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State of AI Ethics Report - Volume 6
by Abhishek Gupta 15 Mar '22

15 Mar '22

Hi, I'm Abhishek Gupta ( https://share.polymail.io/v1/z/b/NjIyZTVkMTlkMmQ4/mAVLrx_vvr8BTxokjdQoAtuIc… ) , Founder and Principal Researcher at the Montreal AI Ethics Institute ( https://share.polymail.io/v1/z/b/NjIyZTVkMTlkMmQ4/mAVLrx_vvr8BTxokjdQoAtuIc… ) (MAIEI), an international non-profit research institute with a mission to democratize AI ethics literacy. Given the focus of this mailing list, I wanted to share MAIEI's recently published Volume 6 of the State of AI Ethics Report ( https://share.polymail.io/v1/z/b/NjIyZTVkMTlkMmQ4/mAVLrx_vvr8BTxokjdQoAtuIc… ). It is a comprehensive report, nearly 300 pages, with the following chapters: (1) What we’re thinking (2) Analysis of the AI Ecosystem (3) Privacy (4) Bias (5) Social Media and Problematic Information (6) AI Design and Governance (7) Laws and Regulations (8) Trends (9) Outside the Boxes. Our goal with these chapters is to provide both an in-depth analysis of each of those areas (but by no means exhaustive given the richness of each of these subdomains) along with a breadth of coverage for those who are looking to save hundreds of hours in trying to parse through the latest in research and reporting in the domain. Hope you find it useful in your work, please don't hesitate in reaching out to me if you have any questions. Thanks! Abhishek Gupta ( @atg_abhishek ( https://twitter.com/atg_abhishek ) ) Founder and Principal Researcher, Montreal AI Ethics Institute ( https://montrealethics.ai/ ) Machine Learning @ Microsoft Chair, Standards Working Group, Green Software Foundation ( https://greensoftware.foundation/ ) CSE Responsible AI Board Member, Microsoft Learn more about my work here ( https://atg-abhishek.github.io/ ). You can now support my work by buying me a coffee ( https://buymeacoff.ee/abhishekgupta ) !

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Digital Fascism
by Christian Fuchs 15 Mar '22

15 Mar '22

Christian Fuchs. 2022. Digital Fascism. Media, Communication and Society Volume Four. New York: Routledge. 344 pages. ISBN 9781032187600. This fourth volume in Christian Fuchs’s Media, Communication and Society book series outlines the theoretical foundations of digital fascism and presents case studies of how fascism is communicated online.Each chapter focuses on a particular dimension of digital fascism or a critical theorist whose work helps us to illuminate how fascism and digital fascism work. The book is a "colossal collection of critical theory and analyses" (Majid KhosraviNik,Newcastle University) and a "highly informative and theoretically grounded book" (Paolo Gerbaudo, King's College). More information: https://fuchsc.uti.at/books/digital-fascism/

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Suggested materials for Computers and Society course for Computer Science majors?
by Douglas Zytko 14 Mar '22

14 Mar '22

Hello AoIR community, Our Computer Science and Engineering department at Oakland University is working on a new Computers and Society course and we're really excited about bringing this type of course to Computer Science students. *We’re looking for suggested course readings/materials* that broadly fit this course objective: “knowledge of the role that different cultural heritages (past and present) play in forming values in another part of the world, enabling the student to function in a global context.” Anything come to mind? We’ve also been constructing a list of topics that the course should cover; we welcome suggestions for additional topics or readings/materials/activities related to any of them that would be accessible to computer science students who have never considered this side of computing before. Explore how computers can play a role in ● bringing different cultural heritages to others. ● preserving and communicating cultural heritages. ● preserving and promoting low resource languages. ● preserving and promoting music and performance. ● creating exhibits and 3D models of museum artifacts. -- Douglas Zytko, PhD Assistant Professor of Human-Computer Interaction Director of Oakland HCI Lab Oakland University Department of Computer Science and Engineering dougzytko.com Engineering Center 544 115 Library Drive, <https://maps.google.com/?q=115+Library+Drive,%C2%A0+Rochester,+MI+48309&ent…> Rochester, MI 48309 <https://maps.google.com/?q=115+Library+Drive,%C2%A0+Rochester,+MI+48309&ent…>

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Everyday algorithms - Milan, 7 July 2022 - Call for Contributions
by Alessandro Gandini 14 Mar '22

14 Mar '22

*Everyday algorithms – **Algocount Final Event, Milan, 7 July 2022* *Deadline: 8 April 2022 by midnight* This international conference aims at exploring the role algorithms play in the formation of public opinion from a multi-disciplinary perspective. The conference is set in the context of the *Algocount* project ( www.algocount.org) financed by Fondazione Cariplo, conducted by the University of Milan, Department of Social and Political Sciences and Density Design, Politecnico di Milano, in collaboration with Museo Nazionale Scienza e Tecnologia Leonardo da Vinci, Milan. The project seeks to expand the current understanding of how recommendation and personalization algorithms are perceived as key mediators in the access to news and informational content by ordinary users. The conference welcomes contributions that critically reflect on the unfolding of what we define as the ‘algorithmic public opinion’. With this term we intend to grasp the algorithmically-driven processes by which certain issues become a salient matter of public opinion, and the central role recommendation and personalization algorithms play as gatekeeping infrastructures through which individuals access information, produce their opinions and consolidate their social and political views. We invite participants from various intellectual traditions and streams of research, including media studies, sociology, information design, information science, science and technology studies, history of technology, computing and anthropology, human-computer interaction and political philosophy, to participate in an open debate around these issues. The full Call for Contributions is available here: https://algocount.org/events/algocount-final-event. Ten papers will be selected for presentation at the *Museo Nazionale Scienza e Tecnologia Leonardo da Vinci of Milan* on 7 July 2022. Contributors are required to send in a 300-word abstract to the following email address: algocountproject(a)gmail.com. The conference will comprise 4 panel presentations and 2 keynote sessions hosting internationally acclaimed scholars as speakers. Preference will be given to speakers who plan to attend the conference in person, but a small number of remote presentations (no more than 1 per panel) may be included in the programme. Up to 2 scholarships covering travel and accommodation expenses may be awarded to participants at an early-career stage or self-funded. Acceptance notices will be given by 30 April. Participation to the conference as an attendee (without presenting a paper) will be possible both in person and remotely, via Zoom. Organizing committee: Alessandro Gandini, Silvia Keeling, Urbano Reviglio, Diletta Huyskes, Luca Giuffrè (University of Milan); Michele Mauri, Beatrice Gobbo, Maria De Los Ángeles Briones Rojas (Politecnico di Milano, Density Design); Simona Casonato (Museo Nazionale Scienza e Tecnologia Leonardo da Vinci, Milan). For any further information please email: algocountproject(a)gmail.com or alessandro.gandini(a)unimi.it. -- Alessandro Gandini Associate Professor of Sociology University of Milan, Department of Social and Political Sciences via Conservatorio 7, 20122 Milan @afrontiercity

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Call For Papers - Online Deviance
by Rod Graham 14 Mar '22

14 Mar '22

To AOIR Community: We are accepting chapter proposals for the *Routledge International Handbook of Online Deviance*. See full description and guidelines here <https://drive.google.com/file/d/10gOY-AmSNbAwsd5ft1PrbhEcCNcNnhRQ/view?usp=…> . The aim of the Routledge International Handbook of Online Deviance is to be a compendium of the current state of sociological and criminological scholarship on online deviance. Deviance is understood in the broadest sense: as behavior that differs from a significant number of people in society, or behavior evaluated negatively by others. The editors are seeking chapters for these broad topics: 1. Theories and Concepts 2. Methods and Data 3. Gender, Sex, and Sexuality 4. Violence and Aggression 5. Lies and Deception 6. Communities and Culture 7. Regional Perspectives [This is our second call for papers. In this round, we are especially interested in receiving chapter proposals on the themes of "*Theories and Concepts*", "*Methods and Data*", "*Communities and Culture*", and "*Regional Perspectives*."] *Timeline:* - Deadline for Initial Proposals: April 1, 2022 - Notification of Acceptance: May 1, 2022 - First Drafts Due: September 1, 2022 - Editor Comments: November 1, 2022 - Final Drafts Due: July 1, 2023 Please direct questions to onlinedeviance(a)gmail.com. Roderick Graham

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CfP EASA2022: abstracts on streaming platforms, algorithmic culture welcome
by Marie Hermanova 14 Mar '22

14 Mar '22

*apologies for crossposting* Dear colleagues, We are organizing a panel at the conference of European Association of Social Anthropologists in Belfast, Ireland, July 26 - 29 2022 - it's a hybrid event, so online presentation is possible. If you are interested in the impact of streaming platforms on consumption, in the explorations of algorithmic culture or in the role of influencers and creators as curators of taste, this panel could be of interest to you. Description of the panel and link to submission are below. The deadline for submissions is 21 March 2022. We are looking forward to reading your abstracts! Kind regards, Marie P045: What it means to be cool? Ethnographic explorations of hierarchies of taste and legitimization mechanisms in contemporary cultural consumption Submit your paper here: https://easaonline.org/conferences/easa2022/programme#11547 Many accounts of the transformation of current societies pay attention to the falling currency of highbrow culture, together with its diminishing association with the upper classes ( DiMaggio and Mukhtar 2004). The mass media and upper-class' acceptance of popular culture is assumed to dissolve the structures of legitimation and leave the effect of cultural capital as an 'echo' of the past. Peterson's (1992) observation about the changing patterns of upper-class taste, from narrow, highbrow culture to a wide range of diverse cultural interests (omnivorous taste) has sparked much discussion (see e.g. Lena 2016; Warde, Wright, and Gayo-Cal 2007). While the issue of omnivorousness remains to be settled, there are several theoretical re-conceptualisations of its implications (Smith Maguire 2016; Flemmen, Jarness, and Rosenlund 2018). In recent years the focus has also been on the role of algorithms and AI in emergent patterns of cultural consumption (Striphas 2015, Dourisch 2016) as well as on the discourse of innovations (Zukin 2020). The panel invites theoretical and empirical explorations of contemporary cultural consumption that deal with, among other things: - everyday practices in spaces of cultural consumption - re-examination of the role of class, race and gender in (re)production of hierarchies of taste and consumption - algorithmic culture and the impact of streaming platforms on hierarchies of taste and consumption - explorations of links between cultural canon and everyday consumption practices in institutional settings (education, media etc) - the definition, roles and practices of creators and curators of taste in the attention economy. -- *Dr Marie Hermanova* Postdoctoral researcher - Gender & Sociology Department, Institute of Sociology of the Czech Academy of Sciences Editor-in-Chief, Gender and Research Journal <https://www.genderonline.cz/> Lecturer - Undergraduate Program in Central European Studies, CERGE-EI (Charles University) @MarieHermanova +420 603 206 655 https://www.soc.cas.cz/en/lide/marie-hermanova

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Regarding a research about Journalism and Communication online learning amid COVID-19
by Uyen DIEP 14 Mar '22

14 Mar '22

Dear colleagues, This is Uyen Diep, a Master's student from Kansas State University. An LSU graduate student and I are conducting research about teaching and studying Journalism and Communication amid COVID-19 in Vietnam and Singapore. I am sending the email to seek your help to do the survey if you are a faculty member or a student in Journalism and Communication in Vietnam and Singapore. In case you know any colleagues in the discipline, please help us to share the survey. For your convenience, here is the link to the survey, which may take 10-15 minutes to complete. https://lsu.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_a4WycjG4ah9pGOG We are appreciated your help. Sincerely, Uyen -- *Diep Pham Phuong Uyen* (Ms.) - *Media Correspondent * *https://thanhnien.vn/author/diep-uyen-1094.html <https://thanhnien.vn/author/diep-uyen-1094.html>* Email: dppuyen(a)gmail.com SMS: +84 903 691 101 (VN) Mobile: +1 785-706-3719 (US) Linkedin: *https://www.linkedin.com/in/uyendpp/ <https://www.linkedin.com/in/uyendpp/>*

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Call For Papers and Talks - Mediate 2022, ICWSM Workshop -- Misinformation: new directions in automation, real-world applications, and interventions.
by Elena Kochkina 13 Mar '22

13 Mar '22

Dear Colleagues, Mediate 2022<https://digitalmediasig.github.io/Mediate2022/>: News Media and Computational Journalism Workshop, taking place as part of ICWSM 2022<https://www.icwsm.org/2022/index.html> on Jun 6th 2022 (hybrid: in-person and online), invites submissions of technical papers and talk proposals. Mediate is an annual interdisciplinary workshop that brings together media practitioners and academics to discuss pressing challenges and opportunities in today’s media sphere. It is organised by The Alan Turing Institute’s special interest group Media in the Digital Age<https://www.turing.ac.uk/research/interest-groups/media-digital-age>. This year’s invited speakers include Philip Resnik, Heidi J Larson and Ethan Porter. This year's theme is: Misinformation: new directions in automation, real-world applications, and interventions. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: * New directions in verification automation: novel automated and human-in-the-loop methods for rumour detection/verification, fact-checking, stance classification and novel relevant tasks. Submitted papers should describe how their advantages would lead to being adopted in practice by journalists and the public, e.g. improved generalisability, ability to provide explanations, reduced bias, etc. * Real-world applications of automated methods: success stories (e.g., trending news/events detection), challenges (e.g., misinformation detection), partial solutions to known challenges (e.g., interpretable models). * Interventions: effective interventions to prevent the spread of false claims, automated and semi-automated content moderation, interdisciplinary discussions on digital governance and democracy. We invite submissions of technical papers and talk proposals: * Technical papers must be up to 4 pages (short papers) or up to 10 pages (long papers). Technical papers must contain novel, previously-unpublished material related to the topics of the workshop. Accepted papers will be presented orally and will appear in the workshop proceedings. * Talk proposals must be up to 2 pages describing the content of a short talk (the actual length will be determined based on program constraints). Papers must adhere to the ICWSM guidelines<https://www.icwsm.org/2022/index.html#guidelines> and be submitted through EasyChair<https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=mediate2022>. You can contact the organizers (details below) for questions related to the submission or participation. Important Dates (all deadlines are 23:59, AoE<https://time.is/Anywhere_on_Earth>): * March 27, 2022: Submission deadline * April 10, 2022: Authors notification * April 17, 2022: Camera ready deadline More details can be found here: https://digitalmediasig.github.io/Mediate2022<https://digitalmediasig.github.io/Mediate2022/> For updates, sign up to the Media in the Digital Age Interest Group’s mailing list via this form<https://forms.office.com/Pages/ResponsePage.aspx?id=p_SVQ1XklU-Knx-672OE-fR…> Follow us on Twitter: @MediateWorkshop<https://twitter.com/MediateWorkshop>, @DigitalMediaSIG<https://twitter.com/DigitalMediaSIG> Any questions, please reach out :) With best wishes, Elena Kochkina, The Alan Turing Institute/QMUL, ekochkina(a)turing.ac.uk<mailto:ekochkina@turing.ac.uk> Panayiotis Smeros, EPFL, panayiotis.smeros(a)epfl.ch<mailto:panayiotis.smeros@epfl.ch> Jérémie Rappaz, EPFL, jeremie.rappaz(a)epfl.ch<mailto:jeremie.rappaz@epfl.ch> Marya Bazzi, The Alan Turing Institute/Warwick, mbazzi(a)turing.ac.uk<mailto:mbazzi@turing.ac.uk> Maria Liakata, The Alan Turing Institute/QMUL, mliakata(a)turing.ac.uk<mailto:mliakata@turing.ac.uk> Arkaitz Zubiaga, QMUL, a.zubiaga(a)qmul.ac.uk<mailto:a.zubiaga@qmul.ac.uk>

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CFP MEA 2022 - convention July 7-10 in Rio!
by Adriana Braga 13 Mar '22

13 Mar '22

The Twenty-Thrird Annual Convention of the Media Ecology Association Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro (in person) July 7-10, 2022 FINAL EXTENSION THE MEDIA ECOLOGY ASSOCIATION (MEA) invites the submission of abstracts of papers and proposals for panels for presentation at its 23rd Annual Convention, which will be held from July 7–10, 2022 at Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. The deadline for submission has been extended to March 25, 2022. This will be the final extension for this call. The annual meeting of the MEA provides an opportunity for our community of scholars, educators, professionals and practioners to exchange experiences and ideas in a friendly environment. Participants at MEA conventions address a wide diversity of topics in our programs, and we encourage submissions that explore media ecological approaches from any number of different disciplines and fields of knowledge and social practice. We are interested in papers, thematic panels, roundtable discussion panels, creative projects, performance sessions, and other proposals of interest to media ecologists. While we are open to explorations on any topic of interest to media ecologists, we also include a convention theme with the aim of generating further discussion and probes involving multiple perspectives. Submissions do not have to address the theme, but are invited to do so. The theme of the 2022 convention is Celebration. A long period of turmoil has seen social division, self-isolation and perpetual stress become our daily norm. Through the various conflicts and trials, it has been the strength of our relationships and associations that have sustained us. Resilience is more than an individual trait. It is the product of self-care and mutual concern. The so-called “good life” includes our ability to individually and collectively endure great challenges, while reminding ourselves that joy must not be inhibited by the obstacles in our way. We continue to celebrate our accomplishments and our associations as an affirmative enterprise in making and remaking this human condition. The annual Media Ecology Association Convention helps our community mark these important milestones, celebrating our hard work and our commitment to one another. This is true in any year, but in particular in these times it is vital to raise up this sensibility and center it as a cause in our 2022 proceedings. General topics of interest related to the convention theme (but not limited to): - Community Life - Rituals of Celebration and Affirmation - Technology as a Connecting Agent - Art and the Expression of Joy - Education and the Learning of Resilience - Surviving the Maelstrom…and Thriving - Positive Psychology and Media Ecology - Science and Sanity: General Semantics GUIDELINES FOR SUBMISSION Please submit paper and panel proposals, in English or Portuguese, by March 25, 2022 to MEA2022Convention(a)gmail.com. A maximum of two submissions per author will be accepted. Authors who wish their papers to be considered for the Top Paper or Top Student Paper award must indicate this on their submission(s). Submission Guidelines for paper and panel proposals: - Include title(s), abstract(s) (maximum 250 words), and contact information for each participant. - Outline, as relevant, how your paper or panel will fit with the convention theme. - Authors with papers submitted as part of a panel proposal or as a paper proposal who wish to be considered for Top Paper or Top Student Paper must send the completed manuscript to the convention planners by May 6, 2022. Submission guidelines for manuscripts eligible for MEA award submissions: - Manuscripts should be 4,000–6,000 words (approximately 15 to 25 double-spaced pages) - Include a cover page with your institutional affiliation and other contact information. - Include an abstract (maximum 150 words). The Media Ecology Association will award a limited number of competitive travel grants to students presenting at the 2022 convention. Student travel grant applications are due by May 6, 2022.

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CFP Mediating Scale - conference June 2022
by Magdalena Krysztoforska 13 Mar '22

13 Mar '22

*Mediating Scale: Online Conference 16-18th June 2022* *Deadline for extended abstracts:* Sunday April 3rd 2022 *Conference website: *www.mediatingscale.com *Confirmed keynote speakers:* Prof Benjamin Bratton (University of California, San Diego) Dr Joshua DiCaglio (Texas A&M University) Dr Zachary Horton (University of Pittsburgh) Dr Bogna Konior (NYU Shanghai) Dr Thomas Moynihan (University of Oxford) Laura Tripaldi (University of Milano-Bicocca) The problem of scale has historically been discussed primarily within the confines of specific disciplinary contexts (biology, geography, mathematics, etc.), however it is increasingly emerging as a transdisciplinary concern. Similarly to the ways in which contemporary problems exceed disciplinary boundaries, and require heterogeneous approaches in order to be productively understood, the future orientation of our strategies for addressing those problems must engage with the full scalar spectrum of our planetary existence. Global crises such as pandemics or climate change disturb the human comfort of the mesoscale and require us to grapple with the underlying material reality, including molecular as well as global processes. The COVID-19 pandemic proved that the biological, chemical, and epidemiological reality is indifferent to the cultural and political narratives conjectured by the human vectors of transmission. A post-pandemic world needs to learn the lessons from this ‘revenge of the real’ (Bratton, 2021) and recognise the complexity of the world which cannot be reduced to myopic projections and illusions. As global society is affected by ‘mega processes’, our orientation towards the future should be guided by reason, and a planetary politics which exceeds the logics of the nation-state and includes the whole physical universe (Mbembe, 2019). In order to access different scalar perspectives, humans have always constructed mediating devices. Instruments such as the telescope or the microscope provided an insight into the scale of reality beyond human visual perception, and demonstrated that ‘the invisible makes up a continuum of reality with the visible’ (Blumenberg, 1987, p. 618). More recent examples of scalar media include the James Webb Space Telescope, mediating the spatial and temporal scale of the universe through an analysis of infrared light, as well as potentially shedding light on the local condition of far-off planets. It contributes to a wider process in which scientists use numerical data from telescopes and satellites to help imagine worlds and places which can be made sense of on a human scale (Messeri, 2016). Computational technologies also help us conceptualise some of the most pressing scalar problems. Inequalities related to labour relations and the distribution of resources can be traced through the mineral materialities of media devices and the cartographies of electronic waste (Parikka, 2015), whilst the concept of ‘climate change’ is an epistemological accomplishment of planetary-scale computation (Bratton, 2019). The history of media and technologies is a history of evolving modes and scales of perception and knowledge, and cultural texts such as *Powers of Ten, Fantastic Voyage, Alice in Wonderland*, and *Gulliver’s Travels* have been discussed as motivating thinking about scale (Horton, 2013, 2020; DiCaglio, 2020, 2021). Recent scholarship has also emphasized the necessity for developing a theory and a vocabulary of scale itself, foregrounding the ongoing negotiations between scalar alterity and scalar access (Horton, 2020), and placing scale ‘at the intersection of a transformation of the world and a transformation of ourselves’ (DiCaglio, 2021, p. 9). With this conference, our ambition is to map the broad spectrum of frameworks and attitudes towards scale, reflecting on how scalar thinking should orient our visions towards the future. We are interested in the role of scalar media, technologies, scientific theories, models and concepts in confronting the scalar disjunction between human sensory and cognitive capacities, and the scale of reality independent of our perception. We believe these questions are crucial to developing the multi-scalar thinking required to address some of the most urgent global issues including automation, planetary governance, or the climate crisis. This conference will therefore explore ways of framing the problem of mediating scale, and the stakes involved in addressing epistemological barriers to facing contemporary problems at an appropriate scale. We welcome contributions from across disciplines whose work is relevant to the question of mediating scale. Topics may include, but are not limited to: - approaches to scale in media studies - history and archaeology of scalar media - politics of scale in visual cultures - scale and political tactics (including local vs global organising) - planetary politics and governance - existential risks, including climate change - the science and politics of geoengineering - scientific models and model-world relations - reductionism, antireductionism, and complexity theory - theories of scale, rhetoric of scale - timescales, geologic time, deep time, longtermism *Submission guidelines:* We are inviting submissions for 30-minute talks in English that address the conference theme. Please send an extended abstract of 600-900 words and a short biography to mediatingscale(a)gmail.com. The deadline for submissions is Sunday April 3rd 2022. Responses will be sent out in mid-April. *Conference details:* This online conference will be free to attend but registration will be required. The conference will be streamed live with recordings of the keynote presentations available afterwards on YouTube. For more information, please see the conference website: www.mediatingscale.com and if you have any questions, please email mediatingscale(a)gmail.com Organised by Dr Oliver Kenny (Institute of Communication Studies (ISTC), Université Catholique de Lille) and Magdalena Krysztoforska (University of Nottingham). The event is hosted and funded by the Institute of Communication Studies (ISTC), Université Catholique de Lille. *Bibliography: * Blumenberg, H. (1987). *The Genesis of the Copernican World*. MIT Press. Bratton, B. H. (2019). *The Terraforming*. Strelka Press. Bratton, B. H. (2021). *The Revenge of the Real: Politics for a Post-Pandemic World*. Verso. DiCaglio, J. (2020). Scale Tricks and God Tricks, or The Power of Scale in* Powers of Ten*. *Configurations*, 28(4), 459–490. DiCaglio, J. (2021). *Scale Theory: A Nondisciplinary Inquiry*. University of Minnesota Press. Horton, Z. (2013). Collapsing Scale: Nanotechnology and Geoengineering as Speculative Media. In K. Konrad, C. Coenen, A. Dijkstra, C. Milburn, & H. van Lente (Eds.), *Shaping Emerging Technologies: Governance, Innovation, Discourse* (pp. 203–218). IOS Press / AKA. Horton, Z. (2020). *The Cosmic Zoom: Scale, Knowledge, and Mediation*. The University of Chicago Press. Mbembe, A. (2019). Bodies as Borders. *From the European South: A Transdisciplinary Journal of Postcolonial Studies*, 4, 5–18. Messeri, L. (2016). *Placing Outer Space: An Earthly Ethnography of Other Worlds*. Duke University Press. Parikka, J. (2015). *A Geology of Media*. University of Minnesota Press. *Magdalena Krysztoforska* (she/her) *AHRC/M4C Doctoral Candidate in Critical Theory* Dept. of Cultures, Media & Visual Studies Room B57, Trent Building University of Nottingham University Park Nottingham, NG7 2RD <http://vpp.midlands3cities.ac.uk/x/g50KAQ> https://www.midlands4cities.ac.uk/student_profile/magdalena-krysztoforska/

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