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WEBCAST TODAY: 2021 Silicon Harlem Next Gen Tech Virtual Summit – Beyond Connected
by Joly MacFie 22 Oct '21

22 Oct '21

This is the 8th Silicon Harlen Next Gen and we've streamed every one of them <https://isoc.live/?s=+Silicon+Harlem+Next+Gen>! This year's theme is as forward looking as ever, and kudos to SH for their current big push to build a community network in uptown NYC. ISOC Live posted: "On Friday October 22 2021 Silicon Harlem will hold the 8th Annual Next Gen Tech Conference online. This year's 'Virtual Summit' theme is “Beyond Connected - everyone and Every Thing Connected”. The summit will explore and envision the future of education" [image: livestream] <https://livestream.com/internetsociety/sh2021>On *Friday October 22 2021* Silicon Harlem <https://www.siliconharlem.com/> will hold the *8th Annual Next Gen Tech Conference <https://bit.ly/3C6bwkl>* online. This year's 'Virtual Summit' theme is “*Beyond Connected - everyone and Every Thing Connected*”. The summit will explore and envision the future of education, healthcare, workforce, relationships, innovation, transportation and much more. 08:35 *Welcome and Introductions* 09:00 Fireside Chat - *Heather Dowdy*, Deaf Kids Code 09:30 Fireside Chat - *John Paul Farmer*, NYC CTO 10:00 *Government supporters* 10:15 Fireside Chat - *Gregory Russ*, NYCHA 11:00 Panel: *Ethical Issues in Artificial Intelligence Technologies* 12:00 Fireside Chat - *Atul Bhatnagar*, Cambium Networks 12:15 *Award Ceremony* 12:30 *Pitchfest* 13:30 Fireside Chat - *Paolo Tiramani*, Boxabl 14:00 Fireside Chat - *Kelsey Hightower*, Google Cloud 15:00 Fireside Chat - *Schuyler William*s, NYC Cyber Command 15:30 Fireside Chat - *Peter Norto*n, Autonorama 16:00 *Closing Remarks and Top 10 Countdown* *LIVESTREAM https://livestream.com/internetsociety/sh2021 <https://livestream.com/internetsociety/sh2021>* *PARTICIPATE VIA ZOOM https://bit.ly/3C6bwkl <https://bit.ly/3C6bwkl>* *REAL TIME TEXT https://bit.ly/3m4rAxt <https://bit.ly/3m4rAxt>* *TWITTER #BeyondConnected #SiliconHarlem <https://bit.ly/3m4u52D> @SiliconHarlem* *SIMULCASTS* *https://youtu.be/Ow-dFDDNjIE <https://youtu.be/Ow-dFDDNjIE>* (Silicon Harlem) *https://www.twitter.com/ISOC_Live/ <https://www.twitter.com/ISOC_Live/>* *https://www.twitch.tv/isoclive <https://www.twitch.tv/isoclive>* *https://www.facebook.com/liveisoc <https://www.facebook.com/liveisoc>* (AI Captions) *https://www.facebook.com/siliconharlem <https://www.facebook.com/siliconharlem>* (AI Captions) *https://www.facebook.com/isocny/live/ <https://www.facebook.com/isocny/live/>* (AI Captions) *ARCHIVE* *https://archive.org/details/sh2021 <https://archive.org/details/sh2021>* *Permalink* https://isoc.live/14684/ - -- -------------------------------------- Joly MacFie +12185659365 -------------------------------------- -

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Registration Open - PhD Symposium The Future of the Platform Economy and Platform Work
by Rafael Grohmann 22 Oct '21

22 Oct '21

PhD Symposium, The Future of the Platform Economy and Platform Work October 27-28, 2021 Free and open event Hosts: DigiLabour Research Lab, Unisinos University, and Dimmons,IN3, Universitat Oberta de Catalunya REGISTRATION LINK: https://digilabour-br.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_MX_10ZCdSfCXNBP chWNkTA Check your time zone: https://www.timeanddate.com/ October 27 08AM BRT/GMT-3 – 1 PM GMT+2 – Opening Session Rafael Grohmann, Unisinos University Melissa Renau Cano, Open University of Catalonia 08:15AM BRT/GMT-3 – 1:15 PM GMT+2: Content Creation: Evidence From China, Europe, the US and West Africa Yin Liang (Durham University) – A typology of content creative platforms: evidence from the UK, the US and China Jordan Duran (University of North Carolina at Charlotte) – Centering the platform in content creation: the role of monetization in creators’ relational work and identity Tugce Bidav (Maynooth University) – Global platform, local labour: YouTube Creators in Ireland and Turkey Godwin Simon (Queensland University of Technology) – Adapting to platform logics: platform practices among YouTube-centric Nollywood filmmakers Discussants Taina Bucher (University of Oslo) Arturo Arriagada (Adolfo Ibáñez University) 10:30AM BRT/GMT-3 – 3:30 PM GMT+2- Platform Work Across Different Sectors Konstantinos Floros (IT University of Copenhagen) – Danish housecleaning platforms: producing, governing and resisting flexibility in the platform economy Lan Li (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill) – Online Freelancing for Data Scientists Julian Posada (University of Toronto) – Support Networks in Platform Work Pedro Veiga de Almeida (University of Massachusetts – Amherst) – Rethinking Digital Consumption Ruth Livier Nuñez (University of California, Los Angeles – UCLA) – Injustice by Design: A Chicana/Latina feminist analysis of Amazon’s ACX labor platform Discussants Julie Chen (University of Toronto) Julia Ticona (University of Pennsylvania) Maria Clara Aquino (Unisinos University) 12:30PM BRT/GMT-3 – 5:30 PM GMT+2 Gamers, Streamers, Subtitlers, and Cosplayers: Work Conditions and Platform Practices Christine Tran (University of Toronto) – Pink-Collar playbour: the digital housework of video game livestreaming Beatriz Blanco (Unisinos University) – Visibility labor and feminist activism among gaming streamers in Brazil Suryansu Guha (University of California, Los Angeles – UCLA) – Scribes for hire: the work of subtitling and the changing contours of precarity in the Indian creative industries Beatrys Rodrigues (Cornell University) – “Becoming Waifu” – Cosplayers’ commodification of digitally mediated intimacy Discussants Michael Siciliano (Queen’s University) Angèle Christin (Stanford University) Adriana Amaral (Unisinos University) 3PM BRT/GMT-3– 8 PM GMT+2 – Workshop 1: Co-designed strategic planning and agile project management for PhD candidates Enric Senabre Hidalgo (Dimmons Research Group, Universitat Oberta de Catalunya/ Centre de Recherche Interdisciplinaire, Université de Paris) October 28 08AM BRT/GMT-3 – 1 PM GMT+2 – Platform Cooperativism: current challenges in the platform economy and platform work Chenai Chair (Mozilla Foundation), Salonie Muralidhara Hiriyur (SEWA Cooperative Federation), Denise Kasparian (University of Buenos Aires), and Vera Vidal (Universitat Oberta de Catalunya) – Building feminist platform cooperatives: initial reflections from the fields Damion Bunders (Rotterdam School of Management) – Member participation in digital cooperatives: Silicon law of oligarchy or democratic disruptor? Lorena Vilarins (University of Brasília) – Platform cooperativism and the challenge of confronting the hegemonic political economy Rashid Owoyele (The Weizenbaum Institute) – Design for Economic Transformation — cooperativist futures Discussants Francesca Martinelli (Fondazione Centro Studi Doc) Rafael Grohmann (Unisinos University) 10:30AM BRT/GMT-3 – 3:30 PM GMT+2: Algorithmic Management and Feminist Approaches in Last-Mile Delivery and Ride-Hailing Platforms Kalle Kusk Gjetting (Aarhus University) – Lenient algorithmic management: Ethnographic research on a food delivery platform in Scandinavia Onat Kibaroglu (National University of Singapore) – Gojek as City Pallavi Bansal (Erasmus University Rotterdam) – Feminist approaches to ride-hailing sector in India Francesco Bonifacio (Catholic University, Milan) – Resistance or expertise? Reframing riders’ interaction with algorithms, exploring workers’ distinctions. Discussants: Noopur Raval (AI Now Institute, New York University) Gavin Mueller (University of Amsterdam) 1PM BRT/GMT-3 / 6 PM GMT+2 – Workshop 2: Dissemination of Research Beyond Journals Rafael Grohmann (DigiLabour Research Lab, Unisinos University) and Adriana Amaral (CultPop Lab, Unisinos University) 3PM BRT/GMT-3 – 8 PM GMT+2 – Closing Keynote: Lilly Irani (University of California, San Diego) “Turkopticon: From Software to Worker Organization” If you have any queries or doubts, send an email to hello(a)digilabour.com.br Best, Rafael Grohmann

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Job opening for Associate Professor in Early Years Literacies
by Harry Dyer (EDU - Staff) 22 Oct '21

22 Oct '21

Dear all, I thought I'd share the following job application that might be of interest to members. The School of Education and Lifelong Learning is looking to appoint an Associate Professor in Early Years Literacies. The new post is part of an ambitious plan to expand our impact in interdisciplinary, Early Childhood research. The post holder will be expected to develop and lead an innovative research project funded by the Joyce Morris legacy, that will address an existing/emerging challenge and make a substantial contribution to theory, methodology or practice in the field of early years literacies. Candidates shortlisted for interview will be required to present a research proposal for such a project. You can find the details of the post here https://myview.uea.ac.uk/webrecruitment/pages/vacancy.jsf?vacancyRef=ATR1578. This is a really exciting opportunity for a research post which can be used to develop a critical hub on early years literacies, so please do considering joining us! All the best, Harry Dr Harry T Dyer Lecturer in Education, Course Director BA Education School of Education and Lifelong Learning University of East Anglia, Norwich Research Park, Norwich, NR4 7TJ For more information about my research please visit harrytdyer.com<http://www.harrytdyer.com/>, Follow me on Twitter at @harrytdyer<https://twitter.com/HarryTDyer>. You can find my TED talk here<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZteEZbAtsNI>, or read my latest book here<https://www.springer.com/gp/book/9789811557156> Find out more about Digital Culture and Education here<http://digitalcultureandeducation.com/> Please consider the environment before printing this e-mail.

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Health communication/games&health researchers needed to review papers
by Kat Schrier Shaenfield 22 Oct '21

22 Oct '21

Hi all- I have an awesome colleague who is looking for some health communication/games&health researchers willing to serve as a reviewer for the Health Communication interest group of ECA ( https://www.ecasite.org/aws/ECA/pt/sp/Home_Page) She explains that it would require reviewing three papers by November 15. Please write to Amanda.Damiano(a)marist.edu if you are interested!! It sounds like a really great conference and interest group! Take care, Kat ----------------------------------------- Dr. Karen (Kat) Schrier http://www.karenschrier.com www.twitter.com/drgamermom Associate Professor & Director, Games & Emerging Media program, Marist College Game Design Consultant, World Health Organization (WHO) Academy Author, *We the Gamers* <https://gamesforcivics.com/> (Oxford University Press) Author, *Knowledge Games <https://jhupbooks.press.jhu.edu/content/knowledge-games>* (Johns Hopkins University Press) Editor, *Learning, Education, & Games <https://gamesforgrowing.com/> book *series (ETC Press/Carnegie Mellon) Author, Designing Ourselves <https://www.adl.org/media/13011/download> (Center for Technology & Society) *Please call me Kat or Dr. Kat (She/They)*

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WEBCAST TODAY: Internet Policy Wars 3.0 / Is The Past A Prologue To The Fight For Web3?
by Joly MacFie 21 Oct '21

21 Oct '21

Been looking forward to this! REAL TIME TEXT https://bit.ly/3m3GFPL ISOC Live posted: "On Thursday October 21 2021 at 3:00-4:00pm EDT (19:00-20:00 UTC) the Congressional Internet Caucus Academy hosts a webinar 'Internet Policy Wars 3.0 / Is The Past A Prologue To The Fight For Web3?'. At the dawn of Web 1.0 policymakers nearly quashed the " [image: livestream] <http://livestream.com/internetsociety/internetpolicywars3>On *Thursday October 21 2021* at *3:00-4:00pm EDT* (19:00-20:00 UTC) the *Congressional Internet Caucus Academy <https://www.netcaucus.org/>* hosts a webinar '*Internet Policy Wars 3.0 / Is The Past A Prologue To The Fight For Web3? <https://internetpolicywars3.eventbrite.com>*'. At the dawn of Web 1.0 policymakers nearly quashed the Internet with legislation such as the Communications Decency Act and key escrow. Many policy experts fear the same cycle has begun at the advent of Web 3.0. The clumsy cryptocurrency language in the Infrastructure Bill laid bare the lack of policymaker awareness of the broader "*Web3 <https://moralis.io/the-ultimate-guide-to-web3-what-is-web3/>*" ecosystem. Our panel will draw parallels between mistakes made in the 1990s and why policymakers must better understand the promise and potential of Web 3.0. *SPEAKERS* *Andrew McLaughlin*, President, Assembly OSM *Cleve Mesidor*, Founder, National Policy Network of Women of Color in Blockchain, *Kevin Werbach*, Professor,The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania *Carlos Acevedo*, Sr. Director, Sales at Brave Software - Regional Lead: Latin America *MODERATOR* *Danny O'Brien*, Senior Fellow, Filecoin Foundation for the Decentralized Web *LIVESTREAM http://livestream.com/internetsociety/internetpolicywars3 <http://livestream.com/internetsociety/internetpolicywars3>* *PARTICIPATE https://internetpolicywars3.eventbrite.com <https://internetpolicywars3.eventbrite.com>* *TWITTER #Governance3 <https://bit.ly/3DhnZBQ> @NetCaucusAC @cmesi @McAndrew @kwerb @FFDWeb #Web3* *SIMULCASTS* *https://www.twitter.com/ISOC_Live/ <https://www.twitter.com/ISOC_Live/>* *https://www.twitch.tv/isoclive <https://www.twitch.tv/isoclive>* *https://www.facebook.com/liveisoc/* <https://www.facebook.com/liveisoc/> (AI Captions) *https://www.facebook.com/cicac <https://www.facebook.com/cicac>* *https://www.youtube.com/user/InternetCaucusAC/live <https://www.youtube.com/user/InternetCaucusAC/live>* *REAL TIME TEXT* *https://bit.ly/3m3GFPL <https://bit.ly/3m3GFPL>* *ARCHIVE* *https://archive.org/details/internetpolicywars3 <https://archive.org/details/internetpolicywars3>* *SPONSOR* *Filecoin Foundation for the Decentralized Web <https://ffdweb.org/> * *IMAGE NASA <https://unsplash.com/@nasa> * *Trouble clicking?* Copy and paste this URL into your browser: https://isoc.live/14604/ -------------------------------------- - -- -------------------------------------- Joly MacFie +12185659365 -------------------------------------- -

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WEBCAST TODAY Encryption Europe Global Encryption Day Celebration
by Joly MacFie 21 Oct '21

21 Oct '21

Happy Global Encryption Day! This has started. good discussion on quantum and standards, or the lack of them. Two more panels to go. At 13:00 UTC you can also tune into the GED Press event at https://youtu.be/KrYvzIfY8_w And of course many more events at https://ged.globalencryption.org/ ISOC Live posted: "On Thursday October 21 2021 from 14:00-18:30 CEST (12:00-16:30 UTC) Encryption Europe celebrates the first Global Encryption Day with three interactive webinars. Roundtable 1: “From IoT to Quantum, why encryption will matter” Vincent Rijmen, KU Leuven /" [image: livestream] <http://livestream.com/internetsociety/encrypteurope-ged>On *Thursday October 21 2021* from *14:00-18:30 CEST* (12:00-16:30 UTC) *Encryption Europe <https://encryptioneurope.eu/>* celebrates the first *Global Encryption Day <https://ged.globalencryption.org/>* with *three interactive webinars <https://encryptioneurope.eu/2021/10/21/Encryption-Europe-Annual-General-Mee…>* . *Roundtable 1: “From IoT to Quantum, why encryption will matter”* - *Vincent Rijmen*, KU Leuven / co-inventor of AES - *Péter Budai*, VP Product, Tresorit - *Olivier Croi*x, Head, Crypto Group, Thales Belgium - *Ludovic Perret*, Paris Sorbonne / co-founder, CryptoNext Moderator - *Pascal Steichen*, CEO, SECURITYMADEIN.LU *Roundtable 2: “Encryption, a key instrument towards Europe’s digital autonomy”* - *Robin Wilton*, Director Internet Trust, Internet Society - *Remi Geraud-Stewart*, (GEODE) / Information Security Group, Ecole normale supérieure Paris - *Alban Feraud*, President, Eurosmart Moderator - *Grégory Wawszyniak Dumont*, Market Intelligence Manager, SECURITYMADEIN.LU *Roundtable 3: “Encryption interference with Law Enforcement: any chance of a meaningful dialog?”* - *Timothee Rebours*, co-founder, SEALD - *Olaf Kolkman*, Chief Internet Technology Officer, Internet Society - *Stéphane Duguin*, Chief Executive Officer, CyberPeace Institute Moderator - *Jean-Christophe Le Toquin*, coordinator, Encryption Europe LIVESTREAM http://livestream.com/internetsociety/encrypteurope-ged *PARTICIPATE VIA ZOOM: https://bit.ly/3FXuFqV <https://bit.ly/3FXuFqV>* *TWITTER #EncryptionDay <http://bit.ly/EncryptionDay> @EncryptEurope @Tresorit @kolkman @futureidentity @InternetSociety @SealdHQ @Eurosmart_EU @CyberpeaceInst #GlobalEncryption #MaketheSwitch #EncryptEurope* *SIMULCASTS* *https://www.twitter.com/ISOC_Live/ <https://www.twitter.com/ISOC_Live/>* *https://www.twitch.tv/isoclive <https://www.twitch.tv/isoclive>* *https://www.facebook.com/liveisoc/* <https://www.facebook.com/liveisoc/> (AI Captions) *ARCHIVE* *https://archive.org/details/encrypteurope-ged <https://archive.org/details/encrypteurope-ged>* *Permalink* https://isoc.live/14667/ - -- -------------------------------------- Joly MacFie +12185659365 -------------------------------------- -

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Is AI Good for the Planet? (Benedetta Brevini)
by camrievent 21 Oct '21

21 Oct '21

Please join us at the CAMRI seminar Thursday next week Is AI Good for the Planet? Benedetta Brevini (University of Sydney) Date: Thursday, 28 October 2021 Time: 12.00-14.00 (UK time) Location: Online event - Zoom Meeting (please register so that we can send you the Zoom link) Registration: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/is-ai-good-for-the-planet-tickets-1705283087… We often think of Artificial Intelligence (AI) as a thing of the immediate future. We are constantly bombarded by slogans of AI coming to change our life, whether we like it or not. We are reassured it will be a better life. A better capitalism. A better environment. From smart devices, to home voice assistants, image recognition and translation, AI is offered as the solution to the greatest challenges of this age. This portrayal of AI as a benevolent deity has a crucial effect: it obfuscates the materiality of the infrastructures and devices that are central to its functioning. In her new book Is AI good for the planet? (Polity, 2021). Benedetta Brevini asks us to think about AI in a different, and more material way than most of us have in the past. In all its variety of forms, AI relies on large swathes of land and sea, vast arrays of technology, and greenhouse gas emitting machines and infrastructures that deplete scarce resources in their production, consumption and disposal. AI also relies on data centres that demand excessive amounts of energy, water and finite resources to compute, analyse and categorize. Firmly situated in the critical tradition of political economy of communication, Brevini’s work forces us to reconsider the way we look at AI. For the first time, Is AI good for the planet? brings the climate crisis to the centre of debates around AI developments. Clearly, there are other important concerns about AI: from moral and ethical appeals for caution concerning use of AI in military operations, to loss of human expertise in safeguarding human rights (public health and the judiciary), from algorithmic racial and gender biases to fears that AI will make human labour redundant. However, Brevini argues, if we lose our environment, we lose our planet. So, we must understand and debate the environmental costs of AI. Biography Benedetta Brevini is a journalist, media activist and Associate Professor of Communication at the University of Sydney. Before joining the academy she worked as journalist in Milan, New York and London for CNBC and RAI. She writes on The Guardian’s Comment is Free and contributes to a number of print and web publications including Index of Censorship, OpenDemocracy and the Conversation. She is the author of Public Service Broadcasting Online (2013) and editor of Beyond Wikileaks (2013). Her latest volumes are Carbon Capitalism and Communication: Confronting Climate Crisis (PalgraveMacmillan, 2017), Climate Change and the Media (Peter Lang, 2018), and Amazon: Understanding a Global Communication Giant (Routledge, 2020). Is AI good for the planet? (Polity,2021) is her newest work. Further CAMRI Seminars this term: Thursday, 25 November 2021 Taina Bucher (University of Oslo) - Facebook https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/facebook-tickets-172310093127 Thursday, 09 December 2021 Matthew Flisfeder (University of Winnipeg) - Algorithmic Desire and the Ideology of Twenty-First Century Capitalism https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/algorithmic-desire-and-the-ideology-of-twent… The University of Westminster is a charity and a company limited by guarantee. Registration number: 977818 England. Registered Office: 309 Regent Street, London W1B 2HW. This message and its attachments are private and confidential. If you have received this message in error, please notify the sender and remove it and its attachments from your system.

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Call for Papers - (SaT-CPS 2022) ACM Workshop on Secure and Trustworthy Cyber-Physical Systems
by Paudel, Ramesh 21 Oct '21

21 Oct '21

[Apologies if you got multiple copies of this invitation] Dear Colleagues, Please consider submitting and/or forwarding to the appropriate groups/personnel the opportunity to submit to the *ACM Workshop on Secure and Trustworthy Cyber-Physical Systems (SaT-CPS 2022)*, which will be held in Baltimore-Washington DC area (or virtually) on April 26, 2022 in conjunction with the 12th ACM Conference on Data and Application Security and Privacy (CODASPY 2022). *** Paper submission deadline:* December 30, 2021* *** *** Website: https://sites.google.com/view/sat-cps-2022/ *** SaT-CPS aims to represent a forum for researchers and practitioners from industry and academia interested in various areas of CPS security. SaT-CPS seeks novel submissions describing practical and theoretical solutions for cyber security challenges in CPS. Submissions can be from different application domains in CPS. Example topics of interest are given below, but are not limited to: - Secure CPS architectures - Authentication mechanisms for CPS - Access control for CPS - Key management in CPS - Attack detection for CPS - Threat modeling for CPS - Forensics for CPS - Intrusion and anomaly detection for CPS - Trusted-computing in CPS - Energy-efficient and secure CPS - Availability, recovery, and auditing for CPS - Distributed secure solutions for CPS - Metrics and risk assessment approaches - Privacy and trust - Blockchain for CPS security - Data security and privacy for CPS - Digital twins for CPS - Wireless sensor network security - CPS/IoT malware analysis - CPS/IoT firmware analysis - Economics of security and privacy - Securing CPS in medical devices/systems - Securing CPS in civil engineering systems/devices - Physical layer security for CPS - Security on heterogeneous CPS - Securing CPS in automotive systems - Securing CPS in aerospace systems - Usability security and privacy of CPS - Secure protocol design in CPS - Vulnerability analysis of CPS - Anonymization in CPS - Embedded systems security - Formal security methods in CPS - Industrial control system security - Securing Internet-of-Things - Securing smart agriculture and related domains The workshop is planned for one day,* April 26, 2022*, on the last day of the conference. *Instructions for Paper Authors* All submissions must describe original research, not published nor currently under review for another workshop, conference, or journal. All papers must be submitted electronically via the Easychair system: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=acmsatcps2022 *Full-length papers* Papers must be at most 10 pages in length in double-column ACM format (as specified at https://www.acm.org/publications/proceedings-template) Submission implies the willingness of at least one author to attend the workshop and present the paper. Accepted papers will be included in the ACM Digital Library. The presenter must register for the workshop before the deadline for author registration. *Position papers and Work-in-progress papers* We also invite short position papers and work-in-progress papers. Such papers can be of length up to 6 pages in double-column ACM format (as specified at https://www.acm.org/publications/proceedings-template) and must clearly state "Position Paper" or "Work in progress," as the case may be in the title section of the paper. These papers will be reviewed and accepted papers will be published in the conference proceedings. *Important Dates* Due date for full workshop submissions: December 30, 2021 Notification of acceptance to authors: February 10, 2022 Camera-ready of accepted papers: February 20, 2022 Workshop day: April 26, 2022 *------------------------------------------------------* *Ramesh Paudel, Ph.D.* Publicity and Web Co-Chair Research Scientist George Washington University Washington, DC. rpaudel42(a)gwu.edu, https://rpaudel42.github.io

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Online Research Seminars in Media, Journalism and Film -- University of Huddersfield, Autumn 2021
by Richard McCulloch 20 Oct '21

20 Oct '21

Hi all, With apologies for cross-posting. The Department of Media and Performance at the University of Huddersfield is pleased to announce our Autumn 2021 Research Seminar Series in Media, Journalism, and Film. The online seminars will be held on Teams from 1:15 pm to 2:15 pm GMT on the Thursdays indicated below. To register, please email me at *r.mcculloch(a)hud.ac.uk <r.mcculloch(a)hud.ac.uk>* rather than at this address. *21st October: Zoetanya Sujon (London College of Communication)* "The Social Media Age: Social Screens and Platform Infrastructures” *28th October: Whitney Phillips (Syracuse University, NY) and Ryan Milner (College of Charleston, NC) * “You Are Here: Navigating a Polluted Media Landscape” (Q&A format) *4th November: Matt Hills (University of Huddersfield) * “The thirteenth Doctor during UK lockdown: paratexts of hope and care” *18th November: Jennifer Hessler (University of Huddersfield)* "The Future of the Ratings Panel: Defining Audience Intelligence in the Contemporary Television Landscape" *25th November: Jonathan Hardy (University of the Arts London) * “Branded Content in Journalism: the fateful merging of media and marketing” *2nd December: Rebecca Williams (University of South Wales) * “Creativity, Connection & Coming Home: Theme Park Fandom and the Coronavirus Closures” *9th December: Line Nybro Petersen (University of Copenhagen) * “Dark and deep play: QAnon as transmedia conspiracy theory” -- *Dr. Richard McCulloch* Senior Lecturer in Media and Film University of Huddersfield Queensgate, Huddersfield, West Yorkshire, HD1 3DH Email: richardjmcculloch(a)gmail.com Twitter: @rjmcculloch Co-Director, The World Star Wars Project Board Member, Fan Studies Network (fanstudies.org)

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Internship opportunity: Social Media Collective (MSR New England)
by Tarleton L. Gillespie 20 Oct '21

20 Oct '21

Internship opportunity: Social Media Collective (MSR New England) APPLICATION DEADLINE: JANUARY 11, 2022 APPLICATION LINK: https://careers.microsoft.com/us/en/job/1187754/Research-Intern-Social-Medi… Microsoft Research New England, part of the global network of Microsoft Research Labs, is looking for advanced PhD students to join the Social Media Collective (SMC) for its 12-week internship program. The Social Media Collective brings together empirical and critical perspectives to understand the political and cultural dynamics that underpin social media technologies. Our affiliated social science and humanistic researchers include full-time researchers, postdocs, interns, research assistants, and visitors. Our primary purpose is to bring rich contextual analysis to the social, political, and cultural dynamics that underpin social media technologies. Our work spans several disciplines: anthropology, communication, economics, gender and sexuality studies, information, law, media studies, science & technology studies, and sociology. For 2022, this will be a virtual internship. Primary mentors for this year will be Nancy Baym and Tarleton Gillespie, with additional guidance offered by other members of the SMC. We are looking for applicants working in one or more of the following areas: - Personal relationships and digital media - Race and technology - Relationships in hybrid work - Creator economies - Affective, immaterial, and other frameworks for understanding digital labor - How platforms, through their design and policies, shape public discourse - The politics of algorithms, metrics, and big data for a computational culture - The political economies of on-demand labor - Collective, community-based approaches to content review and moderation For more information about the Social Media Collective, and a list of past interns, visit the About page of the SMC blog. For a complete list of all permanent researchers and current postdocs based at the New England lab, see the MSRNE lab webpage. Current projects in New England include: - How do people build social capital with each other in remote and hybrid work, and how do those processes facilitate or harm inclusion? (Nancy Baym) - How do discourses and designs of ideal social media habits function within apparatuses of platform capitalism? (Niall Docherty) - How do social media platforms, through algorithmic design and content policies, serve as custodians of public discourse? (Tarleton Gillespie) - What are the cultural, political, and ethical implications of on-demand platform economies as new forms and sites of semi-automated, globally distributed, digital labor? (Mary L. Gray) - What are the sociocultural factors shaping the development, structure, and activities of 'tech for good' initiatives? (Karina Rider) RESPONSIBILITIES The ideal candidate may be trained in any number of disciplines (including anthropology, communication, information studies, media studies, sociology, science and technology studies, or a related field), but should have a strong social scientific or humanistic methodological, analytical, and theoretical foundation, be interested in questions related to media or communication technologies and society or culture, and be interested in working in a highly interdisciplinary environment that includes computer scientists, mathematicians, and economists. Interns are also expected to give short presentations on their project, contribute to the SMC blog, attend the weekly lab colloquia, and contribute to the life of the community through weekly lunches with fellow PhD interns and the broader lab community. There are also natural opportunities for collaboration with SMC researchers and visitors, and with others currently working at MSRNE, including computer scientists, economists, and mathematicians. Some of the compensation and benefits of this position include: - highly competitive salary - health insurance is not provided; most interns stay covered under their university insurance, but interns are eligible to enroll in a Microsoft sponsored medical plan - internship events and activities PROCESS Applicants must have advanced to candidacy in their PhD program by the time they start their internship (approximately May 2022). Unfortunately, there are no opportunities for Master’s students or early PhD students at this time. Applicants from historically marginalized communities and those underrepresented in higher education are encouraged to apply. (Unfortunately, due to a range of legal matters, students must be both physically located in the United States or Canada, and eligible to work in the US at the time of application and internship.) To apply for a PhD internship with the Social Media Collective, fill out the online application form here: https://careers.microsoft.com/us/en/job/1187754/Research-Intern-Social-Medi… …the application portal may prompt you to set up an account first; thanks for your patience. Your application must include: - A short description (no more than 2 pages, single-spaced…yes, you can use a separate sheet for citations that won’t count against you) of 1 project (no more than 2 projects) that you propose to do while interning at MSRNE, independently and/or in collaboration with current SMC researchers. Project proposals can be related to, but should be distinct from, your dissertation research. Be specific and tell us: - - What is the research question animating your proposed project? - - What methods would you use to address your question? - - How does your research question speak to the interests of the SMC? - - Who do you hope to reach (who are you engaging) with this proposed research? - A brief description of your dissertation project (no more than 1 page, single spaced). - - Feel free to attach a separate citations page–we will not include that in the page count. - One academic article-length manuscript (~7,000 or more) that you have authored or co-authored (published or unpublished) that demonstrates your writing skills. Again, we won’t count citations in this word count. - A copy of your CV. - If available, pointers to your website or other online presence (this is not required). - In addition to those qualifications, you’ll need submit the names and email contact information for three academic letters of reference (one contact must be your dissertation advisor). Note that we cannot request letters until you submit your application. We will count your application as ON TIME, as long as we have your materials. Encourage your letter writers to send their references for you once they receive a request to do so.Please alert your letter writers in advance and ask them to look for a letter request from a Microsoft.comemail alias (often, this email ends up in email Spam Folders). If you have any questions about or problems with the application process, please contact Tarleton Gillespie at tarleton(a)microsoft.com and include “SMC 2022 PhD Internship” in the subject line. TIMELINE Applications are due January 11, 2022. Due to the volume of applications, late submissions (including submissions with late letters of reference) will not be considered. We will not be able to provide specific feedback on individual applications before or after submission. Finalists will be contacted in February to arrange an online interview. Applicants chosen for the internship will be informed in March and announced on the socialmediacollective.org blog. Microsoft is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, ancestry, color, family or medical care leave, gender identity or expression, genetic information, marital status, medical condition, national origin, physical or mental disability, political affiliation, protected veteran status, race, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, or any other characteristic protected by applicable laws, regulations and ordinances. We also consider qualified applicants regardless of criminal records, consistent with legal requirements. If you need assistance and/or a reasonable accommodation due to a disability during the application or the recruiting process, please send a request via the Accommodation request form. Benefits/perks may vary depending on the nature of your employment with Microsoft and the country where you work. PREVIOUS INTERN TESTIMONIALS “Most productive summer of my graduate school experience. The SMC internship was all that I expected and then some. To be able to collaborate with a leader in my discipline, receive hands-on mentorship in pursuing a new project and to be given the space think things through among others brimming with a diversity of expertise was invaluable. The office in Cambridge is really an intellectual candy store. Having so many informal (and formal) conversations about my current and future work has given me a better ability to articulate my identity as a scholar as well as the spark to fine-tune my research agenda. Besides having the opportunity to network with so many well-established scholars, I’ve now developed a diverse peer network that I am sure will be helpful to my professional development in the future. Besides that, this is a group that actually has fun doing the work that they do. There was a magnetic energy that flowed through the office throughout the summer. I left really inspired and renewed to write my dissertation.” — Jabari Evans, Communication, Northwestern University “My time at the SMC was unlike any other I’ve had academically or professionally. Intellectually rigorous yet remarkably collaborative, warm, and fun-loving, the SMC pushed me to do my best work while supporting me to experiment with new ways of conducting, conceptualizing, and communicating my research.” — Anna Banchik, Sociology, UT Austin “The summer I spent interning at the SMC was one of the most productive and fulfilling in my graduate career. I was closely mentored, supported, and pushed by the SMC researchers, postdocs, research assistants, and my fellow interns. The SMC creates a community where you can sit down for a deep chat on methods, hold a writing group, meet with a nationally renowned scholar, and do your fieldwork all in the same day (or spend your day reading and puzzling over an idea if that’s more your speed). The MSRNE lab gives you the chance to learn alongside with scholars from a huge range of fields. If you’re looking for a place to drill down on your work with smart and caring people, the SMC internship is for you.” — Nina Medvedeva, Gender Women and Sexuality Studies, University of Minnesota “My summer at MSR was among the most stimulating and productive 12 weeks I’ve had while in grad school. The SMC team as a whole provided such a great environment to embark on a completely new research project and truly push myself to try new things, while still offering a lot of guidance and support to think through some puzzles I was working through in my dissertation and offer professional advice. Belonging to a cohort of other graduate students interns at similar stages to my own also provided a remarkable community of support and advice that pushed me to get things done during the summer, which can be an otherwise quite a solitary period during the academic year. I felt welcomed and supported from day one, and very fortunate to still maintain these ties.” — Gili Vidan, History of Science, Harvard University “My summer at Microsoft Research with the Social Media Collective was nothing short of transformative. My theoretical and methodological horizons broadened, and the relationships I forged continue to shape my development as a scholar.” — Shannon MacGregor, Communication, University of North Carolina “It might be hard to believe that a twelve-week internship could be so integral to your professional and personal growth, but that’s exactly how I felt at that end of my time at MSRNE. I learned more about writing, critical thinking, public speaking, collegiality, and self-belief than I thought possible within such a short space of time, and I gained a group of forever friends and mentors in the process. The internship also provides you with a rare opportunity to work in a truly interdisciplinary environment and allows you to take your research proposal in a direction you might not have planned for. MSRNE was, and will continue to be, the perfect intellectual home for me.” — Ysabel Gerrard, Digital Media and Society, University of Sheffield, UK “The internship at Microsoft Research was all of the things I wanted it to be – personally productive, intellectually rich, quiet enough to focus, noisy enough to avoid complete hermit-like cave dwelling behavior, and full of opportunities to begin ongoing professional relationships with other scholars who I might not have run into elsewhere.” — Laura Noren, Center for Data Science, New York University “If I could design my own graduate school experience, it would feel a lot like my summer at Microsoft Research. I had the chance to undertake a project that I’d wanted to do for a long time, surrounded by really supportive and engaging thinkers who could provide guidance on things to read and concepts to consider, but who could also provoke interesting questions on the ethics of ethnographic work or the complexities of building an identity as a social sciences researcher. Overall, it was a terrific experience for me as a researcher as well as a thinker.” — Jessica Lingel, Communication, University of Pennsylvania “My internship experience at MSRNE was eye-opening, mind-expanding and happy-making. If you are looking to level up as a scholar – reach new depth in your focus area, while broadening your scope in directions you would never dream up on your own; and you’d like to do that with the brightest, most inspiring and supportive group of scholars and humans – then you definitely want to apply.” — Kat Tiidenberg, Communication and Culture, Aarhus University, Denmark “The Social Media Collective was instrumental throughout the process in giving me timely, sharp, and helpful feedback for my research project. These conversations further inspired new thinking that has shaped for my overall research agenda. I also felt supported by the process at Microsoft Research, to take on what may seem intimidating, especially for social science and humanities students: tackling a research project in 12 short weeks. Socially, the Social Media Collective and other interns at Microsoft Research New England were all amazingly nice and fun people, with whom I made great memories. Overall, the internship was an invaluable experience for my intellectual and professional development.”— Penny Trieu, Information, University of Michigan “The Microsoft Internship is a life-changing experience. The program offers structure and space for emerging scholars to find their own voice while also engaging in interdisciplinary conversations. For social scientists especially the exposure to various forms of thinking, measuring, and problem-solving is unparalleled. I continue to call on the relationships I made at MSRE and always make space to talk to a former or current intern. Those kinds of relationships have a long tail.” — Tressie McMillan Cottom, Sociology, University of North Carolina “Coming right after the exhausting, enriching ordeal of general/qualifying exams, it was exactly what I needed to step back, plunge my hands into a research project, and set the stage for my dissertation… PhD interns are given substantial intellectual freedom to pursue the questions they care about. As a consequence, the onus is mostly on the intern to develop their research project, justify it to their mentors, and do the work. While my mentors asked me good, supportive, and often helpfully hard, critical questions, but my relationship with them was not the relationship of an RA to a PI– instead it was the relationship of a junior colleague to senior ones.” — J. 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