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Visiting Assistant Professor of Critical Media Studies
by Knight, Kim 10 Jun '22

10 Jun '22

Dear All, Apologies for cross-posting. We have a late posting for a Visiting Assistant Professor in Critical Media Studies (CMS) in the School of Arts, Technology, and Emerging Communication (ATEC) at The University of Texas at Dallas. https://jobs.utdallas.edu/postings/19106 We seek a scholar of digital media studies to join our faculty for a one-year visiting appointment, with a possible renewal for a second year. Applicants able to teach courses in media theory or media history with expertise in global media or indigenous or ethnic studies are especially welcome. The ideal candidate will have a record of critical scholarship, student-centered teaching, and enthusiasm for engaging a diverse student population. In CMS, we are responsible for curriculum in the BA in ATEC, the BA concentration in CMS, UTD's ethnic studies minor, the MA in Emerging Media Studies, and the PhD in ATEC. We are a collegial and supportive faculty with expertise in feminist STS, digital health, game studies, art education, visual culture, and more. Labs and Studios affiliated with CMS include Fashioning Circuits, The Studio for Mediating Play, Public Interactives Research Lab (PIRL), Social Practice and Community Engaged (SPaCE) Media, and Experimental Animation Lab (experiment.a.l.) The posting has June 15 as the date we will begin reviews, but it took longer than anticipated to post the job. So we will not begin review until June 22. I'm working on getting the posting amended. After that, things will move quickly. I am the search committee chair so feel free to reach out with any questions (kim.knight(a)utdallas.edu) Warm regards, Kim _____ Dr. Kim Brillante Knight Pronouns: she/her/hers Area Head, Critical Media Studies in ATEC School of Arts, Technology, and Emerging Communication The University of Texas at Dallas kim.knight(a)utdallas.edu http://kimknight.com Office Hours Bookings<https://outlook.office365.com/owa/calendar/DrKnightOfficeHourBookings@utdal…> (for current students)

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Invitation // Representing and (re)Imagining Digital Crowds Beyond Data Reduction // KCL-DDH online event
by Nicola Bozzi 10 Jun '22

10 Jun '22

Hello everyone (& apologies for cross-posting), I am happy to invite you to an online event organised at KCL-DDH. Hope you can make it! --- *Representing and (re)Imagining Digital Crowds Beyond Data Reduction* Date: *20 June 2022* Time: *16:00-18:30* (London time) *Register with this Teams link <https://teams.microsoft.com/registration/FM9wg_MWFky4PHJAcWVDVg,GmZ934gLO0i…>* How do emerging cultural formats like dating profiles, Instagram face filters, GAN imagery, or blockchain-enabled communities contribute to spread out our increasingly distributed, digitally augmented identities? This online event, which is part of the *Online Crowds* workshop series organised by King's College London, Department of Digital Humanities, features presentations by critics and artists who work on digital culture, art, and identity in critical ways. Taking her Instagram filters exhibition project “Art Layers” (2021) as a starting point, Valentina Tanni <http://www.valentinatanni.com> will analyze the different roles that AR filters can play in the context of today's social media - from light, playful approaches to complex artistic experimentations on the topic of self-identity and reality perception. Midgray <https://midgray.org/> (Kris Blackmore and Simon Boas) will discuss their layered work on internet dating platforms, privacy, and masculinity. These projects involve algorithmically identifying misogyny in dating app user profiles on OkCupid, ultimately leading to thoughtful and nuanced conversations about consent and masculinity that aren't typically seen in mainstream media. Ksenia Fedorova <https://www.universiteitleiden.nl/en/staffmembers/ksenia-fedorova> will address the ways the social imaginary is affected by the capabilities of digital technologies and the creative response to this state of affairs, registered in practices ranging from political activism to interactive art and mixed reality performance. Max Dovey <https://maxdovey.com/> will discuss projects that involve performance, improvisation and live action role play to confront emergent techno-social configurations within live, embodied and situated contexts. The presentations will be followed by an open discussion session moderated by Nicola Bozzi <http://twitter.com/schizocities>, Lecturer at King's College London, Department of Digital Humanities. ---- Nicola Bozzi Lecturer in Digital Innovation Management Department of Digital Humanities King’s College London Recent Publications: Bozzi, N. (2021), "Dramatization of the @GANGSTA: Instagram Cred in the Age of Glocalized Gang Culture”, Wiest, J.B. (Ed.) *Theorizing Criminality and Policing in the Digital Media Age* (*Studies in Media and Communications, Vol. 20*), Emerald Publishing Limited, Bingley, pp. 69-88. https://doi.org/10.1108/S2050-206020210000020010 Bozzi, N. (2020) #digitalnomads, #solotravellers, #remoteworkers: A Cultural Critique of the Traveling Entrepreneur on Instagram. *Social Media + Society*. DOI: https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/2056305120926644

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Call for Submissions // PDC 2022 Workshop // Creative Entrances to Co-Design: Exploring Collaboration through Fiction, Fairy Tales, and Games
by Sarah Rüller 10 Jun '22

10 Jun '22

Apologies for cross-posting Please forward this e-mail to potentially interested researchers, practitioners, activists, and designers (all career stages) Creative Entrances to Co-Design: Exploring Collaboration through Fiction, Fairy Tales, and Games Hybrid Workshop at the Participatory Design Conference (PDC) 2022 (https://pdc2022.org/) Tuesday, August 30th, 2022, Newcastle University, Newcastle upon Tyne (UK) & Online (hybrid) Application deadline: June 12th, 2022, 23:59 (Anywhere on Earth) https://creative-co.design/ Design fiction, storytelling, and games provide creative entrances to co-design activities with different groups. These have emerged from a need to develop joint perspectives, a joint language and technological imagination as prerequisites for participatory approaches and co-design. With our workshop, we seek to create a practice-oriented and reflective space exploring answers to questions like the following ones: What potential does fiction, fairy tales and games carry regarding creative and low-threshold entrances to co design? How do we genuinely co-design without enforcing our, often external, perception on people’s realities and needs? How does creativity in co-design look like thinking from the very beginning, before setting up the research design? We invite researchers, practitioners, activists, and designers (all career stages) who are working in settings that are socially and culturally diverse, who bring together people of a broad age range and who have tried creative approaches in their co-design activities. Working in groups to co-design and further develop creative entrances, this workshop will explore and reflect upon the potential of design fiction, storytelling, and games to foster creativity in co-design activities and to support (technological) imagination. As a result, we plan to co-host together with the participants a digital exhibition with the results of the workshop. We welcome and appreciate submissions in various formats: · traditional workshop papers, short essays, reflections, or motivational letters (up to 5 pages, excl. references. We recommend using the template provided by PDC. https://pdc2022.org/submission-formatting/) · video and audio recordings (max. 5 minutes) about experiences from previous co-design activities and overall research designs · reflections, including visual and audio material (if existent) from previous and/or current co-design activities. We further encourage applications to submit existing creations, such as games, co-written tales, and fictions, that can be subject to further development and discussion in the working group activities. All submissions should come with a short bio of the applicant(s). For better planning, we ask the applications for an indication of preferred participation format (online or on-site). Submissions or questions can be sent to submission(a)creative-co.design. Organizers: · Sarah Rüller, Konstantin Aal, Anne Weibert, Belén Giménez (University of Siegen, Germany) · Michael Muller (IBM Research) · Mark Blythe (Northumbria University, UK) · Yasmin B. Kafai (University of Pennsylvania, USA) Check out our workshop website (https://creative-co.design/) to find more information about the formats and the application process. Please share the event widely among your networks and reach out to us if you have further questions. _________________ Sarah Rüller M.Sc. Pronouns (She/Her) Researcher // CRC 1187 - Media of Cooperation PhD candidate // Information Systems and New Media University of Siegen Kohlbettstraße 15 // 57072 Siegen // Room: US-E 103 Phone: +49 271 740 3474

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Behind Data and Algorithms – Actors, logics and cultures behind digital technologies
by Jakob Svensson 10 Jun '22

10 Jun '22

Welcome to seminar 16th June - online or AFK in Malmö, Sweden Behind Data and Algorithms – Actors, logics and cultures behind digital technologies Speakers: Janet Abbate, Mike Ananny, Minna Ruckenstein,Julia Velkova, Anne Kaun , Elizabeth van Couvering, Rivka Ribak, Sara Suarez Gonzalo, Fernanda R. Rosa, Itzelle Aurora Medina Perea, Andrea Rosales &Ulrike Klinger The event will be free and take place at Malmö University 16th June 1030-1700 and will be live-streamed for those of you that cannot come to Malmö. For more info and link live stream, check out this webpage: https://mau.se/en/calendar/data-society-research-seminar-behind-data-and-al… Jakob Svensson jakob.svensson(a)mau.se +46 (0) 40-66 57205 Malmö University, School of Arts & Communication (K3), 205 06 Malmö, Sweden

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Call for Workshop Proposals -- ACM ICDCN 2023 -- Deadline: June 15, 2022
by Eirini Eleni Tsiropoulou 10 Jun '22

10 Jun '22

----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Dear Colleagues, Below is a Call for Workshop Proposals for ACM ICDCN 2023. The proposals should be submitted as pdf-format attachment to an email sent to the workshop chairs Sujoy Saha<https://nitdgp.ac.in/department/computer-science-engineering/faculty-1/sujo…>, Suchetana Chakraborty<https://sites.google.com/site/suchetana0116> (icdcn2023-workshop-chairs(a)googlegroups.com<mailto:icdcn2023-workshop-chairs@googlegroups.com>) by June 15, 2022. SUBMISSION GUIDELINES Proposal Submission Deadline: June 15, 2022 Notification of Acceptance: July 1, 2022 Please consider sending a Workshop proposal against the following CFP. ICDCN 2023 Call for Workshop Proposals ICDCN is a premier international conference dedicated to addressing advances in Distributed Computing and Communication Networks, which over the years, has become a leading forum for disseminating the latest research results in these fields. The 24th edition of this international conference will be organised in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering, IIT Kharagpur, from 4th - 7th January 2023. https://cse.iitkgp.ac.in/conf/ICDCN23/ The 24th International Conference on Distributed Computing and Networking (ICDCN 2023) plans to host several workshops. The Organizing Committee invites proposals for one-day or half-day workshops affiliated with the conference. Workshops should emphasize current topics of interest within the broader areas of Distributed Computing and Communication Networks. Some of the topics of interest are mentioned below, but not limited to: - Distributed Data-Analytics - Blockchains - Distributed AI/ML - Security, Privacy and Game Theory in Distributed Computing and Networking - Disaster response - Smart healthcare - Energy and Sustainability - Internet of Things and Cyber-Physical systems - Distributed game theory - Biological Distributed Algorithms - Mobile Crowdsensing and Social Network Analysis and Mining - 5G and beyond Networks Next generation internet - Ad-hoc, Sensor, PAN and Mesh Networks - Backscatter and Ultra-low Power Networks - Cloud Computing and Big Data Processing - Cognitive Networking - Edge Computing and Mobile Offloading - Pervasive and Mobile Computing - Vehicular Networks, Smart Grids and Smart City Applications - Fault-tolerance, Reliability, and Availability of Distributed Systems - Self-organization, Self-stabilization, and Autonomic Computing The workshops may include a mix of regular papers, invited presentations and panels that encourage the participation of attendees in active discussion. The purpose of these workshops is to provide a platform for presenting new ideas in a generally more focused area than the main conference. The objective of these workshops is to enable stimulating discussions on state-of-the-art, emerging, visionary, and perhaps controversial topics. Workshops should be organized to promote such lively interaction. Plans to promote interaction and discussion should be clearly addressed in workshop proposals. It is expected that workshop papers will be published along with the main conference papers as part of the ACM International Conference Proceedings Series (ICPS) and will be indexed by the ACM Digital Library. The previous editions of ICDCN hosted the following workshops: Year & Location Name of the Workshops 2022 1. The Fifth International Workshop On Networking Women In Distributed Computing And Networks 2. The International Workshop On Machine Learning And Blockchain For Smart Society 3. International Workshop on Emergency Response Technologies and Services For more information follow this link: https://icdcn2022.iiitd.edu.in/ 2021 1. Predictive and Learning Approaches based on Distributed-to-Centralized Machine Learning/Artificial Intelligence Techniques in Management of Large-Scale Internet of Things Networks in Smart Cities 2. 3rd International Workshop on Emergency Response Technologies and Services 3. 1st ACM Workshop on Recent Trends of Internet of Softwarized Things 4. The Third International Workshop on Mobile Ubiquitous Systems, Infrastructures, Communications and Applications 5. The Fourth International Workshop On Networking Women In Distributed Computing And Networks 6. The 2nd Workshop on Distributed Algorithms for Low-Functional Robots 7. First International Workshop on Maintenance-Free Context Sensing For more information follow this link: https://www.icdcn2021.net/workshops.html 2020 1. International Workshop on Emergency Response Technologies and Services (EmeRTeS 2020) 2. The Ninth International Workshop on Computing and Networking for Internet of Things and Beyond (ComNet-IoT 2020) 3. Workshop on Networks and Systems for Agriculture (AGRINETS 2020) 4. 1st International Workshop on Societal Computing for the Internet of Things & You (SoCIeTY 2020) 5. Workshop on 5G Edge architecture 6. First ACM Workshop on Smart Sensing: from IoT to Ambient (SmartSensing) 7. International Workshop On Networking Women In Distributed Computing And Networks 2022 (NWDCN 2022) 8. The International Workshop On Machine Learning And Blockchain For Smart Society(MLBSS-2022) 9. International Workshop on Emergency Response Technologies and Services (EmeRTesS 2022) For more information follow this link: http://www.icdcn2020.rf.gd/workshop.html Format of the Proposal: Each workshop proposal (maximum 5 pages) must include: - Title of the workshop - Description of the technical issues covered, emphasising the timeliness of the proposed workshop (1 page maximum) - Workshop Organizers (names, affiliation and contact information), limiting up to 2 workshop chairs for half-day workshop and 3 workshop chairs for full-day workshop - A short biography of the organizers (up to 200 words) -Names of potential participants, such as program committee members and invited speakers (indication that speakers accepted to participate is a plus) - Planned format of the workshop, including: + Duration of the workshop: Half-day, Full-day and tentative schedule + Preferred day of workshop: Before or after the conference + Number of refereed papers, hot topic sessions, keynotes, panels + Unique, creative and novel workshops formats are strongly encouraged - Draft Call for Papers - A description of the publicity and promotion plan - Workshop potential website address (if available at the time of the proposal - will be required later if the workshop proposal is accepted) - If appropriate, a description of past versions of the workshop, including the number of submitted and accepted papers, number of attendees, etc. -In order to ensure the quality of the accepted papers in ICDCN, the ICDCN steering committee set an upper limit of 40% on the acceptance rate for ICDCN Workshop papers. Hence, it is desirable for the organizers of the accepted workshops to adhere to that acceptance rate for their respective workshops. Please address questions to Workshop Chairs: Suchetana Chakraborty and Sujoy Saha by sending e-mail to icdcn2023-workshop-chairs(a)googlegroups.com<mailto:icdcn2023-workshop-chairs@googlegroups.com> Timelines for the Workshop: The proposals should be submitted (in PDF format) no later than June 15, 2022 to the ICDCN 2023 Workshop chairs (icdcn2023-workshop-chairs(a)googlegroups.com<mailto:icdcn2023-workshop-chairs@googlegroups.com>) with "ICDCN 2023 Workshop Proposal" in the subject. - Proposal Deadline: June 15th, 2022 - Notification of Selection: July 1st, 2022 - Opening of Workshop Papers for Acceptance: July 15th, 2022 - Deadline for Workshop Papers: September 15th, 2022 - Decision on Acceptance/Rejection of the Workshop Papers: October 15th, 2022 - Camera-Ready Papers Version Due: October 31st, 2022 Thanks & Regards, Sujoy Saha Suchetana Chakraborty -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Eirini Eleni Tsiropoulou, Assistant Professor Computer Engineering Chair Director of Recruiting and Admissions Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering University of New Mexico Albuquerque, NM, 87131 Office: 326B Tel.: (505)-277-5501 Email: eirini(a)unm.edu<mailto:eirini@unm.edu> Website: PROTON Lab<http://ece-research.unm.edu/tsiropoulou/index.html> PROTON Lab's News: @Tsiropoulou_EE<https://twitter.com/Tsiropoulou_EE> "Those who know, do. Those that understand, teach." ~ Aristotle

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CFP: Reimagining Platforms @ The University of Edinburgh, October 31
by Kate Miltner 09 Jun '22

09 Jun '22

Hello all, We are now accepting submissions for *Reimagining Platforms: Research, Governance and Labour. * *Reimagining Platforms* is a new collaboration between The University of Edinburgh and University of Toronto. It is a one-day symposium taking place at The University of Edinburgh on October 31, 2022 that brings academics and community and local partners together to develop methods and concepts to analyze the different futures and possibilities of platforms and platform economies. To this end, we invite papers and presentations that reimagine platforms in alignment with three specific themes: 1) researching proprietary digital platforms; 2) governing digital platforms; and 3) new labour futures. The deadline for submissions is July 8, 2022. For more information, please visit: https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/reimagining Thanks, Kate

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special issue ‘Digital Migration Practices and the Everyday’ published in Communication, Culture & Critique, 15(2) 2022: 103-298.
by Leurs, K.H.A. (Koen) 09 Jun '22

09 Jun '22

Dear colleagues, Apologies for cross-posting, we kindly like to share with you info on the special issue ‘Digital Migration Practices and the Everyday’ Sandra Ponzanesi and I guest-edited for Communication, Culture & Critique, 15(2) 2022: 103-298. https://academic.oup.com/ccc/issue/15/2 This special issue explores the role that digital technology plays in the lives of migrants. It does so by paying close attention to governmental and supranational organizations as well as to subjective and affective dimensions of the everyday. Digital migration practices emerge as complex negotiations in the digital media sphere between infrastructural bias and agential opportunities, contesting racial practices as well as enabling digitally mediated bonds of solidarity and intimacy. The issue offers nuanced critical perspectives ranging from surveillance capitalism, extractive humanitarianism, datafication, and border regimes to choreographies of care and intimacy in transnational settings, among other aspects. Renowned international scholars reflect on these issues from different vantage points. The closing forum section provides state-of-the-art commentaries on digital diaspora, affect and belonging, voice and visibility in the digital media sphere, queer migrant interventions in non-academic settings, and datafication and media infrastructures in “deep time.” This special issue draws from the successful conference “Migrant Belongings: Digital Practices and the Everyday” which took place online on April 21–23, 2021. The conference was part of the ERC project CONNECTINGEUROPE (http://connectingeuropeproject.eu/) (Digital Crossings in Europe: Gender, Diaspora and Belonging), led by Sandra Ponzanesi and jointly organized in collaboration with the DMM section (Diaspora, Migration and the Media) of ECREA (European Communication Research and Education) chaired by Koen Leurs. In this event, over 200 speakers presented contributions covering a wide diversity of topics ranging from digital connectivity, to creative practices, digital diaspora and place-making, affect and belonging, visuality and social media, datafication, securitization and infrastructuring, among others. For more information see: https://migrantbelongings.sites.uu.nl/. It includes contributions by: Sandra Ponzanesi & Koen Leurs (UU), Paul Gilroy, Nicholas de Genova, Saskia Witteborn, Roopika Risam, Martina Tazzioli, Christine Quinan & Mina Hunt, Larissa Hjorth, Earvin Cabalquinto, Laura Candidatu & Sandra Ponzanesi (UU), Myria Georgiou, Łukasz Szulc, Raelene Wilding & Monica Winarnita, Koen Leurs (UU) and Philip Seuferling See the full table of contents below EDITORIAL https://academic.oup.com/ccc/article/15/2/103/6581831 https://academic.oup.com/ccc/search-results?f_Authors=Sandra+Ponzanesi, https://academic.oup.com/ccc/search-results?f_Authors=Koen+Leurs Communication, Culture and Critique, Volume 15, Issue 2, June 2022, Pages 103–121, https://doi.org/10.1093/ccc/tcac016 https://academic.oup.com/ccc/article/15/2/122/6565345 https://academic.oup.com/ccc/search-results?f_Authors=Paul+Gilroy Communication, Culture and Critique, Volume 15, Issue 2, June 2022, Pages 122–138, https://doi.org/10.1093/ccc/tcac012 https://academic.oup.com/ccc/article/15/2/139/6562973 https://academic.oup.com/ccc/search-results?f_Authors=Nicholas+De+Genova Communication, Culture and Critique, Volume 15, Issue 2, June 2022, Pages 139–156, https://doi.org/10.1093/ccc/tcac009 https://academic.oup.com/ccc/article/15/2/157/6570646 https://academic.oup.com/ccc/search-results?f_Authors=Saskia+Witteborn Communication, Culture and Critique, Volume 15, Issue 2, June 2022, Pages 157–175, https://doi.org/10.1093/ccc/tcac007 https://academic.oup.com/ccc/article/15/2/176/6573768 https://academic.oup.com/ccc/search-results?f_Authors=Martina+Tazzioli Communication, Culture and Critique, Volume 15, Issue 2, June 2022, Pages 176–192, https://doi.org/10.1093/ccc/tcac018 https://academic.oup.com/ccc/article/15/2/193/6564094 https://academic.oup.com/ccc/search-results?f_Authors=Roopika+Risam Communication, Culture and Critique, Volume 15, Issue 2, June 2022, Pages 193–210, https://doi.org/10.1093/ccc/tcac005 https://academic.oup.com/ccc/article/15/2/211/6571700 https://academic.oup.com/ccc/search-results?f_Authors=C+L+Quinan, https://academic.oup.com/ccc/search-results?f_Authors=Mina+Hunt Communication, Culture and Critique, Volume 15, Issue 2, June 2022, Pages 211–226, https://doi.org/10.1093/ccc/tcac013 https://academic.oup.com/ccc/article/15/2/227/6571687 https://academic.oup.com/ccc/search-results?f_Authors=Larissa+Hjorth Communication, Culture and Critique, Volume 15, Issue 2, June 2022, Pages 227–243, https://doi.org/10.1093/ccc/tcac008 https://academic.oup.com/ccc/article/15/2/244/6572111 https://academic.oup.com/ccc/search-results?f_Authors=Earvin+Charles+B+Caba… Communication, Culture and Critique, Volume 15, Issue 2, June 2022, Pages 244–260, https://doi.org/10.1093/ccc/tcac011 FORUM https://academic.oup.com/ccc/article/15/2/261/6565888 https://academic.oup.com/ccc/search-results?f_Authors=Laura+Candidatu, https://academic.oup.com/ccc/search-results?f_Authors=Sandra+Ponzanesi Communication, Culture and Critique, Volume 15, Issue 2, June 2022, Pages 261–268, https://doi.org/10.1093/ccc/tcac010 https://academic.oup.com/ccc/article/15/2/269/6561482 https://academic.oup.com/ccc/search-results?f_Authors=Myria+Georgiou Communication, Culture and Critique, Volume 15, Issue 2, June 2022, Pages 269–275, https://doi.org/10.1093/ccc/tcac003 https://academic.oup.com/ccc/article/15/2/276/6556263 https://academic.oup.com/ccc/search-results?f_Authors=%c5%81ukasz+Szulc Communication, Culture and Critique, Volume 15, Issue 2, June 2022, Pages 276–282, https://doi.org/10.1093/ccc/tcac006 https://academic.oup.com/ccc/article/15/2/283/6571686 https://academic.oup.com/ccc/search-results?f_Authors=Raelene+Wilding, https://academic.oup.com/ccc/search-results?f_Authors=Monika+Winarnita Communication, Culture and Critique, Volume 15, Issue 2, June 2022, Pages 283–289, https://doi.org/10.1093/ccc/tcac015 https://academic.oup.com/ccc/article/15/2/290/6572110 https://academic.oup.com/ccc/search-results?f_Authors=Koen+Leurs, https://academic.oup.com/ccc/search-results?f_Authors=Philipp+Seuferling Communication, Culture and Critique, Volume 15, Issue 2, June 2022, Pages 290–297, https://doi.org/10.1093/ccc/tcac019 Koen Leurs Assistant professor Gender, Media and Migration Studies | https://graduategenderstudies.nl/ | Department of Media and Culture Studies | Utrecht University, the Netherlands |

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Trust Defender
by Shulman, Stu 08 Jun '22

08 Jun '22

Trust Defender is a collection of open source scripts used to train and run a classifier to classify Twitter users as potential good or bad actors. The classifier models are based on Twitter user information and focus heavily on the user bio description to make determinations. https://github.com/texifter/trust-defender There are two primary classifier types: an n-gram naive Bayes classifier model, which uses 2,3,4, and 5-gram models combined and results a probability score for two classes: bot or good, a neural network that takes as input: p(bot) (from the n-gram classifier) p(good) (from the n-gram classifier), number of days the Twitter account has been active, average number of statuses per day, average number of followers per day, average number of per day, the description length in number of individual terms, the number of “lists” in the description (e.g. god, country, president would be considered a “list”), the number of hashtags used in the description, the number of URLs found in the description. Not every seemingly odd account is a "bad actor" or a bot, however, you can find some pretty freaky stuff using this model. Happy hunting. Elon is waiting for your findings. -- Dr. Stuart W. Shulman Founder and CEO, Texifter Editor Emeritus, *Journal of Information Technology & Politics*

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WEBCAST 8. JUNI Public DNS resolvers @ISOCNorway
by Joly MacFie 08 Jun '22

08 Jun '22

Spurred by the consolidation of DNS resolution in thands of a few external Internet giants, the EU intends to build its own DNS server named #DNS4EU <https://ec.europa.eu/info/funding-tenders/opportunities/portal/screen/oppor…>, including filtering capabilities that can block domain names and other types of prohibited content. Our Norway Chapter will consider the merits. This event will be in Norwegian. Hopefully closed captions in other languages may be added to the archive. [image: isoc live] <https://isoc.live/15493>Onsdag *8. juni 2022* kl. *18.30-20.30 CEST* (16.30-18.30 UTC) vil *Internet Society Norway Chapter <https://www.isoc.no/>* (ISOC Norge) være vertskap for en diskusjon ‘*Public DNS resolvers <https://www.isoc.no/news/apent-medlemsmote-om-public-dns-resolvers/>*‘. Vil internettbrukere benytte seg av slike tjenester? Vil public DNS resolvers hindre spredning av DNS abuse, fake news, skadelig innhold etc? Møtet holdes på norsk. *PANEL* *Hans Petter Holen*, RIPE NCC *Frode Sørensen*, NKOM *Bjørn Mork*, Telenor *MODERATOR* *Steinar Grøtterød*, ISOC Norge *LIVESTREAM http://livestream.com/internetsociety/dns4eu <http://livestream.com/internetsociety/dns4eu>* *PARTICIPATE VIA ZOOM https://bit.ly/3NqFBQJ <https://bit.ly/3NqFBQJ>* *TWITTER #DNS4EU <https://bit.ly/3mtkyl7> @ISOCNorway @tawaterhouse @hpholen @ripencc @ipfrode @nkom_ Bjørn Mork @TelenorGroup* *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/InternetSocietyNorwayChapter <https://www.facebook.com/InternetSocietyNorwayChapter>* (AI Captions) *ARCHIVE* *https://archive.org/details/dns4eu <https://archive.org/details/dns4eu>* *PERMALINK https://isoc.live/15493 <https://isoc.live/15493>* - -- -------------------------------------- Joly MacFie +12185659365 -------------------------------------- -

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ECREA pre-conference workshop on “Visual Politics & Protest" (Methods focus)
by Suay Melisa Oezkula 08 Jun '22

08 Jun '22

Dear Colleagues, A brief reminder that our call for submissions for the ECREA pre-conference on “Visual Politics & Protest - Current Methodological Challenges” (online, 6-7th October 2022) is closing* this Sunday 12th June *at 23.59 CEST (= extended deadline). Please be so kind as to share it with anyone you think might be interested and do get in touch in case of questions. Call for submissions: ECREA pre-conference workshop on “Visual Politics & Protest - Current Methodological Challenges” Call for submissions War streaming on Instagram, propaganda in press photography, refugee activism on TikTok? - Recent European crises have shown images and videos as essential tools of communication in politics and protest, a trend mirrored in the increasing use of visuals in research methodologies. Visual data can capture practices of visual, performative or non-verbal communication, text-image relationships, the development of visual formats, notions of aesthetics, as well as underlying meanings of symbols and codes. Extant research has since captured different elements of visual politics and protest, including: social history (e.g. protest photography), political commentary or alignment (e.g. through memes or overlays), social cues in political communication (e.g. GIFs, filters, or emoji), visual activism practices (e.g. culture-jamming, sousveillance video coverage, flesh-witnessing), and visual forms of information documentation and distribution (e.g. infographics). Even so, new creative practices have at times challenged research practices, for example with regards to image authenticity and appropriation in mis- and disinformation campaigns (e.g. deepfakes), platform affordances in new visual formats and spaces (e.g. short videos on TikTok), (mis)interpretation and visual (il)literacy in communications, trust in image data as factual evidence, and opaqueness in the production of visual materials. These critical debates have been particularly contentious in the arena of politics and protest, where visuals have been seen to shape political opinion and discourse, electoral campaigns, war coverage, and Covid-19 data visualisations. In response to these trends, the ECREA Visual Cultures section is inviting submissions to the online pre-conference on “Visual Politics & Protest” with a focus on epistemological and methodological challenges, taking place on 6th and 7th October 2022 (= 2 weeks prior to ECREA 2022). The pre-conference workshop will include a keynote by Dr. Jing Zeng (University of Zurich), a series of lightning talks, a panel discussion (including speakers Dr. Stefania Vicari, Dr. Shana MacDonald, & Dr. Jing Zeng), and hands-on discussion rounds with a specific focus on epistemological challenges in research on visual politics and protest. Topics of interest We are looking for lightning talks on challenges encountered in research on visual politics and/or protest, which will be allocated to thematic panels. Towards encouraging lively discussions, we are not looking for entire paper proposals, but focussed submissions that outline the challenge along with examples (in written, visual, or other creative forms). On a broad level this may include (but is not limited to): - New methodological challenges in visual or multimodal data collection or analysis - Platform- or format-specific challenges in conducting visual research on politics and protest - Methodological approaches for capturing visuality or visual cultures surrounding politics and protest - Challenges in embedding visuals or visuality with textual, audio, or sensory materials - Issues in interpreting and/or quantifying visual data - Emerging approaches to visualising image or video data - Suggestions for the ethical treatment of visuality in politics or protest - Approaches in analysing specific political visual practices and/or phenomena - Epistemological discussions of the role of the visual in politics, protest, or social movements - Theorizing visual issues (example: visibility through aesthetics and visuality) Submissions should ideally either discuss new challenges, present in-depth illustrations/ examples of specific challenges, or introduce new approaches or nuances. Submission Please submit a 200 word description of your challenge in researching visual cultures or materials, along with your contact details on this Google Form link <https://forms.gle/YWAUJK7RDjHvo6Fe8> (200 is the maximum incl. references). Proposals can be submitted until *12th June 2022 at 23.59 CEST*. Descriptions should be written in English and contain a summary of the challenge that will be presented, as well as a notion of the reflections or approaches that are taken or recommended. The description may follow a conventional abstract structure, but is not bound to it. We encourage creative, unconventional, and work-in-progress submissions, particularly from early-career scholars. The addition of supplementary visual data such as a poster or data excerpt is optional. The submissions should represent a specific issue or challenge encountered in the participant’s visual research. We are aware that not everyone will be able to use Google services due to regional restrictions or privacy concerns. In those cases we invite participants to submit directly by email vppecrea(a)gmail.com. The email should contain following information: paper title, participant first and last name, country of affiliation, affiliation, career stage, email contact, names of co-authors, a 200-word description of the challenge, 1-2 visual materials (PDF, Word, or jpg) if applicable (this is optional), and indicate if you would like to be considered for the special issue. During the workshop, these challenges should be presented as short presentations (7-10 minutes) in panel groups with an adjoining discussion. These presentations do not need to follow conventional presentation formats (creative and purely visual presentations are encouraged). Please note that multi-author submissions are very much welcome, but due to the short nature of lightning talks we ask that only one person (i.e. the submitting author) presents. Details on the presentation format and full programme will be released in due time. Workshop follow-up Post-workshop, a summary (e.g. in the form of a co-authored “living syllabus on visual politics and protest research'') will be created and circulated amongst the participants and the wider public. Participants will also be invited to join an informal follow-up meeting at ECREA in Aarhus: “visual politics & protest coffee hour”. Participants will have the opportunity to submit their full papers to a special issue in Journal of Digital Social Research (https://www.jdsr.io/) Extended abstracts of 500 words are due 1st December 2022. Interest in submitting to the special issue should be indicated in the submission form. More information on the special issue will follow in due course. Further details The pre-conference workshop is organised by the ECREA Visual Cultures section (see https://visualculturesecrea.wordpress.com/) and will take place online. Links Pre-conference website: https://cutt.ly/visual-politics-ecrea Email contact: vppecrea(a)gmail.com Link to profile of keynote speaker: https://www.ikmz.uzh.ch/en/research/divisions/science-crisis-and-risk-commu… Key dates 2022 12th June: pre-conference submission deadline 15th August: communication of acceptance 6th & 7th October: ECREA pre-conference on Visual Politics & Protest (online) 19th to 22nd October: ECREA general conference 1st December 2022: special issue abstract deadline Pre-conference team Maria Schreiber, University of Salzburg Suay Melisa Özkula, University of Trento Tom Divon, Hebrew University of Jerusalem Danka Ninković Slavnić, University of Belgrade Doron Altaratz, The Hadassah Academic College Hadas Schlussel, Hebrew University of Jerusalem Suay M. Oezkula, on behalf of the pre-conference team -- [I support fair work & do not expect colleagues to read or respond to emails after-hours, during weekends, outside of their part-time allocation, or during strike periods] *Suay Melisa **Ö**zkula/**Oezkula* Marie Sklodowska-Curie Research Fellow "DIGI-EMP" <https://www.sis.unitn.it/2753/international-experiences-of-digital-empowerm…> - University of Trento Visiting Research Fellow - International Telecommunications Union www.itu.int ECREA pre-conference Visual Politics & Protest <https://visualculturesecrea.wordpress.com/ecrea-preconference-2022/> Recent work: *Özkula, S. M., Lompe, M., Vespa, M., Sørensen, E., & Zhao, T. (2022). When URLs on social networks become invisible: Bias and social media logics in a cross-platform hyperlink study. First Monday, 27(6). https://doi.org/10.5210/fm.v27i6.12568 <https://doi.org/10.5210/fm.v27i6.12568>* *Özkula, S. M., Reilly, P. J., & Hayes, J. (2022). Easy data, same old platforms? A systematic review of digital activism methodologies. Information, Communication & Society. **https://doi.org/* *10.1080/1369118X.2021.2013918* <https://doi.org/10.1080/1369118X.2021.2013918> *Özkula**, S. M. (2021). What is digital activism anyway? Social constructions of the “digital” in contemporary activism. Journal of Digital Social Research, 3(3), 60-84. https://doi.org/10.33621/jdsr.v3i3.44 <https://doi.org/10.33621/jdsr.v3i3.44> * *Özkula, S. M. (2021). The problem of history in digital activism: Ideological narratives in digital activism literature. First Monday, 26(8). https://doi.org/10.5210/fm.v26i8.10597 <https://doi.org/10.5210/fm.v26i8.10597>* Office: Room 318 SIS - School of International Studies via Tommaso Gar, 14 I-38122 Trento University of Trento, Italy

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