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Polymedia
by Traci Belanger 11 Jul '25

11 Jul '25

Hi everyone, does anyone have suggestions for articles on "polymedia" or specifically how polymedia interacts with media ecology? Thanks so much! Traci Belanger --- May all winds at your back inspire you, and may you have harmony and peace today.

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For my US colleagues: an 8 minute survey, where your input might make a difference
by Patricia Aufderheide 08 May '25

08 May '25

I know, exactly what you don't need to do at this crazy point in the semester. At AU, Profs. Aram Sinnreich, Joseph Graf and I have been working with Electronic Frontier Foundation and New Media Rights to design a survey about DMCA exemption language and its accessibility. Would you be interested in taking, sharing with your students and networks, including putting on social media the survey link <http://bit.ly/2nEfY8j>? Here it is again: *http://bit.ly/2nEfY8j <http://bit.ly/2nEfY8j>* Your generosity much appreciated! 👏 -- Patricia Aufderheide, University Professor, School of Communication Founder, Center for Media & -- Patricia Aufderheide, University Professor, School of Communication Founder, Center for Media & Social Impact American University 4400 Massachusetts Av., NW American University, Washington, DC 20016-8017 McKinley Hall 323 @paufder @cmsimpact cmsimpact.org paufder(a)american.edu 202-885-2069 office <202-643-5356> 240-643-4805 mobile <202-643-5356> "The world we have received also belongs to those who follow us." --Pope Francis

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Non-software uses of GitHub
by Jim Herbsleb 16 Apr '25

16 Apr '25

I’m looking for GitHub repositories that are used for things other than software, especially where users are actively collaborating rather than just putting together static collections. So far, we have found a few books being written, some musical transcriptions being error-checked, and some policy documents maintained online. Does anyone know of any examples of these or other categories? Any pointers much appreciated. Happy to share what we find with anyone interested. Jim ---- Jim Herbsleb Carnegie Mellon University http://herbsleb.org/ Google Scholar profile: https://goo.gl/sv3p7l

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CfP Frontiers / Interrogating the Design of Smart, Sustainable, and Socially Just Urban Spaces: A Look at Institutions, Places, and Values
by shenja van der graaf 07 Mar '22

07 Mar '22

People experience the city in different ways. These experiences shape how people view the city and the values they seek to draw from this space. Increasingly, people are experimenting with big data and digital tools within the context of community-based public goods provision as a way to realize values such as sustainability and social justice. In such a way, they claim their right to the city. These experiments can be transformative. There has been a groundswell of scholarship on local efforts to become smarter in support of urban experiments. However, our knowledge of these experiments’ design features remains scant. Design shapes interactions within all collective endeavors. When spatial, institutional, and value-based design principles are weak or missing, urban experiments may fail. This is why this Research Topic’s special focus is on the question of spatial, institutional, and value-based design in urban experiments. Smart urban development seems inevitable for the future of our cities, but who should decide what that future should be like and whose interests smart urbanism serves? Politics is inherent to urban development, and there is increasing evidence that political struggle lies at the heart of urban transformation. From LGBTQ+ activism that claims a right to public space to youth climate protests, political struggle is a call to action. These movements are the flints that spark urban experiments. However, we have scant knowledge of these experiments’ governance, the co-evolution of institutions that guide them, and ways in which they are designed to render value. Research indicates that it is challenging to translate and implement public values in smart city technologies. This Research Topic explores the dynamics between socio-technological processes - particularly, value-based design - that shape urban space and how citizens can participate meaningfully, highlighting how institutional design principles can be leveraged without incurring associated risks. This Research Topic calls for original papers, empirical as well as theoretical, that use the analytical lens of institutional and/or value-based design principles to explore and connect current popular, normative, academic, and political notions on urban commons, such as in the “smart”, “inclusive”, “resilient”, "participatory", "citizen-centric", “sustainable” and “just” cities. The overall goal of this collection of papers is to bring together contributions on the role of institutional and value-based design principles within complex urban systems from different academic disciplines and perspectives. By acknowledging these different perspectives and discussing their cross-cutting themes, we aim to contribute to understanding the complex issues in implementing these technologies posing numerous challenges and trade-offs with which developers, designers, and professionals working in urban management are increasingly faced with. *Keywords*: Institutional design, Value-based design, Participatory city-making, Urban commons, Transformative capacities, Quality of life We welcome your *abstract by Jan 31, 2022* *Relevant information* Website cfp <https://www.frontiersin.org/research-topics/29142/interrogating-the-design-…> You can opt for a short piece to a longer article <https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/sustainable-cities#article-types>! Note: that Frontiers charges publication fees <https://www.frontiersin.org/about/publishing-fees> which are waived for scientists at institutions with Institutional Memberships. You can find out if your institution is a member by checking here <https://www.frontiersin.org/about/institutional-membership>. Frontiers also has a fee support program. If you have any questions, feel free to reach out! - Shenja van der Graaf, University of Twente - Le Anh Long, University of Twente - Ignazio Vinci, University of Palermo

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Research: Short exercise on disguising online sources
by Joseph Reagle 26 Jan '22

26 Jan '22

Hello all, I'm researching the necessity, methods, and efficacy of researchers altering (i.e., “fuzzing”) prose to disguise their online sources. I have a brief instrument where I ask you to alter three quotes and then judge three alterations. It's very simple and shouldn't take more than 10--15 minutes. The short URL below takes you to a consent form and then the exercise. https://reagle.org/disguise Thank you to those that participate! -- Joseph Reagle, Communication Studies, Northeastern University

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Gamevironments Special Issue "Revisiting Teaching and Games" published
by Lisa Kienzl 31 Dec '21

31 Dec '21

Dear colleagues, we are happy to announce the publishing of GAMEVIRONMENTS' newest Special Issue: “Revisiting Teaching and Games. Mapping out Ecosystems of Learning”, edited by Björn Berg Marklund, Jordan Loewen-Colón and Maria Saridaki with contributions from: * /Towards an E-class Stimulating Social Interactivity based on Digitized and Gamified Brainstorming/ - by Stéphane Gobron, Corentin Barman, Artan Sadiku, Xavier Lince and Isabelle Capron-Puozzo, 19-55 * /Bible Games as Religious Educational Tools in Seventh-Day Adventist Church. A Ludic Inventory/ - by Allan Macedo de Novaes and Erick Euzébio Lima, 56-101 * /Still in Another Castle. Asking New Questions about Games, Teaching and Learning/ - by Tobias Staaby, 102-129 * /The Ethics of Citizen Science and Knowledge Games. Five Emerging Questions About Games that Support Citizen Science/ - by Karen Kat Schrier, 130-196 * /The Allegorical Build. Minecraft and Allegorical Play in Undergraduate Teaching/ - by Darren Wershler and Bart Simon, 197-236 * /Let the Magic Circle Bleed. Bridging the Gap Between Games and Realit/y - by Jessica Creane, 237-266 * /Learning to Do Fieldwork through Role-Playing. A Class Experiment/ - by Adele Del Sordi, 267-277 * /The Secret Chamber of Interdisciplinary Collaboration. Negotiating OutSmart! A Serious Game for Adolescents /- by Suzana Jovicic, Barbara Göbl and Dayana Hristova, 277-297 * /Insider Makes the Deal Easy. An Online Speaking Class Using a Social Deduction Game/ - by Taku Kaneta, 298-305 * /Personas as Character Sheets. A Multipurpose Tool When Using Role-Play in Design Education/ - by Erik Lagerstedt and Kajsa Nalin, 306-322 * /Teaching Music Theory through Games. Το Play, or Not to Play?/ - by Stavroula Mpoti, 323-328 * /Eastern European Courage through Game Art. The First Two Years of the Game Art Programme at University of Theatre and Film Arts, Budapest (2019–2021)/ - by Judit Radák and Szabolcs Pálfi, 329-350 * /The Unlucky Hans. The Difficulties of Adapting Fairy Tales as Text-Based Games for Young Readers/ - by Michael Schlauch, 351-361 * /Spreading Learning through Fake News Games/ - by Karen Kat Schrier, 362-379 * /Teaching People What They Already Know. Designing Game Design Courses/ - by Thais Arrias Weiller, 380-392 You find all papers and further information on our website: https://www.gamevironments.uni-bremen.de/completed-quests/. Best wishes, Lisa managing editor gamevironments -- Dr. Dr. Lisa Kienzl (sie/ihr | she/her) Literaturen und Medien der Religion | Institut für Religionswissenschaft und Religionspädagogik http://www.religion.uni-bremen.de Lab "Media and Religion" | ZeMKI, Centre for Media, Communication and Information Research https://www.uni-bremen.de/en/zemki/labs/media-and-religion Managing editor gamevironments https://www.gamevironments.uni-bremen.de/ Universität Bremen Sportturm (SpT) Postfach 330 440 28359 Bremen T. +49 (0)421 218 67912

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12Streams 2021 #5 – Inaugural Lord Renwick Memorial Lecture w/ Vint Cerf
by Joly MacFie 31 Dec '21

31 Dec '21

One of the boons of the pandemic is that remote working has enabled Vint Cerf to participate in way more events than previously possible. My guess is his calendar had 100+ in 2021. This is one of the most prestigious, honoring the recently deceased UK Internet pioneer Lord Harry Renwick. [image: livestream] <https://livestream.com/internetsociety/12streams2021-5> On* Thursday December 30 2021*, in the fifth installment of the Internet Society Livestreaming‘s ‘*12 Days of Streams <https://isoc.live/?s=%2312streams>*‘ annual highlights, we feature the inaugural *Lord Renwick Memorial Lecture <https://isoc.live/14512/>* on September 9 2021. Guest Speaker *Vint Cerf* addressed the topic “*Wrestling with Alligators: Delivering on the Digital Promise*“. *VIEW ON LIVESTREAM: https://livestream.com/internetsociety/12streams2021-5 <https://livestream.com/internetsociety/12streams2021-5> *(Open captions) *TWITTER #12Streams <http://bit.ly/2t12HX2J> #renwick2021 @DPAlliance @VGCerf* *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/>* *ARCHIVE* *https://archive.org/details/12streams2021-5 <https://archive.org/details/12streams2021-5>* *Permalink* https://isoc.live/14940/ - -- -------------------------------------- Joly MacFie +12185659365 -------------------------------------- -

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12Streams 2021 #4 – Open Standards Everywhere – Dan York
by Joly MacFie 30 Dec '21

30 Dec '21

The ISOC Fundamentals series was a marathon event, taking place over a couple of weeks in April 2021, where each of 6 topics, Encryption, Community Networks, Infracom, Open Standards for Webservers, MANRS, Internet Way of Networking, was explored in 4 separate sessions, in 3 different languages, aimed at ISOC chapters and members in different regions, The entire thing is archived here <https://archive.org/details/isoc-fundamentals> ISOC Live posted: "Today, Wednesday December 28 2021, at 11:55pm EST (04:55 UTC Dec29) in the fourth instalment of the Internet Society Livestreaming‘s ‘12 Days of Streams‘ annual highlights, we feature a session the Internet Society's Fundamentals Series in April 2021. Dan" [image: livestream] <https://livestream.com/internetsociety/12streams2021-4>Today, *Wednesday December 28 2021*, at *11:55pm EST* (04:55 UTC Dec29) in the fourth instalment of the Internet Society Livestreaming‘s ‘*12 Days of Streams <https://isoc.live/?s=%2312streams>*‘ annual highlights, we feature a session the *Internet Society's Fundamentals Series <https://isoc.live/isoc-fundamentals/>* in April 2021. *Dan York <https://twitter.com/danyork>*, Director of Online Content, gives Chapters a primer on the '*Open Standards Everywhere <https://www.internetsociety.org/issues/open-standards-everywhere/>*' (OSE) project which aims to promote best practices to secure web servers. *VIEW ON LIVESTREAM:* https://livestream.com/internetsociety/12streams2021-4 (Open captions) *TWITTER #12Streams <http://bit.ly/2t12HX2J> #OSE @danyork @InternetSociety @ISOC_Community #ISOCFundamentals #StrongInternet* *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/>* *GITHUB* *https://github.com/InternetSociety/ose-documentation <https://github.com/InternetSociety/ose-documentation>* *ARCHIVE* *https://archive.org/details/12streams2021-4 <https://archive.org/details/12streams2021-4>* *Permalink* https://isoc.live/14935/ - -- -------------------------------------- Joly MacFie +12185659365 -------------------------------------- -

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FWD: Clinical Assistant Professor Opening at UNCG
by T. Zachary Frazier 29 Dec '21

29 Dec '21

Dear AIR-L Colleguages, I'm posting this to AIR-L in case any of you would be interested in our open position and also to ask that you could forward the following job posting to any doctoral candidate nearing the end of their studies or recent Ph.D graduates you know who may be interested. https://spartantalent.uncg.edu/postings/21106 The Department of Library and Information Science at UNCG is currently looking for a Clinical Assistant Professor to work with undergraduates in our Bachelor of Information Science Program. We're looking for a candidate who pairs technical abilities or deep knowledge about technology, with a passion for teaching and mentoring undergraduates. The clinical position is a teaching position with a 4/4 teaching load. These positions are well established at UNCG, and have competitive pay, promotion, and terms of appointments, which provide similar privileges to tenure. While the announcement says we're currently reviewing applications, we haven't had the opportunity to begin reviewing applications and the next committee meeting scheduled for 1/18. That meeting is likely when we will likely begin reviewing our candidate pool. Candidates with questions can contact Dr. Nora Bird (njbird(a)uncg.edu) or myself (tzfrazie(a)uncg.edu) This announcement and two other openings with our department in Instructional Technology are advertised in* The Chronicle *as well: https://jobs.chronicle.com/job/410084/multiple-faculty-openings-in-the-depa… Best, Zack

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12 Streams 2021 #3 - Beyond the Net webinar on Greening the Internet
by Joly MacFie 29 Dec '21

29 Dec '21

Just got this in past the post by a few minutes on 12 streams day 3! It's something that I missed streaming a couple of weeks back, that I've reconstructed from the zoom. Two great presentations, fantastic projects. What's notable is that a) the ISOC Foundation is showing broader scope than the Internet Society itself, and encouraging Chapters to do the same, b) in the case of Zimbabwe, a combined Beyond the Net and a research project has enough clout to sway the country's policy on e-waste, c) in the case of Serbia, a DIY open hardware project shows promise of scaling widely, while providing hard data for activists, and also giving the chapter a high profile. ISOC Live posted: "Today, Tuesday December 28 2021, at 11:55pm EST (04:55 UTC Dec29) in the third installment of the Internet Society Livestreaming‘s ‘12 Days of Streams‘ annual highlights, we feature the Internet Society Foundation webinar ‘Greening the Internet‘ from 16 D" [image: livestream] <https://livestream.com/internetsociety/12streams2021-3>Today, *Tuesday December 28 2021*, at *11:55pm EST* (04:55 UTC Dec29) in the third installment of the Internet Society Livestreaming‘s ‘*12 Days of Streams <https://isoc.live/?s=%2312streams>*‘ annual highlights, we feature the *Internet Society Foundation <https://www.isocfoundation.org/>* webinar ‘*Greening the Internet*‘ from 16 December 2021. The *Internet Society Zimbabwe Chapter <https://isoc.org.zw/>* presented their project ‘*Greening from the Margins: the Geopolitics of extractive, operational and post-consumer e-waste management*’ and the *Internet Society Serbia Belgrade Chapter <http://isoc.rs/>* presented their project ‘*Air to the people 2.0*’. *HOST* *Tasnim Broud*, Grants Specialist, Beyond the Net, Internet Foundation *PRESENTERS* *Jasper Mangwana*, ISOC Zimbabwe *Desiree Evans Miloševic & Nevena Nikolic*, ISOC Serbia Belgrade *MODERATOR* *Guilherme Rocca*, Grants Specialist, Beyond the Net, Internet Foundation *VIEW ON LIVESTREAM: https://livestream.com/internetsociety/12streams2021-3 <https://livestream.com/internetsociety/12streams2021-3>* (Open captions) *TWITTER #12Streams <http://bit.ly/2t12HX2J> #BeyondTheNet #greeningtheinternet @ISOC_Foundation @ISOCZIM @isoc_belgrade* *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/>* *https://www.facebook.com/ISOCAfrica/ <https://www.facebook.com/ISOCAfrica/>* *ARCHIVE* *https://archive.org/details/12streams2021-3 <https://archive.org/details/12streams2021-3>* *Permalink* https://isoc.live/14931/ - -- -------------------------------------- Joly MacFie +12185659365 -------------------------------------- -

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