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UMD iSchool Faculty Position: Lecturer (Open Rank) - Data Science and Cybersecurity
by Naielia Akela Allen 08 Mar '23

08 Mar '23

The College of Information Studies at the University of Maryland, College Park (Maryland’s iSchool), invites applications for a full-time, professional track lecturer, who is highly competent, energetic, collegial, and flexible, to join our exciting environment. The Lecturer will both teach and develop new curricula in the areas of cybersecurity and data science. The successful candidate will teach three courses per semester (fall and spring) while also working on development of new courses, programs, and curricula in this area. Teaching load may be reduced during periods of substantial curriculum development work. Some of the existing classes the successful candidate might teach include: - Human-Centered Cybersecurity - Decision-Making for Cybersecurity - Ethical Hacking - Cognitive Security - Cyber Risk Modeling - Data Science - Modeling and Simulating Systemic Problems - Management with Data and Models The successful candidate will teach at the undergraduate and graduate levels, engage in service to the profession and shared governance within the university, and participate actively in the life of the college. Minimum Qualifications - Graduate degree in information science, information studies, information systems, cybersecurity, data science, data analytics, statistics, mathematics, sociology, business, or a related area - Teaching, training, and/or mentoring experience related to data science and cybersecurity - Interest or experience in teaching and mentoring to increase diversity and inclusion in information studies and related fields - Excellent written and oral communication skills Best consideration date: *March 31, 2023* For more information about the position and to apply, please visit: https://ejobs.umd.edu/postings/105139

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Special issue call for papers: Equality, Diversity and Inclusion in Usability Testing Research
by Sophie Rutter 07 Mar '23

07 Mar '23

Hello! Have you an interest in EDI and usability testing? Consider submitting a paper to this special issue in the Journal of Responsible Technology Submission deadline: 31 December 2023 Guest Editors: Sopie Rutter, Efpraxia Zamani (e.zamani(a)sheffield.ac.uk) Call for papers: 👉👉 https://www.sciencedirect.com/journal/journal-of-responsible-technology/abo… Technology is part of our everyday life, with a number of technological products and services supporting or replacing numerous business processes, addressing every day needs and facilitating a range of functions, from education and work to leisure and caring for others. Each of these technologies need to ensure that they are usable by the wider population and that their use and operation do not routinely exclude certain social groups. With this Special Issue we want to draw attention to the usability testing research process, and the need for embedding the values of equality, diversity and inclusion to enhance the role of technologies towards a fair and just world. Tentative Schedule: - Submission Open Date: March 1, 2023 - Date of Expected First Submission: August 31, 2023 - Final Submission Deadline: December 31, 2023 - Notification of Acceptance: April 30, 2024 Manuscripts must be submitted via the Journal of Responsible Technology online submission system (Editorial Manager®): https://www.editorialmanager.com/jrtech/default2.aspx. Please select the article type “VSI: EDI in Usability Testing” when submitting your manuscript online. -- Senior Lecturer in Information Management Deputy Programme Coordinator MSc Information Management iLab <https://www.sheffield.ac.uk/is/research/facilities#iLab> (usability lab) Development Lead Chair, ASIS&T European Chapter Project: www.handhygieneatwork.com Evidenced-based hand hygiene resources for workers and decision-makers Project: www.embedEDI.com An agenda for embedding equality, diversity and inclusion in usability testing Information School, Room 234, Regent Court, 211 Portobello, Sheffield, S1 4DP

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Enter the Ring: Facing Amazon's Ring of Surveillance
by Evan Light 07 Mar '23

07 Mar '23

Hello all - for those who may be in Toronto, please come check out our installation, running at York University from 13-17 March. *Enter the Ring: Facing Amazon's Ring of Surveillance* An immersive, interactive exhibit examining the Amazon Ring doorbell, privacy and the implications of facial recognition in Canada. 13-17 March 10am-6pm Room 326, Sensorium FLEX Space for Digital Art and Technology Goldfarb Centre for the Arts 86 Fine Arts Road Funding provided by the Office of the Privacy Commissioner of Canada -- -- Evan Light, PhD Associate Professor - Professeur agrégé Communications program - Programme de communications Glendon College, York University - Collège universitaire Glendon, Université York 2275 Bayview Ave. Toronto ON, Canada M4N 3M6 elight(a)glendon.yorku.ca +1 416.736.2100 ext: 88596

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Upcoming Faculty Panel: Creating a "Climate" of Information Access: How post-secondary Students Are Tackling Climate Change on Wikipedia
by Helaine Blumenthal 06 Mar '23

06 Mar '23

Please join <https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZUuf-GtpjgsE9FL1owj8UQ43dkWEzCQ8G…>us for an exciting upcoming panel on how faculty and students are tackling climate change on Wikipedia! Event info: What: Creating a "Climate" of Information Access: How Students Are Tackling Climate Change on Wikipedia * When: Monday, March 27, 9:00 AM Pacific * Description: The realities of climate change are becoming increasingly present and having palpable consequences throughout the globe. As the effects of climate change become more prevalent, it's critical that people have access to reliable, current, and clear information about climate change. In this session, you'll learn how students at the post-secondary level are improving content related to climate change on Wikipedia as part of their coursework. Helaine Blumenthal, Senior Program Manager at Wiki Education, will speak generally about the immense impact student editing is having on Wikipedia. She'll be joined by three faculty whose students are directly tackling topics related to climate change on Wikipedia. Jennifer Glass is Associate Professor in the School of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences at Georgia Institute of Technology. Julio Postigo is Assistant Professor in the Department of Geography at Indiana University. Pam Rittelmeyer is a Post-doctoral Researcher at the University of California, Davis. Climate change has many dimensions, and each speaker will reflect on how their students have addressed different aspects of climate change on Wikipedia. * Registration: Click here <https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZUuf-GtpjgsE9FL1owj8UQ43dkWEzCQ8G…>to register for the event. * The program will be recorded for those unable to attend. Please share this event with your colleagues! I hope you can make it! Best, Helaine -- Helaine Blumenthal,Ph.D. (she/her) Senior Program Manager Wiki Education teach.wikiedu.org <https://wikiedu.org/teach-with-wikipedia/> Twitter <https://twitter.com/WikiEducation?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7C…>, Facebook <https://www.facebook.com/WikiEducationFoundation/>

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The Legacies of Elihu Katz. Schedule is available and registration is open.
by Park, David 06 Mar '23

06 Mar '23

It is our great pleasure to share with you an ICA pre-conference dedicated to the consideration and discussion of Elihu Katz’s ideas: https://legacies-of-katz.pubpub.org Thanks to the generous support of our sponsors, registration for this pre-conference is free. To register for the pre-conference, please go here: https://www.icahdq.org/event/ICA23-ElihuKatz Questions about the pre-conference should be directed to any one of the pre-conference organizers listed below. ________________________________ Subject: ICA Pre-conference: The Legacies of Elihu Katz. Schedule is available and registration is open. It is our great pleasure to share with you an ICA pre-conference dedicated to the consideration and discussion of Elihu Katz’s ideas: https://legacies-of-katz.pubpub.org Thanks to the generous support of our sponsors, registration for this pre-conference is free. To register for the pre-conference, please go here: https://www.icahdq.org/event/ICA23-ElihuKatz Questions about the pre-conference should be directed to any one of the pre-conference organizers listed below. # The Legacies of Elihu Katz 25 May, 2023 Toronto, Canada Organized by: Menahem Blondheim (Hebrew University), David W. Park (Lake Forest College), Jeff Pooley (Muhlenberg College), and Julia Sonnevend (The New School) ## SCHEDULE: 8:30 am - 8:45 am: Arrival, Coffee 8:45 am - 8:50 am: Opening Remarks from Pre-Conference Sponsors 8:50 am - 9:20 am: Orienting Katz Historically Moderator: Jeff Pooley * Peter Simonson, “Communication, Opportunity Structures, and the Making of Elihu Katz, 1926–1956: The Child is Father of the Man” 9:20 am - 9:35 am: Coffee Break 9:35 am - 10:50 am: Katz on Journalism, Democracy, and the Media Moderator: Barbie Zelizer * Klaus Bruhn Jensen & W. Russell Neuman, “Enriching the Concept of Communication Effects: The Legacy of Elihu Katz” * Leah A. Lievrouw, “Katz, Tarde, and Theorizing Digital Communication” * Michael McDevitt, “Is the U.S. Press Invested in Democratic Crisis?” * Kimberly Meltzer, “Legacies of Elihu Katz: Contributions to Theorizing on Journalism and Television” * Patrícia Dias & Priscila Krolow, “Youth on BeReal: Emergent Uses and Sought Gratifications” 10:50 am - 11:00 am: Coffee Break 11:00 am - 12:30 pm: The Continuing Relevance of Media Events Moderator: Julia Sonnevend * Esther Hammelburg, “Being There Live: Witnessing & Belonging at Contemporary Media(tized) Events” * Johanna Sumiala & Katja Valaskivi, “Hybrid Media Environment: A Key Challenge to Contemporary Media Event Theory?” * Charlotte Knorr & Christian Pentzold, “The Craft of Data Scandals: Reassessing Contemporary Whistleblowing as Media Events” * Sachie Hamada, “Media Events in the Internet Age: From ‘Watching on Couch’ to ‘Doing Sports Together’” * Rainier Winter & Jörg-Uwe Nieland, “Rethinking ‘Media Events’: Sports Mega-Events, Authoritarian States, and the Battle for Meaning” 12:30 pm - 1:30 pm: Lunch 1:30 pm - 3:00 pm: Two-Step Flow Moderator: Larry Gross * Devon Powers, “From Fads to Trends: Lessons From Katz” * Laura Dilley, “The Memetics of QAnon as Dynamical System: A Historical and Forensic Analysis of Katz-Inspired Diffusion of pro-QAnon Sentiment Among Social media Micro-Influencers” * Svetlana S. Bodrunova, Kamilla Nigmatullina, Nikolay Rodossky, and Dmitry Nepiyushchikh, “The Two-Step Flow Model in a Hybrid Environment: Decentralization of Media in Discussions on User Complaints in the VK.com Social Network” * Hynek Jerabek, “Elihu Katz’s Journey From the ‘Two-Step Flow Report’ to ‘His Master’s Voice’: 65 Years of Opinion Leaders” * Elizabeth Dubois, “Strategic Personal Influence: From Political Opinion Leaders to Social Media Influencers” 3:00 pm - 3:15 pm: Coffee Break 3:15 pm - 4:30 pm: The Multidimensional Katz: A Cross-Cutting Conversation Moderator: Menahem Blondheim * Sonia Livingstone * Jeffrey C. Alexander * Limor Shifman * Michael Schudson 4:30 pm - 4:45 pm: Closing Words Pre-recorded video contributions pending. The Pre-Conference is Sponsored by: The Department of Communication and the Smart Family Institute of Communications at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem; the Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism at the University of Southern California; and the Annenberg School for Communication at the University of Pennsylvania

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WEBCAST Mar 6 – State of the Net 2023
by Joly MacFie 06 Mar '23

06 Mar '23

This is underway. ISOC's Natalie Dunleavy Campbell is on the "The Future of Children's Online Privacy & Safety: Keeping Pace with Technology" panel at 2:30pm. [image: ISOC LIVE] <https://isoc.live/16389>On *Monday March 6 2023* from *9am-5:15pm EST* (14:00-22:15 UTC) the *Internet Education Foundation <https://www.neted.org/>* presents the *2023 State of the Internet <https://www.stateofthenet.org/>* (SOTN) conference in Washington DC. SOTN is America's premier Internet policy conference and this year speakers include FCC Commissioner *Nathan Simington*, Assistant Attorney General for the U.S. Department of Justice Antitrust Division *Jonathan Kanter*, Assistant Secretary of Commerce for Communications and Information *Alan Davidson*, and from the White House, Principal Deputy United States Chief Technology Office *Alexander "amac" Macgillivray*, and Acting National Cyber Director *Kemba Walden*. The livestream is provided via a partnership with the *Internet Society <https://internetsociety.org/>*. *AGENDA https://sotn23.sched.com/ <https://sotn23.sched.com/>* *LIVESTREAMS* *PLENARY + BREAKOUT 1 https://livestream.com/internetsociety/sotn2023 <https://livestream.com/internetsociety/sotn2023>* *BREAKOUT 2 https://livestream.com/internetsociety2/sotn2023 <https://livestream.com/internetsociety2/sotn2023>* *BREAKOUT 3 https://livestream.com/internetsociety3/sotn2023 <https://livestream.com/internetsociety3/sotn2023>* (Breakout 4 will be recorded but not streamed) *TWITTER #SOTN2023 <http://bit.ly/SOTN2023> @netedfound @InternetSociety #TechPolicy* *ARCHIVES* *https://archive.org/details/sotn2023 <https://archive.org/details/sotn2023>* *https://www.youtube.com/sotndc <https://www.youtube.com/sotndc>* *Permalink https://isoc.live/16389/ <https://isoc.live/16389/>* - -- -------------------------------------- Joly MacFie +12185659365 -------------------------------------- -

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London event on 13th March - Prof Trine Syvertsen on Digital disconnection and activism at KCL
by Zeena Feldman 06 Mar '23

06 Mar '23

Dear friends and colleagues, Next Monday, the Department of Digital Humanities at King’s College London will be hosting Professor Trine Syvertsen (University of Oslo) for a talk on Digital Disconnection and Activism. This in-person event will run 16.00-17.00 on the King's Strand Campus in room K3.11. It is free and open to all; please register here<https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/digital-disconnection-and-activism-tickets-5…>. Digital disconnection is often seen as an individual endeavour and a lifestyle choice, yet activists often use terms like "movement" and "cause" to talk about digital detoxing. To that end, Trine Syvertsen discusses activist initiatives encouraging people to log off digital media. Based on an analysis of ten initiatives, this seminar considers how detox activists present the problems to be solved, potential solutions, and how they recruit participants and mobilise support. Trine Syvertsen is Professor of Media Studies at the University of Oslo. She is the author of Media Resistance; Protest, Dislike, Abstention (2017) and Digital Detox: The Politics of Disconnecting (2020). She chairs the project Intrusive Media, Ambivalent Users and Digital Detox (Digitox), funded by the Research Council of Norway (2019-2024). Best wishes, Zeena Dr Zeena Feldman (she/her) Senior Lecturer in Digital Culture King’s College London Department of Digital Humanities The Strand, Chesham Building, 0.03 London WC2R 2LS zeena.feldman(a)kcl.ac.uk<mailto:zeena.feldman@kcl.ac.uk> https://www.kcl.ac.uk/people/dr-zeena-feldman Recent publications: Feldman, Z. and Hakim, J. (2023) RuPaul’s Drag Race: How social media made drag’s subversive art form into a capitalist money maker. PinkNews. https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/02/14/rupauls-drag-race-social-media-capit…. Feldman, Z. (2021) ‘Me Apps: Mental Health and the Smartphone’ in S. Guidi, B. Ajana, J. Braga (eds.) The Quantification of Bodies in Health: Multidisciplinary Perspectives. Bingley: Emerald Publishing, pp. 151-171. https://doi.org/10.1108/9781800718838. Feldman, Z. (2021) ‘On Quitting Social Media: Agency is a Red Herring’ in A. Chia, A. Jorge and T. Karppi (eds.) Reckoning with Social Media: Disconnection in the Age of Techlash. Lanham, MA and London: Rowman & Littlefield, pp. 103-123. https://rowman.com/ISBN/9781538147405/Reckoning-with-Social-Media. Feldman, Z. (2021) ‘Good food’ in an Instagram age: Rethinking hierarchies of culture, criticism and taste. European Journal of Cultural Studies 24(6). https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/13675494211055733. Feldman, Z. and Goodman, M.K. (2021) Digital Food Culture, Power and Everyday Life. European Journal of Cultural Studies 24(6). https://doi.org/10.1177/13675494211055501. The Quitting Social Media project: https://quittingsocialmedia.wordpress.com<https://quittingsocialmedia.wordpress.com/> Queer@King’s<https://www.kcl.ac.uk/research/queeratkings>

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Proposal for a new Temporary Working Groups (TWGs) in Computational propaganda
by hossein kermani 06 Mar '23

06 Mar '23

Dear all, I am going to propose a new Temporary Working Group (TWG) in Computational propaganda and digital authoritarianism. It will be submitted to the European Communication Research and Education Association (ECREA). The call from ECREA can be found here: ECREA - Call for proposals for new Temporary Working Groups This TWG will focus on investigating the ways through which computational propaganda has been employed to disrupt and manipulate online organic communication from theoretical and methodological perspectives. If you are interested in being part of this potential TWG, please send me your CV and a short motivation letter by Monday, March 20, 2023. If you have any questions, please get in touch! Sincerely yours. Hossein --- Hossein Kermani, PhD MSCA Postdoctoral researcher University of Vienna Department of Communication Kolingasse 14-16, 1090 Vienna, Austria T: +43-1-4277-483 12https://www.hosseinkermani.comTwitter: @hossein_kermani NEW PUBLICATIONS: Kermani, H. (2023). #MahsaAmini: Iranian Twitter Activism in Times of Computational Propaganda. Social Movement Studies, 0(0), 1–11. https://doi.org/10.1080/14742837.2023.2180354Kermani, H., & Hooman, N. (2022). Hashtag feminism in a blocked context: The mechanisms of unfolding and disrupting #rape on Persian Twitter. New Media & Society, 146144482211288. https://doi.org/10.1177/14614448221128827

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CfP — Environmental Materialities of the Digital
by Loup Cellard 06 Mar '23

06 Mar '23

Hi folks! I am editing with Clément Marquet <https://www.csi.minesparis.psl.eu/en/people/researchers/clement-marquet/> (CSI Mines) a special issue of the journal *Reset <https://journals.openedition.org/reset/361> *on the *environmental materialities of the digital. * *Blurb:* Over the past few years, there has been unprecedented media and political attention directed at the negative ecological consequences of digital technologies. This politicization echoes a broader, international movement of criticism about digital technologies and GAFAMs in particular. Since 2018, the term 'techlash' — an outlash against tech — has referred to the growing public animosity towards tech companies: scandals around misinformation, awful working conditions of platform workers, privacy issues, sexism, racial discrimination, and now negative environmental impacts. With the recent ecological dimension added to the existing critiques, thousands of tech workers have joined strikes, calling on big business to take on climate commitments. *This special issue of RESET aims to explore how environmental approaches can enhance our understanding of the digital, hoping to shed light on what reformist critiques and projects (mixing technical, legal, economic or social dimensions) do to the actors who confront the issue of building sustainable digital technologies. *The special issue aims to consider: the fields of political forces that are constituted around the mattering of environmental issues within tech industries; the actors and entities that were invisible until now; the new entrants legitimised by environmental problematisations; and finally, design, consumption and use practice transformations. We are looking for papers that situate their work in one for more of the following *research areas*: - Techno-ecological entanglements: symbioses, cohabitations and destructions, - Making visible and ordering: sabotage, mobilisation, quantification and administration, - Greening practices: from industrial optimisation to digital sobriety. Read the full call: https://journals.openedition.org/reset/4295 (EN) (call in French: https://journals.openedition.org/reset/4290) *Reset *is an open-access journal publishing empirical studies on digital technologies in French and English. The abstracts (500 words maximum) are due by* May 02, 2023.* They should be sent to the following addresses: - loup.cellard(a)unimelb.edu.au - clement.marquet(a)minesparis.psl.eu - journal.reset(a)gmail.com Response to authors:* late May 2023* Deadline for submission of papers (40,000 to 60,000 characters, including spaces and excluding bibliography): *September 30* Please share among your network ! Loup & Clément -- *Loup Cellard* <http://www.loupcellard.com>Editor at Tèque <https://revue-teque.fr/>, a tech criticism journal by Audimat éditions <https://audimat-editions.fr>, Paris, FR Research Fellow at ADM+S Centre <https://www.admscentre.org.au/>, Melbourne Law School, AU. Associate Member at Sciences-Po Médialab <https://medialab.sciencespo.fr/>, Paris, FR. Email : loupcellard(a)gmail.com Mobile AU : +61 467 689 732 Mobile FR : +33 7 87 00 84 22 Website : loupcellard.com <http://www.loupcellard.com/> Twitter : @CellardLoup <https://twitter.com/CellardLoup>

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Fwd: [AusSTS] Call for Applications: AusSTS 2023 Conference [July 17+18]
by Thao Phan 05 Mar '23

05 Mar '23

*AusSTS 2023* *Call for Applications Open* *17 - 18th July, UNSW Sydney* We are pleased to announce that the Call for Applications for AusSTS 2023 <https://aussts.wordpress.com/2023cfp/> is now open! We welcome participants *at all career stages* to share research and other work via short presentations or in a workshop format with pre-circulated written pieces. These can be on any topic or in any area that we might loosely think about as constituting a ‘contribution’ to Science and Technology Studies (STS) thinking. Participants are also welcome to contribute to AusSTS 2023 as a non-presenting attendee. *The AusSTS 2023 conference marks the first in a new alternating structure of AusSTS annual events. While the multi-sited and early-career focused workshop format of previous years will continue in 2024, this year (and every two years moving forward) we will hold a single AusSTS conference welcoming attendees at all career stages engaged in STS work across Australasia. This first AusSTS conference will be held in Sydney, Australia.* AusSTS 2023 will feature a series of discussions about what it means to contribute to and with Australasian STS. Our opening keynote will be a conversation with *Dr Thao Phan* (Monash University) and *Professor Celia Roberts* (ANU) on “Contributing to and with Feminist Technoscience.” This will be followed by a panel discussion centred on the question “What is an Australasian STS Contribution?” with *Dr Courtney Addison* (Te Herenga Waka-Victoria University of Wellington), *Dr Ash Watson* (UNSW), and *Associate Professor Thom van Dooren* (University of Sydney) *(more panel participants to be announced soon)*. The conference will also include a closing plenary bringing the various conference contributions into dialogue, as well as other opportunities for socialising and connection. Please read below for details and share widely with your networks: *Theme: “Contributing to and with STS”* *Date: Monday 17th and Tuesday 18th July, 2023* *Location: UNSW, Sydney* *Applications due: Sunday 9 April 2023* We invite scholars, writers, artists, and activists from any career stage to contribute to AusSTS 2023. Please submit an application to participate via one of the following formats: 1. *Submit an abstract for a short (5 minute) presentation or provocation.* Sessions will consist of 4–5 presentations followed by group discussion. 2. *Submit a proposal for a piece of written work* to be workshopped with AusSTS attendees. *Pieces of work can include papers or thought pieces (including works in progress), more speculative proposals of research, and other creative or non-traditional forms of translation and output. *Final submissions should be in a written format, between 1,000 and 3,000 words, and ready to be circulated amongst all attendees by 1 July 2023.* 3. *Register interest as a non-presenting attendee.* We welcome submissions from all disciplines and areas of expertise. We are interested in the many ways that scholars across Australasia are already engaged in the kinds of work and thinking we might consider a ‘contribution’ to and with STS. For full details, or to submit an application, visit: https://aussts.wordpress.com/2023cfp/ -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Australasian STS Grad Network (AusSTS)" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to AusSTSgrad+unsubscribe(a)googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web, visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/AusSTSgrad/DF69C29C-CA1A-424A-B4B0-6F97D8… <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/AusSTSgrad/DF69C29C-CA1A-424A-B4B0-6F97D8…> .

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