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JOURNAL OF DIGITAL WAR
by stevie docherty 06 Mar '20

06 Mar '20

We are delighted to announce the launch of the Journal of Digital War published by Palgrave Macmillan (Springer Nature). https://www.digital-war.org The Journal: Sees digital war as having gone mainstream. Pioneers agenda-setting dialogue on the waging, experiencing, and witnessing of contemporary warfare. Welcomes timely interventions from practitioners, scholars and students. Aims and Scope: https://www.palgrave.com/gp/journal/42984/authors/aims-scope Submit manuscripts here: https://www.palgrave.com/gp/journal/42984/authors/submission Special Issue proposals: https://www.palgrave.com/gp/journal/42984/authors/submitting-a-special-issu… All content is open access until end of 2021. For review content, contact our Reviews Editor: Ally McCrow-Young: ally.mccrowyoung(a)hum.ku.dk<mailto:ally.mccrowyoung@hum.ku.dk> Issue 1 contributors: https://www.digital-war.org/issue-1 ALGORITHMIC ANXIETIES: Trevor Paglen in conversation with Anthony Downey now published: https://link.springer.com/article/10.1057%2Fs42984-020-00001-2 Follow us @DigitalWarJnl https://twitter.com/digitalwarjnl Enquiries: digitalwarjournal(a)gmail.com<mailto:digitalwarjournal@gmail.com>

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King's DDH Conference 2020 Loathing - Call for Papers now open
by Cobby Avaria, Roy 06 Mar '20

06 Mar '20

We are delighted to announce the Call for Papers for our annual PhD conference at the Department of Digital Humanities at King’s College London themed: 2020 LOATHING: DIGITAL TENSIONS, FRAGMENTATIONS AND POLARISATIONS Date: 29th May 2020 Location: Bush House, King’s College London, London Confirmed Speakers: Fernanda Bruno, Associate professor at the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro. CNPq Researcher. Director of the MediaLab.UFRJ. Jennifer Pybus, Lecturer in Digital Culture and Society, King's College London. This conference invites emerging scholars to productively explore the digital tensions which mark our contemporary lives, as any techno-optimism of the early digital age has given way to what we hypothesise as data-driven loathing. We invite a critical focus on these contradictory forces, wherein, for example, the promises of personalisation have led to the fragmentation of audiences and polarisation of politics; or, wherein digital distributed networks seem to have empowered platform enterprises like GAFA as much as new forms of bottom-up participation. How can we address the data granularity of our lives, not only across socio-cultural and political-economic processes, but in a new mediation and apprehension of our urban and environmental surroundings? Overall, we are interested in work that recognises the deep affect of our digital lives in a way that provokes both joy and possibility as well as anxiety and enervation. We invite contributions in the following areas: • Digital commons, data commons versus platform capitalism • Digital tools, platforms: what is enabled and/or constrained • Mediation and the (in)visibility of data • Diffusion of algorithmic power in smart objects and automated decision-making systems • The interplay between profiling and surveillance • Critical and theoretical approaches to understanding tension, fragmentation and polarisation Submission: 250 words abstract with a short academic bio sent to 2020Loathing(a)gmail.com<mailto:2020Loathing@gmail.com>. The required format is a Word document (.doc or .docx) saved as “SURNAME_2020L”. Abstract Submission Deadline: 27th March 2020 Notification of Acceptance: 17th April 2020 Conference Date: 29th May 2020 Conference Location: Bush House, King’s College London, London E-mail: 2020Loathing(a)gmail.com<mailto:2020Loathing@gmail.com> for any questions about submissions or the conference Please see more information on our website.<https://eur03.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fnewperspec…>

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FINAL CFP: Extraction: Tracing the Veins
by Taffel, Sy 06 Mar '20

06 Mar '20

Apologies for cross-listing FINAL CFP: Extraction: Tracing the veins A Virtual/nearly carbon neutral conference Massey University, New Zealand and Wageningen University and Research, The Netherlands June 29 – July 10, 2020 The global appetite for large-scale resource extraction is insatiable. Extraction is the basis for contemporary capitalism, and for almost every commodity we engage with, use and even consume in everyday life. Like minerals coursing through veins deep in the earth and connecting in ways unseen from the surface, extraction provides a direct link between people, economy and planet, with deeply embedded connections—material, ideological and political. Extractive industries are also responsible for half of the world’s carbon emissions and more than 80% of biodiversity loss. Now, as the environmental costs become harder to ignore, we are seeing new actions to contest and reshape extractivism, and to consider post-extractive futures. From a ban on offshore oil and gas exploration in Aotearoa NZ, to industry-led sustainable mining initiatives, and to strikes and protests against mining and oil developments through the Americas, Asia, Pacific and Africa, extraction (and activism towards it) is reshaping people’s relationships with state and market institutions, with the land and soil, and with each other. Despite the centrality of extraction to contemporary life, Anthony Bebbington (2012) wrote a few years ago of ‘the relative invisibility of minerals, oil and gas in the canons of political ecology’. While the intervening years have seen important scholarship, the extractive industries, and processes of extractivism more broadly, continues to be a fertile space for further political ecology- driven exploration. In order to re-examine extraction and its contested place in contemporary capitalism, this event calls on participants to take up the theme of Extraction, which we understand in multiple senses: extraction as the material extraction of natural resources; as a mode of accumulation central to the histories and continuation of capitalism; and as a worldview in which nature is a resource to be commodified for human consumption and accumulation. We encourage scholarly critique as well as engagement with the multiple movements that confront extraction and the communities that are practicing and imagining different systems based on regeneration. In this nearly carbon neutral conference, we invite authors from a range of backgrounds and countries to present and collaborate virtually. The conference will take place over two weeks in June and July 2020. We welcome contributors who hail from a broad range of disciplines: sociologists, artists, engineers, environmental activists, geographers, development practitioners, biologists, economists, environmental managers, anthropologists, and industry representatives to name a few. We seek contributions that cross boundaries of social/natural sciences, and that connect local and global contextual analyses. Papers are invited to address, but are not limited to, the following themes: * Theorising extractivism. Considering the environmental histories and ongoing colonial character of extractive industries; the historic and contemporary global flows and connections of resources and power. This may include: Social reproduction and extractivism; feminist political ecology of extraction; racism and ethnic identity formation in extractivist projects and processes; the financialization of commodities and extractivism; extractivism and climate change. * The future of extractive industries. How are extractive industries changing and adapting to environmental, social, or competitive pressures; What are the possibilities for sustainable resource extraction?; of moving away from extractive industries?; do calls for the end of extractive industries ignore the imperial histories of these industries, their centrality to modern life (and indeed to the technologies by which this conference is possible) and the different potentialities that extraction produces – from the politics of resignation, to increasingly strident forms of nationalism, and discourses of (resource) curses. * New forms of extraction. Beyond the traditional extractive industries, how do other forms of resource extraction – sand, intensive agriculture, deep sea mining, data mining, even ‘renewable’ resources - help us to re-theorise extractivism and its centrality to capitalist relations? * Confronting extractivism. Movements by indigenous Peoples, environmental groups, peasants, workers, etc. that confront extractivism, both in terms of place-based projects, and the political economy and nature/society dualisms that legitimate extractive practices. * Creative responses to extraction. How are artists, creative writers and activists responding to extraction? How is / can art challenge and subvert extractivism? We welcome creative presentations that work well on the online format, such as photography and art portfolios, short films, and creative writing. * Post-extraction and regenerative systems. Can we live without extraction? What does a post-extractivist world look like? How are communities around the world protecting and/or building regenerative rather than extractive systems? How do different worldviews, including Māori and other indigenous perspectives on extraction, take us beyond a materialist discussion of post-extractivism to imagining and building alternatives? Nearly carbon-neutral conference format Traditional academic conferences are responsible for a considerable amount of carbon emissions, as presenters fly from around the world to present in a single location. This also incurs significant financial costs, which often precludes researchers from developing countries and postgraduate students from attending. The Environmental Humanities Initiative at UC Santa Barbara estimated that running an online conference reduces the carbon footprint of a conference by 99%, as well as broadening their reach and accessibility. This conference will take place entirely online in June-July 2020. Contributors will not have to travel anywhere and there is no registration fee. Conference presentations will consist of material that can be submitted online as a video file. This could take the form of a webcam recording, an edited video, a PowerPoint or Prezi with recorded audio or another form of video. Each presentation should be no more than 20 minutes long. Instructions on creating and submitting presentations for the conference are online here<http://perc.ac.nz/wordpress/submitting-a-video-file/>. For a sense of what this looks like in practice, please see previous conferences on “The Lives and Afterlives of Plastic<http://perc.ac.nz/wordpress/the-lives-and-afterlives-of-plastic/>” and “The Feral<http://perc.ac.nz/wordpress/feral/>”. We also ask contributors to actively engage with questions and ideas that other attendees post on their presentation. Abstract and panel submission instructions If you are interested in presenting at the conference, please send a 250 word abstract with your name, e-mail address, and affiliation to masseyPERC(a)gmail.com<mailto:masseyPERC@gmail.com> by Friday, March 6th 2020. We also welcome proposals for panels and (digital) roundtable discussions, and we encourage innovative formats. If you would like to propose a panel, please send us a short panel rationale and details of panel participants. After the conference, some contributors will be invited to develop their presentations for publication in an edited volume. Conference Organisers Glenn Banks, Massey University Alice Beban, Massey University Michiel Köhne, Wageningen University Elisabet Rasch, Wageningen University Hosted by Massey University Political Ecology Research Centre (PERC) Sy Taffel, PhD Programme Coordinator and Senior Lecturer in Media Studies |Co-Director, Political Ecology Research Centre<http://perc.ac.nz/> College of Humanities and Social Sciences | Massey University Email: s.a.taffel(a)massey.ac.nz<mailto:s.a.taffel@massey.ac.nz> | Telephone: +64 (06 ) 356 9099 ext. 84527 Recently Published: Taffel. S (2019) Digital Media Ecologies: Entanglements of Content, Code and Hardware<https://www.bloomsbury.com/us/digital-media-ecologies-9781501349263/>, New York and London: Bloomsbury Taffel. S (2019) Automating Creativity<http://screenworks.org.uk/archive/volume-10-1/automating-creativity> Screenworks 10.1

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[please forward] abstract review open for IFIP Histories of Computing in Asia
by Christopher Leslie 05 Mar '20

05 Mar '20

Dear Colleagues, IFIP’s Working Group 9.7 is pleased to announce two updates: we have formed our Program Committee and Springer-Nature has accepted our proposal to publish a proceedings volume of selected, edited papers. Although the CoVID-19 coronavirus travel restrictions are daunting, our plan is to meet at the South China University of Technology (SCUT) in Guangzhou, China, from 4 to 8 December 2020 unless further developments require an adjustment. Our biannual meeting will be dedicated to the histories of computing in Asia. As previously announced, the Program Committee is willing to review extended abstracts from anyone who wishes feedback before submitting a draft paper. For information on how to submit your abstract for an optional review, fill out the form on our website (http://ifipwg97.org/workshops/hca2020/ <http://ifipwg97.org/workshops/hca2020/>). If you do not wish to submit an abstract, you may still submit a draft paper before June 1. Please feel forward to anyone who might be interested, and let me know if you have any questions. Chris Leslie Christopher Leslie, Ph.D. Lecturer, School of Foreign Languages, South China University of Technology Chair, IFIP Working Group 9.7 - History of Computing ********* HCA 2020: Second Call for Papers HISTORIES OF COMPUTING IN ASIA SOUTH CHINA UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY GUANGZHOU • DECEMBER 2020 Our proposed workshop will bring together international and Chinese academic researchers, public historians, and industry professionals who are interested in the history of computing. The Program Committee now welcomes the submission of extended abstracts from those researchers who would like comments on their projects before submitting a full paper. THEMES The theme of conference will be histories of computing in Asia, with a particular emphasis on contextualizing China’s success in computing. The program committee will consider any paper in line with this theme, but we are particularly interested in topics such as: China, Asia, and Beyond. The rapid rise of Chinese computing: electronic computing and the three phases of Chinese manufacturing: introduction, digestion, re-innovation computing innovations by Chinese professionals, both within the PRC and by overseas Chinese in other countries antecedents to business models like the sharing economy, e-payments, and online shopping that led to success for Alibaba, Tencent, and others computing in the Asian republics of the former USSR (such as Kazakhstan) Internationalism. Frameworks that foster multinational cooperation and innovation: computing on the silk road, and along the modern belt and road standards, protocols, and diplomacy machine translation, global English, and language plurality Science and Technology Studies. History and philosophy of technology, from east to west: theoretical and ideological responses to computing case studies of equitable technological development insights from feminist, masculinity, and gender studies linguistic analysis in the history of computing, computing’s contributions to linguistics Pedagogy. Teaching the history of computing in or about Asia to: engineering students business, humanities, and social science students high school students employees or the general public Public History and Imagination. Remembering and presenting histories of computing: images of computing in literature, film, and television computing in/with/for the arts and humanities preserving and presenting the history of computing inside and outside of Asia REVIEW PROCESS Academic and amateur historians, computing and informatics professionals, archivists, and museum curators are welcome to submit papers for this workshop. Following our typical practice, we will ask for full papers for anonymous peer review by our Program Committee. Accepted papers must be revised according to the comments of the peer reviewers. In order to provide for a lively discussion at the workshop, we will distribute draft papers to participants in advance. After the workshop, authors will have the chance to incorporate feedback from the audience before preparing their final versions. These will be considered for inclusion in the volume of edited, selected papers, which will be published by Springer-Nature in the IFIP Advances in Information and Communication Technology series. The official language of the workshop and the printed proceedings is English. IMPORTANT DATES Before 31 March 2020: Optional submission of extended abstracts (500–1500 words and bibliography) for review by the Program Committee 1 May to 1 June 2020: Draft papers accepted for consideration by the Program Committee 1 September 2020: Comments from Program Committee, decisions, and invitations sent to authors 4 November 2020: Collection of papers, revised based on reviewer comments and using Springer template, for distribution to workshop participants 4 December 2020: Participants arrive in Guangzhou, China 13 January 2021: Revised papers due for consideration in proceedings volume, which will be published by Springer in the IFIP AICT series. For instructions on how to submit your extended abstract or draft paper, please fill out the form at http://ifipwg97.org/workshops/hca2020/ Enquires in advance of your submission may be addressed to the chair of the working group, Christopher Leslie, at <chrisleslienyc(a)hotmail.com>.

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CFP: Global Media and China Special Issue: Surveillance Capitalism
by Xiao Han 05 Mar '20

05 Mar '20

Call for Papers - Abstracts due 31st May 2020 Surveillance Capitalism - Special Issue of Global Media and China Guest Editor: Professor John Ellis, Royal Holloway University of London Recent issues of Global Media and China have explored the specifically Chinese characteristics of internet services, involving a particular constellation of companies and services that is distinct from those developed in the USA. How do the particular affordances of the dominant Chinese internet services differ from those of Google, Amazon, Facebook and PayPal? The combination of financial information of personal data that WeChat now has is very different from that held by any Western corporation, where payment systems are separated from social networking systems. Indeed, Facebook’s recent attempt to launch a payment system similar to that of WeChat seems to have failed for a variety of reasons, including its potential to destabilise the Western banking system. It is now time for comparative studies and the development of an overview of the different constellations that have developed. Debates in the West are developing around the nature of the privatisation of online services in the age of big data and the intent of things. Two events have accelerated this debate. The first is the growing concern around the misuse of data about individuals and its potential for influencing behaviour, evidenced by the rise of ‘fake news’ in social media and the scandal round Facebook and Cambridge Analytica. Data on specific individuals who might be susceptible to influence was, in this case, used to target them with specific Facebook advertising messages in an attempt to influence their voting behaviour in both the Brexit referendum and the election of President Trump. The second event is the publication of Shoshana Zuboff’s The Age of Surveillance Capitalism. Zuboff provides a powerful, Marxist influenced, critique of the behaviour of internet giants of the USA, and their repurposing of the web from its initial idealistic public service direction. Zuboff’s critique is directed towards the huge scale of the internet corporations and their denial of any public responsibility for their actions. She discusses the rights and responsibilities of these giant private corporations in dealing with user data. They sell this predictive data to companies who “want to know the maximum they can extract from us in an exchange. They want to know how we behave in order to know how best to intervene in our behaviour”. Zuboff’s critique is a powerful one, but she scarcely mentions China at all. Given that China’s internet giants are also private corporations devoted to the pursuit of profit, can it be said that China is developing a different model to the Surveillance Capitalism identified by Zuboff, or is it broadly similar? Indeed, is Zuboff’s model applicable to the Chinese situation at all? This call for papers for a special issue of Global Media and China invites both specific case studies and more general overview articles in order to open a debate about the specifics of the different ways in which Western and Chinese enterprises have implemented the affordances of the internet and digital information management. Please send abstracts of no more than 300 words in length, plus a short author bio-notes to Professor John Ellis Royal Holloway University of London at john.ellis(a)rhul.ac.uk <mailto:john.ellis@rhul.ac.uk> by 31st May 2020. Notifications of acceptance will be sent out by 15th June 2020. Important dates: 31st May 2020 - abstracts and authors’ bio-notes 15th June 2020 - notifications of abstract acceptance 15th November 2020 - full paper submission 31st December 2020 - notifications of peer-review results 31 March 2021 - submission of final revised paper June 2021 special issue published Please note than acceptance of an abstract does not guarantee publication. All submissions will undergo double blind peer review once completed articles are submitted. Dr HAN Xiao Research Assistant, Social Media Centre, Communication University of China (CUC) Commissioning Editor, Global Media and China http://journals.sagepub.com/home/gch

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HASTAC 2020 - We've go more room; you've got more time
by Knight, Kim 04 Mar '20

04 Mar '20

Dear All, Apologies for cross-posting. The local HASTAC organizing team is thrilled with the number and quality of submissions we have received for #hastac2020. The proposal engagements with hindsight, foresight, and insight are evocative and inspiring. UTD's Fall schedule became available this week and we were surprised to find that we have more space than we anticipated for the conference. So we are excited to announce that we are able to expand our space and accept more sessions than anticipated. To that end, we can offer a final deadline extension of March 21 for anyone still thinking about joining us for our collective imaginings of new futures. We are working on sponsorships and grant funding to support travel for presenters who are graduate students, contingent faculty, and others without travel funds, including scholars and artists from state institutions in California whose are prohibited from using funds for travel to TX. If you have been trying to decide between the Art and Media show or a panel presentation, please note that selection and participation in the Art and Media show does not count toward the conference limit regarding participation in leading or presenting in workshops, roundtables, or other panels. With confirmed plenary participation from Jodi Byrd, Simone Browne, Anne Cong-Huyen, Julian Chambliss, Cathy N. Davidson, Julie Thompson Klein, Tara McPherson, Timothy Murray, Adashima Oyo, Marisa Parham, Katina Rogers, Jacqueline Wernimont, and more TBA, we are looking forward to rolling up our sleeves and getting to work on the futures we want to inhabit. The full call and more information about the plenary sessions can be found at http://hastac2020.org _____ Dr. Kim Brillante Knight Pronouns: She/her/hers Associate Professor Associate Dean of Graduate Studies, ATEC School of Arts, Technology, and Emerging Communication The University of Texas at Dallas kim.knight(a)utdallas.edu http://kimknight.com Check out the ATEC Graduate Handbook<https://utdallas.box.com/v/atecgradhandbook>!

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Lecturer/Senior Lecturer in Digital Business
by Gohar F. Khan 04 Mar '20

04 Mar '20

We are looking for a Lecturer/Senior Lecturer in Digital Business to join us at the Waikato Management School in New Zealand. Please circulate widely among your contacts. Position description: https://www.waikato.ac.nz/vacancies/current-vacancies Thanks, Gohar -- Dr. Gohar Khan | Senior Lecturer of Digital Business | Undergraduate and Graduate Convenor for Digital Business | School of Management & Marketing | Faculty of Management | University of Waikato Private Bag 3105 | Hamilton 3240 | New Zealand | +64 7 838 4233 | gohar.khan(a)waikato.ac.nz | office: MSB.2.32D / Web: gfkhan.wordpress.com Check out my books on social media analytics and digital marketing analytics

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ACM UMAP 2020 - Call for Doctoral Consortium Papers
by Daricia Wilkinson 04 Mar '20

04 Mar '20

============================ Call for Doctoral Consortium Papers - ACM UMAP 2020 28th ACM International Conference on User Modeling, Adaptation and Personalization Theme: "Responsible Personalization" Genoa (Italy) July 14-17, 2020 Website: https://www.um.org/umap2020/ ============================ Paper Submission: March 30, 2020 Notification to authors: April 22, 2020 Camera ready submission: May 3, 2020 Note: The submissions times are 11:59 PM AoE time (Anywhere on Earth) ============================ BACKGROUND AND SCOPE: ============================ ACM UMAP 2020, the premier international conference on systems that adapt to users and user models for adaptation, includes a Doctoral Consortium (DC) Session. The DC provides an opportunity for doctoral students to explore and develop their research interests under the guidance of distinguished researchers from the field. Doctoral students are invited to apply to present their research to experienced scholars who will provide constructive feedback and advice. Students are expected to document in a brief submission their doctoral research (see below described submission information for further details), which will be evaluated by the consortium committee. Good quality applications will be selected for presentation at a Doctoral Consortium Session as part of the conference. Promising, but less well- developed applications will be selected for presentation at a poster session. Each student with an accepted submission will be assigned a mentor who will provide feedback on the student’s work and will discuss the doctoral research with the student and the audience at the consortium. SUBMISSION AND REVIEW PROCESS ============================ To apply for the ACM UMAP 2020 doctoral consortium, students should submit a paper presenting their doctoral research organized under the following headings: - Research Problem. The problem being addressed and a motivation outlining the relevance of the problem; - Related Work. Work already performed by other researchers related to this problem. This should situate your work, showing your knowledge of the relevant previous work and how your work will make a new contribution; - Research Questions and Proposed Approach. The main questions the PhD project aims to answer, contributions it aims to achieve, and the thesis methodology; - Progress to Date and Future Work. The progress made to date (including a clear description of the approach, methodology and preliminary results) as well as the plan for further research. Topics include (but are not limited to) the ACM UMAP 2020 key areas. Each DC submission should cover: identification of related (state of the art) work, indication of the potential innovation, application or advancement of the state-of-the-art that the work intends to achieve. In addition, as appropriate for the PhD project, each submission may cover: indication of data to be used for experimentation, indication of implementation approach, indication of evaluation criteria and experimental design. Each DC paper submission should be accompanied by a cover page that states: the paper title, name of the PhD candidate, the name of his/her supervisor(s) and University, a paragraph describing the stage they are in the PhD programme, together with a brief description of their background. This will enable the committee to adapt its assistance to each student. The DC will be most useful to students who have completed enough of their thesis work to have a solid foundation with a clear topic and literature review but the student should be early enough in their studies to still benefit from guidance and advice. Papers should be submitted via the EasyChair submission system <https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=acmumap2019dc> https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=acmumap2020 by selecting the “UMAP 2020 Doctoral Consortium” track. Papers will be reviewed single-blind and do not need to be anonymized before submission. Submissions should be pdf documents consisting of 1 cover page and the paper (up to 4 pages long), formatted using the ACM SIG proceedings template: https://www.acm.org/publications/proceedings-template. Please note that ACM changed its templates at the start of 2017, so please ensure that you use the new template and do not reuse an old template. PUBLICATION AND PRESENTATION ============================ The accepted ACM UMAP 2020 Doctoral Consortium papers will be included in the Conference Proceedings, which will be published by ACM and that will be available via the ACM Digital Library. The main author (doctoral student) must register for the conference and present the paper for the paper to be included in the proceedings. FINANCIAL SUPPORT ============================ ACM UMAP has a history of supporting students to attend. Authors of submissions to the DC will have higher priority for UMAP grant applications. DOCTORAL CONSORTIUM CHAIRS ============================ - Judy Kay, University of Sydney, Australia - Judith Masthoff, Utrecht University, the Netherlands and University of Aberdeen, UK -- Daricia Wilkinson Ph.D. Student School of Computing Clemson University 100 McAdams Hall Clemson, SC, 29634

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Eligibility requirements expanded for postdoctoral fellowship aimed at expanding career opportunities for marginalized youth in the U.S.
by Jamieson L Pond 04 Mar '20

04 Mar '20

In response to feedback from our community, we have expanded the eligibility requirements for the Equitable Futures Postdoctoral Fellowship and will accept applications from scholars graduating during the current academic year, receiving their degree by the summer of 2020. Application form and more info: https://connectedlearning.news/PostdocFellowAIR About the Equitable Futures Postdoctoral Fellowship: The Connected Learning Lab (CLL) at the University of California, Irvine, invites applications from emerging scholars for a two-year postdoctoral fellowship to engage in research-practice partnerships and youth participatory action research aimed at expanding career opportunity for marginalized youth in the U.S. We are seeking scholars with deep connections and background with marginalized communities, committed to social justice, with research interests in career equity. The two-year fellowship offers an award of $70,000 per year for salary and benefits, with additional support for research and travel expenses, and professional development offered by the CLL in youth participatory action research and socially engaged scholarship. The fellowship involves matchmaking with mentors, host institutions, and organizations, and selected fellows will need to be located near their host institution and/or partner organizations. This fellowship offers a unique opportunity to be part of shaping a new network of researchers and practitioners in its inaugural and startup years. We invite scholars who embrace a spirit of innovation, experimentation, and collaboration and are committed to research in the service of educational practice and equity. This fellowship program is part of a broader set of initiatives centered on how identity, culture, and social relationships drive career gaps and opportunities for youth from economically and racially marginalized communities. We look in particular at how to best tap the assets, identities, culture, and communities of marginalized youth in expanding career opportunity. Background information Anchor funding for the fellowships is provided by The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation (BMGF) Equitable Futures project. The program is administered by the CLL, a research institute at the University of California, Irvine, dedicated to studying and mobilizing new learning approaches in equitable, innovative and learner-centered ways. The BMGF and CLL will be partnering with a broader network of funders, universities, and organizations in support of this fellowship. Respectfully, *Jamieson Pond, Communications Manager* Connected Learning Lab University of California, Irvine CLAlliance.org <https://clalliance.org/> | ConnectedLearning.uci.edu <http://connectedlearning.uci.edu/> Twitter: @TheCLAlliance <https://twitter.com/TheCLAlliance> | @TheCLSummit <https://twitter.com/TheCLSummit> Fb.com/ConnectedLearningAlliance <https://www.facebook.com/ConnectedLearningAlliance/> Connected Learning Newsletter <https://clalliance.org/newsletter> ------------------------------ *Connected Learning Summit 2020 <https://connectedlearningsummit.org>* July 29-31, 2020 | Cambridge, MA

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WEBCAST TODAY: Solidarity on the Blockchain + Cryptocurrency Blockchains as Platform
by Joly MacFie 04 Mar '20

04 Mar '20

It's a 'No sleep til Brooklyn' at ISOC.LIVE with this, our 5th stream of the day. This week, ISOC-NY's ongoing series on Internet cooperatives looks at crypto. ISOC Live posted: "On Wednesday March 4 2020, at 6pm EST (23:00 UTC), ISOC.LIVE will webcast the seventh in a series of 14 guest lectures in the Who Owns the World course at the New School in NYC. This course aims to introduce students at The New School, and members of the " [image: livestream] <https://livestream.com/internetsociety2/whoownstheworld>On *Wednesday March 4 2020*, at *6pm EST* (23:00 UTC), *ISOC.LIVE <https://isoc.live/>* will webcast the seventh in a series of 14 guest lectures in the *Who Owns the World <https://www.whoownstheworld.org>* course at the New School in NYC. This course aims to introduce students at The New School, and members of the public, to the cooperative digital economy as a global movement. This week's lecture is a Blockchain double-header; first *Morshed Mannan <https://twitter.com/MannanMorshed>* will present remotely '*Solidarity on the Blockchain <https://www.whoownstheworld.org/mar-04/>*'. He will be followed by Koray Caliskan <https://twitter.com/koraycaliskan> whose topic is '*Cryptocurrency Blockchains as Platform*s <https://www.whoownstheworld.org/mar-04-2/>'. This webcast is made possible via a partnership between the *Internet Society New York Chapter <https://isoc-ny.org>* (ISOC-NY) and the *Institute for the Cooperative Digital Economy <https://platform.coop/who-we-are/icde/>* (ICDE). *LIVESTREAM: https://livestream.com/internetsociety2/whoownstheworld <https://livestream.com/internetsociety2/whoownstheworld>* *TWITTER: #WhoOwnsTheWorld <http://bit.ly/36ZUchb> #PlatformCoop <http://bit.ly/2R0eUIj>* *Permalink* https://isoc.live/11865/ -- -------------------------------------- Joly MacFie +2185659365 -------------------------------------- -

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