May 2020 - Air-L - lists.aoir.org

NYC - Verizon dispute
by Mike Zajko 15 May '20

15 May '20

Hello everyone, Can anybody recommend a good source (academic or journalism) about the long dispute between NYC and Verizon over FiOS? It's been a couple of years since I last heard about the lawsuit ( https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2017/03/nyc-sues-verizon-alleges-failur…) which I suppose is still ongoing, but has anyone written this up as a good long-form piece or academic case study? I'm writing about public-private partnerships for broadband and this suddenly became relevant. Much appreciated, Mike Zajko

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INC Theory on Demand #36--Listening into Others: An Ethnographic Exploration in Govindpuri by Tripta Chandola
by Geert Lovink 15 May '20

15 May '20

https://networkcultures.org/blog/publication/tod36-listening-into-others-an… <https://networkcultures.org/blog/publication/tod36-listening-into-others-an…> INC Theory on Demand #36 Listening into Others: An Ethnographic Exploration in Govindpuri By Tripta Chandola Available for free as .pdf, epub and as print on demand on Lulu The essays collected here are based on two decades of engagement with the residents of the slums of Govindpuri in India’s capital, Delhi. The book presents stories of many kinds, from speculative treatises, via the recollection of a thousand everyday conversations, to an account of the making of a radio documentary. Zig-zagging through the lanes of Govindpuri, Listening into Others explores the vibrant sounds emanating from slum culture. Redefining ethnography as listening in passing, Chandola excels at narrating the stories of the everyday. The ubiquity of smartphones, sonic selfies, wailing, the ethics of wearing jeans, the crossroad rituals of elections, the political agency of slum-dwellers, the war of the sexes through bodily gestures, and conflicts over ownership of both property and sound generated in the slums — these are among the many encounters Chandola opens up to the reader. Slums are anxious spaces in the materiality, experience, and imagination of a city. They are the by-products of the violent and exploitative mechanisms of urbanization. What becomes of the slum-dwellers, who universally, across centuries, cities and continents, befall similar fates of being discriminated, reckoned to be the scum of the earth, and a burden on society? By listening to identified others and amplifying their voices in their own vocabularies and grammar, Tripta Chandola’s praxis creates a methodological, political, and poetic rupture. Slums, she finds, are not anathema to the city’s past, present, or future. They are an integral component of urbanization and a foundational part of the city. With Listening into Others, Tripta Chandola poses the question: ‘Who owns the slum, and who determines which voices are heard? From where you are, listen with me.’ Editors: Geert Lovink and Sepp Eckenhaussen Proofreading of previous versions: Dr. Jo Tacchi and Dr. Christy Collis Cover design: Katja van Stiphout Production: Sepp Eckenhaussen Institute of Network Cultures, Amsterdam, 2020 ISBN: 978-94-92302-63-2 This publication is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International.

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Texts on Deep Fakes, Propaganda
by Seth C. Bradshaw 15 May '20

15 May '20

Hi all- I am teaching an undergraduate course on propaganda this fall and will be adding a section on technological advances, such as deep fakes. Does anyone have suggestions of book chapters or articles that provide an overview of current research and practice regarding deep fakes, AI, and so forth? This is a communication/media course and we will focus primarily on effects, though students with expertise may benefit from technical readings. All suggestions are welcome. Thank you in advance! Seth Seth C. Bradshaw Assistant Professor, Communication Arts Lewis-Clark State College Division of Humanities Lewiston, ID 83501-2698 208.792.2491 | Spalding Hall Rm. 240 Have a blessed day.

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AI Ethics: Publication Norms for Responsible AI (Part 2)
by Abhishek Gupta 15 May '20

15 May '20

Hi everyone, The Montreal AI Ethics Institute is hosting this session to share our insights with the *Partnership on AI* for their work on publishing norms for high-stakes research drawing from our diverse perspectives and experience and having done so before for various other public consultations. *NOTE*: Even if you missed the first session, don’t worry as you’ll receive the notes from it in preparation for the session this coming week. *Date*: May 20, 2020 *Time*: 11:45 AM - 1:15 PM *Venue*: Details to join the session online will be sent on the day of the event Questions that we will be working on: 1) What can we learn from other fields dealing with high-stakes technology, and from history? 2) What are the potential pitfalls of changing the existing status quo of publishing norms? 3) How can we encourage researchers to think about the risks of their works, as well as the benefits? 4) What tools or services need to exist to help people navigate publications decisions? 5) How can we design effective review processes? 6) How do we coordinate effectively as a community? We hope that you will join us at the session, the tickets can be reserved from the following link: https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/ai-ethics-publication-norms-for-responsible-ai-… Other upcoming events can be found here: https://montrealethics.ai/meetup Looking forward to seeing you at the session, thanks! Abhishek

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Santa Clara Principles update & consultation
by Nicolas Suzor 15 May '20

15 May '20

Hi friends! [ And with standard apologies for cross-posting. ] I want to draw your attention to the consultation process to update the Santa Clara Principles on Transparency and Accountability in Content Moderation: https://santaclaraprinciples.org/cfp/ These principles have proved somewhat useful in getting tech companies to improve the information they provide to users about content takedowns under their Terms of Service. EFF had a list in 2019 of major platforms that had at least partially adopted them: https://www.eff.org/wp/who-has-your-back-2019 There's going to be a big revision process over the next year, and the first stage is to hear from advocates and scholars working in the area. Any comments you can provide would be greatly appreciated (deadline is 30 June 2020). This consultation is an acknowledgement that the drafting of the initial principles was a relatively quick process by a small group of civil society advocates and scholars, and we left a lot of important voices out. The important thing for the next version is to make sure that they represent a more diverse set of views and address the major challenges that people have identified and are facing. So your input and expertise here would be really helpful. We'd also appreciate if you could circulate the call for submissions to others who may be interested. Any questions, let me know. Nic -- Nicolas Suzor <n.suzor(a)qut.edu.au>; http://nic.suzor.net Professor, QUT Law School: http://staff.qut.edu.au/staff/suzor Chief Investigator, QUT Digital Media Research Centre: http://www.qut.edu.au/research/dmrc ARC Centre of Excellence for Automated Decision-Making and Society New book: Lawless: the secret rules that govern our digital lives https://digitalsocialcontract.net/lawless-2910ee226bfa

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Postdoc - Social Impacts of Technology
by Cotten, Shelia 14 May '20

14 May '20

Please share with individuals who may find this of relevance. Thanks! Shelia Postdoctoral Fellowship in Social Impacts of Technology at Clemson University Dr. Shelia Cotten, a Provost’s Distinguished Professor and the Associate Vice President for Research Development beginning August 1, 2020 at Clemson University, is seeking to hire a Postdoctoral Fellow for a 1 year position (there is a possibility it may be extended for an additional year, depending upon successful performance and project status). The position is available beginning August 2020. The postdoc will work with Dr. Cotten to analyze data from existing research projects and to collect survey, focus group, interview, and observational data on upcoming research projects. Projects focus on technology usage across the life course and the social, educational, health, and workforce impacts of this usage, thus experience studying either specific age groups, and/or the impacts of technology use, would be preferable but is not required. Applicants must have defended their dissertation prior to beginning the postdoctoral fellowship. A doctoral degree in Sociology, Psychology, Communication, New Media, Information Science or a related field is required. Candidates must have (1) strong quantitative and qualitative methodological and analytical skills, (2) experience writing manuscripts, and (3) good organizational and time management skills. Prior publications and grant writing experience will enhance the application. The Postdoctoral Fellow is a 12 month, full-time appointment, with salary approximately $50,000 depending upon qualifications. Benefits are also provided. Please submit the following application materials as one pdf file via email to Dr. Shelia Cotten CottenClemsonPostdoc(a)gmail.com: - Cover letter describing training, skills, research interests and how they fit with those described in the position advertisement, and why you're interested in this position. - Names and contact information for three references - An up-to-date curriculum vitae Review of applications will begin immediately and continue until a suitable candidate is selected. Hiring is subject to final approval from Clemson University.

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CFP Viral Times: HIV and COVID-19 (Culture, Health and Sexuality)
by Jaime García Iglesias 14 May '20

14 May '20

Viral Times: Rethinking COVID-19 and HIV Special Issue of Culture, Health, and Sexuality We live in viral times: in just a few months, the COVID-19 pandemic has caused momentous alterations to our lives, society and culture. These changes—from the risk of infection to the stark highlighting of the inequality inherent to neoliberal systems—are of such depth that thinker Paul B. Preciado asked: “under what conditions and in which way would life be worth living?” Some current discussions by queer scholars about the social impacts of COVID-19 are informed by the cultural inheritance from the HIV and AIDS crisis that swept the world in 1980s and 1990s (and, both the virus and its cultural heritage remain endemic to many communities in the globe). However, at a broader level, many lessons from the AIDS crisis are being ignored, particularly those that highlight the importance of collective and community-based responses to the virus. At the same time, many political leaders have often excluded the humanities and social sciences, forgetting the essential role these subjects play in theorising through and about the HIV epidemic, and their key role of thinking about the conditions of the current situation. Instead, the “expert” advice spoken about by politicians has almost always only been limited to the medical sciences (which is usually presented as monolithic and incontrovertible) with little space provided for expert scholars in other areas to critically engage with the situation. This themed symposium in Culture, Health and Sexuality provides a space in which to ask: how might memory and culture of HIV inform our responses to COVID-19? In asking this question, we hope to foster critical engagements with the role of thinking about HIV and AIDS in the current culture of pandemic that address issues such as: - What lessons can HIV teach in developing or deploying critical and social public health? - What do the cultural responses to the virus look, sound and feel like across borders, groups and communities? What power dynamics does COVID-19 intersect with? - What are the material conditions of sexuality and health during an epidemic? - How might digital cultures mediate experiences of an epidemic? - Why and how is HIV an obvious precedent to COVID-19? - What are the risks and omissions of establishing a connection between HIV and COVID-19? - How might COVID-19 inform our memories of HIV? - What collective responses have we seen to COVID-19 and HIV and AIDS, and what can we learn by comparing them? - What does comparing COVID-19 and HIV and AIDS tell us about how lives matter? We call for contributions that critically engage with the relationship between HIV and COVID-19 and which address issues such as (but are not limited to): - Experiences of sexuality and intimacy in viral times, as well as the role of technology in developing intimacy, connection and embodiment - The material conditions of sex work and sexual health provision during an epidemic - The role of sex and sexuality: thinking about hook-ups and casual sociality during social distancing, the use and production of pornography, and the experiences of and need for physical and digital sex - Sexual health, prevention, risk and safer sex in viral times. - Agency, individuality, and victimhood, as well as notions of intimate and good/bad citizenship - Cultural memories and genealogies of COVID-19 and HIV: who remembers and who gets remembered - Responses to COVID-19 and HIV, particularly those from public health, politics and science - Media narratives of COVID-19, HIV and the AIDS crisis - Community and relational responses and activism - How stigma, prejudice and discrimination as well as inequalities have differentially influenced responses (particularly in times of scarcity and ‘war-time triage’), such as: socioeconomic status, race/ethnicity, age, nationality, sexuality, or gender We remain open to other explorations that address the relationship between HIV and COVID-19 from culture, health and sexuality perspectives. Contributions are encouraged from a range of perspectives and disciplines, including but not limited to the social sciences and humanities. As we write this, we are painfully aware of the challenging emotional and labour conditions many scholars are currently experiencing, so we encourage collaborative, reflexive and creative pieces as well as writing that addresses these issues through autobiography, critical media and cultural studies, critical theory, queer theory and ethnography or lived experience. We hope the collection will bridge gaps between disciplines and fields to become an initial but enduring point of departure for longer-term conversations about these issues. Queries should be directed to jaime.garciaiglesias(a)manchester.ac.uk and maurice.nagington(a)manchester.ac.uk Deadline for submitting abstracts: June 16 (*We encourage people to submit abstracts, but we also accept full papers) Deadline for full papers: October 16 More information: https://think.taylorandfrancis.com/special_issues/viral-times/?utm_source=T… -- Jaime Garcia-Iglesias The University of Manchester Twitter ¦ Academia ¦ UoM

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WEBCASTS TODAY: Global Encryption Coalition webinar series – Health, Encryption & COVID-19
by Joly MacFie 14 May '20

14 May '20

We are already one down and four to go on this, as the APAC session was a couple of hours back. Via our new twitch experiment I made *highlights of the closing remarks* <https://www.twitch.tv/collections/0TFHtiPWDhbrIw>. ISOC Live posted: "Today, Thursday 14 May 2020, the Internet Society, Center for Democracy and Technology, and Global Partners Digital are hosting a free webinar series 'Health, Encryption & #COVID19: Keeping people and countries safer online' to celebrate the launch o" [image: livestream] <http://livestream.com/internetsociety/globalencryption> Today,* Thursday 14 May 2020*, the *Internet Society <https://internetsociety.org/>*, *Center for Democracy and Technology <https://cdt.org/>*, and *Global Partners Digital <https://www.gp-digital.org/>* are hosting a free webinar series '*Health, Encryption & #COVID19: Keeping people and countries safer online <https://www.internetsociety.org/events/health-encryption-covid-19/>*' to celebrate the launch of the *Global Encryption Coalition*. Across the day this global series of 5 webinars will explore how encryption is a critical tool helping people and countries navigate the global COVID-19 health crisis. Participation will be via zoom plus a live webcast. Closed captions will be available on zoom, open captions on the webcast. *LIVESTREAM: http://livestream.com/internetsociety/globalencryption <http://livestream.com/internetsociety/globalencryption>* *FACEBOOK SIMULCAST: https://www.facebook.com/pg/InternetSociety/videos/ <https://www.facebook.com/pg/InternetSociety/videos/>* *SCHEDULE: https://www.internetsociety.org/events/health-encryption-covid-19/ <https://www.internetsociety.org/events/health-encryption-covid-19/>* *PARTICIPATE* *6:00-07:00 UTC - #apac* *Encryption after COVID-19: What’s Coming Up in Asia-Pacific?* *https://isoc.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_LJS9_8fGSnK-ffPkL9p_rQ* <https://isoc.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_LJS9_8fGSnK-ffPkL9p_rQ> *12:30-14:00 UTC - #europe* *Online Trust and COVID-19: What’s Next for Encryption in Europe?* *https://isoc.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_-LYzE71RR7uaFb10JZhuDQ* <https://isoc.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_-LYzE71RR7uaFb10JZhuDQ> *16:00-17:30 UTC - #5eyes* *Five-Eyes, Encryption & COVID-19: What’s Changed and What’s Next?* *https://isoc.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_VqdvHc6eTemspgKFGjE0aA* <https://isoc.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_VqdvHc6eTemspgKFGjE0aA> *18:00-19:15 UTC - #canada* *Government Backdoor Access Proposals that Threaten Canadian Health and Security Online* *https://isoc.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_YFtYCieKStyhFJUunaHkIA* <https://isoc.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_YFtYCieKStyhFJUunaHkIA> *21:00-22:45 UTC - #lac* *Cifrado y COVID-19 en ALC: lecciones para la protección de datos, la confianza en la economía digital y la protección de la infraestructura de Internet* *https://isoc.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJUsfuiqpjwvH9wm2Cu4oh1ynVnZeNNTji5f* <https://isoc.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJUsfuiqpjwvH9wm2Cu4oh1ynVnZeNNTji5f> *English + Spanish. You will have to select language within zoom. *REAL TIME TEXT: http://streamtext.net/player?event=CFI-ISOC <http://streamtext.net/player?event=CFI-ISOC> (English, all sessions)* *http://streamtext.net/player?event=CFI-ISOC-ES <http://streamtext.net/player?event=CFI-ISOC-ES> (Spanish, LAC session only)* *TWITTER: #GlobalEncryption <https://bit.ly/globalencryption> (+ #regions noted above)* *Permalink* https://isoc.live/12062/ -- -------------------------------------- Joly MacFie +2185659365 -------------------------------------- -

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Special issue on Social Media Strategy in Sustainable Business
by Gohar F. Khan 14 May '20

14 May '20

Dear colleagues, I am co-guest editing the following special issue and would like to invite you to submit your work to it if it is relevant to its theme. https://www.mdpi.com/journal/sustainability/special_issues/Social_Media_Str… *Deadline for manuscript submissions*: 15 August 2020. Regards, 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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Digital Psychology Training Scholarship (8-Weeks Online)
by Brian 13 May '20

13 May '20

Hello, Announcing my 5th scholarship program for candidates who are helping address the current pandemic with online behavioral science. We are accepting applications till May 19th. If this is for you, we look forward to your application. If you know someone who may benefit, I'm grateful if you can share this with them. Details below. Thanks. Brian ------------------------------ Win a scholarship to address COVID-19 with the science of digital psychology What we’re giving away We’re giving away a handful of scholarships for our upcoming 8-week online training course on digital psychology. What the course covers This online course will teach you how to use psychology to build more effective digital health behavior change interventions. In a nutshell, the workshop boils down decades of digital psychology science into a simple system that is easy to learn and apply. The first course covers classic behavioral science and the behavioral design process, while the second course focuses on the neuroscience of emotion/motivation. Who qualifies for our scholarships These scholarships are intended to help people pursuing activities that blend digital interventions with health behavior change that contribute to the current pandemic response. Our program is open to students, academics, innovators, volunteers, anyone working in health promotion, its delivery, or the broader health sector. Why we’re giving them away for free The current pandemic has illuminated the need for us to unite and make behavioral changes based on science. Our training system grew out of research on how to use technology to promote public health, and now’s the time to make an impact. We realize that many organizations and students who are doing good work don’t always have the budget required to attend our training. For this reason, we’re giving away scholarships for change agents to better use digital media and technology to help the world overcome COVID-19 & future pandemics. How to apply Complete the online application form by 19 May to be eligible for the upcoming course. Learn more: https://www.alterspark.com/enrollment/scholarships <http://www.alterspark.com/scholarship> ------------------------------ ================== Brian Cugelman, PhD AlterSpark https://www.alterspark.com <https://www.alterspark.com/> Cell: +1 (415) 510-0767 Biz: +1 (888) 977-2055 brian(a)alterspark.com http://linkedin.com/in/cugelman http://twitter.com/cugelman

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