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Culture, identity and inclusion mini-track at the 54th HICSS conference - deadline extended to July 15
by Filippo Trevisan 15 Jun '20

15 Jun '20

With apologies for cross-posting: The deadline for submitting papers to the Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences has been extended to July 15th, 2020. The organizers expect to hold the conference on Kauai as planned, as it is known for its interdisciplinary interactions, and add that "if it becomes evident that face-to-face convening in Kauai is not advisable, we will propose an alternate solution to preserve as much as possible the HICSS experience." Regardless of what happens, all the accepted papers will be published in the HICSS proceedings, which are open access, highly cited and an excellent way for your work to reach diverse researchers. Consider submitting to our mini-track on Culture, Identity, and Inclusion within the Digital and Social Media track. The CULTURE, IDENTITY & INCLUSION Digital and Social Media Minitrack The research possibilities and practice implications for systems sciences’ examinations of the complex intersections of digital and social media with culture, identity and inclusion are especially timely now and expanding rapidly. There is a need for multi-disciplinary and cross-cultural approaches and methodologies as well as for ethical and innovative analyses. Papers addressing major societal including racial, generational, implicit and/or explicit inequalities and/or COVID 19 in the context of this minitrack are particularly encouraged. This minitrack welcomes a range of research foci, methods and frameworks as it addresses this vital and ever-changing research arena. Work is needed to focus on the culture kaleidoscope (the myriad levels of culture from small group and occupational to organizational, interorganizational and national) as well as the intersectionality of culture, gender, identity and material conditions including poverty. Similar to the culture kaleidoscope there are also multiple and complex identities including cultural, racial, gender, age, generational, and ability-related identities. Most importantly, the intersections among social media and the culture and identity kaleidoscopes presage additional research agendas as we examine social media design and usages and their outcomes in myriad contexts. Indeed, what is the relationship between social media and social change in the context of culture, identity and inclusion? Can the design and use of digital media platforms combat exclusion and, if so, how and under what conditions? Is there decolonization of social media, assuming digital media colonization? Similarly, can the use and design of digital and social media help shape (or reshape) identities? What are the overlaps among social media and power with regard to gender or identity or inclusion (and in what settings)? Do digital and social media have a role in relationship with major inequalities in society? The overall future trajectory of our field itself remains open and provides plentiful research challenges. More attention also needs to be focused on rigorous yet appropriate research methodologies for such exploration and the new ethical challenges that accompany this work. These presage increased collaboration across disciplines with a focus on the three I’s of internet, identity, and inclusion as they intersect with transformational social media and, indeed, impact human lives. Possible paper topics include, but are not limited to: Inter-cultural and Cross-cultural Use of Social Media Gender, Disability, Race and Social Media Social Media Design, Diversity and Inequalities Social Media and Cryptocurrencies: Culture and Inclusion Effective Access for Disabled, Indigenous & Other Minority Populations Digital Activism, Politics & Inclusion Online Harassment Crowd-sourcing, Crowd-funding and Civic participation/inclusion Social Media, Social Change, and Inclusion Swarming, Social Media, and Exclusion Identity Enactment, Adoption, and Policing Aging and Social Media Inter-generational Use of Social Media Social Media, Online Education, & Inclusion Social Media & Implicit Bias Social Media, Culture & Change/Social Innovation Social Media & Intersectionality Social Media, Disruptive Innovation, and Capacity-Building For All New Methods for Studying Intersectionality and Social Media Social Media, Disinformation, Gender, and Identity Artificial Intelligence, Social Media, Exclusion and Ethics Social Media, Identity, and Human Rights Issues Social Media and Diasporic Communication Social Media, Images (including Deep Fakes), and Exclusion Gender, Health, and Social Media Comparative Social Media: Identity and Inclusion Social Media Metrics, Impacts and Culture Ethics, Creativity, and Social Media Metrics: Culture, Gender, Inclusion Social Media Advocacy and Diversity About HICSS 54: 54th Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS) January 5-8, 2021, Kauai, Hawaii PAPERS DUE: JULY 15, 2020 – submit here: http://hicss.hawaii.edu/authors/ <http://hicss.hawaii.edu/authors/> The Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences, in its 54th year, is one of the longstanding scientific conferences and is highly ranked among information systems conferences. Diverse disciplines unified by a focus on information technologies are woven together in a matrix structure of tracks and themes. By attending HICSS you are not only reaching the audience of your track and mini-track; you also have the opportunity to learn about what is happening in related fields and meet leaders in those fields. Minitrack Co-Chairs: Nanette Levinson, Derrick Cogburn & Filippo Trevisan Internet Governance Lab + Institute on Disability & Public Policy American University Washington, DC 20016 USA ——— Dr. Filippo Trevisan Assistant Professor - School of Communication Deputy Director - Institute on Disability and Public Policy (IDPP) American University 4400 Massachusetts Avenue NW Washington, DC - 20016 Tel: +1 (202) 885 6930 Email: trevisan(a)american.edu <mailto:trevisan@american.edu> Web: www.filippotrevisan.net <http://www.filippotrevisan.net/> Twitter: @filippotrevisan <https://twitter.com/filippotrevisan> Now in paperback: “Disability Rights Advocacy Online: Voice, Empowerment and Global Connectivity <https://www.routledge.com/Disability-Rights-Advocacy-Online-Voice-Empowerme…>” NY: Routledge, 2017. All my publications: www.filippotrevisan.net/publications <http://www.filippotrevisan.net/publications>

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Sorry for cross posting if it has been listed already (new way to add name)
by Gabriella Coleman, Dr. 15 Jun '20

15 Jun '20

Hi all, I am getting a lot of names, which is great but a little overwhelming for me and my email. I should have thought of this before but can people add your name and affiliation here and then I will copy and paste into the document saving me a lot of time. Please add it if you have already emailed me as well. Sorry for the extra step https://pad.riseup.net/p/add-name Thanks! Gabriella ________________________________ From: Air-L <air-l-bounces(a)listserv.aoir.org> on behalf of Gabriella Coleman, Dr. <gabriella.coleman(a)mcgill.ca> Sent: Monday, June 15, 2020 11:19 AM To: air-l(a)listserv.aoir.org <air-l(a)listserv.aoir.org> Subject: [Air-L] Sorry for cross posting if it has been listed already External Email: Use caution with links and attachments. Hello, I've not been able to check all my messages recently so apologies if someone has already shared this statement but I figured redundancy is good in this case. Here is a statement drafted by media scholar Arvind Rajagopal at NYU that reflects on some of the reasons sustaining the whiteness of media studies as it calls upon scholars to take the steps needed to move away from this troubled and troubling history. If you'd like to sign on, please send me an email and I can add your name. I've included the brief statement below and a link to it as well. Regards, Gabriella https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__docs.google.com_docume… Dear colleagues Please consider circulating the statement on your lists, and adding your names to the signatories, below. Thanks. ** We express our solidarity with the global protests against anti-Black and other forms of racism occurring at this time, and echo our colleagues in their demand to examine structures of racial privilege within each of our communities, disciplines, and professions. The long-standing assumption of technology and developmental models as civilizational gifts from whites to non-whites, and from the West to the non-West, takes new forms in Media Studies, which has its own disavowed history of racism and bias. In media studies, different subcultures of scholarship proliferate but often without interacting with each other, and without interrogating the overarching political history of the field. The intensive promotion of mass and new media as technologies of freedom has its moment of reckoning today, when citizens’ recordings of police violence encounters a president who rejects any criticism and opposition as “fake news.” The Cold War equation of media with freedom presumed a liberal order where white identity politics/white supremacy did not have to name itself. Interrogating assumptions of racial privilege embedded in structures of media use also entails revisiting the limits of Media Studies, a post WW2 discipline that has fragmented into a multi-paradigm field without coming to terms with its own fraught history. For this to happen, we need to open ourselves and our histories up to critique, and ensure that everyone, from the Global South to the Global North, can be a subject of media studies rather than an object. _______________________________________________ The Air-L(a)listserv.aoir.org mailing list is provided by the Association of Internet Researchers https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__aoir.org&d=DwIGaQ&c=U0G… Subscribe, change options or unsubscribe at: https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__listserv.aoir.org_listi… Join the Association of Internet Researchers: https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__www.aoir.org_&d=DwIGaQ&…

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Sorry for cross posting if it has been listed already
by Gabriella Coleman, Dr. 15 Jun '20

15 Jun '20

Hello, I've not been able to check all my messages recently so apologies if someone has already shared this statement but I figured redundancy is good in this case. Here is a statement drafted by media scholar Arvind Rajagopal at NYU that reflects on some of the reasons sustaining the whiteness of media studies as it calls upon scholars to take the steps needed to move away from this troubled and troubling history. If you'd like to sign on, please send me an email and I can add your name. I've included the brief statement below and a link to it as well. Regards, Gabriella https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Ccd-Ru_Z0IG94xgLrMK8w6_r8sotJ2v0aMju4vc… Dear colleagues Please consider circulating the statement on your lists, and adding your names to the signatories, below. Thanks. ** We express our solidarity with the global protests against anti-Black and other forms of racism occurring at this time, and echo our colleagues in their demand to examine structures of racial privilege within each of our communities, disciplines, and professions. The long-standing assumption of technology and developmental models as civilizational gifts from whites to non-whites, and from the West to the non-West, takes new forms in Media Studies, which has its own disavowed history of racism and bias. In media studies, different subcultures of scholarship proliferate but often without interacting with each other, and without interrogating the overarching political history of the field. The intensive promotion of mass and new media as technologies of freedom has its moment of reckoning today, when citizens’ recordings of police violence encounters a president who rejects any criticism and opposition as “fake news.” The Cold War equation of media with freedom presumed a liberal order where white identity politics/white supremacy did not have to name itself. Interrogating assumptions of racial privilege embedded in structures of media use also entails revisiting the limits of Media Studies, a post WW2 discipline that has fragmented into a multi-paradigm field without coming to terms with its own fraught history. For this to happen, we need to open ourselves and our histories up to critique, and ensure that everyone, from the Global South to the Global North, can be a subject of media studies rather than an object.

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-- Just Out \\\ Algorithmic Anxiety in Contemporary Art
by Patricia de Vries 15 Jun '20

15 Jun '20

Theory on Demand #33 Algorithmic Anxiety in Contemporary Art: A Kierkegaardian Inquiry into the Imaginary of Possibility by Patricia de Vries Available as open access E-pub or print-on-demand here <https://networkcultures.org/blog/publication/tod33-algorithmic-anxiety-in-c…>: Over the past decade, a growing number of artists and critical practitioners have become engaged with algorithms. This artistic engagement has resulted in algorithmic theatre, bot art, and algorithmic media and performance art of various kinds that thematise the dissemination and deployment of algorithms in everyday life. Especially striking is the high volume of artistic engagements with facial recognition algorithms, trading algorithms and search engine algorithms over the past few years. The fact that these three types of algorithms have garnered more responses than other types of algorithms suggests that they form a popular subject of artistic critique. This critique addresses several significant, supra-individual anxieties of our decade: socio-political uncertainty and polarisation, the global economic crisis and cycles of recession, and the centralisation and corporatisation of access to online information. However, the constituents of these anxieties — which seem to be central to our experience of algorithmic culture — are rarely interrogated. They, therefore, merit closer attention. This dissertation uses prominent artistic representations of facial recognition algorithms, trading algorithms, and search algorithms as the entry point into an exploration of the constituents of the anxieties braided around these algorithms. It proposes that the work of Søren Kierkegaard—one of the first theorists of anxiety—helps us to investigate and critically analyse the constituents of ‘algorithmic anxiety’. Institute of Network Cultures, Amsterdam 2020

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NEW PUBLICATIONS
by Vico,S 15 Jun '20

15 Jun '20

Dear colleagues, I hope you are all doing well. I have two new articles out that might be of interest to those of you researching issues of identity politics, migration and public diplomacy in relation to digital media. They both draw on an ethnographic study, and explore (from different perspectives) roles of intended public and social surveillance on social media. Destigmatisation strategies of Serbian Londoners on social media looks at banal expressions of nationalism and cosmopolitanism among Serbian Londoners on social media, and shows how cosmopolitanism can (paradoxically) reproduce national identities. https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/1527476420918384 'Globalised difference': identity politics on social media develops a new concept to refer to this emerging subtle and spontaneous identity politics, greatly brought about by social surveillance on social media, that seeks to reassert national identity and present it as both cosmopolitan and an exotic difference. This identity politics is normatively ambivalent - it is both a source of empowerment and it tends to commodify difference. https://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/intellect/gdm/2020/00000001/00000001… I hope you find them useful. All the best, Sanja -- Dr Sanja Vico Research Officer | European Institute Associate | LSEE - South Eastern Europe Research Unit The London School of Economics and Political Science Houghton Street, London WC2A 2AE e: s.vico(a)lse.ac.uk Website<http://www.lse.ac.uk/european-institute/people/research-staff/sanja-vico>

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Call for Papers: Building the Post-Pandemic University
by Mark Carrigan 14 Jun '20

14 Jun '20

Call for Papers: Building the Post-Pandemic University In a matter of months, the world has changed beyond recognition. Covid-19 has led to an unprecedented reorganisation of everyday life, with half the world’s population subject to lockdown measures at the peak of governmental response to the pandemic. These measures are being eased across the world, with uncertain and worrying consequences in the continued absence of the vaccine which would herald a potential resolution of the current situation. In its continued absence we face the necessity of institutionalising what has been called ‘social distancing’ but is perhaps better described as ‘physical distancing’, given the capacity of digital platforms to facilitate social interaction without the co-presence which is still frequently seen as its defining characteristic. The impending arrival of the forthcoming academic year means we urgently need to grapple with what this crisis means for the future of the university. How will higher education be transformed by lockdown and social distancing? What university do we hope to work within after this crisis? What contribution should we make to building this post-pandemic university? The current operations of the university are reliant on the affordances of digital platforms and this seems likely to grow in the coming years, even if some face to face meetings resume in the name of blended learning and research capacity. This includes digital platforms like Microsoft Teams and Zoom being incorporated into the core operations of the university in a manner which is likely to be difficult to unwind at a later date, as much as it has served a clear purpose in the present crisis. For this reason it’s essential we begin to incorporate the socio-technical into our established accounts of higher education, opening up the ‘black box’ in order to understand the role played by technology in building the post-pandemic university. However while we see digital technology as playing a crucial role in response to this crisis, the questions which the sector faces are much more than technical ones. Our intention is to facilitate a conversation which bridges theory and practice, analysis and intervention, animated by a shared concern about what this crisis means for the university and how we ought to respond to it. If we want to understand the challenges facing higher education, it is imperative this encompasses the range of potential responses to these difficulties and the interests and ideals served by these for the multitude of groups who will play a part in building the post-pandemic university. We hope this will be a broad and multifaceted conversation which brings together multidisciplinary expertise engaging with an eclectic range of topics rotating around the core problematic of ‘building the post-pandemic university’. We imagine this would include themes such as: - The built environment of the campus and how it is likely to change - The enactment of social distancing across the university’s activities - The impact of the pandemic on racialised, classed and gendered injustice - The implications of these changes for equality & diversity within the university - The impact of Covid-19 on the challenge of climate change - The search for new markets and products by education investors - The public role of the university and transition out of the crisis - Equality and diversity in the post-pandemic university - The geo-politics of Covid-19 and its relationship to global higher education - The challenge of academic mobility and the potential demise of the global conference circuit - The surveillance architecture inherent in the turn towards platforms - Labour relations during the crisis and what this means for the post-pandemic university - These are only suggestions and we welcome contributions on any topic which speaks to the broader theme of building the post-pandemic university, particularly if they also contribute to a broader exercise of mapping out the contours of the present crisis and possible transitions from it. Please send 300 word abstracts to mark(a)markcarrigan.net by July 31st with the subject line ‘Building the Post-Pandemic University’. We aim to inform contributors of acceptance by August 10th for an online conference due to take place at a date to be confirmed in September 2020. We hope this event will be the starting point for an edited book so please indicate when submitting your abstract if this is something which you might be interested in contributing to. We will release full details of the conference format soon after the confirmation of acceptance but at this stage we expect the bulk of the event to take place through Zoom with an as yet to be confirmed asynchronous component which will extend participation beyond those who are speaking at the conference. *I often work flexible hours that are outside the ‘traditional’ 09.00-17.00, Monday to Friday only office hours. If this e-mail arrives outside of your own preferred working pattern, please do not feel obligated to respond until your office hours have resumed.* Postdoctoral Research Associate Faculty of Education, University of Cambridge www.markcarrigan.net | @soc_imagination <http://www.twitter.com/soc_imagination/> www.cpgjcam.net | @cpgjcam <http://www.twitter.com/cpgjcam/> *The Isolation Pod: *A theoretical podcast about Covid-19 https://anchor.fm/theisolationpod

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Christina Dunbar-Hester talks about her new book
by Ilana Gershon 13 Jun '20

13 Jun '20

Dear Colleagues, Some of you might be interested in attending when Christina Dunbar-Hester visits the CaMP virtual reading group on June 26th . She will be talking about her new book, Hacking Diversity: The Politics of Inclusion in Open Technology Cultures. We are mainly be focusing on the introduction -- and I am happy to send you a link to the readings. If you would like to participate, please write to me here: campsemiotics(a)gmail.com Again -- Friday, June 26th -- 1 pm EST Hope you are having a good weekend, Ilana

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CFP Conference - Unstable democracies: Polarization, populism and disinformation in a hybrid media context
by Dolors.Palau＠uv.es 13 Jun '20

13 Jun '20

CFP Mediaflows Conference Unstable democracies: Polarization, populism and disinformation in a hybrid media context 11, 12 and 13 November 2020. Valencia (Spain) In order to present a paper, 250-word proposals should be sent through the specific section form to which it is addressed until July 25, 2020. http://mediaflows.es/en/call-for-papers/ The conference accepts papers in Spanish and English. Considering the health circumstances facing Covid-19, the conference will have a semi-virtual character. SECTIONS The conference includes six sections, whose specific cfp can be accessed on the website http://mediaflows.es/call-for-papers/ 1. Institutional crisis, democratic representation and media coverage. 2. Media consumption, and audiences in hybrid media systems. 3. Democratic values in times of populism and emotion: communication and leadership. 4. Strategy and democratic game: Surveys, pacts and political majority. 5. Research on hate discourse and disinformation. 6. Nuts and bolts of the power: Reality and fiction. PUBLISHING A selection of the accepted proposals will be published in a special edition of the Dígitos journal (www.revistadigitos.es) whose deadline for submission ends on December 15, 2020. Other publishing options will be shortly announced on the conference website. DEADLINES • July 25, 2020: the deadline for sending abstract proposals is closed. • July 31, 2020: communication of accepted papers. • September 15: Registration and fees payment opening. • November 1: deadline for sending complete proposals. • November 11, 12 and 13, 2020: Conference celebration.

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Twitter Archive - Recovery of Deleted Tweets
by Wolfram Schaffar 12 Jun '20

12 Jun '20

Dear list, dear colleagues, Twitter has just deleted over 170 000 accounts from China. Unluckily, I was not quick enough to save screenshots of the memes and tweets which were posted during April and May 2020 on #MilkTeaAlliance and on #nnevvy. Is there a way to get access to the original threads? If someone could help me, I would really happy. (And I promise to write a summary and post it back onto this list). All the best, Wolfram _____________________________________________ Prof. Dr. Wolfram Schaffar Institute of Asian and Oriental Studies Department of Japanese Studies Wilhelmstraße 90 72074 Tübingen テユービンゲン大学人文科学部アジア地域文化研究所日本学科 https://uni-tuebingen.de/fakultaeten/philosophische-fakultaet/fachbereiche/… <https://uni-tuebingen.de/fakultaeten/philosophische-fakultaet/fachbereiche/…>

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Calling all leaders and champions of VR/AR/MR (XR) initiatives at universities and colleges
by Lee, Mark 12 Jun '20

12 Jun '20

*** Calling all leaders and champions of VR/AR/MR (XR) initiatives at universities and colleges *** Champions in Higher Education of XR (CHEX) is a new consortium formed under the umbrella of the Immersive Learning Research Network (iLRN at http://immersivelrn.org/ ) that brings together both administrators as well as faculty/staff grassroots leaders who are championing the adoption and use of XR and immersive technologies at colleges, universities, and college/university systems around the world. Many of these champions have oversight of XR initiatives at a campus, institution, or system-wide level (whether as part of their official job responsibilities or in a voluntary capacity), the scope of which may encompass some or all of the following: * Design, development, and delivery of XR-related academic courses and programs; * Application of XR technologies for learning, teaching, and assessment within and across various disciplines; * XR research, development, innovation, and commercialization; * Use of XR in other areas of higher education such as marketing/outreach, student services, and the library. The main goals of the CHEX Consortium are to: 1. Advocate for and accelerate the growth of XR and immersive technologies for learning across the higher education sector; 2. Cultivate cross-institutional and cross-national relationships and networks in the space; 3. Support and assist members in building a business case to senior administrators for investment in XR and immersive technologies; 4. Serve as a unified voice and a vehicle representing higher education institutions in their endeavors to build XR industry partnerships and collaborations; 5. Identify and promote best practices for facilitating collaborative XR projects and initiatives within and among higher education institutions, and between institutions and industry, that bring together diverse stakeholder interests, disciplines, and perspectives. The initial, "kickoff" meeting for CHEX will take place during the iLRN 2020 Virtual Conference ( http://immersivelrn.org/ilrn2020 ) Participation in the meeting is by invitation only, with a view to organizing a larger, dedicated Symposium, and opening up membership of and participation in the Consortium to a wider audience, following the conference. Ultimately, each campus, institution, or system will be allowed to nominate no more than one faculty or staff member as its designated representative to CHEX, and that person must be a member of iLRN in good standing. To indicate your interest in participating in CHEX and/or the kickoff meeting at iLRN 2020, please begin by registering for the conference (at http://immersivelrn.org/ilrn2020/ilrn-2020-fees-registration ) if you have not already done so. (Registration is free of charge for all non-presenters.) Then, click on the button below and provide your details the form: https://forms.gle/Qc1ut6TtvWmrSfx58 The coordinators of the kickoff meeting are Jeremy Nelson (University of Michigan) and David Bass-Clark (Unity College). For inquiries, please email chex(a)immersivelrn.org from your institutional email address. (Sent to air-l(a)listserv.aoir.org) | ALBURY-WODONGA | BATHURST | BRISBANE | CANBERRA | DUBBO | GOULBURN | MELBOURNE | ORANGE | PORT MACQUARIE | SYDNEY | WAGGA WAGGA | LEGAL NOTICE This email (and any attachment) is confidential and is intended for the use of the addressee(s) only. If you are not the intended recipient of this email, you must not copy, distribute, take any action in reliance on it or disclose it to anyone. Any confidentiality is not waived or lost by reason of mistaken delivery. Email should be checked for viruses and defects before opening. Charles Sturt University does not accept liability for viruses or any consequence which arise as a result of this email transmission. Email communications with Charles Sturt University may be subject to automated email filtering, which could result in the delay or deletion of a legitimate email before it is read at Charles Sturt University. The views expressed in this email are not necessarily those of Charles Sturt University. Charles Sturt University in Australia The Grange Chancellery, Panorama Avenue, Bathurst NSW Australia 2795 (ABN: 83 878 708 551; CRICOS Provider Number: 00005F (National)). TEQSA Provider Number: PV12018 Consider the environment before printing this email.

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