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Alternative to Amazon gift card for incentives
by Hara, Noriko 06 Aug '21

06 Aug '21

Hello all, I am wondering if anyone can recommend any alternatives to Amazon gift cards for providing incentives for study participants. Any suggestions would be appreciated, Noriko ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Noriko Hara, Ph.D. | https://norikohara.org<https://norikohara.org/> Professor Department of Information & Library Science Luddy School of Informatics, Computing, & Engineering Indiana University

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Undersea internet cables in the Pacific region
by Amanda H A Watson 06 Aug '21

06 Aug '21

Hi. New research on undersea internet cables in the Pacific region came out today. The research is presented in two parts, which are available at the following link: http://dpa.bellschool.anu.edu.au/ssgm-research-communication/brief-series Part 1 presents a map and other information about existing and planned cables. Part 2 discusses cybersecurity, geopolitics and questions of reliability. Amanda ------------------------------- Amanda H A Watson, PhD Research Fellow Department of Pacific Affairs Coral Bell School of Asia Pacific Affairs ANU College of Asia and the Pacific Room E3.28 Baldessin Building The Australian National University ACTON ACT 2600 AUSTRALIA CRICOS Provider: 00120C ABN: 52 234 063 906 Email: amanda.watson(a)anu.edu.au Twitter: @ahawatson Phone: +61 2 6125 2677

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CfP: Histories of Digital Journalism 2022
by Tamas Tofalvy 05 Aug '21

05 Aug '21

Dear All, I'm happy to announce the following conference*:* *Histories of Digital Journalism: * *A conference exploring the intersections of history, culture, digital technology and journalism* *24-25 June 2022 (Friday-Saturday)* *Budapest, Hungary * *Keynote Speakers* Mark Deuze (University of Amsterdam) Laura Ahva (Tampere University) *Call for Papers* Although the shared past of digitization and journalism stretches back at least to a half-century, digital journalism history is a field still in formation. Building on the momentum of the recent ‘historical turn’ in digital media and internet studies, the aim of the conference is to bring together an interdisciplinary network of scholars to interrogate digital journalism histories and to start a global critical exchange on various approaches to and aspects of historicising digital journalism. As digital journalism has been re-configured by socio-historical contradictions of communication and complexities of its technological innovations, journalism scholarship should continuously strive for enhancing critical exchange to advance studies that intersect with numerous disciplines, theoretical approaches and methodological traditions. Emphasis of the conference is on the plurality of histories instead of one single digital journalism history, acknowledging diachronic as well as synchronic complexities of social relations, political contingencies, cultural traditions and power configurations between journalism and digitisation. Instead of enforcing one great master narrative, the conference aims to offer a space to embrace the co-existence of parallel, sometimes complementing, often conflicting historical investigations and narratives. By aiming to explore the intersections of history, culture, digital technology and journalism, the conference welcomes papers and panels that are grounded on diachronic or synchronic explorations of digital journalism ‘pasts’, while elaborating the relevance of its historical findings for digital journalism ‘futures’. The conference invites theoretical and methodological reflections on historicising digital journalism as well as original single case studies or comparative inquiries into the phenomena from the decades of the long digital revolution of journalism. The conference welcomes papers that examine the digital journalism histories of the global ‘centers’ and we especially encourage inquiries from the ‘peripheries’ of digital journalism development and scholarship. *Possible topics include, but are not limited to:* - Mythologies of technology: reconsidering ‘dead’ and ‘new’ technologies in journalism - Transforming social control in the digitized newsroom: investigating separation and integration tendencies - Re-configuring the labour process in digital journalism: between standardisation and creativity of digital news production - Digital platforms, tools and practices in journalism: from Teletext, CD-ROMS and Minitel to www, smartphones and social media - Changing skillsets in digital journalism: deskilling, reskilling, upskilling newsworkers - (Dis)continuities of forms and genres in journalism - Labour relations of digital journalism: standardisation, precarisation, entrepreneurialism - Liquefied identities of digital journalism: boundary work between ‘online’ and ‘offline’ journalists, ‘professional’ and ‘citizen’ journalists, journalists and ‘technologists’, ‘journalists’ vs ‘bloggers’ - Re-inventing journalistic profiles: from ‘mouse monkeys’, ‘meta journalists’ to ‘robot journalists’ - Digitized audiences between participation and commodification - Business models of digital journalism: from legacy media ecosystem to platform capitalism - Ethical, legal and regulatory issues of digital journalism: from www to automation - Particular online journalistic genres moving online: digital music, sport, food journalism *Technical details and important dates* Deadline for submitting abstracts and panel proposals is *October 20, 2021 (CET).* Please submit all submissions via <https://forms.gle/NJEdtriuqi4AkFSAA>this online form <https://forms.gle/NJEdtriuqi4AkFSAA>. Panel proposals should consist of 3 or 4 papers, and all the paper abstracts belonging to a proposed panel should be submitted individually through the form. The maximum length for panel and paper abstracts is 400 words. Conference talks will be 15 minutes long followed by 5 minute long discussions. Further information will be found on the constantly updated <https://www.google.com/url?q=https%3A%2F%2Fsites.google.com%2Fview%2Fhodj20…>conference website <https://www.google.com/url?q=https%3A%2F%2Fsites.google.com%2Fview%2Fhodj20…> . *Organizers and contact information* The conference will be held at Budapest University of Technology and Economics (BME), and is jointly organised by the Department of Sociology and Communications, Faculty of Economic and Social Sciences, BME and the Social Communication Research Centre, University of Ljubljana (UL). Should you have any questions, please feel free to contact the organizers: Dr. Tamas Tofalvy, Associate Professor (BME) — tofalvy.tamas(a)gtk.bme.hu Dr. Igor Vobič, Associate Professor (UL) — igor.vobic(a)fdv.uni-lj.si -- Tamas Tofalvy, PhD Researcher, consultant | Digital media, journalism, popular music associate prof @ Budapest University of Technology and Economics, Dept. of Sociology and Communications project lead @ Hungarian Online and Digital Media History (MODEM) project M: [0036] 30 488 75 84 Web: tofalvytamas.hu A: H-1111 Budapest, Egry J. u. 1., BME GTK E ép., 713.

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New Special Issue Published: Exchanges Journal (V8.4)
by Johnson, Gareth 05 Aug '21

05 Aug '21

Dear all, Just to let you know that there has been a new special issue of the Exchanges interdisciplinary journal published (Volume 8 No.4). The focus this is issue is around the Then & Now: Arts at Warwick taught student-led research project and exhibition (https://warwick.ac.uk/fac/arts/applyingtostudy/currentstudents/thenandnow/) The URI for the issue is: https://doi.org/10.31273/eirj.v8i4 Issue Abstract This is the nineteenth issue of Exchanges, published in August 2021. This special issue brings a themed assortment of articles, reflections and discussions to our interdisciplinary readership. In this issue the papers were all inspired by or produced as a result of the student-led Then & Now: Arts at Warwick project and exhibition, which was hosted by the University of Warwick’s Faculty of Arts. Articles in this special issue tackle topics which include: retrospective, analysis and reflections on the project, considerations of student-led research, inclusivity, the university’s societal role, along with arts and cultural management matters. The issue’s editorial also briefly introduces the issue, alongside reminding readers of the various routes through which they can contribute to and engage with the journal. With thanks Gareth --- Dr Gareth (Gaz) J Johnson Managing Editor-in-Chief, Exchanges Journal Room C0.10, Institute of Advanced Study, Zeeman Building, University of Warwick https://warwick.ac.uk/fac/cross_fac/ias/ T: 024 765 7443 (extn 74423) E: gareth.johnson(a)warwick.ac.uk<mailto:gareth.johnson@warwick.ac.uk> B: https://blogs.warwick.ac.uk/exchangesias/ Tw:@ExchangesIAS<https://twitter.com/ExchangesIAS> P: https://anchor.fm/exchangesias

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WEBCAST: Seminar on Cryptography, Politics and Fundamental Rights / Seminario de Criptografía, Política y Derechos Fundamentales / Seminário Criptografia, Política e Direitos Fundamentais
by Joly MacFie 05 Aug '21

05 Aug '21

Great event today via ISOC Brazil. Keynote is from ISOC's Neeti Biyani. Gran evento hoy a través de ISOC Brasil. El discurso principal es de Neeti Biyani de ISOC. Grande evento hoje via ISOC Brasil. O keynote é de Neeti Biyani da ISOC. ISOC Live posted: "On Thursday 5 August 2021 from 10am-3:30pm BRT (13:00-18:30 UTC) the Recife Law and Technology Research Institute will convene the 2nd 'Seminar on Cryptography, Politics and Fundamental Rights'. The challenges that the full employment of cryptography face" [image: LIVESTREAM ENGLISH] <http://livestream.com/internetsociety/cryptografia2>On *Thursday 5 August 2021* from *10am-3:30pm BRT* (13:00-18:30 UTC) the *Recife Law and Technology Research Institute <https://ip.rec.br/>* will convene the 2nd '*Seminar on Cryptography, Politics and Fundamental Rights <https://www.sympla.com.br/ii-seminario-criptografia-politica-e-direitos-fun…>*'. The challenges that the full employment of cryptography face in Brazil and in the world are continuous. Among proposals for filtering communications content, weakening cryptography for access to communications by investigative authorities, and making it mandatory for providers to employ message traceability mechanisms, the risks that the security of connected infrastructures and users' rights face are varied. In order to map these policies, the contexts from which they arise and the challenges they potentially offer, we will bring together panelists from different regions of the world - Asia, Europe and the Americas - as well as researchers and Brazilian police representatives. The event is part of the schedule of *#CriptoAgosto2021 <https://direitosnarede.org.br/criptoagosto/>* and has the support of the *Internet Society <https://internetsociety.org/>*, *Internet Society - Brazil Chapter <https://isoc.org.br/>*, and *Coalizão Direitos na Rede <https://direitosnarede.org.br/>*. EN/ES/PT interpretation will be provided. *LIVESTREAM ENGLISH http://livestream.com/internetsociety/cryptografia2 <http://livestream.com/internetsociety/cryptografia2>* [image: LIVESTREAM ESPAÑOL] <http://livestream.com/internetsociety2/cryptografia2>El *jueves 5 de agosto de 2021* de *10 am a 3:30 pm BRT* (13:00-18:30 UTC), el *Instituto de Investigación en Derecho y Tecnología de Recife* <https://ip.rec.br/> convocará el segundo '*Seminario sobre criptografía, política y derechos fundamentales <https://www.sympla.com.br/ii-seminario-criptografia-politica-e-direitos-fun…>*'. Los desafíos que enfrenta el pleno empleo de la criptografía en Brasil y en el mundo son continuos. Entre las propuestas para filtrar el contenido de las comunicaciones, debilitar la criptografía para el acceso a las comunicaciones por parte de las autoridades investigadoras y hacer obligatorio que los proveedores empleen mecanismos de trazabilidad de mensajes, los riesgos que enfrentan la seguridad de las infraestructuras conectadas y los derechos de los usuarios son variados. Para mapear estas políticas, los contextos de los que surgen y los desafíos que potencialmente ofrecen, reuniremos a panelistas de diferentes regiones del mundo - Asia, Europa y América - así como a investigadores y representantes de la policía brasileña. El evento forma parte de la programación de *#CriptoAgosto2021 <https://direitosnarede.org.br/criptoagosto/>* y cuenta con el apoyo de *Internet Society <https://internetsociety.org/>*, *Internet Society - Brazil Chapter <https://isoc.org.br/>* y *Coalizão Direitos na Rede <https://direitosnarede.org.br/>*. Se proporcionará interpretación EN / ES / PT. *LIVESTREAM ESPAÑOL http://livestream.com/internetsociety2/cryptografia2 <http://livestream.com/internetsociety2/cryptografia2>* [image: LIVESTREAM PORTUGUÊS] <http://livestream.com/internetsociety3/cryptografia2>Na *quinta-feira, 5 de agosto de 2021*, das *10h às 15h30 BRT* (13h às 18h30 UTC), o *Instituto de Pesquisa em Direito e Tecnologia do Recife <https://ip.rec.br/>* realizará o 2º '*Seminário de Criptografia, Política e Direitos Fundamentais <https://www.sympla.com.br/ii-seminario-criptografia-politica-e-direitos-fun…>*'. São contínuos os desafios que o pleno emprego da criptografia enfrenta no Brasil e no mundo. Entre propostas de filtragem de conteúdos de comunicações, enfraquecimento da criptografia para acesso a comunicações por autoridades investigativas e obrigatoriedade para que provedores empreguem mecanismos de rastreabilidade de mensagens, são variados os riscos que a segurança das infraestruturas conectadas e os direitos dos usuários enfrentam. Com a finalidade de mapear essas políticas, os contextos de onde surgem e os desafios que potencialmente oferecem, reuniremos painelistas de variadas regiões do mundo - Ásia, Europa e Américas - além de pesquisadores e representações policiais brasileiras. O evento faz parte da programação do *#CriptoAgosto2021* e conta com o apoio da *Internet Society <https://internetsociety.org/>*, *Internet Society - Brazil Chapter <https://isoc.org.br/>*, e *Coalizão Direitos na Rede <https://direitosnarede.org.br/>*. Será fornecida interpretação EN / ES / PT. *LIVESTREAM PORTUGUÊS http://livestream.com/internetsociety3/cryptografia2 <http://livestream.com/internetsociety3/cryptografia2>* *AGENDA* (UTC-3) *10:00 Post-Snowden: the 'tug of war' of cryptography / Post-Snowden: el 'tira y afloja' de la criptografía / Pós-Snowden: o 'cabo de guerra' da criptografia* *Neeti Biyani* (Internet Society - India) *10:30-12;00: International Conjuncture: the geopolitics of cryptography / Coyuntura internacional: la geopolítica de la criptografía / Conjuntura Internacional: a geopolítica da criptografia* *Isabela Bagueros* (The Tor Project) *Kazim Rizvi* (The Dialogue - IN) *Mallory Knodel* (Center for Democracy and Technology - US) *Patrick Beyer* (Member of the European Parliament) *14:00-15:30 National Challenges: Encryption, Data Protection and Criminal Prosecution / Retos Nacionales: Cifrado, Protección de Datos y Procesamiento Penal /Desafios nacionais: criptografia, proteção de dados e processo penal* *Ana Bárbara Gomes* (IRIS - Instituto de Referência em Internet e Sociedade) *Gustavo Pinto Vilar* (Associação Nacional de Peritos Criminais Federais) *Karen Maxim* (Zoom) *Paulo Rena* (UniCEUB) *PARTICIPATE VIA ZOOM: https://bit.ly/3AdU4c3 <https://bit.ly/3AdU4c3> * (EN/ES/PT) *REAL TIME TEXT* SESSION 1 – https://bit.ly/3xkMyKM | SESSION 2 – https://bit.ly/2VztVp3 (EN) *TWITTER: #criptografia #CriptoAgosto2021 <https://bit.ly/3Ac3hlu> @institutoiprec @ISOCBrasil #GlobalEncryption* *SIMULCASTS* *https://www.twitter.com/ISOC_Live <https://www.twitter.com/ISOC_Live>/* *https://www.twitch.tv/isoclive <https://www.twitch.tv/isoclive> (EN)* *https://www.facebook.com/liveisoc/ <https://www.facebook.com/liveisoc/>* *https://www.facebook.com/InternetSocietyAmericaLatinayCaribe <https://www.facebook.com/InternetSocietyAmericaLatinayCaribe>* *ARCHIVE / ARCHIVO / ARQUIVO* *https://archive.org/details/cryptografia2 <https://archive.org/details/cryptografia2>* *Permalink* https://isoc.live/14417/ - -- -------------------------------------- Joly MacFie +12185659365 -------------------------------------- -

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[Repost] A 5-minutes study about time perception and entertainment activities
by Maria Rosa Miccoli 05 Aug '21

05 Aug '21

Hello everyone! I hope you are having a nice day, maybe some of you are already in holidays! The iScience team from the Konstanz University is currently investigating time perception and entertainment activities from a behavioural perspective. We would sincerely appreciate your participation in this study, it will take you only 5 minutes! Here is the link: http://wextor.eu:8080/iSciencecore/Exp/index.html?source=mlr In case something doesn't work at the first attempt, I suggest you to use firefox or internet explorer. Please, feel also free to email me for suggestions or questions! Thank you in advance, have a nice day! Best Maria Rosa Miccoli

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references on the materiality of media technologies and their imaginaries
by Hamlet Lopez 04 Aug '21

04 Aug '21

Thanks to all for the quick and kind answers. Here a compilations of the references given: Signal Traffic. Critical Studies of Media Infrastructures. 2015. Edited by Lisa Parks and Nicole Starosielski https://www.press.uillinois.edu/books/catalog/26bxm4qd9780252039362.html The Stuff of Bits. An Essay on the Materialities of Information.2017 Paul Dourish https://mitpress.mit.edu/books/stuff-bits The Undersea Network. 2015 Nicole Starosielski https://www.dukeupress.edu/the-undersea-network Materiality and Organizing: Social Interaction in a Technological World. 2012 Paul M. Leonardi, Bonnie A. Nardi, and Jannis Kallinikos https://oxford.universitypressscholarship.com/view/10.1093/acprof:oso/97801… New Media & Society Special Issue: Storing and Sharing: Everyday relationships with digital material. 2021. https://journals.sagepub.com/toc/nmsa/23/4 Megan French. Jeff Hancock. What's the Folk Theory? Reasoning About Cyber-Social Systems. 2017 https://ssrn.com/abstract=2910571 Ytre-Arne, Brita, and Hallvard Moe. "Folk theories of algorithms: Understanding digital irritation." Media, Culture & Society (2020) https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.1177/0163443720972314 Among others papers on the subject: Human Computer Interaction and Folk Theories Bell, Joshua and Kuipers, Joel eds. 2018. "Unseen Connections: The Materiality of Cell Phones." Anthropological Quarterly 91(2): 465-633. Bell, JA and Kuipers, JC. Eds. 2018. Linguistic and Material Intimacies of Cell Phones. London: Routledge Among other papers by Josh Bell, Alex Dent and Joel Kuipers These references are extremely helpful. Again, thanks to all. -- Dr.C. Hamlet López García Investigador Auxiliar Instituto Cubano de Investigación Cultural "Juan Marinello" Profesor Auxiliar Universidad de la Habana

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New Statesman: How Google quietly funds Europe’s leading tech policy institutes
by Geert Lovink 03 Aug '21

03 Aug '21

https://www.newstatesman.com/business/sectors/2021/07/how-google-quietly-fu… <https://www.newstatesman.com/business/sectors/2021/07/how-google-quietly-fu…> How Google quietly funds Europe’s leading tech policy institutes By Laurie Clarke, Oscar Williams and Katharine Swindels The search giant has provided tens of millions of pounds of funding to academics investigating issues closely related to its business model. (data visualisations with the financial data and connections to companies not copied here, look at the New Statesman website for more information) A recent scientific paper proposed that, like Big Tobacco in the Seventies, Big Tech thrives on creating uncertainty around the impacts of its products and business model. One of the ways it does this is by cultivating pockets of friendly academics who can be relied on to echo Big Tech talking points, giving them added gravitas in the eyes of lawmakers. Google highlighted working with favourable academics as a key aim in its strategy, leaked in October 2020 <https://www.nytimes.com/2020/12/14/technology/big-tech-lobbying-europe.html>, for lobbying the EU’s Digital Markets Act – sweeping legislation that could seriously undermine tech giants’ market dominance if it goes through. Now, a New Statesman investigation can reveal that over the last five years, six leading academic institutes in the EU have taken tens of millions of pounds of funding from Google, Facebook, Amazon and Microsoft to research issues linked to the tech firms' business models, from privacy and data protection to AI ethics and competition in digital markets. While this funding tends to come with guarantees of academic independence, this creates an ethical quandary where the subject of research is also often the primary funder of it. The New Statesman has also found evidence of an inconsistent approach to transparency, with some senior academics failing to disclose their industry funding. Other academics have warned that the growing dependence on funding from the industry raises questions about how tech firms influence the debate around the ethics of the markets they have created. The Institute for Ethics in Artificial Intelligence at the Technical University of Munich (TUM), for example, received a $7.5m grant from Facebook in 2019 to fund five years of research, while the Humboldt Institute for Internet and Society in Berlin, has accepted almost €14m from Google since it was founded in 2012, and the tech giant accounts for a third of the institute's third-party funding. Researchers at Big Tech-funded institutions told the New Statesman they did not feel any outward pressure to be less critical of their university’s benefactors in their research. But one, who wished to remain anonymous, said Big Tech wielded a subtle influence through such institutions. They said that the companies typically appeared to identify uncritical academics – preferably those with political connections – who perhaps already espoused beliefs aligned with Big Tech. Companies then cultivate relationships with them, sometimes incentivising academics by granting access to sought-after data. Companies such as Google and Facebook sponsor universities for “outreach and what I would call ‘industrial presence’,” said Michel Bernard, a former Google academic outreach officer for France. He worked on developing relationships with universities on technical subjects, such as AI and internet and cloud computing, but said he was aware of policy-aligned topics gaining importance towards the end of his tenure in 2017. He said the company “would contact a professor or faculty, invite them to make a speech at Google and then explore some partnerships, then we would, of course, have many researchers attending and participating in conferences and events.” Luciano Floridi, professor of philosophy and ethics of information at Oxford University’s Internet Institute, is one of the most high-profile and influential European tech policy experts, who has advised the European Commission, the Information Commissioner’s Office, the UK government’s Centre for Data Ethics and Innovation, the Foreign Office, the Financial Conduct Authority and the Vatican. Floridi is one of the best-connected tech policy experts in Europe, and he is also one of the most highly funded. The ethicist has received funding from Google, DeepMind, Facebook, the Chinese tech giant Tencent and the Japanese IT firm Fujitsu, which developed the infrastructure involved in the Post Office’s Horizon IT scandal <https://www.newstatesman.com/business/companies/2021/04/2bn-question-how-di…>. Although Floridi is connected to several of the world’s most valuable tech companies, he is especially close to Google. In the mid-2010s the academic was described <https://qz.com/451051/should-search-algorithms-be-moral-a-conversation-with…> as the company’s “in-house philosopher”, with his role on the company’s “right to be forgotten” committee. When the Silicon Valley giant launched a short-lived ethics committee to oversee its technology development in 2019, Floridi was among those enlisted. The institute’s director Victoria Nash said “receiving support from a diverse range of sources is in line with government’s preferred funding model for higher education institutions”. She added: “External funding does not compromise the value or integrity of research output. Indeed many of our faculty and students have been the strongest critics of the practices of tech firms.” The academic who spoke anonymously to the New Statesman added: “These firms aren’t trying to erase all criticism, they’re trying to amplify the criticism they prefer – the criticism they can structurally live with.” A spokesperson denied that the OII is “dependent on any one source of funding”, adding that funding from postgraduate programmes had contributed at least a third of the OII’s income since 2018 and that “the majority” of research funding comes from research councils, charities and foundations. A Google spokesperson said: “We’re proud of the support we provide to researchers at academic institutions, universities and research institutes. These researchers are undertaking world-leading work to examine the effects of technology on society. We maintain rigorous measures to ensure independence and are transparent about the researchers and organisations that we support.” In 2014, the law professors Christopher Kuner and Paul De Hert founded the Brussels Privacy Hub (BPH), a primarily Google-funded entity of the Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB) set up with “the aim of becoming the first European academic privacy research platform of global stature”. The centre says it “uses its location in Brussels, the capital of Europe, to engage EU policymakers, data protection regulators, the private sector, and NGOs”. It hosts dozens of events a year, many of which feature high-profile figures from the European Commission, whose headquarters are two miles away. Kuner and De Hert are co-directors of the BPH and now hold chair positions there. A 2019 VUB marketing brochure <http://www.vub.be/sites/vub/files/nieuws/users/ergultek/brochure_leerstoele…> stated that Google was the official “partner” for Kuner’s position and a VUB spokesperson told the New Statesman that Google continues to fund the chair. A member of the Google EU policy team also currently sits on the BPH advisory board. However, Kuner’s profile page <https://lsts.research.vub.be/en/christopher-kuner> and the page <https://www.vub.be/foundation/leerstoel/international-and-european-data-pri…> for the chair position he holds on the VUB’s website do not currently disclose support from Google. When asked about this, VUB told the New Statesman: “We are updating our policies to provide increased transparency, and will post more information on our web site shortly.” Kuner told the New Statesman: “I have to disagree with what [the] brochure, which I have never seen before, says... The chair was not established by Google, it couldn’t have been, since my time at VUB predates any funding by Google.” Kuner said the hub's expenses, including his position, were covered by funding from a range of sources not limited to industry. “That is why my web page and that of the chair do not mention any support from specific sources, which however is disclosed on the governance page cited above,” said Kuner, referring to this page <https://brusselsprivacyhub.eu/home-2/governance.html>. Kuner did not deny that Google partly funds the position. While the Brussels Privacy Hub’s website acknowledges that “historically the largest private donor has been, and remains, Google”, the university did not respond to several requests for details of how much funding it had received from the tech giant. But a spokesperson did confirm that, like other industry partners, Google had provided at least €50,000 a year to help establish and maintain the position. The academic who spoke anonymously to the New Statesman said: “All academics should be declaring their funding prominently.” In addition to managing the BPH, Kuner works as a senior privacy counsel at the international law firm Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati, whose clients include Google and other major tech firms. In his more than 30 years practising data protection law at various firms, Kuner has represented a number of clients. He said he could not disclose which companies he had represented due to legal regulations, and that he had turned down offers of all personal work, including for tech companies. The VUB marketing brochure <https://www.vub.be/sites/vub/files/nieuws/users/ergultek/brochure_leerstoel…> on chairs with external partners says that chairs are “a way of supporting independent research at the VUB”, but also represent “a partnership”. “We involve the partners and the employees in guest lectures, workshops and symposiums,” reads the brochure. “The partner participates in the community debate and stimulates research and development in their name.” Kuner said he had not been consulted on the brochure and that it didn’t reflect the BPH’s governance policies. In 2014 Kuner told IAPP <https://iapp.org/news/a/a-new-privacy-voice-in-europe-the-brussels-privacy-…>, one of the funding bodies of BPH, that the hub would avoid any kind of “lobbying”. But the BPH was founded with an intention to influence policymaking. “We’d like to bridge that gap [between academic researchers and policymakers],” Kuner told IAPP, “and get outside of the formal process of doing studies… When I speak to people in the EU institutions, they say, ‘We get all these papers from companies and business associations. Why can’t they be more objective?’ So I feel like there’s a need for what we’re doing. I think if we can get the two worlds talking to each other, that would be a victory.” Kuner told the New Statesman: “So far, we have never received allegations of any kind that our work has supported the Big Tech agenda. Many of our greatest achievements, such as working for the last three years with the International Committee of the Red Cross to produce two handbooks on data protection and humanitarian action, have nothing to do with Big Tech. Moreover, it has won the acclaim of human rights and legal scholars around the world.” A brochure <http://vublsts.files.wordpress.com/2014/10/bprh-brochure-version-1-1.pdf> on the BPH at the time of its launch in 2014, which Kuner also said he was not familiar with, states that “while decisions will be made by the management board to ensure independence, sponsors will have input into the work of the [BPH]”. Its website currently reads that the BPH “is committed to full impartiality and independence in our research, as well as intellectual rigour and transparency”. In February 2019 the Italian economist Emilio Calvano met a friend in Rome who worked as a competition lawyer at Google. Calvano wanted to set up a network of high-profile European economists who specialised in digital markets. His contact at Google had also been tasked with establishing an academic outreach programme. Together, they arranged for Google to provide four years of funding to a chair at Belgium’s UCLouvain that distributes the financial support to researchers. Calvano said this arrangement protects the network’s independence, but refused to reveal how much Google had donated to UCLouvain to support the network, which now involves some of the continent’s most prominent economists. The research grants were worth €8,000 in 2019-20 and €16,000 in 2020-21. While Calvano said these were small sums in comparison with some of the public grants awarded to members of the group, his colleague Neil Gandal said they helped to top up academics’ low salaries and discourage them from seeking consulting work. Calvano said Google does not interfere in the network’s research or influence who receives its funding. Gandal, an economics professor at Tel Aviv University who helps manage the network, said the company sometimes makes suggestions about policy discussions that researchers should investigate. “The only thing they’ve told us is that they want us to work on things that are relevant,” he told the New Statesman. “So from time to time, they’ll send us things that are being debated... [such as] the Digital Markets Act.” This act has been drawn up to increase competition in digital markets and may pose a threat to Google’s business model. Michael Veale, a lecturer in law at University College London, said that beyond influencing independent academics, there are other motives for firms such as Google to fund policy research. “By funding very pedantic academics in an area to investigate the nuances of economics online, you can heighten the amount of perceived uncertainty in things that are currently taken for granted in regulatory spheres,” he told the New Statesman. Tommaso Valletti, a professor of economics at Imperial College Business School and the former chief competition economist of the European Commission, adds that the field of competition economics was stymied for years because there was no data available from Big Tech. Now that data is becoming available, he sees that Big Tech is increasingly interested in economists with “contrarian views”. This appears to be the case within competition law as well. “I have noticed several common techniques used by academics who have been funded by Big Tech companies,” said Oles Andriychuk, a senior lecturer in law at Strathclyde University. “They discuss technicalities – very technical arguments which are not wrong, but they either slow down the process, or redirect the focus to issues which are less important, or which blur clarity.” It is difficult to measure the impact of Big Tech on European academia, but Valletti adds that a possible outcome is to make research less about the details, and more about framing. “Influence is not just distorting the result in favour of [Big Tech],” he said, “but the kind of questions you ask yourself.”

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gamevironments regular issue out now
by Lisa Kienzl 03 Aug '21

03 Aug '21

Dear colleagues, we are really happy to share with you that the newest issue of the international online journal /gamevironments/ is out now. With contributions from: * /History Games for Boys? Gender, Genre and the Self-Perceived Impact of Historical Games on Undergraduate Historians/ - Article by Robert Houghton * /Inaudible Systems, Sonic Users. Sound Interfaces and the Design of Audibility Layouts in Digital Games/ - Article by Eduardo Harry Luersen * /Ghosts, Spooks, and Martyrs. Historical Hauntings in Tom Clancy’s Ghost Recon Wildlands/ - Article by Megan Ward * /Feminist Gamer Social Identities/ - Article by Michael Winters and James L. Williams * /New Earth. Fantasy Pantheon Inspired by Afro-Brazilian Religion/ - Research report by Eliane Bettocchi * /Holy Ocarina! Exploring Religion in/of/through The Legend of Zelda Series/ - Research report by Johnathan Sanders * /Interview with Marcus Carter on Children’s Play and Games Studies Discourse/ - Interview by Antonija Cavcic * /Interview with Stella Wisdom, Digital Curator at the British Library/ - Interview by Lissa Holloway-Attaway * /A Review of Assassin’s Creed: Valhalla’s Sensationalized History/ - Game review by John Herman * /Review of Ethik des Computerspielens: Eine Grundlegung (Ethics of Video Gaming: A Groundwork)/ - Book review by Bodil Stelter * /A Review of the Video Game The Medium/ - Game review by Jordan Wood Just visit https://www.gamevironments.uni-bremen.de/completed-quests/ <https://www.gamevironments.uni-bremen.de/completed-quests/> for all contributions and further information. Best wishes, Lisa -- Dr. Dr. Lisa Kienzl (sie/ihr | she/her) Literaturen und Medien der Religion | Institut für Religionswissenschaft und Religionspädagogik http://www.religion.uni-bremen.de Lab "Media and Religion" | ZeMKI, Centre for Media, Communication and Information Research https://www.uni-bremen.de/en/zemki/labs/media-and-religion Managing editor gamevironments https://www.gamevironments.uni-bremen.de/ Universität Bremen Sportturm (SpT) Postfach 330 440 28359 Bremen T. +49 (0)421 218 67912

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Re: [Air-L] WEBCAST TODAY/AUJOURD’HUI: Fear to Peer / La peur du peering
by Joly MacFie 03 Aug '21

03 Aug '21

Hi Godofredo, Any such errors are perhaps introduced by the conversion from html to plain text in your email client. Always, the last link I give is the 'permalink', in this case https://isoc.live/14405/ which will give you a formatted web page. joly On Tue, Aug 3, 2021 at 6:17 AM Godofredo Ramizo < godofredojr.ramizo(a)seh.ox.ac.uk> wrote: > Dear Joly, > > Just wish to note that this link does not seem to work: > < > https://www.afpif.org/virtual-peering-series-africa/fear-to-peer-future-of-…>* > '. > Perhaps the symbols >* were mistakenly included as part of the link. > > Thanks, > Godofredo > > > ------------------------------ > *From:* Air-L <air-l-bounces(a)listserv.aoir.org> on behalf of Joly MacFie < > joly(a)punkcast.com> > *Sent:* Tuesday, August 3, 2021 10:20 AM > *To:* aoir list <air-l(a)aoir.org> > *Subject:* [Air-L] WEBCAST TODAY/AUJOURD’HUI: Fear to Peer / La peur du > peering > > Today's session tackles the tricky problem of interconnecting while > physically distancing! > > La session d'aujourd'hui aborde le délicat problème de l'interconnexion > tout en se distanciant physiquement ! > > [image: livestream] > <http://livestream.com/internetsociety/afpeering11>On *Tuesday > 3 August 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/fr/regions/africa/>*, host '*Fear to Peer > – Post Pandemic, What is the Future of Handshake Peering? > < > https://www.afpif.org/virtual-peering-series-africa/fear-to-peer-future-of-…>* > '. > The focus of this 11th webinar in the *Virtual Peering Series – Africa > <https://www.afpif.org/fr/virtual-peering-series-africa/>* will be will be > on the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the organisation of peering > forums around the world. We would like to understand how activities such as > peering bilaterals and socials, which are usually heavily in-person > dependent, will evolve and whether hybrid (in-person and virtual) events > would become the new norm. This session will elaborate on the innovative > ways peering forums are currently exploring to keep their respective > communities engaged. Finally, with little to almost zero face-to-face > outreach events, the community building and development activities, around > peering, need to be re-invented. The session will discuss the impact of the > pandemic on the human network and how this is affecting the operational > aspects of peering. > > *SPEAKERS* > *Rebecca Class-Peter*, Events and Operations Coordinator, Euro-IX > *Ester Paál*, Accounts and Communication Manager, NIX.CZ <http://nix.cz/> > *Yolandi Robinson*, Peering & Interconnect Specialist, NAPAfrica > *Nico Tshintu*, Operation Manager, ISPA-DRC and KINIX > > *MODERATORS* > *Amreesh Phokeer*, Internet Measurement and Data Expert, Internet Society > *Kyle Spencer*, Executive Director, Uganda Internet eXchange Point (UIXP) | > Co-Coordinator, African IXP Association (Af-IX) > > *LIVESTREAM ENGLISH http://livestream.com/internetsociety/afpeering11 > <http://livestream.com/internetsociety/afpeering11> *(Open Captions) > > [image: livestream francais] > <http://livestream.com/internetsociety2/afpeering11>Le *mardi 3 août > 2021* de > 1*3h00 à 14h30 UTC*, l'*African IXP Association <https://www.af-ix.net/>*, > en partenariat avec l'*Internet Society > <https://www.internetsociety.org/fr/regions/africa/>*, accueillera « *La > peur du peering - qu’adviendra-t-il du poignée de main d’interconnexion en > post-pandémie? > < > https://www.afpif.org/fr/serie-de-peering-virtuels-afrique/la-peur-du-peeri… > >* > ». > L'objectif de ce 11e webinaire de la *série Virtual Peering – Afrique > <https://www.afpif.org/fr/virtual-peering-series-africa/>* sera mis sur > l'impact de la pandémie de COVID-19 sur l'organisation de forums de peering > à travers le monde. Nous aimerions comprendre comment des activités telles > que les bilatérales et les sociales de peering, qui sont d'habitude > fortement dépendantes des rencontres en présentiel, vont désormais évoluer, > et si des événements hybrides (combinaison de présentiel et de virtuel) > deviendront la nouvelle norme. Enfin, avec peu ou presque pas d'événements > de sensibilisation en tête-à-tête, les activités de développement et de > renforcement de la communauté, autour du peering, doivent être réinventées. > La séance abordera donc l'impact de la pandémie sur le réseau humain et la > manière dont cela influence les aspects opérationnels du peering. > > *INTERVENANTS* > *Rebecca Class-Peter*, Coordonnatrice des événements et des opérations, > Euro-IX > *Ester Paál*, responsable des comptes et de la communication, NIX.CZ > <http://nix.cz/> > *Yolandi Robinson*, spécialiste du peering et de l'interconnexion, > NAPAfrica > *Nico Tshintu*, directeur des opérations, ISPA-RDC et KINIX > > *MODÉRATEURS* > *Amreesh Phokeer*, expert en mesure et données Internet, Internet Society > *Kyle Spencer*, directeur exécutif, Point d'échange Internet ougandais > (UIXP) | Co-coordinateur, Association Africaine IXP (Af-IX) > > *LIVESTREAM FRANÇAIS http://livestream.com/internetsociety2/afpeering11 > <http://livestream.com/internetsociety2/afpeering11>* > > *PARTICIPATE VIA ZOOM https://bit.ly/3s1YWhX <https://bit.ly/3s1YWhX> > *(EN/FR) > (EN Closed Captions) > > *REAL TIME TEXT https://www.streamtext.net/player?event=CFI-ISOC > <https://www.streamtext.net/player?event=CFI-ISOC> *(EN) > > *TWITTER #IPeerinAfrica <https://bit.ly/IPeerInAfrica> @AfPIF @Af_IX > @ISOC_Africa @euroix @NIX_CZ @RobinsonYolandi @NAPAfrica_IX @NTSHINTU > @Facebook @FLEXOPTIX @paixio @MicrosoftAfrica #captioned * > > *SIMULCASTS* > *https://www.twitter.com/ISOC_Live/ <https://www.twitter.com/ISOC_Live/>* > *https://www.twitch.tv/isoclive* <https://www.twitch.tv/isoclive> (EN) > *https://www.facebook.com/liveisoc <https://www.facebook.com/liveisoc>* > *https://www.facebook.com/InternetSociety/ > <https://www.facebook.com/InternetSociety/>* > *https://www.facebook.com/ISOCAfrica/ > <https://www.facebook.com/ISOCAfrica/>* > > *ARCHIVE* > *https://archive.org/details/afpeering11 > <https://archive.org/details/afpeering11>* > > *SPONSORS* > *FLEXOPTIX <https://www.flexoptix.net/>* | *Facebook > <https://about.fb.com/company-info/>*|*Microsoft > <https://www.microsoft.com/>* | *Paix <https://paix.io/>* | *NAPAfrica > <https://www.napafrica.net/>* > > *Permalink* > https://isoc.live/14405/ > > > > - > > -- > -------------------------------------- > Joly MacFie +12185659365 > -------------------------------------- > - > _______________________________________________ > The Air-L(a)listserv.aoir.org mailing list > is provided by the Association of Internet Researchers http://aoir.org > Subscribe, change options or unsubscribe at: > http://listserv.aoir.org/listinfo.cgi/air-l-aoir.org > > Join the Association of Internet Researchers: > http://www.aoir.org/ > -- -------------------------------------- Joly MacFie +12185659365 -------------------------------------- -

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