not read, use, disseminate, distribute or copy this message or attachments. If you have received this message in error, please notify the sender immediately and delete this message. Any views expressed in this message are those of the individual sender, except where the sender expressly, and with authority, states them to be the views of the University of Technology Sydney. Before opening any attachments, please check them for viruses and defects. Think. Green. Do. Please consider the environment before printing this email.

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the Digital Services Act
by Marcela Canavarro 26 Nov '20

26 Nov '20

Dear colleagues, does anyone have good materials to recommend on the Digital Services Act, which is about to be launched in Europe? I am already looking into the official website ( https://ec.europa.eu/digital-single-market/en/digital-services-act-package) and would like to find more analyses and case studies. Best, Marcela

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WEBCAST 20 NOV – 4 DEC: Community Network Exchange 2020 #CNXAPAC2020
by Joly MacFie 26 Nov '20

26 Nov '20

CNX APAC is an annual conference solely dedicated to Community Networks. As Raj Singh pointed out in the welcome, if half the world's population is unconnected, and half the world's population is in Asia Pacific, that is a big local issue! Session 3 is live now, All sessions, including audio and transcripts will be available for download in the archive <https://archive.org/details/cnxapac2020>. ISOC Live posted: "From 20 November to 2nd December 2020 the Internet Society in collaboration with the Digital Empowerment Foundation, and other partners, presents Community Network Exchange 2020 (CNX APAC 2020). The 4th annual CNX APAC will have the theme 'Meaningful acce" [image: livestream] <http://livestream.com/internetsociety/cnxapac2020>From *20 November to 4th December 2020* the* Internet Society <https://www.internetsociety.org/regions/asia-pacific/>* in collaboration with the *Digital Empowerment Foundation, <https://www.defindia.org/>*and other partners, presents *Community Network Exchange 2020 <https://cnxapac.org/>* (CNX APAC 2020). The 4th annual CNX APAC will have the theme '*Meaningful access with Community Networks*' with ten sub-themes that will address various dimensions related to meaningful access with community networks and how local communities can leverage them. Webinars will be held online over 5 days, with 2 sessions per day, plus a final closing roundtable. All webinars will begin at *06:00 UTC* *20th November* - - *Session 1: Community Network Models & Best Practices* *Gustaff Harriman Iskandar*, Bandung Center for New Media Arts (Indonesia) *Ritu Srivastava*, Chair, IEEE Working Group Grades of service in rural areas *Senthil Kumar M*, Founder/CEO, Geomeo Informatics (India) *Peter Bloom*, General Coordinator/Founder, Rhizomatica *MODERATOR – **Rajnesh Singh*, Regional Vice President Asia-Pacific, Internet Society - - *Session 2: Access during the pandemic: Saving Democracy, Citizenship & Education* *Talant Sultanov*, Chair, Internet Society Kyrgyz Chapter *Svetlana Zens*, Senior Programme Associate, Digital Rights, Myanmar Centre for Responsible Business (MCRB) *Ananda Gautam*, Program/Policy Officer, Internet Governance Institute (Nepal) *MODERATOR – **Osama Manzar*, Founder/Director, Digital Empowerment Foundation (India) *23rd November* - - *Session 3: Policy & Regulation for Mass Adoption of Community Networks* *Carlos Rey-Moreno*, Co-Lead Networks Policy and Strategy, Association for Progressive Communications (Spain) / Co-Founder of zenzeleni.net (South Africa) – *Achia Nila*, Founder/CEO, Women in Digital (WIDBD) (Bangladesh) *John Jack*, Deputy Chief Information Officer, Vanuatu Government *Teddy Woodhouse*, Research Manager for Access and Affordability, , World Wide Web Foundation, UK (United Kingdom) *MODERATOR* – *Sarah Farooqui*, Research and Advocacy Manager, Digital Empowerment Foundation (India) - - *Session 4: Community Networks as a Model to fight Misinformation & Fakenews* *Waqas Hassan*. President, Internet Society Pakistan Islamabad Chapter *Lisa Garcia*, Executive Director, Foundation for Media Alternatives (Philippines) *Heru Tjatur*, Web Development Consultant (Indonesia) *MODERATOR* – *Osama Manzar*, Founder/Director, Digital Empowerment Foundation (India) *26th November* - Session 5: Gender Sensitive Community Networking - Session 6: Content, Context and Community for Community Networks *30th November* - Session 7: Community Radio & Broadcasting with Community Networks - Session 8: Training & Cadre Development for Community Networks *2nd December* – - Session 9: Partnerships & Collaborations for Community Networks - Session 10: Connecting Indigenous Communities *4th December* – Closing *LIVESTREAM http://livestream.com/internetsociety/cnxapac2020 <http://livestream.com/internetsociety/cnxapac2020>* *AGENDA https://cnxapac.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/CNX-AGENDA-2020.pdf <https://cnxapac.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/CNX-AGENDA-2020.pdf>* *PARTICIPATE VIA ZOOM https://bit.ly/3kKRySs <https://bit.ly/3kKRySs>* *TWITTER #CNXAPAC2020 <https://bit.ly/CNXAPAC2020> @DEFindia @ISOCapac * *SIMULCASTS* *https://www.pscp.tv/ISOC_Live/ <https://www.pscp.tv/ISOC_Live/>* *https://www.twitch.tv/isoclive <https://www.twitch.tv/isoclive>* *https://www.facebook.com/isocasiapacific/live <https://www.facebook.com/isocasiapacific/live>* (AI Captions) *https://www.facebook.com/DEFIndia/live <https://www.facebook.com/DEFIndia/live>* *ARCHIVE* *https://archive.org/details/cnxapac2020 <https://archive.org/details/cnxapac2020>* *Permalink* https://isoc.live/13031/ -- -------------------------------------- Joly MacFie +12185659365 -------------------------------------- -

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Call for visual essays - Special edition of Digital Culture and Education exploring 'shelfies'
by Harry Dyer (EDU - Staff) 25 Nov '20

25 Nov '20

SPECIAL EDITION - VISUALISING THE SHELFIE MOVEMENT: DOCUMENTING DIGITAL MATERIALITIES Edited by Yasemine Allsop, Natalia Kucirkova, Jennifer Rowsell, Ekaterina Rzyankina, and Sumin Zhao Covid-19 has transformed the way we work. With domestic space now positioned up front and centre in daily working life, the humble home bookshelf has been transformed into a professional platform. Heightened online time has invited novel habits and trends such as taking, sharing and appreciating shelfies. This special issue invites visual essays on ideologies, ontologies, and epistemologies circulating in shelfies within formal and informal contexts. Shelfies throw into relief ways of being, thinking, and valuing (or not) spaces. What objects are foregrounded and backgrounded in shelfies? What is visible and invisible? In what ways are shelfies political, affective, hermeneutic, and contested? Visual responses to the shelfie movement have the potential of opening up a new lens for conducting and interpreting research. In addition, visual articles give (more) room to present and theorise people's relationships with the liminal spaces we move in and out of during and post-COVID. We invite visual essays that explore responses to shelfies as both trend and lived practice. Some ideas for possible topics include: The form and function of shelfies; Shelfies as cultural, social, and economic signifiers; The semiotics of shelfies; Shelfies as affect; Shelfies as posthuman; Shelfies and the home-work dichotomy; Shelfies as liminal spaces; The politics of shelfies; Shelfies and social media; Shelfies and wellbeing; Shelfies and identity; The presentation of shelf in everyday life; The shelf life of shelfies; Blurring, editing, and augmenting shelfies; The curation of shelfies; Online and offline shelfies; and, The post-COVID legacy of shelfies. While theoretical perspectives and methodological approaches continue to diversify in these new normal times, we invite scholars to use visuals and words in combination in order to unpack the multimodal dynamism of the shelfie. For this call, we ask that you submit your abstract to Jennifer.Rowsell(a)bristol.ac.uk<mailto:Jennifer.Rowsell@bristol.ac.uk> by January 15th, 2021. We will send out decisions by March 1, 2021. Remember that these are visual articles, so you will need to account for both written text and how you will design your articles visually. TIMELINES December 2020 - Put out call for abstracts March 2021 - Decide on abstracts and send out invitations June 2021 - Due date for visual essays September 2021 - Due date for reviews November 2021 - Final visual articles complete December 2021 - Editorial written January 2022 - Go live with special issue For more information about Digital Culture and Education please visit: www.digitalcultureandeducation.com<http://www.digitalcultureandeducation.com>, and to browse our latest editions please visit https://www.digitalcultureandeducation.com/browse-journal

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