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Fully funded PhD scholarship in diaspora humanitarianism
by Olga Boichak 21 Jul '22

21 Jul '22

A fully funded PhD opportunity to research diaspora humanitarianism online The project is available for candidates who are willing to undertake research into how and why Australia-based migrant groups use social media platforms to organise and respond to humanitarian crises abroad. The successful candidate will join a growing interdisciplinary research team which is funded by the Australian Research Council. They will be situated within the interdisciplinary, research-intensive environment at the School of Regulation and Global Governance (RegNet), within the College of Asia and the Pacific at The Australian National University. They will be supervised by - - Professor Alan Gamlen, Australian National University - - Professor Robert Ackland, Australian National University - - Dr Olga Boichak, University of Sydney Eligibility We invite applicants with a strong background in computational social sciences, digital humanities and/or data science. Essential criteria: - A first-class Honors or Master’s in a social science discipline, or equivalent background - Demonstrated technical skills in computational social science, regional studies, data analysis, or computer programming (with a strong preference for R or Python) Desirable criteria: - Competence in both qualitative, quantitative and/or computational research methods - Social media data collection and analysis skills (e.g. Natural Language Processing (NLP),text mining, network analysis) - Data visualisation skills, content analysis, corpus linguistics, humanitarian data analysis, population analytics, econometrics, social informatics, big data analysis, geospatial analysis, immersive analytics, interaction design, API programming, or machine learning/deep learning Expression of interest will close on Friday, 16th of September 2022. More information at the link: https://regnet.anu.edu.au/sites/default/files/uploads/2022-07/PhD%20scholar…

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AoIR Best Dissertation Award 2022
by Michelle, Association of Internet Researchers 20 Jul '22

20 Jul '22

We are pleased to announce the Best Dissertation Award for 2022 goes to Dr. Sebastián Lehuedè “Governing Data in Modernity/Coloniality: Astronomy Data in the Atacama Desert and the Struggle for Collective Autonomy.“ *Congratulations, Dr. Lehuedè!* Dr. Lehuedè’s dissertation is a fascinating study of astronomy data produced in one of the least light polluted sites in the world. The dissertation tackles the question of data governance in an inspiring and innovative way theoretically combining discourse theoretical approaches with sociological and anthropological perspectives. Dr. Lehuedè’s research shows the limits of Eurocentric concepts of open data and data sovereignty from the proposition of a collective autonomy of data, making thus an important contribution to the ongoing debates on postcolonial foundations of datafication and data governance. The Committee also recognizes Dr. Rebekah Larsen’s “Exploring Definitional Power in the Digital Age: A Case Study of Right to Be Forgotten Framing” and Dr. Karina Rider’s “Volunteering the Valley: Designing Technology for the Common Good in the San Francisco Bay Area“ with an Honorable Mention. Dr. Larsen’s dissertation provides a very timely study on internet governance, user data processing and control. The study is particularly interesting as it looks at the right to be forgotten as an “activist” tool for marginalized groups but also on the other hand how it serves as an exclusionary measure. The dissertation thus not only deals with many issues important in internet scholarship but has implications for policy debates along the North-South divide. Dr. Rider’s dissertation is excellent in demonstrating how “tech can save the world” reproduces itself as an ideology, epistemology, and belief. The disseration presents an exciting study of the emerging and important Technology for Public Good/Civic Technology movement and how it plays out in the hotbed of technology that is the Silicon Valley. The dissertation, thus, speaks to issues that are critical to both internet scholarship and the current public debate about technology, making an original contribution to digital justice and digital labor area. AoIR is grateful for the hard work by this year’s Best Dissertation Award committee: Andra Siibak, Chair, Rafael Grohmann, Anne Kaun, John McNutt, and Lynete Mukhongo. Thank you for your hard work and professionalism during the review process.

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Call for Papers: Information & Culture
by Fellow, InfoCulture Journal 20 Jul '22

20 Jul '22

*Please excuse for cross-posting* Information & Culture<https://infoculturejournal.org/> is an academic journal printed three times a year by the University of Texas Press<https://utpress.utexas.edu/>. It publishes original, high-quality, peer-reviewed articles examining the social and cultural influences and impact of information and its associated technologies, broadly construed, on all areas of human endeavor. In keeping with the spirit of information studies, we seek papers emphasizing a human-centered focus that address the role and reciprocal relationship of information and culture, regardless of time and place. The journal welcomes submissions from an array of relevant theoretical and methodological approaches, including but not limited to historical, sociological, psychological, political and educational research that address the interaction of information and culture. To learn more about our submission standards or submit an article for publication in Information & Culture, visit our submissions page<https://infoculturejournal.org/submissions>. Interested authors should contact the editor: Andrew Dillon School of Information The University of Texas at Austin Email: adillon(a)ischool.utexas.edu ----- Check out our latest issue<https://muse.jhu.edu/issue/47975>! Follow I&C on Facebook<https://www.facebook.com/InformationandCulture/> and Twitter<https://twitter.com/InfoandCulture>

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Assistant or Associate Professor in Global and/or Comparative Media - University of Michigan
by Germaine R Halegoua 20 Jul '22

20 Jul '22

The Department of Communication and Media at the University of Michigan is hiring an assistant or associate professor to teach and conduct research in global and/or comparative media and communication. More info about the position and how to apply can be found here and below: https://careers.umich.edu/job_detail/219547/asstassoc-professor <https://careers.umich.edu/job_detail/219547/asstassoc-professor> Review of applications will begin Sept 9, 2022. Please don't hesitate to reach out with any questions about the position. Happy to answer questions and chat further. Best, Germaine Responsibilities The ideal candidate will provide graduate and undergraduate students with the theoretical and methodological foundations to explore experiences or effects of media and globalization, interaction patterns, and/or communication technologies, systems, or infrastructures at national, regional, translocal, and/or transnational scales. This could include scholarship on historical as well as contemporary aspects of globalization and on emerging as well as entrenched communication structures and practices within and between regions, borders, cultures, or across the global public sphere. Required Qualifications A PhD by the start of the appointment is required. The preferred candidate will demonstrate an innovative research agenda focused on advancing knowledge of globalization and/or comparative international media studies. Desired Qualifications We are particularly interested in applicants who use innovative methods and approaches in their research and teaching, for instance using various combinations of qualitative and quantitative methods. Best, Germaine -- Germaine R. Halegoua (she/her) John D. Evans Development Professor & Associate Professor of Communication and Media Director of Graduate Studies, Digital Studies Institute <https://www.digitalstudies.umich.edu/> University of Michigan Author: The Digital City <https://nyupress.org/9781479882199/the-digital-city/>, Smart Cities <https://mitpress.mit.edu/books/smart-cities>

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Platform Data Access Report
by Tromble, Rebekah 20 Jul '22

20 Jul '22

Dear colleagues, Earlier today the European Digital Media Observatory's Working Group on Platform-to-Researcher Data Access published its official report <https://edmo.eu/wp-content/uploads/2022/02/Report-of-the-European-Digital-M…> . The multi-stakeholder group has been hard at work for the last year. Our main charge was to draft a Code of Conduct under Article 40 of the GDPR that would facilitate better access to data for independent researchers. This report contains that draft Code. Among other things, the draft Code lays out a framework for assessing the level of risk involved in accessing and conducting research with different types of platform data. It then lays out a number of safeguards that can be put in place to mitigate different levels of risks--helping to promote research that is ethical and responsible. (I tweeted more about it here <https://twitter.com/RebekahKTromble/status/1531611984944316419>.) Getting to this point has entailed tremendously hard work by everyone involved, and, as the report itself notes, the work is far from over. But publishing the report and draft Code represent a major step forward. Though certain requirements are necessarily tied to specifications under the GDPR, the general principles and proposed solutions the report offers are instructive well beyond the European context. Please feel free to circulate widely. And let me know if you have any questions, thoughts, etc. Rebekah Dr. Rebekah Tromble Director, Institute for Data, Democracy & Politics, George Washington University | Associate Professor, School of Media & Public Affairs, George Washington University | Visiting Researcher, The Alan Turing Institute (London) | www.rebekahtromble.net iddp.gwu.edu

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GIIS 2022 - Argostoli, Kefalonia, Greece - Deadline: August 1, 2022
by Eirini Eleni Tsiropoulou 20 Jul '22

20 Jul '22

**** I apologize if you received multiple copies of this Call for Papers **** ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- CALL FOR PAPERS Global Information Infrastructure and Networking Symposium (GIIS 2022) 26-28 September, 2022, Argostoli, Kefalonia, Greece || Technically sponsored by IEEE Communications Society http://giis2022.org ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The beautiful Argostoli in Kefalonia is hosting the Global Information Infrastructure and Networking Symposium (GIIS) this Fall. GIIS 2022 aims at providing a forum for the participants to broaden professional contacts and for technical discussions and interactions on specific information infrastructure and networking topics. GIIS 2022 is technically sponsored by IEEE Communications Society. Accepted and presented papers will be published in the conference proceedings and will be submitted for inclusion in IEEE Xplore. The program of GIIS 2022 will include will include Keynote Speeches, paper presentations, Panels and Tutorials. Information Infrastructure and Networking (IIN) brings together information processing applications, communications networks and services, physical and software elements in networks and end systems. The technical program is split into the following four conference Main Tracks: - Track 1: Next Generation Networking and Communications - Track 2: Internet of Things - Track 3: Emerging Topics in Communications and Networks - Track 4: Communication Services, Standardization & Telecom Policies The GIIS 2022 conference will also accept Recent Results papers. ------------- Important Dates Paper submission (Main Tracks): August 1, 2022 Paper submission (Recent Results): August 8, 2022 Notification of paper acceptance: August 15, 2022 Camera ready papers: August 31, 2022 ------------------------------------------------------------- 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 “Those who know, do. Those that understand, teach.” ~ Aristotle

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Online Study - iScience Team of the University of Konstanz
by Isabel Helm 19 Jul '22

19 Jul '22

Hi everyone! The iScience team of the University of Konstanz is currently conducting an online survey. We would really appreciate if you could spend a few minutes to answer the survey. In this study we want to investigate human behavior in leisure situations. We are aiming to taget especially an european sample. It only takes less than 5 minutes. Here is the link to the study: https://exp.wextor.eu/iSciencecore/RepBA/index.html?so=airl Thank you so much! Isabel Helm

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Second International Conference on ICT for Health, Accessibility and Wellbeing (IHAW 2022): Sixth Call for Papers
by Announce Announcements 18 Jul '22

18 Jul '22

*** Sixth Call for Papers *** Second International Conference on ICT for Health, Accessibility and Wellbeing (IHAW 2022) December 5-7, 2022, Golden Bay Beach Hotel 5*, Larnaca, Cyprus https://cyprusconferences.org/ihaw2022 (Proceedings to be published by Springer in CCIS; Journal Special Issues with SN Computer Science (Springer) and Smart Health (Elsevier); Best Paper Award sponsored by MDPI "Sensors" with 300 CHF) ICT for Health, Accessibility and Wellbeing (IHAW 2022) is the second of the series of International Conferences on "ICT for Societal Challenges". It is a showcase for high quality oral and poster presentations and demonstrations sessions. This conference aims to be a platform for multi and interdisciplinary research at the interplay between Information and Communication Technologies, Biomedical, Neuro-cognitive, and Experimental research. This research includes the design, experimental evaluation and standardization of new ICT scalable systems and in-silico systems for new and future inclusive and sustainable technologies that benefit all: healthy people, people with disabilities or other impairments, people having chronic diseases, etc. User-centered design and innovation, new intuitive ways of human -computer interaction, and user acceptance are the topics of particular interest. Conference Topics Relevant topics include (but are not limited to) the following: Artificial Intelligence, Computation and Data Analytics • Artificial Intelligence methods for medical device testing. • Algorithms, methods and services for condition-specific intervention (e.g., diabetes, obesity, dementia, post cancer treatment, allergies, mental health). • Algorithms, methods and services for predicting and monitoring infectious disease. • Crowd-sourcing and social media analysis for predicting and monitoring infectious disease. • Medical Data and/or Medical Image Analysis. • Electronic Medical Records Analysis. • Computational methods for medical devices. Human Computer Interaction and Cognition • Human-Machine Interaction for healthcare and well-being. • Cognitive Mechatronics for healthcare and well-being. • Models for human-device interaction for medicine. • Cobotics for healthcare and well-being. • Model-based design and configuration tools for healthcare and well-being. Assistive Devices • Precision medicine. • ICT for in-silicon trials. • Implantable medical devices. • Multimodal assistive ICT devices to empower people with sensory, cognitive, motor, balance and spatial impairments. ICT & Wellbeing • Age-friendly systems for active and healthy ageing (telepresence, robotics solutions, innovative solutions for independent living, innovative elderly care, integrated care, age-related risks prevention/detection). • ICT systems to improve the quality of life and for daily life activities assistance (education, recreation, and nutrition). • Smart living homes and wearables (Intelligent and personalized digital solutions for sustaining and extending healthy and independent living; personalized early risk detection and intervention). • Smart Systems and services promoting access to the socio-economical and cultural environment. • IoT and smart real-time surveillance systems for monitoring, auditing and control to prevent the spread of the pandemic. • eHealth smart solutions in the fight against a COVID-19 like pandemic. • IoT and Smart Healthcare systems with an environmentally friendly and sustainable footprint. Health Infrastructure and Healthcare Operation Services • Distributed and connected digital healthcare services. • IoT services for real-time monitoring of health data and status of patients and/or older adults. • Wearable devices and IoT systems for remote monitoring of health data and status of patients and/or older adults. • mHealth services and applications using mobile and wearable devices to collect community and clinical health data, and deliver healthcare information to practitioners, researchers and patients. • Sustainable city environments for emergency health management. • 5G and beyond for healthcare in sustainable smart cities. • Wireless Sensor Networks for advanced smart healthcare in sustainable cities. Quality in Healthcare Systems • New experimental validation methods with end-users. • Systems and services for ensuring patient’s commitment to the medication schedule. • Digital health systems and tools for health care professional training and workforce development. • Communication systems and services improving the quality of patient and healthcare provider contact before, during and after admission. • Methods and Technology for Improving the quality of services-oriented care delivery systems. • Methods, Digital Tools and/or Services for inclusive-for-all healthcare systems. • Co-Creation of healthcare systems for social well being of people with special needs, older adults and/or deprivileged or disadvantaged people. • Systems for management of health and care (mental health, pain, neurological disorders, sight, hearing, balance, space awareness; sensory based physiological and psychological non-invasive measurements, preventive healthcare, m-healthcare, e-healthcare, integrated care, serious games, electronic health record, self- management, patient-centered systems for survivorship, palliation and/or end-of-life care). Privacy, Security & Standardization • Standardization, certification, labelling, and communication issues (related to ageing well, to sensory impairment). • Privacy and Security/Regulation compliant services in health care systems (e.g., HIPAA). • Security and privacy of digital health systems and service. • Socio-economic issues of smart healthcare in sustainable societies. • Privacy, security and ethics in eHealth smart solutions and surveillance at scale in the fight against a COVID-19 pandemic. High-quality original submissions that address such future issues, show the design and evaluation in (near-) real scenarios, explain how to benchmark systems, and outline the education and training procedures for acquiring new perceptual skills while using such systems are welcome. Research and technical papers are expected to present significant and original contributions validated with the targeted end-users. Submissions should clearly state the progress beyond the existing state-of- the-art and the expected societal benefits of the developed technology. When possible, validate scenarios with the target user groups and well-identified technology readiness levels (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Technology_readiness_level) should be at least outlined. Submissions We invite Research and Technical papers, up to 15 pages, describing original unpublished research, making a substantial contribution to the research field. All submissions will be reviewed by the Program Committee. As was the case for IHAW 2021, the proceedings of IHAW 2022 will be published by Springer in the Communications in Computer and Information Science (CCIS) series (https://www.springer.com/series/7899) and will be presented in the technical sessions of the conference. The Best Paper Award is sponsored by MDPI "Sensors" with 300 CHF. The authors of the best papers accepted and presented at IHAW2022 will be invited to submit extended versions of their papers for further review and possible inclusion in either of two Journal Special Issues that will be organised with SN Computer Science (Springer) and Smart Health (Elsevier). Submissions of all types should be carefully formatted according to the Springer format for conference proceedings: https://www.springer.com/gp/computer-science/lncs/conference-proceedings-gu… . The submission process will be handled through Easy Chair and the submission link is: https://easychair.org/my/conference?conf=icihaw2022 . Important Dates • Submission Deadline: August 22, 2022 (AoE) • Notification: September 26, 2022 • Camera-Ready Submission Deadline: October 10, 2022 • Author Registration Deadline: October 10, 2022 Organizers Honorary General Chair • Edwige Pissaloux, University of Rouen Normandy, France General Chair • George A. Papadopoulos, University of Cyprus, Cyprus Scientific Chair • Achilleas Achilleos, Frederick University, Cyprus Scientific Vice-Chair • Ramiro Velazquez, Universidad Panamericana, Mexico Publicity Chair • Jessica Allingham, Lakehead University, Canada Finance Chair • Petros Stratis, Easy Conferences LTD, Cyprus Steering and Program Committee • https://cyprusconferences.org/ihaw2022/committees/

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JICES special issue on "Emerging Ethical Practices and Platform Challenges" from #AoIR2021
by Zimmer, Michael 18 Jul '22

18 Jul '22

Colleagues: I'm thrilled to announce the publication of the Journal of Information, Communication and Ethics in Society (JICES) special issue highlighting notable contributions in the domain of internet research ethics from the 2021 Association of Internet Researchers (#AoIR2021) annual conference. https://www.emerald.com/insight/publication/issn/1477-996X/vol/20/iss/3 The AoIR Ethics Working Group organized two panels at #AoIR2021 consisting of eight papers that engaged with research ethics. From these, and after a review of the entire conference program, four papers went through full peer review at JICES and represent AoIR’s continued engagement with the ethical dimensions of internet research from various disciplinary perspectives, methods, and platforms. “Critical Care and the Early Web: Ethical Digital Methods for Archived Youth Data” by Katherine Mackinnon details the ethical challenges facing researchers engaging with web archival materials and historical web data created by young people https://www.emerald.com/insight/content/doi/10.1108/JICES-12-2021-0125/full… “Ethical Dilemmas when Conducting Sensitive Research: Interviewing Offenders Convicted of Child Pornography” by Marie Eneman reflects on the ethical dilemmas that emerge when conducting qualitative research on highly sensitive topics, such as offenders convicted of child pornography https://www.emerald.com/insight/content/doi/10.1108/JICES-03-2022-0028/full… “The Original Sin of Crowd Work for Academic Research” by Huichuan Xia provides an ethical analysis of scholars' increasing reliance on crowd work platforms such as Amazon Mechanical Turk (MTurk) for research implementation and data collection. https://www.emerald.com/insight/content/doi/10.1108/JICES-12-2021-0126/full… And “Mapping Data Ethics Curricula” by Tian Zheng, Isabelle Zaugg, and Jonathan Reeve, provides a structured analysis of a large corpus of data ethics syllabi, providing. tool for exploring semantic relations between courses, instructors, texts, and authors https://www.emerald.com/insight/content/doi/10.1108/JICES-12-2021-0124/full… Congrats to the authors, and thanks to the numerous peer reviewers for both the AoIR conference panels & the JICES special issue. I especially wish to express thanks to Ylva Hård af Segerstad & Charles Ess for their invaluable support throughout this process. See you in Dublin! Thanks, Michael -- Michael Zimmer, PhD Associate Professor, Department of Computer Science Director, Center for Data, Ethics, and Society Marquette University michael.zimmer(a)marquette.edu<mailto:michael.zimmer@marquette.edu> www.michaelzimmer.org<https://nam02.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.michae…> @michaelzimmer Schedule a meeting with me at https://calendly.com/michael-zimmer/<https://nam02.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fcalendly.…>

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WEBCAST JUL 15: HLPF 2022 Side Event: Preserving an open Internet to achieve the SDGs
by Joly MacFie 15 Jul '22

15 Jul '22

This is under way. REAL TIME TEXT https://bit.ly/3aJ2y46 [image: ISOC.live] <https://isoc.live/15602>On *Friday 15 July 2022* at *1pm-2:30pm EDT* (17:00-18:30 UTC) the *Internet Society <https://www.internetsociety.org/>* and *Access Now <https://www.accessnow.org/>* will host a *United Nations High-Level Political Forum 2022 <https://hlpf.un.org/2022/>* virtual side event '*Preserving an open Internet to achieve the SDGs: The Internet as an enabler for achieving SDGs 4 and 5 <https://hlpf.un.org/2022/programme/preserving-an-open-internet-to-achieve-t…>* '. The Internet has proven resilient though gaps remain in bringing students and women online, among other impacted communities. According to the *2021 State of Global Education report <https://unesdoc.unesco.org/ark:/48223/pf0000379875>* by UNESCO, UNICEF, and the World Bank, the pandemic impacted traditional education models, affecting 1.6 billion children. Children especially in rural and remote areas were unable to learn remotely due to a lack of Internet access and digital technologies at home. Unfortunately, governments often see the Internet as a threat to be contained and splintered rather than a resource to expand universally. Access Now's *Shutdown Tracker Optimization Project <https://www.accessnow.org/cms/assets/uploads/2021/02/Read-Me_-How-to-view-t…>* (STOP) in collaboration with the *#KeepItOn Coalition <https://www.accessnow.org/keepiton/>* reported 182 Internet shutdowns in 34 countries in 2021, including the longest Internet shutdowns on record. Internet shutdowns limit women's possibilities and aggravate inequality and injustice. For students, particularly girls, Internet shutdowns during school examinations remain a common practice hindering quality education worldwide. While the Internet is incredibly resilient, it is constantly under attack, which may limit our ability to grow and use it to its full potential, ultimately affecting the attainment of *SDG4 <https://www.globalgoals.org/goals/4-quality-education/>* and *SDG5 <https://www.globalgoals.org/goals/5-gender-equality/>*. Governments, businesses, and organizations worldwide are increasingly making decisions that could lead to a splinternet. This virtual side event will examine some of the efforts to expand access to the Internet and how they contribute to the achievement of SDGs 4 and 5, as well as challenges the Internet faces that undermine achievement of SDGs 4 and 5. This session will examine what needs to be done to ensure that everyone has unrestricted, inexpensive, and dependable Internet access. *SPEAKERS* *Peter Micek*, General Council, Access Now *Natalie Campbell*, Director, Community Organizing and Public Advocacy, Internet Society *Marielza Oliveria*, Director for Partnerships and Operational Programme Monitoring, UNESCO *Marie-Hélène Rivard*, Second Secretary, Permanent Mission of Canada, United Nations *Juwang Zhu*, Director of the Division for Public Institutions and Digital Government, UN DESA *MODERATOR* *Dr. Joseph Hall*, Distinguished Technologist, Internet Society *LIVESTREAM http://livestream.com/internetsociety/hlpf2022-openinternet <http://livestream.com/internetsociety/hlpf2022-openinternet>* *PARTICIPATE VIA ZOOM https://bit.ly/3yrrN2z <https://bit.ly/3yrrN2z>* *REAL TIME TEXT (see ISOC.LIVE <https://isoc.live/15602>)* *TWITTER #HLPF2022 #openinternet <https://bit.ly/3yRKaz9> *@lawyerpants @AccessNow @neetibiyani @InternetSociety Marielza Oliveria @UNESCO Juwang Zhu @UNDESA @SustDev #SDGs #GlobalGoals #GrowInternet *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.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:6951268495212916736 <https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:6951268495212916736>* *ARCHIVE* *https://archive.org/details/hlpf2022-openinternet <https://archive.org/details/hlpf2022-openinternet>* Permalink https://isoc.live/15602 - -- -------------------------------------- Joly MacFie +12185659365 -------------------------------------- -

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