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Open Call for M-Lab Research Fellows - due November 30
by Joly MacFie 12 Nov '21

12 Nov '21

https://www.measurementlab.net/blog/research-fellowship-call/#open-call-for… How can M-Lab’s data and platform be used to improve the experience of the Internet for the end user? Measurement Lab is seeking three Research Fellows to expand Internet performance research beyond the measurement and optimization for bandwidth. Fellows will utilize M-Lab’s longitudinal, open dataset and/or platform to identify under-recognized Internet performance metrics that can be used to improve end user performance. Topics of interest include but are not limited to: - Relation between QoE and network metrics like bandwidth/latency/loss - Novel metrics that can be computed on existing NDT data - New measurements/experiments that could be deployed on M-Lab to diagnose network bottlenecks - Characterizing paths measured by M-Lab clients; stability of paths, relation to paths of interest (eg., paths to content) or network characterization - Proposals for new experiments to be hosted on the M-Lab platform - Identification of biases in M-Lab data - Implementing ideas introduced during M-Lab’s Community Call on Latency, Bufferbloat and Responsiveness <https://youtu.be/GW5C24YKAh8> and/or the IAB workshop on Network Quality <https://www.iab.org/activities/workshops/network-quality/> Each fellow will be awarded 30,000 USD and will be responsible for documenting the process and outcome of their research as well as sharing their work at a workshop at the end of the fellowship. The fellowship will begin in January 2022 and complete in May 2022. The M-Lab team will provide data analysis support, research guidance and community networking opportunities. To apply please provide a two page description of the research project including a brief timeline and summary of the applicant’s experience & background. Applications will be reviewed for feasibility of the project plan, qualifications of the researcher and demonstrated understanding and relevance to the stated goals of the fellowship. Applications can be sent to apply(a)measurementlab.net. The M-Lab Research Fellowship is made possible by the generous support of Internet Society <https://www.internetsociety.org/>. -- -------------------------------------- Joly MacFie +12185659365 -------------------------------------- -

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The perils of legally defining disinformation
by Joly MacFie 12 Nov '21

12 Nov '21

>From Columbia Global FoE <https://globalfreedomofexpression.columbia.edu/> ● *The Internet Policy Review* has published a paper “The perils of legally defining disinformation,” <https://columbia.us8.list-manage.com/track/click?u=5b024e7a0c16e2779164ac24…> by Ronan Ó Fathaigh, Natali Helberger, and Naomi Appelman, of the Institute for Information Law, University of Amsterdam, Netherlands. The authors begin by observing that “EU policy considers disinformation to be harmful content, rather than illegal content,” while “EU member states have recently been making disinformation illegal.” Considering that context, the “article discusses the definitions that form the basis of EU disinformation policy, and analyses national legislation in EU member states applicable to the definitions of disinformation, in light of freedom of expression and the proposed Digital Services Act.” It further explores “the perils of defining disinformation in EU legislation, and including provisions on online platforms being required to remove illegal content, which may end up being applicable to overbroad national laws criminalising false news and false information.” -- -------------------------------------- Joly MacFie +12185659365 -------------------------------------- -

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Tenure Track Position in Popular Culture (Comm Dept, University of Arkansas)
by Stephanie Schulte 12 Nov '21

12 Nov '21

Tenure Track Position in Popular Culture (Comm Dept, University of Arkansas) Hello AoIR Colleagues! I write to let you know that the University of Arkansas is hiring a popular culture scholar. It's a great place to live and work! Steph Schulte Summary of Job Duties:The Department of Communication in the Fulbright College of Arts and Sciences at the University of Arkansas, invites applications for a tenure-track assistant professor in Communication to start in August 2022. We seek applicants with a rhetorical and/or cultural studies research agenda in the area of popular culture. This is a standard nine-month faculty appointment. Qualifications: Minimum Qualifications: - Ph.D. in Communication or related field conferred by the start of employment - Evidence of active research program - Demonstrated competency in the classroom Preferred Qualifications: - Rhetorical and/or cultural studies research agenda in the area of popular culture - Research commensurate with institutions holding the highest Carnegie classification - Ability to engage in interdisciplinary research - Potential for externally funded research - Demonstrated success in working with diverse populations *Applications are due November 7: * https://uasys.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/UASYS/details/Assistant-Professor… <https://nam11.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fuasys.wd5…>

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Issues with the Facebook App review
by Marta Delatte 12 Nov '21

12 Nov '21

Hi all, This is a question regarding Facebook analytics. I was wondering if any of you had successfully submitted the videos that are now required to pass the app review. We’ve been trying to pass the facebook App review, for a facebook App just of internal use, server to server, with no facebook login button. We basically would use this app to retrieve insights from the different social media accounts from Barcelona city council (the same way we do with Google Analytics, Twitter or Youtube), and mount a dashboard just for internal users. We have recorded a few screencasts, granted access to the dashboard (deployed in PowerBI), submitted different explanation texts but we are always rejected with the explanation they were not able to locate the facebook login button, and we do not use it. As mentioned, this is a server to server APP polling few times a day to the different APIs to retrieve analytics, so the authentication is done between servers with granted access tokens. After all the reviews we have tried to contact the reviewers through the same form and through the messenger platform, but we did not receive any reply. Does someone know any way to get in contact with these reviewers to get some extra feedback? Apologies if this issue has been brought before, I could not find any thread in the list. *Dr. Marta Delatte * *Digital Communications Advisor * *Barcelona City Council * *mdelatte(a)bcn.cat <mdelatte(a)bcn.cat>* *0034 639 02 39 06*

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Webinar recording: 'The politics of preservation: cultural collections in dangerous times'
by Kieran Hegarty 12 Nov '21

12 Nov '21

Dear AoIRers, The recording of a webinar I ran last week is now online. This may be of interest to those working in critical information studies, decoloniality, digital preservation, and/or archival studies. Details below, recording here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jE5fT4U-T2c ********************************************** The fourth quarterly meetup of the Australasia Preserves digital preservation community of practice for 2021. Date/time: Tuesday 2 November 2021 11:00AM–12:30 PM AEDT Event title: The politics of preservation: cultural collections in dangerous times. Event provocation: "Taking something that would otherwise disappear and making it endure has consequences in the world. This makes it a political act, neither wholly good, nor wholly bad, but dangerous." A meetup organised by community member Kieran Hegarty to celebrate in the week of World Digital Preservation Day. Kieran is a PhD Candidate (Representing Multicultural Australia in National and State Libraries), at RMIT University. This event brings together artists, activists, archivists, and academics to together think through the politics of preservation with the Australasia Preserves Community of Practice. Archivists and archival scholars have increasingly recognised that archival processes are at once political, professional, and personal. Archives have consequences. The decisions made at an institutional and individual level shape collections as sources of history, accountability, and evidence. This event considers the politics of preservation. It starts with a basic provocation: that taking something that would otherwise disappear and making it endure has consequences in the world. This process is neither wholly good nor wholly bad, but dangerous. Speakers will examine those consequences and the role archivists and archival processes (including systems, technologies, and structures in which records are kept) play in shaping the political life of collections. FEATURING: Narungga woman and activist-poet Dr Natalie Harkin on archival-poetics and decolonising state archives Information studies scholar Dr Leisa Gibbons on tools to support a critical archival praxis PhD researcher and librarian Kieran Hegarty on web archives and their political consequences ********************************************** Kind regards, Kieran Hegarty PhD candidate, Representing Multicultural Australia in National and State Libraries Centre for Urban Research School of Global, Urban and Social Studies RMIT University, City Campus Building 8, Level 11 │ Melbourne VIC 3000 E kieran.hegarty(a)student.rmit.edu.au | W assemblingtheweb.com | @assemblingweb I acknowledge the people of the Woi wurrung and Boon wurrung language groups of the eastern Kulin Nations on whose unceded lands we conduct the business of the University. I respectfully acknowledge their Ancestors and Elders, past and present.

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WEBCAST TODAY: A11yVR – Paradigm Shifts in Interacting With Virtual Environments: A Focus on Deaf People – Wendy Dannels
by Joly MacFie 12 Nov '21

12 Nov '21

This is underway. Quite a complicated set up. Presenter is using ASL via video in Hubs, and in a Zoom call with interpreters for two way communication. ISOC Live posted: "On Thursday November 11 2021 at 19:00 EDT / 00:00 UTC / 09:00 JST (Wed) the Accessibility VR Meetup hosts 'Paradigm Shifts in Interacting With Virtual Environments: A Focus on Deaf People' on Mozilla Hubs. Professor Wendy Dannels of the XR Accessibility S" [image: livestream] <https://livestream.com/internetsociety/a11yvr19>On *Thursday November 11 2021* at *19:00 EDT / 00:00 UTC / 09:00 JST* (Wed) the *Accessibility VR Meetup <https://www.meetup.com/A11yVR/>* hosts '*Paradigm Shifts in Interacting With Virtual Environments: A Focus on Deaf People <https://www.meetup.com/a11yvr/events/281355381/>*' on Mozilla Hubs. *Professor Wendy Dannels <https://www.rit.edu/directory/wadnet-wendy-dannels>* of the XR Accessibility Solutions Laboratory at *Rochester Institute of Technology <https://www.rit.edu/ntid/>* will will point to some challenges and opportunities deaf individuals using American Sign Language as their primary language have faced when navigating and interacting with others through Mozilla Hubs. She will discuss ideas on making VR social platforms more inclusive including working with host and access service providers such as ASL interpreters. The session will be webcast live via a partnership with the *Internet Society Accessibility SIG <https://a11ySIG.org>* (A11ySIG). *LIVESTREAM: https://livestream.com/internetsociety/a11yvr19 <https://livestream.com/internetsociety/a11yvr19> *(open captions / ASL) *PARTICIPATE VIA MOZILLA HUBS: https://www.meetup.com/a11yvr/events/281355381/ <https://www.meetup.com/a11yvr/events/281355381/>* (open captions / ASL) *REAL TIME TEXT: https://www.streamtext.net/player?event=a11yvr <https://www.streamtext.net/player?event=a11yvr>* *TWITTER: @a11yvr <http://bit.ly/A11yVR> #xrasl #ritntid @wdannells @RITtigers #a11y #XR #VR @IAAPOrg @MozillaHubs #captioned* *SIMULCASTS* (open captions / ASL) *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/>* *https://youtu.be/by-JkpU-AXI <https://youtu.be/by-JkpU-AXI> *(monitored for comments) *https://www.facebook.com/DeafScience <https://www.facebook.com/DeafScience> *(maybe) *ARCHIVE https://archive.org/details/a11yvr19 <https://archive.org/details/a11yvr19>* *ACCREDITATION - *All A11yVR meetups are pre-approved for *IAAP Continuing Accessibility Education Credits (CAEC) <https://www.accessibilityassociation.org/s/certification-frequently-asked-q…>.* *SPONSOR: Equal Entry <https://equalentry.com/>* *Permalink* https://isoc.live/14720/ - -- -------------------------------------- Joly MacFie +12185659365 -------------------------------------- -

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CfP "Alternative content regulation on social media", ICA pre-conference, 25 May 2022
by Francesca Musiani 11 Nov '21

11 Nov '21

Dear colleagues, As part of the 72th Conference of the International Communication Association, which will be held in Paris from May 26th to May 30th, 2022, the Center for Interdisciplinary Research and Analysis of the Media (CARISM, U. Paris 2) and the Centre Internet et Société (CNRS) organise a pre-conference on Alternative content regulation on social media. The pre-conf will be held at University Paris 2 Panthéon-Assas on May 25th, 2022. It intends to gather researchers from various countries and disciplines around case studies related to civil society initiatives to influence platforms’ moderation policies and exert speech policing online. Please find the Call for Papers here: https://www.icahdq.org/mpage/CFPAlternative Scholars wishing to present and discuss their work can submit an abstract up to 1000 words by January 10th. Kind regards, Francesca Musiani For the Scientific committee -- 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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Popular Culture Studies Journal: Call for Reviews
by Christopher John Olson 11 Nov '21

11 Nov '21

The Popular Culture Studies Journal is currently soliciting reviews for the April 2022 issue. 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. 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. 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. Please be aware that we are currently in the process of revising the publication schedule and will let you know about any updates. 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 For more information about this journal, please visit the Popular Culture Studies Journal<https://mpcaaca.org/the-popular-culture-studies-journal/>. For a list of books eligible for review, please visit Booklist for Reviews<https://mpcaaca.org/the-popular-culture-studies-journal/for-submitting-revi…>. Christopher John Olson PhD candidate: Media, Cinema, and Digital Studies University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee Office: Curtin 388 Email: olson429(a)uwm.edu Reviews Editor, The Popular Culture Studies Journal Author/Co-Author/Co-Editor Normalizing Mental Illness and Neurodiversity in Entertainment Media (Routledge, 2021) The Greatest Cult Television Shows of All Time (Rowman & Littlefield, 2020) Convergent Wrestling (Routledge, 2019) 100 Greatest Cult Films (Rowman & Littlefield, 2018) Heroes, Heroines, and Everything in Between (Lexington, 2017) Possessed Women, Haunted States (Lexington, 2016) Making Sense of Cinema (Bloomsbury, 2016)

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June 13-14 2022: Smart cities and inclusivity festival
by Katherine Harrison 11 Nov '21

11 Nov '21

Save the Date/Call for papers Sustainability means inclusivity: Engaging citizens in early stage smart city development Closing Festival 13-14 June 2022, Norrköping, Sweden During 13-14 June 2022 the “Sustainability means inclusivity” closing festival will be organized in Norrköping, Sweden. With this event, we aim to think about how sustainability and inclusivity go hand-in-hand when it comes to the successful long-term adoption of smart city technologies. By this we mean: A sustainable urban environment depends as much on creating an inclusive space that is safe, accessible and comfortable for a diverse group of citizens as it does on deploying “smart” technologies for energy efficiency or environmental protection. This festival marks the closing phase of a research project during which an experienced interdisciplinary team has been engaging with citizens, technical developers and “top down” stakeholders around a smart city test site in Norrköping, Sweden to bring together different needs and visions for the urban space. The closing festival aims to create dialogue between citizens, researchers and other stakeholders through a lively and engaging program of events focused around the themes of citizen science and urban gardening. The festival is organized in collaboration with the Cities 5.0 ( https://liu.se/en/research/cities-50) and Smart City & Digital Sovereignty ( https://liu.se/en/article/smart-city-digital-sovereignty) research networks. The two days include presentations, kids’ activities, citizen science sessions, urban gardening, time to network, work-in-progress paper discussions and much more, all organized around sessions with our inspiring speakers (see below). *The “Sustainability means inclusivity” project team now invite abstracts for work-in-progress paper sessions around the topic of “Engaging citizens in early stage smart city development”. Abstracts should be 250 words long (not including references).Deadline: 25 February 2022* Confirmed speakers: Lauren Klein, Winship Distinguished Research Professor and Associate Professor, Departments of English and Quantitative Theory & Methods, Emory University (https://lklein.com/ ) Francesco Pilla, Associate Professor, School of Architecture, Planning and Environmental Policy, University College Dublin. ( https://people.ucd.ie/francesco.pilla ) Gabriele Ferri, Senior researcher in Civic Interaction Design and Head of Program of the M.Sc. Digital Design, Amsterdam University of Applied Sciences (https://www.gabrieleferri.com/ ) Modan Akbarnazim, Architect, Planner and Process Manager with specialization in Regeneration and Development. Ramon Ribera Fumaz, Lead researcher, Urban Transformation and global change laboratory (TURBA), Internet Interdisciplinary Institute (IN3), Universitat Oberta de Catalunya ( http://transfer.rdi.uoc.edu/en/researcher/ribera-fumaz-ramon ) Linda Gustafsson, gender equality strategist and coordinator for the municipality's commission for social sustainability, Umeå. Festival registration opens 1 March 2022. For more information about the research project, see: https://liu.se/en/research/sustainability-means-inclusivity

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Call for *fully funded* Spring School on Visual Content Analysis
by Ofra Klein 11 Nov '21

11 Nov '21

Dear fellow internet scholars, We are accepting applications for a *fully funded* Spring School on Visual Content Analysis of Social Media Data, to be held in Cortona (Tuscany), in spring 2022. Students will be taught a range of both quantitative and qualitative visual research methods by outstanding scholars and specialists in the field. See the link below for more information about the spring school and how to apply: https://www.sns.it/it/evento/visual-content-analysis-social-media With kind regards, Ofra Klein Ph.D Researcher <https://me.eui.eu/ofra-klein/> | European University Institute Postdoctoral Researcher <https://www.sns.it/en/persona/olivia-frederique-hardi-klein> | Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa

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