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Polymedia
by Traci Belanger 11 Jul '25

11 Jul '25

Hi everyone, does anyone have suggestions for articles on "polymedia" or specifically how polymedia interacts with media ecology? Thanks so much! Traci Belanger --- May all winds at your back inspire you, and may you have harmony and peace today.

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For my US colleagues: an 8 minute survey, where your input might make a difference
by Patricia Aufderheide 08 May '25

08 May '25

I know, exactly what you don't need to do at this crazy point in the semester. At AU, Profs. Aram Sinnreich, Joseph Graf and I have been working with Electronic Frontier Foundation and New Media Rights to design a survey about DMCA exemption language and its accessibility. Would you be interested in taking, sharing with your students and networks, including putting on social media the survey link <http://bit.ly/2nEfY8j>? Here it is again: *http://bit.ly/2nEfY8j <http://bit.ly/2nEfY8j>* Your generosity much appreciated! 👏 -- Patricia Aufderheide, University Professor, School of Communication Founder, Center for Media & -- Patricia Aufderheide, University Professor, School of Communication Founder, Center for Media & Social Impact American University 4400 Massachusetts Av., NW American University, Washington, DC 20016-8017 McKinley Hall 323 @paufder @cmsimpact cmsimpact.org paufder(a)american.edu 202-885-2069 office <202-643-5356> 240-643-4805 mobile <202-643-5356> "The world we have received also belongs to those who follow us." --Pope Francis

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Non-software uses of GitHub
by Jim Herbsleb 16 Apr '25

16 Apr '25

I’m looking for GitHub repositories that are used for things other than software, especially where users are actively collaborating rather than just putting together static collections. So far, we have found a few books being written, some musical transcriptions being error-checked, and some policy documents maintained online. Does anyone know of any examples of these or other categories? Any pointers much appreciated. Happy to share what we find with anyone interested. Jim ---- Jim Herbsleb Carnegie Mellon University http://herbsleb.org/ Google Scholar profile: https://goo.gl/sv3p7l

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AOIR Discord?
by Roo S 18 Dec '24

18 Dec '24

Hello! I'm wondering what AoIR members think of building a Discord? I realize that there are several platforms out there, and ironically we all are probably "too close" to some of the failings and/or opportunities of community, communication and digital space, but I would imagine that this group would probably hold a strong consensus that group email threads and listservs is an outdated way to share, organize, search for, and apply information. I'd love to connect more deeply with anyone who's interested. Here's a brief/simple survey to help me follow up and/or learn from the group: https://forms.gle/zbxmg5433r7LctKf8 Last but not least, here's an interesting article about the applications of Discord for better digital community practice: https://www.newkinco.com/projects/anitya-metaverse-platform Looking forward to connecting! Roo -- Systems Thinking for Digital Products | linktr.ee/roosphere | Work with me <https://www.workwithroo.com/>

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Zoom seminar sept 19th: How is journalism and publishing affected by constant connectivity? (DIGITOX)
by Trine Syvertsen 29 May '24

29 May '24

Welcome to the digitox seminars this fall: A seminar series on connection and disconnection. Contact me for a zoom link or join the digitox mailing list (below). Tues, Sept 19, 2023, 13-14 CET on how journalists and book publishers handle connection and disconnection. Diana Bossio will present the forthcoming book The Paradox of Connection - How Digital Media Is Transforming Journalistic Labor. (Co-authors: Valérie Bélair-Gagnon, Avery E. Holton, Logan Molyneux) Kari Spjeldnæs will present research on book publishers and disconnection. Details here: https://www.hf.uio.no/imk/english/research/projects/digital-disconnection/e… More seminars this fall: NB: Seminars run on Norway time (CET) and are scheduled in different time slots. Wednesday, Oct 25, 15-16 on AI, sustainability and the environment - and how it connects with disconnection studies. With Benedetta Brevini, author of Is AI Good for the Planet? and Christian Schwarzenegger about sustainable user practices. Tuesday, Dec 5, 2023 14-15 on technological resistance in schools and young people's disconnection, with Katie Day Good and Mehri Agai. Best regards, Trine ------ We run two mailing lists from Digitox/Oslo: DIGITOX MAILING LIST: digitox-info: info from the Digitox-project about our seminar series. To join, write an email to sympa(a)media.uio.no and write subscribe digitox-info in the subject field. To unsubscribe: Write an email to sympa(a)media.uio.no and write unsubscribe digitox-info in the subject field (or let me know that you want to be taken off the list). DISCONNECTION-LIST disconnection-research: to post information about research, publications, events etc. All members can post. To join: write to sympa(a)media.uio.no and write subscribe disconnection-research in the subject field. DO YOU HAVE A NEW PUBLICATION? OR A CFP? NOTIFY PEOPLE USING THE DISCONNECTION LIST; ALL MEMBERS CAN POST ON THIS LIST ------------------------------------------------------- Trine Syvertsen, professor, IMK, UiO Project: Intrusive media, ambivalent users and digital detox (NFR) Author of Digital detox: The politics of disconnecting (Emerald 2020) Recent articles: Framing digital disconnection: Problem definitions, values and actions among digital detox organisers (Convergence 2022); Offline tourism: Digital and screen ambivalence in Norwegian mountain huts with no Internet access (Scandinavian Journal of Hospitality and Tourism, 2022)

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4S 2023 Open panel - Decolonizing Data Infrastructures: Pluralizing Imaginaries and Histories of Datafication (due May 26)
by Yousif Hassan 03 Feb '24

03 Feb '24

*** Please feel free to share and circulate to your networks *** -- - *Submission Instructions*: https://www.4sonline.org/call_for_submissions.php <https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.4sonline.org/call_for_submissions.p…> - *Deadline for Abstract *Submissions: May 26, 2023 (notification of acceptance on June 9) 90. Decolonizing Data Infrastructures: Pluralizing Imaginaries and Histories of Datafication <https://streaklinks.com/BexeNN94uPDoRFUKtAnGHDZl/https%3A%2F%2Furldefense.c…> *Yousif Hassan, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign; Jane Yeahin Pyo, University of Massachusetts-Amherst;** Paola Ricuarte, Tecnologico de Monterrey; Anita Chan, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign* Discourses of decolonization have become salient in the field of AI/Big Data and global circles of responsible innovation. These discourses often take a universalist view of ethics, or imply a vision of AI mono-futurism based on Euro-American centric understandings of the social, political, and economic implications of data-driven developments across different geographies of the Global South and North. This panel attempts to problematize such trends by recovering the pluralistic histories of decolonization across different geographies of knowledge production. We seek nuanced discussions of surveillance, prediction, and segregation economies and resistances to them that are underpinned by alternative ways of knowing and being in the world. We invite methodological, theoretical, and empirical contributions that engage with alternative future imaginations to remake or refuse dominant data-driven imperatives and look for past and present practice from places that have been historically excluded from knowledge-making. This includes work that: - Open up spaces for solidarity and reimagination of shared human futurities that confront and seek to dismantle systems of oppression - Problematize notions of intelligence and ethics based on Western understandings of human difference. - Explore colonial ideologies reproduced through information ecologies and their impacts on marginalized communities - Illuminate Southern epistemologies that contribute to more inclusive and accountable practices or policy around data infrastructures. - Address feminist, racial and social justice approaches to technology to interrogate relations of power across situated data ecologies. - Examine communal approaches to technology and their implications for political economies *Contact: *asaychan(a)gmail.com, yousif(a)illinois.edu, forrain526(a)gmail.com, pricaurt(a)tec.mx Keywords: Social Movements and STS, Decolonial and Postcolonial STS, Big Data, AI, and Machine Learning, decolonization infrastructures, data/AI colonialism, data solidarities, AI mono-futurisms, socio-technical pluri-histories, political economy of technology, datafication, Indigenous STS, Feminist STS, Race/Black Studies and STS, Social Movements and STS, Transnational STS, coloniality, decolonial computing and media technologies, critical race and media studies, infrastructure studies ᐧ

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Job advertisement - Postdoctoral Fellowship "Sonic-Social Genre? - Max Planck Institute for Empirical Aesthetics
by Christopher Haworth 31 Jan '24

31 Jan '24

The successful applicant for this postdoctoral fellowship will collaborate on a research project focused on new approaches to analyzing and modeling music genres. Located between informatics engineering, music information retrieval, musicology, and music anthropology and sociology, this interdisciplinary project addresses the lack of an adequate theory of genre in existing approaches to music genre recognition. See link for more information: https://www.aesthetics.mpg.de/karriere/jobs/postdoctoral-fellowship.html

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Call for Papers: SSN 2024 - 10th biennial Surveillance and Society/SSN Conference
by Bryce Newell 04 Jan '24

04 Jan '24

Surveillance in an Age of Crisis The 10th Biennial Surveillance Studies Network / Surveillance & Society Conference #SSN2024 28-31 May, 2024 Institute of Criminology at the Faculty of Law and University of Ljubljana, Ljubljana, Slovenia With a keynote address by Meredith Whittaker, President of Signal and Chief Advisor to the AI Now Institute Call for Papers The world is facing an unprecedented combination of crises: a widening gulf of inequality and contradictions in the capitalist economic system, the intensification of new and existing forms of social injustice, mass mobility and migration on a scale unseen in the past, renewed authoritarianism and multiple attacks on human rights and even the concept of a shared humanity, digital disruption of politics and social relations, psychic and material insecurity, the destruction of our local and global environments, and the potentially catastrophic alteration of the climate which allows life to flourish on this planet. We are entering an age of crisis. But we are also witnessing and enabling a new world struggling to be born. Surveillance has always had an intimate relationship with crisis and transformation. Surveillance appears, spreads and intensifies as a response and an 'answer' to crises. Crises sharpen and focus ordinary problems, practices and technologies of government and social ordering. Crises have shaped the way in which surveillance is understood, developed and implemented at all levels. And finally, surveillance has also helped to shape the very construction, perception and understanding of crises. SSN 2024 asks us all to face this age of crisis and confront the multiple intersections of surveillance in and around it. We call for proposals for papers, panels, doctoral colloquium participation, and other interventions on all aspects of surveillance in these times of crisis. Venue, Accessibility & Streaming The Conference will take place over 3 full days from 29-31 May, 2024, at the Faculty of Law, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia. All in-person sessions will be streamed online, and there will also be a dedicated online track with remote presentations for presenters who cannot attend in-person. Keynote Speakers and Special Sessions Keynote speakers and special sessions will be advertised as we develop them, but we can already announce Meredith Whittaker, President of Signal and Chief Advisor to the AI Now Institute, as one of our keynote speakers. Doctoral Colloquium There will also be an associated in-person colloquium for doctoral students on the afternoon before the conference, 28 May. Interested doctoral colloquium participants should indicate their interest in attending the colloquium via the regular conference proposal submission portal. Submissions Please submit your paper, panel or other abstract, from October 31st, via: https://easychair.org/cfp/SSN2024<https://urldefense.com/v3/__https:/easychair.org/cfp/SSN2024__;!!C5qS4YX3!F…> Deadline: December 31st 2023. David Murakami Wood | University of Ottawa Professor of Critical Surveillance and Security Studies | Department of Criminology Faculty Member | Centre for Law, Technology and Society (CLTS) ––––– Co-editor-in-Chief | Surveillance & Society | http://www.surveillance-and-society.org<https://urldefense.com/v3/__http:/www.surveillance-and-society.org__;!!C5qS…> Interim Director | Surveillance Studies Centre of Canada | http://www.surveillance-studies.ca<https://urldefense.com/v3/__http:/www.surveillance-studies.ca__;!!C5qS4YX3!…> Board of Directors | Surveillance Studies Network | http://surveillance-studies.net<https://urldefense.com/v3/__http:/surveillance-studies.net__;!!C5qS4YX3!Flt…> ––––– twitter: @murakamiwood e-mail: david.mw(a)uottawa.ca<mailto:david.mw@uottawa.ca>

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Webinar: How is AI changing the teaching and academic landscape?
by Bahar Celik Muller 10 Nov '23

10 Nov '23

***Apologies for cross-posting*** Time and Date: Nov 6, 2023 03:00 PM (GMT) Register free here<https://bristol-ac-uk.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_QmaP_WTDQbq68ywP3EFJ1w#/r…>. All registrants will receive a recording of the event. Since the launch of OpenAI’s ChatGPT, the higher education sector is abuzz with the ramifications of easily accessible AI. This webinar<https://bristol-ac-uk.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_QmaP_WTDQbq68ywP3EFJ1w#/r…> will be an opportunity to discuss how AI is changing the teaching and academic landscape, covering topics including moving beyond assessment integrity, student voices, rules and requirements and the wider tensions of algorithmic thinking. The event is hosted by Bristol University Press and will be chaired by Jessica Ogden, from the Bristol Digital Futures Institute at the University of Bristol. Participants: Mark Carrigan, Lecturer in Education at the University of Manchester Aisling Tierney, Lecturer in the Bristol Institute for Teaching and Learning Colin Gavaghan, Professor of Digital Futures at the University of Bristol David Beer, Professor of Sociology at the University of York Attendees will have the opportunity to ask questions and will be given a code for 50% off the panellists’ books published by Bristol University Press. Find out more and register free here<https://bristol-ac-uk.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_QmaP_WTDQbq68ywP3EFJ1w#/r…>. All the best, Bahar Muller (she/her) Senior Marketing Coordinator Keep up with all our news and get a discount on ALL Bristol University Press and Policy Press books by signing up to our newsletter<https://bristoluniversitypress.co.uk/signup-bup-pp?utm_source=signature&utm…>. New this month White Minds: Everyday Performance, Violence and Resistance<https://policy.bristoluniversitypress.co.uk/white-minds?utm_source=signatur…> by Guilaine Kinouani New in our What Is It For? series What Are Animal Rights For?<https://bristoluniversitypress.co.uk/what-are-animal-rights-for?utm_source=…> by Steve Cooke Bristol University Press Digital Browse our free collections<https://bristoluniversitypressdigital.com/page/free-content?utm_source=sign…>, including decolonization and migration. Our 2023 charity is Suicide Prevention Bristol. Find out more and donate here<https://bristoluniversitypress.co.uk/charity?utm_source=signature&utm_mediu…>. Bristol University Press and Policy Press 1-9 Old Park Hill, Bristol BS2 8BB, UK Telephone: +44 117 455 7330

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Jobs: Faculty of Information, University of Toronto
by Leslie Shade 31 Oct '23

31 Oct '23

Dear Colleagues: The Faculty of Information at the University of Toronto has several job opportunities that might be of interest to our community. Closing date is November 30, 2023. Please see links below for details. Assistant Professor, Policy Studies <https://jobs.utoronto.ca/job/Toronto-Assistant-Professor-Policy-Studies-ON/…> Associate Professor, Policy Studies <https://jobs.utoronto.ca/job/Toronto-Associate-Professor-Policy-Studies-ON/…> Assistant Professor, Teaching Stream- Information and Technology Studies <https://jobs.utoronto.ca/job/Toronto-Assistant-Professor%2C-Teaching-Stream…> Assistant Professor, Archives and Records Management (ARM) <https://jobs.utoronto.ca/job/Toronto-Assistant-Professor-Archives-and-Recor…> Associate Professor, Archives and Records Management (ARM) <https://jobs.utoronto.ca/job/Toronto-Associate-Professor-Archives-and-Recor…> Assistant Professor, Information Systems Design-Human Centered Data Science (ISD/HCDS) <https://jobs.utoronto.ca/job/Toronto-Assistant-Professor-Information-System…> Associate Professor, Information Systems Design-Human Centered Data Science (ISD/HCDS) <https://jobs.utoronto.ca/job/Toronto-Associate-Professor-Information-System…> Assistant Professor, User Experience Design/ Human Computer Interaction <https://jobs.utoronto.ca/job/Toronto-Assistant-Professor-User-Experience-De…> Associate Professor, User Experience Design/ Human Computer Interaction <https://jobs.utoronto.ca/job/Toronto-Associate-Professor-User-Experience-De…> ---------- Leslie Regan Shade Professor, Faculty of Information University of Toronto leslie.shade(a)utoronto.ca

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