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Social Media + Society Special Issue CFP: Platform Economies in Digital Asia
by Yuan, Jingyan Elaine 02 Mar '23

02 Mar '23

Social Media + Society Special Issue Call For Paper Platform Economies in Digital Asia https://journals.sagepub.com/page/sms/collections/cfp Editors Elaine Jingyan Yuan, University of Illinois at Chicago Lin Zhang, University of New Hampshire Call The “platform turn” across many disciplines around 2010s thrusted to the forefront a new framework for understanding a distinct set of technological, economic, discursive practices of post-industrial digital economy. Early works in a fast-growing area of platform studies focused on the role of digital technology in organizing production and constructing (thereby distorting) the market in a growing range of social economic sectors. Silicon Valley platforms such as Facebook, Google, and Amazon often serve as the poster boys for how the platform exerts its power of algorithmic control, datafication, and financialization in shaping new organizational forms. The understanding of platforms as the new frontiers of the globalized digital economy has only gained further depth and nuances when situated outside the epicenter of Silicon Valley in other parts of the world, especially Asia, the world’s fastest growing region. Researchers, for example, traced the origins of the concept to the Japanese car industry and delineated an East Asian genealogy of platformization embedded in the historical trajectory towards post-Fordist flexible accumulation (Steinberg, 2019). The broad political economic approach to platform economy as a new form of social contract between the state, capital, and labor is being mapped out in, for instance, India and China, two economic powerhouses in the region. Indeed, empirical evidence from these countries informs us that, instead of being paradigmatically new, digital platforms often graft themselves onto existing regimes of production and exchange (e.g. Zhang, 2021) and reinvent local and traditional forms of the marketplace (e.g. Athique, 2019). Additionally, the thesis of infrastructuralization of platforms takes on concrete forms as governments in the region work with private platforms to provide infrastructures necessary for realizing their social projects, be it efficient governance, poverty reduction, or economic restructuring. Here capitalist tendencies of monopoly through network externalities and the impetus toward commodification of informal service markets and gray economies are likely subject to regulatory regimes serving different social imaginaries. The distinction between an infrastructure for public interests and a platform for private profits often manifests in the concrete interactions of state policy, corporate initiatives, and citizen participation in diverse local contexts (e.g. Mukherjee, 2019; Plantin & Punathambekar, 2019). Meanwhile, the informal labor regimes of the platforms prove to rely as much on the technical process of datafication and algorithmic control as on specific local dynamics, such as an energized urban middle-class consumers and impoverished rural economies after decades of economic liberalization in the region (e.g. Chen & Qiu, 2019; Yasih, 2022). The variegated local experiences, dynamism and heterogeneity of platform economies in Asia both complement and challenge Silicon Valley-centered narratives. They interrogate assumptions underpinning the mainstream platform studies while firmly situating “platform capitalism” in the extension and convergence of long-term tendencies in the history of global capitalism and in diverse local social and cultural contexts. At the same time, the engagement with the interdisciplinary conversation of platform studies carries the promise of re-energizing Asian studies to better grapple with some of its major challenges in Anglophone academia. Post-Cold-War Asian Studies has been driven by various agenda to shake off its orientalist and Cold War origins and their tenacious influences on how we produce knowledge about Asia (Schneider and Goto-Jones, 2015; Ludden, 1997). While much of the new Asian studies was folded into new discourses of globalization and post-colonial hybridity, others found ethical urgency in deploying “Asia as method,” calling for critical engagement with the “heterogenous Asian situation,” recognition of continued external and internal forces of colonialism and imperialism, and multiplication of “frames of references in our subjectivity and understanding” (Chen, 223; Anderson, 448). Commenting on what he calls the “new area studies,” South Asianist David Ludden observed that it constitutes some of “the most creative venues for studies of imperialism and imperial aspects of globalization,” as well as “a necessary counterweight to the decontextualizing force of universal globalism” (2003, p. 136) This “politics of imagining Asia” (Wang, 2011) has only become more contested recently with a surge in Anti-Asian sentiments during the Covid-19 pandemic and the intensification of a “new Cold War” centered around the US and China. Digital platforms and technologies are at the center of these new confrontations: from supply chain disruption and restructuring, inter-regional flows of capital, goods, technologies, and labor, new restrictions of foreign capital and businesses, to discursive battles over racism and xenophobia, and debates about different models of political governance and economic development. Indeed, Asia at the current conjuncture is fraught with tensions as the Post-Cold-War US-led global order is destabilized amid the contested rise of China and the growing interdependence of regional economies regardless of on-going US-China decoupling. Situated at the confluence of platform studies and Asian studies, this special issue intends to bring scholars working at the intersection of these two lines of scholarship together for productive dialogue. What could we gain by rethinking platform studies in and with Asia? How could our engagement with platforms help advance Asian studies at the new conjuncture? We invite contributors to ruminate on the following questions: Questions to think with * How do we reconcile the tension between exploring transnational and regional linkages and delineating local (regional, national, etc) path dependency? * How could we find a balance between close analysis of platform technological affordances/properties and thick description of locale/cultural/industry specificities and complexities? * How do we historicize and contextualize externally generated theories and problematizations rather than mechanically applying them in the study of “Asian cases,” thereby reinforcing a biased distinction between theory and its empirical application. * How could we de-provincialize platformization in Asia and/or provincialize existing theories of digital platforms produced based on Euro-American experiences to rethink platform studies in and with Asia without perpetuating existing binaries such as West vs. Asia? * How could we go beyond American-centrism and Sinocentrism or Sinophobia to re-imagine a more equitable and collaborative regional/global order? * In what ways does an engagement with digital platforms and digital tools contribute to methodological innovations in Asian studies? What are the epistemological implications of these new methods for our understanding of Asia? Potential Topics We welcome contributions in the form of either a full-length paper (8,000 words) or a short reflection essay (3-4,000 words), to address one or more of the following topics in relation to platforms/infrastructures * Histories and geopolitics * Transborder flows of technologies, ideas, people, capital, and goods * Local and indigenous knowledge as well as internal complexities, contradictions, heterogeneity and variegations * Racial, ethnic, gender, class/caste, and rural-urban inequalities, and national and regional imbalances * Decolonization and de-imperialization, legacies of colonialism, imperialism or neo-imperialism, both external and internal * The contested role of the state in governing platform economies, technoscientific nationalism * Tensions between development, equity, nationalism, and globalization * The impact of China’s contested rise and US-China decoupling on the region. * Exchanges and encounters between Asia and other Global South nations/regions (Africa, Latin America etc.) * Subject making and institutional formation * Comparative perspectives on digital technologies: continuities and ruptures from economic and social traditions Publication Timeline * June 1, 2023 Abstract due: * 800 to 1000-word for the full paper. The abstract should specify the issues or research questions to be discussed, the methodological or critical framework used, the expected findings and key concept(s) the paper engages with, and five key references. * 300 words for the commentary essay. It should outline a conceptual or methodological intervention that challenges existing scholarship on the topics * All abstracts should be sent to elainejyuan(a)gmail.com with the subject line “Social Media + Society special issue” * July 19, 2023 Notification of accepted abstracts * February 1, 2024. Full manuscript Due * Dec 31, 2024 Final revisions due (after two rounds of reviews) Elaine Jingyan Yuan Associate Professor & Director of Graduate Studies Department of Communication University of Illinois at Chicago The Web of Meaning: the Internet in a changing Chinese society (Toronto UP). 2022 NCA APAC Outstanding Book Award

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WEBCAST MAR 1 – IPNSIG Academy Talk 11: Space Policy, Perspective on IPN Governance – Scott Pace
by Joly MacFie 01 Mar '23

01 Mar '23

Whether the future of Interplanetary Networking governance will be multilateral or multistakeholder is yet to be determined. If anyone knows which way the (solar) wind is blowing it's Dr Pace. REAL TIME TEXT https://bit.ly/41Euc7O [image: isoc live] <https://isoc.live/16378>On *Wednesday March 1 2023* at *5pm-6pm EST* (22:00-23:00 UTC) the *Interplanetary Networking Special Interest Group <https://ipnsig.org/>* (IPNSIG) presents the 11th *IPNSIG Academy <https://ipnsig.org/ipnsig-academy-events/>* presentation. '*Space Policy, Perspective on IPN Governance <https://ipnsig.org/2023/02/24/speaker-moderator-bios-for-march-ipnsig-acade…>* '. When humans last visited the lunar surface, the internet did not exist and all communications and navigation functions were under the control of a single country (the United States). This presentation briefly covers primary governance issues, from numbering conventions and spectrum allocations, to time standards and domain definitions. The issues are broader than those covered by the Internet Engineering Task Force, and builders of the interplanetary internet will have to navigate among multiple organizations, including the United Nations, and Artemis Accord signatories. There are no fundamental barriers, but it is important to think about governance issues early so as to prioritize technical and political resources while avoiding delays and unnecessary frictions. *SPEAKER* *Dr. Scott Pace*, Director, *Space Policy Institute <https://ipnsig.org/ipnsig-academy-events/>* / Institute for International Science and Technology Policy / MA International Science and Technology Policy, Elliott School of International Affairs, George Washington University *MODERATOR* *Dr. Vint Cerf,* Vice President / Chief Internet Evangelist, Google *LIVESTREAM http://livestream.com/internetsociety/ipnsigacademy11 <http://livestream.com/internetsociety/ipnsigacademy11>* *PARTICIPATE VIA ZOOM https://bit.ly/3y7HbRP <https://bit.ly/3y7HbRP>* *REAL TIME TEXT* (see isoc.live <https://isoc.live/16378>) *TWITTER #IPNSIGacademy <https://bit.ly/3wkSJBq> #DTN #netgov @IPNSIG Scott Pace @Space_Policy @ElliottSchoolGW @vgcerf #space * *MASTODON #IPNSIGacademy <https://mastodon.social/tags/IPNSIGacademy> * *SIMULCASTS* *https://www.twitter.com/ISOC_Live/ <https://www.twitter.com/ISOC_Live/>* *https://www.twitch.tv/isoclive <https://www.twitch.tv/isoclive>* *https://www.facebook.com/liveisoc/ <https://www.facebook.com/liveisoc/> (*AI Captions) *ARCHIVE* *https://archive.org/details/ipnsigacademy11 <https://archive.org/details/ipnsigacademy11>* *Permalink https://isoc.live/16378 <https://isoc.live/16378>* -

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SAGE Webinar: Teaching Computational Social Science
by Janet Salmons 01 Mar '23

01 Mar '23

Join us for a lively SAGE Methodspace webinar, Teaching Computational Social Science. Thursday March 23rd, 2 pm EST / 6 pm GMT Registration information is here: https://bit.ly/3XZ6obP This webinar will offer practical tips to improve your instructional practice or guidance with student researchers. Panelists are: * Dr. Matti Nelimarkka, author of the new book Computational Thinking and Social Science: Combining Programming, Methodologies and Fundamental Concepts, and university lecturer at the University of Helsinki, and Aalto University, Finland. (See https://bit.ly/3y0eMNw) * Dr. Friedolin Merhout, assistant professor at the Sociologisk Institut at the University of Copenhagen, Denmark. He is the Director of Graduate Studies for the interdisciplinary MSc in Social Data Science. Nelimarkka and Merhout will discuss strategies for engaging with students and building the skills needed to design, plan, and conduct studies using computational social science methods. They will offer examples from their own experience in course design and teaching - including how to work past problems students sometimes have when trying to learn these complex concepts. See a related post by Nelimarkka on Methodspace: "Research design with computing: Something old, something new" https://bit.ly/3RnRudG Janet Salmons, PhD (She/her/hers) Research Community Manager, SAGE MethodSpace Boulder, Colorado USA Janet.salmons(a)Sagepub.com

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Open Faculty Position: Professor of Technology, Ethics, and Poverty
by Nicole McAlee 01 Mar '23

01 Mar '23

Hello all, Please find below information about a job posting at the University of Notre Dame in Notre Dame, IN, USA: *Open Faculty Position: Professor of Technology, Ethics, and Poverty* The University of Notre Dame’s Keough School of Global Affairs, in conjunction with the Notre Dame Technology Ethics Center (ND TEC), invites applicants for a tenure-track (open-rank) professorship focused in the area of technology, ethics, and poverty. For an accomplished senior candidate, an endowed chair would be considered. Learn More About the Position <https://techethics.nd.edu/news-and-events/news/open-faculty-position-profes…> Questions can be directed to Patrizio Piraino at ppiraino(a)nd.edu. Many thanks, Nicole -- *Nicole McAlee* Program Manager Notre Dame-IBM Technology Ethics Lab 204 O'Shaughnessy Hall Notre Dame, IN 46556

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10th European Conference On Service-Oriented And Cloud Computing (ESOCC 2023): Third Call for Submissions
by Announce Announcements 01 Mar '23

01 Mar '23

*** Third Call for Submissions *** 10th European Conference On Service-Oriented And Cloud Computing (ESOCC 2023) October 24-26, 2023, Golden Bay Beach Hotel, Larnaca, Cyprus https://cyprusconferences.org/esocc2023/ (Proceedings to be published in Springer LNCS; Journal Special Issue with Springer Computing) AIM AND SCOPE Nowadays, Service-Oriented and Cloud Computing are the primary approaches to build large-scale distributed systems and deliver software services to end users. Cloud-native software is pervading the delivery of enterprise applications, as they are composed of (micro)services that can be independently developed and deployed by exploiting multiple heterogeneous technologies. Resulting applications are polyglot service compositions that can then be shipped in serverful or serverless platforms (e.g., using virtualization technologies). These characteristics make Service-Oriented and Cloud Computing the natural answers for fulfilling the industry’s need for flexibly scalable and maintainable enterprise applications, to be delivered through state-of-the-art methodologies, like DevOps. To further support this, researchers and practitioners need to create methods, tools and techniques to support cost-effective and secure development as well as use of dependable devices, platforms, services and service-oriented applications in the Cloud, now also considering the Cloud-IoT computing continuum to exploit widespread adoption of smart connected things and the increasing growth of their computing capabilities. The European Conference on Service-Oriented and Cloud Computing (ESOCC) is the premier conference on advances in the state-of-the-art and practice of Service-Oriented Computing and Cloud Computing in Europe. ESOCC aims to facilitate the exchange between researchers and practitioners in the areas of Service-Oriented Computing and Cloud Computing, as well as to explore the new trends in those areas and foster future collaborations in Europe and beyond. TOPICS OF INTEREST ESOCC 2023 seeks original, high-quality contributions related to all aspects of Service-Oriented and Cloud computing. Specific topics of interest include, but are not limited to: • Applications for Service-Oriented and Cloud Computing, e.g., big data, commerce, energy, finance, health, scientific computing, smart cities • Blockchains for Service-Oriented and Cloud Computing • Business aspects of Service-Oriented and Cloud Computing, e.g., business models, brokerage, marketplaces, costs, pricing • Business processes, e.g., service-based workflow deployment and management • Cloud interoperability, service and Cloud standards, • Cloud-IoT computing continuum, e.g., edge computing, fog computing, mobility computing, next generation services/IoT • Cloud-native architectures and paradigms, e.g., microservices and DevOps • Cloud service models, e.g., IaaS, PaaS, SaaS, DBaaS, FaaS, etc. • Deployment, composition, and management of applications in Service-Oriented and Cloud Computing • Foundations and formal methods for Service-Oriented and Cloud Computing • Enablers for Service-Oriented and Cloud Computing, e.g., service discovery, orchestration, matchmaking, monitoring, and analytics • Model-Driven Engineering for Service-Oriented and Cloud Computing • Multi-Cloud, cross-Cloud, and federated Cloud solutions • Requirements engineering, design, development, and testing of applications in Service-Oriented and Cloud Computing • Semantic services and service mining • Service and Cloud middlewares and platforms • Software/service adaptation and evolution in Service-Oriented and Cloud Computing • Storage, computation and network Clouds • Sustainability and energy issues in Service-Oriented and Cloud Computing • Quality aspects (e.g., governance, privacy, security, and trust) of Service-Oriented and Cloud Computing • Quality of Service (QoS) and Service-Level Agreement (SLA) for Service-Oriented and Cloud Computing • Social aspects of Service-Oriented and Cloud Computing, e.g., crowdsourcing services, social and crowd-based Clouds • Virtualization for Service-Oriented and Cloud Computing, e.g., serverless, container-based virtualization, VMs IMPORTANT DATES • Submission of abstracts: June 4th, 2023 (AoE) • Submission of full papers: June 11th, 2023 (AoE) • Notification to authors: July 14th, 2023 (AoE) • Camera-ready versions due: July 31st, 2023 (AoE) TYPES OF SUBMISSIONS ESOCC 2023 invites submissions of the following kinds: • Regular Research Papers (15 pages including references, for the technical and special tracks) • PhD Symposium (12 pages including references) • Projects and Industry Reports (Projects and Industry Reports (1 to 6 pages including references, describing an ongoing EU or national project, or providing industrial perspectives on innovative applications, technologies, or methods in ESOCC’s scope) We only accept original papers, not submitted for publication elsewhere. The papers must be formatted according to the proceedings guidelines of Springer’s Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) series (http://www.springer.com/lncs) They must be submitted to the EasyChair site at:  https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=esocc2023 by selecting the right track. Accepted papers from all tracks will be published in the main conference proceedings by Springer in the LNCS series. For publication to happen, at least one author of each accepted paper is expected to register and present the work at the conference. The best papers accepted will be invited to submit extended versions for a Journal Special Issue to be published by Springer Computing. ORGANISATION General Chair • George A. Papadopoulos, University of Cyprus, CY (george at ucy.ac.cy) Program Chairs • Florian Rademacher, University of Applied Sciences and Arts Dortmund, DE (florian.rademacher at fh-dortmund.de) • Jacopo Soldani, University of Pisa, IT (jacopo.soldani at unipi.it) Steering and Program Committee https://cyprusconferences.org/esocc2023/committees/

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Job announcement: Assistant/associate/full professor (tenure track) of communication sciences at LUT, Finland
by Anna Rantasila 01 Mar '23

01 Mar '23

Dear AoiR folx, The Lappeenranta University of Technology in Finland is looking for 1 to 3 assistant/associate/ full professors to Communication Sciences. Please see the full job advertisement here: https://lut.rekrytointi.com/paikat/index.php?jid=853&o=A_RJ The closing date for applications is 28 March 2023 at midnight, Finnish local time (UTC + 3 h). Please submit your application by filling out the online form found at the link above. The professorship is located at the Department of Social Sciences of the School of Engineering Sciences at LUT University. The position is at the assistant, associate or full professor level of the tenure track and will be filled through an open call for a fixed term of four years (assistant/associate professor) or permanently (full professor). In 2022, LUT University received the right to establish a department of Social Sciences and provide education leading to the degrees of B.Sc., M.Sc. and D.Sc. in social sciences and communication sciences. Communication Sciences at LUT University explores communication and interaction, media and communication technology and the role of communication in organizations and sustainable development of the society. We are looking for dedicated professionals in the fields of organisational and/or strategic communication with a special emphasis on the role of communication in sustainability (e.g., sustainability/CSR communication, environmental communication, responsible organisational communication practices). Our research currently focuses on the following topics: * impact of social media in the working life * digital media technologies and emotions * science and crisis communication, and * sustainability communication. The general duties related to the field of research include the following: * high-impact international research * planning and implementation of undergraduate and postgraduate education * supervision of final theses and postgraduate studies * acquisition of research funding * cost-conscious leadership and project management * preparation of national and international research and education projects * increasing awareness in a way that serves industries * close collaboration and interaction with businesses in the field * taking part in the preparation of projects in other LUT units as an expert * general administrative work related to the university's operation. The candidates must present strong research achievements in the focus areas above and proof of successful project work and research collaboration with research institutions and industry. The candidates must have research and teaching merits. Spoken and written fluency in English is also required. The appointment process description<https://www.lut.fi/sites/default/files/media/documents/Description%20of%20a…> explains the qualification requirements and tenure track appointment criteria. Please specify the tenure track level applied to. The professorship is located at LUT University's Lappeenranta campus. The position starts with a six-month trial period. The salary is determined according to the salary system for university teaching and research personnel. The pay will include an individual pay component based on performance and competence. The annual gross salary for an assistant/associate professor amounts to 46 700 - 62 800 euros and full professor to 65 300 - 96 800 euros depending on the qualifications and experience of the candidate. For further information, please contact Matti Kojo, associate professor and head of the Department of Social Sciences, matti.kojo(a)lut.fi<mailto:matti.kojo@lut.fi>. With Kind Regards, Dr. Anna Rantasila anna.rantasila(a)lut.fi<mailto:anna.rantasila@lut.fi> +358 50 3223039 Univeristy Lecturer, Communication Sciences School of Engineering Sciences LUT University

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