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New publication from mediastudies.press: What Was Artificial Intelligence?, by Sue Curry Jansen
by Park, David 27 Apr '22

27 Apr '22

mediastudies.press<https://www.mediastudies.press/> is a scholar-led, nonprofit, no-fee open access publisher in the media, film, and communication studies fields. We are excited to announce the publication of our latest book, Sue Curry Jansen's What Was Artificial Intelligence?<https://www.mediastudies.press/wwai>. When it was originally published in 2002, Sue Curry Jansen’s “What Was Artificial Intelligence?” attracted little notice. The long essay was published as a chapter in Jansen’s Critical Communication Theory, a book whose wisdom and erudition failed to register across the many fields it addressed. One explanation for the neglect, ironic and telling, is that Jansen’s sheer scope as an intellectual had few competent readers in the communication studies discipline into which she published the book. “What Was Artificial Intelligence?” was buried treasure. In this mediastudies.press edition<https://www.mediastudies.press/wwai>, Jansen’s prescient autopsy of AI self-selling—the rhetoric of the masculinist sublime—is reprinted with a new introduction. Now an open access book, What Was Artificial Intelligence?<https://www.mediastudies.press/wwai> is a message in a bottle, addressed to Musk, Bezos, and the latest generation of AI myth-makers. The book is available online, and as a free download in PDF<https://github.com/mediastudiespress/singles/releases/download/wwai1.0/jans…>, ePub<https://github.com/mediastudiespress/singles/releases/download/wwai1.0/jans…>, and Mobi<https://github.com/mediastudiespress/singles/releases/download/wwai1.0/jans…>. The book is also available as a $5 paperback<https://www.amazon.com/dp/1951399064?ref_=pe_3052080_397514860>. What Was Artificial Intelligence?<https://www.amazon.com/dp/1951399064> appears in the Media Manifold series<https://www.mediastudies.press/media-manifold-series>. Scholars interested in proposing volumes in this or other series are encouraged to reach out with a query<https://www.mediastudies.press/queries>. For mediastudies.press, Dave Park

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Apologies for cross-posting: CfP ECREA 2022 Pre-conference: “Digital Election Campaigning Worldwide”
by yossi david 27 Apr '22

27 Apr '22

Call for Papers (deadline for submission: 1 May 2022) Wednesday, 19 October 2022 Aarhus (Denmark) The ECREA pre-conference is organized by DigiWorld ( https://digidemo.ifkw.lmu.de/digiworld/) a scientific collaboration network of scholars that aims at international comparisons of election campaign strategies in digital communication channels, which currently is bringing together researchers from 17 countries. The long-term goals of DigiWorld include building a continuous research network dealing with digital campaigning, user engagement, and factors influencing it. The pre-conference, however, is open to researchers both from and beyond the DigiWorld network. The health of digital democracy has become under attack from political actors who actively use social media to spread disinformation and hate speech. To what extent are these (digital) propaganda techniques used in democracies during election times? How do they affect democratic processes and participation? We want to answer these questions by revealing and comparing the online communication of parties and politicians across the political spectrum on social media during national elections in various democracies. To discuss the use of communication strategies of party and candidate accounts on social media platforms during national elections, we are particularly interested in bringing together scholars who explore the use of such platforms in the local and international arena from both the global north and the global south. It especially welcomes contributions that explore this phenomenon from a comparative perspective between social and cultural groups. The pre-conference welcomes contributions on, but is not limited to: - Digital propaganda, campaigning, and democracy - Social media and disinformation in election campaigns - Elections and online hate speech - Methodological issues in research of elections and social network sites - Ethical dilemmas in research of elections and social network sites - Comparative approaches for studying digital propaganda, campaigning, and online hate speech Abstracts of 300 words excluding references must be sent to Yossi David ( ydavid(a)uni-mainz.de) and Uta Russmann (uta.russmann(a)uibk.ac.at) no later than May 1st, 2022. The pre-conference will take place in person in Aarhus (Denmark) on October 19th, 9 to 15 (CEST). Timeline: Deadline for submission of abstracts: May 1st, 2022 Notification of acceptance: June 1st, 2022 Deadline for registrations: September 1st, 2022 Pre-conference: October 19th, 2022, 9-15 (CEST) -- Yossi David Israel professor in communication science Department of communication Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz Jakob-Welder-Weg 12 55128, Mainz, Germany ydavid(a)uni-mainz.de +49-6131-39-29884 Pronouns: he/him/his Department homepage <https://www.ifp.uni-mainz.de/israel-professorship-in-communication-science/> - academia.edu <https://uni-mainz.academia.edu/YossiDavid> - researchgate <https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Yossi_David2> - ORCiD <https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8020-0317>

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WEBCAST APR 27 – YCIG/YouthSG IGF 2022 Introductory Webinar
by Joly MacFie 27 Apr '22

27 Apr '22

First official event from our newly formed Youth SG! I understand this is preparatory to forming working groups to participate in the IGF. [image: isoc.live] <https://isoc.live/p=15371>On *Wednesday 27 April 2022* at *14:00 UTC* the *Youth Coalition on Internet Governance <https://www.intgovforum.org/en/content/youth-coalition-on-internet-governan…>* (YCIG) and the *Internet Society Youth Standing Group <https://youthsig.org/>* (YouthSG) host an '*IGF 2022 Introductory Webinar <https://bit.ly/3KpK1Wa>*'. They will present the issues and the latest news of the *IGF 2022 <https://www.intgovforum.org/en/content/igf-2022>* taking place in Addis Ababa in Nov-Dec 2022. *LIVESTREAM https://livestream.com/internetsociety/youthigf2022 <https://livestream.com/internetsociety/youthigf2022>* *PARTICIPATE VIA ZOOM https://bit.ly/3KpK1Wa <https://bit.ly/3KpK1Wa>* *REAL TIME TEXT https://bit.ly/3EPK5xm <https://bit.ly/3EPK5xm>* *TWITTER #IGF2022 @YouthCIG <https://twitter.com/YouthCIG> @YouthObs* *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/youthigf2022 <https://archive.org/details/youthigf2022>* *Permalink *https://isoc.live/p=15371 - -- -------------------------------------- Joly MacFie +12185659365 -------------------------------------- -

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Co-producing industrial public goods on GitHub
by Mathieu.O'Neil 27 Apr '22

27 Apr '22

[Humble apologies if you have already seen something like this on CITAMS!] Hi all It’s taken longer than we would have liked but the first peer-reviewed article from our Sloan/Ford Foundations Digital Infrastructure research has finally come out! It’s in New Media and Society and at 37 pages the longest paper I’ve ever published… worth every page though! ;-) Details below. Preprint will be on our university (O’Neil) and personal (Zacchiroli) websites soon. Cheers Mathieu =-=-=-= Co-producing industrial public goods on GitHub: Selective firm cooperation, volunteer-employee labour and participation inequality Mathieu O’Neil, Laure Muselli, Xiaolan Cai, Stefano Zacchiroli First Published April 27, 2022 https://doi.org/10.1177/14614448221090474<https://doi.org/10.1177/14614448221090474> Abstract The global economy’s digital infrastructure is based on free and open source software. To analyse how firms indirectly collaborate via employee contributions to developer-run projects, we propose a formal definition of ‘industrial public goods’ – inter-firm cooperation, volunteer and paid labour overlap, and participation inequality. We verify its empirical robustness by collecting networks of commits made by firm employees to active GitHub software repositories. Despite paid workers making more contributions, volunteers play a significant role. We find which firms contribute most, which projects benefit from firm investments, and identify distinct ‘contribution territories’ since the two central firms never co-contribute to top-20 repositories. We highlight the challenge posed by ‘Big Tech’ to the non-rival status of industrial public goods, thanks to cloud-based systems which resist sharing, and suggest there may be ‘contribution deserts’ neglected by large information technology firms, despite their importance for the open source ecosystem’s sustainability and diversity. Keywords Big Tech, collaborative work, FOSS, non-rival goods, open source software, volunteer labour [UC Logo]<http://www.canberra.edu.au> [It all starts with you]<https://www.canberra.edu.au/> The Ngunnawal people are the Traditional Custodians of the ACT where UC's Bruce Campus is situated and are an integral and celebrated part of UC's culture. We also acknowledge other First Nations Peoples. Australian Government Higher Education Registered Provider (CRICOS) #00212K Email Disclaimer [UC Facebook]<https://www.facebook.com/UniversityOfCanberra> [UC Twitter] <https://twitter.com/UniCanberra> [UC Instagram] <https://www.instagram.com/unicanberra/> [UC Linkedin] <https://au.linkedin.com/school/university-of-canberra/> [UC Youtube] <https://www.youtube.com/user/uniofcanberra> [University of Canberra] <http://www.canberra.edu.au>

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Instagram Group Discussion Data
by DeNel Rehberg Sedo 27 Apr '22

27 Apr '22

My apologies if this has already been discussed, but there is an issue this morning with our archive so I’m going to ask here. I have conducted a group discussion in a private Instagram group and have my data via the platform. I have it in both HTML and JSON, but the data is from the entire account and not specifically from the group. Does anyone have any advice on how to easily transfer the group discussion into a CSV file or into a data file that I could use in NVIVO? Thank you, DeNel DeNel Rehberg Sedo, PhD (she/her) Professor Department of Communication Studies Mount Saint Vincent University McCain Centre 306C, Box M64, 166 Bedford Hwy Halifax (K'jipuktuk), NS B3M 2J6 Canada I live in and work from the traditional homeland of the Sipekne’katik (Indian Brook/Shubenacadie) First Nation band. https://denelrehbergsedo.info

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Call for Applications for the 2022 AusSTS workshop
by Thao Phan 27 Apr '22

27 Apr '22

Call for ApplicationsAusSTS2022: “Generation” <https://aussts.wordpress.com/aussts2022/>Date: Thurs 28th and Fri 29 July, 2022 As STS practitioners, we grapple with the understanding that generating knowledge and ideas are always practices in becoming, unfinished, and multiple, never isolated. We are asked to think about the socio-technical, material-discursive, and political relations that generate some worlds and ideas, and exclude others. These multiple configurations speak of the inevitability of interdependence, relationality, permeability, and boundaries. To think about generation in multiple senses means to think through the humble awareness of our indebtedness to other bodies, knowledges, histories, ecologies—as a part of a community in constant formation. This awareness can reflect in the ethics of our own praxis. It can inspire us to bring into conversation different generations and sensitivities of STS. It can also speak of the knowledges and material practices that shape memories of past generations, and expectations and promises about future ones. It can mean asking what relations get remembered, what relations are maintained, and who is harmed or excluded in the process. AusSTS is committed to bringing together STS scholars from across Australasia by offering a space where these conversations and reflections can happen freely and generously. Similarly to last year’s workshop, AusSTS 2022 will be a multi-sited event hosted across four locations: Sydney, Melbourne, Darwin, and Wellington. The event will include shared online keynotes, short presentations, as well as local activities and get-togethers. We invite proposals for short presentations from early career and PhD/Masters researchers that respond broadly to the theme of ‘generation’. This includes, but is not limited to: - *Generation as era*: from historical epochs (18th century, 19th century, 20th century) to population clusters (boomers, millennials, gen z), to cultural movements (beat generation, MTV generation, digital natives, TikTok teens) - *Generation as reproduction*: intergenerational trauma, the passing on of genes, the mutation of viruses, interventions into the reproduction of humans, animals, crops, and other biological matter - *Generation as innovation*: AI, machine learning, and other computational processes that self-generate images, categories, or actions (e.g. generative adversarial networks (GANs)), the Anthropocene and new technologies for energy generation - *Generation as creativity:* pedagogy and the creation of generative spaces, generative frameworks, theories and methods for research, practices and techniques for generating art, language, and social relations - *Generation as hope:* regeneration, the next generation, techniques of conservation/preservation in the face of extinction/disaster/destruction *Confirmed keynote speakers*: *Anne Pollock* (King’s College London) Intergenerational Plenary: *Hana Burgess* (UoA), *Mythily Meher* (UoA), *Billy van Uitregt* (VUW) *Structure, cost and accessibility*: The workshop is a multi-sited, face-to-face event that will take place across four locations. Registration costs will vary depending on the events planned at each location: - Melbourne - Sydney - Darwin - Wellington We ask participants to apply to attend one of these face-to-face locations. All sites will take part in shared online keynote presentations. Each site will then host their own set of activities ranging from short presentations, workshops, and field trips. We endeavour to make all face-to-face venues accessible for our participants. Please do not hesitate to get in contact if you have any questions regarding accessibility requirements or have specific venue accessibility requests. All keynote events will be free and live-streamed for those who are unable to attend the workshop in-person. Details about cost will be shared in the coming months. AusSTS is committed to making these events affordable for all our participants, especially our HDRs and ECRs. *Submission guidelines:* This workshop departs from the traditional symposia format of long papers and short discussion. Participants can expect to present a short paper consisting of a question, problem, or provocation and take part in panel discussions and cross-disciplinary dialogues. We invite postgraduate and early career researchers (ECRs) from all disciplines and areas of expertise to apply, including life, environmental and materials science, social sciences and humanities, artists, social activists, and other practitioners. To apply, you will need to submit a proposal for *a 5-minute presentation* at the workshop on any topic that relates to the theme of ‘generation.’ Proposals must include a title, 250 word abstract, 5 keywords, and a short presenter bio. To submit a proposal complete the online application form *here* <https://forms.gle/SuHHb9uK6WLLBA8LA>. For more information visit: https://aussts.wordpress.com/aussts2022/ <https://aussts.wordpress.com/aussts2022/>

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New CDT research on "Shadowbanning"
by Dhanaraj Thakur 26 Apr '22

26 Apr '22

Hi everyone, We published a new research report today examining opaque content moderation practices on social media, colloquially known as “shadowbanning.” The report, /Shedding Light on Shadowbanning/ <https://cdt.org/insights/shedding-light-on-shadowbanning/>, finds that nearly one in 10 U.S. social media users believes they have been shadowbanned (i.e., had their content hidden or reduced in visibility, without being informed by the platform). Our national survey of social media users also found that those who believe they have been shadowbanned are disproportionately male, Republican, Hispanic, or non-cisgender. People most commonly believed they had been shadowbanned for their political views (39%) or their positions on social issues (29%), and often felt persecuted by social media companies and gaslit by those companies’ public denials. Overall, surveys and interviews conducted by CDT show that this widespread perception has contributed to public distrust and conspiratorial attitudes towards social media companies’ content moderation methods. Social media companies adopt misleadingly narrow definitions of “shadowbanning” in their communications that are out of touch with how people actually use the term, but the report found that many platforms do likely engage in the practice when it is more broadly defined. We also identified certain cases in which social media companies might not inform users that their content is being moderated, in order to stop bad actors from finding and exploiting structural weaknesses in platforms’ moderation efforts. The report concludes with recommendations for social media companies, including: * Minimize shadowbanning. Social media companies should only shadowban when it is strictly necessary to protect the safety and integrity of the platform. * Disclose shadowbanning practices. Social media companies should publicize all the circumstances in which they will moderate a user’s content without informing them. * Empower researchers. Social media companies should, under certain conditions, provide outside researchers with the data they need to verify the shadowbanning practices they claim and to uncover other possible harmful effects shadowbanning may have. You can read the full report here <https://cdt.org/insights/shedding-light-on-shadowbanning/>, and we have twitter thread here <https://twitter.com/CenDemTech/status/1518984364352225281> with more findings. Feel free to share and as always we welcome your feedback. take care, Dhanaraj -- *Dhanaraj Thakur* (he/him) | Research Director Center for Democracy & Technology |*cdt.org <https://cdt.org/>* *E:* dthakur(a)cdt.org | *P:* +1 202 407 8849 | @thakurdhanaraj

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CfA Fellowships and Working Groups at the Center for Advanced Internet Studies (CAIS)
by Esther Laufer 26 Apr '22

26 Apr '22

Are you studying the social, political, economic, media-related or cultural effects of digitalization? Do you want to concentrate exclusively on a project and are interested in interdisciplinary exchange? The Center for Advanced Internet Studies (CAIS) in Bochum, Germany, supports innovative projects that deal with the social opportunities and challenges of the digital transformation. Experts from academia and practice can apply for Fellowships and Working Groups. The funding program is open to experts of all career stages, to all disciplines and areas of investigation, as well as to pure research and to projects that are more applied in orientation. The funding program is continuous. Apply by 31 May 2022 for Fellowships starting from April 2023 and for Working Groups starting from 15 May 2023. For more information go to: http://www.cais.nrw/en/callforapplications/. If you have any questions, please contact esther.laufer(a)cais.nrw mailto:esther.laufer@cais.nrw.

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Circulating a job opportunity through the list
by nadine el sayed 25 Apr '22

25 Apr '22

Dear sirs, I am Nadine El Sayed, an associate professor at the American University in Cairo (AUC). We wanted to circulate the below job opportunity at AUC through the list, would you kindly advise how we can do that? The job ad: Job Description <https://aucegypt.interviewexchange.com/jobofferdetails.jsp?JOBID=139982>: The Department of Journalism and Mass Communication invites applications for a non-tenure track Assistant/Associate Professor in Integrated Marketing Communication. A PhD in this or relevant discipline is required. The candidate will teach courses in the IMC undergraduate program; the candidate may also teach at the graduate level. Teaching responsibilities will include courses in digital and emerging media in integrated marketing communication, media analytics, media planning, consumer buyer behavior, and strategic messaging and media. Teaching responsibilities will include courses principles of advertising and integrated marketing communication, advertising agency operations, consumer buyer behavior, copywriting and media planning. The candidate may be expected to engage in scholarly research and contribute to program development. The candidate will also be expected to actively participate in student advising, and department, school and university service. Demonstration of potential for excellence in teaching, scholarship, and commitment to undergraduate and/or graduate education is expected. Requirements: Proficient professional/research expertise in the Integrated Marketing Communication or relevant field. Other required qualifications include a strong command of Digital and Social Media Marketing skills (data analysis, brand awareness, content creation, online product management, digital marketing strategies, mobile advertising, and etc.) The Candidate must have a proven strong relevant university-level academic and teaching record; PhD required. Additional Information: The Journalism and Mass Communication Department (JRMC) is the largest department in the School of Global Affairs and Public Policy, serving approximately 600 major and minor students with close to 30 full and adjunct faculty members. The department offers majors in Multimedia Journalism, Communication and Media Arts, Integrated Market Communication, as well as minors in Journalism and Mass Communication, and Arabic Writing and Reporting. The Department also offers a Master's Degree in Journalism and Mass Communication. We are dedicated to excellence in undergraduate and graduate academic and professional education, and we are committed to providing students with the relevant interdisciplinary experiences needed in the local and global markets. The Department's facilities include digital production and news studios, new media production labs, state of the art editing suites, high definition television studios, a professional standard radio station, a photographic exhibition gallery and a prominent student newspaper. Application Instructions: All applicants must submit the following documents via the online system <https://aucegypt.interviewexchange.com/jobofferdetails.jsp?JOBID=139982>: a) A detailed CV including full publications list; b) A letter of interest; c) Any relevant supporting documents Company Description: Founded in 1919, AUC moved to a new 260-acre state-of-the-art campus in New Cairo in 2008. The university also operates in its historic downtown facilities, offering cultural events, graduate classes, and continuing education. Student housing is available in New Cairo. Among the premier universities in the region, AUC is Middle States accredited; its engineering programs are accredited by ABET, its chemistry program is accredited by the Canadian Society for Chemistry, the School of Business is accredited by AACSB, AMBA and EQUIS, and the Master of Public Administration and the Master of Public Policy programs of GAPP are accredited by the Network of Schools of Public Policy, Affairs, and administration (NASPAA). The AUC libraries contain the largest English-language research collection in the region and are an active and integral part of the university's pursuit of excellence in all academic and scholarly programs. AUC is an English-medium institution; eighty-five percent of the students are Egyptian, and the rest include students from nearly ninety countries, principally from the Middle East, Africa and North America. Faculty salary and rank are based on qualifications and professional experience. According to AUC policies and procedures, all faculty are entitled to generous benefits. Thank you so much. Best, Nadine El Sayed, PhD Associate Professor of Practice The Journalism and Mass Communication Depaetment The American University in Cairo

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Deadline Extended - CFP for JCMC special issue on Sensor-mediated communication
by Germaine R Halegoua 25 Apr '22

25 Apr '22

The deadline to submit extended abstracts for a special issue of JCMC on Sensor-mediated Communication: Sensing, Mobilities, and Power is now *April 29*. More information can be found here <https://academic.oup.com/jcmc/pages/sensors-cfp> and below. Please forward to anyone who might be interested. I'm happy to answer any questions about the call or theme as well. Thank you! Germaine Sensor-mediated Communication: Sensing, Mobilities, and Power Guest editors: Didem Özkul, Bilkent University (Turkey) - didem.ozkul(a)bilkent.edu.tr Germaine R. Halegoua, University of Michigan (USA) - halegoua(a)umich.edu Lee Humphreys, Cornell University (USA) - lmh13(a)cornell.edu Rowan Wilken, RMIT (Australia) - rowan.wilken(a)rmit.edu.au Sensors are everywhere. They monitor environments and measure a multitude of environmental characteristics such as air quality, temperature, noise, humidity, and radiation (Gabrys, 2019; Starosielski, 2021). They attempt to detect, compute, and communicate context (Beigl, 2005). They are increasingly embedded in urban infrastructures, offices, objects, and homes. With our smartphones and watches, we also carry sensors with us or on us. Many smartphones are equipped with proximity sensors, ambient light sensors, accelerometers, gyroscopes, barometers, biometric sensors, face or fingerprint scanners, heart rate monitors, and sensor receivers like GPS and GNSS. These sensors ‘sense’ and process information and mediate many physical and virtual interactions in public and private spaces. As a result, sensor-mediated communication has become routinely integrated into our daily lives. >From self-tracking apps to self-driving cars, sensing technologies power automated decision-making systems and influence social practices around health and wellness, navigation and transportation, climate and energy use, commerce and consumption, sociality and engagement, and urban governance. Despite the growing prevalence of sensors and citizen-sensing projects (Gabrys, 2016), and the value placed on the data acquired through their use, academic interest in researching their societal, behavioral, and ethical implications is only recently gaining momentum. Even with key contributions that define contemporary societies as “sensor societies” (Andrejevic & Burdon, 2015), and as attributes of the “quantified self” (Lupton, 2016) become foundational to an increasing number of everyday interactions, sensor-mediated communication has remained a relatively under-researched topic. With current crises of mobilities such as climate change, mass migrations and deportations, and pandemics, mobile forms of sensing and sensor-mediated communication and interaction have gained salience as smartphones, Internet of Things devices, and technologies for ‘always-on’, passive data collection are increasingly utilized for controlling and governing communities, societies, and populations. Therefore, we believe that it is time to critically reflect on and empirically analyze sensor-mediated communication practices and their societal and ethical implications. With our special issue on sensor-mediated communication, we open up a critical discussion at the intersections of computer-mediated communication (CMC), critical data studies, surveillance studies, infrastructure studies, and media and communication studies. We invite empirical papers that address emerging debates regarding sensors and sensor-mediated communication, sensor data practices, and their societal implications for measuring, seeing, and knowing bodies, mobilities, environments, and the data they produce. Although the Covid-19 pandemic with its increased uncertainty and anxiety around public health and contagion has created new urgency around sensors and the ways in which they mediate communication and interaction practices, this special issue focuses on issues of ethics, surveillance, technology design and use that may precede the pandemic yet contextualize current discourses and decisions around sensing technologies and sensor data. Our focus includes not only the commonplace use of smart(phone) sensors, such as apps for parents to track their children, or apps for care for the elderly and disabled, but also (and most importantly) the broader uses of sensors and scanners in cities, by platforms and governments, in robotics, drones and satellites, and through other forms of mobile and remote sensing. What does it mean to think about sensing technologies and practices as computer-mediated communication? How can mediated communication foreground investigations of sensing technologies that reveal organizational, cultural and structural mechanisms at work? This might include questions around power, mobilities, and capitalism as sensing and scanning technologies are increasingly embedded in mediated-communication practices of everyday life including personal, wearable, and “smart” devices. In response to these questions, we invite empirical papers that examine practices, processes, power, and ethics as they relate to sensors and sensor-mediated communication and interaction. Multidisciplinary papers and papers from a variety of theoretical and methodological perspectives are encouraged but must focus on sensors and their societal implications from a computer-mediated communication perspective. Articles for this special issue are expected to contribute to and extend existing CMC debates through a focus on critical questions related to CMC and how our field can examine the impacts and roles of communication technologies and mediated-communication through various aspects of sensors and scanners, i.e. sensor-mediated communication. Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication only publishes original research articles and meta-analyses of prior research. Therefore, all submissions are required to have a section that describes and discusses the research process and/or methods. Important dates: - Extended abstracts submission (1,500 words): 15 April 2022 - Notification: 15 May 2022 - Full papers submission (maximum 9,000 words): 31 September 2022 - Final acceptance: January 2023 - Provisional publication: March 2023 Guidelines: Please submit an extended abstract of no more than 1,500 words (including references) that states the paper’s main argument, methods, and scholarly contribution. The abstract should clearly explain how the full submission will contribute to the aims of this special issue. Please email extended abstracts to didem.ozkul(a)bilkent.edu.tr with cc to all other editors: halegoua(a)umich.edu, lmh13(a)cornell.edu, rowan.wilken(a)rmit.edu.au by 29 April 2022. Abstracts should be accompanied by a short biography for each author (approx. 200 words). Positively reviewed abstracts (notification by 15 May 2022) will be invited to submit full papers by 31 September 2022. All manuscripts must be submitted online through MANUSCRIPT CENTRAL <https://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/jcmc> ( https://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/jcmc) Invited submissions will undergo a blind peer-review process following the usual procedures of Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication. The special issue will be published March 2023. Please note that manuscripts must conform to the guidelines for Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication. Please see Author Instructions for more information: https://academic.oup.com/jcmc/pages/General_Instructions. In case of further questions, please contact the guest editors. References: Andrejevic, M. & Burdon, M. (2015). Defining the Sensor Society. Television & New Media. 16(1), 19-36. Beigl, M. (2005). Ubiquitous computing: Computation embedded in the world. In G. Flachbart & P. Weibel (Eds.), Disappearing Architecture: From Real to Virtual to Quantum (pp. 52-59). Basel: Birkhauser. Gabrys, J. (2016). Program Earth: Environmental Sensing Technology and the Making of a Computational Planet. Minneapolis, MN: University of Minnesota Press. Gabrys, J. (2019). How to Do Things with Sensors. Minneapolis, MN: University of Minnesota Press. Lupton, D. (2016). The Quantified Self. Cambridge, UK: Polity Press. Starosielski, N. (2021). Media Hot & Cold. Durham, NC: Duke University Press. -- Germaine R. Halegoua (she/her) Associate Professor University of Michigan

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