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Book Series: Palgrave Studies in Mediating Kinship, Representation, and Difference
by Schultermandl, Silvia (silvia.schultermandl＠uni-graz.at) 22 May '20

22 May '20

SERIES TITLE: Palgrave Studies in Mediating Kinship, Representation, and Difference SERIES EDITOR/S: May Friedman, Ryerson University (Canada); Silvia Schultermandl, University of Graz (Austria) This book series brings together analyses of familial and kin relationships with emerging and new technologies which allow for the creation, maintenance and expansion of family. We use the term “family” as a working truth with a wide range of meanings in an attempt to address the feelings of family belonging across all aspects of social location: ability, age, race, ethnicity, nationality, sexuality, gender identity, body size, social class and beyond. This book series aims to explore phenomena located at the intersection of technologies including those which allow for family creation, migration, communication, reunion and the family as a site of difference. The individual volumes in this series will offer insightful analyses of the representations of these phenomena in media, social media, literature, popular culture and corporeal settings. Possible book topics include: • the use of technology and migration and family composition and disjunction; the ways that technologies may both push and pull kin together/apart • the range of technology use across literal and figurative space including intersections of geography, age, poverty, gender and beyond • the impact of technological absence: the ways that technologies may be taken for granted in particular environments (privileged nations; privileged subject positions) and may be denied or inaccessible in other spaces or places • technologies of family creation and maintenance: the use of alternate reproductive technologies; the use of communication technologies to share information; • queer family creation and representation through technology; making queer family visible through traditional, popular and social media; alternate family connections including nonnormative parenting arrangements (more than two parents, multiple different shades of parenting); “new” family through donor sibling relationships; • technologies of class mobility, including the impact of smartphone technology on mediating/curtailing aspects of the digital divide; shifting family relationships through generational moves in class status • fat family: the ways that narratives of obesity have had impacts on the creation and representation of family (for example: obese women who are denied reproductive technologies or access to international adoption); the ways these rhetorics have shifted differently in different jurisdictions; representation of fat family; intersection of fat and working class identities in popular culture • trans families: both in terms of gender identity but also in terms of other families that “confound”—families that do not “match” one another, or that otherwise transgress normative models • technologies of disability: the use of technology to enhance or bolster independence, the ways that disabled people are seen as incapable of parenting; on the other hand, the technologies which come into play around parenting children with disability, both prenatally and once children are born; representation of disability and family (fetishization and the perceived martyrdom of parents) Please send inquiries to may.friedman(a)ryerson.ca AND silvia.schultermandl(a)uni-graz.at

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Registration now open for ‘Disrupting Digital Monolingualism’ workshop
by Naomi Wells 22 May '20

22 May '20

Dear colleagues, Registration is now open for an online workshop on the theme of ‘Disrupting Digital Monolingualism’ on 16th and 17th June 2020 (https://languageacts.org/digital-mediations/event/disrupting-digital-monoli…<https://eur03.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Flanguagea…>). This two-day virtual workshop will bring together leading researchers, educators, digital practitioners, language-focused professionals, policy makers and other interested parties to address the challenges of multilingualism in digital spaces and to collectively present new models and solutions. The workshop will combine both conceptual (strategy, policy and theory) and practical perspectives (digital ecosystems, methods and tools with a focus on language). It is hosted by the AHRC-funded ‘Language Acts & Worldmaking’ project with the support of the ‘Cross-Language Dynamics: Reshaping Community’ project. The workshop will include a combination of lightning talks, demos, posters, panels and a mini-workshop, and we encourage participation on social channels. You can register here: https://languageacts.org/digital-mediations/event/disrupting-digital-monoli…<https://eur03.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Flanguagea…> Further information about the workshop is available here: https://languageacts.org/digital-mediations/event/disrupting-digital-monoli…<https://eur03.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Flanguagea…> Attendance is free but registration is essential. Book your place and you will be sent an access link to attend the workshop online, along with the event programme (including abstracts, speaker bios and panel details) a few days prior to the event. Kind regards Paul Spence, Renata Brandão and Naomi Wells (on behalf of the organising committee) Dr Naomi Wells Early Career Researcher in Italian and Spanish with Digital Humanities Institute of Modern Languages Research School of Advanced Study | University of London Room 238 | Senate House | Malet Street | London WC1E 7HU | UK Email: naomi.wells(a)sas.ac.uk http://modernlanguages.sas.ac.uk/ https://digitalmodernlanguages.wordpress.com/

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Participations: Latest issue out now!
by Judith Rosenbaum-Andre 22 May '20

22 May '20

Participations: Journal of Audience and Reception Studies has just released its latest issue! This open-access journal features three special sections. The first is aimed at understanding readers, reading, and digital media, the second looks at interviews as a research method, and the third section features nine essays from the University of Wales at Aberystwyth conference on "Researching past cinema audiences: Archives, Memories and Methods". With an editorial introduction by Martin Barker and a series of articles that provide innovative theoretical, methodological, as well as empirical insights, including the audience reception of professional wrestling stars, the circulation of film and cultural capital, and the understanding of resistance as observed in online discussions, this issue is packed with relevant and contemporary insight into audience research in 2019. The issue can be found here: http://www.participations.org/Volume%2016/Issue%201/contents.htm -- Judith E. Rosenbaum, PhD Assistant Professor Department of Communication and Journalism University of Maine 414 Dunn Hall Orono, ME 04469 www.juditherosenbaum.com/ @JudithRBaum

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WEBCAST TODAY: CyberSecurity Webinar
by Joly MacFie 22 May '20

22 May '20

This is underway. Olaf just said "Internet routing is a whispering game." Again a reminder you can go and make your own clips at https://www.twitch.tv/isoclive ISOC Live posted: "On Friday 22 May 2020 at 6:30-7:30pm IST (13:00-14:00 UTC) the Internet Society Rural Development Special Interest Group (RuralISOCSIG) and the Internet Society Cybersecurity SIG (CyberSecSIG) present a livestream webinar 'CyberSecurity'. Speakers: 1. Dr" [image: livestream] <http://livestream.com/internetsociety/cybersecurity>On *Friday 22 May 2020* at *6:30-7:30pm IST* (13:00-14:00 UTC) the *Internet Society Rural Development Special Interest Group <https://ruralisocsig.org/>* (RuralISOCSIG) and the *Internet Society Cybersecurity SIG <https://cybersecsig.org/>* (CyberSecSIG) present a livestream webinar '*CyberSecurity <https://ruralisocsig.org/cybersecurity-webinar>*'. *Speakers*: 1. *Dr. Olaf Kolkman*, the Principal - Internet Technology, Policy, and Advocacy at the Internet Society. 2. *Dr. Kotikalapudi Sriram*, a senior engineer at the US National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) in Gaithersburg, Maryland. *LIVESTREAM: http://livestream.com/internetsociety/cybersecurity <http://livestream.com/internetsociety/cybersecurity>* *TWITTER: @IsocSig <http://bit.ly/IsocSig> | @CyberSecSIG <https://twitter.com/CyberSecSIG> #cybersecurity* *Permalink*: https://isoc.live/12091/ - -- -------------------------------------- Joly MacFie +2185659365 -------------------------------------- -

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reporting hate speech on WhatsApp
by F N 22 May '20

22 May '20

Dear All, In terms of hate speech in WhatsApp, is there anyway to monitor if action is taken against a particular group after one reports it to WhatsApp(similar to the message in Facebook which arrives as response about the action taken/not taken after a report)? From my understanding, there is no such option. In such a circumstance, is going to the law enforcement authorities the only option? Any suggestions on literature on this will be very useful. Thanks a lot Fathima

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Re: [Air-L] Question about Twitter data privacy policy
by Sugar, Benjamin Nathan 21 May '20

21 May '20

Hi Gimena, You’re right it is slightly nuanced. For the information you are sharing (which if I understand is *only* the text of the tweet), unless their TOS has changed (always good to hedge) yes, you can. I don’t believe the format (e.g. csv vs. a database) matters. What you cannot do, is make tweets available in their entirety. In that case, you can only share tweet id’s and others must “rehydrate” them. Twarc from the Documenting the Now project can extract the Tweet ID's very easily. You do need to run a command in a terminal, but if you can double click on an app icon, and type a sentence, you can do it and I’m happy to help! https://www.docnow.io/ https://github.com/DocNow/twarc#dehydrate If you have the time/resources, consider making the ID a field in your data. There have been a few times when someone’s project inspired an idea but it would have required a part of the tweet that was missing from the dataset. Benjamin

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The Journal of Interactive Technology and Pedagogy Call for Submissions (Deadline June 30, 2020)
by Communication ＠JITP 21 May '20

21 May '20

*The Journal of Interactive Technology and Pedagogy * *General Issue* *with a Forum on Data and Computational Pedagogy * *Issue Editors: Gregory Palermo (Northeastern University)* *Brandon Walsh (University of Virginia Library)* *Editorial Assistant: Kelly Hammond (CUNY Graduate Center) * Call for submissions URL: https://jitp.commons.gc.cuny.edu/call-for-submissions/ The *Journal of Interactive Technology and Pedagogy* (JITP) seeks scholarly work at the intersection of technology with teaching, learning, and research. We are interested in contributions that creatively take advantage of the affordances of digital platforms and critique their limitations. We invite both textual and multimedia submissions employing interdisciplinary and innovative approaches in the humanities, sciences, and social sciences. Besides scholarly papers, the submissions can consist of audio or visual presentations and interviews, dialogues, or conversations; creative/artistic works; manifestos; or other scholarly materials, including work that addresses the labor and care considerations of academic technology projects. For this issue, we will accept both general submissions on any topic within the field, and contributions destined for a subsection featuring conversations on Data and Computational Pedagogy. *Forum on Data and Computational Pedagogy* As algorithms dynamically categorize, distribute, and elevate certain kinds of information, and play an increasing role in shaping experiences of data, how are we fostering students’ critical engagement with using and making data? This featured section will showcase submissions addressing the challenges and opportunities emerging from thinking about computation, pedagogy, and data literacy together. How, when, and to what effect are educators encouraging facility with the transformation and re-presentation of data? How do educators and students grapple with issues of power and agency when using data? What pedagogical interventions might help our readers to think differently about data or computational literacy? How might our understanding of data analysis as a transformative and literate practice structure research on teaching? Pedagogical contributions that draw upon related theoretical debates are more than welcome, such as those in critical algorithm studies, data feminism and ethics, critical code studies, science and technology studies, computational humanities, writing analytics, algorithmic rhetoric, literacy studies, and information science. To float ideas and proposals for this forum specifically, please contact us at admin(a)jitpedagogy.org. *Brief Guidelines for Submissions* Research-based submissions should include discussions of approach, method, and analysis, so as to provide a teachable model for future researchers. When possible, research data should be made publicly available and accessible via the Web and/or other digital mechanisms, a process that JITP can and will support as necessary. Successes and interesting failures are equally welcome. Submissions that focus on pedagogy should balance theoretical frameworks with practical considerations of how new technologies play out in both formal and informal educational settings. Discipline-specific submissions should be written for non-specialists. For further information on style and formatting, accessibility requirements, and multimedia submissions, consult JITP’s accessibility guidelines <https://jitp.commons.gc.cuny.edu/submit/#accessibility>, style guide <https://jitp.commons.gc.cuny.edu/submit/#style-guide> and multimedia submission guidelines <https://jitp.commons.gc.cuny.edu/multimedia-submission-guidelines-and-best-…> . *Submission and Review Process* All work appearing in the Issues section of JITP is reviewed by the issue editors and independently by two scholars in the field who provide formative feedback to the author(s) during the review process. We practice signed, as opposed to anonymous or “blind,” peer review. We intend that the journal itself—both in our process and in our digital product—serves as an opportunity to reveal, reflect on, and revise academic publication and classroom practices. As a courtesy to our reviewers, we will not consider simultaneous submissions, but we will do our best to reply to you within three months of the submission deadline. The expected length for finished manuscripts is under 5,000 words. All work should be original and previously unpublished. Essays or presentations posted on a personal blog may be accepted, provided they are substantially revised; please contact us with any questions at admin(a)jitpedagogy.org. *Important Dates* Submission deadline for full manuscripts is *June 30th, 2020*. Please view our submission guidelines <https://jitp.commons.gc.cuny.edu/submit/> for information about submitting to the Journal. The editorial team and the JITP editorial collective want to offer any support we can to those facing increased caregiving workloads. We seek to put our pedagogical and collaborative mandate into practice by inviting constructive communication with authors developing their work during this difficult period. If you are unable to meet this deadline for whatever reason given COVID-19–related disruptions, please email the editors at admin(a)jitpedagogy.org to discuss an extension. *Optionally*, if you would like to receive feedback from the editors on an abstract or paper proposal, please submit it to the editors by *May 31st, 2020*. This issue is slated for publication in December 2020.

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Deepfakes CFP
by Carl Ohman 21 May '20

21 May '20

For those interested in Deepfakes and Synthetic media: Forwarding a CFP in special Issue of ‘Convergence: The International Journal of Research into New Media Technologies’ on ‘The Digital Face and Deepfakes on Screen.’ CFP: Convergence Special Issue: “The Digital Face and Deep Fakes on Screen” Deadline for Abstract Submissions: June 30, 2020 Deadline for Full Papers: January 5, 2021 “The Digital Face and Deepfakes on Screen” Special Issue of Convergence: The International Journal of Research into New Media Technologies Guest editors: Lisa Bode (University of Queensland), Dominic Lees (University of the West of England), Dan Golding (Swinburne University of Technology) Expected date of publication: August 2021 The past few decades in high-budget screen production has seen the emergence of digital human faces on screen. The iconic youthful likenesses of dead and aging stars have been painstakingly recreated for advertising and film franchise prequels and sequels. Actors’ faces have been pasted over those of stunt and performer doubles for sequences of breath-taking agility, or integrated with animated animalistic or mechanistic bodies for the purposes of fantasy and science fiction. Such sequences are notable for the time, labour, and technology required to make them, but in late 2017 things escalated: an open access machine learning application was released online, and the means to quickly and easily replace or alter faces in moving images became readily available. Since then, socalled ‘deepfakes’ have proliferated on video sharing sites and social media, causing widespread concern about consequences for persona rights, revenge porn, our perception of social and political reality, and the potential to further undermine the democratic process in an era of ‘fake news’. Both deepfakes and the digital human face more generally, raise multiple pressing concerns, which this special issue seeks to explore. This special issue examines how the technological processes of creating and altering the digital face impact on screen cultures, on the reception of the moving image, and on social interactions through the mobile screen. We seek papers that look at the ethical, philosophical and legal issues around the use of deepfakes in public life, and those that may explore positive cultural and creative possibilities for deepfakes and/or digital faces more generally. The editors welcome contributions from a range of disciplinary perspectives that explore questions such as: • What are the implications of digital faces and/or deepfakes for screen labour markets, screen production, visual effects workers, performers, or celebrity culture? • To what extent are established legal or ethical frameworks challenged by or vital to approaching the creation and circulation of deepfakes? • What older ways of thinking about persona, likeness, the actor/character relation, or illusionism might be useful for understanding digital faces and/or deepfakes? • How do viewers respond to digital faces and/or deepfakes in different contexts? What factors might shape persuasiveness, uncertainty, or suspicion in viewer responses? • What are the gendered, racial, or other social identity issues around digital faces and deepfakes? • Are there distinct geographic, temporal, and cultural differences in the dominant uses and/or discourse surrounding and/or reception of digital faces on screen? Deadline for abstracts: June 30, 2020 Please send a 500-word abstract and a 100-word bio to the guest editors: l.bode(a)uq.edu.au; dominic.lees(a)uwe.ac.uk, dgolding(a)swin.edu.au Authors of accepted abstracts will be invited to submit full contributions by January 5, 2021 Best Carl Öhman, Ph.D Candidate Oxford Internet Institute, University of Oxford 41 St Giles, Oxford, OX1 3JS, UK

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SoLAR Webinar: Prof Bart Rienties - Learning analytics adoption in Higher Education: Reviewing six years of experience at the Open University UK
by Vitomir Kovanovic 21 May '20

21 May '20

[apologies for multiple copies] Hi all, It is my pleasure to invite you to SoLAR Webinar "Learning analytics adoption in Higher Education: Reviewing six years of experience at Open University UK" presented by Prof. Bart Rienties from the Open University, The United Kingdom. To register, go to https://www.eventbrite.com.au/e/learning-analytics-adoption-in-higher-educa… Time and date: Thursday, Jun 11, 2020, 5:00 PM - 6:00 PM Central European time (11:00 AM-12:00 PM Eastern US time, 8:00 AM-9:00 AM Pacific US time, 4:00 PM-5:00 PM London, UK Time) Location: Zoom (meeting URL provided in the registration email) We are looking forward to seeing you at the webinar! Kind regards, Vitomir Kovanovic, Secretary, Society for Learning Analytics Research (SoLAR) https://solaresearch.org/ Learning analytics adoption in Higher Education: Reviewing six years of experience at Open University UK Abstract: In this webinar, Prof Bart Rienties<https://iet.open.ac.uk/people/bart.rienties> will reflect on the process of implementing learning analytics solutions within the UK higher education setting, its implications, and the key lessons learned in the process. The talk will specifically focus on the Open University UK (OU) experience of implementing learning analytics to support its 170k students and 5k staff. Its flagship OU Analyse has been hailed as one of the largest applications of predictive learning analytics at scale for the last five years, making OU one of the leading institutions in learning analytics domain. The talk will reflect on the strong connections between research and practice, educational theory and learning design, scholarship and professional development, and working in multi-disciplinary teams to explain why the OU is at the forefront of implementing learning analytics at scale. At the same time, not all innovations and interventions have worked. During this webinar, Prof Rienties will discuss the lessons learned from implementing learning analytics systems, how learning analytics has been adopted at OU and other UK institutions, and what the implications for higher education might be.

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Video and book launch: Communication and Capitalism: A Critical Theory, by Christian Fuchs
by Christian Fuchs 21 May '20

21 May '20

Christian Fuchs. 2020. Communication and Capitalism: A Critical Theory. London: University of Westminster Press. 406 pages. https://doi.org/10.16997/book45 Available as paperback and as gratis open access e-book Book launch talk "Capitalism & Communication: Critical Theory in the Age of the Internet & Digital Capitalism": https://youtu.be/liiEEumaLfs Going beyond Jürgen Habermas’ theory of communicative action, Christian Fuchs outlines foundation of a critical, dialectical, humanist approach to theorising communication in society and in capitalism. -- "an impressive wide-ranging book”. Prof Michael Hardt, Duke University -- "a comprehensive approach to understanding and transcending the deepening crisis of communicative capitalism" Prof Graham Murdock, Loughborough University German translation: Christian Fuchs. 2020. Kommunikation und Kapitalismus. Eine kritische Theorie. München: UVK/utb. ISBN 978-3-8252-5239-7. 501 Seiten. http://fuchs.uti.at/books/kommunikation-und-kapitalismus/ Table of Contents: 1. Introduction Part I: Foundations of Communicative Materialism 2. Materialism 3. Materialism and Society 4. Communication and Society Part II: Communication in Capitalist Society 5. Capitalism and Communication 6. Communication Technologies: Means of Communication as Means of Production 7. Communication Society 8. Political Communication in the Public Sphere 9. Ideology 10. Nationalism, Communication, Ideology 11. Global Communication and Imperialism Part III: The Materialist Transcendence of Communicative Capitalism 12. Communication Society as Society of the Commons 13. Death and Love: The Metaphysics of Communication 14. Communication and Struggles for Alternatives 15. Conclusion: Advancing a Dialectical, Humanist, Critical Theory of Communication and Society

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