August 2022 - Air-L - lists.aoir.org

Two Digital Child PhD Scholarships at Curtin, EOIs closing this Friday!
by Tama Leaver 17 Aug '22

17 Aug '22

Hi Everyone, A reminder that we have two project-based competitive PhD scholarships open situated within Curtin's Node of the ARC Centre of Excellence for the Digital Child. These close in 2 days, so if you're interested, please submit your Expression of Interest, and if you know someone who might be interested, please let them know now! #1 "A critical analysis of algorithmic and datafied early childhoods" Working with Tama Leaver and Michele Willson. Open to domestic (so, Australian and New Zealand) applicants. Details: https://scholarships.curtin.edu.au/Scholarship/?id=5888 #2 "A socio-cultural inquiry into the child influencer industry" Working with Tama Leaver & Crystal Abidin. Open to Australian and International applicants. Details: https://scholarships.curtin.edu.au/Scholarship/?id=5897 If you're interested in either of these, please submit an Expression of Interest using the online form listed with the scholarship description ON OR BEFORE FRIDAY 18 AUGUST (in Perth time). I'm happy to answer any questions people might have by email, t.leaver(a)curtin.edu.au. Thanks, Tama -- Professor Tama Leaver (he/him) President, Association of Internet Researchers (AoIR) http://aoir.org Professor of Internet Studies School of Media, Creative Arts and Social Inquiry (MCASI) Faculty of Humanities Curtin University GPO Box U1987 Perth WA Australia 6845 Ph: (+61 8) 9266 1258 Email: t.leaver(a)curtin.edu.au Web: www.tamaleaver.net Twitter: @tamaleaver <https://twitter.com/tamaleaver> CRICOS Provider Code: 00301J (WA)

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New CDT report: Improving Researcher Access to Digital Data, A Workshop Report
by Dhanaraj Thakur 16 Aug '22

16 Aug '22

Hi all, I wanted to let you know about Improving Researcher Access to Digital Data: A Workshop Report <https://cdt.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/2022-08-15-FX-RAtD-workshop-repo…>, a new report that CDT released todaybased on a workshop we held earlier this year with researchers from academia, civil society, and journalism to examine three key questions concerning access to data held by social media companies: (1) What data do researchers want for public interest research; (2) how should researchers be vetted for data access; and (3) what methods should hosts use to provide access to researchers. The report describes key findings based on information from the workshop and makes recommendations to policymakers and social media companies, and others looking to enhance independent researchers’ access to data held by content hosts. The recommendations are: * Policymakers and hosts should help researchers understand what potential data is available. * Hosts should have established processes through which researchers can request access to non-public data or tools to make public data more accessible. * Hosts and policymakers should make accessing and using data for research in the public interest less expensive. * Policymakers should prioritize improving researchers’ access to public data through legislation. * Policymakers should prioritize access to advertising data. * When vetting is necessary, hosts or legislation should evaluate specific research projects and plans based on established, transparent criteria. Hosts that voluntarily provide data or legislation that requires hosts to provide data should not rely simply on whether a researcher falls within a particular category, such as academia. * Policymakers should strictly limit or eliminate the ability of commercial social media monitoring and marketing firms to collect and sell users’ data, even though some researchers rely on commercial sources to access data. You can read a Twitter thread about the report here <https://twitter.com/CenDemTech/status/1559543329444040706?s=20&t=hWWdMFPNoy…>. The executive summary is available here <https://cdt.org/insights/improving-researcher-access-to-digital-data-a-work…>(and here, in PDF form <https://cdt.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/2022-08-15-final-Researcher-Acce…>). In the coming weeks, CDT also plans to release another research report that examines other industries where companies share data through different mechanisms with researchers while also addressing concerns around privacy. That report will present lessons that social media companies can learn for sharing data with researchers. We’ll share it with you when it’s released as well. We hope Improving Researcher Access to Digital Data is useful to your work. If you have any questions or want to discuss more, please feel free to reach out. Regards, 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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Open Rank (Assistant Professor/Associate Professor/Professor)
by Claudia Aragon 16 Aug '22

16 Aug '22

Good afternoon, The College of Information Studies at the University of Maryland, College Park (the iSchool), invites applications for an open rank tenured or tenure track faculty position in the area of digital accessibility for people with disabilities. In particular, the iSchool seeks candidates from Information Science, Human-Computer Interaction, Human Centered Engineering, and related fields whose research focuses on populations with perceptual, motor, cognitive, language, or learning disabilities. Please see below for the full description of the posting. Interested applicants can apply directly from our website: https://ejobs.umd.edu/postings/98686. The best consideration date is 11/1/2022. Thank you! -- Claudia Aragón | Faculty Affairs & Recruitment Specialist (she/her/hers) University of Maryland | College of Information Studies (iSchool) 4161 Fieldhouse Drive (Patuxent Building) | College Park, MD 20742 www.ischool.umd.edu | caragon(a)umd.edu

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[CFP] Third Annual Media Law & Policy Scholars Conference
by Jasmine McNealy 16 Aug '22

16 Aug '22

Hello All, We invite you to submit an abstract for the Media Law & Policy Scholars Conference (MLPSC 2023)<https://mlpsc.org/>, which will take place online on January 12 & 13, 2023. MLPSC is not like other big conferences you may normally attend. It is an interdisciplinary, paper workshop. The goal is to provide advice and support for works-in-progress that deepens their intellectual and theoretical impact. We interpret media law and policy broadly, welcoming scholars from around the world who study free speech, free press, access to information, intellectual property, data privacy, internet governance, emerging technologies and other related communication law and policy issues from a variety of theoretical perspectives and methodologies. Our goal is to include scholars and practitioners from law, journalism & communication, philosophy, political science, information systems, sociology, history, business and myriad other disciplines. The MLPSC format pays tribute to the intellectually engaging and rewarding experiences we have had at conferences like We Robot, Privacy Law Scholars Conference and the Law & Society Association. At MLPSC, authors do not present their papers. A discussant introduces and leads discussion on the paper. Everyone responds in a dialogue about the work. We don’t convene panels or have other “talking head” sessions—everyone gets to contribute to a robust and intellectually engaging conversation intended to help authors move their papers forward and to spur research ideas and questions for further study. SUBMITTING AN ABSTRACT Should you wish to have your paper considered for workshopping, please submit an anonymized extended abstract of no more than 1,000 words through the EasyChair portal by September 5, 2022<https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=mlpsc23>. You will need to provide a working title and 5 keywords. In addition, you'll be asked to provide author names, titles, affiliations and contact information. We will announce accepted abstracts on September 23, 2022. Email us<mailto:MLSC@jou.ufl.edu> if you encounter any problems. PROPOSING A PROVOCATION SESSION – MORE INFORMATION COMING SOON! New this year! MLPSC will be hosting several “provocations” sessions. These are roundtable sessions designed around a theme with the goal of brainstorming research ideas, meeting fellow scholars, seeding research collaborations and thinking deeply about timely topics in our field through audience participation and free-flowing discussion. Provocation sessions should include a minimum of two discussion leaders and a maximum of four discussion leaders. Proposals that include graduate student, early career or international colleagues are strongly encouraged. Diversity of panelists and disciplines will be considered when evaluating provocation proposals. PAPER SUBMISSION Workshop versions of accepted draft papers will be due Friday, December 16, 2022 @ midnight EDT. Because MLPSC is built around workshopping papers, we reserve the right to cancel your workshop if the paper draft is not provided sufficiently in advance for meaningful evaluation by participants. PREPARING FOR MLPSC Conference participants will be expected to register and to read the papers in advance. Papers will be introduced with only a few brief remarks so as to maximize time for rigorous discussion. Authors whose papers are accepted for workshopping are expected to actively participate in at least two other authors’ workshop sessions. Attendees should kindly calendar at least one full day of preparation time in advance of MLPSC. CODE OF CONDUCT To facilitate open and spirited discussion in an inclusive environment, we have adopted the following Code of Conduct<https://docs.google.com/document/d/17vGOkemjhBUWKgvLmtRuI6C8CJY5CIK8UgedYWc…>. As outlined, photography, recording and use of social media to discuss conference presentations are not permitted. By submitting your abstract, you agree to abide by this Code of Conduct.

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Program/registration - SFB1187 Annual Conference, 'Testing in the Wild' - September 19-21, 2022 University of Siegen, Germany/online
by Sam Hind 16 Aug '22

16 Aug '22

Dear Air-L list members SFB1187 Media of Cooperation is excited to announce the program for its annual conference, Testing in the Wild, held at the University of Siegen, Germany and online, September 19-21, 2022. For full details including schedule, panel abstracts >>> https://www.mediacoop.uni-siegen.de/de/annual-conference-2022/ For on-site registration >>> email info(a)sfb1187.uni-siegen.de<mailto:info@sfb1187.uni-siegen.de> Zoom links for online participation will be provided at the link above. <https://www.mediacoop.uni-siegen.de/de/annual-conference-2022/> ---------------------------------------------------------------- <https://www.mediacoop.uni-siegen.de/de/annual-conference-2022/> Keynotes Markus Krajewski (University of Basel, Switzerland): Perpetual Beta: Genealogies of Permanent Testing Noortje Marres (University of Warwick, UK): Towards the test society: On the un-doing of experimental accountability. ---------------------------------------------------------------- About the conference The objects, means, and situations of testing have multiplied rapidly in the digital age. Practices of testing have become ubiquitous. They have moved beyond the spatial and institutional confines of scientific laboratories (testing hypotheses), classrooms and exam halls (testing students), consumer organizations (testing products), and inspection agencies (testing systems and protocols) into the wild of everyday digital lifeworlds. Human beings and technological systems are today both subjects and objects of continuous testing. Paradigms such as A/B testing, machine learning, and test-driven development infuse a logic of testing into the creation, construction and maintenance of digital systems. Digital devices are equipped with ever more sensors that facilitate the monitoring of our health, behavior, and performance, directing our sensibilities towards new modes of data-based sense-making, evaluation, and justification. Platforms incentivise consumers to become critics by testing and reviewing products in public. In parallel, grassroots testing through ‘unboxings’ and ‘teardowns’ have become genres of user-generated content in themselves. Away from online platforms, users grapple with products delivered with rudimentary manuals or generic support, and whose functionality is expected to be extendable, adaptable, and fixable in the wild. Variations of updates are rolled out to select publics in order to test their respective acceptance within, or across, targeted demographics. Testing and evaluating digital products and services ‘on the fly’ has not only become concurrent with ordinary use, but part of it. Practices of testing commonly rely on data: its collection, processing, circulation, (re)presentation, justification, and analysis. In fact, datafication and testing co-evolve. The proliferation of testing in the wild and associated controversies can be observed at various levels. On the one hand the intentional organization, analysis and discussion of tests and their results based on data remains relevant and has been controversially discussed in recent years, either with respect to the Covid-19 pandemic (Schnelltests, 7-day incidence rates, intensive bed capacity etc.), climate change (ice core tests, gtCO2, RCPs etc.), or financial crises (banking ‘stress tests’, REAs, leverage ratios etc.). On the other hand the everyday, continuous, and casual capture of data through digital media has led both to practices of self-tracking as well as critiques of a growing and pervasive monitoring and exploitation of users through corporate data practices. Countering this, initiatives and policy makers test alternative measures, platforms, and standards to develop digital services that offer enhanced and/or protected user experiences, from routing data through secure pathways, ensuring data ‘portability’, or by restricting data collection altogether. In other respects, the likes of cryptocurrencies and other cryptographic innovations face increasing scrutiny as reckless social, financial and ecological experiments. As the earth system is itself being put to the test by the sum and history of human practices and their consequences, new methods for testing, evaluating, and critiquing the impact of data practices and digital infrastructures are urgently required. Against the background of the new ubiquity of testing the 2022 annual conference of SFB1187 Media of Cooperation invites contributions that engage with practices of testing in, of and with digital devices and digital environments in the wild. ------------------------------------------------------------------- - Research Associate SFB1187 Media of Cooperation @mediaofcoop<https://twitter.com/mediaofcoop> | University of Siegen, DE sam.hind(a)uni-siegen.de<mailto:sam.hind@uni-siegen.de><Mailto:hind@locatingmedia.uni-siegen.de> https://samhind.com/ <Mailto:hind@locatingmedia.uni-siegen.de> Recent articles Automotive parasitism: examining mobileye's 'car-agnostic' platformisation https://doi.org/10.1177/14614448221104209 Making the car 'platform ready': how big tech is driving the platformization of automobility https://doi.org/10.1177/20563051221098697 Machinic sensemaking in the streets: more-than-lidar in autonomous vehicles https://bit.ly/3l5UewA

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Conference Video Link for IAMCR 2022 pre-conference: Digital Governance and Transcultural Communications
by Yik Chan Chin 15 Aug '22

15 Aug '22

Dear Colleagues, Please find the webpage of the "IAMCR 2022 pre-conference: Digital Governance and Transcultural Communications" which summerises the main points of each speaker at: https://xwcb.bnu.edu.cn/sn/ln/132189.html At the bottom of the webpage, you can also find the recorded video link of each panel. Thank you for your interest. Best wishes, Yik Chan New Articles: Yik Chan Chin, Zhao Jingwu (2022 forthcoming), Governing Cross-Border Data Flows : International trade agreements and their limits, MDPI Laws. Yik Chan Chin, Arhan Park, Ke Li (2022) A Comparative Study on Disinformation Governance in Chinese and American Social Media Platforms, Policy & Internet, 1–21.https://doi.org/10.1002/poi3.301. Muller, Milton & Yik Chan Chin (2022)Editorial: Platform governance by competing systems of political economy: The United States and China. Policy & Internet, https://doi.org/10.1002/poi3.306, Special Issue on “Comparative Internet Governance Studies”. Chin, Yik Chan and Li, Ke, (2021) A Comparative analysis of Cyber Sovereignty Policies in China and the EU. Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=3900752 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.3900752 Chin, Yik Chan (2020) ‘Internet governance in China: the network governance approach’ In Dragan Pavlićević and Zhengxu Wang (eds.) Social Relations and Political Development in China: Change and Continuity in the ‘New Era’, London: Routledge: page 134-153. Chin, Yik Chan (2018) Legitimation of Media Regulation in China, Chinese Political Science Review, 3(2), 172-194. --------- Dr. Yik Chan Chin Associate Professor School of Journalism and Communication Beijing Normal University Beijing, P. R. China 215123 Email: yik-chan.chin@bnu.edu.cn；yikchanchin@gmail.com https://xwcb.bnu.edu.cn/as/ap/114761.htm https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Yik_Chan_Chin http://ssrn.com/author=1377946 https://bnu.academia.edu/YikChanChin https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=u41w5b4AAAAJ&hl=en

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UMass Amherst: Associate/Full Professor of Race, Media, and Communication
by Burcu Baykurt 15 Aug '22

15 Aug '22

Hi all, Excited to share this job ad for Associate/Full Professor of Race, Media, and Communication <https://jobs.chronicle.com/job/37294639/associate-full-professor-of-race-me…> in the Department of Communication at UMass Amherst. I’m one of the search committee members, so please feel free to reach out if you have any questions! See details below. All the best, Burcu *Job Description* The Department of Communication at the University of Massachusetts Amherst seeks to build on our 50-year tradition of critical and community-engaged media and communication research with this hire in the area of race, media, and communication studies. We are looking for an Associate / Full Professor with a record of intellectual leadership and engaged scholarship examining the politics of race in media and communication, communication and racial justice, and/or race and representation in popular culture. We seek a colleague who can advance our department's mission to center issues of racial justice in communication research, collaborate with our diverse and international faculty and students, and extend our core strengths in critical cultural studies and media and communication studies. The Department of Communication is one of the most internationally diverse faculty in the School of Social and Behavioral Sciences. Of particular interest are candidates who draw from critical bodies of theory and epistemologies of Black, Latino/a/x, Asian, Indigenous, and Ethnic Studies when studying media, communication, and racial politics in the United States. We also welcome candidates who draw from intersectional perspectives of feminist, queer, and postcolonial theory and those who study racial politics in a transnational perspective. We are open to diverse methodological approaches and community-engaged scholarship. Particular areas of expertise may include (but are not limited to) the following: · Race and representation in film, television, and social media · Systemic racism in media, creative, and tech industries · Racial equity and critical data studies · Racial justice narratives, digital activism, and strategic communication of social movements · Black digital cultures, creativity, and media-making · Queer and transgender politics of race · Race and Blackness in performance studies · Race and racial discrimination in health communication · Mediated solidarities, joy, and conflicts between/among communities of color · Racially targeted disinformation, hate, and digital harms · Race and mediated communication in geopolitics · Postcolonial and decolonial studies, and transnational and diasporic media · Critical approaches to diversity, equity, and inclusion in media and communication studies *Requirements* The candidate is expected to have a Ph.D. in Communication or related fields. This is a mid-career or senior-level position, and the candidate will be reviewed for tenure during their first year of appointment. They are expected to have at least 5 years of experience in a tenure-track professorship post in Communication or related fields, with a record of excellence in research, teaching, and outreach. A successful record of leadership in grant-funded projects is desirable. *Additional information* The position will begin on Sept. 1, 2023. Applicant instructions Candidates should submit the following materials: 1. Cover letter addressed to Dr. Jonathan Corpus Ong, Chair of the Search Committee, Department of Communication, University of Massachusetts at Amherst. 2. CV. 3. Three writing samples. 4. Evidence of teaching effectiveness. 5. Names and contact information of three academic references. Shortlisted candidates will be invited to write a tailor-fit statement about their experiences with and expectations from university diversity and inclusion initiatives and submit this to the Chair prior to the campus visit. Shortlisted candidates will also be asked to provide materials that demonstrate the candidate's eligibility and qualifications to show they meet the criteria and the standards for tenure at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. https://www.umass.edu/provost/resources/all- resources/academic-personnel/policy-and-labor-contracts/academic-personnel-policy-red The review of applications will begin on October 20, 2022, and will continue until the position is filled. For inquiries about the post and the application process, contact Search Committee Chair Dr. Jonathan Corpus Ong at jcong(a)umass.edu.

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PhD tuition waiver opportunity
by Tim Neff 15 Aug '22

15 Aug '22

Hi all, University of Leicester has some tuition fee waivers to offer PhD students working on Media and Communications projects. Here are the details: https://le.ac.uk/study/research-degrees/funded-opportunities/cssah-fw-media Please feel free to circulate. Thank you! Best, Tim Neff Lecturer in Journalism University of Leicester timothy.neff(a)leicester.ac.uk<mailto:timothy.neff@leicester.ac.uk>

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2-year Postdoc @ King's College London - digitalisation and conspiracy theories
by Clare Birchall 14 Aug '22

14 Aug '22

Dear all, please pass on details of the following postdoctoral research post to interested candidates: https://jobs.kcl.ac.uk/gb/en/job/052425/Research-Associate-in-the-Departmen… <https://jobs.kcl.ac.uk/gb/en/job/052425/Research-Associate-in-the-Departmen…> King’s College London (KCL) is seeking to appoint a full time Postdoctoral Research Associate for two years to work on the CHANSE (Collaboration of Humanities and Social Sciences in Europe)-funded research project REDACT (Researching Europe, Digitalisation, and Conspiracy Theories). The project aims to understand the impact of digitalisation on the production, consumption, circulation and regulation of conspiracy theories across Europe. It will examine how both the conditions of digitised mediation and political, social and historical contexts shape the content, communities, consequences of and responses to online conspiracy theories today. REDACT will employ a comparative and interdisciplinary framework that combines digital methods, ethnography, and granular cultural and political discourse analysis to examine the actors, tactics, cultural forms, technologies and audiences involved in the online spread of conspiracy theories in different European regions as well as the tactics that have been developed to combat them. The project will run from November 2022 to October 2025, and involves collaboration between researchers in the UK, Germany, Slovakia, Estonia and Croatia. The team will be led by Prof. Clare Birchall (KCL), and, in addition to this digital methods postdoc position, it includes five co-investigators, three postdocs, one PhD and two research assistants. We are seeking a postdoctoral researcher with expertise in digital methods to ascertain the most engaged with conspiracy platforms, websites, blogs and accounts in each case study region (Western Europe, German-speaking countries, Central Europe, the Baltics and the Balkans), with the aim of producing focussed and manageable datasets for each subproject. Using a variety of digital methods techniques, the postdoc will also map, analyse and produce data visualisations of the viral flows between countries and regions for the project as a whole. Please click on the link above for more details on how to apply. Many thanks, Clare Birchall Professor of Contemporary Culture, King’s College London

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Qualtrics Survey Question
by Samantha LeBouef 11 Aug '22

11 Aug '22

Hi Everyone, I'm wondering if anyone has any experience using Qualtrics for their surveys and the surveys receiving fraudulent or scam responses? I've spoken to Qualtrics support and they've assured me I have all the correct security features in place on the survey. I do not have incentives sent out automatically but it appears my survey links ended up on some kind of scammer list. I've closed the surveys for now but I was wondering if anyone has any experience dealing with this or knows of any additional security measures I could put into place? Thank you in advance! Samantha LeBouef -- Samantha LeBouef, MA 391 McNeal Hall, 1985 Buford Ave., St. Paul, MN 55108 PhD Candidate | Department of Family Social Science | University of Minnesota |umn.edu *lebou006*(a)umn.edu <anedoe(a)umn.edu>

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