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Polymedia
by Traci Belanger 11 Jul '25

11 Jul '25

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

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

08 May '25

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

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

16 Apr '25

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

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AOIR Discord?
by Roo S 18 Dec '24

18 Dec '24

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

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

29 May '24

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

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Internet Histories Seeking Book Reviewers
by Maemura, Emily 22 Mar '24

22 Mar '24

Dear AoIR community, I'm the Reviews Editor for the journal Internet Histories (https://www.tandfonline.com/journals/rint20) and we are seeking book reviewers. Our book reviews are generally between 1500 and 2000 words, focused on titles related to the cultural, social, political and technological histories of the internet and associated digital cultures. For instance, we are currently looking for reviewers for the following titles: - Death Glitch: How Techno-Solutionism Fails Us in This Life and Beyond, Tamara Kneese https://yalebooks.yale.edu/book/9780300248272/death-glitch/ - The Digital Departed: How We Face Death, Commemorate Life, and Chase Virtual Immortality, Timothy Recuber https://nyupress.org/9781479814961/the-digital-departed/ - Balkan Cyberia: Cold War Computing, Bulgarian Modernization, and the Information Age behind the Iron Curtain, Victor Petrov https://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262545129/balkan-cyberia/ - The Piracy Years: Internet File Sharing in a Global Context, Holger Briel, Michael D. High, and Markus Heidingsfelder (eds.) https://www.liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk/doi/book/10.3828/9781802070545 - The Chinese Computer: A Global History of the Information Age Thomas S Mullaney https://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262047517/the-chinese-computer/ - The Digital Revolution: A Short History of an Ideology, Gabriele Balbi https://global.oup.com/academic/product/the-digital-revolution-978019887597… - A History of Fake Things on the Internet, Walter Scheirer https://www.combinedacademic.co.uk/9781503632882/a-history-of-fake-things-o… - WhatsApp: From a one-to-one Messaging App to a Global Communication Platform, Amelia Johns, Ariadna Matamoros-Fernández, Emma Baulch https://www.politybooks.com/bookdetail?book_slug=9781509550517 If you're interested in being added to the list of potential reviewers for these or other books in the future, please get in touch with me at emaemura(a)illinois.edu<mailto:emaemura@illinois.edu> . Please also note that we do not accept unsolicited reviews, so please reach out to me first -- we may decline a reviewer or book title if determined to not be a good fit for our journal. Best, Emily Maemura Assistant Professor University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign School of Information Sciences Under the Illinois Freedom of Information Act any written communication to or from university employees regarding university business is a public record and may be subject to public disclosure.

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Deadline for AoIR2024 Submissions is Friday, 1 March 2024
by Michelle, Association of Internet Researchers 29 Feb '24

29 Feb '24

*This is a reminder that the deadline to make submissions for #AoIR2024 is 24 hours away: 1 March 2024, 23:59 UTC*. If you are unsure what time this is where you are, please check here <https://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?msg=AoIR%2B2024%2BSub…> . In the meantime, submissions for #AoIR2024 are already being uploaded daily. We would greatly appreciate your help with the review process, even if you are unable to submit a proposal this year. As ever, our goal is to create a broad, engaging, and diverse selection of conference presentations that reflect the breadth of our research community, and we can only do that with engaged and thoughtful reviewers. If you are submitting to the conference this year, please consider volunteering to review. - - - *Submitting* The 2024 conference welcomes contributions that address the theme of Industry (https://aoir.org/aoir2024/aoir2024cfp) To re-familiarize yourself with the types of submissions solicited, please see here: https://aoir.org/aoir2024/subtypes. Submissions deadline is 1 March 2024 for papers, panels, roundtables, fishbowls, experimental sessions, and pre-conference workshops. When submitting, please take the time to read the submission categories and topics carefully; this helps us match your submission to suitable reviewers. To learn more about how submissions are reviewed, please see here: https://aoir.org/sub_review_info_aoir. *If accepted as a presenting author, you will have to register for the conference by the Early Bird deadline of 1 August 2024.* Accepted paper and panel submissions will be included in our open access conference paper archive, Selected Papers of Internet Research (SPIR). SPIR helps us further publicize the work of our members and introduce our research to a wider audience. All paper and panel submissions must therefore follow our SPIR formatting requirements, which includes a consistent header and style format for the papers that will enable people to easily locate author and title information, and identify the papers as part of the AoIR conference. This format is only intended to bring consistency to basic elements (such as typeface and spacing), not to impose any disciplinary constraints. Please download the Word template here: https://aoir.org/aoir2024/submission-template. AoIR 2024 relies on our community for reviewing, and every person who is submitting this year appreciates your assistance as a reviewer. When submitting, please take a moment to also update your reviewing preferences. Ready to submit? Click here <https://www.conftool.org/aoir2024>. - - - *Reviewing* Please double check that you have indicated that you have volunteered to review (or change that to a no if you cannot review this year). Based on feedback from previous conferences we have revised our list of reviewer expertise topics. Please update your topics to help us match proposal submissions to reviewer interests, instructions on how to do this are here <https://aoir.org/aoir_reviewer_instructions/>. To learn more about how submissions are reviewed, please see here: https://aoir.org/sub_review_info_aoir. On behalf of AoIR, we thank you for your time, attention, and contribution to the AoIR conference. If you do not have the time to be a reviewer this year, no problem. You can reply to AoIRConfChair(a)aoir.org and we will remove your reviewer status from your profile. We look forward to working with you toward a fantastic conference! Please log in <https://www.conftool.org/aoir2024> and update these topics by Monday 4 March 2024 at the very latest. If you have any questions or any difficulties updating your information, please let us know. Sincerely, Lianrui Jia and Tim Highfield AoIR 2024 Programme Chairs, on behalf of the conference committee ---- Important Deadline Reminders: - 1 March 2024: Submissions due for papers, panels, roundtables, fishbowls, experimental sessions, and pre-conference workshops - 4 March 2024: Updates to reviewer status, reviewer topics, and reviewer methods due - 16 April 2024: Submission deadline for Doctoral Colloquium - 1 August 2023: Early Registration Deadline - 30 October - 2 November 2024: AoIR 2024 in Sheffield, UK - 17 November 2024: Final version of the extended abstract must be uploaded

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WEBCAST FEB 29 – A Report Card for Korean Digital Leadership
by Joly MacFie 29 Feb '24

29 Feb '24

Not an ISOC webcast. Just started. Trust Korea's version of 'sender pays' will be a topic. [image: isoc live] <http://isoc.live/?action=user_content_redirect&uuid=c5fa9df0ad0a0f305a0b708…> On *Thursday February 20, 2024*, at *5pm-6pm EST* (22:00-23:00 UTC) the *Carnegie Endowment for International Peace <http://isoc.live/?action=user_content_redirect&uuid=8a3f53f282b6ee22291d7d9…>* hosts a roundtable '*A Report Card for Korean Digital Leadership <http://isoc.live/?action=user_content_redirect&uuid=418becb07a7eaab2906a411…>*' to launch *a new study <http://isoc.live/?action=user_content_redirect&uuid=0ddf8cd4da3a255ebd6f987…>* on how South Korean companies and government organizations are using policy, technical and business standards, procurement, and education to accelerate digital transformation in South Korea and around the globe. *SPEAKERS* *Dasom Lee* - assistant professor, Graduate School of Science and Technology Policy, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology *Naomi Wilson* - vice president, Asia and Global Trade Policy, Information Technology Industry Council *Mallory Knodel* - chief technology officer, Center for Democracy & Technology *Evan A. Feigenbaum* - vice president for studies, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace *Michael R. Nelson* - senior fellow, Technology and International Affairs Program, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace *LIVESTREAM https://youtu.be/EvNJt2eu2U0 <http://isoc.live/?action=user_content_redirect&uuid=fd29770d8cf700880db34b9…>* *TWITTER #Korea @CarnegieEndow <http://isoc.live/?action=user_content_redirect&uuid=ca6767c88f4993bf2e108fd…> #KoreaTech @MikeNelson @EvanFeigenbaum @KoreaFoundation Naomi Wilson @ITI_TechTweets Mallory Knodel @CenDemTech* Permalink https://isoc.live/17366 - -- -------------------------------------- Joly MacFie +12185659365 -------------------------------------- -

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New podcast: ILL EFFECTS
by Richard McCulloch 29 Feb '24

29 Feb '24

Dear friends and colleagues, Ben Litherland (Manchester Metropolitan University) and I have just launched a podcast which we think will be of interest to a lot of you. ILL EFFECTS is a bi-weekly research-informed series on media "influences". Each episode focuses on a specific media case study (often a controversial film, video game, artist, TV show, celebrity, toy, etc.) and examines the claims that have been made about its alleged "effects" on audiences/consumers. Can a horror video turn children into murderers? Can a video game cause reckless driving? Does background music make workers more productive? What evidence is there (if any!) behind debates like these? What are the political, economic, social or ideological forces propelling and sustaining them? Ben and I investigate the bad faith arguments, maddening methods, and moral panics behind claims that the media influence our behaviour and manipulate our minds. It's the good podcast about bad media influences. The first two episodes ("Did CHILD'S PLAY 3 turn kids into killers?" and "Does Barbie give girls eating disorders?") are available now. New episodes will be released every other Thursday. Subscribe on Spotify <https://open.spotify.com/show/0QotQZhgYQOsjCvGMefNjl?si=83eab745de7d49f5>, Apple <https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/ill-effects/id1733062954>, Amazon Music <https://music.amazon.co.uk/podcasts/e055c33d-42f3-4057-9cf8-bb2ccbea3e88/il…>, or wherever you get your podcasts, and find us @illeffectspod across social media platforms. You can also get in touch via email at illeffectspod(a)gmail.com Finally, if you like what you hear, we'd be hugely grateful if you could rate, review and/or share the podcast with someone you know. Cheers, Rich and Ben -- *Dr. Richard McCulloch* Cultural Analysis • Audience Research Twitter/X: @rjmcculloch

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TOMORROW: Rob Gorwa talk on Platform Regulation and Content Moderation at Manchester Metrpolitan
by Sophie Helen Bishop 29 Feb '24

29 Feb '24

Please sign up via eventbrite as there are limited tickets left! Date: 1st March Time: 16:00 Place: Manchester Metropolitan University Eventbrite: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/disc-public-talk-with-robert-gorwa-tickets-8… *Robert Gorwa <https://wzb.eu/en/persons/robert-gorwa-0> (WBZ Berlin Social Science Centre)* *The Politics of Platform Regulation: How Governments Shape Online Content Moderation* As digital platforms have become more integral to not just how we live, but also to how we do politics, the rules governing online expression, behaviour, and interaction created by large multinational technology firms --- popularly termed ‘content moderation,’ ‘platform governance,’ or ‘trust and safety’ --- have increasingly become the target of government regulatory efforts seeking to shape them. In this talk, Robert Gorwa provides a summary of his first book, forthcoming with Oxford University Press, which provides a conceptual and empirical analysis of this important and emerging tech policy terrain of ‘platform regulation.’ How, why, and where exactly is it happening? Why now? And how do we best understand the vast array of strategies being deployed across jurisdictions to tackle this issue? Eventbrite: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/disc-public-talk-with-robert-gorwa-tickets-8… -- Dr Sophie Bishop www.sophiehelenbishop.com | @sophiehbishop

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