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Polymedia
by Traci Belanger 11 Jul '25

11 Jul '25

Hi everyone, does anyone have suggestions for articles on "polymedia" or specifically how polymedia interacts with media ecology? Thanks so much! Traci Belanger --- May all winds at your back inspire you, and may you have harmony and peace today.

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For my US colleagues: an 8 minute survey, where your input might make a difference
by Patricia Aufderheide 08 May '25

08 May '25

I know, exactly what you don't need to do at this crazy point in the semester. At AU, Profs. Aram Sinnreich, Joseph Graf and I have been working with Electronic Frontier Foundation and New Media Rights to design a survey about DMCA exemption language and its accessibility. Would you be interested in taking, sharing with your students and networks, including putting on social media the survey link <http://bit.ly/2nEfY8j>? Here it is again: *http://bit.ly/2nEfY8j <http://bit.ly/2nEfY8j>* Your generosity much appreciated! 👏 -- Patricia Aufderheide, University Professor, School of Communication Founder, Center for Media & -- Patricia Aufderheide, University Professor, School of Communication Founder, Center for Media & Social Impact American University 4400 Massachusetts Av., NW American University, Washington, DC 20016-8017 McKinley Hall 323 @paufder @cmsimpact cmsimpact.org paufder(a)american.edu 202-885-2069 office <202-643-5356> 240-643-4805 mobile <202-643-5356> "The world we have received also belongs to those who follow us." --Pope Francis

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Non-software uses of GitHub
by Jim Herbsleb 16 Apr '25

16 Apr '25

I’m looking for GitHub repositories that are used for things other than software, especially where users are actively collaborating rather than just putting together static collections. So far, we have found a few books being written, some musical transcriptions being error-checked, and some policy documents maintained online. Does anyone know of any examples of these or other categories? Any pointers much appreciated. Happy to share what we find with anyone interested. Jim ---- Jim Herbsleb Carnegie Mellon University http://herbsleb.org/ Google Scholar profile: https://goo.gl/sv3p7l

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Call for or Papers: Symposium on Misinformation and Global Communication
by Louisa Shu Ying Ha 11 Sep '22

11 Sep '22

Online Media and Global Communication Call for or Papers: Symposium on Misinformation and Global Communication Digital media technology has accelerated the spread of false or misleading information, particularly amid the pandemic of COVID-19, making it a global social concern and an emerging research topic for various social science disciplines. To date, a variety of scholarship has investigated the various forms of misinformation, their spreading patterns, methods of detection and dispelling, the causes and effects of misinformation, etc. However, more research is still needed to address the global dissemination of misinformation. We are soliciting extended abstracts or full papers for a variety of presentations at our symposium, “Misinformation and Global Communication,” to be held on March 12, 2022, in Shanghai. The symposium will take a hybrid format, consisting of in-person and virtual meetings. We welcome innovative and original research proposals addressing the theme of our symposium from all disciplines, methodologies, and professions, including case studies, quantitative and qualitative research, data and network science, etc. Some possible topics include but are not limited to: * Misinformation, disinformation, and fake news on social media * COVID-19 misinformation * The effects of misinformation on audience * Comparative Study on fake news * Fact-checking * New methodologies to study misinformation * The ethic of misinformation * Digital literacy on misinformation * Misinformation inventions * The cultural implications of misinformation * Other related topics Please submit an abstract or research proposal with a minimum of 500 words for your presentation. Submissions should be sent via email globalopinion(a)shisu.edu.cn<mailto:globalopinion@shisu.edu.cn> by February 15, 2022. Decisions for the conference presentation will be communicated on February 25, 2022. High-quality articles will be selected to present at our symposium “Misinformation and Global Communication,” co-sponsored by the School of Journalism and Communication at Shanghai International Studies University, Center for Global Public Opinion of China, and the Online Media and Global Communication (OMGC) journal. OMGC is a new free open-access English language referred journal published quarterly by De Gruyter and sponsored by Shanghai International Studies University. It aims to publish high quality, innovative and original research on global communication, especially in the use of global online media platforms such as Facebook, TikTok, YouTube, Twitter, Instagram, WhatsApp, Weibo, WeChat, Wikipedia, websites, blogs, etc., in an effort to make theoretical contributions under the contextual scenarios of and based on practices of online media and global communication, particularly in but not limited to the Global South. Selected papers from the symposium will be published in Online Media and Global Communication after peer review.

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Fast Capitalism Special Issue Academic Automation, Machine Un/Learning and Artificial Non/Intelligences,
by Jeremy Hunsinger 15 Mar '22

15 Mar '22

CFP Special issue of Fastcapitalism Academic Automation, Machine Un/Learning and Artificial Non/Intelligences, Over the last 70 years, computational and networked media have become deeply integrated with higher education and have slowly adopted and integrated various technologies. The newest generation of technologies engaging higher education centers around what is popularly called artificial intelligence, otherwise known as machine learning. Machine learning creates models that self-design solutions that may include interaction, prediction, and other simulatable aspects. In other words, it is an attempt to automate certain processes. This special issue invites papers that engage with technological automation, machine un/learning, and artificial non/intelligence in the academic context. It seeks critical papers that examine questions around automatic grading, artificial teaching assistants, robotic instructors, other educational technologies, and the transformation of the student and professor roles concerning these technologies. This call for papers also seeks papers that engage these technologies in other academic roles, such as research or service. How are these technologies mediating different academic functions? Who benefits from these technologies? And who is privileged by them? How will these technologies change undergraduate education or graduate education? It asks authors to consider the roles of craft, artistry, and humanity in those roles. Is there an argument to be made for automation in the academy? Is there an argument to be made for AI/Machine learning in the academy? What kind of relations do these establish? Following Ivan Illich, should we rethink our relations to develop tools and systems that treat us as human, perhaps even more human than our current system? Following Virilio, what will be their accident? Papers should be 3000-8000 words, following the Fastcapitalism author guidelines: https://fastcapitalism.journal.library.uta.edu/index.php/fastcapitalism/abo… Submit to: https://fastcapitalism.journal.library.uta.edu/index.php/fastcapitalism Papers are due by March 15 Papers will undergo review with the intent to publish before September. Please contact Special Issue Editor Jeremy Hunsinger jhunsinger(a)wlu.ca if you have questions -- Jeremy Hunsinger Associate Professor Communication Studies Wilfrid Laurier University

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Call for submissions for Internet Researchers Conference, 2022
by Ambika Tandon 07 Mar '22

07 Mar '22

Hello, The Centre for Internet and Society is happy to announce the fifth edition of the Internet Researchers’ Conference (IRC22)! The conference will be held online in April, 2022. For the call for proposals, and more details, see: https://tinyurl.com/irc22 See below for a description of the theme of this year's conference: The ‘home’ has been a key line of defense in efforts to curtail the spread of COVID-19. Public health recommendations and governmental measures over the last two years have relied on the construction, and assumption, of home as a familiar, stable and safe space. As we continue to come to terms with, and find ways to reorient the disruption of life, being at home has acquired many new meanings. What has it meant to be at home, and what is home? What is and has been the role of the internet and digital media technologies in navigating the contours of a changing ‘normal’? How have/can digital technologies help overcome, or exacerbate existing social, economic and political challenges during the pandemic? What forms of digital infrastructure—tools, platforms, devices and services—help build, sustain and alter the notion of home? The conference will focus on three sub-themes as they relate to the notion of home - violence and care, labour, and movement-building. The sub-themes are outlined here: https://cis-india.org/raw/irc22-call-for-sessions-pdf We invite contributions that speak to these provocations through one or more of the thematic areas outlined above. The deadline for submission of session proposals is February 5, 2022. Submissions can be sent in to workshops(a)cis-india.org. Please feel free to reach out if you have any questions. Best, Ambika -- Ambika Tandon Senior Researcher The Centre for Internet and Society

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CfP Frontiers / Interrogating the Design of Smart, Sustainable, and Socially Just Urban Spaces: A Look at Institutions, Places, and Values
by shenja van der graaf 07 Mar '22

07 Mar '22

People experience the city in different ways. These experiences shape how people view the city and the values they seek to draw from this space. Increasingly, people are experimenting with big data and digital tools within the context of community-based public goods provision as a way to realize values such as sustainability and social justice. In such a way, they claim their right to the city. These experiments can be transformative. There has been a groundswell of scholarship on local efforts to become smarter in support of urban experiments. However, our knowledge of these experiments’ design features remains scant. Design shapes interactions within all collective endeavors. When spatial, institutional, and value-based design principles are weak or missing, urban experiments may fail. This is why this Research Topic’s special focus is on the question of spatial, institutional, and value-based design in urban experiments. Smart urban development seems inevitable for the future of our cities, but who should decide what that future should be like and whose interests smart urbanism serves? Politics is inherent to urban development, and there is increasing evidence that political struggle lies at the heart of urban transformation. From LGBTQ+ activism that claims a right to public space to youth climate protests, political struggle is a call to action. These movements are the flints that spark urban experiments. However, we have scant knowledge of these experiments’ governance, the co-evolution of institutions that guide them, and ways in which they are designed to render value. Research indicates that it is challenging to translate and implement public values in smart city technologies. This Research Topic explores the dynamics between socio-technological processes - particularly, value-based design - that shape urban space and how citizens can participate meaningfully, highlighting how institutional design principles can be leveraged without incurring associated risks. This Research Topic calls for original papers, empirical as well as theoretical, that use the analytical lens of institutional and/or value-based design principles to explore and connect current popular, normative, academic, and political notions on urban commons, such as in the “smart”, “inclusive”, “resilient”, "participatory", "citizen-centric", “sustainable” and “just” cities. The overall goal of this collection of papers is to bring together contributions on the role of institutional and value-based design principles within complex urban systems from different academic disciplines and perspectives. By acknowledging these different perspectives and discussing their cross-cutting themes, we aim to contribute to understanding the complex issues in implementing these technologies posing numerous challenges and trade-offs with which developers, designers, and professionals working in urban management are increasingly faced with. *Keywords*: Institutional design, Value-based design, Participatory city-making, Urban commons, Transformative capacities, Quality of life We welcome your *abstract by Jan 31, 2022* *Relevant information* Website cfp <https://www.frontiersin.org/research-topics/29142/interrogating-the-design-…> You can opt for a short piece to a longer article <https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/sustainable-cities#article-types>! Note: that Frontiers charges publication fees <https://www.frontiersin.org/about/publishing-fees> which are waived for scientists at institutions with Institutional Memberships. You can find out if your institution is a member by checking here <https://www.frontiersin.org/about/institutional-membership>. Frontiers also has a fee support program. If you have any questions, feel free to reach out! - Shenja van der Graaf, University of Twente - Le Anh Long, University of Twente - Ignazio Vinci, University of Palermo

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WEBCAST JAN 31: Traversing the Metaverse – A Caribbean Perspective
by Joly MacFie 01 Feb '22

01 Feb '22

Lest it be thought that Barbados does not have a record of pioneering new technologies, one of the speakers today is *Alan Emtage*, who is *in the Internet Hall of Fame* <https://www.internethalloffame.org/inductees/alan-emtage> for inventing ARCHIE, the first search engine. REAL TIME TEXT https://bit.ly/3HnBmmE [image: livestream] <http://http//livestream.com/internetsociety3/ctu-metaverse>On *Monday January 31 2022* at *09:00-12:30 AST* (13:00-16:30 UTC) the *Caribbean Telecommunications Union <https://ctu.int/>* (CTU) in partnership with the *Government of Barbados <https://www.gov.bb/>* hosts a webinar '*Traversing the Metaverse – A Caribbean Perspective <https://ctu.int/event/traversing-the-metaverse-a-caribbean-perspective-2/>*'. In 2021 Barbados announced it would be among the first countries to *open an embassy <https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-12-14/barbados-tries-digital-d…>* in the metaverse. It is *estimated <https://www.strategyanalytics.com/access-services/media-and-services/virtua…>* that by 2025 the global metaverse market will be worth 280 billion US dollars. This webinar will enable discussion that will assist in the formulation of policy, legal and regulatory issues in an effort to educate and raise awareness of the opportunities and challenges for, in particular, small island developing states (SIDS). This will allow the relevant stakeholders to advance regional initiatives and make the necessary policy interventions in the interest of ensuring the Caribbean is poised to provide global leadership in this emerging technological space. *AGENDA https://bit.ly/3udPXgK <https://bit.ly/3udPXgK>* *LIVESTREAM http://livestream.com/internetsociety3/ctu-metaverse <http://livestream.com/internetsociety3/ctu-metaverse>* *PARTICIPATE VIA HUBILO https://bit.ly/3rcQDkg <https://bit.ly/3rcQDkg>* *REAL TIME TEXT *https://bit.ly/3HnBmmE *TWITTER #metaverse @TheCtunion <https://bit.ly/3g7aCL4> @Barbados @gisbarbados* *SIMULCASTS* *https://www.twitter.com/ISOC_Live/ <https://www.twitter.com/ISOC_Live/>* *https://www.facebook.com/liveisoc/ <https://www.facebook.com/liveisoc/>* (AI Captions) *https://www.facebook.com/CaribbeanTelecommunicationsUnion <https://www.facebook.com/CaribbeanTelecommunicationsUnion>* (AI Captions) *https://youtu.be/WkKN4sjBbzY <https://youtu.be/WkKN4sjBbzY> *(CTU) *ARCHIVE* *https://archive.org/details/ctu-metaverse <https://archive.org/details/ctu-metaverse>* *Permalink* https://isoc.live/15129/ - -- -------------------------------------- Joly MacFie +12185659365 -------------------------------------- -

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[Call for Participation] ACM WSDM 2022
by Ugur Kursuncu 31 Jan '22

31 Jan '22

CALL FOR PARTICIPATION ACM International Conference on Web Search and Data Mining (WSDM 2022) Virtual Conference (was Tempe, Arizona, USA) February 21-25 2022 https://www.wsdm-conference.org/2022/ <https://www.wsdm-conference.org/2022/> ------------- Register before February 20, 2022. ------------- WSDM (pronounced "wisdom") is one of the premier conferences on web-inspired research involving search and data mining. WSDM is a highly selective conference that includes invited talks, as well as refereed full papers. WSDM publishes original, high-quality papers related to search and data mining on the Web and the Social Web, with an emphasis on practical yet principled novel models of search and data mining, algorithm design and analysis, economic implications, and in-depth experimental analysis of accuracy and performance. The conference is now moved to a completely virtual format. This difficult decision is made in light of the latest surge in Omicron cases, enhanced travel restrictions from various parts of the world, and companies scrapping office-return deadlines without setting a new date. Conference program includes 7 workshops <https://www.wsdm-conference.org/2022/wsdm-workshops/>, 7 tutorials <https://www.wsdm-conference.org/2022/accepted-tutorials/>, 9 doctoral consortium presentations <https://www.wsdm-conference.org/2022/accepted-doctoral-consortium-papers/>, 14 technical demos <https://www.wsdm-conference.org/2022/accepted-demos/>, 160 research paper presentations <https://www.wsdm-conference.org/2022/accepted-papers/>, industry day presentations <https://www.wsdm-conference.org/2022/industry-day-schedule/>, smart city day presentations, and 3 exciting keynote talks on timely topics: Keynote talk by Yejin Choi <https://homes.cs.washington.edu/~yejin/> (U. Washington) - Knowledge is Power: Symbolic Knowledge Distillation, Commonsense Morality, and Multimodal Script Knowledge Keynote talk by George Karypis <http://glaros.dtc.umn.edu/> (Amazon) - Graph Neural Network Research at AWS AI Keynote talk by Ricardo Baeza-Yates <https://www.baeza.cl/> (Northeastern University) - Ethics Challenges in AI To register for the conference, please visit https://www.wsdm-conference.org/2022/registration/ <https://www.wsdm-conference.org/2022/registration/> Note that the registration ends on February 20, 2022.

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Fwd: CDT Report: Making Transparency Meaningful
by Dhanaraj Thakur 31 Jan '22

31 Jan '22

Hi all, I'm writing to let you know about a report that CDT published just before the new year called /Making Transparency Meaningful: A Framework for Policymakers <https://cdt.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/12132021-CDT-Making-Transparency…>/. The report lays out a conceptual framework for transparency about practices that affect internet users’ speech, access to information, and privacy from government surveillance. A section of the report about researcher access to data <https://cdt.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/2022-01-21-FX-Transparency-Frame…> held by online hosts of user-generated content may be of particular interest to members of this network. The purpose of /Making Transparency Meaningful /is to provide a structure for understanding the big picture of technology company transparency, and how to approach the critical decisions that must be made if we are to achieve meaningful transparency by, and about, technology companies. The report addresses four categories of transparency: 1. Transparency reports that provide aggregated data and qualitative information about moderation actions, disclosures, and other practices concerning user generated content and government surveillance; 2. User notifications about government demands for their data and moderation of their content; 3. Access to data held by intermediaries for independent researchers, public policy advocates, and journalists; and 4. Public-facing analysis, assessments, and audits of technology company practices with respect to user speech and privacy from government surveillance. As we explain in the accompanying blog post <https://cdt.org/insights/new-cdt-report-provides-guide-for-policymakers-on-…>, /Making Transparency Meaningful/ is relevant to many ongoing policy conversations around transparency, and the numerous transparency bills from recent months (including researcher access to data bills) in the U.S. and EU like the PACT Act, Algorithmic Justice and Online Platform Transparency Act, Social Media DATA Act, Platform Accountability and Transparency Act, Digital Services Act, and many more. The full report is available on CDT’s website <https://cdt.org/insights/report-making-transparency-meaningful-a-framework-…>, where we also have links to each of the four individual sections if you want to look at just one specific topic. take care, Dhanaraj

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