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Digital Threats and Criminalizing Journalism
by Dr. Emma Briant 31 Jul '21

31 Jul '21

Dear Friends & Colleagues, I thought some of you might find of interest my comments on the incredibly important new proposals by the UK's Home Office which will shut down and criminalize investigative journalism on national security and remove the public interest defence for whistleblowers and leakers as well as journalists who share what they expose. Response to UK Home Office’s Consultation “Legislation to Counter State Threats (Hostile State Activity)” <https://medium.com/@teflpolsoc/response-to-uk-home-offices-consultation-leg…> I made my comments in response to the public consultation and submitted them in July and I am now sharing my thoughts with you on Medium. This will end journalism as we know it in the UK. I sincerely believe it will be counter-productive in respect to these radicalization issues too and has important lessons for other nations trying to respond. It's extremely important that we resist efforts to shut down public scrutiny, please feel free to share the article. With gratitude,Emma -- Dr Emma L Briant Independent Researcher/Author/Analyst Website: www.emma-briant.co.uk Author of: *Propaganda and Counter-Terrorism: Strategies for Global Change *from Manchester University Press Co-Author of: *Bad News for Refugees* with Prof. Greg Philo and Dr. Pauline Donald from Pluto Press. Follow me on Twitter @emmalbriant

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New open reader: Social Media & the Self
by Jeff Pooley 30 Jul '21

30 Jul '21

*Social Media & the Self* is a free, web-only reader centered on the online performance of identity and curated with university courses in mind. The collection includes public domain excerpts, openly lincensed research articles, and popular pieces reprinted with permission: https://www.mediastudies.press/sms The collection will be updated with new material at least twice a year, for three years. *Social Media & the Self* is the first volume in mediastudies.press's Open Reader Series. The series publishes media-themed open readers—collections of works available on the open web, selected and ordered with university courses in mind: https://www.mediastudies.press/open-reader-series mediastudies.press is a nonprofit, scholar-led publisher of open access books and journals in the media studies fields: https://www.mediastudies.press --------- Jeff Pooley Professor of Media & Communication, Muhlenberg College Director, mediastudies.press jeffpooley.com

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Call for Papers - Interações
by Inês Amaral 30 Jul '21

30 Jul '21

*Call for Papers – New Issue of Journal Interações* Submissions for the new issue of the Interações Journal published by Instituto Superior Miguel are now open Submissions for the new issue of the Interações Journal published by Instituto Superior Miguel are now open. The journal welcomes original articles that present research results and/or theoretical reflection in the different fields of Social and Human Sciences, specially in Media Studies. >From an interdisciplinary editorial perspective, Interações' primary objective is to foster the reflection and diffusion of knowledge in the areas of Social and Human Sciences. The journal accepts articles of scientific investigation, reviews and critical essays, in Portuguese, English and Spanish. Interações is ruled by the double-blind review standard, ensuring the anonymity of reviewers and authors throughout the review process. Deadline for submission of articles: *October 10* Notification of acceptance: *November 17* Publication: *December 2021* Any questions should be addressed through the email: interacoes(a)ismt.pt The articles must be submit through the website: https://interacoes-ismt.com Guidelines and other instructions for authors can be found on the journal's website: https://interacoes-ismt.com/index.php/revista/submissoes -- Inês Amaral Professora Associada | Associate Professor Diretora do 1.º Ciclo de Estudos em Jornalismo e Comunicação | Director of the Undergraduate Program Studies in Journalism and Communication Universidade de Coimbra • Faculdade de Letras | University of Coimbra • Faculty of Arts and Humanities Largo da Porta Férrea | 3004-530 • Coimbra • Portugal Tel. | Phone: +351 239 410 090 E-mail: ines.amaral(a)uc.pt www.uc.pt | www.uc.pt/fluc

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Call For WSDM Cup Proposals --Due August 10
by Ugur Kursuncu 29 Jul '21

29 Jul '21

Dear Researcher, We (Neil Shah, Jerry Zitao Liu, Lei Li) are co-organizing WSDM Cup 2022 <https://www.wsdm-conference.org/2022/call-for-wsdm-cup-proposals/>, a machine learning competition-style event co-located with the leading WSDM conference (International Conference on Web Search and Data Mining). The conference has high-visibility, and is regularly attended by experts in the field. *New Due date: August 10, 2021* We are looking for competition tasks, and we are e-mailing you in hopes that you may have an task/idea to contribute; competition tasks regularly draw 100-200 teams of experts who dedicate their time to working on and achieving the best results on your task. This is an excellent opportunity to solicit expert feedback and brainpower towards solving your problems, identifying intern and FTE candidates, and building improved collaborations with your organization and academia. Typically, competition tasks are Kaggle-style, offering a clear specification of objective, a dataset (can be anonymized and de-identified appropriately), and a small reward for top-3 winning teams (typically ~$5K total, split across winners). Past tasks have come from amazing partners like Microsoft, Wikimedia, Adobe, ByteDance, Spotify, Baidu and more, on tasks as diverse as fake news classification, user retention prediction, music recommendation, vandalism detection, and knowledge-base completion, and winning teams have received excellent results across the board. You can find task specifications, and associated results below for inspiration: 2016 <https://www.wsdm-conference.org/2016/wsdm-cup.html>, 2017 <https://www.wsdm-cup-2017.org/>, 2018 <http://www.wsdm-conference.org/2018/call-for-participants.html>, 2019 <http://www.wsdm-conference.org/2019/wsdm-cup-2019.php>, 2020 <https://www.wsdm-conference.org/2020/wsdm-cup-2020.php>. Please let us know if you have a tentative idea in mind. We are happy to work with you on identifying and narrowing task specification. We expect competitions to run from mid-October to January, with the final results settled and the physical WSDM Cup event held around February 21-25, in conjunction with WSDM 2022, so there is time yet to ideate and put something together concretely. Cheers. --- Ugur Kursuncu, PhD Publicity Co-chair for ACM WSDM 2022 Postdoctoral Fellow AI Institute, University of South Carolina

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Re: [Air-L] [CFP] Pluggable Transports Small Grants Program
by Vasilis Ververis 29 Jul '21

29 Jul '21

Dear all, The deadline for the submissions has been extended to August 8th, 2021. https://www.pluggabletransports.info/blog/small-grants-2021/ Greetings, ~Vasilis

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Position Openings, Ada Lovelace Institute
by Andrew Strait 29 Jul '21

29 Jul '21

Hi everyone, The Ada Lovelace Institute is an independently funded non-profit research and deliberative body based in London that seeks to ensure data and AI work for people and society. We're hiring two roles - one focussed on EU AI policy, and the other focussed on UK policy. These close next Tuesday and Wednesday respectively. Details for both roles can be found below: https://app.beapplied.com/apply/r2rfcceq4w?utm_source=AdaTw https://app.beapplied.com/apply/nkaqzp3apx?AdaTw Best wishes, -- Andrew Strait Associate Director of Research Partnerships

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WEBCAST WED-FRI: West Africa Internet Governance Forum #WAIGF2021
by Joly MacFie 29 Jul '21

29 Jul '21

We are into Day 2 of this, which has two parallel tracks. There is interpretation on the zoom calls. I am only able to stream a couple as we have the West Africa Peering Forum coming up at 14:00 UTC. You can catch up with yesterday's sessions on the livestream page. Nous en sommes au deuxième jour, qui comporte deux pistes parallèles. Il y a une interprétation sur les appels de zoom. Je ne peux diffuser que quelques-uns car nous avons le West Africa Peering Forum à 14h00 UTC. Vous pouvez suivre les sessions d'hier sur la page de diffusion en direct. [image: livestream (EN)] <http://livestream.com/internetsociety/waigf2021> On *Wednesday-Friday 28–30 July, 2021* the 13th *West Africa Internet Governance Forum <https://waigf.org/>* (WAIGF) will be convened with the theme '*Digital Inclusion and Access for a resilient West Africa*'. This will again be a virtual event. Not all sessions will be livestreamed, but recordings will be available. *LIVESTREAM ENGLISH http://livestream.com/internetsociety/waigf2021 <http://livestream.com/internetsociety/waigf2021>* Du *mercredi au vendredi 28-30 juillet 2021*, le 13e *Forum sur la gouvernance de l'Internet en Afrique de l'Ouest <https://waigf.org/>* (WAIGF) se tiendra sur le thème «* Inclusion et accès numériques pour une Afrique de l'Ouest résiliente* ». Ce sera à nouveau un événement virtuel. Toutes les sessions ne seront pas diffusées en direct, mais des enregistrements seront disponibles. *LIVESTREAM FRANÇAIS http://livestream.com/internetsociety2/waigf2021 <http://livestream.com/internetsociety2/waigf2021>* *PROGRAM https://waigf.sched.com/ <https://waigf.sched.com/>* *PARTICIPATE VIA ZOOM https://www.waigf.org/registration/ <https://www.waigf.org/registration/>* (EN/FR) *REAL TIME TEXT https://www.streamtext.net/text.aspx?event=CFI-WAIGF <https://www.streamtext.net/text.aspx?event=CFI-WAIGF> *(EN) *TWITTER #WAIGF2021 http://bit.ly/WAIGF2021 <http://bit.ly/WAIGF2021>* *SIMULCASTS* *https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCUnNtSa1YbyHgdTrMzLNvUg <https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCUnNtSa1YbyHgdTrMzLNvUg> (WAIGF)* *https://www.twitter.com/ISOC_Live/ <https://www.twitter.com/ISOC_Live/>* *https://www.twitch.tv/isoclive <https://www.twitch.tv/isoclive> (EN only)* *https://www.facebook.com/liveisoc <https://www.facebook.com/liveisoc>* *https://www.facebook.com/waigf <https://www.facebook.com/waigf>* *ARCHIVE* *https://archive.org/details/waigf2021 <https://archive.org/details/waigf2021>* *Permalink* https://isoc.live/14398/ -------------------------------------- - -- -------------------------------------- Joly MacFie +12185659365 -------------------------------------- -

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CfP for Special Issue of Policy & Internet on Influencer Regulations
by Crystal Abidin 29 Jul '21

29 Jul '21

Hello friends at AoIR! I hope everyone is keeping well as best as you can. I am delighted to share a CfP for a Special Issue of Policy & Internet on 'Influencer regulations, Governance, and Social-cultural issues in the Asia Pacific Region', co-edited by Crystal Abidin (Curtin), Jian Xu (Deakin), and Jonathon Hutchinson (Sydney). This is a special call for papers on Australia, Hong Kong, India, Indonesia, Malaysia, Myanmar, New Zealand, Pakistan. Attached as .pdf, and in plain text below. Please feel free to circulate among interested parties. Thank you in advance + Take care, /Crystal * Influencer Regulations, Governance and Socio-cultural Issues in the Asia Pacific region Special Issue of Policy & Internet Co-edited by Crystal ABIDIN, Jian XU, Jonathon HUTCHINSON Targeted CfP for papers on: Australia, Hong Kong, India, Indonesia, Malaysia, Myanmar, New Zealand, Pakistan Influencer and micro-celebrity research has become a popular interdisciplinary research area across digital media studies and celebrity studies in the past few years, including a growing interest in the Global South (e.g. Abidin 2018, Abidin & Brown 2018, Hurley 2019, Hopkins 2019, Lukács 2020) and their growth on platforms outside of Silicon Valley (e.g. Guan 2020, Lin & De Kloet 2019, Song 2018). However, existing research in the field has still primarily focused on influencers and their types of labour (e.g. Abidin 2016, Duffy 2017, Duffy et al. 2021, Pham 2015, Raun 2018, Woodcock & Johnson 2019), their savvy around algorithms and machine learning (e.g. Bishop 2019, Bishop 2020, Carah & Dobson 2016, Cotter 2018), and various aspects of their follower relations (e.g. Berryman & Kavka 2017) and monetizing engagements (e.g. Gerhards 2019, Johnson & Woodcock 2019, Luvaas 2016, Zhang et al. 2019, Zou 2018), leaving the regulation and governance of influencers still an under-researched topic from the perspective of Social Science & Humanities (e.g. Chen et al. 2020, Cunningham & Craig 2019) considering socio-cultural issues. (For studies on Influencer governance from the perspective of Law, please see e.g. Goanta & Ranchordà 2020). In this Special Issue, we consider the regulation and governance of influencers not only through the lens and framework of specific rules, laws, policies, and regulations that set norms on the practices of influencers, but also the broader social, cultural, moral, technical, industrial, and political factors and restrictions to which Influencers are subject in order to accumulate sustainable impact and income. Moreover, we understand the governance of influencers as a process wherein multiple stakeholders are involved in the influencer industry, including official regulatory bodies, digital platforms, influencers and their agencies, endorsed brands and fans, resolve conflicts over emerging problems to shape the practices, ethics, economy and culture of influencers. The need to examine these issues of regulation and governance is pertinent in the Asia-Pacific region considering that it presently contains the world’s largest population of active social media users, the most vibrant and diverse digital economies and influencer cultures, as well as among the most dynamic and complicated internet regulations and policies. The Special Issue advocates for a ‘turn to regulation and governance’ of influencer studies by taking influencers as a ‘new subject’ in the globally booming digital economy and culture. We are interested in papers that critically and subtly investigate various regulation and governing issues on influencers in the Asia-Pacific region, including but not limited to specific case studies of controversies, new enactments in regulation and law, concerns around advertorial disclosure and tax transparency, regulation and censorship of influencers’ content creation, platform and/or state interventions into influencer management, influencer management systems, and various socio-cultural concerns on the regulation of topics pertaining to race & ethnicity, sex & sexuality, age & ageism, class & inclusivity, ability & accessibility, etc. The Special Issue will significantly contribute to the growing field of Influencer Studies, especially in the Asia Pacific region. More broadly, it will also greatly contribute to the studies of internet regulations and governance, digital economy, digital culture and celebrity studies in the Asia Pacific and beyond. Policy & Internet is one of the most prestigious journals in the field of internet and digital media studies, with a particular focus on the evolving relationship between the internet, digital technologies and public policy. It is an international multidisciplinary journal in a new and fragmented field. The potential audience for the Journal is therefore very wide. Please ensure that there is enough context to your argument that the paper can have value for people outside of your specific field or geographical region. Papers should be succinct, written in clear English, and closely and critically argued. A word count between 6,000-8,000 words is ideal. We are unlikely to accept papers that are mostly or entirely descriptive, or that lack depth, substance, critical assessment and clear contribution to the field. Papers in Policy & Internet are published Open Access. For further information, please see https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/journal/19442866 Expressions of interest via a 250-word abstract and 150-word bio for contributions on Australia, Hong Kong, India, Indonesia, Malaysia, Myanmar, New Zealand, Pakistan are invited by 09 August 2021 to A/Prof Crystal Abidin, Dr Jian Xu, and Dr Jonathon Hutchinson via email. The Editors will shortlist and respond to all contributors in the following week. Full papers are due in mid-November 2021. Thank you. P&I SI co-editors, A/Prof Crystal Abidin, Curtin University, crystal.abidin[at]curtin.edu.au Dr Jian Xu, Deakin University, j.xu[at]deakin.edu.au Dr Jonathon Hutchinson, University of Sydney, jonathon.hutchinson[at] sydney.edu.au References Abidin, Crystal. 2016. "Visibility labour: Engaging with Influencers' fashion brands and #OOTD advertorial campaigns on Instagram." Media International Australia 161(1): 86-100. Abidin, Crystal. 2018. Internet Celebrity: Understanding Fame Online. Bingley, UK: Emerald Publishing. Abidin, Crystal, and Megan Lindsay Brown (eds). 2018. Microcelebrity Around the Globe: Approaches to cultures of internet fame. Bingley, UK: Emerald Publishing. Berryman, Rachel & Misha Kavka. 2017. "'I guess A lot of people see me as a big sister or a friend': The role of intimacy in the celebrification of beauty vloggers." Journal of Gender Studies 26(3): 307-320. Bishop, Sophie. 2019. "Managing visibility on YouTube through algorithmic gossip." New Media & Society 21(11-12). Bishop, Sophie. 2020. "Algorithmic Experts: Selling Algorithmic Lore on YouTube." Social Media + Society 6(1) Carah, Nicholas and Amy Dobson. 2016. "Algorithmic hotness: Young women’s “promotion” and 'reconnaissance' work via social media body images." Social Media + Society 2(4). Chen, Shing-Ling S., Zhuojun Joyce Chen, & Nicole Allaire. 2020. (Eds.) Legal and Ethical Issues of Live Streaming. Washington, DC: Lexington Books. Cotter, Kelley. 2018. "Playing the visibility game: How digital influencers and algorithms negotiate influence on Instagram." New Media & Society 21(4): 895-913. Cunningham, Stuart and David Craig. 2019. "Creator Governance in Social Media Entertainment." Social Media + Society 5(4). Cunningham, Stuart and David Craig. 2021. "Creator Rights and Governance", Chapter 14 in Creator Culture, edited by Stuart Cunningham & David Craig. New York: New York University Press. Duffy, Brooke Erin. 2017. (Not) getting paid to do what you love: gender, social media, and aspirational work. New Haven: Yale University Press Duffy, Brooke Erin, Annika Pinch, Shruti Sannon, Megan Sawey. 2021. "The Nested Precarities of Platformized Creative Labor." Social Media + Society 7(2). Gerhards, Claudia. 2019. "Product placement on YouTube: An explorative study on YouTube creators' experiences with advertisers." Convergence 25(3): 516-533. Goanta, Catalina & Sofia Ranchordà. 2020. (Eds.) The Regulation of Social Media Influencers. Cheltenham, UK: Edward Elgar Publishing. Guan, Zexu. 2020. "Chinese beauty bloggers: Amateurs, entrepreneurs, and platform labour." Celebrity Studies, 12(2): 326-332. Hopkins, Julian. 2019. Monetising the Dividual Self: The Emergence of the Lifestyle Blog and Influencers in Malaysia. New York: Berghahn Books. Hurley, Zoe. 2019. "Imagined affordances of Instagram and the Fantastical Authenticity of Female Gulf-Arab Social Media Influencers." Social Media + Society 5(1). Johnson, Mark R. and Jamie Woodcock. 2019. “'And Today’s Top Donator is': How Live Streamers on Twitch.tv Monetize and Gamify Their Broadcasts." Social Media + Society 5(4). Lin, Jian, and Jeroen De Kloet. 2019. "Platformization of the Unlikely Creative Class: Kuaishou and Chinese Digital Cultural Production." Social Media + Society 5(4). Lukács, Gabriella. 2020. Invisibility by Design: Women and Labor in Japan’s Digital Economy. Durham, North Carolina: Duke University Press. Luvaas, Brent. 2016. Street Style: An Ethnography of Fashion Blogging. London: Bloomsbury Press. Pham, Minh-Ha T. 2015. Asians Wear Clothes on the Internet: Race, Gender, and the Work of Personal Style Blogging. Durham, North Carolina: Duke University Press. Raun, Tobias. 2018. "Capitalizing intimacy: New subcultural forms of micro- celebrity strategies and affective labour on YouTube." Convergence 24(1): 99–113. Song, Hojin. 2018. "The making of microcelebrity: AfreecaTV and the Younger Generation in Neoliberal South Korea." Social Media + Society 4(4). Woodcock, Jamie and Mark R. Johnson. 2019. "The Affective Labor and Performance of Live Streaming on Twitch.tv" Television and New Media 20(8): 813-823. Zhang, Xiaoxing, Yu Xiang, and Lei Hao. 2019. "Virtual gifting on China’s live streaming platforms: Hijacking the online gift economy." Chinese Journal of Communication 12(3): 340-355. Zou, Sheng. 2018. "Producing Value Out of the Invaluable: A Critical/Cultural Perspective on the Live Streaming Industry in China." TripleC: Communication, Capitalism & Critique 16(2): 805-819.

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15 PhD positions on open data in 7 European universities
by Francesca Musiani 28 Jul '21

28 Jul '21

Dear colleagues, The Marie Curie interdisciplinary grant Odeco towards a sustainable Open Data ECOsystem is opening 15 PhD positions in 7 European universities. One of those PhDs will be in law working with Mélanie Dulong de Rosnay in Paris to develop open data licensing models. All information on the 15 positions, from open data governance to usability, civil society, capacity, business and technical aspects, from data journalism to usage in elementary schools, is available here: https://odeco-research.eu/ Deadline to apply to all 15 positions is the end of August for a start in January 2022. All best, -- Francesca Musiani, Ph.D. Chargée de recherche | Associate Research Professor, CNRS <http://www.cnrs.fr> Directrice adjointe | Deputy Director, Centre for Internet and Society <https://cis.cnrs.fr> (UPR 2000 & GDR 2091 CNRS) Chercheuse associée | Associate Researcher, i3-CSI <http://www.csi.ensmp.fr/>, MINES ParisTech Global Fellow, Internet Governance Lab <https://internetgovernancelab.org>, American University I'm involved in: CPT-IAMCR <https://iamcr.org/s-wg/section/cpt> | Internet Policy Review <https://policyreview.info> | RESET <https://journals.openedition.org/reset/> | ISOC France <https://www.isoc.fr> | ResisTIC <https://www.resistic.org> On the Web <https://cis.cnrs.fr/francesca-musiani/> | On Twitter <https://twitter.com/franmusiani>

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Findings: School posts on Facebook could threaten student privacy
by Greenhalgh, Spencer P. 28 Jul '21

28 Jul '21

Hi all, The message below (from a colleague) may be of interest to folks here. Best, Spencer ------ Spencer Greenhalgh, PhD Assistant Professor, School of Information Science College of Communication and Information University of Kentucky pronouns: http://pronoun.is/he/him/his website: spencergreenhalgh.com<http://spencergreenhalgh.com> Zoom: https://uky.zoom.us/my/greenhalgh Début du message réexpédié : De: "Rosenberg, Joshua" <jmrosenberg(a)utk.edu<mailto:jmrosenberg@utk.edu>> Objet: Findings: School posts on Facebook could threaten student privacy Date: 28 juillet 2021 à 10:11:12 UTC−4 À: "Greenhalgh, Spencer" <spencer.greenhalgh(a)uky.edu<mailto:spencer.greenhalgh@uky.edu>> Hi all, writing to share an article of possible interest in the Conversation (a news/media organization for researchers to share about their research). The article is on how schools' posts on Facebook could threaten students' privacy. In our research, we found there are around nine million photos of students that are strictly publicly accessible through the pages of schools. We estimated that half a million of the photos identify students by first and last name and location. These photos could (unhappily) represent the largest collection of identifiable photos of students in the U.S. The (short) article is here: https://theconversation.com/school-posts-on-facebook-could-threaten-student… We would definitely welcome any feedback or questions as we build on this and communicate about the research and share recommendations with schools. Best, Josh -- Joshua M. Rosenberg, Ph.D. Assistant Professor, STEM Education The University of Tennessee, Knoxville Theory and Practice in Teacher Education 420 Claxton Complex, 1122 Volunteer Blvd. Homepage: https://joshuamrosenberg.com<https://nam04.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fjoshuamro…> He/Him/His Co-author of Data Science in Education Using R<https://nam04.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.datasc…> (Open-access/Routledge) Co-host of About Practice<x-msg://7/:%20https:/anchor.fm/about-practice> (podcast)

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