February 2023 - Air-L - lists.aoir.org

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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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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NEW: Research Assistant Position Job Opening
by Martin Sykora 27 Oct '23

27 Oct '23

We have an exciting new Research Assistant job opening in Social Media Analysis Methods at the Centre for Information Management, Loughborough University. The position is full-time, fixed-term for 8 months (£26,396 to £31,411 per annum) - applications close 1st Feb - https://www.jobs.ac.uk/job/CWS047/research-assistant-social-media-analysis-… It might be a great fit for applicants interested in social media research, data science, and ethical information management, with a background in (computational) social science or related fields within information science. The role will be in support of an existing urban community research project, focusing on digital social platform data collection and analysis approaches, contributing to the development of a mixed methods approach for integrating geo-social media data and other relevant contextual information to help learn about local drivers of chronic stress and resilience, across communities. A particular focus will be the study of vulnerable communities and potential algorithmic biases, to help ensure algorithmic/analytical equity. If this is of intrest, you can find out more details about the role and how to apply at https://vacancies.lboro.ac.uk/tlive_webrecruitment/wrd/run/ETREC107GF.open?…<https://vacancies.lboro.ac.uk/tlive_webrecruitment/wrd/run/ETREC107GF.open?…> Kind regards, Martin ----------------------------- Dr. Martin Sykora, PhD, FHEA Associate Professor in Information Management Centre for Information Management (CIM) Loughborough Business School (LB) BE.1.32 (Sir Richard Morris Building) Loughborough University, LE11 3TU @martinsykora<https://twitter.com/martinsykora> (on Twitter) @msykora<https://mastodon.social/@msykora> (on mastodon.social) Profile Page: https://socialmedia.lboro.ac.uk/sykora/ Latest Publications: https://scholar.google.co.uk/citations?user=lF2XTEEAAAAJ&sortby=pubdate

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Deadline approaching: The Datafied Family
by Ranjana Das 28 Mar '23

28 Mar '23

Deadline approaching on 28th February for the call for papers open for - *The Datafied Family* - a free, fully online day-long event on Wednesday 28th June 2023, hosted by Professor Ranjana Das of the University of Surrey, UK, with funding from the Institute of Advanced Studies. KEYNOTE SPEAKERS: Confirmed keynote speakers include Professor Sonia Livingstone, London School of Economics, UK; Professor Usha Raman, University of Hyderabad, India; Dr Giovanna Mascheroni, Catholic University of Milan, Italy and Professor Veronica Barassi, University of St Gallen, Switzerland >From body-trackers, non-human digital support apps, smart home tech, parenting apps and gadgets, surveillance devices from the womb to the cradle, technologies of intimacy and play in the Internet of the Things, and wellbeing and wellness support bots - the textures of family life are changing - at disparate paces across global cultures and economies with a steady increase in family technologies, which are subtly, and not so subtly altering the doing of care, intimacy, leisure, learning, play, routine and more. WEBSITE: https://www.ias.surrey.ac.uk/event/the-datafied-family-algorithmic-encounte… CALL FOR PAPERS The Datafied Family - will raise and respond to a set of key questions - without restricting its topics to these alone. Overarchingly, we ask 1. In what ways have family dynamics - routines, caring, intimacies, leisure, play, learning, parenting and more - been interrupted, (re)shaped, or transformed by the steady algorithmizing of everyday family life? 2. What material artefacts - toys, apps, smart home tech, educational applications, portals and meta-portals - punctuate family life and to what effect? 3. What inequalities, injustices, and power dynamics are being rehearsed or reshaped through the datafication of family life? 4. How is the algorithmic shaping of domestic routines and rapports encountered in practice, resisted, or reshaped through human agency? 5. What global perspectives remain less visible and unincorporated in theorising the datafied family, including the disparities between the global north and south? The event welcomes paper submissions on its submission portal in the following areas - which are indicated below but not produced as an exhaustive list - * Surveillance technologies in the home * Body trackers * Geo-location devices and relationships * Datafication of intimacies and sexuality * Parenthood, parenting and platforms * Childhood, big data and datafication of childhood * Rights based perspectives on data technologies in the family * Kinship, routines, time and technology * Aging, care and emerging technologies * Smart home technologies * Leisure, play, learning and Big Data * Algorithmic cultures, resistance, play and algorithmic shaping of family life * Data driven discrimination * Data inequalities and injustices * Redefining 'family' in an era of datafication Abstract submission details: Final Submission Deadline:28th February 2023 Notification of Outcome:March 20th 2023 Event date:28th June, 2023, 930 am to 3 pmUK time. Submission portal: [*please submit your abstract here https://www.ias.surrey.ac.uk/event/the-datafied-family-algorithmic-encounte… ]. If any questions, please get in touch with Professor Ranjana Das, at r.das(a)Surrey.ac.uk<mailto:at%20r.das@Surrey.ac.uk> Professor Ranjana Das Professor in Media and Communication Co-Editor, Sociology<https://journals.sagepub.com/home/soc> Twitter: @ProfRanjanaDas<https://eur02.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Ftwitter.c…> Web: Prof Ranjana Das | University of Surrey<https://www.surrey.ac.uk/people/ranjana-das>

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critical infrastructure lab launch event April 13 - 14 // Save-the-Date and Call-for-Contributions
by Niels ten Oever 16 Mar '23

16 Mar '23

*Executive summary / TL;DR* - The critical infrastructure lab launches on April 13-14, 2023 at the University of Amsterdam - Send in your session proposals for interactive workshops on April 13th (the lab day) - Send in your extended abstracts (academics) or position statements (practitioners) for the panel sessions on April 14th (the research day) - Send submissions to submission(a)criticalinfralab.net by March 1st (750-1000 words) °º¤ø,¸¸,ø¤º°`°º¤ø,¸,ø¤°º¤ø,¸¸,ø¤º°`°º¤ø,¸¸,ø¤º°`°º¤ø,¸,ø¤°º¤ø,¸¸,ø¤º°`°º¤ø,¸ "Infrastructure makes worlds" -- Ned Rossiter °º¤ø,¸¸,ø¤º°`°º¤ø,¸,ø¤°º¤ø,¸¸,ø¤º°`°º¤ø,¸¸,ø¤º°`°º¤ø,¸,ø¤°º¤ø,¸¸,ø¤º°`°º¤ø,¸ Dear colleague, friend, comrade, Communications infrastructures constitute the invisible scaffolding of social life. Largely concealed to their end-users, they are becoming the main stage where local and global economic, social, environmental, and geopolitical conflicts are played out. Once established, infrastructures shape societies for decades to come. On the *13th and 14th of April* we will launch the critical infrastructure lab* to discuss and develop visions of how communication infrastructures can serve the public interest -- and we want to do that with you! Work in the critical infrastructure lab will focus on the development of new infrastructural futures that center people and planet over profit and capital. Hosted at the University of Amsterdam and led by Fieke Jansen, Niels ten Oever, and Maxigas, the lab will bring together activists, advocates, scholars, policymakers, and industry actors. Three analytical lenses of standards, geopolitics and environment will be applied to built an evidence base, investigate and develop infrastructural imaginaries, and create actionable research for infrastructures that serve the public interest. *About the launch event* The two-day event at the University of Amsterdam will take place on the 13th and 14th of April. It will be a mix of keynote speakers, hands-on workshops, infrastructure walks, and panel discussions. Both days will be in person, but day 1 will be streamed. For both days, we invite session proposals from activists, advocates, scholars, policymakers, and industry. Day zero, 13th of April, will be a hands-on lab day. It will offer space for interactive sessions on geopolitics, environment, and standards. We invite proposals for sessions of 2.5 hours. For instance, workshops, infrastructure walks, policy challenges, simulations, etc. Pretty much everything that is _not_ a panel or paper presentation. Day one, 14th of April, will have a more academic structure. It will kick off with three keynote presentations followed by panel sessions. The keynote speakers - Ksennia Ermoshina, Svitlana Matviyenko, and Yu Hong - will inspire and challenge us. The keynotes are followed by Corinne Cath, who will present her research on exclusionary cultures of internet governance. The afternoon will be dedicated to simultaneous panel sessions in the areas of infrastructure and geopolitics, infrastructure and environment, and infrastructure and standards. Academics can submit an extended abstract (research question, theory/literature, method, data, preliminary findings) and practitioners can submit a position statement. These contributions should be between 750 and 1000 words. *Want to submit?* Do you have an idea you want to workshop, a discussion you want to host, or some research that you want to present? State clearly in an email: - your name and affiliation, - whether you are submitting for day zero or day one, - the research area (infrastructure and geopolitics, infrastructure and environment, or infrastructure and standards) - include an abstract, position statement or a blurb for an interactive session! Send your submission to submission(a)criticalinfralab.net by March 1st. The lab and its research is supported by the Ford Foundation, the Internet Society Foundation, and Omidyar Network. Best, Fieke, Niels and Maxigas https://www.criticalinfralab.net/ -- Niels ten Oever, PhD Postdoctoral Researcher - Media Studies Department - University of Amsterdam Affiliated Faculty - Digital Democracy Institute - Simon Fraser University Non-Resident Fellow 2022-2023 - Center for Democracy & Technology Associated Scholar - Centro de Tecnologia e Sociedade - Fundação Getúlio Vargas Research Fellow - Centre for Internet and Human Rights - European University Viadrina Vice chair - Global Internet Governance Academic Network (GigaNet) W: https://nielstenoever.net E: mail(a)nielstenoever.net T: @nielstenoever P/S/WA: +31629051853 PGP: 4254 ECD5 D4CF F6AF 8B91 0D9F EFAD 2E49 CC90 C10C Read my latest article on network ideologies and how 5G reshapes the internet https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0308596122001446

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WEBCAST FEB 23 – Centring Children’s Rights in the Debate about Encryption in the UK Online Safety Bill
by Joly MacFie 04 Mar '23

04 Mar '23

Coming up in a couple of hours. The 'new, groundbreaking report' mentioned can be found at https://home.crin.org/readlistenwatch/stories/privacy-and-protection. Real time text link is https://bit.ly/3lTPWw1 [image: isoc live] <https://isoc.live/16335>On *Thursday February 23rd 2023* at *08:00-09:00 EST* (13:00-14:00 UTC) the *Global Encryption Coalition <https://www.globalencryption.org/>* presents a webinar '*Centring Children’s Rights in the Debate about Encryption In the UK Online Safety Bill <https://www.eventbrite.com/e/centring-childrens-rights-in-the-debate-about-…>* '. In the contentious debate about protecting children and protecting the privacy and security of communications through encryption, the rights of children are too often neglected. A new, groundbreaking report puts the rights of children at the center of this debate. It suggests a path forward for policy makers who are grappling with these issues in legislative proposals, including the *Online Safety Bill <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Online_Safety_Bill>* pending in Parliament in the UK. In this webinar experts on children’s rights and privacy will explain this new approach and analyze the Online Safety Bill through the lens of children’s rights. *SPEAKERS* *Diana Gheorghiu*, Legal and Policy Officer, Child Rights International Network *Caroline Wilson Palow*, Legal Director and General Counsel, Privacy International *Jen Persson*, Director and Founder, Defend Digital Me *Jun Pang*, Policy and Campaigns Officer, Liberty *MODERATOR* *Greg Nojeim*, Steering Committee, Global Encryption Coalition *LIVESTREAM http://livestream.com/internetsociety/gec-children <http://livestream.com/internetsociety/gec-children>* *PARTICIPATE VIA ZOOM https://bit.ly/3SmRXwQ <https://bit.ly/3SmRXwQ>* *REAL TIME TEXT* (See *ISOC.LIVE <https://isoc.live/16335>*) *TWITTER #GlobalEncryption <https://bit.ly/globalencryption> #OnlineSafetyBill @GlobalEncrypt @GlobalPartnersD @cendemtech @InternetSociety @CRINwire @privacyint @defenddigitalme @libertyhq* *MASTODON #GlobalEncryption <https://mastodon.social/tags/globalencryption>* *SIMULCASTS* *https://www.pscp.tv/ISOC_Live/ <https://www.pscp.tv/ISOC_Live/>* *https://www.twitch.tv/isoclive <https://www.twitch.tv/isoclive>* *https://www.facebook.com/InternetSociety/live <https://www.facebook.com/InternetSociety/live>* (AI captions) *https://www.facebook.com/isocny/live* <https://www.facebook.com/isocny/live> (AI captions) *ARCHIVE* *https://archive.org/details/gec-children <https://archive.org/details/gec-children>* *Permalink https://isoc.live/16335/ <https://isoc.live/16335/>* -- -------------------------------------- Joly MacFie +12185659365 -------------------------------------- - -- -------------------------------------- Joly MacFie +12185659365 -------------------------------------- -

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ESRC Digital Good Network launch & opportunities
by Helen Kennedy 03 Mar '23

03 Mar '23

Hello! The ESRC Digital Good Network <https://digitalgood.net/> is a new, £4 million research network focused on what a good digital society should look like and how we get there. It will build an interdisciplinary research community by: bringing disciplines and sectors together, supporting and funding interdisciplinary research, internships, fellowships; providing training; hosting events; and engaging policy, industry, practitioners, communities and civil society. On 7 March we will be launching the *Digital Good Research Fund* which will fund small-scale, pilot and scoping projects on how digital technologies can work for people and society. We invite proposals for projects that: - connect researchers with communities and organisations external to academic research to address challenges relating to the digital good, - explore how the digital good is defined and the terms we use to discuss it, - test methodological innovations for the digital good, - explore how to evaluate the digital good across different technologies, dimensions and perspectives. We will fund multiple projects in the range of £20,000 to £50,000. The deadline for applications is 28 April 2023. We will be holding an application sandpit event in late March, please sign up to our mailing list <http://eepurl.com/idhmon> if this would be of interest. We will also be opening applications for our first *Digital Good Network Summer School* for PhD students on 7 March. The summer school is a fully funded opportunity for PhD researchers to engage with a range of theoretical, methodological and professional development topics relating to the digital good. It will take place in Sheffield on 22 & 23 June 2023. Application details will be on our website <https://digitalgood.net/>, the deadline will be 24 March. As part of the launch of the research fund, we will be holding a series of *lunchtime events*: - Tues 7 March at 13:00, we ask our panel of experts, ‘What is the digital good?’ with Helen Kennedy, Gina Neff and Ros Williams. Sign up here <https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/digital-good-network-what-is-the-digital-goo…> . - Weds 8 March at 13:00, we will share more about the network and what we are looking for in funded projects. Sign <https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/digital-good-network-our-funding-opportuniti…> up here <https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/digital-good-network-our-funding-opportuniti…> . - Thurs 9 March at 13:00, we ask successful early career applicants what makes a good application. Sign up here <https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/digital-good-network-qa-with-successful-earl…>. Everyone is welcome, come along to find out more. To keep updated: Sign up to our mailing list: http://eepurl.com/idhmon Contact us: info(a)digitalgood.net Twitter: https://twitter.com/digitalgoodnet LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/digital-good-network/ Mastodon: https://mastodon.world/@digitalgoodnet Best wishes Helen -- Helen Kennedy, Director, ESRC Digital Good Network <https://digitalgood.net/>, @digitalgoodnet Professor of Digital Society, @hmtk, Living With Data <https://livingwithdata.org/>, she/her *LATEST PUBLICATION: * Generic visuals of Covid-19 in the news: Invoking banal belonging through symbolic reiteration <https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/13678779211061415>(2022, w/Giorgia Aiello, Chris W Anderson, Camilla Mørk Røstvik, *I**nternational Journal of Cultural Studies*.

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