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CFP: 2020 E-society Virtual Conference on Sept. 8-9 (Abstract Deadline July 15)
by Frank Liu 30 Jun '20

30 Jun '20

Dear colleagues and AoIR members, Please help circulate this final CFP for the interdisciplinary virtual conference on E-society Research. https://www.esocietysummit.net/ The deadline of the abstract submission is on July 15. Thank you. Sincerely, Frank -- Frank C.S. Liu Professor & Director, Institute of Political Science, National Sun Yat-Sen University 804 Kaohsiung, Taiwan, R.O.C. E-mail: csliu(a)mail.nsysu.edu.tw <mailto:csliu@mail.nsysu.edu.tw>

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CFP: Journal of Peer Production #15 TRANSITION
by Mathieu.O'Neil 30 Jun '20

30 Jun '20

CFP: Journal of Peer Production #15 TRANSITION <apologies for multiple posts> PEER PRODUCTION AND OUR CRISES Peer producers are people who create and manage common-pool resources together. It sometimes seems as if “peer production” and “digital commons” can be used interchangeably. Digital commons such as free and open source software and Wikipedia are non-rivalrous (they can be reproduced at little or no cost) and non-excludable (no-one can prevent others from using them, through property rights for example). So, practically speaking, proprietary objects could be produced by equal “peers”. We argue that peer production has a normative dimension so that what chiefly characterizes this mode of production is that “the output is orientated towards the further expansion of the commons; while the commons, recursively, is the chief resource in this mode of production” (Söderberg & O'Neil, 2014, p. 2). The Journal of Peer Production has tracked the evolution of peer production from open knowledge to open design and manufacturing. It approaches its ten-year anniversary in the time of the global pandemic, and of the continuing environmental crisis. The impacts of Covid-19 are profound, but will not last forever, though local infection pools may subsist in poorer countries for much longer than in the Global North. In contrast, the environmental crisis is here to stay. THE ROLE OF THE JOURNAL OF PEER PRODUCTION Significant social change is required to stave off climate destruction, and principles such as cooperation and trust, transparency in production, collective democratic decision-making, etc., can usefully contribute to necessary processes of “relocalization” and “degrowth”.* What should be done to develop the digital and physical commons? What role should the Journal of Peer Production play in this development? And what shape should it take? It is clear that in addition to maintaining its uniquely transparent curation and dissemination of academic research, the Journal of Peer Production needs to expand its work in several ways: -Should it feature more practical advice to develop commons, such as toolkits and how-to guides? -Should it comprise policy proposals to help grow the infrastructure which supports the commons? -In other words, should it combine research and action? The answer is "yes" in all three cases. To this end we seek creative, practical and policy-oriented ideas to help invent a new type of scientific journal that both fulfills strict academic criteria, and brings research work closer to practice. Our next issue, JOPP #15 will thus be a "TRANSITION" issue featuring, in addition to peer-reviewed research, experimental formats and "meta" articles. JOPP #15 TRANSITION - Call for Papers We seek investigations into societal transition (how can we move towards a society where contributions to the commons are valued and recognised?), into the journal's editorial transition (how should the Journal of Peer Production change to assist this societal transition), as well as idiosyncratic understandings of scientific and political transitions. JOPP #15 TRANSITION - Peer-reviewed articles + Complement We invite submissions of peer-reviewed academic papers from multiple fields on how "things can change". What are the sociological and historical conditions for transition to occur? For example: what is the impact of manifestos? When is innovation socialised? How can allies be enrolled? etc. Editorial guidelines for peer-reviewed articles: max 8,000 words; peer-reviewed in accordance with the JOPP peer review process See http://peerproduction.net/peer-review/process/ For this TRANSITION issue, academic papers must be complemented by a shorter piece in which the contents of the academic paper are transformed into a different format. The nature of this transformation is up to the authors. We can suggest the following: policy guidelines; practical toolkits; comic-books; etc. Other authors may be enlisted to assist in the article's transition. Editorial guidelines for complementary pieces: max 2,000 words; reviewed by the editors. JOPP #15 TRANSITION - Non peer-reviewed articles We also invite submissions of non-peer reviewed academic papers dealing with transition. These will be reviewed by the editors. A-Follow-up papers Papers "following-up" on previous issues of JOPP, or on specific articles by the authors or others. What has changed since this article was published? B-Policy and strategic papers Papers bringing together academics and policy makers. Strategies for connecting to actors in government and/or civil society. C-Meta papers Papers on the question of impactful academic publishing: how can academics pursue a career and have social impact at the same time? Papers on the transition of research fields: how do research fields evolve to better meet their aims? Rewriting influential papers, or a chapter of a classic book, or revisiting one's own past paper: what has changed? Editorial guidelines for A, B, and C: max 4,000 words. TRANSITION: TIMELINE CFP released 30 June 2020 EOI peer-reviewed articles deadline (500-words max. extended abstract + 100-words max. complementary paper abstract) 30 July 2020 EOI non peer-reviewed articles deadline (250-words max. abstract) 30 July 2020 Authors advised 30 August 2020 First submission sent out for review 30 November 2020 Reviews due 30 January 2021 Revised submissions due 30 March 2021 Signals due 30 May 2021 JOPP # 15 released 30 June 2021 ==-==-==-==-==-==-==-==-==-==-== *The following is an excerpt from the final chapter of the forthcoming Handbook of Peer Production (Wiley, 2021), “Be Your Own Peer! Principles and Policies for the Commons” (O’Neil, Toupin, Pentzold): The governance of peer produced projects, one of the central aspects of the studies of peer production, aspires to the self-regulation of participants in autonomous collectives. This governance raises the broader issue of political sovereignty. The appeal of self-governance for peer production participants can perhaps be explained by the amount of strategic control most citizens in liberal democracies have over their lives and environment. This control has been drastically reduced by unaccountable global actors – e.g. financial markets, extractive industrial interests, supranational trade agreements, and the list goes on – who influence and constrain the policy options of notionally democratic nation-states. In the early 2020s, racist nativism and authoritarianism are being embraced by some people in reaction to the failures of export-oriented, deregulated, and globalized neoliberalism. A way out of this political crisis is linked to a solution to the environmental crisis: we must head toward more democracy by relocalizing or deglobalizing, and towards more sustainability by degrowing, our economies. As engaged researchers, we believe the Handbook of Peer Production needs to offer a response, however modest, to these political and ecological challenges. Addressing the macro-economic aspects of “deglobalization” would lead us far away from peer production, towards issues which would probably require a Handbook of their own. Accordingly, we focus here on relocalization as it relates to degrowth (décroissance), the downscaling of over-production and over-consumption (Kallis, 2019; Latouche, 2006). In a nutshell: unlimited growth and consumption are not sustainable, so we need more access to free public services, a shorter work week, and a turn towards climate-friendly industries. In this context, Stefania Barca (2019) suggests that the one question that matters is that posed by self-governing workers: “should surplus value be reinvested in production, or not”? Yet since only a handful of firms and industrial sectors are run following so-called “holacratic” (i.e., communal or participatory) principles, degrowth must – in a first stage at least – be deployed in a piecemeal, hybrid manner. In the context of discussing the cooperative sector, Gibson-Graham (2003) suggest that if we perceive economic relations as already plural, then the revolutionary “project of replacement” can be modified into one of “strengthening already existing non-capitalist economic processes and building new non-capitalist enterprises,” of establishing “communal subjects” (p. 157). Several chapters in the Handbook of Peer Production [...] have discussed ways in which this “strengthening” has begun to occur at the municipal level. However, as noted by Adrian Smith (2014) in his account of London’s early-1980s Technology Networks (community-based workshops which provided open access to shared machine tools, technical advice, and prototyping services), a “key lesson from this history is that “radical aspirations invested in workshops, such as democratizing technology, will need to connect to wider social mobilizations capable of bringing about reinforcing political, economic and institutional change” (Smith, 2014, online). In other words, the ecology around peer production must be nurtured. Further, adopting strictly local settings leaves the public policy terrain open to neoliberal and/or reactionary perspectives. References Barca, S. (2019) The labor(s) of degrowth. Capitalism Nature Socialism, 30(2), 207–216. Gibson-Graham, J.K. (2003). Enabling ethical economies: Cooperativism and class. Critical Sociology. 29(2): 123-164. Kallis, G. (2019) Socialism without growth. Capitalism Nature Socialism, 30(2): 189-206. Latouche, S. (2006) The globe downshifted. Le monde diplomatique. January. https://mondediplo.com/2006/01/13degrowth Smith, A. (2014) Technology Networks for socially useful production. Journal of Peer Production, 5: Shared Machine Shops. http://peerproduction.net/issues/issue-5-shared-machine-shops/peer-reviewed… Söderberg, J., & O’Neil, M. (2014). Introduction. In: Söderberg, J., & Maxigas (Eds.), Book of Peer Production (pp. 2-3). 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Job Search - Research Fellow in Digital Culture - University of Sussex
by Kate O'Riordan 30 Jun '20

30 Jun '20

The School of Media, Arts and Humanities at the University of Sussex is looking to appoint a Research Fellow in Digital Culture Appointment from 1 September 2020 to contribute to developing research in digital media cultures in the school. The successful candidate will normally: • Possess a completed doctorate in a relevant academic discipline • Demonstrate evidence of engagement in high-quality research activity • Contribute to the development of digital media, arts and humanities research • Engage with digital production, arts and/or cultural practices, and/or digital humanities and methods. • Demonstrate research links to feminist science studies, critical race studies and/or work on gender and sexuality 1 To conduct practice based and/or theoretically based research activity in areas across digital culture, digital arts and digital humanities, with an ability to engage with critical race studies, feminist science studies and queer studies. 2 To undertake independent as well as guided and collaborative research on projects engaging with intersections across race, gender, sexuality and aspects of digital culture including genomics, algorithms, machine learning and AI. https://www.sussex.ac.uk/about/jobs/research-fellow-in-digital-culture-ref-…

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CfP: Digital Sustainability
by Massimo Ragnedda 30 Jun '20

30 Jun '20

CALL FOR PAPERS, Special Thematic Issue on Digital Sustainability, *Digital Policy, Regulation and Governance Emerald* Scholars are invited to submit abstracts for a special issue on the theme Digital Sustainability, guest edited by Dr. Massimo Ragnedda (Northumbria University, UK) and Prof. Dr. Glenn Muschert (Khalifa University of Science & Technology, UAE). Submissions will be peer reviewed and considered for publication in a special issue on the theme commissioned by Emerald Publishing’s peer-reviewed journal *Digital Policy, Regulation and Governance*. SPECIAL ISSUE THEME: The special issue theme is “Digital Sustainability.” The decade of the 2020s is simultaneously the age of digital transformation and the time in which humanity has established a coherent set of sustainability goals to be achieved by 2030, namely the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (UN SDGs). What is less commonly discussed is the role that digital technologies, digital skills, and digital social life will play in the pursuit and maintenance of a sustainable future. This special issue offers a forum for that conversation to develop, as a venue in which social scientists, STS scholars, and other digital scholars can explore the concept of digital sustainability with an eye toward establishing a conceptual framework for defining and theorizing digital sustainability, for studying and assessing digital sustainability, and for plotting out applied methodologies for implementing principles of digital sustainability in real, augmented, and virtual spheres. Thus, this special issue on digital sustainability will open up new scholarly and applied conversations regarding precisely the intersection between digital aspects of human life and wider sustainability concerns for humanity and the planet. The aims of the project are to connect contemporary scholarship in digital sociology with scholarship concerning sustainability, and thereby to carve out a new sub-field for digital sustainability. These goals will be met via the academic investigations assembled in the special issue, as follows: - Establish a concept of digital sustainability, and to define the theoretical and conceptual parameters of the idea. - Map out methodological approaches for the study and assessment of digital sustainability. - Conceptualize how digital sustainability can be enhanced in applied settings. COVERAGE: The special issue on “Digital Sustainability” will include six or seven articles of 5.000 to 7.000 words examining conceptual issues related to digital sustainability. The primary criterion for acceptance is established as scholarly quality and relevance of topic to the special issue theme. Each chapter must engage digital sustainability on a conceptual level, while at the same time advancing issues related to methodologies for study/assessment of digital sustainability and/or practical strategies to enhance digital sustainability. Each article should include some empirical evidence, but must also be linked theoretically to wider debates current in digital sociology, sustainability studies, communications, or related fields. Contributors are encouraged to offer forward-looking perspectives in the form of suggestions for digital sustainability, including how the concepts, associated methodologies, applications, and principles of digital sustainability can be useful in pursuit to sustainability goals. Topics include, but are not limited to: - Theorizing digital sustainability - Measuring digital sustainability - Methodologies for assessment of digital sustainability - Mapping plans to achieve digital sustainability - Exploration of the role of advanced computing in digital sustainability, such as AI, big data, quantum computing, blockchain, cryptocurrency - Exploration of various forms of social reality as aspects of digital sustainability, such as RL, VR, AR, and XR - Exploration of digital sustainability and the human-computer interface(s) - The relevance of digital skills in digital sustainability - The role of digital infrastructure in digital sustainability - E-waste, energy usage, and other ecological concerns - The role(s) of infrastructure, hardware, or software in digital sustainability - The role of formal social institutions (public, private, or NGO) in digital sustainability IMPORTANT DATES: - Abstracts Due *1. August 2020* - Decisions Issued 15. August 2020 - Articles Due 31. October 2020 - Reviews Returned 1. January 2021 - Revisions Due 31. March 2021 - Submit to Publisher 7. May 2021 - Online Publication 30. July 2021 ABSTRACT SUBMISSION GUIDELINES The special issue editors invite colleagues worldwide to prepare extended abstracts for a proposed article contribution. Please submit a one-page proposal to the editorial team via email by 1 August 2020, and kindly contact the editors with questions or for additional information. First drafts of invited articles will be due will be due 1 November 2020, and final manuscripts will be due 1 May 2021. Manuscripts will be limited to 20 manuscript pages (c. 5.000 words), including abstract, references, two-dimensional tables, and figures. SPECIAL EDITORS Dr. Massimo Ragnedda (Senior Lecturer in Mass Communications, Northumbria University, UK). Email: massimo.ragnedda(a)northumbria.ac.uk Prof. Dr. Glenn W. Muschert (Professor of Sociology, Khalifa University, UAE). Email: glenn.muschert(a)ku.ac.ae ______________ *Massimo Ragnedda* <http://northumbria.academia.edu/MassimoRagnedda> Senior Lecturer in Mass Communication Squires Building 306f, Northumbria University, NE8 1ST Newcastle (UK) Tel: 01912437444 Visiting Professor at the Faculty of Journalism, Lomonosov Moscow State University <http://www.journ.msu.ru/eng/news/27610/> *Most recent books*: Massimo Ragnedda (2020). Enhancing Digital Equity. Connecting the Digital Underclass <https://www.palgrave.com/gp/book/9783030490782#aboutBook>, Palgrave (in press). Massimo Ragnedda and Maria Laura Ruiu (2020). Digital Capital. A Bourdieusian Perspective on the Digital Divide <https://books.emeraldinsight.com/page/detail/Digital-Capital/?k=97818390955…>, Emerald. Massimo Ragnedda (2017) *The Third Digital Divide: A Weberian approach to digital inequalities* <http://bit.ly/2f8FObg>, Routledge. *Most recent edited books*: Massimo Ragnedda and Anna Gladkova eds (2020). Digital Inequalities in the Global South <https://www.palgrave.com/gp/book/9783030327057>. Palgrave. Bruce Mutsvairo and Massimo Ragnedda eds (2019) Mapping the Digital Divide in Africa. A Mediated Analysis. <https://www.aup.nl/en/book/9789462986855/mapping-the-digital-divide-in-afri…> Amsterdam University Press Massimo Ragnedda and Glenn Muschert, eds (2018) *Theorizing Digital Divide* <http://bit.ly/2y9WSLm>, Routledge Latest articles: A. Gladkova, E. Vartanova, M. Ragnedda (2020). Digital Divide and Digital Capital in Multiethnic Russian Society <https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/17447143.2020.1745212>, Journal of Multicultural Discourses Massimo Ragnedda, Maria Laura Ruiu and Felice Addeo (2019), Measuring Digital Capital: an empirical investigation <http://buff.ly/2zpPiew>, New Media and Society Massimo Ragnedda (2018) Conceptualizing Digital Capital <https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0736585318309316?via%3Di…>, Telematics and Informatics Vice chair of Digital Divide Working Group, IAMCR <https://iamcr.org/s-wg/working-group/DID> Co-convenor of NINSO (Northumbria Internet and Society Research Group <https://www.northumbria.ac.uk/about-us/academic-departments/northumbria-law…> )

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WEBCAST TODAY: APAC insights 2 – True Lies: Misinformation, Censorship and the Open Internet
by Joly MacFie 30 Jun '20

30 Jun '20

This is coming up shortly, believe me! ISOC Live posted: "On Tuesday 30 June 2020 at 06:00 UTC Internet Society Asia Pacific hosts the second edition of its APAC Insights series of online conversations sharing views and insights on current issues related to the Internet and its use in the Asia-Pacific. TOPIC Tr" [image: livestream] <https://livestream.com/internetsociety/apacinsights2>On *Tuesday 30 June 2020* at *06:00 UTC Internet Society Asia Pacific <https://www.internetsociety.org/regions/asia-pacific/>* hosts the second edition of its *APAC Insights* series of online conversations sharing views and insights on current issues related to the Internet and its use in the Asia-Pacific. *TOPIC* True Lies: Misinformation, Censorship and the Open Internet *SPEAKERS* *Nighat DAD*, Executive Director, Digital Rights Foundation, Pakistan *Peng Hwa ANG*, Professor, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore *William YU*, Chief Technology Officer, Novare Technologies Inc., Philippines *MODERATOR* *Rajnesh SINGH*, Regional Vice President, Asia-Pacific, Internet Society *LIVESTREAM https://livestream.com/internetsociety/apacinsights2 <https://livestream.com/internetsociety/apacinsights2>* (open captions) *PARTICIPATE VIA ZOOM https://bit.ly/3hXSYZL <https://bit.ly/3hXSYZL>* (closed captions) *REAL TIME TEXT https://streamtext.net/player?event=CFI-ISOC-APAC <https://streamtext.net/player?event=CFI-ISOC-APAC>* *TWITTER: #APACinsights <http://bit.ly/apacinsights>@ISOCapac @InternetSociety* *SIMULCASTS* *https://www.pscp.tv/ISOC_Live/ <https://www.pscp.tv/ISOC_Live/>* *https://www.twitch.tv/isoclive <https://www.twitch.tv/isoclive>* *https://www.facebook.com/InternetSociety/posts/10157232618393239 <https://www.facebook.com/InternetSociety/posts/10157232618393239>* *Permalink* https://isoc.live/12355/ -- -------------------------------------- Joly MacFie +2185659365 -------------------------------------- -

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FW: Final Call! June 30! Submit abstract for special issue on Algorithmic Governance in Context (for New Media & Society)
by Annette Markham 30 Jun '20

30 Jun '20

Hi Dan, (and the rest of the AoIR list), Sorry! My error about the deadline for full papers! It’s not until October. As I was posting, I couldn’t figure out why the turnaround time was so short. But then I thought I better mention it. So glad to learn I was wrong.…Quarantine brain, Stuck in a hotel room in Melbourne for two weeks. ...... Whew, Annette -- From: Dan L. Burk <dburk(a)uci.edu> Sent: Tuesday, June 30, 2020 03:43 To: Annette Markham Subject: Re: [Air-L] Final Call! June 30! Submit abstract for special issue on Algorithmic Governance in Context (for New Media & Society) Hi Annette -- Just to be clear on this, the cfp says invitations will be issued by July 15 and full drafts of invited papers are due by October 31. Your message says full paper is due by July 15, which I am assuming is a typo, right? Cheers, DLB On 2020-06-29 01:37, Annette Markham wrote: Hello AoIR-ists! Final call for submissions! We're coming close to the deadline for a special issue of _New Media & Society_ on ALGORITHMIC GOVERNANCE IN CONTEXT. This CFP is pretty open ended and encourages papers about how we govern algorithms as well as papers on how algorithms govern us...and a lot in between, also. Lots of options. Submit your 750-1000 word abstracts by end of day June 30 wherever your timezone is, but keep in mind that the full paper is due July 15, which is a super quick turnaround. See details below. … · Extended abstract submission deadline: 30 June. Please submit here: https://elomake.helsinki.fi/lomakkeet/105716/lomake.html · Invitation to submit full draft: 15 July · Deadline for full papers: 31 October *Submission guidelines:* Proposals of 750-1000 words should comprise an abstract and a short description explaining how the proposed paper relates to the special issue theme. Please submit your proposal through the submission form no later than June 30, 2020. Invited paper submissions will be due 31 October 2020 and will undergo peer review following the usual procedures of *New Media & Society*. Approximately 10-12 papers will be sent out for full review. Therefore, the invitation to submit a full article does not guarantee acceptance into the special issue. The special issue is scheduled for publication in early 2022, with online first publication expected from mid-2021 onwards.

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Twitter and Politicians: Request for Resources
by Cherry Mathew Philipose 30 Jun '20

30 Jun '20

Dear Fellow AoIR Members Greetings from India! I was wondering whether any of you know of any study on the phenomenon of political leaders in some countries (e.g. India, US) preferring Twitter over other SM platforms to communicate, engage and even break news? My initial search results on Google Scholar can be found here: twitter world leader politics - Google Scholar <https://scholar.google.com/scholar?hl=en&as_sdt=0%2C5&q=twitter+world+leade…>. I'm not sure whether I used the correct keywords to get anything relevant. Thanks and regards. Cherry Mathew Philipose, PhD Department of English SSN College of Engineering Kalavakkam, Chennai India

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CFP-Beyond Zoom: XR For Teaching and Research in the COVID-19 Era
by John P. Bell 29 Jun '20

29 Jun '20

Virtual Conference CFP Beyond Zoom: XR For Teaching and Research in the COVID-19 Era Submission Deadline: July 10, 2020 Conference Date: August 7, 2020 Submit Proposals at https://forms.gle/yzHWHgNjPSgVLb5X8 Register to Attend at http://dartgo.org/covid-xr-conf-reg Send Questions to covid.xr.conf(a)gmail.com Recent large scale engagement with remote learning has brought to the fore the challenges of teaching and learning in an online environment. While technologies like videoconferencing and learning management systems have drawn a great deal of critical review and pedagogical development, we can also apply the lessons of higher education's sudden foray into mass remote teaching to other types of tools. In particular, XR-a catch-all term including augmented and virtual reality, as well as related technologies for spatial and pervasive computing-holds both great potential and challenges for educational use under pandemic conditions. This virtual conference will explore areas where XR can mitigate the challenges of engaging with students and collaborators remotely as well as investigate new opportunities to apply XR technologies across remote, face-to-face, or hybrid environments. In particular, we are interested in opportunities to use XR to help teach and work within or across disciplines such as laboratory science, clinical education, studio art, fieldwork, or other object- and place-based teaching and research. We welcome proposals for brief (5-minute) lightning talks showing off existing XR projects. Of interest are student and faculty feedback from remote classes that can help shape future XR projects, and ideas for safely dealing with the logistics of technology that is literally in your face while trying to maintain social distancing standards, as well as discoveries or ideas related to knowledge discovery and collaboration. These brief presentations will be organized into sessions that seed generative discussions as part of a day-long event. Examples of relevant presentations would include: - Discussions of existing XR software that has been deployed for classroom use (live in-headset demonstrations will not be supported, though screenshots and videos are welcome), independent research, or collaborations - Results of faculty or student surveys highlighting where XR could fill gaps in remote learning built around videoconferencing - Experiments in or ideas for using XR to support remote community building in teaching or research - How plans for exploring or deploying XR in the classroom or research have changed since the beginning of the pandemic - Examples of development patterns or technologies to quickly build lessons or research platforms for XR - Rigorous testing methodologies that demonstrate efficacy - or the lack of efficacy - for XR as a classroom tool that increases student engagement or improves learning outcomes - Best practices for safely sharing XR resources like VR headsets while trying to contain viral spread - Ideas for designing pedagogy meant for headsets rather than screens - Sources for primary materials that have particular impact when experienced with XR (e.g. 360 videos) - Methods for hybridizing experiences that are partially virtual and partially physical - Research on the environments in which students and faculty have been accessing remote classes, including how spaces are shared at home, network connection quality, and other factors that could influence XR adoption - Novel technologies and applications that expand the classroom, laboratory, or workspace by mixing the virtual and the physical HOSTS Information, Technology, and Consulting; The Neukom Institute; Film and Media Studies @ Dartmouth College Online Learning Initiative @ University of Pennsylvania

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Call for papers -- Migration, migrant work(ers) and the gig economy -- Environment and Planning A
by Mark Graham 29 Jun '20

29 Jun '20

Dear colleagues, For anyone doing work at the intersection of migration and the gig economy, please see the below call for papers. Please do be in touch with any questions or ideas. Mark *Call for papers - Migration, migrant work(ers) and the gig economy - Environment and Planning A* The study of platform-mediated gig work has granted insufficient critical attention to questions of migration and migrant labour. My colleagues, Niels van Doorn, Fabian Ferrari, and Srujana Katta, and I, are putting together a theme issue <https://journals.sagepub.com/pb-assets/EPA%20theme%20issue%20GRAHAM%20et%20…> of Environment and Planning A to address that gap (see also our working paper on Migration and Migrant Labour in the Gig Economy <https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3622589>). One set of questions that contributors to the theme issue may address concerns the structural role of migrant labour in sustaining the gig economy. Without a steady influx of migrants, platform companies like Uber, Ola, Helpling, Rappi, and Deliveroo would have trouble maintaining their labour supply in almost any of the cities in which they operate. As is the case for the informal economy, the precise numbers of migrants working in the gig economy remains unclear, due to the lack of comprehensive publicly accessible data on the topic. However, from New York to Santiago to Cape Town to London, it is clear that migrant workers play an outsized role in providing the labour power behind a range of services offered in the gig economy, where the distinction between formal and informal labor is frequently blurred. Even in India and China, countries with huge domestic labour markets, internal migrants play an oversized role in providing key gig economy services such as ride-hailing, domestic work, and food delivery. In this sense, it is evident that migrant labour serves an infrastructural function for these platform companies—one that is as vitally important as the steady influx of investment capital—and its governance at the intersection of labour market regulation and immigration policy forms a critical institutional condition for their business model’s viability. Another set of questions concerns migrants’ lived experiences of work and social reproduction within the gig economy. The relative ease of finding work through platforms enables a valuable lifeline for migrants, who often face significant barriers to formal employment and welfare provision. However, compared to native-born gig workers, migrants often face additional dimensions of precarity as a result of their migrant status. For example, they are often subject to discrimination from consumers and co-workers alike, face accusations of depressing wages, and encounter substantial uncertainty with shifts in policy regimes (e.g. Brexit). Crises like the COVID-19 pandemic render workers with irregular immigration status especially precarious, as their tenuous existence at society’s economic and socio-legal margins inhibits their access even to the marginal support afforded by platforms and/or governments. It is clear that—as in other contexts of precarious work—migrants’ working lives in the gig economy are forged at the intersections of workplace conditions, labour market and welfare regulation, migration policy, and public attitudes towards migrants. In order to bring questions around migration and migrant labour to the forefront of debates on the gig economy and platform-mediated work, and to thereby connect these debates to broader concerns pertaining to migrants’ position in low-wage labour markets and informal sectors, this theme issue of EPA: Economy and Space will bring together new and original scholarship on these topics. The ‘gig economy’ in this context is understood broadly, to comprise both location-based platform labor and remote cloud/crowdwork platforms. We invite papers and commentaries including, but not limited to: - The role of migration in local and global platform-mediated labour markets; - The intersections of migration, welfare, and labour market policies, and their impacts on gig workers and gig economy platforms; - The opportunities and challenges of platform-mediated gig work for migrants; - Migrants’ overlapping experiences with gig work and other kinds of formal and informal labor arrangements; - The socially reproductive struggles and strategies of migrant gig workers and their families; - Labour market segmentation and inequalities in the gig economy due to intersecting factors such as immigration status, gender, race/ethnicity, nationality, education, and age. - Labour platforms’ hiring, management and promotional strategies with respect to migrant workers; - The impacts of changing migration policy (e.g. Brexit) on migrant gig workers; - The impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic on migrant gig workers; - Policy approaches to creating and sustaining decent working and living conditions for migrant gig workers. This special issue of Environment and Planning A on “Migration, migrant work(ers) and the gig economy,” is edited by myself (Mark Graham <https://fair.work/people/mark-graham/>, University of Oxford), Niels van Doorn <https://www.uva.nl/profiel/d/o/n.a.j.m.vandoorn/n.a.j.m.vandoorn.html> (University of Amsterdam), Fabian Ferrari <https://fair.work/people/fabian-ferrari/> (University of Oxford), and Srujana Katta <https://fair.work/people/srujana-katta/> (University of Oxford). This call is an open invitation to submit paper proposals (in the form of a one-page extended abstract, plus one-paragraph bio sketch for each author). Following an initial review, conducted by the guest editors in conjunction with EPA’s coordinating editor, invitations will be extended for full-length paper submissions. Consistent with EPA’s procedures for theme issues, all papers will be subject to peer review. Paper proposals for the planned theme issue on “Migration, migrant work(ers) and the gig economy” <https://journals.sagepub.com/pb-assets/EPA%20theme%20issue%20GRAHAM%20et%20…> should be submitted to the EPA Journal Administrator at epa(a)sagepub.co.uk by September 1, 2020. The review of proposals will be completed within 4 weeks. Please be in touch if you’d like to informally discuss any ideas. *Summary and timeline * *September 1, 2020* Closing date for submission of one-page paper proposals EPA Journal Administrator at epa(a)sagepub.co.uk *October 1, 2020* Invitations to submit full-length papers *January 31, 2021 *Deadline for submitting full-length papers *Summer 2021* Completion of peer review, papers scheduled for publication. *Related reading* Graham, M. 2020. Regulate, replicate, and resist – The conjunctural geographies of platform urbanism <https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/02723638.2020.1717028>. *Urban Geography*. https://doi.org/10.1080/02723638.2020.1717028 Katta, S., Badger, A., Graham, M., Howson, K., Ustek-Spilda, F., & Bertolini, A. (2020). (Dis)embeddedness and (de)commodification: COVID-19, Uber, and the unravelling logics of the gig economy <https://journals.sagepub.com/eprint/29CEVXEWKSHWYGEW5QAG/full>. *Dialogues in Human Geography*. https://doi.org/10.1177/2043820620934942 van Doorn, N., Ferrari, F., and Graham, M. 2020. *Migration and Migrant Labour in the Gig Economy: An Intervention* <https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3622589>. Working paper. van Doorn, N., and Badger, A. 2020. Platform Capitalism’s Hidden Abode: Producing Data Assets in the Gig Economy <https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/anti.12641>. *Antipode. * Woodcock, J., and Graham, M. 2019. *The gig economy: a critical introduction* <https://www.wiley.com/en-gb/The+Gig+Economy%3A+A+Critical+Introduction-p-97…>. London: Polity ------------------------------------------ Mark Graham Director, Fairwork www.fair.work Professor, University of Oxford www.markgraham.space New books: Graham, M. (ed). 2019. *Digital Economies at Global Margins*. Cambridge MA: MIT Press. Woodcock, J. and Graham, M. 2019. *The Gig Economy: A Critical Introduction.* Cambridge: Polity. Graham, M, Kitchin, R., Mattern, S., and Shaw, J. (eds). 2019. *How to Run a City Like Amazon, and Other Fables.* London: Meatspace Press. Graham, M and Dutton, W. H. (eds). 2019. *Society and the Internet: How Networks of Information and Communication are Changing our Lives (second edition).* Oxford: Oxford University Press. <http://twitter.com/geoplace>

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WEBCAST TODAY: Impact of COVID-19 on Internet Ecosystem in MENA
by Joly MacFie 29 Jun '20

29 Jun '20

This has started. I am recording the arabic translation, and will stream that later in the day. English real time text is running out at https://otter.ai/s/V6Q-FnA_SH6QHjptFsagrg ISOC Live posted: "On Monday 29 June 2020 from 12:00-13.00 UTC the Internet Society Middle East will host a webinar 'Impact of COVID-19 on Internet Ecosystem in MENA' that focuses on the challenges of addressing the COVID-19 crisis and its potential aftermath in the Middle " [image: livestream] <http://livestream.com/internetsociety/menacovid>On *Monday 29 June 2020* from *12:00-13.00 UTC* the* Internet Society Middle East <https://www.internetsociety.org/regions/middle-east/>* will host a webinar '*Impact of COVID-19 on Internet Ecosystem in MENA <https://www.internetsociety.org/events/impact-of-covid-19-on-internet-ecosy…>*' that focuses on the challenges of addressing the COVID-19 crisis and its potential aftermath in the Middle East and North Africa. As a formal report is being finalized this session is an opportunity for reflection and feedback. *SPEAKERS* *Nermine EL Saadany*, Regional Vice President - MENA, Internet Society *Jane Coffin*, Senior Vice President, Internet Growth, Internet Society *Michael Kende*, consultant and report author *David Belson*, Senior Director of Internet Research and Analysis, Internet Society *Naveed Haq*, Regional Director for Infrastructure and Connectivity - Asia-Pacific, Internet Society *Mat Ford*, Technology Manager, Internet Society *Max Stucchi*, Regional Technical Advisor – Europe, Internet Society *LIVESTREAM http://livestream.com/internetsociety/menacovid <http://livestream.com/internetsociety/menacovid>* *PARTICIPATE VIA ZOOM https://bit.ly/2BJiIbJ <https://bit.ly/2BJiIbJ>* *AGENDA https://www.internetsociety.org/events/impact-of-covid-19-on-internet-ecosy… <https://www.internetsociety.org/events/impact-of-covid-19-on-internet-ecosy…>* *TWITTER @ISOC_MiddleEast #covid19 <https://bit.ly/3gbjr4B>* *SIMULCASTS* *https://www.pscp.tv/ISOC_Live/ <https://www.pscp.tv/ISOC_Live/>* *https://www.twitch.tv/isoclive <https://www.twitch.tv/isoclive>* *https://www.facebook.com/pg/InternetSociety/videos/ <https://www.facebook.com/pg/InternetSociety/videos/>* *Permalink* https://isoc.live/12348/ - -- -------------------------------------- Joly MacFie +2185659365 -------------------------------------- -

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