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Digital politics in the US in 2021
by Colin Delany 04 Jan '22

04 Jan '22

Hi everyone, happy new year. In case you're interested, I wrote a digital politics year-in-review (more of a trends piece, really) for campaignsandelections.com. They used my proposed title, and I am proud to do my small part to address America's critical shortage of clickbait headlines. https://campaignsandelections.com/campaigntech/digital-politics-in-2021-wha… Happy to chat if anyone wants to dig into these ideas. --cpd "How to Use the Internet to Change the World - and Win Elections: A Comprehensive Guide to Digital Politics for Campaigns, Activists & Advocates" [Ebook] http://www.epolitics.com/winning Colin Delany Epolitics.com -- digital strategy for politics and advocacy http://www.epolitics.com 202-422-4682 cpd(a)epolitics.com @epolitics

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Do you do text/data mining? Know someone who does?
by Patricia Aufderheide 04 Jan '22

04 Jan '22

My brilliant, kind colleagues who do text/data mining research, or know someone who does, or know someone who knows someone, can you remind your networks to take our survey on obstacles researchers find doing text and data mining? It's a project of the Program on Information Justice and Intellectual Property at American University's law school. UVa's Brandon Butler and I are honchoing it. Endless gratitude! The link: bit.ly/3DaquW7<https://t.co/W0AxM2K6yR> Patricia Aufderheide, University Professor, School of Communication (she/they) Living and working where Nacotchtank and Piscataway peoples once lived PhD Program Director Founder, Center for Media & Social Impact American University 4400 Massachusetts Av., NW American University, Washington, DC 20016-8017 McKinley Hall 323 @paufder @cmsimpact cmsimpact.org<http://cmsimpact.org> paufder(a)american.edu<mailto:paufder@american.edu> 202-885-2069 office 240-643-4805 mobile Zoom Office Hours: https://american.zoom.us/j/96788556467?pwd=eFNpa2JMWlZQRm5pT1Z0b3RVUlRXQT09 Reclaiming Fair Use--t<https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/022637419X?pf_rd_p=d1f45e03-8b73-4c9a-9be…>he second edition is out, with new stories, quizzes and entirely new chapters on the surprising success of fair use in enabling creativity!

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ESIDA'22 - Submission deadline extended to Jan. 10th 2022
by omokryn＠univ.haifa.ac.il 04 Jan '22

04 Jan '22

Fifth ACM IUI Workshop on Exploratory Search and Interactive Data Analytics (ESIDA) https://sites.google.com/view/esida2022/home 22 March 2022, Virtual Important Dates: *Extended* Submission deadline: January 10, 2022 (midnight Hawaii time) * If you have already submitted your paper you may update it Acceptance notification: January 28, 2022 Final manuscript due: February 11, 2022 Workshop: March 22, 2022 Workshop Description: This workshop will be part of the ACM Intelligent User Interfaces 2022 Conference (http://iui.acm.org/2022/) The workshop focuses on systems that personalize, summarize and visualize data for supporting interactive information seeking and information discovery, along with tools that enable user modeling and methods for incorporating user needs and preferences into both analytics and visualization. Additionally, exploratory search is an important tool in how people interact with algorithms online. Examples for interacting with online algorithms are recommender systems, and the understanding of online manipulation systems and algorithms, including bots and the promotion of fake news. Our aim is to bring together researchers and practitioners working on different personalization aspects and applications of exploratory search and interactive data analytics. This will allow us to achieve four goals: (1) propose new strategies for systems that need to convey the rationale behind their decisions or inference, and the sequence of steps that lead to speciﬁc (search) results; (2) develop new user modeling and personalization techniques for exploratory search and interactive data analytics; (3) develop design principles for exploratory search of online algorithms and systems; (4) develop a set of evaluation metrics for personalization in exploratory search. The workshop aims to solicit submissions in the following areas of personalized interactive data analytics and exploratory search: Personalized interactive exploration via interactive data analytics: – personalization aspects in systems for exploratory search. – cross-domain/ context-aware/ cross-platform exploratory search systems. Data analytics: – interactive interfaces for data-intensive platforms. – preprocessing vs. online processing. – interactive data visualization – evaluation of human-centered exploratory search and data analytics. Explainable intelligent systems: – metrics for explainable exploratory search. – explainability and transparency in expert vs. non-expert systems. – human-in-the-loop analytics systems. – efﬁcient vs. explainable analytics. – user perception of explainability and transparency in interactive intelligent systems. Interaction with Online algorithms – conveying awareness of algorithmic fairness and bias in retrieval systems. – exploratory studies of online algorithms and recommender systems. – exploratory search of online manipulation systems and algorithms (e.g., fake news and bots). – interactively modeling user’s information needs for high-recall information retrieval. – new applications of exploratory search and interactive data analytics. Organizers: Dorota Glowacka, Department of Computer Science, University of Helsinki (Finland), glowacka[at]cs.helsinki.fi Evangelos Milios, Faculty of Computer Science, Dalhousie University (Canada), eem[at]cs.dal.ca<http://cs.dal.ca> Axel J. Soto, Institute for Computer Science and Engineering, UNS - CONICET (Argentina), axel.soto[at]cs.uns.edu.ar<http://cs.uns.edu.ar> Fernando V. Paulovich, Faculty of Computer Science, Dalhousie University (Canada), paulovich[at]dal.ca<http://dal.ca> Osnat (Ossi) Mokryn, Department of Information Systems, University of Haifa (Israel), omokryn[at]univ.haifa.ac.il<http://univ.haifa.ac.il> Submission Information: We encourage submissions of work in progress, concept papers, case studies, ongoing research projects, reports on recently completed PhD dissertations or recently accepted journal papers, and generally material that will stimulate discussion, generate useful feedback to the authors, encourage research collaborations and vigorous exchange of ideas on promising research directions. The length should be less than 5000 words and it should follow IUI's formatting guidelines Papers can be submitted through EasyChair: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=esida2022 Osnat (Ossi) Mokryn, PhD SCANLab:http://scan.haifa.ac.il

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12 Streams 2021 #9 - AprIGF Showcase 2 'Internet’s Technical Success Factors'
by Joly MacFie 04 Jan '22

04 Jan '22

After the presentation here, you will see Olaf Kolkman step up with a mapping to ISOC's 'Internet Way of Networking' framework. The finished study was presented at the Global IGF on Dec 8 2021, video of that can be seen at https://youtu.be/nl1n4VGRHng ISOC Live posted: "On Monday January 3 2022, the ninth installment of the Internet Society Livestreaming‘s ‘12 Days of Streams‘ annual highlights features the Asia Pacific Internet Governance Forum (AprIGF) Showcase #2 entitled 'Internet’s Technical Success Factors' from Se" [image: livestream]On *Monday January 3 2022*, the ninth installment of the Internet Society Livestreaming‘s ‘*12 Days of Streams <https://isoc.live/?s=%2312streams>*‘ annual highlights features the *Asia Pacific Internet Governance Forum <https://aprigf.org.np/>* (AprIGF) Showcase #2 entitled '*Internet’s Technical Success Factors <https://report.analysysmason.com/internet_success_factors/>*' from September 29 2021. This was a presentation of a preliminary report on an* Analysys Mason study <https://report.analysysmason.com/internet_success_factors/>*, jointly commissioned by *APNIC <https://www.apnic.net/>* and *LACNIC <https://www.lacnic.net/>*, of whether the Internet continues to be "fit for purpose". *INTRODUCTION* *Paul Wilson*, APNIC *PRESENTERS* *Michael Kende*, Analysys Mason *Julia Allford*, Analysys Mason *Amund Kvalbein*, Analysys Mason *HOST / MODERATOR* *Joyce Chen*, APNIC *VIEW ON LIVESTREAM: https://livestream.com/internetsociety/12streams2021-9 <https://livestream.com/internetsociety/12streams2021-9>* (Open captions) *TWITTER #12Streams <http://bit.ly/2t12HX2J> #APrIGF2021 @aprigf2021 @aprigf_official @lacnic @APNIC @AnalysysMason @amundkvalbein @MichaelKende @kolkman #IWN #captioned* *SIMULCASTS* *https://www.twitter.com/ISOC_Live/ <https://www.twitter.com/ISOC_Live/>* *https://www.twitch.tv/isoclive <https://www.twitch.tv/isoclive>* *https://www.facebook.com/liveisoc/ <https://www.facebook.com/liveisoc/>* *ARCHIVE* *https://archive.org/details/12streams2021-9 <https://archive.org/details/12streams2021-9>* *Permalink* https://isoc.live/14964/ - -- -------------------------------------- Joly MacFie +12185659365 -------------------------------------- -

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New book: VIRTUALITY AND HUMANITY
by Sam Lehman-wilzig 04 Jan '22

04 Jan '22

Hello all: I am happy to announce the publication of my new book VIRTUALITY AND HUMANITY: Virtual Practice and Its Evolution from Pre-History to the 21st Century (Springer Nature). As we are well aware, today's news is full of the "future": Metaverse, Virtual & Augmented Reality, and the like. My book looks in the opposite direction: virtuality's expression and expansion through human history in numerous fields of endeavor: Communication (Technologies); Literature and the Arts; Economics; Religion; Philosophy, Math, & Physics; Nationhood & Government; and more. In addition, it analyzes the interaction of modern media with other "virtualizing" areas (e.g., physics, the arts, etc.). It places contemporary “compunications” within a far broader social environment, showing how the phenomenon of virtuality (broadly defined) influences — and is influenced by — communications, also broadly defined. However, it doesn’t stop there. The book delves into the psychological and social reasons for the universality of virtuality, past and present. The central thesis is that virtuality has always been an integral part of humanity — indeed, a core element of what makes us human. That stems from our brain’s partial and distorted perception fo external reality and faulty internal cognition; a full chapter is devoted to brain psychology i.e., psychological virtualization processes. Another chapter shows how virtuality serves six core functions in human existence, among them escaping boredom, future planning, and relieving existential dread. From there it moves on to the question of how will future "compunications" and other technologies affect virtuality? And finally: can/should there be limits to human virtualizing? You can access the Front Matter of the book for free: especially the (substantive) Preface and detailed Table of Contents (first click on the “Table of Contents” menu, and then on the first “PDF” download arrow — then scroll through the title page etc.): https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-981-16-6526-4<https://link.springer.com/book/9789811665257> The book is expensive, but you might wish to have your university library order it if it doesn’t fit your academic budget. If you have any questions or comments, don’t hesitate to send them on to me: Sam.Lehman-Wilzig(a)biu.ac.il<mailto:Sam.Lehman-Wilzig@biu.ac.il> ——————————————— Prof. Sam Lehman-Wilzig School of Communication (Chairman, 2014-2016) Bar-Ilan University Ramat Gan 52900 Israel

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Ori Schwarz's new book
by Ilana Gershon 03 Jan '22

03 Jan '22

Dear Colleagues, You can read Dan M. Kotliar's interview with Ori Schwarz on the CaMP anthropology blog today. https://campanthropology.org Best, Ilana Press Blurb for Sociological Theory for Digital Society: The digital revolution has not only transformed multiple aspects of social life – it also shakes sociological theory, transforming the most basic assumptions that have underlain it. In this timely book, Ori Schwarz explores the main challenges digitalization poses to different strands of sociological theory and offers paths to adapt them to new social realities. What would symbolic interactionism look like in a world where interaction no longer takes place within bounded situations and is constantly documented as durable digital objects? How should we understand new digitally mediated forms of human association that bind our actions and lives together but have little in common with old-time 'collectives'; and why are they not simply ‘social networks’? How does social capital transform when it is materialized in a digital form, and how does it remould power structures? What happens to our conceptualization of power when faced with the emergence of new forms of algorithmic power? And what happens when labour departs from work? By posing and answering such fascinating questions, and offering critical tools for both students and scholars of social theory and digital society to engage with them, this thought-provoking book draws the outline of future sociological theory for our digital society.

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12 Streams 2021 #8 - Talking Tech: Girls and Women in ICT - Rinalia Abdul Rahim and Sophie Patrick
by Joly MacFie 03 Jan '22

03 Jan '22

2021 marked the 10th Anniversary of International Girls in ICT Day.” As part of the 'Talking Tech' interview series over 200 girls and women in ICT shared their stories <https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLdCp2BJdjaQAJmm_GD2T15HgepUAuENQ->. This particular edition enables us to learn a bit more about one of ISOC's senior leaders, plus, of course, one particular New York student. ISOC Live posted: "On Sunday January 2 2022, in the eighth installment of the Internet Society Livestreaming‘s ‘12 Days of Streams‘ annual highlights, features a 'Talking Tech: Girls and Women in ICT' conversation between Sophie Patrick, of Marymount School of New York, and" [image: livestream] <https://livestream.com/internetsociety/12streams2021-8>On *Sunday January 2 2022*, in the eighth installment of the Internet Society Livestreaming‘s ‘*12 Days of Streams <https://isoc.live/?s=%2312streams>*‘ annual highlights, features a '*Talking Tech: Girls and Women in ICT <https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLdCp2BJdjaQAJmm_GD2T15HgepUAuENQ->*' conversation between *Sophie Patrick <https://www.linkedin.com/in/sophie-patrick/>*, of Marymount School of New York, and *Rinalia Abdul Rahim <https://www.internetsociety.org/author/abdulrahim/>*, Senior Vice President, Strategy, Communications and Engagement, Internet Society. The Talking Tech intergenerational interview series supports the *Girls in ICT Day <https://www.itu.int/women-and-girls/girls->* initiative and the *EQUALS Global Partnership <https://www.equalsintech.org>*. Run by *ITU <https://itu.int/>* with the *United Nations International Computing Centre <https://www.unicc.org/>* (UNICC) and the *UN Secretary-General’s Envoy on Youth <https://www.un.org/youthenvoy/>*, it enables aspiring ICT professionals to interview and be interviewed by role models who are leaders in their field. *VIEW ON LIVESTREAM: https://livestream.com/internetsociety/12streams2021-8 <https://livestream.com/internetsociety/12streams2021-8> *(Open captions) *TWITTER #12Streams <http://bit.ly/2t12HX2J> #TalkingTech @Rinalia_A_Rahim @ITU @UNYouthEnvoy @unicc_ict #WomeninTech #GirlsinICT #Captioned* *SIMULCASTS* *https://www.twitter.com/ISOC_Live/ <https://www.twitter.com/ISOC_Live/>* *https://www.twitch.tv/isoclive <https://www.twitch.tv/isoclive>* *https://www.facebook.com/liveisoc/ <https://www.facebook.com/liveisoc/>* *ARCHIVE* *https://archive.org/details/12streams2021-8 <https://archive.org/details/12streams2021-8>* *Permalink* https://isoc.live/14960/ - -- -------------------------------------- Joly MacFie +12185659365 -------------------------------------- -

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12 Streams 2021 #7 – Internet Society Action Plan 2022 – Andrew Sullivan – A Healthy Internet for Future Generations
by Joly MacFie 02 Jan '22

02 Jan '22

Happy New Year! Give thanks to ISOC Africa, as it is their regional calls that every year give us the Action Plan video. In 2022 the main new developments are 1) an effort, via 'friend of the court' filings, to influence US Internet policy 2) an 'investigation' into the promotion of LEO satellites for Internet connectivity. ISOC Live posted: "On Saturday January 1 2022, in the seventh installment of the Internet Society Livestreaming‘s ‘12 Days of Streams‘ annual highlights, Internet Society President & CEO Andrew Sullivan, gives a quick overview of ISOC's Action Plan 2022 - A Healthy Inte" <http://https://livestream.com/internetsociety/12streams2021-7>On *Saturday January 1 2022*, in the seventh installment of the Internet Society Livestreaming‘s ‘*12 Days of Streams <https://isoc.live/?s=%2312streams>*‘ annual highlights, Internet Society President & CEO *Andrew Sullivan <https://twitter.com/SullivanISOC>*, gives a quick overview of ISOC's *Action Plan 2022 - A Healthy Internet for Future Generations <https://www.internetsociety.org/action-plan/2022/>*, at the ISOC *Africa Chapters Q4 Call <http://http://bit.ly/Q4AFRICA>* on 15 December 2021. *VIEW ON LIVESTREAM: https://livestream.com/internetsociety/12streams2021-7 <https://livestream.com/internetsociety/12streams2021-7> *(Open captions) *TWITTER #12Streams <http://bit.ly/2t12HX2J> @SullivanISOC @InternetSociety #InternetforEveryone* *SIMULCASTS* *https://www.twitter.com/ISOC_Live/ <https://www.twitter.com/ISOC_Live/>* *https://www.twitch.tv/isoclive <https://www.twitch.tv/isoclive>* *https://www.facebook.com/liveisoc/ <https://www.facebook.com/liveisoc/>* *ARCHIVE* *https://archive.org/details/12streams2021-7 <https://archive.org/details/12streams2021-7>* *Permalink* https://isoc.live/14954/ -- -------------------------------------- Joly MacFie +12185659365 -------------------------------------- -

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12 Streams 2021 #6 – Internet2 ‘Internet History Webinar: How the US NSFNET Regional Academic Networks Evolved to Become the Global Internet (1985 — 1995)’
by Joly MacFie 01 Jan '22

01 Jan '22

Dennis Jennings, in his introduction, refers to this as the "first Internet Reunion Club session", and the webinar was followed by an (off the record) social. In the webinar, amongst other historic details, there is discussion about the tensions between defense, academic, and commercial interests, and the haphazard implementation of the AUP - acceptable use policy, in those early days. [image: livestream] <https://livestream.com/internetsociety/12streams2021-6> On *Friday December 31 2021*, in the sixth instalment of the Internet Society Livestreaming‘s ‘*12 Days of Streams <https://isoc.live/?s=%2312streams>*‘ annual highlights, we feature *Internet 2 <https://internet2.edu/>*'s '*Internet History Webinar: How the US NSFNET Regional Academic Networks Evolved to Become the Global Internet (1985 — 1995) <https://internet2.edu/internet2-internet-history-webinar/>*' from September 14 2021. The National Science Foundation’s (NSF) NSFNET Program (partially) funded a range of (academic) regional networks1, starting in 1985/86. Over a relatively short period of time, the regional networks developed their customer base and funding models and became Internet service providers (ISPs). Connections to the Federal Internet Exchange(s) (FIXs) and the Commercial Internet eXchange(s) (CIXs) were developed, and some of the regional networks evolved to become global ISPs. *WELCOME AND INTRODUCTION* *Ana Hunsinger*, Vice President, Community Engagement, Internet2 *Dennis Jennings*, former First Program Director for Networking, NSF *PANEL* *Glenn Ricart*, SURAnet *Elise Gerich*, NSFNET National Backbone *Susan Estrada*, CERFnet *DISCUSSANT Guy Almes*, Sesquinet *MODERATOR Steve Wolff*, NSF Networking Division Director (1986-1995) *VIEW ON LIVESTREAM: https://livestream.com/internetsociety/12streams2021-6 <https://livestream.com/internetsociety/12streams2021-6> *(Open captions) *TWITTER #12Streams <http://bit.ly/2t12HX2J> #i2online @Internet2 @gricart #SURAnet @EliseGerich #NSFNET Susan Estrada #CERFnet Steve Wolff #InternetHistory* *SIMULCASTS* *https://www.twitter.com/ISOC_Live/ <https://www.twitter.com/ISOC_Live/>* *https://www.twitch.tv/isoclive <https://www.twitch.tv/isoclive>* *https://www.facebook.com/liveisoc/ <https://www.facebook.com/liveisoc/>* *ARCHIVE* *https://archive.org/details/12streams2021-6 <https://archive.org/details/12streams2021-6>* *Permalink* https://isoc.live/14945/ -- -------------------------------------- Joly MacFie +12185659365 -------------------------------------- -

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