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Facebook pages and Twitter worldwide trends analytic tool
by Alessandro Zonin 16 Mar '20

16 Mar '20

Hi all, I guess that many of you use or heard about https://socioviz.net, a tool to extract and analyze Twitter data and export networks in GEXF Gephi format. The great news is that Socioviz team have released today two new experimental features: 👉 *Facebook public page analytics* (search for and analyze public pages) 👉 *Twitter worldwide trends analytics* (selected worldwide trends collected and updated daily) I had the chance to beta test these new experimental features. Have a look it's worth it. https://socioviz.net Regards -- Twitter @AlessandroZonin <https://twitter.com/AlessandroZonin> Blog: Social Network Analysis <https://alessandrozonin.wordpress.com/>

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CfPs "Contentious Data: The social movement society in the age of datafication"
by Stefania Milan 16 Mar '20

16 Mar '20

Dear colleagues,   **apologies for cross-posting** In these days of hardship and uncertainty, here comes a tiny distraction for academics.  Davide Beraldo and I (Department of Media Studies, University of Amsterdam) are happy to announce the call for paper for the Special Issue "Contentious Data: The social movement society in the age of datafication” we are guest-editing for the journal Social Movement Studies.  You can find the call following this link: https://think.taylorandfrancis.com/social-movement-studies-contentious-data/ We look forward to receiving your extended abstract by May 30th. Stay safe!  Stefania and Davide   Stefania Milan  Associate Professor of New Media and Digital Culture, University of Amsterdam | https://stefaniamilan.net  Principal Investigator, DATACTIVE (ERC Starting Grant 639379) | https://data-activism.net Principal Investigator, ALEX (ERC Proof of Concept 825974) | https://algorithms.exposed  @annliffey | @data_ctive +31627875425 | +31(0)205252416 Fingerprint: 5A7B  6330  5684  FC39  3DC0 67D7  08B3  50AE  6AF5  1B63

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Journal of Communication Special Issue CFP
by Adrienne Shaw 15 Mar '20

15 Mar '20

The Journal of Communication just posted this CFP for a new special issue that will focus on issues surrounding open science practices in communication research. I am co-editing the issue, spearheading the section on the impacts calls for open science may have on humanities and qualitative research. You can find the full CFP here, and please share widely: https://academic.oup.com/joc/pages/open-comm-cfp Best, -- Adrienne Shaw Director, Cultural Analytics Certificate <https://library.temple.edu/services/49> Associate Professor Department of Media Studies and Production Lew Klein College of Media and Communication Graduate Faculty Temple University Associate Editor, Journal of Communication Co-editor, NYU Press Critical Cultural Communication Series More information on publications and teaching available here <http://www.adrienneshaw.com> Founder of the LGBTQ Game Archive <https://lgbtqgamearchive.com/>: Pronouns: she/her Email hours: M-F 10am-12pm -- Adrienne Shaw Director, Cultural Analytics Certificate <https://library.temple.edu/services/49> Associate Professor Department of Media Studies and Production Lew Klein College of Media and Communication Graduate Faculty Temple University Associate Editor, Journal of Communication Co-editor, NYU Press Critical Cultural Communication Series More information on publications and teaching available here <http://www.adrienneshaw.com> Founder of the LGBTQ Game Archive <https://lgbtqgamearchive.com/>: Pronouns: she/her Email hours: M-F 10am-12pm

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ACM UMAP 2020 - 2nd Call for Doctoral Consortium Papers
by Daricia Wilkinson 15 Mar '20

15 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 ============================ UMAP Statement on Coronavirus ============================ UMAP 2020 will proceed as planned July 14-17, but we will continue to monitor the evolving situation related to the coronavirus disease outbreak and potential impact on global travel. We are following the guidelines provided by the World Health Organisation (WHO), local public health authorities, individual governments and the Italian Government. Decisions will be based on that. We wish to reassure that should a physical conference be unsafe or should people have travel limitations from Governments, the remote presentations/recordings will be possible. Proceedings of the Main Conference and Adjunct Proceedings will be available as planned in the ACM Digital Library. Any changes to operating status will be communicated immediately on the website and social media as well as to all authors of accepted papers and to registered meeting attendees. Stay tuned. ============================ -- Daricia Wilkinson Ph.D. Student School of Computing Clemson University 100 McAdams Hall Clemson, SC, 29634

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Coronavirus Tech Facebook Group
by Steven Clift 14 Mar '20

14 Mar '20

What can universities do with their tech capacity and online audience, to slow the spread of Covid19 and flatten the curve? Perhaps a good place to share/find tech-related ideas ... Coronavirus Tech Facebook Group https://www.facebook.com/groups/221979475862484/

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CFP: Migrant Belongings: Digital Practices and the Everyday, 4-6 November 2020 Utrecht University, The Netherlands
by Leurs, K.H.A. (Koen) 14 Mar '20

14 Mar '20

Migrant Belongings Digital Practices and the Everyday 4-6 November 2020 Utrecht University, The Netherlands Convenor: Sandra Ponzanesi Confirmed keynote speakers: ** Paul Gilroy (University College London) Engin Isin (Queen Mary, University of London)** Nicholas de Genova*(*University of Houston)** Larissa Hjorth**(RMIT University, Melbourne) Saskia Witteborn (Chinese University of Hong Kong) Migrant belonging through digital connectivity refers to a way of being in the world that cuts across national borders, shaping new forms of diasporic affiliations and transnational intimacy. This happens in ways that are different from the ways enabled by the communication technologies of the past. Scholarly attention has intensified around the question of how various new technical affordances of platforms and apps are shaping the transnationally connected, and locally situated, social worlds in which migrants live their everyday lives. This international conference focuses on the connection between the media and migration from different disciplinary vantage points. Connecting with friends, peers and family, sharing memories and personally identifying information, navigating spaces and reshaping the local and the global in the process is but one side of the coin of migrant-related technology use: this Janus-faced development also subjects individual as well as groups to increased datafied migration management, algorithmic control and biometric classification as well as forms of transnational authoritarianism and networked repression. This conference pays particular attention to the everyday use of digital media for the support of transnational lives, emotional bonds and cosmopolitan affiliations, focusing also on the the role digital media play in shaping local/urban and national diasporic formations. This is because it becomes increasingly important to give everyday digital media usage a central role in investigations of transnational belonging, digital intimacy, diasporic community (re)production, migrant subject formation, long-distance political participation, urban social integration and local/national self-organization. Therefore we need to examine individual and collective user practices within the wider historical and cultural contexts of media studies, cultural studies and postcolonial cultural studies scholarship, attuned to issues of politics and power, identity, geographies and the everyday. This also creates new challenges for cross-disciplinary dialogues that require an integration of ethnography with digital methods and critical data studiesin order to look at the formation of identity and experience, representation, community building, and creating spaces of belongingness. Contributions are welcome from any field of study that engages with questions about how technology and social media usages mediate contemporary migration experiences, not only within media and communication studies, or digital and internet studies but also in neighbouring disciplines such as anthropology, postcolonial studies, gender studies, race studies, psychology, law, visual studies, conflict studies, criminology, sociology, critical theory, political theory and international relations. Contributions that explore non-media-centric entry points by focusing on users’ digital practices and foregrounding ethnographic exploration as a uniting framework are especially welcome. The conference is part of the ERC project CONNECTINGEUROPE, /Digital Crossings in Europe: Gender, Diaspora and Belonging/: http://connectingeuropeproject.eu/ Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: * Affective digital practices and the politics of emotion * Digital diaspora * Cosmopolitanism * Cities and urban belonging * Translocality and translationalism * Co-presence and togetherness * Cultural capital * Migrant visualization * Appification of migration * Platformization of migrant lives * Gender and critical race studies * The migration industry of connectivity * Digital ethnography * Transnational authoritarianism * Networked conflicts * Datafication and surveillance *SUBMISSION GUIDELINES:*** Submissions for panels should be submitted via e-mail to *ERC2020(a)uu.nl <mailto:ERC2020@uu.nl>* by 15 May 2020. * Submission for panels should include a chairperson, a rationale for the panel (250 words), and the names of three speakersincluding their abstract (250 words) and biographical note (150 words). Abstracts should be submitted electronically, using the *on-line submission system<https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSeR3DQF2QUikj6LYJo21FFw6tZBDvjyVKZ…>*by 15**June 2020. * Submissions for papers should include an abstract (max 300words) and short biographical note (150 words) about the author including her/his current position and interest in the field of digital media and migration. Fore more infomation click http://connectingeuropeproject.eu/home/conference/ For further question please mail: *ERC2020(a)uu.nl <mailto:ERC2020@uu.nl>* Koen Leurs, PhD Assistant professor Gender & Postcolonial Studies | Graduate Gender Programme | Department of Media and Culture Studies | Utrecht University, the Netherlands | Muntstraat 2a, 3512 EV room 1.09 | T. + 31 30 253 7844| www.koenleurs.net<http://www.koenleurs.net/> Teaching/onderwijs: Coordinator minor Gender studies<https://students.uu.nl/en/node/351/gender-studies>, minor Postcolonial studies<https://students.uu.nl/en/node/351/postcolonial-studies>, TCS hoofdrichting Gender and Postcolonial Studies<https://tcs.sites.uu.nl/kernpakket/genderstudies/> // Docentlid opleidingscommissie TCS<https://students.uu.nl/gw/tcs/contact/opleidingscommissie> Network: Chair Diaspora, Migration and the Media Section<https://www.facebook.com/groups/521804364497541/>, European Communication Research and Education Association (ECREA) – join our Facebook group<https://www.facebook.com/groups/521804364497541/> Recent publications:  -Sage Handbook of Media and Migration<https://uk.sagepub.com/en-gb/eur/the-sage-handbook-of-media-and-migration/b…> (2020), edited with Kevin Smets, Myria Georgiou, Saskia Witteborn & Radhika Gajjala -Transnational connectivity and the affective paradoxes of digital care labour: Exploring how young refugees technologically mediate co-presence<https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/0267323119886166> (2019), European Journal of Communication -Practicing critical media literacy education with/for young migrants: Lessons learned from a participatory action research project<https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/1748048519883511> (2019), International Communication Gazette, with Hemmo Bruinenberg, Ena Omérovic & Sanne Sprenger -We’re here and we’re queer! Young gay connected migrants’ transnational ties and integration in the Netherlands<https://www.cogitatiopress.com/mediaandcommunication/article/view/1686/1686> (2019), Media & Communication with Jeffrey Patterson

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CFP: Migrant Belongings: Digital Practices and the Everyday, 4-6 November 2020 Utrecht University, The Netherlands
by Leurs, K.H.A. (Koen) 14 Mar '20

14 Mar '20

Migrant Belongings Digital Practices and the Everyday 4-6 November 2020 Utrecht University, The Netherlands Convenor: Sandra Ponzanesi Confirmed keynote speakers: ** Paul Gilroy (University College London) Engin Isin (Queen Mary, University of London)** Nicholas de Genova*(*University of Houston)** Larissa Hjorth**(RMIT University, Melbourne) Saskia Witteborn (Chinese University of Hong Kong) Migrant belonging through digital connectivity refers to a way of being in the world that cuts across national borders, shaping new forms of diasporic affiliations and transnational intimacy. This happens in ways that are different from the ways enabled by the communication technologies of the past. Scholarly attention has intensified around the question of how various new technical affordances of platforms and apps are shaping the transnationally connected, and locally situated, social worlds in which migrants live their everyday lives. This international conference focuses on the connection between the media and migration from different disciplinary vantage points. Connecting with friends, peers and family, sharing memories and personally identifying information, navigating spaces and reshaping the local and the global in the process is but one side of the coin of migrant-related technology use: this Janus-faced development also subjects individual as well as groups to increased datafied migration management, algorithmic control and biometric classification as well as forms of transnational authoritarianism and networked repression. This conference pays particular attention to the everyday use of digital media for the support of transnational lives, emotional bonds and cosmopolitan affiliations, focusing also on the the role digital media play in shaping local/urban and national diasporic formations. This is because it becomes increasingly important to give everyday digital media usage a central role in investigations of transnational belonging, digital intimacy, diasporic community (re)production, migrant subject formation, long-distance political participation, urban social integration and local/national self-organization. Therefore we need to examine individual and collective user practices within the wider historical and cultural contexts of media studies, cultural studies and postcolonial cultural studies scholarship, attuned to issues of politics and power, identity, geographies and the everyday. This also creates new challenges for cross-disciplinary dialogues that require an integration of ethnography with digital methods and critical data studiesin order to look at the formation of identity and experience, representation, community building, and creating spaces of belongingness. Contributions are welcome from any field of study that engages with questions about how technology and social media usages mediate contemporary migration experiences, not only within media and communication studies, or digital and internet studies but also in neighbouring disciplines such as anthropology, postcolonial studies, gender studies, race studies, psychology, law, visual studies, conflict studies, criminology, sociology, critical theory, political theory and international relations. Contributions that explore non-media-centric entry points by focusing on users’ digital practices and foregrounding ethnographic exploration as a uniting framework are especially welcome. The conference is part of the ERC project CONNECTINGEUROPE, /Digital Crossings in Europe: Gender, Diaspora and Belonging/: http://connectingeuropeproject.eu/ Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: * Affective digital practices and the politics of emotion * Digital diaspora * Cosmopolitanism * Cities and urban belonging * Translocality and translationalism * Co-presence and togetherness * Cultural capital * Migrant visualization * Appification of migration * Platformization of migrant lives * Gender and critical race studies * The migration industry of connectivity * Digital ethnography * Transnational authoritarianism * Networked conflicts * Datafication and surveillance *SUBMISSION GUIDELINES:*** Submissions for panels should be submitted via e-mail to *ERC2020(a)uu.nl <mailto:ERC2020@uu.nl>* by 15 May 2020. * Submission for panels should include a chairperson, a rationale for the panel (250 words), and the names of three speakersincluding their abstract (250 words) and biographical note (150 words). Abstracts should be submitted electronically, using the *on-line submission system<https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSeR3DQF2QUikj6LYJo21FFw6tZBDvjyVKZ…>*by 15**June 2020. * Submissions for papers should include an abstract (max 300words) and short biographical note (150 words) about the author including her/his current position and interest in the field of digital media and migration. Fore more infomation click http://connectingeuropeproject.eu/home/conference/ For further question please mail: *ERC2020(a)uu.nl <mailto:ERC2020@uu.nl>* Koen Leurs, PhD Assistant professor Gender & Postcolonial Studies | Graduate Gender Programme | Department of Media and Culture Studies | Utrecht University, the Netherlands | Muntstraat 2a, 3512 EV room 1.09 | T. + 31 30 253 7844| www.koenleurs.net<http://www.koenleurs.net/> Teaching/onderwijs: Coordinator minor Gender studies<https://students.uu.nl/en/node/351/gender-studies>, minor Postcolonial studies<https://students.uu.nl/en/node/351/postcolonial-studies>, TCS hoofdrichting Gender and Postcolonial Studies<https://tcs.sites.uu.nl/kernpakket/genderstudies/> // Docentlid opleidingscommissie TCS<https://students.uu.nl/gw/tcs/contact/opleidingscommissie> Network: Chair Diaspora, Migration and the Media Section<https://www.facebook.com/groups/521804364497541/>, European Communication Research and Education Association (ECREA) – join our Facebook group<https://www.facebook.com/groups/521804364497541/> Recent publications:  -Sage Handbook of Media and Migration<https://uk.sagepub.com/en-gb/eur/the-sage-handbook-of-media-and-migration/b…> (2020), edited with Kevin Smets, Myria Georgiou, Saskia Witteborn & Radhika Gajjala -Transnational connectivity and the affective paradoxes of digital care labour: Exploring how young refugees technologically mediate co-presence<https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/0267323119886166> (2019), European Journal of Communication -Practicing critical media literacy education with/for young migrants: Lessons learned from a participatory action research project<https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/1748048519883511> (2019), International Communication Gazette, with Hemmo Bruinenberg, Ena Omérovic & Sanne Sprenger -We’re here and we’re queer! Young gay connected migrants’ transnational ties and integration in the Netherlands<https://www.cogitatiopress.com/mediaandcommunication/article/view/1686/1686> (2019), Media & Communication with Jeffrey Patterson

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Call for Papers - special issue of Science as Culture on digital participatory biodiversity science
by Heaton Lorna 13 Mar '20

13 Mar '20

Apologies for cross-posting We invite submissions for a special issue of Science as Culture on Digital participatory biodiversity science IMPORTANT DATES : Abstract submission: May 29, 2020 Invitation to submit a full paper: June 2020 Full paper due: November 1, 2020 Publication online : latter part of 2021 Special issue in print : late 2022 Guest editors: Florian Charvolin and Lorna Heaton We are living in an age where biodiversity is being lost at an unprecedented rate, and the global environment is subject to increasing sources of stress. Naturalist collections are a key source of authoritative data that may be brought to bear on complex, multi-factored problems such as biodiversity loss, but their collection and curation requires considerable resources, both human and material. This situation has been seized upon as an opportunity to engage a larger number and wider scope of people in producing biodiversity data collections (Kelling et al., 2009). In this context, digital technologies play a pivotal role. Collaborative web platforms and mobile applications offer new possibilities for observation and recording, thereby (re)structuring amateur practice and facilitating the participation of the general public in scientific research. By allowing for consultation, aggregation and analysis of scientific data, databases and online collaborative platforms also enable new ways of working together and of (re)using data, thereby shaping conservation strategies and predictive environmental models (Bowker, 2000; Granjou et al., 2014). In short, these new sociotechnical configurations are changing scientific practice, and the very definition of what qualifies as scientific knowledge, as an increased variety of actors intervene at different stages of knowledge production and dissemination (Callon, Lascoumes & Barthe, 2009; Heaton et al., 2018; Nowotny, Scott & Gibbons, 2001). The increased networking of research between distant laboratories, scientific unions and lay-people raises questions about the constitution of biodiversity knowledge and its relevance to the field with respect to its geographical and ecological variations (Kohler’s landscape and labscape, 2002). It also presents a gloss of unity typical to knowledge infrastructures that blur the local operation of science (Bowker & Star, 1999), and its practical accomplishment embedded in sociohistorical context (Lynch, 1997; Pickering, 1992; Wynne, 1996). Traditional types of natural history expertise are challenged by these new forms of data collection, which rely increasingly on photographs and mechanical validation. The past decade has seen a vast expansion in the number of participatory or citizen science projects, particularly those that integrate a digital component (Mazumdar et al., 2018). The creation of citizen science associations, and of a dedicated journal, are contributing to a rapidly growing academic literature. Yet, this literature remains primarily descriptive or prescriptive in nature. We suggest that it is high time for the humanities and social sciences to reflectively analyze changes in biodiversity knowledge, expertise and infrastructures as enacted in digital participatory science initiatives. This issue seeks to explore participatory biodiversity science projects with a digital component from a variety of contexts. It targets better understanding of their internal specificities (constructivist analysis of their assemblages) and, from an ecological perspective, the cross-fertilization of digital initiatives and their respective milieux. Themes that might be addressed include, but are not limited to: Expertise. How do participatory science platforms reconfigure relations of expertise and authority, and thus power relationships (Dickel & Franzen, 2016)? For example, how do digital participatory science programs organize, express or facilitate particular modes of democratic engagement with environmental problems (Gabrys, Pritchard & Barratt, 2016; Couvet & Prévot 2015)? How do expert and lay knowledge cultures interact (Wynne, 1996) and how is the legitimacy of different registers of knowledge (Epstein 1996, Collins & Evans, 2007) negotiated in participatory digital sciences that require interaction between scientists (of different disciplines) and lay people (Millerand, Heaton & Myles, 2018)? To what extent do new forms of networked expertise (Pfister, 2011) allow for knowledge co-construction or the integration of counter-expertise? Representation, visibility and invisibility in scientific practice. Science and technology studies scholars have long analysed the many different kinds of relations that are accomplished or dismantled in the work people do with scientific representational forms (Coopmans et al., 2014; Lynch & Woolgar, 1990). What are the key points of comparison between traditional naturalist ways of observing (Lynch & Law, 1990) and digitally mediated or enhanced ones? How are screen displays and inscription devices such as interactive maps and checklists deployed to make certain information accessible and encourage participation? Not only do data collection protocols condition the representation of the object and thus the collector’s relation to it (Charonnet, 2019), the resulting data represents phenomena in different ways. How do digital biodiversity platforms expose or enact the realities they make visible? As distributed networks, what do they consider worthy of being reported and what do they discard as insignificant information? In particular, who are the “missing masses” (Denis, 2018) in the process of digitization? To what extent are lay contributors the new, invisible technicians (Barley & Bechky, 1994; Shapin, 1989) of biodiversity science? Infrastructure In biodiversity, as in science generally, claims to universality rest on successful discursive linkages, coordinations and correspondences being made between disparate local practices (Bowker & Star, 1999). How do digital technologies condition massive participation and the treatment of local observations that become valid data as they are aggregated into global databases? What issues of standardization (Latour, 1987, Star, 1989, Pickering, 1992) and generification (Pollock et al., 2007; Heaton, 2018) arise as the scale and scope of these infrastructures increase? How do the chains of recording, treatment and circulation of biodiversity data relate to abstraction and the “dematerialization” and decontextualisation of naturalist sightings (Latour, 1995)? How do digital participatory science initiatives deal with frictions between the need to remain embedded in their local and societal conditions of existence in order to encourage participation (Haywood, 2014; Newman et al., 2017), and the target of interoperability and the production of reliable biodiversity data (Edwards et al., 2011)? Papers targeting these issues should adopt a critical, reflective perspective. In pursuing how to conceptualize “the next generation of STS encounters with digital artefacts, environments and interactions” (Vertesi & Ribes, 2019), all papers should address the ways in which digital instruments influence or shape participatory biodiversity science, its expertise and vice versa. Deadlines and criteria: Correspondence to: lorna.heaton(a)umontreal.ca and florian.charvolin(a)gmail.com Abstracts of 250-300 words should summarise an argument addressing the above questions and concepts. Deadline: May 29, 2020 If the Abstract is accepted, the subsequent full paper will be due by November 1, 2020 Authors must comply with the SaC editorial guidelines for research papers; see two-page download, https://www.tandfonline.com/action/authorSubmission?show=instructions&journ… The guidelines will be strictly enforced, starting from the initial evaluation of whether the submission warrants external review.

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point of view from a hospital for a brain surgery while cov19
by xDxD.vs.xDxD 12 Mar '20

12 Mar '20

Hi everyone again about cov19 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oVrwsM5N3cs Things change, things stay the same: just like 7 years ago, I find myself in an hospital to have a brain surgery (all's fine this time, too) and just like 7 years ago it's super-important to reposition disease in our society, with all our strength and through all our capacity to be an example The Patient is never the only one diseased: it is the entire society, in solidarity among all. This is even more true in our hyperconnected world: in which we live and in which everything depends on everything else. This is the limit, tragedy, but also the great opportunty of our times: when data + computation are not a merely technical deal anymore, they assume an existential value for their characterstic of being our only credible way to experience complex, global, interconnected phenomena. This requires an enormous transformation: to our values, to our sense of solidarity, to how we perceive the ecosystem we live in. In one world: to our culture. Without an Ecosystemic Culture we will not make it: now it's cov19, then will be climate change and others, and things will be the same or worse. We need to start designing and building it together, now. Best wishes to you all salvatore iaconesi -- *Art is Open Source *- http://www.artisopensource.net *Human Ecosystems Relazioni* - https://www.he-r.it/ *Ubiquitous Commons *- http://www.ubiquitouscommons.org

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Digital technologies, disability and transition to higher education
by Edgar Pacheco 12 Mar '20

12 Mar '20

Dear all, I am please to share with you this recently accepted publication. Transition issues in higher education and digital technologies: the experiences of students with disabilities in New Zealand. Abstract: Research on transition to higher education and young people with disabilities has increased in recent years. However, there is still limited understanding of transition issues and how digital technologies, such as social media and mobile devices, are used by this group of students to manage these issues. This article presents the findings of an empirical study that addressed this matter based on young people’s views and experiences. The qualitative study was conducted in the context of a group of students with vision impairments transitioning to a New Zealand university. The findings draw from observations, a researcher diary, focus groups, individual interviews, and data from social media. The study shows that, like their non-disabled peers, the students actively engaged with interactive and collaborative digital technologies to make sense, individually and collectively, of different transition issues before, during and after the first academic trimester of their university journey. Available here: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/09687599.2020.1735305 Regards, *Dr Edgar Pacheco* -------------------------------------------------- *@edgarpachecob1* <https://twitter.com/edgarpachecob1?lang=en> -------------------------------------------------- <http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/1369118X.2017.1406972> -------------------------------------------------- You can access my SSRN author's page at: <https://ssrn.com/author=1123902>

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