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WEBCAST TODAY: How Public Interest Values Shape A Better Internet
by Joly MacFie 18 Jan '22

18 Jan '22

The SOPA / PIPA protest was a communal effort, and Public Knowledge played a leading role. Today on the 10th anniversary of the blackout, they assemble some experts to reflect on how such activity might improve today's Internet. REAL TIME TEXT https://bit.ly/3tABmLJ ISOC Live posted: "On Tuesday 18 January 2022 at 2pm-3pm EST (19:00-20:00 UTC) Public Knowledge hosts a discussion 'How Public Interest Values Shape A Better Internet'. This month marks the anniversary of a series of coordinated protests that led to the withdrawal of two pr" [image: livestream] <http://http://livestream.com/internetsociety/SOPAPlus10>On *Tuesday 18 January 2022* at *2pm-3pm EST* (19:00-20:00 UTC) *Public Knowledge <https://publicknowledge.org/>* hosts a discussion '*How Public Interest Values Shape A Better Internet <https://publicknowledge.org/BetterInternet>*'. This month marks the anniversary of a series of coordinated protests that led to the withdrawal of two proposed laws in the United States Congress: the *Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA)* and the *PROTECT IP Act (PIPA)*. The panel will consider how public interest values have shaped the internet so far, how the internet has changed since the 2012 blackouts, and how the public interest community must ensure they continue *building a better internet <https://publicknowledge.org/public-interest-values-must-be-the-foundation-o…>* for everyone. *PANEL* *Catherine Stihler*, CEO of Creative Commons *Spencer Overton*, President, Joint Center for Political and Economic Studies *April Glaser*, Fellow of the Technology & Social Change Project *Akriti Gaur*, Resident Fellow, Yale Information Society Project *HOST / MODERATOR* *Chris Lewis*, President and CEO, Public Knowledge This event will be simulcast via a partnership with the *Internet Society Washington DC Chapter <https://isoc-dc.org>* *LIVESTREAM http://livestream.com/internetsociety/SOPAPlus10 <http://livestream.com/internetsociety/SOPAPlus10>* *PARTICIPATE VIA ZOOM https://publicknowledge.org/BetterInternet <https://publicknowledge.org/BetterInternet>* *REAL TIME TEXT https://bit.ly/3tABmLJ <https://bit.ly/3tABmLJ>* *TWITTER #BetterInternet #SOPAPlus10 <https://bit.ly/3rsTe8O> @publicknowledge @C_Stihler @SpencerOverton @aprilaser @akritigaur @ChrisJ_Lewis @isocdc* *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/>* (AI Captions) *ARCHIVE* *https://archive.org/details/SOPAPlus10 <https://archive.org/details/SOPAPlus10>* *Permalink* https://isoc.live/15070/ - -- -------------------------------------- Joly MacFie +12185659365 -------------------------------------- -

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Public Interest Technology Chat (PITCh) Series at NYU (next event 01/26)
by David Morar 18 Jan '22

18 Jan '22

Good afternoon, *Apologies for cross-posting* The Digital Interests Lab <http://digitalinterests.org/> and Ai Now <https://ainowinstitute.org/> series of conversations surrounding Public Interest Technology (The PITCh <https://www.digitalinterests.org/events/the-pitch/>) has another event next week on January 26th (and a special edition on May 11th!) The PITCh is a monthly series of remote conversations between established and early career scholars to support the work of practitioners and academics interested in public interest technology (PIT), with discussions on substantive issues and professional development topics. The PITCh, hosted by Digital Interests Lab Director Prof. Anne L. Washington, <https://annewashington.com/> PhD, features analysis and approaches by established scholars, and extensive opportunities for dialogue and reflections with two guests per session. Each session also has a limited number of early career individuals as a “live” audience, who will have the opportunity to ask questions and respond to the main conversation. The events are broadcast live in a Zoom Webinar format, and will also have a brief general public Q&A towards the end. Next week is the last of our regular programming. Join us on 01/26 at 9am EST as *Prof. Washington* chats with *Prof. Arvind Narayanan*, and *Prof. Frank Pasquale* about Ai Snake Oil. Register here <https://nyu.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_PrZ7HlyzR8iqNU3CHRAQ6Q> Then in May, we are featuring a special edition of The PITCh. On 05/11 at 3pm EST, *Prof. Washington* is joined by *Prof. Safiya Noble* and *Prof. Latanya Sweeney*. Register here. <https://nyu.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_Qgb7Ysh-SPC9EEQSs-wmIQ> The PITCh is partially funded by the National Science Foundation and the New America Public Interest Technology University Network. David Morar, PhD Postdoctoral Data Policy Fellow NYU Steinhardt ~ Fellow, Digital Interests Lab <https://www.digitalinterests.org/> ~ @morar <https://twitter.com/morar> davidmorar.com

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New Book: Reckoning with Social Media
by Tero Karppi 18 Jan '22

18 Jan '22

Dear all, We are pleased to announce the publication of *Reckoning with Social Media**. *More information below. Tero -- Tero Karppi, PhD Associate Professor, University of Toronto --Institute of Communication, Culture, Information and Technology (UTM) --Faculty of Information (St. George) Books: -- Disconnect <https://www.upress.umn.edu/book-division/books/disconnect> -- Undoing Networks <https://meson.press/books/undoing-networks/> *Reckoning with Social Media* EDITED BY ALEENA CHIA; ANA JORGE AND TERO KARPPI Once celebrated for connecting people and circulating ideas, social media are facing mounting criticisms about their anticompetitive reach, addictive design, and toxicity to democracy. Known cumulatively as the “techlash,” journalists, users, and politicians are asking social media platforms to account for being too big, too engaging, and too unruly. In the age of the techlash, strategies to regulate how platforms operate technically, economically, and legally, are often stacked against individual tactics to manage the effects of social media by disconnecting from them. These disconnection practices—from restricting screen time and detoxing from device use to deleting apps and accounts—often reinforce rather than confront the ways social media organize attention, everyday life, and society. Reckoning with Social Media challenges the prevailing critique of social media that pits small gestures against big changes, that either celebrates personal transformation or champions structural reformation. This edited volume reframes evaluative claims about disconnection practices as either restorative or reformative of current social media systems by beginning where other studies conclude: the ambivalence, commodification, and complicity of separating from social media. https://rowman.com/ISBN/9781538147405/Reckoning-with-Social-Media ToC Introduction: Reckoning with Social Media in the Pandemic Denouement Aleena Chia, Ana Jorge, and Tero Karppi OA PDF: https://rowman.com/webdocs/reckoningwithsocialmediaintroduction.pdf Why Disconnecting Matters? Towards a Critical Research Agenda on Online Disconnection Magdalena Kania-Lundholm The Ontological Insecurity of Disconnecting: A Theory of Echolocation and the Self Annette N. Markham ‘Hey! I’m back after a 24h #DigitalDetox!’: Influencers posing disconnection Ana Jorge and Marco Pedroni Privacy, energy, time and moments stolen: Social media experiences pushing towards disconnection Trine Syvertsen and Brita Ytre-Arne Quitting Digital Culture: Rethinking Agency in a Beyond-Choice Ontology Zeena Feldman Ethics and Experimentation in The Light Phone and Google Digital Wellbeing Aleena Chia and Alex Beattie OA PDF: https://rowman.com/webdocs/reckoningwithsocialmediachapter6.pdf >From digital detox to 24/365 disconnection: between dependency tactics and resistance strategies in Brazil Marianna Ferreira Jorge and Julia Salgado Overcoming Forced Disconnection: Disentangling the Professional and the Personal in Pandemic Times Christoffer Bagger and Stine Lomborg Disconnecting on Two Wheels: Bike touring, leisure and reimagining networks Pedro Ferreira and Airi Lampinen Analogue Nostalgia: Examining Critiques of Social Media Clara Wieghorst

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Hiring data scientist, part time, temporary
by Melissa Villa Nicholas 18 Jan '22

18 Jan '22

Greetings, *Hiring a Data Scientist for a part-time, temporary position* Dr. LaTesha Velez and Dr. Melissa Villa Nicholas are seeking to hire a temporary, part-time data scientist researcher as an independent consultant to identify and run text mining and visualization for a research project. This position would run for 4-5 months beginning in February or March 2022 and pays competitively. We are looking for an individual who can complete the following tasks: · Identify or create a tool that creates a corpus of articles that match certain criteria we will provide you · Identify or create a tool that does content analysis of that corpus · Run data analysis · Create visualizations based on the data Please email a CV or resume, or questions and comments of interest to Dr. Velez at lmvelez(a)uncg.edu and Dr. Villa Nicholas at mvnicholas(a)uri.edu Thank you, Mel Dr. Melissa Villa Nicholas Graduate School of Library and Information Studies University of Rhode Island Pronouns: She/Hers *Check out my new book Latinas on the Line (Rutgers Press) <https://www.rutgersuniversitypress.org/latinas-on-the-line/9781978813717> * melissavillanicholas.net

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Call for BOOK PROPOSALS—STUDIES IN NEW MEDIA--Rowman & Littlefield
by Ilana Gershon 18 Jan '22

18 Jan '22

*CALL FOR BOOK PROPOSALS—STUDIES IN NEW MEDIA* *Series Editor:*John Allen Hendricks, Ph.D. *Series Editor Email:*jhendricks@sfasu.edu <mailto:jhendricks@sfasu.edu> *Series website: https://rowman.com/Action/SERIES/_/SNM/Studies-in-New-Media <https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__rowman.com_Action_SERI…>* ** *ABOUT THE SERIES:* This series aims to advance the theoretical and practical understanding of the emergence, adoption, and influence of new technologies. It provides a venue to explore how New Media technologies and Social Networking Sites (SNS) are changing the media landscape in the twenty-first century. Single authored, Multi-authored, and Edited book proposals will be considered. Books included in this series focus on topics such as: - New Media and research methodologies - Media technologies - Theory development - Video games - Mobile content - Policy development - Media usage and psychology - Political usage - Social media technologies *PROPOSAL SUBMISSIONS:* If you have a book idea that you wish to author or edit, this is your opportunity. Scholars interested in having a proposal considered should contact the series editor. ===== General list info and FAQ: http://comm.umn.edu/~grodman/cultstud.html

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WEBCAST NOW – Regulating the Internet Ten Years after the SOPA/PIPA Blackout
by Joly MacFie 18 Jan '22

18 Jan '22

Yep, exactly 10 years since Internet Blackout Day! REAL TIME TEXT https://bit.ly/3nDStJ0 [image: livestream] <http://livestream.com/internetsociety/sopa-pipa10>On *Tuesday 18 January 2022* at *11:00-12:30 EST* (16:30-17:30 UTC) the *Institute for Technology Law & Policy at Georgetown Law <https://georgetowntech.org/>* hosts a webinar '*Regulating the Internet Ten Years after the SOPA/PIPA Blackout <https://bit.ly/3zTrXA6>*'. Calls to regulate the internet more strictly are now commonplace, but a new *report from Freedom House <https://freedomhouse.org/report/freedom-net/2021/global-drive-control-big-t…>* observes both the promise and peril of internet regulation. The global drive to control big tech thus carries a seeming contradiction: it can be an expression of democracy but can also support authoritarianism. On the tenth anniversary of the *blackout <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Protests_against_SOPA_and_PIPA>* of Wikipedia, Google, Reddit, and Mozilla in response to proposed internet regulation in the U.S., we ask what we learned from the SOPA/PIPA debates, take stock of where internet regulation stands today, and ask what internet regulations carry the most promise or risk today. *OPENING CONVERSATION* *Jimmy Wales*, founder, Wikipedia *PANEL* *Rebecca MacKinnon*, Vice President, Global Advocacy, Wikimedia Foundation *Allie Funk*, Senior research analyst for technology and democracy, Freedom House *Vivek Krishnamurthy*, Samuelson-Glushko Professor of Law, University of Ottawa *Konstantinos Komaitis*, Independent Internet Policy consultant / Policy Fellow, Brave New Software Foundation *HOST / MODERATOR* *Anupam Chander*, Scott K. Ginsburg Professor of Law and Technology, Georgetown Law This event will be simulcast via a partnership with the *Internet Society Washington DC Chapter <https://isoc-dc.org/>* *LIVESTREAM http://livestream.com/internetsociety/sopa-pipa10 <http://livestream.com/internetsociety/sopa-pipa10>* *PARTICIPATE VIA ZOOM https://bit.ly/3zTrXA6 <https://bit.ly/3zTrXA6>* *REAL TIME TEXT (see ISOC.LIVE <https://isoc.live/15031>)* *TWITTER #FreedomOnTheNet <http://bit.ly/freedomonthenet> @GtownTechLaw @jimmy_wales @AnupamChander @alfunk @kkomaitis @vivekdotca @rmack @freedomonthenet #netfreedom #netgov * *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/> (AI Captions) *ARCHIVE* *https://archive.org/details/sopa-pipa10 <https://archive.org/details/sopa-pipa10>* *Permalink* https://isoc.live/15031/ - -- -------------------------------------- Joly MacFie +12185659365 -------------------------------------- -

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CfA: YOUthDIG 2022
by Nadia Tjahja 18 Jan '22

18 Jan '22

Dear all, Apologies for crossposting, A fully-funded grant is available for young people ages 18-30 to attend the youth pre-event of the European Dialogue on Internet Governance (EuroDIG) and the EuroDIG Conference itself. The Youth Dialogue on Internet Governance (YOUthDIG) brings together 30 young people from all over Europe to learn about Internet Governance, and discuss and exchange ideas with experienced internet policy practitioners. At the end of YOUthDIG, participants design policy messages that will be presented at EuroDIG but also at the global UN Internet Governance Forum. If you, your students or colleagues are interested in applying, applications are open until 10 February 2022, 23:59 CET. More information and application form is available on: https://www.eurodig.org/get-involved/youthdig/ With kind regards, Nadia Tjahja

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CfP: Asiascape Digital Asia Anniversary Edition
by Schneider, F.A. (Florian) 18 Jan '22

18 Jan '22

Dear list members, Those of you working on digital affairs in Asia may find the following call for papers interesting. The call is also available online<http://www.politicseastasia.com/research/call-for-papers-asiascape-digital-…>. Apologies for cross posting. Florian Schneider Senior Lecturer Leiden Uni, Managing Editor Asiascape: Digital Asia. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Call for papers: Asiascape: Digital Asia Anniversary Issue The Shape of the Asiascape: Ten Years of Digital Asia Research The peer-reviewed academic journal Asiascape: Digital Asia<https://brill.com/view/journals/dias/dias-overview.xml> (DIAS) is now inviting contributions for its 2023 anniversary special issue, "The Shape of the Asiascape: Ten Years of Digital Asia Research". This anniversary issue will take stock of advances and trends in research about digital Asia. It asks what a decade of Asiascape research has revealed about dynamics in the region and its varied digital societies. Are there national or regional Internets that form an 'Asiascape', and how do they differ from the 'global' Internet? Does 'digital Asia' truly exist, and if so: in what guises? By revisiting the current state-of-the-field, the short (4,000-word) contributions to this special issue will examine the multi-disciplinary, regional, and transnational concerns that have shaped Asiascape's diverse research programmes. Collectively, they will ask how digital Asia features in contemporary discussions, whether in a mainstream, scholarly, or tech journalism context. Looking forward, the contributions will identify potential blindspots in the scholarship and propose ways forward for the next decade of multi- and interdisciplinary digital Asia research. For this special issue, we welcome submissions from researchers from the social sciences, computer sciences, and arts and humanities, as well as from multi- and interdisciplinary backgrounds, who explore the socio-political, economic, aesthetic, philosophical, or cultural dimensions of the digital in Asian societies. Possible topics for submissions include (but are emphatically not limited to) empirical and theoretical explorations of the following (in alphabetical order): * Digital folklore (amateur culture, memes, DIY, etc.), * Digital labour, production, and consumption, * Digital spaces and architectures, * Digital surveillance and sous-veillance, * Discourses and contestations in, and about, 'digital Asia', * International and transnational digital dynamics, * Misinformation, disinformation, and conspiracies, * Networks and interfaces, * New digital screen cultures and practices, * Platform power and the cultural impact of digital infrastructures, * Political and economic interactions in national digital ecologies, * Politics and culture of play and games, * The digital dimensions of activism and social movements. Interested contributors should first send their title, abstract (150 words), and short biography to the journal's managing editor, Dr. Florian Schneider<mailto:f.a.schneider@hum.leidenuniv.nl?subject=DIAS%20special%20issue%20Dynamics%20of%20Digital%20Play>, by 14 February 2022. The editorial team will select contributions by 1 March, and successful contributors should then prepare articles of 4,000 words, including notes and references, to be submitted through the journal's editorial management system<http://www.editorialmanager.com/dias/default.aspx> by 1 May 2022. Please see the instructions for authors<http://www.brill.com/files/brill.nl/specific/authors_instructions/DIAS.pdf> for further information on the in-house style requirements. For further questions, please contact the managing editor at f.a.schneider(a)leidenuniv.nl<mailto:f.a.schneider@leidenuniv.nl>.

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CfP: Blackboxed Futures: Multiple Temporalities of Algorithmic Technologies (Online Symposium)
by Dmitry Muravyov 18 Jan '22

18 Jan '22

***apologies for cross posting*** Dear all, We are inviting you to submit your abstracts to the online symposium on algorithms, temporalities, and futures. See the CfP below. *Call for Papers: Blackboxed Futures: Multiple Temporalities of Algorithmic Technologies (Online Symposium, March 19)* Algorithmic technologies are nowadays proliferating in various sectors of the economy and, more generally, in society. Yet, while their widespread development already occupies several areas of contemporary life, their material configuration often remains opaque and difficult to comprehend, especially when it comes to how algorithms shape the futures of people and societies at large. Often, algorithms and AI technologies are conceived by their users and creators as “magic” that is beyond comprehension — an understanding that has a range of political and cultural implications for society (Campolo & Crawford, 2020) and has been consequently recognized in the theorizations of economy and politics (Pignarre and Stengers, 2012). Questions of vital scholarly and political importance emerge – what future(s) do algorithmic technologies offer for society, who is included in them and left out, how they can be scrutinized and resisted? Do we witness a “temporal stasis in an age of automated media” (Andrejevic, Dencik & Trere, 2020) or a “speculative time-complex” (Avanessian & Malik, 2016)? In this symposium, we invite scholars from critical media, cultural, science and technology studies, as well as adjacent fields, to further reflect upon the imagined futures of algorithmic technologies and multiple temporalities enrolled in their continuous enactment. We suggest focusing on algorithmic temporalities by thinking of them both in terms of related discursive practices and issues of algorithmic design. Addressing both theoretical and empirical matters of algorithmic temporalities, this symposium aims to shed light on how our thinking about time vis-a-vis algorithmic technologies spreads — or meets resistance — in different social and political contexts. The symposium will take place online on *March 19*. We invite papers that reflect (but are by no means limited) upon the following themes: – discussions of multiple temporalities related to algorithmic technologies and the governance regimes of which they are a part of – grassroots and top-down imaginaries of futures as they pertain to the (mis)use of algorithms – historical accounts exploring interconnections between time and algorithmic technologies – political-economic accounts of temporal regimes associated with algorithmic technologies – decolonial computation and decolonization of algorithms – creative and speculative approaches seeking to address the issues of algorithmic futures Please, send your abstracts (250-500 words) and a short bio to the following email: blackboxedfutures(a)gmail.com no later than February 20. The results of the selection process will be published on March 1. Postgraduate Symposium, Critical Media Studies, HSE, Moscow Dmitry Muravyov, Artyom Kolganov, Aleksey Pereyaslov, Elizaveta Panina, Yujie Chi

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WEBCAST NOW – India Data Protection Bill 2021: Deciphering Data Privacy and Rights of Minors
by Joly MacFie 18 Jan '22

18 Jan '22

This has just started. An important discussion, thus 2.5 hours! REAL TIME TEXT https://bit.ly/3fAxxOE [image: livestream] <http://livestream.com/internetsociety/minorsdata>On *18 January 2022* from *3:00pm–5:30pm IST* (09:30-12:00 UTC) *CCAOI <https://www.ccaoi.in/>*, *CUTS International <https://cuts-ccier.org/>* and *ISOC Delhi <https://www.isocindiadelhi.in/>* host an online discussion '*Data Protection Bill 2021: Deciphering Data Privacy & Rights of Minors <https://bit.ly/3A9bsjp>*'. The objective of this discussion is to provide participants a better understanding of the provisions related to processing of data related to minors, the areas that need to be refined and then deliberate on what constructive regulations / codes of practice look like for minors’ privacy. based on the inputs from the session, a community document will be created on what constructive regulations / codes of practice look when dealing with data of minors. *KEYNOTE* *Dr Amar Patnaik*, MP, Rajya Sabha & Member of JPC on PDPB’19 *SPECIAL ADDRESS* *Priyank Kanoongo*, Chair, National Commission for Protection of Child Rights *PRESENTERS* *Sreenidhi Srinivasan*, Ikigai Law *Sidharth Narayan*, Consumer Unity & Trust Society (CUTS) *PANEL* *S. Chandrasekhar*, K&S Partners *Uthara Ganesh*, Snapchat *Nikhil Pahwa*, Medinama *Aparajita Bharti*, Young Leaders for Active Citizenship (YLAC) *Amol Kulkarni*, Consumer Unity & Trust Society (CUTS) *HOST / MODERATOR* *Amrita Choudhury*, CCAOI / ISOC Delhi *LIVESTREAM http://livestream.com/internetsociety/minorsdata <http://livestream.com/internetsociety/minorsdata>* *AGENDA https://bit.ly/3A9bsjp <https://bit.ly/3A9bsjp>* *PARTICIPATE VIA ZOOM https://bit.ly/3fplJOQ <https://bit.ly/3fplJOQ>* *REAL TIME TEXT https://bit.ly/3fAxxOE <https://bit.ly/3fAxxOE>* *TWITTER #dataprotectionbill <https://bit.ly/3KdOxIq> #dataprotection #minors #privacy @CUTSCCIER @isocdelhi @Amar4Odisha @KanoongoPriyank @NCPCR_ @medianama* *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/> *(AI Captions) *https://www.facebook.com/isocasiapacific* <https://www.facebook.com/isocasiapacific> (AI Captions) *ARCHIVE* *https://archive.org/details/minorsdata <https://archive.org/details/minorsdata>* *Permalink* https://isoc.live/15064/ -- -------------------------------------- Joly MacFie +12185659365 -------------------------------------- -

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