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Job Posting: Assistant Professor of Communication, Topical Focus in Health and UNC Charlotte Trash
by Justin Grandinetti 29 Sep '23

29 Sep '23

The Department of Communication Studies at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte invites applications for a tenure-track position in health and medical communication at the rank of Assistant Professor beginning August 15, 2024. Required qualifications include a Ph.D. in Communication Studies or a related area, along with the demonstration of: - An active research agenda that can lead to significant publications and external grants - The ability to teach courses in the theory, research, and practice of communication studies, with a topical focus in health - A commitment and ability to work with a diverse student population of undergraduate and graduate students - Dedication to interdisciplinary work and inter-university research opportunities The department seeks a versatile scholar who excels in an interdisciplinary environment, both within the department and on campus more broadly. We welcome applications from candidates with research interests in health and are open to scholars who are situated within or across any of the concentration areas in the department, including: health communication; organizational communication; media and technology studies; rhetoric, culture, and social change; and/or public relations. Ideally, the successful candidate should have familiarity with quantitative, mixed, critical, or emerging methodologies; demonstrate potential for community-engaged scholarship; and align their research with one or more of the university’s Research Areas of Focus and Distinction ( https://research.charlotte.edu/research-areas-focus-and-distinction <http://send.natcom.org/link.cfm?r=EZOsG_La6sjNGevnx9n2Gw~~&pe=paYTiH-ButtRl…>), including but not limited to socioeconomic mobility, urban health, migration and diaspora studies. They should be able to participate in multidisciplinary teams in the college and at the university and demonstrate potential for collaborations with faculty in the department that support the University’s “top tier” research mission. The department also seeks a committed teacher who can situate themselves within the university’s Strategic Plan ( https://strategicplan.charlotte.edu/full-plan-and-glossary <http://send.natcom.org/link.cfm?r=EZOsG_La6sjNGevnx9n2Gw~~&pe=QKN3mu93vpniK…>), which has a particular focus on engaging a diverse student body that includes many first generation, transfer, military, working, and non-traditional students. Finalists will be asked to discuss how their teaching practices engage students of different ages, races, ethnicities, backgrounds, identities, and abilities, helping to remove barriers in order to ensure the success of all students regardless of their entry pathway into the university. Successful candidates will teach undergraduate and Master’s students in the Department of Communication Studies. The standard teaching load is two classes each semester during the probationary period. Depending on scholarly interest, candidates may affiliate with doctoral programs (e.g., Organizational Science, Health Psychology, Public Health Sciences) or undergraduate programs (e.g., Data Science, Health and Medical Humanities, Capitalism Studies). The University of North Carolina at Charlotte (https://www.charlotte.edu/ <http://send.natcom.org/link.cfm?r=EZOsG_La6sjNGevnx9n2Gw~~&pe=4HTSpE1n76RHt…>) is a doctoral, research-intensive urban university, located on an expanding modern campus. The second largest of the 16 UNC System campuses, UNC Charlotte is a diverse and inclusive institution, offering more than 30,000 culturally and ethnically varied students a wide range of undergraduate and graduate degree programs. The University is a Carnegie Foundation Community Engagement campus and an APLU Innovation and Economic Prosperity University. It supports faculty with excellent family and medical leave policies, junior faculty development awards, internal faculty research grant opportunities, and other research opportunities. Charlotte offers a dynamic space to live, work and connect for faculty, students, alumni, and staff, with its outstanding cultural, recreational, and business amenities. As the 15th largest U.S. city, Charlotte is consistently ranked as one of the best cities to live (#20 on the 2021-22 list by U.S. News and World Report). The Department of Communication Studies ( https://communication.charlotte.edu/ <http://send.natcom.org/link.cfm?r=EZOsG_La6sjNGevnx9n2Gw~~&pe=w4_rILKOmwX9z…>) has 27 full-time faculty with areas of emphasis in health communication; organizational communication; public relations; media and technology studies; and rhetoric, culture, and social change. The department serves approximately 870 majors and minors and 25 Master’s students. The department’s primary mission is to provide high quality instruction to its undergraduate and graduate students, and to contribute significantly to the understanding of communication issues as they affect people’s lives, especially in the Charlotte metropolitan region. Through its teaching, scholarship and service the department is committed to serving diverse populations. The review of applications will begin October 22, 2023 and will continue until the position is filled. Applicants must apply electronically at https://jobs.charlotte.edu/ <http://send.natcom.org/link.cfm?r=EZOsG_La6sjNGevnx9n2Gw~~&pe=LgfvoLnHLOYgN…>, position #5313. Please upload a cover letter responding to the qualifications listed above, a current CV, and contact information for three references. Contact Dr. Erin Basinger (erin.basinger(a)charlotte.edu, Search Committee Chair), or Dr. Dan Grano (dgrano(a)charlotte.edu, Chair of the Department of Communication Studies) with questions. As an EOE/AA employer and an ADVANCE Institution that strives to create an academic climate in which the dignity of all individuals is respected and maintained; the University of North Carolina at Charlotte encourages applications from all underrepresented groups. The candidate chosen for this position will be subject to criminal background check and will be required to provide an official transcript of their highest earned degree. This institution does not offer benefits to domestic partners. This institution offers benefits to spouses. This institution provides the following trans-affirming healthcare coverage: - None: Our healthcare plan does not include trans-affirming healthcare coverage for TGE faculty This institution provides the following support - This institution does not provide support for faculty-parents of TGE youth.

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CfP: Infrastructure grad conference at UC—Irvine (3/8—3/9 2024)
by Alexander Rudenshiold 28 Sep '23

28 Sep '23

Hi all! Excited to share (and sorry for any cross-posting) that next March 8th and 9th here at UC—Irvine we will be hosting an interdisciplinary graduate student conference (post-docs are also welcome) themed around critical approaches to infrastructure studies. If you are a grad student in Southern California, I’d strongly encourage you to apply! If you’re advising a grad student in the area, please pass this CfP along! We’re very excited to have Dr. Lisa Parks as a keynote representing contemporary approaches to infrastructure. This will be a great opportunity for students to connect with faculty and peers conducting like-minded work with a variety of different theoretical and methodological approaches. You will find that the potential topics are wide-ranging so as to encourage all kinds of submissions. Thank you in advance for sharing! — Alex > In the Burrow: Critical Approaches to Infrastructure Studies > Dates: March 8th & 9th 2024 > Place: University of California—Irvine > Keynotes: Dr. Lisa Parks (UCSB) & Dr. John Hopkins (NYU) > > This work is a rhizome, a burrow...We will enter, then, by any point whatsoever; none matters more than another, and no entrance is more privileged even if it seems an impasse, a tight passage, a siphon. > — Deleuze & Guattari, Toward a Minor Literature > > This conference seeks to bring together early career scholars (graduate students and postdoctoral scholars are particularly encouraged) to encounter one another’s infrastructural interests and perspectives. Papers which take an infrastructural approach to the ancient and premodern technologies are encouraged alongside those on modern and contemporary material; authors who take up infrastructure as object, method, both, or otherwise in their work on archaeology or media archeology, anthropology, informatics, literary studies, or art history, as well as other fields in the humanities and social sciences are all encouraged to participate. > > Burrowing describes a laborious process of moving through a dense medium — of confronting a mundane materiality with one’s own bodily experience. The burrow maps the void left by an organism through time within a subterranean, subaltern, or otherwise subliminal environment. Burrowing requires the adoption of an infrastructural disposition towards the world. > > From a desertified minor literature to the phatic labor of human speech acts to water conduits and digital media, the study of infrastructure has drawn upon, brought together, and absorbed a wide variety of discourses across the humanities and social sciences. Infrastructure encourages perspectives ‘from below,’ it excavates subsumed and alternative landscapes; it sublimates parallel biological and material worlds, giving breath to their underlying possibilities for life. As pipes, aqueducts, roads, fiber optic cables, maintenance labor, and catacombs — as minor literatures, artifacts, and temporalities — infrastructures offer us conceptual burrows with which to overhaul and undermine scholarly perspectives and methods which are often rooted in the nodes and networks articulated from positions of power and historical privilege. > > Papers might address topics ranging from (but not limited to): > Ancient economies and networks > Moments of deinvisibilization and rupture > Videogames: structures, simulations, simulacra > Visual, cultural representations of infrastructure > Premodern gift exchange > The living body as landscape > People as infrastructure: beyond flat ontology > Word of mouth, gossip, and hubbub > Environmental time in the urban landscape > Circulation and flow (or backflow) > Sublimated material relations > Affect and infrastructures of feeling > Wires, clouds, digital metaphors > Practices of minor mapping > Writing from below: hidden, subsumed, subliminal > Making and growing living infrastructures > Catacombs, cults, cryptids, concatenations > Send 300-500 word abstracts to uciinfrastructure2024(a)gmail.com by 11/15/2023. Please direct any questions to the above email as well. We hope to return decisions by 12/1/2023. Written papers (20 minute presentations) will be due a week prior to the conference. Panels will be assembled by theme rather than by discipline, and will be chaired by UCI faculty respondents who will facilitate discussion across talks within a panel. Organizers are in talks with the editors of AfterImage: The Journal of Media Arts and Cultural Criticism to construct a special issue based on the presentations made at this conference. >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Alexander <https://twitter.com/rudenshiold>@ <https://twitter.com/rudenshiold>Rudenshiold <https://twitter.com/rudenshiold> Film & Media Ph.D. student + UAW 2865 dept. steward + CATS Lab @ UC – Irvine Media, Culture, & Tech M.A. @ U.Va. rudenshiold.com <https://rudenshiold.com/> // Infant Island <https://infantisland.bandcamp.com/> // Mattachine <https://mattachine.bandcamp.com/>

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Socio-Informatics - An Antology of 25 Years of Research: online now (open access)
by Aal, Konstantin 28 Sep '23

28 Sep '23

Dear colleagues, I gladly like to inform you that the Anthology of 25 Years of Research in Socio-Informatics at the University of Siegen is now online: https://www.iisi.de/en/2022_conference/e-reader/ Based on a collection of some 30 papers , the anthology also contains opinion pieces by Mark Ackerman (University of Michigan), Lance Bennett (University of Washington), Alan Borning (University of Washington), Geoff Bowker (University of California, Irvene), Peter Broedner (University of Siegen), Gerhard Fischer (University of Colorado), Geraldine Fitzpatrick (TU Vienna), Sigrid Kannengiesser (University of Muenster(, Kari Kuutti (University of Oulu), Anders Morch (University of Oslo), and Prob Procter (University of Warwick). Additionally you can find: (1) Introduction to Socio Informatics: Socio-Informatical Design for Social Practices – An Introduction to 25 Years of Research:https://www.iisi.de/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/IRSIV19I1.pdf (2) Documentation of invited talks: Reflections on Socio-Informatics: Design for Social Practices: https://www.iisi.de/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/irsi_V19I4.pdf I hope you will find these materials interesting! My best, Konstantin -- Konstantin Aal Research assistant and PhD student pronouns: he/him/his Information Systems and New Media SFB 1187 "Medien der Kooperation" University of Siegen Kohlbettstr. 15, 57072 Siegen Raum. US-E-102 Tel. +49 (0)271 / 740 3383 Mob. +49 (0)176 / 30 780 007 http://www.uni-siegen.de/fb5/wirtschaftsinformatik/index.html.en?lang=en

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Senior Research and Teaching Associate/Postdoc Position in Media & Internet Governance, University of Zurich
by Alena Birrer 28 Sep '23

28 Sep '23

Dear community members, The Media & Internet Governance Division (Prof. Dr. Natascha Just) of the Department of Communication and Media Research at the University of Zurich invites applications for an open position of Senior Research and Teaching Associate/Postdoc (80%). Start of employment: at the earliest possible / upon agreement. The Media & Internet Governance Division studies media policy and media economics in the convergent communications sector. Alongside research on traditional mass media, the division focuses on Internet Governance and Platform Studies. The successful applicant will work on dedicated topics that align with the division's research program. Further information and application details: https://jobs.uzh.ch/offene-stellen/senior-research-and-teaching-associate-p… Review of applications starts immediately, but the position will remain open until a qualified candidate is found. Please contact Alena Birrer, MA (a.birrer(a)ikmz.uzh.ch<mailto:a.birrer@ikmz.uzh.ch>) if you have any questions.

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Call for ART. Book project: realities of Autonomous Weapon Systems
by Jascha Bareis 28 Sep '23

28 Sep '23

--- please also forward to other artists and tech & art affiliated mailing lists / universities --- The realities of autonomous weapons Call for Art (full call attached) This call for art invites work that advances synergies between artistic and academic publishing. The book project “The realities of autonomous weapons” explores this controversial technology by analysing the imagined futures that are associated with military AI. It covers not only political images and narratives but also fictional expressions and interpretations. The ties between fact and fiction are characteristic of the different realities that autonomous weapons systems (AWS) embody. To strengthen these connections, the editors are looking for a contribution coming from the visual arts that helps make sense of these complex relations between fact and fiction, the virtual and the real. What we are looking for: * - A chapter of artistic works that feature the hybrid space of autonomous weapon systems, illustrated in a short portfolio of 10-15 pages & an abstract of 250 words of description. * - Chapter portfolio in pdf. Artworks have be a minimum 300 dpi. Text in a supplementary file in Word, pdf, or rtf. What we offer: * - The selected artist will be featured in a comprehensive chapter of the printed book (fully open access) next to the academic texts. * - Further, the selected artist will be featured on a website where we host the academic chapters. * - The book will be disseminated widely by the publisher and the editors to different academic, public and art institutions - trying to enable further synergies and collaborations between artists and publishers. * - A royalty of 1000 euros. The volume is open access and will be published with Bristol University Press in 2024. Please submit your proposals by November 10, 2023 via autonomous-weapons(a)hiig.de 0. Thomas Christian Bächle Alexander von Humboldt Institute for Internet and Society, Berlin Jascha Bareis Institute for Technology Assessment and Systems Analysis, Karlsruhe

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Global Media and China Published the Latest Special Issue—September 2023
by Xiao Han 28 Sep '23

28 Sep '23

Dear All, We are pleased to announce that our journal, Global Media and China, has published its latest issue (Volume 8, Issue 3, September 2023). And also we sincerely welcome your contribution to our journals. If you are interested and have the time, it is a great honour for us to receive your submission. Here is the submission portal: https://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/gmac. For more information about Global Media and China, please go to gch.sagepub.com. You can also find detailed submission guidelines there. You can freely read this new issue at: https://journals.sagepub.com/toc/GCH/current (Follow us at Twitter: https://twitter.com/GCHjournal) *Special Issue: China’s digital infrastructure: Networks, systems, standards* *Guest Editor: * *Gabriele de Seta* *Introduction:* *China’s digital infrastructure: Networks, systems, standards* *Gabriele de Seta* https://doi.org/10.1177/20594364231202203 *Special Issue Articles:* *Discourse as infrastructure: How “New Infrastructure” policies re-infrastructure China* *Yichen Rao* https://doi.org/10.1177/20594364231198605 *Geopolitics in the infrastructural ideology of 5G* *Maxigas** and **Niels ten Oever* https://doi.org/10.1177/20594364231193950 *Technologies of migration and citizenship: Life and work at the base of Shanghai’s digital infrastructure stack* *Leif Johnson* https://doi.org/10.1177/20594364231188201 *Civilized cities or social credit? Overlap and tension between emergent governance infrastructures in China* *Alexander Trauth-Goik* https://doi.org/10.1177/20594364231163444 *Surveillance infrastructure in China: Key concepts and mechanisms enhancing the Party-state’s governance ambitions* *Susan Trevaskes** and **Ausma Bernot* https://doi.org/10.1177/20594364231171013 *Infrastructure at home: Technology, intimacy, and ageing in China* *Gladys Pak Lei Chong* https://doi.org/10.1177/20594364231184109 *QR code: The global making of an infrastructural gateway* *Gabriele de Seta* https://doi.org/10.1177/20594364231183618 *Health Code as ‘access infrastructure’: Innovative practices and concerns of mediated governance* *Yu Zou** and **Jing Di* https://doi.org/10.1177/20594364231184110 * <https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/20594364231198289>* *Connectivity, centrality, and adaptation: The coproduction of political space in China’s standardization of autonomous driving technologies <https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/20594364231198289>* *Nicolas Huppenbauer* https://doi.org/10.1177/20594364231198289

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WEBCAST SEP 28 – 4th GFCE Triple-I workshop in India
by Joly MacFie 28 Sep '23

28 Sep '23

This is under way. Full programme! Morning Real Time Text is https://bit.ly/3F09nJO [image: ISOC LIVE] <https://isoc.live/16920>On *Thursday 28th September 2023* the *4th GFCE Triple-I workshop in India <https://triple-i-workshop-2023.gfce-events.com/>* will be held at the Indian Institute of Technology in Guwahati (IIT-G), and in conjunction with *InSIG 2023 <https://insig.in/>*. The *GFCE Triple-I initiative <https://thegfce.org/>* facilitates awareness raising and capacity building events in different regions of the world in order to enhance justified trust in the use of Internet and/or email in those regions through multistakeholder cooperation. This workshop is fully devoted to support the *Digital India Action plan <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_India>*, and aims at bringing together local stakeholders with local, national and global experts to explore together what steps to take to enhance justified trust in the use of the Internet and/or email in the region. *PROGRAMME* (All times IST = UTC+5.5) *https://triple-i-workshop-2023.gfce-events.com/page/1352843 <https://triple-i-workshop-2023.gfce-events.com/page/1352843>* *09:00 Opening by Host and Moderator: Welcome and Intent of the Day* *Satish Babu*, India School for Internet Governance *Maarten Botterman*., GFCE Triple-I moderator, *Prof. Sukumar Nandi*, Senior Professor, Department of Computer Science & Engineering, India Institute of Technology, Guwahati *09:30 Block I: Better Use of Today’s Open Internet Standards*: *Section 1: DNSSEC, TLS and DANE*: *Yazid Akanho* and *Jia Rong Low* (ICANN) *Section 2: RPKI and ROA: APNIC* – *Terry Sweetser* (APNIC) *Section 3: DMARC, DKIM, SPF* – *Gerasim Hovhannisyan* (EasyDMARC) *Section 4: IPv6: Anurag Bhatia* (Hurricane Electric) *Section 5: Current status of adoption based on internet.nl <http://internet.nl/> measuring: **Anand Raje*. *11:15 Block II part 1: Inspiration from Good Practice Actions* *Internet Resilience Index*: *Sarah Lake* (ISOC) *MANRS: * *Anand Raje* (MANRS Ambassador) *KINDNS: Jia Rong Low* (ICANN). *13:30 Block II part 2: Inspiration from Good Practice Actions* *DDOS mitigation: Octavia de Weerdt*, NBIP *IoT security: Maarten Botterman* (IGF DC IoT) *UA/IDN status overview for India: Jia-Rong Low (ICANN), Anil Jain* (NIXI/UASG) *15:15 Block III: Planning for a More Trusted Internet: Marketplace for Action* Facilitated brainstorm *16:45 Conclusions and Closing Remarks* *MODERATOR* *Maarten Botterman*, GFCE Triple I Coordinator *LIVESTREAM https://livestream.com/internetsociety/GFCE-India4 <https://livestream.com/internetsociety/GFCE-India4>* *REAL TIME TEXT* (see *ISOC.LIVE <https://isoc.live/16920>*) *TWITTER #theGFCE <https://bit.ly/theGFCE> #CyberCapacityBuilding @theGFCE* *MASTODON #theGFCE <https://mastodon.social/tags/theGFCE>* *SIMULCASTS* *https://twitter.com/ISOC_Live <https://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/GFCE-India4 <https://archive.org/details/GFCE-India4>* *Permalink https://isoc.live/16920 <https://isoc.live/16920>* - -- -------------------------------------- Joly MacFie +12185659365 -------------------------------------- -

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Schedule Unveiled for the 2023 Connected Learning Summit
by Cindy Hau 27 Sep '23

27 Sep '23

CLS2023 Schedule Now Available! The schedule for the 2023 Connected Learning Summit is now available! View the schedule <https://connectedlearning.news/CLS2023-Schedule-LS> & register today <https://connectedlearning.news/CLS2023-Register-LS> to start planning your time at the summit. ------------------------------ Our Program Our program will start on October 26 with a pre-conference day for conversation around topics of shared interest, including affinity group meetings, as well as meetups for Research Paper and Showcase contributors. The Main Conference, on October 27-28, will include keynote talks <https://clalliance.org/blog/announcing-the-keynotes-for-the-2023-connected-…> from Dr. Luci Pangrazio and Diana Nucera AKA Mother Cyborg, plenary sessions, and workshops organized by CLA partners. The majority of the event will be programmed during work hours in North America, but will also include some programming in the morning hours of Asia and Australia. ------------------------------ Certificates Starting this year (2023), we’re offering professional development certificates for CLS attendance upon request, which can be displayed on websites or social media platforms such as Linkedin. ------------------------------ Need Group Discounts for Students and Practitioners? We have had requests to purchase group registrations to better facilitate student and practitioner participation. There are a number of exciting workshops and sessions on: games & learning, computing & AI, connected wellbeing, and digital literacies. If you would like to purchase a registration bundle, please contact Don Miller (donmiller(a)connectedcamps.com) to create a custom solution and discount. ------------------------------ About the Connected Learning Summit With a unique focus on cross-sector connections and progressive and catalytic innovation, the Connected Learning Summit brings together leading researchers, educators, and developers. Our mission is to fuel a growing movement of innovators harnessing the power of emerging technology to expand access to participatory, playful, and creative learning. We offer a variety of sponsorship opportunities for organizations to demonstrate their commitment to connected learning while aligning with their goals and initiatives. CLS was first convened in 2018 <https://2018.connectedlearningsummit.org/>, launched as a merger between three community events with this shared vision and values: the Digital Media and Learning Conference <https://dmlhub.net/conference/index.html>, the Games+Learning+Society Conference <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Games,_Learning_%26_Society_Conference>, and Sandbox Summit <https://www.pgpedia.com/s/sandbox-summit>. The hosting and stewardship of the event has continued to evolve in tandem with the changing conditions of the global pandemic. The UC Irvine’s Connected Learning Lab <https://connectedlearning.uci.edu/> and MIT’s Scheller Teacher Education Program and Education Arcade <https://education.mit.edu/> were the founding hosts of the event. As we have moved online and become a more international event, we have expanded our roster of partners and hosts. For more information, please visit our website <https://connectedlearningsummit.org/> and sign up for updates <https://connectedlearningsummit.org/about/> about the Connected Learning Summit.

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HICSS 57 Workshop on Systemic Abuse of Power featuring Safiya Umoja Noble, Sarah T. Roberts, and Jon Vaughn
by Ocepek, Melissa G 27 Sep '23

27 Sep '23

Dear Colleagues, Please consider registering for our workshop, Envisioning and Realizing the Democratizing Power of System Sciences to Combat Systemic Abuses of Power at the upcoming HICSS 57<https://hicss.hawaii.edu/> on January 3rd in Honolulu, HI. The workshop will feature notable scholars, Safiya Umoja Noble (Algorithms of Oppression: How Search Engines Reinforce Racism) and Sarah T. Roberts (Behind the Screen: Content Moderation in the Shadows of Social Media), along with abuse survivor, activist, and former NFL Player Jon Vaughn. Please see the full workshop description below and let us know if you have any questions or would like more information. (W) Envisioning and Realizing the Democratizing Power of System Sciences to Combat Systemic Abuses of Power<https://hicss.hawaii.edu/swt/#w-envisioning-and-realizing-the-democratizing…> The goal of the workshop is to interactively engage diverse participants to develop a preliminary strategy to apply system sciences to collaboratively addressing the problem of systemic abuses of power in academia and beyond, as well as to outline a corresponding scientific research agenda; the workshop aspires to catalyze a foundation that unleashes a global cavalry of academics and activists alike to address this pressing societal challenge. The workshop will feature Dr. Safiya Umoja Noble (Author of Algorithms of Oppression: How Search Engines Reinforce Racism), Dr. Sarah Roberts (Author of Behind the Screen: Content Moderation in the Shadows of Social Media), and Mr. Jon Vaughn (Former NFL Player, Tech Entrepreneur, Abuse Survivor, and Activist), all sharing their respective work on studying abuse in socio-technical systems as well as their experiences as academics fighting for their work. This workshop is for anyone interested in abuse in systems or wanting to make a change in the systems, including the organizations, they are a part of. Examples of topics to discuss include: * Big abuses in academia * Stories of survivors’ experiences * Links to other issues affecting organizational culture in academia and beyond * Relationship to other types of abuses of power and to the constellation of other issues such as DEI, sustainability, and public health * The decline of innovation and its interconnections with systemic abuses of power * Connections to broader abuses and branches of trust at other public and private institutions in society * Preview of potential complementary technological and system sciences approaches * Next steps for collective action SWT Leaders: Joshua C. Rubin (Primary Contact) University of Michigan Medical School Josh(a)JoshCRubin.com Melissa Ocepek University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign mgocepek(a)illinois.edu Best, Josh Rubin, University of Michigan Medical School Melissa Ocepek, University of Illinois

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New open access book: Ageing with Smartphones in Uganda: Togetherness in the dotcom age (UCL Press)
by Coughlin, Margie 27 Sep '23

27 Sep '23

*** We apologise for any cross-posting*** UCL Press is delighted to announce the publication of a new open access book that may be of interest to list subscribers: Ageing with Smartphones in Uganda: Togetherness in the dotcom age by Charlotte Hawkins. Download it free: https://bit.ly/3Rzi4Ct ******************************************* Ageing with Smartphones in Uganda Togetherness in the dotcom age Charlotte Hawkins. Free download: https://bit.ly/3Rzi4Ct ******************************************* Ageing with Smartphones in Uganda is based on a 16-month ethnography about experiences of ageing in a neighbourhood in a diverse neighbourhood in Kampala, Uganda. It examines the impact of smartphones and mobile phones on older people's health and everyday lives as part of the global 'Anthropology of Smartphones and Smart Ageing' project. In taking the lens of the smartphone to understand experiences of ageing in this context, the monograph presents the articulation and practice of 'togetherness in the dotcom age'. Taking a 'convivial' approach, which celebrates multiple ways of knowing about social life, Charlotte Hawkins draws from these expressions about cooperative morality and modernity to consider the everyday mitigation of profound social change. 'Dotcom' is understood to encompass everything from the influence of social media to urban migration and lifestyles in the city, to shifts in ways of knowing and relating. At the same time, dotcom tools such as mobile phones and smartphones facilitate elder care through, for example, regular mobile money remittances. This book explores how dotcom relates to older people's health, in particular their care norms, social standing, values of respect and relatedness, and intergenerational relationships - both political and personal. It also re-frames the youth-centricity of research on the city and work, new media and technology, politics and service provision in Uganda. Through ethnographic consideration of everyday life and self-formation in this context, the monograph seeks to contribute to an ever-incomplete understanding of how we relate to each other and to the world around us. Free download: https://bit.ly/3Rzi4Ct ---------------------- uclpress.co.uk | @uclpress

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