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Princeton Studies in Culture and Technology
by Tom Boellstorff 02 Mar '21

02 Mar '21

Dear all! Just a friendly reminder about the book series for which Bill Maurer and I are the Series Editors, the Princeton Studies in Culture and Technology. Details and a list of the amazing work we’ve been able to publish thus far are here: https://press.princeton.edu/series/princeton-studies-in-culture-and-technol… <https://press.princeton.edu/series/princeton-studies-in-culture-and-technol…> Please feel free to pass along to anyone who might be interested—we define “culture” and “technology” very broadly as you can see (and “anthropology” as well). I’m happy to chat with anyone interested in possibility publishing with the series! All the best, Tom Boellstorff tom boellstorff + professor + department of anthropology + university of california + irvine + website <http://faculty.sites.uci.edu/boellstorff/> a publication you might find interesting: The Ability of Place <https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/704924>

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Call for proposals closing soon for the 2021 Connected Learning Summit [submit by March 15]
by Jamieson L Pond 02 Mar '21

02 Mar '21

You have less than two weeks left to submit a proposal for the fourth annual Connected Learning Summit! This year, the event will run entirely online through the month of July, in 1 hour sessions scheduled between 9am – noon Pacific (noon-3pm Eastern). Connected Learning Summit 2021 July 1-31, 2021 | Virtual Event Deadline for submissions: March 15, 2021 Notifications of Acceptance: April 2021 Call for proposals page: https://clsummit.news/aoirCFP21 Our CFP for this year is focused on self-organized online workshops, symposia, networking opportunities, social, and gaming events tailored to an online format. We welcome your proposals for creating an inclusive, learner-centered, community-driven event that will break new ground in what is possible for online events and community-building. Our hope is that this event will strengthen the community and create a space for sharing of ideas that are relevant and timely today and for the future. Given the experimental nature of this year’s event, we welcome any and all creative ideas that meet the goals of sharing ideas and promoting connections within the CLS community. We will be accepting proposals for: - Workshops - Symposia - Experimental and Social Sessions Time Zones We are considering running some sessions at 4pm-6pm Pacific / 7pm-9pm Eastern, to accommodate participants in Asia and Australia. Please let us know if you would like to present during one of these later times when submitting your proposal. Forum We’ve heard from community members that they’d like a space to connect as they consider submissions for CLS2021. We're excited to announce the launch of the Connected Learning Summit’s new forum, a place where participants and presenters can connect, share presentation ideas, and self-organize sessions for CLS2021. As we get closer to the event, we are hoping this forum will also be a space for session organizers and participants to connect before and after their sessions, and share resources and materials. Forum sign up: https://2021.connectedlearningsummit.org/community/?foro=signup About the Connected Learning Summit CLS was first convened in 2018 with the mission to fuel a growing movement of innovators harnessing the power of emerging technology to expand access to participatory, playful, and creative learning. It represents a merger between three community events with this shared vision and values: the Digital Media and Learning Conference, the Games+Learning+Society Conference, and Sandbox Summit. With a unique focus on cross-sector connections and progressive and catalytic innovation, the event brings together leading researchers, educators, and developers. The event is co-hosted by UC Irvine’s Connected Learning Lab, MIT’s Scheller Teacher Education Program and Education Arcade, and the Learning Games Network and supported by a wide network of academic, industry, nonprofit, and philanthropic partners. Respectfully, *Jamieson Pond, Head of Communications* Connected Learning Lab University of California, Irvine CLAlliance.org <https://clalliance.org/> | ConnectedLearning.uci.edu <http://connectedlearning.uci.edu/> | ConnectedLearningSummit.org <https://connectedlearningsummit.org> Twitter: @TheCLAlliance <https://twitter.com/TheCLAlliance> | @TheCLSummit <https://twitter.com/TheCLSummit> LinkedIn <https://www.linkedin.com/company/connected-learning-alliance/> | Facebook <https://www.facebook.com/ConnectedLearningAlliance/> | YouTube <https://www.youtube.com/c/connectedlearningalliance> Connected Learning Newsletter <https://clalliance.org/newsletter> "Everyone you ever meet knows something you don't." - Bill Nye

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[CfP - 4S 2021]
by Baptiste Kotras 02 Mar '21

02 Mar '21

Dear fellow Internet researchers, Please find [ https://www.4sonline.org/128-new-wars-on-science-the-reconfiguration-of-con… | here ] (and below) the call for our open panel at the next 4S Conference, " New Wars on Science. The Reconfiguration of Contemporary Contestations of Science ", which will take place in Toronto and online, from October 6th to 9th 2021. This open panel aims to investigate the recent and growing contestation of epistemic authorities (scientific institutions, the media, the State). We would very much appreciate to receive submissions studying such contestations and controversies within digital worlds, through ethnographic and/or digital methods, as the Internet clearly is a crucial space in this matter. Submissions (250 words) should highlight the main argument, the methods and the theoretical frame employed. Deadline is March 8th . Please feel free to contact us for any question you might have. To submit your paper: [ https://convention2.allacademic.com/one/ssss/ssss21/ | https://convention2.allacademic.com/one/ssss/ssss21/ ] Best, Henri Boullier [ [ mailto:henri.boullier@dauphine.psl.eu | henri.boullier(a)dauphine.psl.eu] ] Baptiste Kotras [baptiste.kotras(a)u-pem.fr] New Wars on Science. The Reconfiguration of Contemporary Contestations of Science Lots of debates have recently arised about an alleged crisis of trust in science. Scientific knowledge is increasingly entangled in crossed accusations of ‘fakeness’, conspiracy and falsification, on a number of critical issues (vaccines, pollution, climate, etc.). To make sense of this somewhat blurry picture, this panel argues for the necessity to go back to the basics of STS, adopting a symmetrical approach of contemporary contestations of science. This way, we wish to depict a large continuum of critiques, mobilizations and material resources at play in the transformation of the way we collectively apprehend the scientific truth. Contributions could follow three lines of research: (1) by analyzing the material practices of so-called alternative science: how do climate skeptics or anti-vaxxers (for instance) collect data, design experiments, publicize results supporting their marginated theories? (2) by documenting how corporate actors strive to undermine scientific consensus in order to defend their interests (building networks of journals, think tanks, philanthropic organizations, etc.) and/or how scientific institutions deal with such corporate involvement in knowledge production; (3) by investigating the mobilization of heterogeneous actors (scientists, journalists, physicians) to fight what they consider irrational attacks against reason and progress. What kind of strategies, arguments and alliances do they build to “debunk fake science”? We welcome a variety of cases and methods, in particular analyses focusing on the Global South (with different epistemic traditions & non-hegemonic scientific production), and/or using digital methods. -- -- Baptiste KOTRAS Chercheur postdoc au LISIS Postdoctoral researcher at LISIS IFRIS / Université Paris-Est

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Social Media and/as Urban Research: A Workshop for Beginners
by Scott Rodgers 02 Mar '21

02 Mar '21

Social Media and/as Urban Research: A Workshop for Beginners Tuesday 30 March 2021, 2-5pm GMT+1 (UK Summer Time) Via Microsoft Teams Organisers: * Andrea Ballatore<http://www.bbk.ac.uk/our-staff/profile/8750177/andrea-ballatore> (Lecturer in Geographic Data Science, Dept. of Geography) * Scott Rodgers<http://www.bbk.ac.uk/culture/staff/teaching-staff/scott-rodgers> (Senior Lecturer in Media Theory, Dept. of Film, Media and Cultural Studies) * Sara Rodriguez (PhD student, Dept. of Geography) Sponsored by: * Urban Intersections Experimental Collective, Birkbeck Institute for Social Research Are you an urban researcher interested in using or focusing on social media in your project? Are you curious about some of the conceptual and methodological issues at stake? Social Media and/as Urban Research is a short workshop providing an introduction to conceptualising and approaching social media as part of urban research. Urban life today leaves numerous traces on various social media platforms, and these platforms are reshaping how we experience, communicate across and represent cities. Particularly after a long period of social distancing, many urban researchers have become more aware of social media, both as an alternative way to do urban research at-a-distance, but also as an emergent topic of urban research in its own right. This workshop is aimed at urban researchers at all levels, from the doctoral/ECR stage to professorial, who are at an early- or beginner-stage of interest and/or experience in social media as it relates to urban research. This interest may be in social media as either an instrument to research urban settings (e.g. to get background on a neighbourhood or topic, or recruit research participants) or as an object of urban research (e.g. an interest in the implications of social media practices or technologies for urban life) (cf. Zeller, 2017). Focusing on ‘small data’ qualitative urban research projects, you will draw on your own provisional ideas and experiences with fellow participants and begin to unpack the nature and accessibility of social data. We will also address the sometimes-ambiguous ethical issues related to researching human participants through social media, and glimpse how larger-scale data analytics can play a role in qualitative research projects. If you would like to participate, please register below, including 50-word statement explaining your research background and motivations for attending this workshop. In the event of high demand, we reserve the right to allocate places to those who would benefit most. Register your place: http://www.bbk.ac.uk/events/remote_event_view?id=19730 Registration deadline: 22 March 2021, 5pm GMT+1 (UK Summer Time) Before the event, participants will be sent a programme, required readings and a Microsoft Teams meeting link.

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Webinar: Deliberative Democracy - 24 March 2021
by Matthew Moore 02 Mar '21

02 Mar '21

More info & RSVP: https://meetu.ps/e/JQBXp/1327F/a Many Australians are disengaged from the democratic process and untrusting of those who are supposed to represent them. In response to this disenchantment, a range of deliberative processes have developed that allow citizens from diverse backgrounds to discuss issues in depth. Such processes mirror the shift of information and communications models in other domains from “broadcast” to “conversation” and offer practitioners both opportunities to learn and to deploy their skills in new ways. This session explores: - What deliberative democracy means in its different forms? - How it can work with existing institutions? - What might grassroots initiatives look like? Chris Riedy is Professor of Sustainability Transformations and Director of Graduate Research at the Institute for Sustainable Futures, University of Technology Sydney. Chris is Lead Steward of the Transforming Narratives network under the SDG Transformation Forum, a Senior Research Fellow of the Earth System Governance project, a member of the Sustainability Transitions Research Network and the New Economy Network Australia, and is on the Editorial Board of Futures. Nivek Thompson is undertaking a PhD at the Institute for Sustainable Futures focusing on answering the question: what impact do democratic innovations have on political elites’ understanding and practice of democracy? Nivek is the founder and director of Deliberately Engaging where she recruits mini-publics for deliberative processes around Australia and supports online engagement through the European crowdsourcing platform Synthetron. Willow Berzin is the Founder and Chief Assember of The Coalition of Everyone where she designs, curates and facilitates assemblies, bringing people together to hold real conversations that renew trust, disrupt the politics of fear, and build a politics of hope. Before this, she has many years of experience as a creative and brand director. UTS CRICOS Provider Code: 00099F DISCLAIMER: This email message and any accompanying attachments may contain confidential information. If you are not the intended recipient, do not read, use, disseminate, distribute or copy this message or attachments. If you have received this message in error, please notify the sender immediately and delete this message. Any views expressed in this message are those of the individual sender, except where the sender expressly, and with authority, states them to be the views of the University of Technology Sydney. Before opening any attachments, please check them for viruses and defects. Think. Green. Do. Please consider the environment before printing this email.

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CfP 4S 2021 Open Panel: Scaling Software Studies (Inside) Out: Parallelization, Scalabilities, Distributed Computing Machineries, and Their Materialities
by Yoehan Oh 02 Mar '21

02 Mar '21

*** Apologies for cross-postings *** Hello everyone, CALL FOR PRESENTATION ABSTRACTS: I'm writing this to invite you to the 4S 2021 (The Society for Social Studies of Science) open panel *#152 *"Scaling Software Studies (Inside) Out: Parallelization, Scalabilities, Distributed Computing Machineries, and Their Materialities." The 4S conference this year <https://www.4sonline.org/meeting/> will be an online/offline (Toronto, Canada) hybrid conference, from October 6th (Wed.) to 9th (Sat.). The deadline for submitting presentation abstracts (up to 250 words) is Monday, March 8th 2021, using the conference submission portal: https://convention2.allacademic.com/one/ssss/ssss21/. Please feel free to contact me if you have any questions on this panel: ohy(a)rpi.edu; yoehan.oh(a)gmail.com. Looking forward to hearing from you! Kind regards, Yoehan *PANEL ABSTRACT* (also at https://www.4sonline.org/152-scaling-software-studies-inside-out-paralleliz… ) Studies of information representation practices have shown that knowledge productions are conditioned by the affordances of those representing practices/systems like information architectures, classification schemas, and database management systems (Bowker & Star 2000; Bowker 2005; Poirier 2017) and that those systems’ affordances are materialized, carrying their own weight despite information’s supposed immateriality/virtuality (Edwards, 2010; Chun 2011; Dourish 2017; Jones 2017; Ribes 2017). Nevertheless, data processing practices having been parallelized and scaled out for last decades, from Google’s MapReduce, Spanner, BigTable (enabling to replace oligopolistic vendors’ proprietary software/hardware solutions with open-sourced/commodified software/hardware combinations), through Apache Hadoop (modeling Google’s distributed software), to Transformer (a more parallelizable deep-learning model, on which OpenAI’s GPT-3 was built) to name a few, have been less scrutinized, though these distributed practices contributed much to solving scalability issues (c.f. Ribes 2014) in ever-increasing resource-heavy computing systems, being epistemically infrastructured (Malazita & Resetar 2019). This panel seeks to collectively problematize those distributed systems for storing, indexing, retrieving, and pattern-recognizing data, and explore the themes/methods including, but not limited to, – How have distributed/parallel computing architectures (either software-or-hardware, or both) and algorithmic/programming models appeared in relation to others (Stevens 2013; Dourish 2016)? How are materialities and scalabilities related there? – Which hegemonic cultural/societal norms have those parallel systems and then-contemporary societies had in common (McPherson 2012)? – Are there any homogenizing, mono-cultural/geographical, or proprietary conditions these distributed computing machineries demand? By which methods would those conditions be noticed? What consequences follow? If those conditions should be cancelled/loosened, which alternatives (e.g. computing “of” the South) be needed (Amrute & Murillo 2020; Takhteyev 2012; Ochigame 2020)? *KEYWORDS* computing, distributed data processing, software studies, critical data studies, information infrastructure studies *REFERENCES* – Amrute, Sareeta, and Luis Felipe R. Murillo. “Introduction: Computing in/from the South.” *Catalyst: Feminism, Theory, Technoscience *6, no. 2 (2020): 1-23. https://doi.org/10.28968/cftt.v6i2.34594 – Bowker, Geoffrey C. *Memory Practices in the Sciences. *Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2005. – Bowker, Geoffrey C., and Susan Leigh Star. *Sorting Things Out: Classification and its consequences*. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2000. – Chun, Wendy Hui Kyong. “Always already there, or software as memory,” in *Programmed Visions: Software and Memory, *137-173. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2011. https://doi.org/10.7551/mitpress/9780262015424.003.0008 – Dourish, Paul. “Algorithms and their others: Algorithmic culture in context.” *Big Data & Society *3, no. 2 (2016): 1-11. https://doi.org/10.1177/2053951716665128 – Dourish, Paul. *The Stuff of Bits: An essay on the materialities of information. *Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2017. https://doi.org/10.7551/mitpress/10999.001.0001 – Edwards, Paul N. *A Vast Machine: Computer models, climate data, and the politics of global warming. *Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2010. – Jones, Matthew L. “Querying the Archive: Data Mining from Apriori to PageRank.” In *Science in the Archives: Pasts, Presents, Futures, *edited by Lorraine Daston, 311-328. Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press, 2017. https://doi.org/10.7208/chicago/9780226432533.003.0012 – Malazita, James W., and Korryn Resetar. “Infrastructures of abstraction: how computer science education produces anti-political subjects.” *Digital Creativity *30, no. 4 (2019): 300-312. https://doi.org/10.1080/14626268.2019.1682616 – McPherson, Tara. “US Operating Systems at Mid-Century: The Intertwining of Race and UNIX.” In *Race after the Internet, *edited by Lisa Nakamura, Peter Chow-White, 21-37. New York, NY: Routledge, 2012. – Ochigame, Rodrigo. “Informatics of the oppressed.” *LOGIC *11 (2020): 53-74. https://logicmag.io/care/informatics-of-the-oppressed/ – Poirier, Lindsay. “A Turn for the Scruffy: An Ethnographic Study of Semantic Web Architecture.” In *Proceedings of the 2017 ACM on Web Science Conference, *pp. 359-367. 2017. https://doi.org/10.1145/3091478.3091505 – Ribes, David. “Ethnography of scaling, or, how to fit a national research infrastructure in the room.” In *Proceedings of the 17th ACM conference on Computer supported cooperative work & social computing, *pp. 158-170. 2014. https://doi.org/10.1145/2531602.2531624 – Stevens, Hallam. *Life out of sequence: a data-driven history of bioinformatics. *University of Chicago Press, 2013. https://doi.org/10.7208/chicago/9780226080345.001.0001 *CONVENOR(S): * Yoehan Oh. Ph.D. Candidate at Department of Science and Technology Studies, at Rensselaer Polytechnic institute; ohy(a)rpi.edu; yoehan.oh(a)gmail.com. -- Yoehan Oh Ph.D. Candidate Department of Science and Technology Studies The School of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences Rensselaer Polytechnic institute 110 Eighth Street Troy, NY 12180 United States https://info.rpi.edu/people/yoehan-oh e-mail: ohy(a)rpi.edu ; yoehan.oh(a)gmail.com phone: (518) 368-1257 pronouns: he/him

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Informal Criminalized, Precarious: Sex Workers Organizing Against Barriers
by Danielle Blunt 01 Mar '21

01 Mar '21

Hi all, [Hacking//Hustling](https://HackingHustling.org) is so excited to announce a forthcoming event series in April on Informal Criminalized, Precarious: Sex Workers Organizing Against Barriers! This webinar series will bring sex workers into conversation with designers, academics, policy-makers, regulators, media, and tech companies to draw attention to issues plaguing sex workers online, including: content moderation, deplatforming, algorithmic profiling, surveillance, discrimination, data security, access barriers, and design justice. Learn more at: https://hackinghustling.org/informal-criminalized-precarious-sex-workers-or… Register:http://bit.ly/sextechinternet RT this tweet to share: https://twitter.com/hackinghustling/status/1366450379899219979?s=20[htt](ht… Event Schedule (in EST): Saturday, April 3, 4 – 5:30 pm: Sex Work as Work and Sex Work as Anti-Work Tuesday, April 6, 12 – 1 pm : Sexual Gentrification: An Internet Sex Workers Built Wednesday, April 7, 12 – 1 pm: Sex Worker Activism: Barriers, Exclusion, and Organising Thursday, April 8, 12 – 1 pm: Decoding Stigma: Designing for Sex Worker Liberatory Futures Thursday, April 8, 6 – 7:30 pm: Sex Work and Migration Monday, April 12, TBA: Sex Work in a Transnational Context Thursday, April 17, 6 – 7:30pm: Decriminalization Campaigns in the U.S. The conference is facilitated by The Disabled Sex Workers’ Coalition, Hacking//Hustling, Cornell Law School Gender Justice Clinic, Berkman Klein Centre for Internet and Society, and the Center for Information, Technology, and Public Life at University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill; we are co-sponsored by The Berger International Legal Studies Program, The Cornell Labor Law Clinic, The Dorothea S. Clarke Program in Feminist Jurisprudence, Justice Catalyst, and the Cornell student chapters of Outlaw. Please register and help us share! In solidarity, Danielle Blunt (she/her) Sent with [ProtonMail](https://protonmail.com) Secure Email.

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cfp @ 4s :Academic Automation, Machine Un/Learning and Artificial Non/Intelligence
by Jeremy Hunsinger 01 Mar '21

01 Mar '21

7. Academic Automation, Machine Un/Learning and Artificial Non/Intelligence Over the last 70 years, computational and networked media have become deeply integrated with higher education and have slowly adopted and integrated various technologies. The newest generation of technologies engaging higher education centers around what is popularly called artificial intelligence, otherwise known as machine learning. Machine learning creates models that, in part self-design solutions that may include interaction, prediction, and other simulatable aspects. This panel invites papers that engage with questions of academic automation, machine un/learning, and artificial non/intelligence in the academic context. It seeks critical papers that examine questions around automatic grading, artificial teaching assistants, robotic instructors, other academic technologies, and the transformation of the student and professor roles concerning these technologies. This panel also seeks papers that engage these technologies in other academic roles, such as research or service as work. How are these technologies mediating different academic functions? Who benefits from these technologies? And who is privileged by them? We have to consider the roles of craft, artistry, and humanity in those roles. Is there an argument to be made for automation in the academy? Is there an argument to be made for AI/Machine learning in the academy? What kind of relations do these establish? Following Ivan Illich, should we be rethinking our relations to develop tools and systems that treat us as human, perhaps even more human than our current system? Following Virilio, what will be their accident? What are the good relations between our academic institutions, their people, and these new technologies? Keywords: academic automation, AI in the academy, new academic technologies call-for-submissions Directions and rules https://convention2.allacademic.com/one/ssss/ssss21/index.php direct link to submissions -- Jeremy Hunsinger Associate Professor Communication Studies Wilfrid Laurier University

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Funding for international students: MA in IR and Global Communications, Manchester Metropolitan University
by Adi Kuntsman 01 Mar '21

01 Mar '21

Deareveryone, please spread the word to anyone who might be interested in applyingfor this programme Weare proud to announce that our successful MA in International Relations andGlobal Communications (https://www.mmu.ac.uk/study/postgraduate/course/ma-international-relations-… offering scholarships of up to £3,000 to international students applying forfull time study for September 2021. Details of the scholarship are here: https://www.mmu.ac.uk/study/international/before-you-apply/fees-and-funding… Furtherinformation about the MA: The relationship between politics and communications hasnever been more dynamic or more important than it is today. Digital media,particularly social media, is fundamentally changing the terrain of politics.This course allows you to study those interactions within an interdisciplinaryenvironment, drawing on research and expertise from the fields of politics,international relations, information and communications, journalism andlinguistics. You will study media and communications theory, plus thehistorical development of international relations and key issues incontemporary global politics, becoming an expert in how new communicationtechnologies shape societies, politics and individual lives. Furtherinformation about funding: ·Applicants must hold an offer for a full, taught Masters course (180 credits)at Manchester Metropolitan University. ·This offer is only available for programmes commencing in September 2021 orJanuary 2022. ·Eligible applicants who achieve a UK First Class degree, or the internationalequivalent, in their undergraduate studies will be awarded a £3,000Scholarship. ·Eligible applicants with a degree classification which is lower than a UK FirstClass degree, or the international equivalent, in their undergraduate degreewill be awarded a £2,000 Scholarship. Dr Adi Kuntsman, Reader in Digital Politics Programme Leader, MA in International Relations and Global Communications Coordinator, PhD pathway in Digital Politics Department of Politics | Manchester Metropolitan University Geoffrey Manton Building| Manchester | M15 6LL| Web| Online office hours (term time only): Thursday 1-2pm and Friday 4-5pm on Teams (chat or call). Latest publications: --“Reverberation, Affect and Digital Politics ofResponsibility”, in Boler and Davis, AffectivePolitics of Digital Media: Propaganda by Other Means, Routledge. --“Environmentalmedia amidst the COVID-19 pandemic”, rapid response special issue of Journal of Environmental Media (co-edited with Becky Alexis-Martin and Liu Xin)

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MGRL Lecture Series: David Parisi & Justin Grandinetti
by Adriana de Souza e Silva 01 Mar '21

01 Mar '21

*** Apologies for cross-postings*** Department of Communication Mobile Gaming Research Lab Spring ‘21 Lecture Series Please join us for the Mobile Gaming Research Lab’s Spring ‘21 Lecture Series webinar. To celebrate the release of the Retro Mobile Gaming Database (http://database.mglab.chass.ncsu.edu <http://database.mglab.chass.ncsu.edu/>/), this webinar will feature scholars whose research is at the intersection of mobile games, archives and history. The talks will explore the history of touch-based mobile game interfaces and how Pokémon Go contributes to the creation of digital memory. WHEN: April 7, 2021 | 1:30-2:30 p.m. EST Featured Presentations Instrumentalities of Touch in Mobile Game Interfaces Dr. David Parisi, Associate Professor of Communication, College of Charleston (USA) Touch-based mobile game interfaces, by opening up new sites of contact between players and games, participate in a fantastical re-imagination of touch that originated in 1950s theories of information transmission. According to this model, touch could be deployed as the standing reserve of audiovisual interfaces, an alternative pathway for transmitting messages that compensates for the overloading and overcrowding of seeing and hearing in the modern media environment. By mapping the gap between these imagined transformative uses for digital touch and touch’s comparatively mundane deployment in contemporary mobile games, this talk provides a framework for further explorations of the relationship between mobile gaming and tactility. Speaker Bio (https://communication.cofc.edu/about/faculty-staff-listing/parisi-david.php <https://communication.cofc.edu/about/faculty-staff-listing/parisi-david.php>) » Pokémon GO and Digital Memory Dr. Justin Grandinetti, Assistant Professor of Communication, University of North Carolina Charlotte (USA) Critical to the functionality of the location-aware augmented reality mobile gameplay of Pokémon GO are elements of pervasive data collection, storage, and processing. For the player, this manifests in location-aware log and journal features, but also through the new Pokéstop scanning process that allows developer Niantic to “crowdsource” AR maps. In this presentation, Dr. Grandinetti will examine the digital memory of Pokémon GO as posthuman cognitive assemblage (Hayles, 2016; Lee, 2018) and part of a lineage of a personalized relation to space. Speaker Bio (http://www.justingrandinetti.com/ <http://www.justingrandinetti.com/>)» REGISTER HERE: https://ncsu.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_Mxndqj3NQbCTlMS9aqoFmw <https://ncsu.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_Mxndqj3NQbCTlMS9aqoFmw> _________________________ Adriana de Souza e Silva University Faculty Scholar Professor Department of Communication NC State University http://www.souzaesilva.com _________________________ Adriana de Souza e Silva University Faculty Scholar Professor Department of Communication NC State University http://www.souzaesilva.com

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