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The 4th International Geomedia 2021 Conference: OFF THE GRID // 5-8 May, 2021 / Online - *SUBMISSION DEADLINE JAN 31ST*
by Sam Hind 28 Jan '21

28 Jan '21

*Apologies for X-posting* A reminder that the extended deadline for submissions is this Sunday, January 31st. <https://www.kau.se/en/geomedia> See below for the Call for Papers. We are planning for a fully-digital conference. Details tbc. //////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////// Geomedia 2021 – Off the Grid CALL FOR PAPERS: The 4th International Geomedia Conference Online (hosted from Siegen, Germany), 5-8 May 2021 The phrase “off the grid” is commonly understood to refer to the voluntary decoupling from established infrastructure networks such as electricity, water or gas supply. The implication is one of material independence and a self-sufficient lifestyle. Going “off the grid” means making yourself invisible by rebuking the social and technological structures that normally organize our lives. It is entering, or returning to, uncharted territory. The grid from which you disappear is often imagined like a web that we are woven into, at once providing security – of cultural connectivity, opportunities to work, or societal participation – while also limiting individual, political or technological agency. The grid also speaks to the geographic coordinate system, an all-encompassing global structure which makes it possible to accurately locate any point on earth. This unified grid represents a dominant ordering principle for everything “locatable”. It is part of the technological infrastructure of many platforms, services and applications which fall under the definition of geomedia, most prominently the Global Positioning System (GPS). In this regard, “off the grid” is a move away from such Cartesian notions of space towards a situated relational account of (quotidian) practices carried out with, through, or in relation to, geomedia. Going off the grid has also been seen as a form of renunciation of the conveniences of the late capitalist (media) world in order to lead a supposedly slower, less stressful and eventually less superficial life – as inspired by the transcendentalism of the likes of Henry David Thoreau and Ralph Waldo Emerson. But with so many people relying on the grid for purposes of work and entertainment in recent times, what does this mean for our relation to geomedia? What does going off the grid look like now? This presupposes, of course, that there is ipso facto a grid – an infrastructure – which one can connect to freely at any time. But a great number of people do not get to choose to decouple from the grid – a fact that speaks to questions of access to the socio-material infrastructures underpinning geomedia and associated communities and practices. Arguably, practices of surveillance and countersurveillance concern the implicit or even involuntary participation in corresponding infrastructures. Here, optimization for a range of tasks and activities routinely involves a certain kind of surveillance; a default setting in the running of all kinds of media platforms used for navigation, video streaming or online gaming. In this, surveillance is wrapped up with profit-seeking practices, and the extraction of value from the ‘data fumes’ of platform users, who enter a form of “cooperation without consensus” as they stream movies, hire taxis, host videoconferences, ride public transport, or go on dates. In these various iterations, surveillance might look different, and/or be practiced in distinct ways to traditional forms of state or corporate surveillance, increasingly dependent on technological protocols and standards that not only underpin the grid but also govern our use of geomedia. One consequence is that the relation between private and public spheres is transformed, and introduces new questions of governance, exploitation and marginalization. It is of crucial importance, who is online, and who is offline might as well not exist. Yet these optimization processes are also subject to countermeasures that constitute new modes of existence – from anonymous accounts and the use of VPNs, to location spoofing, and other tricks and techniques to hide, erase, or obfuscate user activity and location. Yet the grid is not all-encompassing, nor all-powerful. Whilst countersurveillance efforts resist, fight back and oppose, alternative geomedia projects imagine the grid differently – sometimes even plotting its demise. From community broadband initiatives, to independent media organizations, post-capitalist streaming platforms, and citizen science projects; there is a continued, concerted effort to build alternatives to state-based, or company-owned geomedia, operating at various scales from the hyper-local to the global. Through these efforts, organizers and participants question the foundations of our collective social and technological infrastructures, redefining what it is to care, share, distribute, cultivate or reallocate funds, resources, opportunities and ideas – bringing new geomedia, and new imaginaries of hope (or perhaps fear), into existence. Keynote Speakers: Caren Kaplan – University of California at Davis, USA Nanna Verhoeff – Utrecht University, Netherlands A.N. Other - tbc Suggested paper topics include, but are not limited to: * Politics, philosophy and ethics of going off grid * Grid as Network, Grid as Default (Geomedia and Infrastructure) * Physical Geography/Relational Geography * Inhabiting Digital Geographies (VR, hybrid spaces) * Geomedia in the Global South * Urban and Rural Geomedia * The ‘geo’ in Geomedia, the ‘media’ in Geomedia * Governing Geomedia (smart city, sensor media, infrastructures, surveillance & countersurveillance) * Geomedia Activism * Digital detox, rationing, quarantine and isolation * Geomedia Histories Geomedia 2021 welcomes proposals for individual papers, thematic panels, discussion fora, and mini-workshops in English. Individual paper proposals: The author submits an abstract of 200–250 words. Accepted papers are grouped by the organizers into sessions of 5 papers according to thematic area. Thematic panel proposals: The chair of the panel submits a proposal consisting of 4–5 individual paper abstracts (200-250 words) along with a general panel presentation of 200–250 words. Discussion forum: The chair of the discussion submits a general panel presentation of 300–450 words along with the names of the discussants and their respective fields of expertise. Please include your local time zone to aid our scheduling efforts. Mini-workshop: The chair of the workshop submits a workshop outline of 300–450 words. Please include the expectations and/or requirements the participants should fulfill in order to join the workshop. Please include your local time zone to aid our scheduling efforts. Conference timeline October 31st 2020: Submission system opens *EXTENDED DEADLINE* January 31st 2021: Deadline for all papers and proposals February 25th 2021: Notes of acceptance and registration opens March 15th 2021: Last day of registration Conference website Information about registration, conference programme, social events and other arrangements will be posted continuously on the conference website: www.geomediastudies.com<http://www.geomediastudies.com>. Contact: You can reach us at info(a)geomediastudies.com<mailto:info@geomedia.se>. //////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////// The 4th International Geomedia conference OFF THE GRID will take place in Siegen, Germany from 5-8 May, 2021. Hosted by Locating Media & Media of Cooperation at the University of Siegen: http://www.locatingmedia.uni-siegen.de/home-en/ & https://www.mediacoop.uni-siegen.de/en/<https://www.mediacoop.uni-siegen.de/de/> It follows successful, and popular, versions in Karlstad, Sweden hosted by the Geomedia team at Karlstad University: https://www.kau.se/en/geomedia - Research Associate SFB1187 Media of Cooperation @mediaofcoop<https://twitter.com/mediaofcoop> | University of Siegen hind(a)locatingmedia.uni-siegen.de<Mailto:hind@locatingmedia.uni-siegen.de> https://samhind.com/ <http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/fac/cross_fac/cim/people/student-researchers/sam-…> <http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/fac/cross_fac/cim/people/student-researchers/sam-…>

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CFP - eSociety track at 'Digital Transformation & Global Society' Conference
by Sergei Pashakhin 28 Jan '21

28 Jan '21

Call for Papers eSociety track Digital Transformation & Global Society (DTGS 2021) - https://dtgs-conference.org/ Conference Date: 23-25 June 2021, online Submission Deadline: March 1, 2021 Track Organizers: Social and Cognitive Informatics Lab (SCILa - https://scila.hse.ru/en/) formerly Laboratory for Internet Studies (LINIS) at HSE University. Dear friends and colleagues, We are organizing the eSociety track at DTGS 2021 and invite you to submit 12-15 pages long papers (Springer LNCS format) focused on but not limited to such topics as: Quantifying offline phenomena through online data Forecasting of social phenomena with digital traces Social influence and social contagion Online community structure & dynamics Individual social tie formation, maintenance & decay Information & disinformation diffusion, perception and effects (including electoral and COVID-related information) Online political deliberation, polarization, and mobilization Problem detection in communication in and with vulnerable groups (children, women, ethnic minorities, etc.), including hate speech, discrimination, and cyber-bullying Predicting and explaining game user behavior and its social implications Designing digital environments to improve societies Security, privacy, trust, reputation, and incentive issues Opinion mining and social media analytics News production & consumption in the Internet era Social media and health behaviors Equity in social and information systems Accepted papers can be published in the Communications in Computer and Information Science series of Springer proceedings. Learn more on the conference website: https://dtgs-conference.org/. Best regards, Olessia Koltsova DTGS'21 Steering Committee Director, Laboratory for Social & Cognitive Informatics National Research University Higher School of Economics https://scila.hse.ru/en/ http://www.hse.ru/en/org/persons/202747 <http://www.hse.ru/en/org/persons/202747> Sergei Pashakhin DTGS'21 Organization Committee https://www.hse.ru/en/staff/pashakhin

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digital technologies, transition and disability - Disability & Society journal.
by Edgar Pacheco 28 Jan '21

28 Jan '21

Dear colleagues, The latest issue of the academic journal Disability & Society includes our article about the role of digital technologies in the transition to higher education of students with disabilities. You can get a copy in this link: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/09687599.2020.1735305 Regards, Edgar P. Abstract Research on transition to higher education and young people with disabilities has increased in recent years. However, there is still limited understanding of transition issues and how digital technologies, such as social media and mobile devices, are used by this group of students to manage these issues. This article presents the findings of an empirical study that addressed this matter based on young people’s views and experiences. The qualitative study was conducted in the context of a group of students with vision impairments transitioning to a New Zealand university. The findings draw from observations, a researcher diary, focus groups, individual interviews, and data from social media. The study shows that, like their non-disabled peers, the students actively engaged with interactive and collaborative digital technologies to make sense, individually and collectively, of different transition issues before, during and after the first academic trimester of their university journey. *Dr Edgar Pacheco* -------------------------------------------------- *@edgarpachecob1* <https://twitter.com/edgarpachecob1?lang=en> -------------------------------------------------- <http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/1369118X.2017.1406972> --------------------------------------------------

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Call for Reviews: Popular Culture Studies Journal
by Christopher John Olson 27 Jan '21

27 Jan '21

The Popular Culture Studies Journal is seeking authors to review works on any aspect of American or international popular culture. Specifically, we are interested in reviews of recent (i.e. published within the last two years) scholarly monographs or anthologies and general interest books examining all areas of popular culture from a variety of perspectives. We will also consider older seminal pieces that deserve a second look. For a list of books to review, please visit Booklist for Reviews. In addition, we are soliciting reviews of films, videos, websites, games, theater, or any other popular works that have been published, released, performed, or posted in the last two years. Once again, we will also consider older seminal works that deserve a second look. We only ask that reviews of popular media texts highlight how such works might be used in pedagogical or scholarly situations. If you wish to review a popular media text, you must submit a brief rationale for the relevance of the review. A short paragraph outlining why you think the text is worthy of review in the journal will suffice. Reviews should adhere to the ethos of the Popular Culture Studies Journal and be largely positive with any criticism of the work being constructive in nature. For more information about this journal, please visit the Popular Culture Studies Journal<https://mpcaaca.org/the-popular-culture-studies-journal/>. Written reviews should be roughly 800-1,000 words and should be typed, double-spaced with 12-point Times New Roman font. Research and documentation must adhere to The MLA Handbook for Writers of Research Papers and The MLA Style Manual, 8th edition, which requires a Works Cited list with parenthetical author/page references in the text. Punctuation, capitalization, hyphenation, and other matters of style must also follow The MLA Handbook and The MLA Style Manual. If you are interested in submitting any alternative form of review, please contact the reviews editor directly with your proposed format. Guidelines will be determined depending on the proposed format. Reviews should be sent electronically to Christopher J. Olson at olson429(a)uwm.edu with "PCSJ Review" and the author’s last name in the subject line. Reviews should include both the review and the reviewer’s complete contact information (name, university affiliation, address, and email). Reviews should be sent as Microsoft Word attachments in .doc or .docx format unless an alternative format has been approved by the editor. To be considered for the April issue, reviews must be submitted by February 28th. To be considered for the October issue, reviews must be submitted by August 31st. If you are interested in reviewing for the Popular Culture Studies Journal or if you are an author or publisher with a work you would like to have reviewed, then please contact the reviews editor at the following address or email: Christopher J. Olson, Reviews Editor Email: olson429(a)uwm.edu Christopher John Olson PhD candidate: Media, Cinema, and Digital Studies University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee Office: Curtin 392 Email: olson429(a)uwm.edu Reviews Editor, The Popular Culture Studies Journal<http://mpcaaca.org/the-popular-culture-studies-journal/> Author/Co-Author/Co-Editor Normalizing Mental Illness and Neurodiversity in Entertainment Media<https://www.routledge.com/Normalizing-Mental-Illness-and-Neurodiversity-in-…> (Routledge, 2021) 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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WEBCAST TUE/WED – State of the Net 2021 ‘Internet Policy in Transition’
by Joly MacFie 27 Jan '21

27 Jan '21

Apologies for the lack of a notice yesterday for Day 1. Hands full! The stream was indeed hit by the FiOS outage (I'm in Brooklyn on FiOS) but, while livestream did drop for an hour or more, Periscope, and Twitch, and to a lesser degree Facebook, recovered within minutes, and Zoom never faltered. I have restreamed the morning segments. That's why we simulcast! Note that, rather than open captions, I am posting otter links to a separate page <https://isoc.live/sotn2021-realtimetext/>, which does need to be refreshed at the start of each session.. Great line up today. ISOC Live posted: "On Tuesday - Wednesday January 27 -28 2021 from 11am-6pm EST (16:00-23:00 UTC) the Internet Education Foundation presents the 2021 State of the Net (SOTN) conference online. SOTN is America's premier Internet policy conference and this year has the theme " [image: livestream]On *Tuesday - Wednesday January 27 -28 2021* from *11am-6pm EST* (16:00-23:00 UTC) the *Internet Education Foundation <https://www.neted.org/>* presents the *2021 State of the Net* (SOTN) conference online. SOTN is America's premier Internet policy conference and this year has the theme '*Internet Policy in Transition*'. Speakers include *Senator Amy Klobuchar* (D-MN), *Rep. Anna G. Eshoo* (D-CA), and FCC Commissioner *Geoffrey Starks*. *LIVESTREAM https://livestream.com/internetsociety/sotn2021 <https://livestream.com/internetsociety/sotn2021>* *AGENDA https://sotn21.sched.com/ <https://sotn21.sched.com/>* *PARTICIPATE VIA ZOOM https://bit.ly/3sUF68j <https://bit.ly/3sUF68j>* *REAL TIME TEXT <https://isoc.live/13592/> * *https://isoc.live/sotn2021-realtimetext/* <https://isoc.live/sotn2021-realtimetext/> *TWITTER #SOTN2021 <http://bit.ly/SOTN2021> @netedfound @isocdc* *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/InternetEducationFoundation <https://www.facebook.com/InternetEducationFoundation>* *ARCHIVES* *https://archive.org/details/sotn2021 <https://archive.org/details/sotn2021>* *https://www.youtube.com/sotndc <https://www.youtube.com/sotndc>* *Permalink* https://isoc.live/13599/ - -- -------------------------------------- Joly MacFie +12185659365 -------------------------------------- -

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Qualitative Researchers: Can we Chat?
by Jennifer Stromer-Galley 27 Jan '21

27 Jan '21

Hi everyone, My colleagues and I are interested in how researchers do the work of qualitatively analyzing unstructured information, like from field notes, interview transcripts, and documents (from digital to analog). We are especially interested in how doctoral students in the dissertation phase navigate the challenges of working with and analyzing this sort of data. The research is part of the NSF I-Corp program (https://www.nsf.gov/news/special_reports/i-corps/) that is supporting our work to discover whether some of the research we have done in the past could potentially be commercialized. If you would be willing to chat for 15 minutes about how you work, the tools you use, and what challenges you face, send a note to my colleague Brian McKernan via email at bmckerna(a)syr.edu<mailto:bmckerna@syr.edu>. Thank! ~Jenny Stromer-Galley School of Information Studies Syracuse University

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CFP Migrant Belongings: Digital Practices and the Everyday, 21-22-23 April 2021, free virtual conference
by Leurs, K.H.A. (Koen) 27 Jan '21

27 Jan '21

Dear colleagues, With apologies for x-posting --- this is a reminder --- kindly consider submitting to our upcoming conference: Migrant Belongings: Digital Practices and the Everyday which will take place on 21-22-23 April 2021. The submission deadline for panels is 31 January 2021. Abstracts can be submitted until 15 February 2021. For submission guidelines see below. http://connectingeuropeproject.eu/home/conference/?fbclid=IwAR0eLZ819IJN7VS… Detailed information: Call for papers Migrant belonging through digital connectivity refers to a way of being in the world that cuts across national borders, shaping new forms of diasporic affiliations and transnational intimacy. This happens in ways that are different from the ways enabled by the communication technologies of the past. Scholarly attention has intensified around the question of how various new technical affordances of platforms and apps are shaping the transnationally connected, and locally situated, social worlds in which migrants live their everyday lives. This international conference focuses on the connection between the media and migration from different disciplinary vantage points. Connecting with friends, peers and family, sharing memories and personally identifying information, navigating spaces and reshaping the local and the global in the process is but one side of the coin of migrant-related technology use: this Janus-faced development also subjects individuals as well as groups to increased datafied migration management, algorithmic control and biometric classification as well as forms of transnational authoritarianism and networked repression. This conference pays particular attention to the everyday use of digital media for the support of transnational lives, emotional bonds and cosmopolitan affiliations, focusing also on the role digital media play in shaping local/urban and national diasporic formations. This is because it becomes increasingly important to give everyday digital media usage a central role in investigations of transnational belonging, digital intimacy, diasporic community (re)production, migrant subject formation, long-distance political participation, urban social integration and local/national self-organization. Therefore we need to examine individual and collective user practices within the wider historical and cultural contexts of media studies, cultural studies and postcolonial cultural studies scholarship, attuned to issues of politics and power, identity, geographies and the everyday. This also creates new challenges for cross-disciplinary dialogues that require an integration of ethnography with digital methods and critical data studies in order to look at the formation of identity and experience, representation, community building, and creating spaces of belongingness. Contributions are welcome from any field of study that engages with questions about how technology and social media usages mediate contemporary migration experiences, not only within media and communication studies, or digital and internet studies but also in neighbouring disciplines such as anthropology, postcolonial studies, gender studies, race studies, psychology, law, visual studies, conflict studies, criminology, sociology, critical theory, political theory and international relations. Contributions that explore non-media-centric entry points by focusing on users’ digital practices and foregrounding ethnographic exploration as a uniting framework are especially welcome. The conference is part of the ERC project CONNECTINGEUROPE, Digital Crossings in Europe: Gender, Diaspora and Belonging. The conference is organized in collaboration with the DMM section (Diaspora, Migration and the Media) of ECREA (European Communication Research and Education). Confirmed keynote speakers: *Paul Gilroy *Engin Isin *Nicholas de Genova *Larissa Hjorth *Saskia Witteborn Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: *Affective digital practices and the politics of emotion *Digital diaspora *Cosmopolitanism *Cities and urban belonging *Translocality and transnationalism *Co-presence and togetherness *Cultural capital *Migrant visualization *Appification of migration *Platformization of migrant lives *Gender and critical race *The migration industry of connectivity *Digital ethnography *Transnational authoritarianism *Networked conflicts *Datafication and surveillance SUBMISSION GUIDELINES: Submissions for panels should be submitted via e-mail to migrantbelongings(a)uu.nl<mailto:migrantbelongings@uu.nl> by 31 January 2021. Submission for panels should include a chairperson, a rationale for the panel (250 words), and the names of three/four speakers including their abstract (250 words) and biographical note (150 words). Abstracts should be submitted electronically, using the online submission system by 15 February 2021. Link: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSeR3DQF2QUikj6LYJo21FFw6tZBDvjyVKZ… Submissions for papers should include an abstract (max 300 words) and short biographical note (150 words) about the author including her/his current position and interest in the field of digital media and migration. For further questions please mail: migrantbelongings(a)uu.nl<mailto:migrantbelongings@uu.nl>. The PDF of this call for papers is available here: https://ecrea.eu/resources/Documents/Yellow-Simple-Official-Letterhead-2.pdf _______________________________________________ Atgender mailing list Atgender(a)list.hum.uu.nl<mailto:Atgender@list.hum.uu.nl> https://list.hum.uu.nl/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/atgender

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CfP: rethinking participatory culture in light of lessons learned from the pandemic
by Katrin Tiidenberg 27 Jan '21

27 Jan '21

Dear AoIR community, Baltic Screen Media Review, a journal edited and published by my home institution (Tallinn University, Baltic Film, Media and Arts School) is doing a special issue on participatory practices and culture in the context of pandemic, which I am co-editing. I am sharing a CfP in hopes there will be scholars here interested in submitting an abstract. best Kat Tiidenberg Call For Papers: Baltic Screen Media Review - Participation in transition: Rethinking participatory culture The COVID-19 pandemic has significantly changed physical interaction among people, but it also continues to shape our relations with media and technology. Mediated and distant interaction and communication became the norm. This led to struggles for some individuals, groups, institutions, practices and services, while others blossomed and thrived. Is participatory culture, as we know it, changing as a result of the challenges of 2020? Building on the 2020 volume of Baltic Screen Media Review, which explored the changes that the COVID-19 pandemic brought to media industries, we now call for papers on participation in the context of the pandemic and related crises. While the pandemic has posed an incredible challenge in terms of media production, it has concurrently pushed innovation, resulting in a reinvigorated relationship between media and the audiences. Media was the window to the world for locked-down people, and via media and communication technologies people were informed, entertained and able to interact with one another. Yet, the incredible volume of data created from people’s media participation has enhanced rather than diminished the disproportionate power of already powerful platforms and corporations held over access, participation, public speech and cultural discourse. This has been a fertile ground for new participatory practices to emerge. We as scholars of participatory culture thus need to renew our focus on not only the empirical expressions of participation, but also on how we make sense of participation and how we conceptualize the effects of macro scale changes on it. Therefore, we call for submissions that explore the concept of participation, its present state and its future from both political and sociological perspectives. In this volume of BSMR, we will accept long (4000 – 8000 words w/o ref) and short (2000 – 2500 words w/o ref) articles and commentaries. These articles should reflect on and explore a range of issues concerning participatory culture. We invite articles focusing on the Baltic Sea region (Sweden, Denmark, Norway, Russia, Poland, Germany, Finland, etc.), but analyses of similar issues elsewhere, especially in countries of similar size and circumstances, are also welcome. Contributions addressing topics such as (but not limited to) the following are particularly welcome: Participatory culture in transition The future of participation Interactive and participatory practices Emergence of new forms of audience engagement Crisis-specific participation and crisis participatory culture Digitalisation and the power of platforms Local vs global, local practices, local alternatives to platforms, local information bubbles The digital public sphere Collective identity and digital engagement Key dates: 15.03.2021 - Submit abstracts of 200–300 words. 01.04.2021 – Communication of acceptance of abstracts 14.06.2021 – Submit full manuscripts that will be sent for blind peer review. This issue of BSMR will appear as Volume 9:2, published both online and in print in late 2021. BSMR embraces visual storytelling, we thus invite authors to use photos and other illustrations as part of their contributions. All submissions should be sent via email attachment to Katrin Tiidenberg (katrin.tiidenberg(a)tlu.ee <mailto:ibrus@tlu.ee>) and Alessandro Nanì (nani(a)tlu.ee <mailto:nani@tlu.ee>). Note: BSMR does not charge any author fees Further info about the journal can be found at https://content.sciendo.com/view/journals/bsmr/bsmr-overview.xml?language=e… <https://content.sciendo.com/view/journals/bsmr/bsmr-overview.xml?language=e…> Katrin Tiidenberg Osaluskultuuri professor / Professor of Participatory Culture BFM, Tallinn University <https://www.tlu.ee/en/bfm> Recently published: Tiidenberg, K., Gammelby, A.K., Olsen, L.M. (2020). Agential hysterias: A practice approach to embodiment on social media. In: Warfield, Katie; Abidin, Cystal; Cambre, Carolina (Ed.). Mediated Interfaces: The Body on Social Media (229−247). Bloomsbury Academic. Books: Kuidas mõista andmestunud maailma?Metodoloogiline teejuht (2021) <https://www.tlu.ee/pood/home/325-kuidas-moista-andmestunud-maailma-metodolo…> Metaphors of the Internet <https://www.peterlang.com/view/title/72208> (2020) Sex and Social Media <https://books.emeraldinsight.com/page/detail/Sex-and-Social-Media/?k=978183…> (2020) Selfies, why we love (and hate) them <https://www.amazon.com/Selfies-Love-Hate-Them-SocietyNow/dp/1787437175> (2018) Ihu ja hingega internetis <https://www.tlu.ee/pood/home/242-ihu-ja-hingega-internetis-kuidas-moista-so…> (2017) Executive Boards: Association of Internet Researchers (AoIR) <https://aoir.org/>, Secretary Estonian Young Academy of Sciences / Eesti Noorte Teaduste Akadeemia <https://www.akadeemia.ee/enta/>, Communication Manager More info: personal website <https://kkatot.tumblr.com/> Estonian Research Information system profile <https://www.etis.ee/CV/Katrin_Tiidenberg/est?lang=ENG>

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Fast Capitalism CFP
by Arditi, David M 27 Jan '21

27 Jan '21

Colleagues, With all of the craziness from insurrections to COVID, Fast Capitalism's mission<https://fastcapitalism.journal.library.uta.edu/index.php/fastcapitalism/abo…> to publish critical work on how digital networks impact current moment is as important as ever. Whether you're working on a paper discussing rising authoritarianism on platforms like Parler, media disinformation, virtual schooling, or something else, feel free to send your work. Attached is our general open call. Please circulate to your networks and let me know if you have any ideas. Best, David Dr. David Arditi Associate Professor of Sociology Director of the Center for Theory University of Texas at Arlington Author of Getting Signed: Record Contracts, Musicians and Power in Society<https://www.palgrave.com/us/book/9783030445867>

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Internet fatigue, digital gardening, DIY digital expression
by Emma Stamm 26 Jan '21

26 Jan '21

Hi all, I am working on a report about the related phenomena of internet burnout and "digital gardening <https://www.technologyreview.com/2020/09/03/1007716/digital-gardens-let-you…>." This report discusses web users' desire for greater control over the display of social media content -- e.g. the design affordances of Tumblr as opposed to Facebook -- as it connects to digital fatigue / boredom with mainstream platforms. I'm hoping to interview one or two researchers working on these topics. Note that this is not for an academic publication, but your name and bio will be included along with links to relevant publications. Please let me know if you're interested. Thank you in advance. Best, Emma -- *Emma Stamm, Ph.D.* *Instructor, Dept. of History, Virginia Tech* *Instructor, Dept. of Media, Culture, and Communication, NYU* *www.o-culus.com <http://www.o-culus.com/> *

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