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My new book "The Medieval Internet" is published today!
by Jakob Linaa Jensen 11 Sep '20

11 Sep '20

Dear AoIR community I am pleased to tell that my book “The Medieval Internet is now out at Emerald Publishing. It has been a long ride since I started discussing my ideas of virtual pillories and digital feudalism, also with some of you AoIRers. In the book I discuss how the platform economy can be seen as a new feudalism, how Internet communities resemble medieval villages with solidarity as well as shaming and how digital witch hunts is a new plague for democracy. More on the book and how to order here: https://www.emerald.com/insight/publication/doi/10.1108/9781839094125?disti… I discuss the book in this blog as part of Future of Democracy week. Read here and get access to a free chapter! https://www.emeraldgrouppublishing.com/topics/equality-and-people/blog/demo… There is also a video: https://youtu.be/2yt-7xCbwms Finally, the book will be officially launched in the AoIR community at our virtual conference later this year, Oct 27th at 14 UTC. Stay tuned. All the best Jakob Jakob Linaa Jensen, Ph.D. Head of Center for Media and Innovation Research Director of Social Media Danish School of Media and Journalism Phone: +45 20 86 77 77 Mail: mailto:jlj@dmjx.dk

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Invitation: Researching Internet Governance (MIT Press) Book ... @ Tue Sep 22, 2020 11am - 12pm (CDT) (air-l@listserv.aoir.org)
by jwroycechoi＠gmail.com 11 Sep '20

11 Sep '20

You have been invited to the following event. Title: [Air-L] Researching Internet Governance (MIT Press) Book Launch Invitation! When: Tue Sep 22, 2020 11am – 12pm Central Time - Chicago Calendar: air-l(a)listserv.aoir.org Who: * jwroycechoi(a)gmail.com - organizer * Francesca Musiani * air-l Event details: https://www.google.com/calendar/event?action=VIEW&eid=Xzc1aTNpYzlwNjhwbTRlM… Invitation from Google Calendar: https://www.google.com/calendar/ You are receiving this courtesy email at the account air-l(a)listserv.aoir.org because you are an attendee of this event. To stop receiving future updates for this event, decline this event. Alternatively you can sign up for a Google account at https://www.google.com/calendar/ and control your notification settings for your entire calendar. Forwarding this invitation could allow any recipient to send a response to the organizer and be added to the guest list, or invite others regardless of their own invitation status, or to modify your RSVP. Learn more at https://support.google.com/calendar/answer/37135#forwarding

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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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WEBCAST FRI/SAT – 4th Bangladesh School of Internet Governance
by Joly MacFie 11 Sep '20

11 Sep '20

Time to put our learning caps on! ISOC Live posted: "On Friday-Saturday 11 - 12 September 2020 the 4th Bangladesh School of Internet Governance (bdSIG) will be held online. The 4th bdSIG is organized by the Bangladesh Internet Governance Forum (BIGF) and will provide training programs to 85 participants who" [image: livestream] <http://livestream.com/internetsociety/bdSIG>On *Friday-Saturday 11 - 12 September 2020* the *4th Bangladesh School of Internet Governance <https://sites.google.com/site/bdsigbangladesh/bdsig2020>* (bdSIG) will be held online. The 4th bdSIG is organized by the *Bangladesh Internet Governance Forum <https://bangladeshigf.org/>* (BIGF) and will provide training programs to 85 participants who attended the bdSIG survey and expressed their interests on the skills of Internet Governance, Localization and ICT, Cyber Security, Data Protection and Privacy, Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Internet of Things (IOT), Blockchain, Digital Economy, Effective Use of Digital Platforms during Pandemic and Internet Fellowships & Grants. *LIVESTREAM http://livestream.com/internetsociety/bdSIG <http://livestream.com/internetsociety/bdSIG>* *AGENDA https://bit.ly/bdSIG2020 <https://bit.ly/bdSIG2020> (UTC+6)* *PARTICIPATE VIA ZOOM https://bit.ly/3k7G1gl <https://bit.ly/3k7G1gl>* *TWITTER #bdSIG https://bit.ly/bdSIG <https://bit.ly/bdSIG>* *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/isocasiapacific/live <https://www.facebook.com/isocasiapacific/live> * *ARCHIVEhttps://archive.org/details/bdSIG2020 <https://archive.org/details/bdSIG2020>* *Permalink* https://isoc.live/12667/ -------------------------------------- - -- -------------------------------------- Joly MacFie +2185659365 -------------------------------------- -

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Looking for an RA
by Jean Slick 10 Sep '20

10 Sep '20

I have some funding to hire an a research assistant to help with a project examining the phenomenon of Caremongering in Canada during COVID-19. Most of the Caremongering groups have used Facebook to organize. I already have the list of names and links to all the groups. The first stage in the project will gather descriptive data about each of the 170+ groups from each of the Facebook sites, including description of group, site rules, and available information about the site administrators/organizers. A survey will then be sent to the administrators of these sites; colleagues will also be sending the same survey out to 1,000+ mutual aid groups on the Town Hall mutual aid site in the US. More detailed analysis of activity of a select number of the Canadian Caremongering groups will then follow, with the analysis drawing from activity theory as well as other relevant conceptual frameworks in the disaster management field to assess the nature of the posts on these sites. Findings will be compared to what we know about place-based and virtual-convergence after other types of disaster events. If you know of someone who might be interested, please have them message me. At this time, I am looking for someone to help with the initial collection of descriptive data. Other stages will follow. Many thanks, Jean Slick, Ph.D. Associate Professor and Program Head Disaster and Emergency Management Program Royal Roads University T 250.391.2600 ext. 4189| F 250.391.2619 2005 Sooke Road, Victoria, BC Canada V9B 5Y2 | royalroads.ca<http://royalroads.ca/> Traditional lands of the Xwsepsum<http://www.esquimaltnation.ca/nationoverview.html> (Esquimalt) and Lkwungen<http://www.songheesnation.ca/> (Songhees) ancestors and families. LIFE.CHANGING Students are encouraged to visit Royal Roads’ COVID-19 Info Page<https://www.royalroads.ca/news-events/covid-19> for up-to-date information. Royal Roads is located on the traditional lands of the Xwsepsum and Lekwungen ancestors and families. CONFIDENTIALITY NOTICE: This e-mail and attachments may contain personal or confidential information for the sole use of the intended recipient. If you are not the intended recipient and you have received this transmission in error, please notify the sender immediately and delete the message and attachments.

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Researching Internet Governance (MIT Press) Book Launch Invitation!
by Francesca Musiani 10 Sep '20

10 Sep '20

Dear colleagues, Please join me and American University's Internet Governance Lab's Faculty Directors Derrick Cogburn, Laura DeNardis, and Nanette Levinson on *Tuesday, September 22nd at 12pm Eastern Standard Time *for the launch of our co-edited book, *Researching Internet Governance: Methods, Frameworks, Futures. * With an introduction by Series editor, Sandra Braman, the book includes chapters by the book co-editors and: Sandra Braman; Milton Mueller & Farzaneh Badiei; Rolf H. Weber; Wendy Hall, Aastha Madaan, & Kieron O’Hara; Eric Jardine; Rikke Frank Jorgensen; Niels ten Oever, Stefania Milan & Davide Beraldo; Ronald J. Deibert; Jeanette Hofmann. The book will be available in open access from MIT Press. Anriette Esterhuysen, Chair, United Nations Internet Governance Forum's Multistakeholder Advisory Group and Senior Advisor Global and Regional Internet Governance, Association for Progressive Communications will serve as moderator at the Launch. Special guest speakers: Sandra Braman, Ronald J. Deibert, Jeanette Hofmann, Eric Jardine, Rikke Frank Jørgensen, Milton L Mueller, Niels ten Oever, Kieron O’Hara, Rolf Weber. Here is the Eventbrite link: https://researching-internet-governance.eventbrite.com We know this is a busy time for all and that we also work in many time zones but hope that you may be able to join us and co-sponsor ISOC for lively discussions, Francesca (on behalf of our entire #ResearchingInternetGov book team) -- Francesca Musiani, Ph.D. Chargée de recherche | Associate Research Professor, CNRS <http://www.cnrs.fr> Directrice adjointe | Deputy Director, Centre for Internet and Society <https://cis.cnrs.fr> (UPR 2000 & GDR 2091 CNRS) Chercheuse associée | Associate Researcher, i3-CSI <http://www.csi.ensmp.fr/>, MINES ParisTech Global Fellow, Internet Governance Lab <https://internetgovernancelab.org>, American University I'm involved in: CPT-IAMCR <https://iamcr.org/s-wg/section/cpt> | Internet Policy Review <https://policyreview.info> | RESET <https://journals.openedition.org/reset/> | ISOC France <https://www.isoc.fr> | ResisTIC <https://www.resistic.org> On the Web <https://cis.cnrs.fr/francesca-musiani/> | On Twitter <https://twitter.com/franmusiani>

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PhD Position, Digital Campaigning Worldwide , NTNU
by Lisa Reutter 10 Sep '20

10 Sep '20

Dear everybody! https://www.jobbnorge.no/en/available-jobs/job/190123/phd-candidate Check out this interesting PhD position at the department of sociology and political science , NTNU! We are looking for candidates interested in digital campaigning, social media and comparative research approaches. About the position The research field for the position is political communication, and the position is connected to the research group "Elections, Values and Political Communication (EVPOC)". The project is rooted in the international research network "Digital Campaigning Worldwide (DigiWorld)". This cross-nationally comparative project compares the digital campaigning strategies of political parties in national election campaigns around the world. The project is particularly interested in how parties use social media for informing, interacting with, and mobilizing the voters in election campaigns, in user engagement, and in factors influencing parties' and users' activities. The project has an explicit international comparative dimension. The PhD candidate will conduct research that contributes to the further development of this network, focusing on the Norwegian parliamentary election 2021. The Department of Sociology and Political Science (ISS) is committed to carrying out teaching, research, and dissemination of knowledge in sociology, political science, sport science, and media studies. The Department has approximately 95 employees and is involved in 11 study programs. ISS is characterised by a strong focus on the social sciences with the emphasis on sociology and political science, contributing to multidisciplinary study programs and research at NTNU. Sociology and political science also impact the Department`s sport science and media studies profile. Further information is available on https://www.ntnu.edu/iss. Best wishes --- Lisa Reutter Department of sociology and political science NTNU, Trondheim, Norway https://www.ntnu.no/ansatte/lisa.m.reutter

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(Deadline Extended) Call for Papers: The Philosophy and Law of Information Regulation in India
by Divij Joshi 10 Sep '20

10 Sep '20

Hello, The Centre for Law and Policy Research, India, is calling for papers for a volume on 'The Philosophy and Law of Information Regulation in India'. This project is an effort to collate multi-disciplinary scholarship on the subject of the law and philosophy of information regulation, with a specific focus on India. We invite multi-disciplinary submissions from fields of law, history of science, science and technology studies, informatics and information sciences, political and economic philosophy, design studies, and other related fields to reflect on the relationship between law, technology and information, with specific reference to the institutions of public law in India. Submissions taking a comparative approach between jurisdictions addressing similar concerns are particularly appreciated. The deadline for submission of paper abstracts has been extended to *11:59 PM IST*, *September 15, 2020. *Final submissions will be workshopped in* December, 2020, *and the volume will be published by *March, 2021.* The detailed Call for Papers is available here - https://clpr.org.in/blog/the-philosophy-and-law-of-information-regulation-i… Please do spread the word. Best Regards, Divij Joshi

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Summary of Responses to Two Questions about Directory of Organizational Social Media and YouTube Accounts
by Ronald Rice 09 Sep '20

09 Sep '20

Hi folks... As usual (but not taken for granted), AoIR folks have provided a variety of insightful and useful comments and resources about my two prior requests. One was about if there was a Twitter directory where you could enter a list of official organization names and get their main twitter account listing, and the second was the same about YouTube. Also as usual, what appeared to be a simple question can involve a lot of issues. - Twitter Username Extractor: https://zackproser.com/software/username-extractor/ This splashpage explains how this uses quite detailed (and dark humorish) procedures. You log in with a Twitter account. We tried it, but it seems like it’s no longer working. - Maurice RM Vergeer: “yes it can be done, using R and the package rtweet. As for the YouTube question in the other, a similar approach could be done with R and the package Tuber. It probably needs a "do for" loop. Not sure rtweet (beware, technical lingo ahead) is vectorized for this problem. A loop will take some time though, given the large number of organizations. Furthermore, because one query will return multiple results, some semi-manual evaluation needs to take place to asses which account is the actual account. But, anyone with some experience with R could do it” - Nicole Lemire Garlic: As Maurice mentioned, the R tuber package can easily pull the lists of videos from YouTube. There are vectorized and loop-based methods for this. Feel free to email me if you’d like some sample R scripts. - Stu Shulman: “I would add that Maurice points to the non-trivial task of disambiguation when an organization name overlaps terms in common usage. For example, United Airlines is an organization, but it is most commonly referred to as United. Manchester United is a very popular football organization, most often referred to as United. The list of other widespread uses of this common organization name sums up the disambiguation problem. It can be done with training and machine-learning, but not for 2000 terms unless you have an army of workers and lots of money. That suggests a second point, essentially that the practical steps required to gather data for 2000 organizations over time and remain compliant with rate and query limits would be daunting. You might consider trying the task with 5 organizations to assess the challenge of performing the task at scale. Finally, from the view of qualitative research, depending on your end goals, you may not need such a huge number of organizations to reach saturation during analysis. That is, say you looked at 50 organizations and then noticed on 51-60 that you were not learning much you had not already learned. That is saturation. “ - Ed Summers: Based on our several email discussions, he developed a simple program (called luckysocial) that can take a list of official organization names, and either find their website through Google and then go to the website, or, if you have their website enter that directly, to identify their Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, YouTube, and RSS accounts. We ran that using 2000+ nonprofit organization names and it worked great! https://github.com/edsu/luckysocial#readme - Muira McCammon: Muira has done a lot of work identifying and tracking US Federal and state government Twitter accounts. She also writes: If you do want to get technical and/or exhaustive about this, it may be worth using Wayback to double check that the social media accounts currently associated with an org weren't preceded/predated by others. Many orgs these days will have one primary Twitter account but then will launch smaller accounts related to specific initiatives/campaigns/etc. A lot of orgs these days aren't updating their homepages webpages to reflect the full extent of their social media presence. - Peter Timusk: Web sites tend to be heterogeneous and canned CMS sites with very little CSS or HTML5 exposed to gather. - Jakob Jünger: Interestingly, though identifying accounts is a common task, no common protocols or methods have evolved so far. Cross-checking web links, directories, social media search and so on is definitely necessary to get high quality lists. Each of the source brings its own bias. Both of your questions can be solved using Facepager, see the getting started tutorials on the wiki: https://github.com/strohne/Facepager. I (Ron) checked this out and it’s quite a capable program, with lots of good documentation, more of a general interface for using APIs to collect data from various social media and YouTube. Learning this could be a good investment of time and effort. Thanks to all! -- Ronald E. Rice Arthur N. Rupe Professor in the Social Effects of Mass Communication Department of Communication 4127 SS&MS Bldg Santa Barbara, CA 93106-4020 805-893-8696; rrice(a)comm.ucsb.edu https://www.comm.ucsb.edu/people/ronald-e-rice [image: UC Santa Barbara]

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[WEBINAR] Introduction to Social Network Analysis: 14 / 15 September 2020
by Alessandro Zonin 09 Sep '20

09 Sep '20

Interested in understanding methodology and applications of *Social Network Analysis with particular attention to the world of Social Media*? Consider to attend this *two hours webinar* planned on two different dates and times to meet different time shifts. *Learning objectives* * Origins, applications, and basic knowledge of Social Network Analysis * Mono-partite and n-partite graph * BOTs on Twitter, how identify them with Social Network Analysis metrics * Overview of some entry-level tool (SocioViz, Gephi) * Analyze Twitter conversations to identify the most active and influential users * Analyze a Facebook page and find posts that generated more engagement and identify communities of interest *Details and enrollments here:* *Monday, September 14, 2020 at 4:00 PM CEST* https://introsnaseptember16-20.eventbrite.com *Tuesday, September 15, 2020 at 10:00 AM CEST* https://introsnaseptember10-1200.eventbrite.com Participants will receive a link with instructions to attend the webinar. Slide, laboratory material and the event registration will be available to all participants.

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