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Special issue of the Popular Culture Studies Journal: Serious Play
by Christopher John Olson 27 Sep '20

27 Sep '20

The Digital Cultures Collaboratory in the Center for 21st Century Studies at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee is a research group comprising graduate students, library staff, and faculty. Since 2017 this group has operated Serious Play, a channel on the Twitch live streaming network devoted to gameplay and reflective commentary. In April 2021, the Collaboratory will organize a Live Streaming Symposium that challenges participants to make live presentations using Twitch or a similar platform, involving simultaneous gameplay and reflective, critical, or instructional commentary. We are proposing a special issue of the Popular Culture Studies Journal (PCSJ) titled “Serious Play: Legitimizing Live Streaming as Popular Culture.” This issue will explore the live digital streaming of gameplay (analog or digital) as well as other forms of active performance. The articles and texts will consider the topics of live streaming, pedagogy and performance, virtual environments, and related subjects, and they will all read live streaming as a legitimate vehicle for popular culture. The issue will also showcase recorded video of some or all of the five to seven presentations from the Collaboratory’s digital symposium (to be held in October 2021) alongside articles by members of the Collaboratory that place this work in context of changes in the infrastructure and social organization of higher education. The issue would also include reviews of relevant media pieces, streams, performances, and books. We are interested in examples from leading streaming platforms like Twitch, and we interpret live streaming broadly and do not exclude other possibilities that consider live streaming as a legitimate avenue of popular culture. Potential subjects might include: * Ethnographies of live streaming * Live streaming and “the future of broadcasting” (as T.L. Taylor writes in Watch Me Play) * Forms of streaming practice * Intersections of other pop culture media and live streaming * Live streaming in response to global crises * Discussions of how live streaming can build, maintain, or hinder communities * Live streaming in education as pop culture and pedagogy * Reflections on streaming and online communities * Live streaming and the archive * Political economy of streaming platforms * Live streaming and e-sports * Let’s plays, YouTube, and popular culture * Interactions of social media and play While not required, we encourage submissions that include video or hybridize print with other media. This could be a supplementary video essay, live stream, game, image, podcast, or mod. We suggest that authors may want to consider something like the creative multimodal elements found in Metagaming by Stephanie Boluk and Patrick LeMieux. Articles should be scholarly, drawing on research and theory, but must also be accessible to the broadly educated, non-specialist audience of PCSJ. Please visit the following link for more information about the Collab, Serious Play, the journal issue, and how to submit an abstract: https://mpcaaca.org/the-popular-culture-studies-journal/special-issues/call… [https://s0.wp.com/i/blank.jpg]<https://mpcaaca.org/the-popular-culture-studies-journal/special-issues/call…> Call for Papers: Serious Play – Midwest PCA/ACA<https://mpcaaca.org/the-popular-culture-studies-journal/special-issues/call…> The Midwest Popular Culture Association / American Culture Association is a regional branch of the Popular Culture Association / American Culture Association.MPCA/ACA usually holds its annual conference in a large Midwestern city in the United States. mpcaaca.org If you have any questions about the special issue, please contact Janelle Malagon (jmalagon(a)uwm.edu) Erik Jon Paul Kersting (kerstin2(a)uwm.edu) or Christopher J. Olson (olson429(a)uwm.edu) Thank you. Christopher John Olson PhD Student: Media, Cinema, and Digital Studies University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee Office: Curtin 392 Email: olson429(a)uwm.edu https://seemsobvioustome.wordpress.com/ http://thepopculturelens.podbean.com/ Reviews Editor, The Popular Culture Studies Journal<http://mpcaaca.org/the-popular-culture-studies-journal/> Author/Co-Author/Co-Editor Mental Health and Neurodiversity in Entertainment Media (Routledge, In process) The Greatest Cult Television Shows of All Time<https://rowman.com/ISBN/9781538122556/The-Greatest-Cult-Television-Shows-of…> (Rowman & Littlefield, 2020) Convergent Wrestling<https://www.routledge.com/Convergent-Wrestling-Participatory-Culture-Transm…> (Routledge, 2019) 100 Greatest Cult Films<https://rowman.com/ISBN/9781442208223/100-Greatest-Cult-Films> (Rowman & Littlefield, 2018) Heroes, Heroines, and Everything in Between<https://rowman.com/ISBN/9781498539579/Heroes-Heroines-and-Everything-in-Bet…> (Lexington, 2017) Possessed Women, Haunted States<https://rowman.com/ISBN/9781498519083/Possessed-Women-Haunted-States-Cultur…> (Lexington, 2016) Making Sense of Cinema <https://www.bloomsbury.com/us/making-sense-of-cinema-9781501320217/> (Bloomsbury, 2016)

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make $ today & help save democracy
by Stuart Shulman 27 Sep '20

27 Sep '20

If you are willing to label data for at least 1 hour today, we have an urgent task that pays $13/hour and comes with a 1-month free license to DiscoverText. If you do well on a series of tasks that may result from this proof of concept, we can extend the license. You will be paid the same day you work and you can bill 1 hour plus any additional 6-minute increments (ex., 1.2 or 2.3 hours). This is the culmination of 9 months building a machine-learning election model to help save democracy from its descent into unrestrained authoritarianism. Our democratic monkeywrench is out of the box. Who can help us fine tune the model for a specific use case for a new client? Please send me your CV if you are interested. Note: some expertise in Latino/Latina and African American identity claims is required. We are particularly interested in hiring politically active progressives and Democrats and ask for some proof to that effect. ~Stu

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WEBCAST SUN-WED: 2020 Asia Pacific Regional Internet Governance Forum #APrIGF2020
by Joly MacFie 27 Sep '20

27 Sep '20

APrIGF begins today. Here is a quick cheat sheet to the program. All times UTC. Livestream info below. *ROOM 1 * *SUNDAY 27 SEP* 04:00 Capacity Building Program for Fellows and Newcomers *MONDAY 28 SEP* 04:00 Opening Plenary 05:15 Accessible digital information, training and libraries 06:45 Promoting internet and human rights 08:00 Learn from Home During COVID-19 *TUESDAY 29 SEP* 04:00 Townhall session 05:15 The Single, Global Internet – A Technical Discussion 06:45 Combating Live Streaming of Online Child Abuse Content 08:00 Bridging the digital gender divide *WEDNESDAY 30 SEP* 04:00 Townhall session 05:15 Access to information 06:45 Closing Plenary *ROOM 2* *MONDAY 28 SEP* 05:15 Not just 0s and 1s (Women's Safety) 06:45 New approaches to technical capacity building 08:00 Do cybernorms help or hinder incident response activities? *TUESDAY 29 SEP* 05:15 Jack and the Tech Giants 06:45 The Internet’s Environmental Impact 08:00 The digital rights landscape in Asia Pacific after COVID19 *WEDNESDAY 30 SEP* 05:15 Breaking Encryption ISOC Live posted: "On 27-30 September 2020 the Asia Pacific Regional Internet Governance Forum (APrIGF) will be held online. APrIGF serves as a platform for discussion, exchange and collaboration at a regional level, and also where possible to aggregate national IGF discuss" [image: aprigf2020] <https://ap.rigf.asia/>On *27-30 September 2020* the *Asia Pacific Regional Internet Governance Forum <https://ap.rigf.asia/>* (APrIGF) will be held online. APrIGF serves as a platform for discussion, exchange and collaboration at a regional level, and also where possible to aggregate national IGF discussions, ultimately advance the Internet governance development in the Asia Pacific region. *LIVESTREAMS* *ROOM 1 https://livestream.com/internetsociety/aprigf2020 <https://livestream.com/internetsociety/aprigf2020>* (Open Captions) *ROOM 2 https://livestream.com/internetsociety2/aprigf2020 <https://livestream.com/internetsociety2/aprigf2020>* (Open Captions) *PROGRAM https://ap.rigf.asia/#2020program <https://ap.rigf.asia/#2020program>* *REAL TIME TEXT* *ROOM 1 https://www.streamtext.net/player?event=CFI-APrIGF-1 <https://www.streamtext.net/player?event=CFI-APrIGF-1>* *ROOM 2 https://www.streamtext.net/player?event=CFI-APrIGF-2 <https://www.streamtext.net/player?event=CFI-APrIGF-2>* *TWITTER #APrIGF2020 https://bit.ly/APrIGF2020 <https://bit.ly/APrIGF2020>* *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/aprigf.asia/live <https://www.facebook.com/aprigf.asia/live>* *https://bit.ly/aprigfvideo <https://bit.ly/aprigfvideo>* (YouTube) *ARCHIVE* *https://archive.org/details/aprigf2020 <https://archive.org/details/aprigf2020>* *Permalink* https://isoc.live/12770/ - -- -------------------------------------- Joly MacFie +2185659365 -------------------------------------- -

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WEBINAR: Trolling in Chinese and English
by Matthew Moore 25 Sep '20

25 Sep '20

More info & RSVP: https://www.meetup.com/Information-Innovation-UTS/events/273425978/ Online trolling can be a minor annoyance, a life-threatening nightmare or even a danger to our public institutions. But what are its causes, its true effects, and what can and should we do about it? In this seminar, three experts examine trolling from different perspectives and across cultures (with a focus on Australia and China): - How does trolling behaviour play out in different environments? - What drives trolls from a psychological perspective? - How does trolling relate to freedom of speech issues? Huixin Tian is a PhD student in Information Science, Department of Information and Library Science, Indiana University Bloomington. She received a bachelor’s degree in archaeology from Peking University, and a master’s degree in Anthropology from Indiana University Bloomington. Her research interests include materiality of digital mediation, virtuality and work, immigrant labor in the global information industry, and innovation industry. Her dissertation project will focus on the community of Chinese immigrant programmers in the United States. Evita March obtained her PhD in evolutionary and social psychology and is currently employed as a senior lecturer and researcher at Federation University Australia. Evita’s research interests include interpersonal relationships, cyberpsychology, and personality. In particular, Evita is interested in how people behave online, and she has explored a range of online behaviours including cyberbullying, cyberstalking, online dating, trolling, and self-presentation. Dr. Jay Daniel Thompson is a Lecturer in Professional Communication in the School of Media and Communication at RMIT University. He is researching the fraught relationship between trolling and freedom of speech. Dr. Thompson has also published extensively on the politics and ethics of media controversy. Sydney / Melb - 10:00 27.11.2020 Los Angeles / San Francisco - 15:00 26.11.2020 New York City / Bloomington - 18:00 26.11.2020 UTS CRICOS Provider Code: 00099F DISCLAIMER: This email message and any accompanying attachments may contain confidential information. If you are not the intended recipient, do not read, use, disseminate, distribute or copy this message or attachments. If you have received this message in error, please notify the sender immediately and delete this message. Any views expressed in this message are those of the individual sender, except where the sender expressly, and with authority, states them to be the views of the University of Technology Sydney. Before opening any attachments, please check them for viruses and defects. Think. Green. Do. Please consider the environment before printing this email.

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ACM IUI 2021: Call for papers (update on paper format)
by Axel Soto 25 Sep '20

25 Sep '20

*** ACM IUI 2021: Call for Papers *** * College Station, TX * April 13-17, 2021 * http://iui.acm.org/2021/ * Contact: program2021(a)iui.acm.org ## IMPORTANT UPDATE Please check the updated paper format and length restrictions for short and long papers on https://iui.acm.org/2021/call_for_papers.html ## Upcoming deadlines Abstract: Oct 2, 2020 (compulsory) Paper submission: Oct 9, 2020 ## ACM IUI 2021 ACM IUI 2021 is the 26th annual premier international forum for reporting outstanding research and development on intelligent user interfaces. ACM IUI is where the Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) and Artificial Intelligence (AI) communities meet, with contributions from related fields such as psychology, behavioral science, cognitive science, computer graphics, design, the arts, and more. Our focus is on improving the interaction between humans and digital technology, by leveraging both HCI approaches and state-of-the art AI techniques from machine learning, natural language processing, data mining, knowledge representation and reasoning. ### Why you should submit to ACM IUI While other conferences focus on either the AI or HCI side of this research, we address the complex interaction between the two. We strongly encourage submissions that simultaneously discuss research from both HCI and AI. We also welcome works that focus more on one side or the other, but still highlight the connections between the two. We value papers that contribute methodology or theory for the evaluation of intelligent user interfaces. We do not require evaluations with users, but we do expect papers to include an appropriate evaluation for their stated contributions. ACM IUI welcomes contribution from all relevant arenas—academia, industry, government, and non-profit organizations—and gives its participants the opportunity to present and see cutting-edge IUI work in a focused and interactive setting. The conference is large enough to be diverse and lively, but small enough to allow for extensive interaction among attendees and easy attendance to the events that the conference offers, ranging from oral paper presentations, poster sessions, workshops, panels and a doctoral consortium for graduate students. ### COVID-19 statement We are monitoring the situation regarding the global pandemic and associated travel restrictions. If needed, we will offer a virtual presentation option if the conference cannot take place due to the global pandemic, or if registered authors from specific parts of the world cannot attend the conference. ## Papers We accept two forms of contributions: full and short papers. They should both make novel contributions to IUI, however full papers should make more substantial and significant contributions, while short papers can contain more focused contributions. Accepted papers will appear in the ACM Digital Library and citation indices. A selected set of accepted top quality full papers will be invited to submit their extended versions for publication in an ACM Transactions on Interactive Intelligent Systems (TiiS, http://tiis.acm.org) special issue titled "Highlights of IUI 2021". ## Topics IUI topics of interest include, but are not limited to: * Application areas * Internet of Things (IoT) * Education and learning-related technologies * Health and intelligent health technologies * Assistive technologies * Social media and other Web technologies * Mobile applications * Artificial personal assistants * Information retrieval, search, and recommendation systems * Interface types * Affective and aesthetic interfaces * Collaborative interfaces * Speech-based interfaces * AR/VR interfaces * Intelligent wearable and mobile interfaces * Ubiquitous smart environments * Modalities * Agent based interfaces (e.g., embodied agents, virtual assistants) * Multi-modal interfaces (speech, gestures, eye gaze, face, physiological information etc.) * Conversational interfaces * Tangible interfaces * Intelligent visualization * Methods and approaches * Methods for explanations (e.g., transparency, control, and trust) * Persuasive technologies in IUI * Privacy and security of IUI * Planning and plan recognition for IUI * Knowledge-based approaches to user interface design and generation * User Modelling for Intelligent Interfaces * User-Adaptive interaction and personalization * Crowd computing and human computation * Human-in-the loop machine learning * Evaluations of intelligent user interfaces * User experiments * User studies * Reproducibility (including benchmarks, datasets, and challenges) * Meta-analyses * Mixed-methods evaluations ## Dates * Oct 2, 2020: Abstract deadline (compulsory) * Oct 9, 2020: Papers deadline * Dec 14, 2020: Notification * Feb 8, 2021: Camera ready due * Apr 13, 2021: Conference starts ## Submission Guidelines Check the submission guidelines on the conference page: https://iui.acm.org/2021/call_for_papers.html ## Program Chairs * John O’Donovan, University of California, Santa Barbara * Bart Knijnenburg, Clemson University * Paul Teale, Texas A&M * Jeeeun Kim, Texas A&M * Aaron Adler, Raytheon BBN Technologies * Manoj Prasad, Microsoft * Contact: program2021(a)iui.acm.org

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Hackathon planning kit
by Jim Herbsleb 24 Sep '20

24 Sep '20

Colleagues, If you are considering organizing a hackathon, please check out our hackathon planning kit: https://hackathon-planning-kit.org/ Based on four years of researching and hosting a wide variety of hackathons, we have distilled the key decisions and tradeoffs to help everyone design an event that will help achieve your specific aims, whether you are looking for innovation, fostering learning, leveraging data sets, building a community, or just having fun. Best, Jim --- James Herbsleb Director, Institute for Software Research Professor, School of Computer Science Carnegie Mellon University https://herbsleb.org/

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New report released: “Raising Good Gamers: Envisioning an Agenda for Diversity, Inclusion, and Fair Play”
by Jamieson L Pond 24 Sep '20

24 Sep '20

Raising Good Gamers: Envisioning an Agenda for Diversity, Inclusion, and Fair Play By Katie Salen New report explores the online toxicity–online aggression, hate, harassment, prejudice, and disruptive player behavior–that many online gamers experience, and what can be done to make online gaming communities more youth-friendly and inclusive. Link to report: https://connectedlearning.news/RGGAIR About the report In February 2020, leading researchers, game developers, educators, policymakers, youth experts, and others convened in a workshop for an in-depth exploration of the forces shaping the culture and climate of online game communities and the impact of antisocial and toxic interactions on players ages 8-13. The goal: develop a shared agenda to guide future research and collaboration to make online gaming communities more youth-friendly and inclusive. The Raising Good Gamers report synthesizes outputs, learnings, and recommendations from the February 2020 workshop. After framing the nature of the challenge, the report then shares a model of the problem space, describes areas of opportunity, and concludes with an overview of current efforts underway within the initiative. About the Raising Good Gamers (RGG) Initiative The Raising Good Gamers initiative was created to catalyze positive change in the culture and climate of online gaming for youth. The program aims for a future full of positive, inclusive, fair online game communities. This work is taking place hand-in-hand with game developers, advocacy groups, philanthropists, educators, parents, youth, researchers, and others. "One unifying goal of RGG is to make sure that all youth—regardless of race, ethnicity, gender, sexual orientation, socio-economic status, or experience level—can be a gamer if they want to be." - Katie Salen Learn more about the Raising Good Gamers initiative and read the new report here: https://connectedlearning.news/RGGAIR Respectfully, *Jamieson Pond, Head of Communications* Connected Learning Lab University of California, Irvine CLAlliance.org <https://clalliance.org/> | ConnectedLearning.uci.edu <http://connectedlearning.uci.edu/> | ConnectedLearningSummit.org <https://connectedlearningsummit.org> Twitter: @TheCLAlliance <https://twitter.com/TheCLAlliance> | @TheCLSummit <https://twitter.com/TheCLSummit> LinkedIn <https://www.linkedin.com/company/connected-learning-alliance/> | Facebook <https://www.facebook.com/ConnectedLearningAlliance/> | YouTube <https://www.youtube.com/c/connectedlearningalliance> Connected Learning Newsletter <https://clalliance.org/newsletter> "Everyone you ever meet knows something you don't." - Bill Nye

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recommended WHOIS history tools?
by Greenhalgh, Spencer P. 24 Sep '20

24 Sep '20

Hello all, I've been trying to track the history of a particular domain name through archive.org<http://archive.org>, and it occurred to me that I might get better information accessing historical WHOIS records. A quick search reveals that there are several services for this kind of thing, so I thought I'd ask if any AoIRists would recommend one over another. Thanks! Best, Spencer ------ Spencer Greenhalgh, PhD Assistant Professor, School of Information Science College of Communication and Information University of Kentucky Zoom: https://uky.zoom.us/my/greenhalgh website: spencergreenhalgh.com<http://spencergreenhalgh.com>

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WEBCAST TODAY – Do we need a new generation of internet standards? “New IP” and global Internet governance
by Joly MacFie 23 Sep '20

23 Sep '20

ISOC produced a discussion paper <https://www.internetsociety.org/resources/doc/2020/discussion-paper-an-anal…> on this earlier in the year, which essentially said "Good luck with that!" ISOC Live posted: "Today Wednesday September 23 2020 at 11:00 EDT (15:00 UTC) the Internet Governance Project hosts a discussion 'Do we need a new generation of internet standards? “New IP” and global Internet governance'. For nearly two years, technologists at Huawei have " [image: livestream] <http://livestream.com/internetsociety/igpnewip>Today* Wednesday September 23 2020* at *11:00 EDT* (15:00 UTC) the *Internet Governance Project <https://www.internetgovernance.org/>* hosts a discussion '*Do we need a new generation of internet standards? “New IP” and global Internet governance*'. For nearly two years, technologists at Huawei have been urging the IETF and the ITU to embark on a research program that would explore a complete redesign of the Internetworking protocols of the 1980s. They contend that the current architecture and protocols may not be keeping up with the dramatic changes in information and communication technology. Others are pushing back against that initiative. Is it time for a more sweeping change in the standards defining data communication? Is such a change even possible, given the inertia surrounding the world’s convergence on IP? What are we gaining or losing by continuing to rely on the classic Internet protocols? *SPEAKERS* *Richard Li*, Chief Scientist, Vice-President of Network Technologies. Futurewei Technologies, Inc. USA *Andrew Sullivan*, CEO and President, Internet Society *MODERATOR* *Milton L. Mueller*, Internet Governance Project *LIVESTREAM http://livestream.com/internetsociety/igpnewip <http://livestream.com/internetsociety/igpnewip>* *PARTICIPATE VIA BLUEJEANS https://primetime.bluejeans.com/a2m/live-event/urzsujjt <https://primetime.bluejeans.com/a2m/live-event/urzsujjt>* *TWITTER #newip @IGPAlert <https://bit.ly/3hVdpW0> * *SIMULCASTS* *https://www.pscp.tv/ISOC_Live/ <https://www.pscp.tv/ISOC_Live/>* *https://www.twitch.tv/isoclive <https://www.twitch.tv/isoclive>* *ARCHIVE* *https://archive.org/details/igpnewip <https://archive.org/details/igpnewip>* *Permalink* https://isoc.live/12760/ - -- -------------------------------------- Joly MacFie +2185659365 -------------------------------------- -

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PR Teaching professor job ad
by Adriana de Souza e Silva 23 Sep '20

23 Sep '20

Teaching Professor in Public Relations Department of Communication, NC State University The Department of Communication seeks applicants for a full-time Lecturer or Teaching Assistant Professor position in public relations, beginning in Fall 2021. The successful candidate will teach public relations courses in our undergraduate public relations program and potentially provide other service such as advising a student organization. Courses could include Introduction to Public Relations, Public Relations Writing, Public Relations Case Studies, Public Relations Campaigns and/or Digital and Social Media in Public Relations. A master’s degree in Communication, Journalism, Media, or a related field is required for the Lecturer position. A PhD in Communication, Journalism, Media, or a related field is required for a Teaching Assistant Professor position. Desirable are teaching experience, professional public relations experience, and expertise in new technologies. While open to candidates representing the broad spectrum of public relations, the committee will give special consideration to candidates with demonstrated capabilities in the application of digital communication, social media, and/or data analytics in public relations. The Department of Communication serves approximately 700 undergraduate majors and 100 graduate students. Public Relations is one of three concentrations in the undergraduate program, which boasts an active PRSSA chapter. The department also offers a master’s degree in Communication and a doctorate in Communication, Rhetoric, and Digital Media. NC State is a research-extensive, land-grant institution with U.S. and international students and faculty. The university’s research park, Centennial Campus, is the site of 170 start-up company launches and hosts more than 130 companies and institutes engaged in university research partnerships. Located in North Carolina’s capital city, NC State anchors one corner of the Research Triangle Park, which houses more than 300 companies, agencies, and nonprofits. Raleigh’s highly educated workforce is frequently lauded, and the city is listed regularly among the best urban centers for careers. The university’s setting provides a plethora of opportunities for student internships and jobs for graduates. To apply, visit https://jobs.ncsu.edu/postings/136294 <https://jobs.ncsu.edu/postings/136294>. NC State University welcomes all persons without regard to sexual orientation. AA/EOE. Screening of the candidates will begin immediately and will continue until the position is filled. For more information, contact Dr. Jessica Jameson, Department Head and Search Committee Chair. -- _________________________ Adriana de Souza e Silva University Faculty Scholar Professor Department of Communication NC State University http://www.souzaesilva.com

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