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Digital Methods Summer School 2021 - Amsterdam
by Richard Rogers 23 Mar '21

23 Mar '21

{resending to the list without the inline hyperlinks} Digital Methods Summer School 2021 5 - 16 July 2021 Online via Zoom or in-person (as circumstances allow) New Media & Digital Culture University of Amsterdam Turfdraagsterpad 9 1012 XT Amsterdam the Netherlands Call for participation. Fake everything: Social media’s struggle with inauthentic activities This year’s Summer School has as its theme the so-called ‘faking’ and detecting of inauthentic users, metrics and content on social media. The uptick in attention to the study of the fake online could be attributed in the first instance to the ‘fake news crisis’ of 2016, where it was found that so-called fake news outperformed mainstream news on Facebook in the run-up to the U.S. presidential elections that year. That finding also set in motion the subsequent struggle around the occupation of the term from a type of news originating from imposter media organisations or other dubious sources to a ‘populist’ charge against mainstream and elite media that seeks to delegitimate sources found publishing inconvenient or displeasing stories. In its study we have had calls to cease using the term, fake news. There also has been a variety of classification strategies. Both the expansion as well as contraction of the term may be seen in its reconceptualisation by scholars as well as by the platforms themselves. The definitional evolution is embodied in such phrasings as ‘junk news’ and ‘problematic information’, which are broader in their classification, whilst the platforms appear to prefer the terms ‘false’ (Facebook) or ‘misleading’ (Twitter), which are narrower. On the back-end the platform companies also develop responses to these activities. They would like to automate as well as outsource its detection and policing, be it through low-wage content moderators, (volunteer) fact-checking outfits or user-centred collaborative filtering such as Twitter’s ‘birdwatchers’, an initiative they say born of societal distaste for a central decision-making authority, found through qualitative interviews. They also take major decisions to label content by world leaders (and indeed have world leader content policies), which subsequently land platform governance and decision-making in the spotlight. More broadly there has been a rise in the study of ‘computational propaganda’ and ‘artificial amplification’ which the platforms refer to as ‘inauthentic behaviour’. These may take the form of bots or trolls; they may be ‘coordinated’ by ‘troll armies’, which has been outlined in Facebook’s regular ‘coordinated inauthentic behaviour reports’. As its head of security policy puts it, Facebook defines it (in a roomy and plainspeak manner) as ‘people or pages working together to mislead others about who they are or what they are doing’. Occasionally data sets become available (by Twitter or other researchers) that purport to be collections of tweets by these inauthentic, coordinated campaigners, whereupon scholars (among other efforts) seek to make sense of which signals can be employed to detect them. Other types of individuals online also have caught the attention of the platforms as ‘dangerous’ (Facebook), and have been deplatformed, a somewhat drastic step that follows (repeated) violations of platform rules and presumably temporary suspensions. ‘Demonetisation’ also is among the platforms’ repertoire of actions, should these individuals, such as extreme internet celebrities, be turning vitriol into revenue, though there is also the question of which advertisers attach themselves (knowingly or not) to such content. Moreover, there are questions about why certain channels have been demonetised for being 'extremist’. Others ask, is ‘counter-speech’ an alternative to counter-action? On the interface, where the metrics are concerned, there may be follower factories behind high follower and like counts. The marketing industry dedicated to social listening as well as computational researchers have arrived at a series of rules of thumb as well as signal processing that aid in the flagging or detection of the inauthentic. Just as sudden rises in follower counts might indicate bought followers, a sudden decline suggests a platform ‘purge’ of them. Perhaps more expensive followers gradually populate an account, making it appear natural. Indeed, there is the question of which kinds of (purchased) followers are ‘good enough’ to count and be counted. What is the minimum amount of grooming? Can it be automated or is there always some human touch? Finally, there is a hierarchy in the industry, where Instagram followers are the most sought after, but ‘influencers’ (who market wares there) are often contractually bound to promise that they have not ‘participated in comment pods (group 'liking' pacts), botting (automated interactions), or purchasing fake followers'. Organisers: Richard Rogers, Guillen Torres and Esther Weltevrede, Media Studies, University of Amsterdam. Application information at https://www.digitalmethods.net Prof. Richard Rogers Media Studies University of Amsterdam Out now: R. Rogers (2019), Doing Digital Methods, Los Angeles: Sage. Just out: R. Rogers and S. Niederer (eds.) (2020), The Politics of Social Media Manipulation, Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press.

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WEBCAST TODAY – VIRTUAL PEERING SERIES – AFRICA #8: Death of Transit & The Evolving Role of IXPs | LA SÉRIE VIRTUAL PEERING – AFRIQUE #8: Mort du transit et évolution du rôle des IXP
by Joly MacFie 23 Mar '21

23 Mar '21

This is, by a long chalk, the most popular event in the Virtual Peering Series thus far - a LOT of sign ups. Of course, Geoff Huston has been harping on about this for some time. It will be interesting to see what the other operators have to say. ISOC Live posted: "On Tuesday March 23 2021, at 13:00-14.30 UTC, the African IXP Association, in partnership with the Internet Society, presents the eighth webinar in the Virtual Peering Series – Africa, with the theme 'Death of Transit & The Evolving Role of IXPs'. Th" [image: Livestream (English)] <https://livestream.com/internetsociety/afpeering8>On *Tuesday March 23 2021*, at *13:00-14.30 UTC*, the *African IXP Association <https://www.af-ix.net/>*, in partnership with the *Internet Society <https://www.internetsociety.org/regions/africa/>*, presents the eighth webinar in the *Virtual Peering Series – Africa <https://www.afpif.org/virtual-peering-series-africa/>*, with the theme '*Death of Transit & The Evolving Role of IXPs <https://www.afpif.org/virtual-peering-series-africa/death-of-transit-the-ev…>* '. The global Internet industry is consolidating. More traffic emanates from fewer autonomous systems every day, primarily due to the growth of global cloud & content delivery services. As more content and services migrate to their platforms, they work to expand their private global networks to the Internet’s edge via undersea cables, terrestrial networks, and data centers where they interconnect directly with eyeball networks. This installment of the Virtual Peering Series – Africa will explore what this phenomenon means for Internet exchange points (IXPs) in Africa and around the world. [image: Livestream (Francais)] <https://livestream.com/internetsociety2/afpeering8>Le *mardi 23 mars 2021*, de *13h00 à 14h30* UTC, l'*Association africaine des IXP <https://www.af-ix.net/>*, en partenariat avec l'*Internet Society <https://www.internetsociety.org/regions/africa/>*, présente le huitième webinaire de la série Virtual Peering - Afrique, sur le thème « *Mort du transit et évolution du rôle des IXP <https://www.afpif.org/fr/serie-de-peering-virtuels-afrique/mort-du-transit-…>* ». L’industrie Internet mondiale se consolide. Plus de trafic émane de moins de systèmes autonomes chaque jour, principalement en raison de la croissance des services mondiaux de cloud et de diffusion de contenu. À mesure que de plus en plus de contenus et de services migrent vers leurs plates-formes, ils s’efforcent d’étendre leurs réseaux mondiaux privés vers la périphérie d’Internet via des câbles sous-marins, des réseaux terrestres et des centres de données où ils s’interconnectent directement avec des réseaux oculaires. Cet épisode de la Série de peering virtuels – Afrique explorera ce que ce phénomène signifie pour les points d’échange Internet (IXP) en Afrique et dans le monde. *SPEAKERS / CONFERENCIERS* *Geoff Huston*, Chief Scientist, Asia Pacific Network Information Centre (APNIC) *Mark Tinka*, Head of Engineering, SEACOM *Christian Kaufmann*, Vice President Technology, Akamai Technologies *Patrick Christian*, Principal Analyst, TeleGeography *MODERATORS / MODÉRATEURS* *Kyle Spencer*, Executive Director, Uganda Internet Exchange Point and Co-Coordinator, African IXP Association *Caglar Dabanoglu*, Senior Network Architect, Akamai Technologies *LIVESTREAMS* *https://livestream.com/internetsociety/afpeering8 <https://livestream.com/internetsociety/afpeering8>* (English) (open captions) *https://livestream.com/internetsociety2/afpeering8 <https://livestream.com/internetsociety2/afpeering8>* (Francais) *PARTICIPATE VIA ZOOM https://bit.ly/3sO9AaZ <https://bit.ly/3sO9AaZ> *(EN/FR Interpretation, English closed captions) *REAL TIME TEXT* *https://www.streamtext.net/text.aspx?event=CFI-ISOC <https://www.streamtext.net/text.aspx?event=CFI-ISOC>* (English) *TWITTER #IPeerinAfrica <https://bit.ly/IPeerInAfrica> @internetsociety @AfIX https://bit.ly/IPeerInAfrica <https://bit.ly/IPeerInAfrica>* Geoff Huston @apnic Mark Tinka @SEACOM @ckatminxsdotnet @Akamai Patrick Christian @TeleGeography @kyleville @caglardabanoglu , *SIMULCASTS_* *https://www.pscp.tv/ISOC_Live/ <https://www.pscp.tv/ISOC_Live/>* *https://www.twitch.tv/isoclive <https://www.twitch.tv/isoclive> (English only)* *https://www.facebook.com/InternetSociety/live <https://www.facebook.com/InternetSociety/live>* *https://www.facebook.com/ISOCAfrica/live <https://www.facebook.com/ISOCAfrica/live>* *ARCHIVE* *https://archive.org/details/afpeering8 <https://archive.org/details/afpeering8>* *EVENT SPONSORS* LINX <https://www.linx.net/> | PAIX <https://paix.io/> | Rack Centre <https://rack-centre.com/> *SERIES SPONSORS* Facebook <https://about.fb.com/company-info/> | NAPAfrica <https://www.napafrica.net/> *Permalink* https://isoc.live/13825/ - -- -------------------------------------- Joly MacFie +12185659365 -------------------------------------- -

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CFP: Decelerated Academy? Enclosures, Enthusiasms, and Epidemics (Valencia, Spain, October 2021)
by German.Llorca＠uv.es 23 Mar '21

23 Mar '21

Dear Colleagues; As an institution, the University faces the challenge of its own survival in the 21st century. The educational ecosystem that integrates it is under pressure and some hard conditions that restrict the work of teachers and researchers. The ‘Accelerated Academy’ project is promoted by an international group of academics willing to problematize the university institution. The global aim of the initiative is to critically reflect and rethink the spaces and times that constitute the university as an institution. Edition #8 of the ‘accelerated academy’ arrives in Valencia in October 2021 with the title: “Decelerated Academy? Enclosures, Enthusiasms, and Epidemics”. The event is sponsored and co-organized by the University of Valencia (Spain) and CRITICOM and it is open to the entire international university, academic and research community. The conference will feature the opening and closing lectures by César Rendueles and Remedios Zafra and expects to open spaces for debate and the construction of alternatives for a ‘better university’. The main topics of the congress section of the event cover a great variety of points of view: - COVID-19 as leverage of previous debates of knowledge production and creative work. - Creative production within lockdown measures and online environments. - Intersectional inequalities as key factors in the pandemic consequences of creative labor. - Lasting and new hierarchies in Academic labor and their visibility. - North-South relationships regarding the investigation and the diffusion of results. - Deceleration of Academic workflows. - Uncertainty in future work and their emotional (enthusiasm) and material (Academic duties) implications. In the following link you can access the complete information of the CFP, including the key-dates information: https://accelerated.academy The organizers have put at your disposal the email address (accacademy8(a)uv.es) so that you can make any inquiries you may consider about the event. You all are invited to be part of it (!!!) The Organizers -- **************************** Germán Llorca Abad **************************** CLÀUSULA DE CONFIDENCIALITAT Aquest missatge ha estat generat des d'un compte de la Universitat de València per a les finalitats pròpies de la institució. El seu contingut es considera confidencial i, llevat que la seua naturalesa així ho exigisca, no se’n permet la reproducció o distribució sense autorització expressa. Si heu rebut indegudament el correu, us demanem que advertiu d'aquest fet al remitent i que l’elimineu. En el lloc web institucional de la Universitat de València podeu consultar les nostres condicions d'ús i polítiques de privacitat pel que fa a l'enviament de correu electrònic (http://links.uv.es/E0GKasq, http://links.uv.es/26uC3dX) Podeu comunicar qualsevol incidència relacionada amb la recepció dels nostres correus electrònics, i en particular aquelles que es relacionen amb la seguretat i la confidencialitat, mitjançant lopd(a)uv.es.

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Unsubscription
by Institut für Internet und Gesellschaft 23 Mar '21

23 Mar '21

Hello, please unsubscribe info(a)hiig.de from your list! i did it serveral times, but we still recieve e-mails. Thank you! best Maischa -- <http://www.hiig.de/>Alexander von Humboldt Institut für Internet und Gesellschaft gGmbH Französische Straße 9 · 10117 Berlin T +49 30 200 760 82 · F +49 30 206 089 60 · www.hiig.de <https://www.hiig.de> <http://www.facebook.com/HIIG.Berlin> <https://twitter.com/hiig_berlin> <https://www.instagram.com/hiigberlin/> Gesellschaftssitz Berlin | Amtsgericht Berlin Charlottenburg | HRB 140911B | USt-ID DE 291 151 171 Forschungsdirektorium: Prof. Dr. Jeanette Hofmann (Geschäftsführung) · Prof. Dr. Björn Scheuermann · Prof. Dr. Dr. Thomas Schildhauer · Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Schulz | Geschäftsführung: Dr. Karina Preiß

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WEBCAST TODAY: WSIS 2021 High-Level Policy Sessions 133/154: Bridging Digital Divides
by Joly MacFie 23 Mar '21

23 Mar '21

The first session of this is just finishing. High level could be interpreted to mean starchy wordiness, but there are nuggets to be found. Probably the best way to digest is to read the transcripts, which I will upload to the archive in short order. Spicing up proceedings is the inclusion of representatives from Cambodia and iran. ISOC is represented by Trustee Olga Cavalli, and USA by our FCC Chair Jessica Rosenworcel. ISOC Live posted: "Today, Monday March 22 2021 at 11:00-15:15 UTC the World Summit on the Information Society Forum 2021 (WSIS 2021) opens its High Level Sessions with two sessions, 133 and 154, on "Bridging Digital Divides". SESSION 133: 11:00-12:30 UTC OPENING Mr. Houlin " [image: livestream] <http://livestream.com/internetsociety/wsis2021-dd>Today, *Monday March 22 2021* at *11:00-15:15 UTC* the *World Summit on the Information Society Forum 2021 <https://www.itu.int/net4/wsis/forum/2021/>* (WSIS 2021) opens its *High Level Sessions <https://www.itu.int/net4/wsis/forum/2021/HighLevel>* with two sessions, *133 <https://www.itu.int/net4/wsis/forum/2021/Agenda/Session/133>*and *154 <https://www.itu.int/net4/wsis/forum/2021/Agenda/Session/154>*, on "*Bridging Digital Divides*". SESSION 133: 11:00-12:30 UTC *OPENING* *Mr. Houlin Zhao*, Secretary-General, International Telecommunication Union (ITU) *H.E. Mr. Maxim Parshin*, Deputy Minister, Ministry of Digital Development, Communications and Mass Media, Russian Federation *PANEL* *Mr. Stephen Bereaux*, Deputy Director, Telecommunication Development Bureau, International Telecommunication Union (ITU) *H.E. Ms. Masooma Khawari*, Minister, Ministry of Communications and Information Technology (MCIT), Afghanistan *H.E. Mr. Sanjay Dhotre*, Union Minister of State for Education, Communications and Electronics & Information Technology, Ministry of Communications, India *H.E. Mr. Hajymyrat Hudayguliyev*, Chairman (Minister), «Türkmenaragatnasyk» (Turkmen Communications) Agency, Turkmenistan *H.E. Dr. Jenfan Muswere*, Minister of ICT, Postal and Courier Services, Zimbabwe *H.E. Mr. Sattar Hashemi*, Deputy-Minister, Ministry of Information and Communication Technology, Iran (Islamic Republic of) *Mr. Chenda Thong*, Chairman, Telecommunication Regulator of Cambodia (TRC), Cambodia *Dr. Jacek Oko*, President, Office of Electronic Communications (UKE), Poland *Dr. Salma Abbasi*, Chairperson and CEO, eWorldwide Group *Ms. Clarisse Iribagiza*, Founder and CEO, HeHe *MODERATOR* *Dr. Olga Cavalli*, South School on Internet Governance SESSION 154:14:00-15:15 UTC *OPENING* *Malcolm Johnson*, ITU *PANEL* *Dr. Bilel Jamoussi*, Chief of the Study Groups Department, Standardization Bureau, International Telecommunication Union (ITU) *H.E. Dr. Daryl Vaz*, MP, Minister, Ministry of Science, Energy & Technology, Jamaica *H.E. Ms. Allyson West*, Minister, Ministry of Public Administration and Digital Transformation, Trinidad and Tobago *H.E. Ms. Pamela Gidi*, Vice Minister, Under Secretariat of Telecommunications, Chile *Ms. Nahima Díaz*, Director General, Instituto Nicaraguense de Telecomunicaciones y Correos TELCOR, Nicaragua *Mr. Apollo Knights*, Director, National Telecommunications Regulatory Commission, Saint Vincent and The Grenadines *Ms. Jessica Rosenworcel*, Acting Chairwoman, Federal Communications Commission, United States *Dr. Mercedes Aramendia*, Presidenta de Directorio de URSEC, UNIDAD REGULADORA DE SERVICIOS DE COMUNICACIONES (URSEC), Uruguay *Mr. Luis Pacheco Zevallos*, Manager, Enforcement Directorate, Telecommunications Regulatory Agency - OSIPTEL, Peru *Ms. Kate Wilson*, CEO, DIAL *MODERATOR* *Ms. Eleanor Sarpong*, Deputy Director & Policy Lead, A4AI/Web Foundation *LIVESTREAM http://livestream.com/internetsociety/wsis2021-dd <http://livestream.com/internetsociety/wsis2021-dd>* *REAL TIME TEXT https://www.streamtext.net/text.aspx?event=ITU-WSIS <https://www.streamtext.net/text.aspx?event=ITU-WSIS>* *TWITTER #WSIS2021 <http://bit.ly/WSIS2021>* *SIMULCASTS* *https://www.facebook.com/WSISprocess/live <https://www.facebook.com/WSISprocess/live>* *https://www.pscp.tv/ISOC_Live/ <https://www.pscp.tv/ISOC_Live/>* *https://www.twitch.tv/isoclive <https://www.twitch.tv/isoclive>* *https://www.facebook.com/isocny/live <https://www.facebook.com/isocny/live>* *ARCHIVE* *https://archive.org/details/wsis2021-dd <https://archive.org/details/wsis2021-dd>* *Permalink* https://isoc.live/13877/ -- -------------------------------------- Joly MacFie +12185659365 -------------------------------------- -

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Digital Methods Summer School 2021 - Amsterdam
by Richard Rogers 23 Mar '21

23 Mar '21

Digital Methods Summer School 2021 5 - 16 July 2021 Online via Zoom or in-person (as circumstances allow) New Media & Digital Culture University of Amsterdam Turfdraagsterpad 9 1012 XT Amsterdam the Netherlands Call for participation. For application information see here <https://wiki.digitalmethods.net/Dmi/SummerSchool2021>. Fake everything: Social media’s struggle with inauthentic activities This year’s Summer School has as its theme the so-called ‘faking’ and detecting of inauthentic users, metrics and content on social media. The uptick in attention to the study of the fake online could be attributed in the first instance to the ‘fake news crisis <https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/craigsilverman/viral-fake-election-new…>’ of 2016, where it was found that so-called fake news outperformed mainstream news on Facebook in the run-up to the U.S. presidential elections that year. That finding also set in motion the subsequent struggle around the occupation of the term from a type of news originating from imposter media organisations or other dubious sources to a ‘populist’ charge against mainstream and elite media <https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/0163443720906992> that seeks to delegitimate sources found publishing inconvenient or displeasing stories. In its study we have had calls to cease using the term <https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/0020174X.2019.1685231?casa_tok…>, fake news. There also has been a variety of classification strategies. Both the expansion as well as contraction of the term may be seen in its reconceptualisation by scholars as well as by the platforms themselves. The definitional evolution <https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-02003893/> is embodied in such phrasings as ‘junk news <http://comprop.oii.ox.ac.uk/wp-content/uploads/sites/89/2017/03/What-Were-M…>’ and ‘problematic information <https://datasociety.net/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/DataAndSociety_Lexiconof…>’, which are broader in their classification <https://misinforeview.hks.harvard.edu/article/research-note-the-scale-of-fa…>, whilst the platforms appear to prefer the terms ‘false’ (Facebook) or ‘misleading’ (Twitter), which are narrower. On the back-end the platform companies also develop responses to these activities. They would like to automate as well as outsource its detection and policing, be it through low-wage content moderators, (volunteer) fact-checking outfits or user-centred collaborative filtering such as Twitter’s ‘birdwatchers <https://blog.twitter.com/en_us/topics/product/2021/introducing-birdwatch-a-…>’, an initiative they say born of societal distaste for a central decision-making authority, found through qualitative interviews. They also take major decisions to label content by world leaders (and indeed have world leader content policies <https://blog.twitter.com/en_us/topics/company/2019/worldleaders2019.html>), which subsequently land platform governance and decision-making in the spotlight. More broadly there has been a rise in the study of ‘computational propaganda <https://ijoc.org/index.php/ijoc/article/view/6298>’ and ‘artificial amplification <https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/42884>’ which the platforms refer to as ‘inauthentic behaviour’. These may take the form of bots or trolls; they may be ‘coordinated’ by ‘troll armies’, which has been outlined in Facebook’s regular ‘coordinated inauthentic behaviour reports’. As its head of security policy puts it <https://about.fb.com/news/tag/coordinated-inauthentic-behavior/>, Facebook defines it (in a roomy and plainspeak manner) as ‘people or pages working together to mislead others about who they are or what they are doing’. Occasionally data sets become available (by Twitter or other researchers) that purport to be collections of tweets <https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/why-were-sharing-3-million-russian-tro…> by these inauthentic, coordinated campaigners, whereupon scholars (among other efforts) seek to make sense of which signals can be employed to detect them. Other types of individuals online also have caught the attention of the platforms as ‘dangerous’ (Facebook), and have been deplatformed <https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/0267323120922066>, a somewhat drastic step that follows (repeated) violations of platform rules and presumably temporary suspensions. ‘Demonetisation’ also is among the platforms’ repertoire of actions, should these individuals, such as extreme internet celebrities, be turning vitriol into revenue, though there is also the question of which advertisers attach themselves (knowingly or not) to such content. Moreover, there are questions about why certain channels <https://psycnet.apa.org/record/2019-06906-001> have been demonetised for being 'extremist’. Others ask, is ‘counter-speech’ an alternative to counter-action? On the interface, where the metrics are concerned, there may be follower factories behind high follower and like counts. The marketing industry dedicated to social listening as well as computational researchers have arrived at a series of rules of thumb as well as signal processing that aid in the flagging or detection of the inauthentic. Just as sudden rises in follower counts might indicate bought followers, a sudden decline suggests a platform ‘purge’ of them. Perhaps more expensive followers gradually populate an account, making it appear natural. Indeed, there is the question of which kinds of (purchased) followers are ‘good enough <https://wiki.digitalmethods.net/Dmi/SummerSchool2020GoodEnoughPublics>’ to count and be counted. What is the minimum amount of grooming? Can it be automated or is there always some human touch? Finally, there is a hierarchy in the industry, where Instagram followers are the most sought after, but ‘influencers’ (who market wares there) are often contractually bound to promise that they have not ‘participated in comment pods (group 'liking' pacts), botting (automated interactions), or purchasing fake followers <https://www.wired.com/story/instagram-fake-followers/>'. Organisers: Richard Rogers, Guillen Torres and Esther Weltevrede, Media Studies, University of Amsterdam. Application information at https://www.digitalmethods.net <https://www.digitalmethods.net/> Prof. Richard Rogers Media Studies University of Amsterdam Out now: R. Rogers (2019), Doing Digital Methods, Los Angeles: Sage. Just out: R. Rogers and S. Niederer (eds.) (2020), The Politics of Social Media Manipulation, Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press.

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looking for researchers on public movements advocating on telecom
by Patricia Aufderheide 22 Mar '21

22 Mar '21

For a Telecommunications Policy Research Conference panel on research about public interest advocacy in telecom, we're looking for people who would like to join! Deadline is end of March, yikes. Patricia Aufderheide, University Professor, School of Communication (she/her/hers) PhD Program Director 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<http://cmsimpact.org> paufder(a)american.edu<mailto:paufder@american.edu> 202-885-2069 office 240-643-4805 mobile Zoom Office Hours: https://american.zoom.us/j/96788556467?pwd=eFNpa2JMWlZQRm5pT1Z0b3RVUlRXQT09 Reclaiming Fair Use--t<https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/022637419X?pf_rd_p=d1f45e03-8b73-4c9a-9be…>he second edition is out, with new stories, quizzes and entirely new chapters on the surprising success of fair use in enabling creativity!

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SSN Seminar: 'Prototype Nation: China & the Contested Promise of Innovation' with Prof Silvia Lindtner
by Thao Phan 22 Mar '21

22 Mar '21

Please join us for this online seminar hosted by the Deakin Science and Society Network <https://scienceandsocietynetwork.deakin.edu.au/> (SSN). You can join the conversation on Twitter by following us at @SSNDeakin and using the hashtags #SSNseminar *Register here: *https://ssnseminar-silvialindtner.eventbrite.com.au *Date/time:* Tuesday 30th March, 10am - 11:30am (Australian Eastern Daylight Time, GMT+11) *Title:*Prototype Nation: China & the Contested Promise of Innovation *Abstract:* How did China’s mass manufacturing and “copycat” production become transformed, in the global tech imagination, from something holding the nation back to one of its key assets? Prototype Nation offers a transnational analysis of how the promise of democratized innovation and entrepreneurial life has shaped China’s governance and global image. Lindtner reveals how a growing distrust in Western models of progress and development, including Silicon Valley and the tech industry after the financial crisis of 2007–8, shaped the rise of the global maker movement and the vision of China as a “new frontier” of innovation. Lindtner’s investigations draw on more than a decade of research in makerspaces, tech incubators, corporate offices, and factories. She examines how the ideals of the maker movement, to intervene in social and economic structures, served the technopolitical project of prototyping a “new” optimistic, assertive, and global China. In doing so, Lindtner demonstrates that entrepreneurial living influences governance, education, policy, investment, and urban redesign in ways that normalize the persistence of sexism, racism, colonialism, and labor exploitation. Prototype Nation shows that by attending to the bodies and sites that nurture entrepreneurial life, technology can be extricated from the seemingly endless cycle of promise and violence. *About the speaker:* *Silvia Lindtner *(she/her) is Associate Professor at the University of Michigan in the School of Information and Associate Director of the Center for Ethics, Society, and Computing (ESC). She is a founding member of Precarity Lab, a research collective working on various forms of insecurity, vulnerability, and social and cultural exclusion that digital platforms produce, and mediate. She is the co-founder of the China research collective Hacked Matter, dedicated to critically investigating processes of technology innovation, urban design, and production cultures in China. Lindtner's research interests include cultures and politics of technology innovation and entrepreneurship, with a particular focus on the gendered and racialized forms of labor necessary to sustain and incubate technological promise. Lindtner draws from more than ten years of multi-sited ethnographic research, with a particular focus on China's position in the global political economy of technology production. Lindtner’s work contributes to the fields of STS (science and technology studies), cultural and feminist anthropology, China studies, HCI (human computer interaction), global communication studies, science and technology policy, and design. Her research has been awarded support from the US National Science Foundation, IMLS, Intel Labs, Google Anita Borg, and the Chinese National Natural Science Foundation. *About the respondent:* *Dr Luke Heemsbergen* is a Lecturer at Deakin University, Australia, and researches the political relations afforded through our digital choices in the real world. He was previously a Research Fellow at the Melbourne Networked Society Institute, and a ‘Berktern’ at Harvard’s Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society. His main research interests are based in the (digitally) networked terrain of radical transparency and democratic governing. Recently he’s been thinking about digital artefacts in the real world and physical artefacts from the digital world (from 3D printing to new ways of augmenting ‘reality’). *Dr Leonard Hoon* is a Senior Research Fellow in the Applied Artificial Intelligence Institute, leading the Health Technologies and AI Ethics portfolios for the institute, and is a Chief Investigator with the Australian Research Council Industrial Transformation Hub for Digital Enhanced Living. Leonard leverages his background in software engineering, usability and product management to enable research translation. Dr Hoon operates in discovery through to delivery of commercial research projects for the institute including work in human factors, natural language processing and the operationalisation of artificial intelligence. *Watch the seminar:* Seminar will be available to stream on YouTube live. Access using the live link: https://youtu.be/9WOJdCjA6LE Q&A with the speaker to follow. To send questions/participate in the chat, you'll need to sign-in using a YouTube account <https://www.businessinsider.com/how-to-comment-on-youtube?r=AU&IR=T>. The seminar will be recorded and available to watch on the SSN YouTube channel after the Livestream. If you have any questions, please send to ssn-info(a)deakin.edu.au <http://ssn-info@deakin.edu.au/>

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CFC: Edited Book: Big Data Intelligence for Smart Applications by Springer
by Yassine MALEH 22 Mar '21

22 Mar '21

*Edited Book: Big Data Intelligence for Smart Applications* *Publication in "Studies in Computational Intelligence <https://www.springer.com/series/7092>", by Springer and indexed by (Scopus & Web of Science)* *Call for Chapters: **Call for Chapters Link <https://sites.google.com/view/bigdatasmart>* *Submission link: Submission link <https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=bigdatasmart21>* *Chapter Submission Deadline: April 15, 2021 * ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Editors of the Springer Book "*Big Data Intelligence for Smart Applications*" invites submissions containing Original, High Quality Ideas that are relevant to the SCOPE OF THE BOOK. The chapter proposal may kindly be sent in Latex or Word format. The book will MAINLY focus on significant issues in the field of Big Data intelligence for smart applications. The book is mainly intended for post graduate students, research scholars, academics, industry and research lab scientists. The objective of this book is to provide state-of-the-art of research results, applications and real Big Data Intelligence deployment scenarios related to Smart Applications. EXPERIENCED Authors and Contributors in the field of Big Data intelligence may kindly submit their chapter. All chapter proposals that conform to submission guidelines will be peer reviewed and evaluated based on originality, technical and research content, depth, correctness, relevance to scope of the book and readability. For details the following website may kindly be referred: ------------------------------------------------------ Call for chapters Website <https://sites.google.com/view/bigdatasmart> *Topics of Interest:* This book targets a mixed audience of researchers, academics and investigators from different communities to share and exchange new ideas, approaches, theories and practice to resolve the challenging issues associated with the leveraging of Machine Intelligence and Big Data Analytics For Cybersecurity and Privacy paradigm. Therefore, the suggested topics of interest for this book include, but are not limited to: - Computing Models and Algorithms for Smart Applications - Machine Learning and AI technologies for smart applications - Advanced analytics, including data visualization, BI, real-time, predictive, prescriptive - Cloud strategies: hybrid, containerization, serverless, micro-services - Automated Machine Learning, Edge AI, Augmented Intelligence, Graphical Databases - Data governance and quality for smart applications - Digital Ops including DataOps, AIOps, CloudSecOps - AI in Healthcare – from Data to Intelligence - Big Data analytics in IoT-based smart applications - Big Data applications in smart city - Big Data intelligence for cyber-physical systems - Big Data Science Solutions for Real-life Applications - Big Data Analytics for cybersecurity and Privacy - Case Studies and Innovative Applications *Submission Procedure:* Authors are invited to submit their full chapter by *April 15, 2021*. Manuscripts submitted for the book must be original, must not be previously published or currently under review anywhere. Submitted manuscripts should respect the standard guidelines of the Springer book chapter format. Manuscripts must be prepared using Latex, or Word, and according to the Springer requirements that can be downloaded from the (*link <https://www.springer.com/de/authors-editors/book-authors-editors/resources-…>*) and the Chapter should contain in between *15-24 pages*. Manuscripts that do not follow the formatting rules will be rejected without review. Prospective authors should send their manuscripts electronically through the easychair submission system as mentioned below: *https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=bigdatasmart21* <https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=bigdatasmart21> *NB:* There are *no submission or acceptance fees* for manuscripts submitted to this book publication. All manuscripts are accepted based on a double-blind peer review editorial process. *Abstracting and Indexing:* The accepted chapters will be published in "*Studies in Computational Intelligence <https://www.springer.com/series/7092>*" by *Springer*, *h-index = 40*, highly indexed in S*copus, Thomson reuters, EI, DBPL, etc*… *Contact: * For questions regarding the book, please contact the *volume editors*: - *Youssef Baddi*: youssef.baddi(a)ieee.org <yassine.maleh(a)ieee.org> We look forward to hearing from you. -- Y. Maleh, Ph.D. *Senior Member IEEE* *Professor of Cybersecurity, ENSAK* *Editor in Chief IJSST <https://www.igi-global.com/journal/international-journal-smart-security-tec…>* *Associate Editor,* IEEE <https://ieeeaccess.ieee.org/editorial-leadership-and-staff/associate-editor…>*Access <https://ieeeaccess.ieee.org/editorial-leadership-and-staff/associate-editor…>, IJISP <https://www.igi-global.com/journal/international-journal-information-securi…>, IJDCF <https://www.igi-global.com/journal/international-journal-digital-crime-fore…>* <https://www.igi-global.com/journal/international-journal-digital-crime-fore…> Phone +212 608 867 568 Webiste: Personal Website <https://sites.google.com/view/maleh> *yassine.maleh(a)ieee.org <yassine.maleh(a)ieee.org>* ORC*ID* <http://orcid.org/0000-0003-4704-5364> ; *Pub* <https://publons.com/researcher/1529982>lons ; *R*esearch*G*ate <https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Maleh_Yassine> *Edited Book: Big Data Intelligence for Smart Applications* *Publication in "Studies in Computational Intelligence <https://www.springer.com/series/7092>", by Springer and indexed by (Scopus & Web of Science)* *Call for Chapters: **Call for Chapters Link <https://sites.google.com/view/bigdatasmart>* *Submission link: Submission link <https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=bigdatasmart21>* *Chapter Submission Deadline: April 15, 2021 * ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Editors of the Springer Book "*Big Data Intelligence for Smart Applications*" invites submissions containing Original, High Quality Ideas that are relevant to the SCOPE OF THE BOOK. The chapter proposal may kindly be sent in Latex or Word format. The book will MAINLY focus on significant issues in the field of Big Data intelligence for smart applications. The book is mainly intended for post graduate students, research scholars, academics, industry and research lab scientists. The objective of this book is to provide state-of-the-art of research results, applications and real Big Data Intelligence deployment scenarios related to Smart Applications. EXPERIENCED Authors and Contributors in the field of Big Data intelligence may kindly submit their chapter. All chapter proposals that conform to submission guidelines will be peer reviewed and evaluated based on originality, technical and research content, depth, correctness, relevance to scope of the book and readability. For details the following website may kindly be referred: ------------------------------------------------------ Call for chapters Website <https://sites.google.com/view/bigdatasmart> *Topics of Interest:* This book targets a mixed audience of researchers, academics and investigators from different communities to share and exchange new ideas, approaches, theories and practice to resolve the challenging issues associated with the leveraging of Machine Intelligence and Big Data Analytics For Cybersecurity and Privacy paradigm. Therefore, the suggested topics of interest for this book include, but are not limited to: - Computing Models and Algorithms for Smart Applications - Machine Learning and AI technologies for smart applications - Advanced analytics, including data visualization, BI, real-time, predictive, prescriptive - Cloud strategies: hybrid, containerization, serverless, micro-services - Automated Machine Learning, Edge AI, Augmented Intelligence, Graphical Databases - Data governance and quality for smart applications - Digital Ops including DataOps, AIOps, CloudSecOps - AI in Healthcare – from Data to Intelligence - Big Data analytics in IoT-based smart applications - Big Data applications in smart city - Big Data intelligence for cyber-physical systems - Big Data Science Solutions for Real-life Applications - Big Data Analytics for cybersecurity and Privacy - Case Studies and Innovative Applications *Submission Procedure:* Authors are invited to submit their full chapter by *April 15, 2021*. Manuscripts submitted for the book must be original, must not be previously published or currently under review anywhere. Submitted manuscripts should respect the standard guidelines of the Springer book chapter format. Manuscripts must be prepared using Latex, or Word, and according to the Springer requirements that can be downloaded from the (*link <https://www.springer.com/de/authors-editors/book-authors-editors/resources-…>*) and the Chapter should contain in between *15-24 pages*. Manuscripts that do not follow the formatting rules will be rejected without review. Prospective authors should send their manuscripts electronically through the easychair submission system as mentioned below: *https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=bigdatasmart21* <https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=bigdatasmart21> *NB:* There are *no submission or acceptance fees* for manuscripts submitted to this book publication. All manuscripts are accepted based on a double-blind peer review editorial process. *Abstracting and Indexing:* The accepted chapters will be published in "*Studies in Computational Intelligence <https://www.springer.com/series/7092>*" by *Springer*, *h-index = 40*, highly indexed in S*copus, Thomson reuters, EI, DBPL, etc*… *Contact: * For questions regarding the book, please contact the *volume editors*: - *Youssef Baddi*: youssef.baddi(a)ieee.org <yassine.maleh(a)ieee.org> We look forward to hearing from you. -- Y. Maleh, Ph.D. *Senior Member IEEE* *Professor of Cybersecurity, ENSAK* *Editor in Chief IJSST <https://www.igi-global.com/journal/international-journal-smart-security-tec…>* *Associate Editor,* IEEE <https://ieeeaccess.ieee.org/editorial-leadership-and-staff/associate-editor…>*Access <https://ieeeaccess.ieee.org/editorial-leadership-and-staff/associate-editor…>, IJISP <https://www.igi-global.com/journal/international-journal-information-securi…>, IJDCF <https://www.igi-global.com/journal/international-journal-digital-crime-fore…>* <https://www.igi-global.com/journal/international-journal-digital-crime-fore…> Phone +212 608 867 568 Webiste: Personal Website <https://sites.google.com/view/maleh> *yassine.maleh(a)ieee.org <yassine.maleh(a)ieee.org>* ORC*ID* <http://orcid.org/0000-0003-4704-5364> ; *Pub* <https://publons.com/researcher/1529982>lons ; *R*esearch*G*ate <https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Maleh_Yassine>

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Call for applications: Postdoctoral Fellowships 2021-2022
by Marie Santini 22 Mar '21

22 Mar '21

Call for applications Postdoctoral researcher vacancy Netlab - Internet Studies and Social Media Lab School of Communication, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro - UFRJ, Brazil ***** *Post-Doctoral Research Fellowship * *on Misinformation and Disinformation Campaigns at Netlab/UFRJ* *Our Project* Netlab is a research laboratory on Internet Studies and Social Media at the School of Communication (ECO), Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ) - Brazil, specialized in Online Disinformation Campaigns. We combine traditional social science methods and computational communication approaches. We understand that research into computational communication requires seamless integration of meaningful theoretical questions and background, powerful statistical tools and efficient computing algorithms. Researchers in our lab are working to unravel the intricate mechanisms behind burgeoning computational communication phenomena by collecting and analyzing online data on an unprecedented scale, bringing new life to old ideas, and new ideas to social life. *Main Research Topics* Netlab is seeking to appoint Post-doctoral Research Fellows to work on the interplay between misinformation, disinformation, news, and social media, with an emphasis on public opinion on at least one of these topics: 1. Civil society and social movements 2. Politics and elections 3. Climate change, land use, and environmental issues 4. Science and health We welcome postdoctoral submissions that further the understanding, development, and application of computational methods in disinformation research. Computational methods include (but are not limited to) methods such as text analysis, topic modeling, social/semantic network analysis, online experiments, machine learning, visual analysis and agent-based modeling and simulations. Computational methods can be applied to “big data” and social media, or online behavior data, but can also be used to provide a more sophisticated understanding of “small data” or for theoretical explorations. *Selection Criteria* The successful candidates must have a completed doctorate degree in any area but with experience in a substantive field of social science, including communication and media studies, sociology, statistics, political science, economy and/or social data science. The ideal candidate must also have familiarity with existing academic work on misinformation, disinformation, public understanding of politics, science and technology, media manipulation and propaganda, news media, online platforms, and digital media. Excellent written, editing, and verbal communication skills in English which demonstrate a potential to write and present at an international level are required. Portuguese and/or Spanish language skills are desirable. A record of published work on misinformation, disinformation and social media are very desirable, as well as a detailed knowledge of existing research on misinformation, public understanding of news, politics, elections, environmental issues and its relation to digital media. *How to Apply?* We have opened three postdoctoral positions. These are full-time, fixed-term appointments with a desired start date as soon as possible and no later than April 2021 for a one-year research fellowship. The individual appointed will be working with other researchers; postdoctoral fellows; Ph.D., master, and undergraduate students; and with the principal investigator behind the project, Professor R. Marie Santini, Head of the Netlab research team. Grant: R$4.100,00 per month (one-year fellow). This is a full-time, one-year position with the option of a second-year extension based on demonstrated performance. The closing date for applications is 11 pm on Monday, 12th April 2021 (GMT -3, Brazilian Standard Time). Candidates are required to send an email to netlab(a)eco.ufrj.br. All emails must use the subject title “Netlab Post-Doctoral Research Fellow” with the following documents attached (files in PDF format): - A supporting statement: a cover letter explaining your interest in, and experience with, the Netlab research agenda (written in English). The candidate must choose and indicate in the letter one of the areas below to work with: 1) civil society and social movements; 2) politics and elections; 3) climate change, land use and environmental issues; 4) science and health. - A Research Proposal (written in English) as part of your application in a 2- or 3-page project. This proposal is not necessarily a commitment to what you will work on at Netlab, but serves as a way for the application committee to assess your ability to plan a research project. - An up-to-date Curriculum Vitae with full academic records (in English). - A writing sample of a research paper or working paper (preferably in English but can be in Portuguese or in Spanish). - Reference letter (with contact information), preferably from an academic advisor, co-author, or research peer. *Postdoctoral Researchers Responsibilities* The duties of the researchers will be: - To work with other team members and the PI on developing methodological approaches. - To arrange and conduct empirical research and data collection. - To work with colleagues on analyzing and interpreting the data. - To interpret the results in light of contextual background provided by the wider project and other people’s research. - To liaise with other team members, the PI, and other partners on getting advice and input on the research design, data analysis, and conclusions. - To develop academic publications and other project output based on the research done, working closely with other postdoctoral researchers and the PI to finalize output. - To prepare a range of presentation materials suitable for external events, conferences, meetings, and workshops. - To represent the project at external events/conferences, either with the PI, postdoctoral researchers, or alone. - To develop ideas for further research (including ideas for generating research funds) and to present detailed research proposals to the principal investigator for future work in the Netlab area. - To work with other team members, the project coordinators, the principal investigator and Netlab partners (such as technology developers, companies, start-up partners, etc.) on other aspects of the wider project, to develop innovation and technology, and work with the rest of the Netlab staff as part of the everyday life of the laboratory. - To teach undergraduate and graduate classes under the PI’s supervision and coordinate internal workshops and study groups with Netlab staff. - To organize and coordinate Netlab external events, workshops, Summer and Winter Schools (2021-2022). *Summary* *Job title * Postdoctoral Research Fellow *University* Federal University of Rio de Janeiro *Division * School of Communication and The Brazilian Institute of Information, Science and Technology *Graduate Program* PPGCI - Graduate Program in Information Science - *Location * Netlab - Internet and Social Media Research Lab *Position modality* Remote work *Grant* R$4.100,00 per month (one-year fellow). *Hours * Full time (40 hours per week) *Contract type * Fellowship *Reporting to * Dr. R. Marie Santini (ECO/UFRJ) *Research topics* 1) civil society and social movements; OR 2) politics and elections; OR 3) climate change, land use, and environmental issues; OR 4) science and health. *Principal Investigator and Supervisor* Dr. R. Marie Santini (ECO/UFRJ). http://lattes.cnpq.br/8757803805826489 *Laboratory website* www.netlab.eco.ufrj.br _______________ Contact: netlab(a)eco.ufrj.br -- Dr. R. Marie Santini Associate Professor at the School of Communication Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ), Brazil Av. Pasteur, 250 – fundos, Urca, 22290902 - Rio de Janeiro, RJ - Brazil Founding member and Research Director of NetLab / UFRJ Orcid: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0657-7217 Website: http://www.netlab.eco.ufrj.br <http://www.netlab.eco.ufrj.br/home-en>

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