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Polymedia
by Traci Belanger 11 Jul '25

11 Jul '25

Hi everyone, does anyone have suggestions for articles on "polymedia" or specifically how polymedia interacts with media ecology? Thanks so much! Traci Belanger --- May all winds at your back inspire you, and may you have harmony and peace today.

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For my US colleagues: an 8 minute survey, where your input might make a difference
by Patricia Aufderheide 08 May '25

08 May '25

I know, exactly what you don't need to do at this crazy point in the semester. At AU, Profs. Aram Sinnreich, Joseph Graf and I have been working with Electronic Frontier Foundation and New Media Rights to design a survey about DMCA exemption language and its accessibility. Would you be interested in taking, sharing with your students and networks, including putting on social media the survey link <http://bit.ly/2nEfY8j>? Here it is again: *http://bit.ly/2nEfY8j <http://bit.ly/2nEfY8j>* Your generosity much appreciated! 👏 -- Patricia Aufderheide, University Professor, School of Communication Founder, Center for Media & -- Patricia Aufderheide, University Professor, School of Communication Founder, Center for Media & Social Impact American University 4400 Massachusetts Av., NW American University, Washington, DC 20016-8017 McKinley Hall 323 @paufder @cmsimpact cmsimpact.org paufder(a)american.edu 202-885-2069 office <202-643-5356> 240-643-4805 mobile <202-643-5356> "The world we have received also belongs to those who follow us." --Pope Francis

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Non-software uses of GitHub
by Jim Herbsleb 16 Apr '25

16 Apr '25

I’m looking for GitHub repositories that are used for things other than software, especially where users are actively collaborating rather than just putting together static collections. So far, we have found a few books being written, some musical transcriptions being error-checked, and some policy documents maintained online. Does anyone know of any examples of these or other categories? Any pointers much appreciated. Happy to share what we find with anyone interested. Jim ---- Jim Herbsleb Carnegie Mellon University http://herbsleb.org/ Google Scholar profile: https://goo.gl/sv3p7l

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CfP: Gamevironments Regular Issue - Deadline 1. Feb 2020
by Lisa Kienzl 25 Feb '21

25 Feb '21

Dear Colleagues, below you find the Call for Papers for the online journal GAMEVIRONMENTS (Regular Issue) -- due Feb. 1 2020. We are looking forward to your contributions! Best, Lisa ---------------------------------------------------- Call for Papers: journal GAMEVIRONMENTS Regular Issue 2020 ================ To further explore the multilayered socio-cultural and political contexts of video games and gaming, the international peer-reviewed journal GAMEVIRONMENTS is calling for submissions for its Regular Issue 2020. https://www.gamevironments.uni-bremen.de/ DEADLINES The journal follows a fixed timeline for the Regular Issue each year: 01.02. Full Chapter Submission 15.03. Review Results Returned 01.05. Revised Chapter Submission summer Online-Publication GAMEVIRONMENTS seeks to explore both established approaches and new frontiers of researching video games/gaming as related to religion, culture, and society. The journal encourages inter- and multidisciplinary works combining for example Cultural Studies, History, Religious studies, Theology, Ludology, and Psychology. All submitted articles will be reviewed on a double-blind peer-review basis. PAPER TYPES We include different categories of texts in the journal: a) regular academic articles Normally, articles should be between 5.000 words and 10.000 words in length. In general, a clear structure is of course helpful to understand your argumentation (introduction, discussing the relevance of your idea, theoretical frame, used method(s), case study and amount of new knowledge). b) interviews Next to academic articles we are interested in projects related to games, gamers, gaming and religion, culture, and society. For instance, if you have an interview with a game designer, a pedagogue working with games, etc., please feel free to share it in our journal! c) research reports Sometimes you may just want to give an impression of your current research, an introduction to a new project, or just have a longing for acclamation of about the 5% of successful third part funding that we get for this "weird stuff" – please feel free to do so :) In general, such research reports should be short descriptions between 3000 and 5000 words in length. They are not peer-reviewed, but we as journal editors will give some revisions if necessary. d) book reviews There was a flow in publications concerned with games and religion/culture in the last years, so it could be interesting to introduce and discuss some of them. If you are reading a new book which you think can be helpful for other researchers, feel free to propose a review. Reviews should be around 1000 words. Please note that in most cases, the journal will not be able to provide a free copy for reviews, but will try to source a free copy for you. e) game reviews Due to the fact that we are a games journal that wants to collect, systematize and further develop the various recent multidisciplinary approaches in the research area, we need to know our way around in our field, namely GAMES! So if you are playing a game which you think can be an interesting and promising object of investigation, please send us proposals for a game review. Reviews should be around 1000 words. Please note that in most cases, the journal will not be able to provide a free copy for reviews. Video games are full of images, so it would be a good idea to include some of them, illustrating your argumentation. But, for any image, you need to hold the copyright. Please ensure that! Before publishing with the journal, you need to sign a copyright declaration which we provide. Please send all images as .jpg file(s) to us due to formatting issues. Besides your contribution and images, we need keywords (up to 10), an abstract of up to 200 words, and a brief biographical paragraph (100 to 150 words) with your current institutional address and email address. Please consult the gamevironments submission style sheet before submitting your paper, as well as the Help Desk for some general principles. There is no article processing charge. If you are ready, please send your contribution as an RTF file to the managing editor: kienzl(a)uni-bremen.de. https://www.gamevironments.uni-bremen.de/ -- Dr.Dr. Lisa Kienzl, MA wissenschaftliche Mitarbeiterin | postdoctoral researcher Arbeitsgebiet Literaturen und Medien der Religionen | Literature and Media of Religions Universität Bremen | University of Bremen Institut für Religionswissenschaft und Religionspädagogik | Institute of Religious Studies and Religious Education Sportturm (SpT) Postfach 330 440 D-28359 Bremen T. +49 (0)421 218 67912 https://www.gamevironments.uni-bremen.de/

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Gamevironments: Special Issue on "National(ism), Identity and Video Gaming" out now
by Lisa Kienzl 30 Dec '20

30 Dec '20

Dear Colleagues, we are really happy to share with you today news of GAMEVIRONMENTS newest Special Issue on "National(ism), Identity and Video Gaming" edited by Lisa Kienzl and Kathrin Trattner with contributions from: * "Glory to Trumpland! Critically Playing Border Games" by Melissa Kagen * Round Table Discussion on Nation(alism), Identity and Video Gaming with Megan Condis, Marijam Didžgalvytė, Georg Hobmeier and Souvik Mukherjee * "Playing America. An Introduction to American Culture through Video Games" by Michael Fuchs and Stefan Rabitsch * "Research Report on Curse the Fiends, Their Children, Too: Cultural Heritage and Subversion of Fictional Tropes in Bloodborne" by Sarah Zaidan, Richard Pilbeam and Elin Carstensdottir * Interview with Mira Wardhaningsih from StoryTale Studios on the Indonesian Horror Game "Pamali" * Interview with Déyfou-lah Sani Bah-Traore on the Togolese Game "Origin – the Rise of Dzitri" * "We. The Revolution, a Review. Vive la Révolution or Death and All His Friends" by Kevin Recher * "Kingdom Come: Deliverance. A Bohemian Forest Simulator" by Eugen Pfister You find all further information here: https://www.gamevironments.uni-bremen.de/completed-quests/. Best wishes, Lisa Kienzl managing editor gamevironments -- Dr.Dr. Lisa Kienzl, MA wissenschaftliche Mitarbeiterin | postdoctoral researcher Arbeitsgebiet Literaturen und Medien der Religionen | Literature and Media of Religions Universität Bremen | University of Bremen Institut für Religionswissenschaft und Religionspädagogik | Institute of Religious Studies and Religious Education Sportturm (SpT) Postfach 330 440 D-28359 Bremen T. +49 (0)421 218 67912 https://www.gamevironments.uni-bremen.de/

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Re: [Air-L] non-Zoom platforms....again
by Ushnish Sengupta 07 Dec '20

07 Dec '20

Thank you for the excellent summary document on Zoom Mehitabel I am also concerned about the racial inequity issues of automated online proctoring systems, that are used in conjunction with videoconferencing systems such as Zoom. >From what we know of bias in facial recognition and detection algorithms, these systems that try to detect student faces changing direction (potential cheating) during online exams have a significant number of racial injustice issues. Ushnish Sengupta Message: 2 Date: Wed, 29 Jul 2020 22:28:45 -0400 From: Mehitabel Glenhaber <glenhabe(a)usc.edu> To: alexandre.hocquet(a)univ-lorraine.fr Cc: air-l(a)listserv.aoir.org Subject: Re: [Air-L] non-Zoom platforms....again Message-ID: <CAMASph4WHCA1xi1xxpuDwR5A4nFKqoSioyvenLbcTdUJkVaXag(a)mail.gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Hi Alexandre and everyone, This is maybe a bit adjacent to your question, but I have also been concerned watching Zoom rapidly gobble up a near-monopoly on remote education in the United States. Here is an informal resource that I created at the start of the pandemic, and recently updated, warning about the dangers of Zoom becoming a monopoly, and advising educators about alternatives, and how to minimize the harms of using Zoom in the classroom: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1o7Eq17jdWCtu2CaC15JBbdVU1p7fx2_jReH6qoF… I hope it's helpful to you in writing your article, and also generally to folks on this list going into teaching remotely the next semester. I think the situation in the US is very similar to the one you describe in France (with the exception, perhaps, that there was less of an existing open source infrastructure which Zoom replaced - though that's just my impression) Cheers, Mehitabel On Wed, Jul 29, 2020 at 7:41 PM Alexandre Hocquet < alexandre.hocquet(a)univ-lorraine.fr> wrote: > Dear AoIRers, > > long time lurker, first time poster*. A recent inquiry to the list > asking for non-Zoom platforms gave me the idea to ask advice here > regarding a project for an opinion piece I have about the recent taking > over of online conferencing by Zoom (and Microsoft Teams) in Academia. > > My point is that the Covid crisis has led (in France at least, and I'm > willing to have the opinion about academics in other countries) to the > complete outsourcing to those two corporate platforms for online > teaching (and scholarly conferencing), which means > > 1) the renouncement to a once functional dedicated national > infrastructure (namely, in France, the use of free software Jitsi within > the state-sponsored "Renater" academic infrastructure) > > 2) the surrendering of Academia to corporations well known to abuse the > extraction and commodification of data (Zoom) and well known to > "embrace, extend and extinguish" anything within their reach (Microsoft) > > My point is that it is completely contradictory to a supposed general > institutional trend towards "open science", and that open software is > often forgotten besides open litterature and open data, and that the > pandemic has accelerated the disintegration of an academic national and > open infrastructure. > > So my questions are : > > 1) Is anybody aware of an already existing piece expressing that concerns ? > > 2) Is anybody willing to share what is the situation in their country > regarding this issue ? > > Best, > > > * for a little background and as a newcomer presentation, I am a > historian of science and my area is the issue of openness within > scientific modelling software . > > > > -- *Key Articles:* The Future of Social Economy Leadership and Organizational Composition in Canada: Demand from Demographics, and Difference through Diversity <http://interventionseconomiques.revues.org/2794> Indigenous Cooperatives in Canada: The Complex Relationship Between Cooperatives, Community Economic Development,Colonization, and Culture <http://www.jeodonline.com/sites/jeodonline.com/files/articles/2015/08/13/6s…> Indigenous Communities and Social Enterprise in Canada:Incorporating Culture as an Essential Ingredient of Entrepreneurship <http://anserj.ca/anser/index.php/cjnser/article/view/196>

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Doing qualitative research which addresses inequalities in times of social distancing
by Helen Kennedy 28 Oct '20

28 Oct '20

Hello all Many of us are currently facing challenges as we seek to carry out qualitative research which addresses inequalities under socially distanced conditions. Lots of people are thinking creatively about how to overcome these challenges, and we’re aware of a number of events, webinars and discussions on this topic that have taken place. We are gathering together resources on this topic (including recordings of webinars, if available), which we will share publicly on our Living With Data <https://livingwithdata.org/> project website in August. We will include general resources about doing qualitative research in socially distant times (such as Doing fieldwork in a pandemic <https://docs.google.com/document/d/1clGjGABB2h2qbduTgfqribHmog9B6P0NvMgVuiH…>), but we are especially interested in resources relating to inequalities research, covering, for example, researching with marginalised, minoritised or hard-to-reach groups and communities, or facilitating qualitative research with diverse groups (including diversity in groups, eg in relation to race, class, culture, language, lived experience, politics, accessibility). Please can you share resources with us by emailing Elisa Serafinelli ( e.serafinelli(a)sheffield.ac.uk Research Associate @ the University of Sheffield). We will then collate and share them. Best wishes Elisa Serafinelli & Helen Kennedy (Digital Society Network <https://www.sheffield.ac.uk/social-sciences/research/digital-society> & Living With Data <https://livingwithdata.org/> @ University of Sheffield) -- Helen Kennedy, Professor of Digital Society, @hmtk, Living With Data <https://livingwithdata.org/> *RECENT PUBLICATIONS: * Public perceptions of good data management: findings from a UK-based survey <https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/2053951720935616>, *Big Data and Society* (June 2020, w/Todd Hartman, Robin Steedman & Rhia Jones) *Public Understanding and Perceptions of Data Practices: a review of existing research <https://livingwithdata.org/current-research/publications/>* (May 2020, w/ Susan Oman, Mark Taylor, Jo Bates, Robin Steedman) *Data Visualization in Society <https://www.aup.nl/en/book/9789463722902/data-visualization-in-society>* (April 2020, ed w/ Martin Engebretesen, Open Access with Amsterdam University Press) Complex ecologies of trust in data practices and data-driven systems <https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/1369118X.2020.1748090>, *Information, Communication & Society* (April 2020, w/Robin Steedman & Rhia Jones) Approaching public perceptions of datafication through the lens of inequality: a case study in public service media <https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/1369118X.2020.1736122>, *Information, Communication & Society *(March 2020, w/Robin Steedman & Rhia Jones)

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[CFP] [TICS] Topics on Internet Censorship and Surveillance 2020
by Vasilis Ververis 11 Sep '20

11 Sep '20

Hello, We have a new call for papers that may be of interest to some of you. Please feel free to share widely. Thank you! Online version: https://tics.site/cfp/ # TICS 2020 **Co-located with the [2020 IEEE/WIC/ACM International Joint Conference on Web Intelligence and Intelligent Agent Technology (WI-IAT 2020)](http://wi2020.vcrab.com.au/), to be held online.** ## Introduction Over the past years there has been a greater demand from large-scale players such as governments and dominant media companies for online censorship and surveillance, as an understandable reaction against hate speech, copyright violations, and other cases related to citizen compliance with civil laws and regulations by national authorities. Unfortunately, this is often accompanied by a tendency of extensively censoring online content and massively spying on citizens actions. Numerous whistle-blower revelations, leaks from classified documents, and a vast amount of information released by activists, researchers and journalists, reveal evidence of government-sponsored infrastructure that either goes beyond the requirements and scope of the law, or operates without any effective regulations in place. In addition, this infrastructure often supports the interests of big private corporations, such as the companies that enforce online copyright control. Mobile networks are particularly vulnerable to the above points. Due to the nature of their deployment, few actors can achieve far-reaching results, and end-users are left unprotected; we are interested in tracking developments that, without sacrificing functionality and convenience, allow end-users to get control on the amount and breadth of information generated, stored and processed on them. TICS is a special track the area of Internet censorship, surveillance and other adversarial burdens to technology that bring in danger; to a greater extend the safety (physical security and privacy) of its users. Proposals for TICS 2020 should be situated within the field of Internet censorship, network measurements, information controls, surveillance and content moderation. ## Workshop topics The goal of TICS is to raise awareness around the implications of network interference, by inviting researchers from complementary disciplines to consider the effect of their own domain on online censorship and surveillance. Along those lines, we invite submissions that address the following topics: * Research on technologies and policies that build upon advancements on the field of web intelligence to imply blocking, limitation or distortion of the availability of network services and online content * The application of web intelligence concepts such as behavioral modeling, data mining, and social network analytics to target groups and individuals by law enforcement agencies and private corporations * The implications of algorithmic and AI-assisted user content classification (such as for identification of hate-speech, copyright, or disinformation) * Novel techniques that leverage web intelligence to defend netizens against censorship and surveillance, or privacy enhancements to the existing AI infrastructure to mitigate these threats * Measurement methodologies that detect network interference or content moderation based on crowd knowledge or web analytics * The socio-economic consequences and implementation limitations and fallacies of upload filters and recommendation systems * Business models and amendments to legal frameworks which promote the use of web intelligence in ways that build a pluralistic, private, and human-centric experience without violating user freedoms * Privacy on mobile networks * Network measurements * Radio frequency communications * Data leaks * Surveillance * Backdoors into carrier equipment (base stations, antennas, switches, software) * Law enforcement * Telcos security and advance persistent threats * Network espionage and nation state threats (e.g. "operation Soft Cell") * Middleboxes / DPI * Content regulation * Wiretapping * Net neutrality * Data retention * GDPR * Device/radio blocking (Network IMEI) * Ownership of infrastructure, and community-operated networks * Spectrum sharing * License-exempt spectrum ## Important dates * Paper Submission due: September 15th, 2020 * Notification to authors: October 15th, 2020 * Final, camera ready papers, due: November 15th, 2020 * Workshop date: December 14th, 2020 ## Paper Submission **[Paper Submission Page](https://wi-lab.com/cyberchair/2020/wi20/scripts/submit.php?subarea=S0… Submitted papers should be limited to a maximum of 8 pages in the standard ACM 2-column format.\ The ACM Proceedings Manuscript Formatting Guidelines can be found at: <https://www.acm.org/publications/proceedings-template> ## Committees ### Program Chairs * Vasilis Ververis, Humboldt University Berlin, vasilis(a)tics.site * Marios Isaakidis, University College London, marios(a)tics.site * Gunnar Wolf, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, gwolf(a)tics.site You can contact all of the chairs by addressing your mail to: <chairs(a)tics.site> ### Program Committee * Chrystalenni Loizidou, University of Nicosia * Keith McManamen, Psiphon * Will Scott, University of Michigan ## Past Workshops - [2019 (Valencia, Spain)](https://tics.site/2019) Best regards, ~Vasilis

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ALGO 2020 Call for PARTICIPATION
by Francesco Betti Sorbelli 31 Aug '20

31 Aug '20

=== ALGO 2020 Call for PARTICIPATION === Online, September 7-10, only afternoons EU time http://algo2020.di.unipi.it ALGO 2020 includes: ATMOS (from 7th-8th), ALGOSENSORS (from 9th to 10th), ESA (from 7th to 9th), WABI (from 7th to 9th), WAOA (from 9th to 10th) ATTENDANT REGISTRATION is FREE !! ... but **mandatory** (to gain access to the virtual rooms) Please register by writing an email by Sept. 5, 2020, to algo2020attendant(a)gmail.com Registration is valid for all ALGO conferences PLENARY ALGO SPEAKERS Ronitt Rubinfeld, CSAIL, MIT, Cambridge, USA — Local Computation Algorithms (on Monday) Martin Savelsbergh, Georgia Tech, USA — Algorithms for Large-Scale Service Network Design and Operations (on Tuesday) Dan Gusfield, University of California Davis, USA — From Integer Programming to SAT-Solving in Computational Biology (on Wednesday) Pierre Fraigniaud, IRIF, Université Paris-Diderot, France — Local Distributed Certification of Global States (on Thursday morning) Clifford Stein, Columbia University, USA — Parallel Approximate Undirected Shortest Paths Via Low Hop Emulators (on Thursday afternoon) FURTHER EVENTS + ATMOS and WABI Invited Speakers + ESA Test-of-Time Award + ESA Social Junior-Senior Event + REGULAR SESSIONS OF ALL CONFERENCES FULL PROGRAM http://algo2020.di.unipi.it/programme.html See you at ALGO!!! ALGO 2020 Organization Committee -- Francesco Betti Sorbelli

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cyberactivism
by mgoyam＠yahoo.com 31 Aug '20

31 Aug '20

Dear all, Some students of mine have asked me for literature about cyberactivism, since they want to get involved and start social movements. I have referred to them to some books and authors that analyze cyberactivism, but not about how to become cyberactivist. I was wondering if any of you would know of such literature. Thanks!Mariana -----Mariana Goya-MartinezCommunication Department, Universidad Iberoamericana, Tecnológico de Monterrey @MGMideas Priming - Artificial Intelligence - Collective Intelligence - Media Effects - Brain - Networks

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