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Extension to call for abstracts: New Zealand Discourse Conference 10-11 December 2021
by Donald Matheson 16 Jun '21

16 Jun '21

Extension to call for abstracts and panel proposals New deadline: 2 August 2021 Dear colleagues If you research discourse, please join us at the eighth NZDC in Christchurch this December. 8th New Zealand Discourse Conference (NZDC8) Location: University of Canterbury, Christchurch, Aotearoa New Zealand and virtually via Zoom Dates: 10-11 December 2021 Call for papers The New Zealand Discourse Conference is a biennial event which brings together scholars working in a range of fields who study some form of discourse or use discourse analysis to understand other phenomena. The conference welcomes contributions that consider discourse and interaction in a variety of contexts, including interpersonal talk, institutional settings, organisational communication, mediated communication, as well as policy, political and cultural lenses on discourse. The conference welcomes diversity in theoretical and analytical approaches. Suggested areas of interest include: Political discourse Communication in bicultural and multicultural contexts Discourse and identity Language, gender and sexuality Leadership discourse Corpus approaches to discourse analysis Multimodal discourse analysis Narrative, stance and positioning Life stories Media discourse Interpretive discourses Discursive tensions and conflict Digitisation and discourse Plenary speakers include: Prof Monica Heller, University of Toronto Dr Majid KhosraviNik, Newcastle University Prof Gail Fairhurst, University of Cincinnati Deadline for abstracts and panel proposals: 5pm NZT, 2 August 2021 Decision on acceptance: Monday 12 September 2021 All abstracts will be blind peer-reviewed and must be between 750 and 1000 words. A selection will be invited to submit full 7000 word papers for a special issue of Communication Research and Practice. Waged, attending in person: NZ$200 Student and unwaged, attending in person: NZ$95 Waged, attending virtually: NZ$110 Student and unwaged, attending virtually: $60 Further information and registration see https://www.canterbury.ac.nz/arts/nzdc8/ Email: nzdc8(a)canterbury.ac.nz<mailto:nzdc8@canterbury.ac.nz> Format The conference will operate live during Aotearoa New Zealand day time, although sessions will be recorded and available afterwards. You can participate by attending in Christchurch or from your home town via Zoom. Plenary presentations will take place live. Other presentations (7-10 minutes long) should be recorded, but at least one presenter of each paper should attend their session in person or on Zoom. The conference will encourage discussion and provide time in each session for face-to-face questions and Zoom chat. At sites with multiple participants, we will help you gather and with providing morning and afternoon tea (according to what is possible while following good public health advice for the region). Because travel to Aotearoa New Zealand from outside the bubble with Australia is uncertain, we recommend international participants plan to take part remotely. In case of New Zealand entering Covid-19 level 3 or 4, the conference will move entirely online. Submission guidelines Please email abstracts of papers and proposals for panels to nzdc8(a)canterbury.ac.nz<mailto:nzdc8@canterbury.ac.nz>. Abstracts should be 750-1000 words in total. Please specify the area of your presentation and provide keywords to help us put together the sessions. Panel proposals should provide an overall justification of 300-500 words, name of chair/respondent and also specify how each participant will contribute (300 words per presenter). When proposing panels, please let us know the format you suggest would work best for the panel. Panels may be either face-to-face or Zoom-based. All abstract and panel proposals will be reviewed by our conference team and invited reviewers. Conference convenors Assoc Prof Donald Matheson donald.matheson(a)canterbury.ac.nz<mailto:donald.matheson@canterbury.ac.nz> Prof Colleen Mills colleen.mills(a)canterbury.ac.nz<mailto:colleen.mills@canterbury.ac.nz>

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Free online course: a cognitive approach to media and radicalization
by cbouko 16 Jun '21

16 Jun '21

[image: https://mcusercontent.com/c0709015288f63648a89af41c/images/6d0bc8e8-05b2-e2…] Dear AoIR colleagues, As researcher at Ghent University and partner in the EU-funded counter-radicalization project PRECOBIAS, I would love to share with you a *free online course* that has been developed in the framework of this project. The course takes a *cognitive approach to radicalization* and aims to reveal the mental processes that are activated when young vulnerable people are confronted with extremist online content. During a 12-hour program, which they can start at any moment and follow at their own pace, participants are introduced to key theories surrounding *radicalization and violent extremism*, and gain insights into the principles of *information processing and automatic thinking*. The course then explores how extremist online content can fuel radicalization processes by triggering *cognitive biases*, and how helping young vulnerable people develop a *critical and resilient attitude* can play an important role in radicalization prevention. This free online course can be very valuable for scholars, students and anyone with an interest in topics like media literacy, psychology, or counter-terrorism. It is a great opportunity to further explore these topics and learn more extensively about radicalization from a cognitive perspective. The course is available in *7 languages* (English, French, German, Italian, Hungarian, Polish and Slovenian) and can be accessed via the *link below*. Upon completing the course, participants receive a *Certificate of Achievement* issued by *Ghent University* and the *Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich*. Thank you very much! Kind regards Prof. Catherine Bouko, Ghent University *Go to PRECOBIAS online course* <https://ugent.us7.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c0709015288f63648a89af41c&i…> [image: Twitter] <https://ugent.us7.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c0709015288f63648a89af41c&i…> [image: Facebook] <https://ugent.us7.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c0709015288f63648a89af41c&i…> [image: Website] <https://ugent.us7.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c0709015288f63648a89af41c&i…> [image: https://ugent.us7.list-manage.com/track/open.php?u=c0709015288f63648a89af41…] -- Catherine Bouko Ghent University Faculty of Arts and Philosophy Groot-Brittanniëlaan 45 9000 Gent Belgium Bureau: B2.06 http://research.flw.ugent.be/en/catherine.bouko

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JUST AI project Events Week:
by Powell,A 16 Jun '21

16 Jun '21

Over the last year the JUST AI project,<https://www.adalovelaceinstitute.org/just-ai/> supported by the AHRC and the Ada Lovelace Institute has been working on a number of exciting ways to explore data and AI ethics. Our flagship event series, Prototyping AI Ethics Futures, which will take place from 21-25 June, online and in person in London and Exeter, UK. We'd love to have AOIR community members at these online events: CAPACITY BUILDING the Monday session on capacity building<https://www.adalovelaceinstitute.org/event/prototyping-ai-ethics-futures-bu…> on Monday the 21st of June. Prof Edward Harcourt of the AHRC will be chairing my conversation with Hetan Shah, CEO of the British Academy and Prof Gina Neff, about JUST AI's network mapping and areas of potential interconnection that are yet underdeveloped. DATA & ENVIRONMENT: the Tuesday session on Data, AI and the Environment<https://www.adalovelaceinstitute.org/event/prototyping-ethics-futures-data-…> where Professor Teresa Dillon will chair a conversation between data scientist and activist Jaya Chakrabarti and Prof Jennifer Gabrys from the University of Cambridge. RIGHTS, ACCESS AND REFUSAL: On Wednesday we discuss Rights, Access and Refusal<https://www.adalovelaceinstitute.org/event/prototyping-ai-ethics-futures-ri…> with Dr Alex Taylor, Crystal Lee and Mara Mills, chaired by Dr Louise Hickman and Alexa Hagerty RACIAL JUSTICE: The Thursday session on Racial Justice<https://www.adalovelaceinstitute.org/event/prototyping-ai-ethics-futures-ra…> features the work of JUST AI Fellows Yasmine Boudiaf, Sara Chander, Irene Fubara-Manuel, and Squirrel Nation in conversation with Carly Kind, director of the Ada Lovelace Institute. ETHICS IN PRACTICE the Friday session on Ethics in Practice<https://www.adalovelaceinstitute.org/event/prototyping-ai-ethics-futures-et…>, in which my colleague Imre Bard will co-host a conversation together with Andrew Strait from the Ada Lovelace Institute. The discussion will explore the challenges of prioritising ethics in early-stage technology development. The panelists include Libby Kinsey from Ocado, Prof Shannon Vallor from Edinburgh, William Isaac from DeepMind and Mona Sloane from NYU. You can find a full list of our event series at this Linktree address<https://linktr.ee/justai>. All best! Alison.

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[AoIR] Free online course: a cognitive approach to media and radicalization
by cbouko 16 Jun '21

16 Jun '21

[image: https://mcusercontent.com/c0709015288f63648a89af41c/images/6d0bc8e8-05b2-e2…] Dear AoIR colleagues, As researcher at Ghent University and partner in the EU-funded counter-radicalization project PRECOBIAS, I would love to share with you a *free online course* that has been developed in the framework of this project. The course takes a *cognitive approach to radicalization* and aims to reveal the mental processes that are activated when young vulnerable people are confronted with extremist online content. During a 12-hour program, which they can start at any moment and follow at their own pace, participants are introduced to key theories surrounding *radicalization and violent extremism*, and gain insights into the principles of *information processing and automatic thinking*. The course then explores how extremist online content can fuel radicalization processes by triggering *cognitive biases*, and how helping young vulnerable people develop a *critical and resilient attitude* can play an important role in radicalization prevention. This free online course can be very valuable for scholars, students and anyone with an interest in topics like media literacy, psychology, or counter-terrorism. It is a great opportunity to further explore these topics and learn more extensively about radicalization from a cognitive perspective. The course is available in *7 languages* (English, French, German, Italian, Hungarian, Polish and Slovenian) and can be accessed via the *link below*. Upon completing the course, participants receive a *Certificate of Achievement* issued by *Ghent University* and the *Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich*. Thank you very much! Kind regards Prof. Catherine Bouko, Ghent University *Go to PRECOBIAS online course* <https://ugent.us7.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c0709015288f63648a89af41c&i…> [image: Twitter] <https://ugent.us7.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c0709015288f63648a89af41c&i…> [image: Facebook] <https://ugent.us7.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c0709015288f63648a89af41c&i…> [image: Website] <https://ugent.us7.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c0709015288f63648a89af41c&i…> [image: https://ugent.us7.list-manage.com/track/open.php?u=c0709015288f63648a89af41…] -- Catherine Bouko Ghent University Faculty of Arts and Philosophy Groot-Brittanniëlaan 45 9000 Gent Belgium Bureau: B2.06 http://research.flw.ugent.be/en/catherine.bouko

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Resending a 2-minutes experiment about the theater experience
by Maria Rosa Miccoli 16 Jun '21

16 Jun '21

Dear all, I have recently written to you to advertise a very short experiment about the value of leisure activities during a pandemic. I am sending you the link again because I am still far away from the target sample. Here is the link: http://wextor.eu:8080/iSciencecore/vofr/index.html?source=mlr I suggest you to use your Desktop, with a preference for browsers such as Firefox or Internet Explorer. Also, please send me an e-mail if you have problems with the link and/or in filling out the form: I will be happy to help you! I also renew my invitation for suggestions and comments on the study :) We have been living an extraordinary era that required us to give up on many leisure activities for a very important reason. Now, what type of value do we give to leisure activities? I would like to investigate this topic during my first year of PhD at the Konstanz University. For this reason, I kindly invite you to participate in a 2 minutes experiment about the theater experience. Thanks to everyone who finds two minutes to participate! I'm also open to advice on possible platforms to publish experiments online: I'm already using reddit and some groups on Facebook and LinkedIn but if you know any other groups/mailing lists, please let me know. Best wishes and stay safe! Maria Rosa Miccoli PhD student @Konstanz University

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3 Positions Amsterdam Digital Humanities and Data Science
by Blanke, Tobias 16 Jun '21

16 Jun '21

Dear all The University of Amsterdam is looking to fill three positions in the new Amsterdam Data Science centre (https://www.uva.nl/en/content/news/news/2020/10/uva-to-accelerate-data-driv…) The positions are all linked to various questions of digital humanities and data science. The deadline is quite tight but the good news is that the positions are all permanent. * Data Engineer in Cultural Data Collection and Linking (1 FTE): https://www.uva.nl/shared-content/uva/en/vacancies/2021/06/21-445-data-engi… * Cultural Analytics (1 FTE): https://www.uva.nl/shared-content/uva/en/vacancies/2021/06/21-456-research-… * Ethical Data Scientist (0.5 FTE): https://www.uva.nl/shared-content/uva/en/vacancies/2021/06/21-483-postdocto… All best Tobias

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This Friday! Digital literacies for a healthy democracy - DCMS Committee event - International focus
by Carmi, Elinor 16 Jun '21

16 Jun '21

Hello everyone, I hope you're all keeping well and safe these days. Join us THIS Friday for the International focused event titled - "Digital literacies for a healthy democracy" - hosted by the UK's Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS) Committee. This event is part of my Academic Parliamentary Fellowship, and it is meant to feed into the DCMS Online Safety Bill*, which was previously called the Online Harms Bill. This event brings together academics, practitioners and policymakers to discuss the current digital literacies landscape and talk about possible future paths. International focused event - Friday 18th June at 14:00 (BST time) panel participants: 1. Professor Payal Arora, Professor at Erasmus University, Co-Founder of FemLab.Co and Founder and Director of Catalyst Lab 2. Marielza Oliveira, UNESCO co-Director for Freedom of Expression and Access to Information. 3. Professor Colin Rhinesmith, Associate Professor and Director of the Community Informatics Lab, Simmons University 4. Professor Marie Gillespie, Professor of Sociology at the Open University. Register here for FREE - https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/dcms-committee-digital-literacy-event-intern… The Twitter hashtag for the events is #DCMSComLiteracy. The beginning of the panel will start with questions prepared in advance and then the discussion will be open for questions from the audience that will be asked on the Q&A section. Insights from the event will be included in a final report for the DCMS Committee. If you're an academic, practitioner, activist, educator, or policymaker working in the areas of: - digital/data literacies - digital/data inequalities - digital/data inclusion - all topics around education Please join the debate! Your participation and contribution are extremely valuable to this work. * Here you can find the revised and recently published draft version of the Online Safety Bill - https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/draft-online-safety-bill. Any questions or comments please feel free to email me. Take care and best wishes, Dr. Elinor Carmi, Postdoc Research Associate - Digital Media & Society, Department of Communication and Media, Faculty of the Humanities and Social Sciences, School of the Arts, Liverpool University, UK. https://elinorcarmi.com<https://elinorcarmi.com/> Twitter: @Elinor_Carmi

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WEBCAST JUNE 23 – Present Trends and Visions of the Future: An IGF-USA Preview Event
by Joly MacFie 16 Jun '21

16 Jun '21

They did this <https://isoc.live/12441/> last year too. A great data-driven 'State of the Net' presentation, at least USA-wise, from Lee Rainie. The actual IGF-USA takes place July 14-15, registration is open <https://bit.ly/3guhBPf> (free). ISOC Live posted: "On Wednesday June 23 2021 at 3:30-5:30pm EDT (19:30-21:30 UTC) the Internet Governance Forum USA will hold 'Present Trends and Visions of the Future: An IGF-USA Preview Event'. To understand what our increasingly tech-driven future might look like in 2025" [image: Livestream] <http://livestream.com/internetsociety/igf-usa-2021-preview>On *Wednesday June 23 2021* at *3:30-5:30pm EDT* (19:30-21:30 UTC) the *Internet Governance Forum USA <https://www.igfusa.us/>* will hold '*Present Trends and Visions of the Future: An IGF-USA Preview Event <https://bit.ly/3iGEr7G>*'. To understand what our increasingly tech-driven future might look like in 2025, *Pew <https://www.pewresearch.org/>* and Elon University’s* Imagining the Internet Center <https://www.imaginingtheinternet.org>* canvassed experts in technology, communications and social change. This IGF-USA Preview Event will help set the scene for the IGF-USA 2021, by featuring the results from the surveys carried out over the past year. *SPEAKERS* *Lee Rainie*, Director of Internet and Technology Research, Pew Research Center *Melinda Clem*, co-chair, IGF-USA *Dustin Loup*, co-chair, IGF-USA *LIVESTREAM http://livestream.com/internetsociety/igf-usa-2021-preview <http://livestream.com/internetsociety/igf-usa-2021-preview>* *PARTICIPATE VIA ZOOM https://bit.ly/3iGEr7G <https://bit.ly/3iGEr7G>* *TWITTER #igfusa <http://bit.ly/2KeJbyH> #igfusa2021 <http://bit.ly/IGFUSA2021> @pewresearch @ImagineInternet @lrainie* *@ClemStrategy @DustinRLoup* *SIMULCASTS* *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/InternetGovernanceForumUSA/ <https://www.facebook.com/InternetGovernanceForumUSA/>* *ARCHIVE* *https://archive.org/details/igf-usa-2021-preview <https://archive.org/details/igf-usa-2021-preview>* *Permalink* https://isoc.live/14172/ - -- -------------------------------------- Joly MacFie +12185659365 -------------------------------------- -

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Re: [Air-L] Typologies of robots
by Neal Thomas 15 Jun '21

15 Jun '21

Hello Christian -- you might get something out of the edited volume (ed. Zizi Papacharissi) /A Networked Self and Human Augmentics, Artificial Intelligence, Sentience:/ https://www.routledge.com/A-Networked-Self-and-Human-Augmentics-Artificial-… To my recollection there's no specific typology produced, but you may be able to derive or develop one from the perspectives contained within. Neal ___________ Neal Thomas (he/him) CAS Instructor | Dept. of Communication Studies Laurier University | Waterloo, ON Canada Out in 2018 with Routledge: Becoming-Social in a Networked Age Twitter: @lathemason

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Fast Capitalism - CFP - Online Extremism and the Insurrection of 2021
by Arditi, David M 15 Jun '21

15 Jun '21

Colleagues, Fast Capitalism has a Call For Papers<https://fastcapitalism.journal.library.uta.edu/index.php/fastcapitalism/ann…> titled "Online Extremism and the Insurrection of 2021." Fast Capitalism is seeking critical essays for possible inclusion in a special section of an upcoming 2021 issue about the online right-wing extremism. Our goal is to gather both scholarly essays and political commentaries to present critical analyses of the growing numbers of white supremacists and how they have organized their disruptive political networks online. Further details below. Please let me know if you have any questions and please circulate to your networks. Thank you, David Dr. David Arditi Associate Professor of Sociology Director of the Center for Theory University of Texas at Arlington Author of Getting Signed: Record Contracts, Musicians and Power in Society<https://www.palgrave.com/us/book/9783030445867> CFP: Fast Capitalism is seeking critical essays for possible inclusion in a special section of an upcoming 2021 issue about the online right-wing extremism. Our goal is to gather both scholarly essays and political commentaries to present critical analyses of the growing numbers of white supremacists and how they have organized their disruptive political networks online. When right-wing extremists stormed the Capitol of the United States on January 6, 2021, these proliferating white supremacist groups, who strongly supported then-President Donald Trump were out on full display. While the Ku Klux Klan, skinhead groups, and other earlier right-wing extremists often struggled to find mainstream acceptability, the Trump presidency coyly maintained "there were good people" all across the ideological spectrum in America. This positive attitude toward right-wing extremism changed with the virtual spaces that the online ecosystem that connected such groups to foment insurrection. Online messaging boards from Reddit to 4chan and 8chan created a place where right-wing extremists can meet and share ideas quite openly. From these message sites, memes and video content have proliferated across many other social media websites as well as hard-right news sites, such as Breitbart and One America News Network. These propaganda messages have swamped major segments of the Internet as people who historically do not follow the news or world events have found their best-pitched memes amusing enough for them and others to post, which then have spread like wildfire. January 6, 2021 was the culmination of years of steady expansion of right-wing extremism from 1990s militia movements to the 2010 Tea Party movement. With a favorable leader in the White House, white supremacists began endorsing Republican politicians who went from dog-whistle politics to endorsing racist ideas. When Trump refused to denounce white supremacists at the Unite the Rite Rally in Charlottesville, VA in August, 2017, it released the floodgates for these movements as a sign that his administration openly accepted these extremists as his supporters. We are interested in essays that address this topic in the following areas: * Platforms (ex. 8chan, 4chan, Reddit, Parler etc.) * Social media policies and regulation * Capitalism and the spread of new hate groups * White Supremacy * Misogyny * January 6 and the use of digital media * Surveillance and tracking the insurrectionists * Countervailing centrist and/or left-wing anti-extremist political groups Please review the Author Guidelines<https://fastcapitalism.journal.library.uta.edu/index.php/fastcapitalism/abo…> and submit your articles through the online system. If you have any questions, please contact David Arditi, Editor, darditi(a)uta.edu<mailto:darditi@uta.edu>. Submissions are due by June 7, but feel free to reach out if you need more time.

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