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

New article on algorithms in facilitating online deliberation
by Nardine.Alnemr 14 Jul '20

14 Jul '20

Hi all, I hope you're staying safe and well. My article on algorithmic facilitation in online deliberation has been published in Contemporary Politics. In the article I survey some of theoretical and practical blind spots in replacing human facilitators with algorithms and artificial facilitators (chatbots) in democratic citizen deliberation. The main shortcoming is that none of the designs of these democratic processes is actually democratic. https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/13569775.2020.1791306 Looking forward to knowing your thoughts Thanks Nardine [UC Logo]<http://www.canberra.edu.au> [Mid-year entry at the University of Canberra]<https://www.canberra.edu.au/study-uc> [UC Facebook]<https://www.facebook.com/UniversityOfCanberra>[UC Twitter]<https://twitter.com/UniCanberra>[UC Instagram]<https://www.instagram.com/unicanberra/>[UC Linkedin]<https://au.linkedin.com/school/university-of-canberra/>[UC Youtube]<https://www.youtube.com/user/uniofcanberra> [University of Canberra] <http://www.canberra.edu.au> Australian Government Higher Education Registered Provider (CRICOS) #00212K The University of Canberra acknowledges the Ngunnawal people, traditional custodians of the lands where Bruce Campus is situated. We wish to acknowledge and respect their continuing culture and the contribution they make to the life of Canberra and the region. We also acknowledge all other First Nations Peoples on whose lands we gather. NOTICE AND DISCLAIMER: This email and any files transmitted with it may contain confidential or copyright materials and are for the attention of the addressee only. If you have received this email in error please notify us by email reply and delete it from your system. The University of Canberra accepts no liability for any damage caused by any virus transmitted by this email.

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New book - Growing up on Facebook
by Brady Robards 14 Jul '20

14 Jul '20

Hello AoIR, Sian Lincoln and I have recently had a new book come out that may be of interest - *Growing up on Facebook <https://www.peterlang.com/view/title/64408>*. It's in Peter Lang's Digital Formations series, edited by Steve Jones. It is the culmination of a project looking at how young(ish) people make sense of their own social media archives, those digital traces of personal histories inscribed on Facebook (and other platforms). We've shared bits and pieces at AoIR conferences over the years, and we've had very helpful and constructive feedback - thank you! The official blurb and our table of contents below. For the rest of July, Peter Lang is giving a 30% off discount. You/your libraries can get it by emailing order(a)peterlang.com, with "Robards" in the subject line, and mentioning the discount. A sales rep will take it from there. It's available as an ebook, paperback, or hardback. Still not cheap as an academic book, but a bit better with the discount: ~$30USD/$43AUD/€27 +p&h. Cheers, Brady -- *Growing up on Facebook* Brady Robards & Sian Lincoln https://www.peterlang.com/view/title/64408 Growing up in the era of social media isn’t easy. With Facebook now having existed for more than a decade and a half, young people who have grown up using social media can look back and see earlier versions of themselves staring back: nostalgic moments with friends from school, reminders of painful breakups, birthdays and graduations, posts that allude to drama with family, experiences of travel, and blurry drunken photos. How do we make sense of our own personal histories inscribed on and through social media? What are the implications for future careers, for public trust in social media companies, and for our own memories? Growing up on Facebook examines the role of Facebook, and other social media platforms that have emerged around Facebook, in mediating experiences of 'growing up' for young people. Based on interviews with the first generation of young people to grow up with social media, the book covers education and employment, love and relationships, family life, and leisure (drinking, travel, and music). It touches on processes of impression management, privacy, context collapse, and control, and raises critical questions about the standards we hold social media platforms to, as they become the guardians of our personal histories. Table of Contents: 1. Introduction 2. Is Facebook Still Cool? Was It Ever? 3. Sites and Spaces of Growing Up: Blurring the Digital and Physical 4. Scrolling Back through Facebook Timelines: Making Sense of Digital Traces 5. Shaping and Performing Professional Identities: From Education to Employment 6. Love, and Making It ‘Facebook Official’ 7. Mediating Family Life 8. Documenting Leisure: Partying, Travel, Music, and Hanging Out 9. Disconnections, Absences, Conclusions --- Dr Brady Robards Senior Research Fellow in Sociology School of Social Sciences, Faculty of Arts, Monash University Publications <https://research.monash.edu/en/persons/brady-robards/publications/> *|* bradyrobards.com *|* LGBTIQ <https://www.monash.edu/diversity-inclusion/lgbtiq/the-ally-network> <https://www.monash.edu/diversity-inclusion/lgbtiq/the-ally-network>Ally Network <https://www.monash.edu/diversity-inclusion/lgbtiq/the-ally-network> *|* Monash Digital Cultures Research Group <https://arts.monash.edu/research/excellence/creative-practices-communicatio…> *> New Book: Growing up on Facebook <https://www.peterlang.com/view/title/64408> *

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Educators' Perception of Cultural Inclusivity in Online Teaching
by Nandita Gurjar 13 Jul '20

13 Jul '20

The University of Northern Iowa faculty is conducting a research study on educators' perceptions of cultural inclusivity in online learning. We invite educators to respond to a survey about their perception of cultural inclusivity in online teaching and learning. We seek responses from educators from different disciplines globally. The survey is confidential and voluntary. You will not be asked to disclose your email address or your name. The survey will take about 8-10 minutes to complete. You can choose to answer the questions you feel comfortable with. There are no direct benefits to you but we believe that the results of the study should be useful to the higher education field broadly. For full informed consent, please see the survey link below. https://uni.co1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_8czyOPPSSqhhYd7 Nandita Gurjar, Ph.D. Assistant Professor of Literacy Education 107C Schindler Education Center Dept. of Curriculum and Instruction University of Northern Iowa Cedar Falls-50316 Ph: (319) 273-5695 nandita.gurjar(a)uni.edu

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Daniel Dennett
by Rachael Espinet 13 Jul '20

13 Jul '20

Hi everyone, Anyone here using Daniel Dennett and Alan Watts as philosophers in your research? Best, Rachael Espinet

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Theorizing the Web Presents: Surveillance of Black Lives
by Tetyana Lokot 13 Jul '20

13 Jul '20

Dear AoIR Community, As you may have heard, due to the continued impact of Covid-19, we’ve made the hard decision to cancel Theorizing the Web 2020 at the Museum of the Moving Image on October 16 & 17. As much as we’d wanted to celebrate 10 years of Theorizing the Web in person, we owe it to you and to all of our communities not to risk facilitating the spread of the novel coronavirus. That said, we haven’t given up: Although there won’t be an in-person conference this year, we’ve come up with something that we hope can fill the TtW-shaped hole in your hearts and minds. We’re excited to announce *TtW Presents <https://theorizingtheweb.org/p2020/>*, our new online discussion series! TtW Presents will feature live video discussions in partnership with the Museum of the Moving Image. Some of these talks will be in the style of our evening keynotes, while others will be more like our daytime sessions. To kick off *TtW Presents*, we’re launching with a powerful and timely dialogue: *Dr. Allissa Richardson <https://annenberg.usc.edu/faculty/allissa-v-richardson>* and *Mutale Nkonde <https://cyber.harvard.edu/people/mutale-nkonde>* will discuss the layered and multifaceted impact of surveillance on Black people in the context of the Movement for Black Lives and the Covid-19 pandemic. Moderated by TtW Committee member *Dr. Apryl Williams <https://aprylwilliams.com/>*, this talk will demonstrate how facial recognition systems used in policing; tracing software associated with the pandemic; and Black death imagery have created a treacherous techno-mediascape that extends both state matrices of power and systems of racialized, anti-Black oppression in the United States. This discussion will take place on *Thursday, July 16, 2020 at 7PM EDT* and will stream live both on YouTube <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mYaJQAhUEM4>and on Zoom. A recording will be available on our website <https://theorizingtheweb.org/p/p2020/video-2/>. You can sign up here <https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdVpv43z_TH9YDdj6ZZp0t9-IjlXCPq70I…> to receive the Zoom link and reminders about future episodes of TtW Presents. We also welcome the TtW Presents audience to hang out and discuss the talks in our new Discord! You can join through this link <https://discord.gg/4RkEDfK>. We hope to see you there! Cheers, Tanya Lokot (on behalf of the TtW Committee)

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Talk: Louise Amoore and Nick Seaver discuss Cloud Ethics
by nathaniel tkacz 13 Jul '20

13 Jul '20

Monday 20th July, 4-5pm BST (London Time) The Centre for Digital Inquiry at the University of Warwick will host a discussion between anthropologist Nick Seaver and political geographer Louise Amoore about Amoore's new book Cloud Ethics: Algorithms and the Attributes of Ourselves and Others. The talk will be streamed. Register here: https://warwick.ac.uk/fac/cross_fac/cdi/ Tw: @digital_inquiry Regards, Nate Tkacz

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Call: “Engels@200: Friedrich Engels in the Age of Digital Capitalism” tripleC special issue edited by Christian Fuchs
by Christian Fuchs 13 Jul '20

13 Jul '20

Call for Abstracts/Papers: tripleC special issue: “Engels@200: Friedrich Engels in the Age of Digital Capitalism” Edited by Christian Fuchs Deadline for abstract submission: August 7, 2020 https://triple-c.at/public/site/images/Engels%40200_CfP.pdf https://www.triple-c.at/index.php/tripleC/announcement/view/38 November 28, 2020, marks the 200th birthday of Friedrich Engels. The journal tripleC: Communication, Capitalism & Critque (http://www.triple-c.at) celebrates Engels’ birthday with a special issue, in which critical theorists reflect on the relevance of Engels’ works for the analysis of digital and communicative capitalism. The special issue’s contributions shall provide perspectives that address the question: How do Friedrich Engels’ works matter for the critical analysis of digital and communicative capitalism? Contributions focus on single or several of Friedrich Engels’ works. Example questions that can, based on Engels, be treated in contributions include but are not limited to: - How do the digital conditions of the working class look like today? - What are digital working class struggles and how do they operate? - What is the role of reproductive labour, including digital housework and digital housewifisation, in digital capitalism? - What are Engels’ contributions to a Marxist-humanist critique of digital capitalism? - What is digital scientific socialism? - How can we make sense of digital utopias today? The contributions in this special issue will shed light on the relevance of Engels today for the critique of the political economy of communication and digital media, critical digital research, and critical media and communication studies. Schedule: Deadline for abstract submission: August 7, 2020 250 words, per e-mail to christian.fuchs(a)triple-c.at, please include a submission/article title, your name and contact, a 100-word short bio, and an abstract of 250 words and send the submission in a Word- or text-file. Acceptance decisions: until August 31, 2020 Submission of full reflection articles (maximum of 8,000 words, including all references, footnotes and tables): October 12, 2020 Online publication of the special issue: November 28, 2020 (= Friedrich Engels’ 200th birthday). Recommended Readings: Engels’ original works plus: Paul Blackledge. 2019. Friedrich Engels and Modern Social and Political Theory. Albany, NY: State University of New York Press. Gustav Mayer. 1935. Friedrich Engels. A Biography. London: Chapman & Hall. Janet Sayers, Mary Evans and Nanneke Redclift, eds. 1987. Engels Revisited. New Feminist Essays, eds. 37-56. London: Tavistock. Christopher J. Arthur, ed. 1996. Engels Today. A Centenary Appreciation. Basingstoke: Macmillan. -- Prof. Christian Fuchs Co-Editor of tripleC: Communication, Capitalism & Critique http://www.triple-c.at @fuchschristian christian.fuchs(a)triple-c.at

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Co-authoring an article on E-gov policy evaluation in Thailand
by Mergen 13 Jul '20

13 Jul '20

Dear Air-L community, 𝗔𝗻𝘆𝗼𝗻𝗲 𝗶𝗻𝘁𝗲𝗿𝗲𝘀𝘁𝗲𝗱 𝗶𝗻 𝗰𝗼-𝗮𝘂𝘁𝗵𝗼𝗿𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗮 𝗿𝗲𝘀𝗲𝗮𝗿𝗰𝗵 𝗽𝗮𝗽𝗲𝗿? I have been writing a paper on evaluating E-gov policy implementation in modern Thailand. It was supposed to come out as a chapter of the Handbook of Asian Public Administration but due to technical reasons the book project did not develop. If someone is willing to co-author (perhaps with a slightly different title of the paper), or recommend a relevant expert in the area, please let me know:) Title of a paper in progress: 𝗘-𝗴𝗼𝘃𝗲𝗿𝗻𝗺𝗲𝗻𝘁 𝗣𝗼𝗹𝗶𝗰𝘆 𝗜𝗺𝗽𝗹𝗲𝗺𝗲𝗻𝘁𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝗶𝗻 𝗧𝗵𝗮𝗶𝗹𝗮𝗻𝗱: 𝗦𝘂𝗰𝗰𝗲𝘀𝘀 𝗼𝗿 𝗳𝗮𝗶𝗹𝘂𝗿𝗲? Abstract This paper primarily investigates the current e-government and ICT development policy in Thailand from an actor-centered perspective. In so doing, it attempts to review existing literature on e-government implementation, while looking into the interaction of government institutions and citizens. It seeks to answer questions, such as the following. What are the key actors in driving the implementation of e-government policies in Thailand? How do Thai citizens perceive e-government efforts and ICT policy implementation especially in the context of present military government power? What are some of the risk factors typically embedded in e-government initiatives and policies implemented in Thailand? Some scholars (e.g. Bukht & Heeks 2018, Sagarik et al. 2018) specifically emphasize the key role of central government institutions in driving the e-government and ICT policy implementation pointing at its readiness to transform toward E-government 4.0. These observations notwithstanding, issues related to the often-omitted crucial role of citizens (e.g. Sukasame 2004) and local customers (Kawtrakul et al. 2011) in driving policy implementation and the problem of digital divide remain across much of the developing world (Margetts et al., 2016), Thailand included (Sagarik et al. 2018). Other issues, e.g. concentration of political power and resources at the central government level versus capacity building of local government institutions (Sagarik et al. 2018) and a range of other actors (Gunawong & Gao 2017, Khampachua & Wisitpongphan 2015) should be also taken into consideration. The paper analyzes remaining unresolved issues related to e-government implementation, including high-level political corruption (Mutebi 2008, as cited in Dyussenov 2017) that persists in modern Thailand in the context of military power. It is concluded with a summary of key remaining issues, along with policy recommendations. Shortly about myself: Mergen Dyussenov is currently Advisor to the Minister of culture and sports of the Republic of Kazakhstan overseeing anti-corruption policy formulation. Since Jan 2019, Mergen has been teaching Public policy analysis (part-time) at the Academy of public administration based in Astana. He completed his PhD at Lee Kuan Yew School of public policy (NUS, Singapore) in 2019, and an MPA from Columbia University SIPA in 2011. Thanks, and looking for new opportunities! Regards, Mergen

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Experiences using synchronous video-based communication technology
by Patrick Lowenthal 12 Jul '20

12 Jul '20

Colleagues and I are investigating faculty experiences using synchronous video-based communication technology (e.g., Zoom, WebEx) and how recent experiences working from home and teaching at a distance might influence future use of communication technologies. The survey *takes five minutes*. This study involves no foreseeable serious risks. Leave any questions blank that make you feel uncomfortable or you would prefer to skip. Contact Patrick Lowenthal (208-426-2426 patricklowenthal(a)boisestate.edu) with questions or concerns about study. For questions about rights as a research participant, contact Boise State University Institutional Review Board, which focuses on protecting volunteers in research projects, M-F (8am-5pm) at 208- 426-5401 or Institutional Review Board, Office of Research Compliance, Boise State University, 1910 University Dr Boise ID 83725. Access the survey: https://boisestate.az1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_d5uVJxDSwvsZf6Z <https://secure-web.cisco.com/17ZneKuLqOr8Fr_W8u5sku3WDu_QcAetdslO3nj68w9SQz…> ______________________________________ *Patrick R. Lowenthal, Ph.D.**Associate Professor & Co-Coordinator of Ed.D in Educational Technology* Department of Educational Technology, Boise State University http://patricklowenthal.com

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“How I Met Marshall McLuhan”
by Paul Levinson 12 Jul '20

12 Jul '20

Just published “How I Met Marshall McLuhan” http://newexplorations.net/ -- *Welcome Up: Songs of Space and Time * - digital <https://open.spotify.com/album/4S1oaV75qF6tRFfdDwDczE>, CD <http://paullev.com/product/welcome-up-songs-of-space-and-time-cd/>, vinyl <https://lightintheattic.net/releases/6371-welcome-up-songs-of-space-and-time> "As otherworldly, mystical and far-out as the subject matter may be, the songs burst with love and warmth and humanity." -- Evan LeVine, Swan Fungus, 3 February 2020 <https://www.reverbnation.com/page_object/join_mailing_list/artist_86705>

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