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WEBCAST 23. SEP – 3✕NIS2 – Tre eksperter med tre perspektiver på EUs NIS2 direktiv
by Joly MacFie 11 Sep '24

11 Sep '24

No need to add this to your calendar. That is, unless you speak Norwegian! However it will be archived with EN captions, and I will repost when that happens. EU Member States have until 17 Oct 2024 to transpose the updated Network and Information Security Directive <https://digital-strategy.ec.europa.eu/en/library/directive-measures-high-co…> into national law. Nothing like a deadline to sharpen the mind! Our experts will examine the implications for business and society. [image: isoc-live] <http://isoc.live/?action=user_content_redirect&uuid=8970a70243571a5fcde7239…>*Mandag 23. september 2024* kl. *17.00-19.00 CEST* (15:00-17-00 UTC), *Internet Society | Norway Chapter <http://isoc.live/?action=user_content_redirect&uuid=38abf20d6f4032335470414…>* (ISOC Norge) vil sammenkalle et panel '*3✕NIS2 - Tre eksperter med tre perspektiver på EUs NIS2 direktiv <http://isoc.live/?action=user_content_redirect&uuid=d8a6054442b569d32518ef9…>*' i Oslo, for å gi innsikt i hvordan *direktivet <http://isoc.live/?action=user_content_redirect&uuid=faca5d751974820b684d710…>* vil påvirke organisasjoner og IT-sikkerhet i tiden fremover. Arrangementet holdes på norsk. *HØYTTALERE* *Bjørnar Simonsen* – Security Compliance Manager, Orange Business Services *Torgeir Waterhouse* – Partner, Otte *Jens Christian Gjesti* – Partner og Head of Tech & IP, Kvale Advokatfirma DA *MODERATOR* *Steinar Grøtterød*, styreleder, ISOC Norge *LIVESTREAM https://livestream.com/internetsociety/isoc-norge-nis2 <http://isoc.live/?action=user_content_redirect&uuid=54695dc96bddab7fbb78aa5…>* *PARTICIPATE VIA ZOOM https://bit.ly/3zb2ZQV <http://isoc.live/?action=user_content_redirect&uuid=9390d09db43e1b9bd8f1e8f…>* *TWITTER #NIS2 @ISOCNorway <http://isoc.live/?action=user_content_redirect&uuid=72fc6a67fa78c18d6328bc1…>* *MASTODON #NIS2 <http://isoc.live/?action=user_content_redirect&uuid=dd5d8f2767b60dc7aa643bc…> @isocnorway@mastodon.social* *SIMULCASTS* *https://www.youtube.com/@isocnorway <http://isoc.live/?action=user_content_redirect&uuid=6d76dfcc11f7da2caf33396…>* *https://twitter.com/ISOC_Live <http://isoc.live/?action=user_content_redirect&uuid=cf8b07397dea5f33760144d…>* *https://www.twitch.tv/isoclive <http://isoc.live/?action=user_content_redirect&uuid=c095c8454321102795cc667…>* *https://www.facebook.com/liveisoc/ <http://isoc.live/?action=user_content_redirect&uuid=7880caf7ecf3e2421217c4e…>* *https://www.facebook.com/InternetSocietyNorwayChapter/ <http://isoc.live/?action=user_content_redirect&uuid=adfb04ee6d252ec30783051…>* *ARCHIVE* *https://archive.org/details/isoc-norge-nis2 <http://isoc.live/?action=user_content_redirect&uuid=539d90e08d6be1dec375099…>* - -- -------------------------------------- Joly MacFie +12185659365 -------------------------------------- -

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Call for papers: Special Issue of Surveillance & Society on Resisting Surveillance through Data Visibility and Invisibility
by NTusikov 11 Sep '24

11 Sep '24

Hello everyone, Please consider sending a paper to a special issue of Surveillance & Society: *Resisting Surveillance through Data Visibility and Invisibility *(papers due 1 March 2025). I am one of the guest editors for this issue. Building upon the critical theories of data feminism, data justice, and data colonialism, amongst others, this special issue invites contributors to reflect critically and creatively on the ideas of data visibility and data invisibility (Taylor 2017). Topics may include (but are not limited to) the following: - How might people disengage from data markets and/or work to correct, erase, or disrupt state or corporate datasets, such as the right to opt-out of discriminatory profiling programs? - What surveillance practices might enable certain populations to gain greater visibility to governments with the intention of enabling equity-seeking groups to access rights, services, and justice? - What resistance strategies may be undertaken to enable greater invisibility from state/corporate surveillance practices? - What creative sabotage might enable people to resist or disrupt governmental or corporate surveillance programs? - How might “data capitalism” be reformed or destabilized, such as by restricting the monetization of certain types of data? - How might social movements offer new or radical resistance to datafication practices by governments or corporations? - What collective practices might be designed to fairly share data’s social and economic benefits amongst the public? - How might community-led data collection practices help counter the informational and power asymmetries inherent in state and/or corporate surveillance practices? - What are the limits of individual- or community-based resistance to state and/or corporate surveillance practices? *Submission Information*: This special issue invites contributors from across the social sciences and humanities to further develop the above-noted research projects. We welcome submissions from both Global South and Global North perspectives, as well as those that challenge colonial and western perspectives on anti-surveillance strategies. We are also particularly interested in work that centers the experiences and perspectives of historically marginalized groups. We also welcome innovative or alternative methodologies or creative expression. Submissions will undergo a peer-review and revision process prior to publication. Submissions should be original work, neither previously published nor under consideration for publication elsewhere. All references to previous work by contributors should be masked in the text (e.g., “Author, 2024”). We anticipate publishing this issue in March 2026. All papers must be submitted for consideration through the online submission system <https://ojs.library.queensu.ca/index.php/surveillance-and-society/about/sub…> no later than *March 1, 2025.* Please submit the papers in a MS Word-compatible format. For further formatting information, please consult see the *Surveillance & Society *submission guidelines <https://ojs.library.queensu.ca/index.php/surveillance-and-society/about/sub…> . For the *full call for papers*, see https://ojs.library.queensu.ca/index.php/surveillance-and-society/announcem… Kind regards, Natasha Tusikov Natasha Tusikov, PhD (she/her) Associate Professor, Criminology Program Department of Social Science Ross South 714A York University 4700 Keele Street, Toronto, Ontario M3J 1P3 Office: 416.736.2100 ext. 30158 ntusikov(a)yorku.ca @NTusikov <ntusikov(a)yorku.ca> *New book!* Haggart, B. and N. Tusikov (2023) *The New Knowledge: Information, Data and the Remaking of Global Power*. Lanham, Maryland: Rowman & Littlefield. Open access ebook available at: https://rowman.com/ISBN/9781538160879/The-New-Knowledge-Information-Data-an… Haggart, B., Tusikov, N., and JA. Scholte, eds. (2021) *Power and Authority in Internet Governance: Return of the State?* London: Routledge. Now available open access! https://www.routledge.com/Power-and-Authority-in-Internet-Governance-Return… Haggart, B., Henne, K., and N. Tusikov. eds. (2019) *Information, Technology and Control in a Changing World: Understanding Power Structures in the 21st Century*. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan. Tusikov, N. (2017) *Chokepoints: Global Private Regulation on the Internet*. Oakland: University of California Press.

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New Special Issue on 'Transnational Queer Cultures and Digital Media'
by Lukasz Szulc 11 Sep '24

11 Sep '24

Dear colleagues, I am delighted to announce the publication of the Special Issue on ‘Transnational Queer Cultures and Digital Media’, edited by Yener Bayramoğlu, Łukasz Szulc, and Radhika Gajjala for Communication, Culture & Critique. It includes an introduction, 7 empirical articles and 5 forum pieces. They are all amazing! :) You can read the Special Issue here: https://academic.oup.com/ccc/issue/17/3 CONTENTS Special Issue: Transnational Queer Cultures and Digital Media Special Issue Editors: Yener Bayramo[1]glu, Łukasz Szulc, Radhika Gajjala Original Articles Transnational queer cultures and digital media: An introduction YENER BAYRAMOGLU, [1] ŁUKASZ SZULC, AND RADHIKA GAJJALA A comparative study on the transcultural (re-)reception of The Untamed and its queerness with Chinese characteristics PENG QIAO AND YUQI HU “Instagram is like a karela:” Transnational digital queer politics and online censorship and surveillance in India TANVI KANCHAN RuPaul’s Drag Race: Queer authenticity and strategic Westernness ZANE AUSTIN WILLARD AND RACHEL E. DUBROFSKY Trans (on) YouTube: Localizing transnational narratives on two Polish trans YouTube channels JOANNA CHOJNICKA Glitchy transnationalism: When queer migrants meet the state online HATIM RACHDI “We are just with each other, everything is going to be okay:” BlackQueer rural–urban migration, danger and digital sexual desires ESIHLE LUPINDO What does it mean to be queer in Wikidata? Practices of gender representation within a transnational online community BEATRICE MELIS, CHIARA PAOLINI, MARTA FIORAVANTI, AND DANIELE METILLI Forum The “aroma of citrus” as transnational queer digital culture: Girls’ Love webtoons in contemporary China JAMIE J. ZHAO When the homo deamon went digital: Writing Africa’s transgender refugee diaspora B. CAMMINGA “Middle East conflict in Berlin schools:” On the affectability of “fake news” JIN HARITAWORN “How do I put this gently?” Articulating the link between racial selectivity in the sexual market and neighborhood selection in the residential market of a global city NICHOLAS BOSTON Gay for pay: Homocapitalism and LGBTQ employees in the transnational corporate landscape SHARIF MOWLABOCUS Very best, Łukasz Dr Łukasz Szulc<https://research.manchester.ac.uk/en/persons/%C5%82ukasz-szulc> (he/him) Senior Lecturer in Digital Media and Culture School of Arts, Languages and Cultures University of Manchester UNITED KINGDOM [A button with "Hear my name" text for name playback in email signature]<https://www.name-coach.com/ukasz-szulc> RECENT PUBLICATIONS (2024) Special Issue: Transnational Queer Cultures and Digital Media. https://academic.oup.com/ccc/issue/17/3 (2023) Culture is transnational. https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/13678779221131349 (2022) Uncanny Europe and Protective Europeanness: When European Identity Becomes a Queerly Viable Option. https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/00380385211024117 (2020) Digital Gender Disidentifications: Beyond the Subversion Versus Hegemony Dichotomy and Toward Everyday Gender Practices. https://ijoc.org/index.php/ijoc/article/view/15396

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Fwd: hybrid lecture - Judith Townend (Sussex) on 'Opaque Justice? The Technology and Transparency of Courts and Tribunals' - Wed 18 September, Dundee/online
by Angela Daly 10 Sep '24

10 Sep '24

Please join us either in Dundee (Scotland/UK) or online for the inaugural University of Dundee Law School-Leverhulme Research Centre for Forensic Science joint lecture with Dr Judith Townend (University of Sussex) on 'Opaque Justice? The Technology and Transparency of Courts and Tribunals' taking place on Wednesday 18 September at 5pm UK time. RSVP: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/opaque-justice-the-technology-and-transparen… ----------------------------- Though interpreted and applied variously, the common law principle of open justice is widely understood as crucial to holding the justice system to account, through different transparency mechanisms. How, then, does this work in practice? How has the introduction of new justice technologies – such as video-enabled proceedings, fully remote court hearings, and online conviction or dispute resolution procedures – affected public observation of the system? How should we balance privacy and rehabilitation related rights with the public’s right to know about legal cases? These are questions that have preoccupied Judith Townend’s research and resulted in her co-authored monograph, *Observing Justice* (with Lucy Welsh, BUP, 2023 https://bristoluniversitypress.co.uk/observing-justice) and the establishment of the Courts and Tribunals Observers’ Network ( https://courtobservers.org/ <https://eur02.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fcourtobse…>). Her research has considered the control and processing of justice system data in different jurisdictions (Australia, Canada and Ireland, as well as England and Wales) and she has long advocated for increased public involvement in the development of policy and guidance on open justice/transparency practices. In this inaugural lecture, hosted by the University of Dundee Law School and Leverhulme Research Centre for Forensic Science, Townend will summarise some of her key findings from her internationally comparative work on justice system data, empirical findings from court observations and research among former criminal defendants, and analysis of court rules and guidance. She will propose an international research and policy agenda for the technology and transparency of justice systems, that could be applied in the context of the Scottish courts. This would prioritise improving the quality, availability and governance of justice system data, pay attention to jurisdictional specificities in practice as well as law, and seek opportunities for public engagement in law and policymaking on open justice and justice system technologies (including AI-based tools). This event is run with support by the Justice and Power research Priority Theme in the School of Humanities, Social Sciences & Law and the University of Dundee Law School along with the Leverhulme Research Centre for Forensic Science. *Bio:* Dr Judith Townend is Reader in Digital Society and Justice at the University of Sussex, where she is also co-director of the Sussex Digital Humanities Lab. She is an associate research fellow at the Institute of Advanced Legal Studies, and fellow at the civil society organisation Connected by Data. Her socio-legal research is concerned with freedom of expression and public access to information, and she has developed a particular expertise and interest in the practice and policy of open justice. In 2021 she gave evidence to the House of Commons select committee on justice, and in response to a Government consultation that followed, convened an ad hoc working group of court and tribunal observers to inform and collaborate on responses (http://courtobservers.org) Her work has been published in a range of leading journals and media publications. More details: https://profiles.sussex.ac.uk/p373643-judith-townend

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EXTENSION -- Human-Machine Communication Syllabus Project
by Jason Archer 10 Sep '24

10 Sep '24

Extension to submit to the Human-Machine Communication Syllabus Project - New Deadline: Sept. 27th, 2024. See the call below: Communication and media research is expanding to include artificial intelligence and robotics, and this broadening of the study of communication also has extended to the classroom. Scholars who are integrating human-machine communication into their courses are invited to participate in the Human-Machine Communication Syllabus Project by Andrea L. Guzman, Northern Illinois University, and Jason E. Archer, Michigan Technological University. The purpose of the project is two-fold: First, we aim to study how scholars are conceptualizing human-machine communication and incorporating it as a subject of study within higher education . Second, we want to offer scholars the opportunity to voluntarily share and access HMC syllabi to support education in this emerging area. The research portion of the project focuses on how educators are integrating aspects of human-machine communication into courses at the undergraduate (associate, bachelor’s) and graduate (master’s, PhD) levels. Human-machine communication can be defined as meaning-making among humans and communicative machines (i.e. smart assistants, robots, generative AI, automated journalism) and the implications of such technologies for self, culture, and society. Its study draws from and has applications to the full realm of communication and media research and, in particular, encompasses aspects of human-computer interaction (HCI), human-robot interaction (HRI), human-agent interaction (HAI) and critical and cultural approaches regarding technologies articulated as communicators. (See below for additional HMC resources.) For the study, we are seeking syllabi for courses that focus primarily on human-machine communication and its applications as well as courses in which at least 25% of the content covered is dedicated to some aspect of human-machine communication and/or its application. To support teaching and learning, we are also creating a public repository of HMC syllabi submitted for this project. We are asking submitters whether they would like their syllabi to be included in a publicly-accessible online location to assist others in the development of HMC-related courses. Inclusion of an individual’s syllabus in the public repository is completely voluntary and does not affect their ability to participate in the research project. The researchers will destroy all syllabi not included in the repository after the completion of the research project. The repository will be made publicly available at a future date when all syllabi have been received and reviewed. The deadline to submit your syllabi to the project is September 27th, 2024. Please follow all directions on how to submit to the project that can be found below and at https://andrealguzman.net/hmcsyllabusproject. You can also contact the researchers directly: Andrea L. Guzman, alguzman(a)niu.edu, Jason E. Archer, jearcher(a)mtu.edu. Thank you. Andrea & Jason Participation Instructions Required: All syllabi submitted to the project must include the following. If the syllabi does not already include some of the information, then please add this information at the top. 1. University name 2. Course title 3. Department/School in which the course is offered 4. Indicate whether the course is for undergraduate (associate, bachelor’s), graduate (master’s, PhD), or both 5. Date: The term in which the course is being or was last taught (i.e. Spring 2024). 6. Course description 7. Course objectives/outcomes 8. Reading list identifying all readings AND/OR course schedule including all readings 9. Be written in English or translated into English by the author There is no limit to the number of syllabi an individual can submit. For recurring courses, submit ONLY the most recent version of the syllabus. Participants do NOT have to format the syllabi a certain way or remove extraneous information from the syllabi; although, they may want to remove personal or sensitive information if submitting to the public repository. Voluntary Inclusion in Public Repository The format of the public repository will be dependent upon the number of syllabi received. Possible distribution options include a folder in Google Drive or a dedicated page on an existing website. All syllabi to be included in the repository will be posted “as is” and will be available to the public (i.e. anyone on the internet). Participants voluntarily submitting to the repository are responsible for removing any information they do NOT want shared publicly such as their name, contact information, office/student-meeting hours, links to online learning systems, policies, etc. The syllabi of participants who do not want to contribute to the repository will be stored separately and only be available to the researchers. Syllabi will be deleted once the project is completed. Syllabi submission: To participate, please e-mail your syllabi to hmcsyllabusproject(a)gmail.com. In your e-mail, please indicate whether you want your syllabi shared publicly via the online repository. The deadline to participate in the project is September 13, 2024. HMC Resources: Fortunati, L., & Edwards, A. (2020). Opening space for theoretical, methodological, and empirical issues in Human-Machine Communication. Human-Machine Communication. https://doi.org/10.30658/hmc.1.1 (open access) Guzman, A.L. (2018). What is Human-Machine Communication, anyway? Human-Machine Communication: Rethinking communication, technology, and ourselves (link to chapter author copy <https://drive.google.com/file/d/1dl1DQLf_nH2WVJNSfFHntsOInDrqXW8-/view?usp=…> ) Human-Machine Communication Interest Group of the International Communication Association. https://humanmachinecommunication.org/ Human-Machine Communication journal <https://stars.library.ucf.edu/hmc/> The SAGE Handbook of Human-Machine Communication edited by A.L. Guzman, R. McEwen, S. Jones (2023). (link to Table of Contents <https://us.sagepub.com/en-us/nam/the-sage-handbook-of-human%E2%80%93machine…> ) -- Jason E. Archer Assistant Professor of Communication and Media Technologies Director, Communication, Culture, and Media Department of Humanities <https://www.mtu.edu/humanities/> Executive Committee | Research Lead: Human Machine Culture Institute of Policy, Ethics and Culture <https://www.mtu.edu/ipec/people/executive-committee/> Michigan Technological University Pronouns: he/him Website: jasonearcher.com

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PhD Opportunity Media Literacy and Teenage Girls - Ireland
by Eleanor OLeary 10 Sep '24

10 Sep '24

Please see link to further details on a fully funded PhD opportunity at the South East Technological University Ireland Exploring Together: Teenage Girls Co-crafting a Social Media Literacy Programme https://www.setu.ie/Craft/assets/research/Dr-Irena-Loveikaite-UPDATED-PhD-P… For enquires please contact: Dr Irena Loveikaite - irena.loveikaite(a)setu.ie Dr Eleanor O'Leary (she/her) Programme Director BA (hons) Public Relations and Media Lecturer in Media and Communications Department of Sport, Media and Marketing SETU Carlow Campus Kilkenny Road Carlow Recent Publications: Anthony P. McIntyre, Diane Negra & Eleanor O’Leary (2021) Mediated immobility and fraught domesticity: Zoom fails and interruption videos in the Covid-19 pandemic, Feminist Media Studies, DOI: 10.1080/14680777.2021.1996425<https://doi.org/10.1080/14680777.2021.1996425> Youth and Popular Culture in 1950s Ireland (Bloomsbury) Youth and Popular Culture in 1950s Ireland: : Eleanor O’Leary: Bloomsbury Academic<https://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/youth-and-popular-culture-in-1950s-ireland-97…>

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PDCAT2024: Submission Deadline extended to Sept 30, 2024
by Yingpeng Sang 10 Sep '24

10 Sep '24

-------Apologies if you receive multiple copies of this CFP------------- Dear Esteemed Scholar, It is our great honor to inform you that the 25th International Conference on Parallel and Distributed Computing, Applications and Technologies (PDCAT) will take place in Hong Kong, China, during December 13-15, 2024. It will be a great opportunity to share your excellent research work with esteemed colleagues from all over the world. PDCAT serves as a primary platform for scientists, engineers, and practitioners globally to present the most recent research findings, outcomes, concepts, advancements, and applications in all facets of parallel and distributed computing, including parallel architectures, algorithms, and programming techniques. Over its 24-year history, PDCAT has been successfully convened in many countries spanning Asia-Oceania, including China, Japan, Korea, Singapore, Australia, and New Zealand. We earnestly wish participants to gain insights into foundational theories, practical experimental data, emerging business models, and the most recent academic trends from this conference. Publication The conference proceedings will be published by Springer-Verlag in the Lecture Notes in Computer Science series, indexed by EI, Scopus, CPCI, etc. Extended versions of selected papers will be recommended to special issues of some SCI-indexed international journals, tentatively including Tsinghua Science and Technology, Computer and Electrical Engineering, Computer Science and Information Systems, Journal of Computer and System Sciences, Concurrency and Computation: Practice and Experience, etc. Topics We are inviting new and unpublished papers on, but not limited to, the following topics: Networking and Architectures. Wireless networks and mobile computing Internet of Things Software Systems and Technologies. Task mapping and job scheduling Formal methods and programming languages Algorithms and Applications. Parallel/distributed algorithms Distributed data and knowledge-based systems Security and Privacy. Access control and authorization Authentication, biometrics, smartcards High Performance Systems. Memory hierarchy and caching Performance tuning, optimization and profiling Big Data Management and Processing. Mass data stream processing in clouds Graphs, social networks, and semantic web Submission The submission should contain scholarly exposition of ideas, techniques, and results, including the motivation and a clear comparison with related work. The length of the submission should not exceed 12 pages in LNCS style (including references, but excluding the optional appendix). Please submit your paper via the EquinOCS system: https://equinocs.springernature.com/service/pdcat2024 Springer's LNCS LaTeX templates are available in OverLeaf: https://www.overleaf.com/latex/templates/springer-lecture-notes-in-computer… For the complete author guideline, please access Springer's official site: https://www.springer.com/gp/computer-science/lncs/conference-proceedings-gu… Important Dates Paper submission: September 30, 2024. Notification acceptance: November 1, 2024. Camera-ready and Registration: November 15, 2024. Conference date: December 13-15, 2024. Contact us by: pdcat2024(a)siat.ac.cn Please check the PDCAT' 2024 web site for more details. https://hpcc.siat.ac.cn/meeting/pdcat2024/index.html Kind Regards. PDCAT Organizing Committee

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Announcing the #AoIR2024 Student Paper Award
by Michelle, Association of Internet Researchers 09 Sep '24

09 Sep '24

We are delighted to announce two joint winners for this year’s Student Paper Award: Yarden Skop (University of Siegen, Germany) and Anna Schjøtt Hansen (University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands) for their paper, *How Fact-Checkers are Becoming Machine Learners: A Case of Meta’s Third Party Programme*, and Guanqin He (Utrecht University, The Netherlands) and Yijia Zhang (University of British Columbia, Canada) for their paper,* Beyond Platform Control: Gendered Frictions in Food Delivery Work.* *Yarden Skop and Anna Schjøtt Hansen’s* paper expertly explores recent shifts in political fact-checking, showcasing the shift towards fact-checking as a “sociotechnical phenomenon” combining human workers and machine learning systems, highlighting profound implications for journalists and journalism, and politics and democracies. The paper showcases rigorous research with hard-to-reach populations, combining semi-structured interviews with fact checkers and observational data from an ethnographic enquiry. During our nomination process, we couldn’t help but draw connections between this paper and the work of AoIR Vice President, Professor Sarah T. Roberts, which showcases the hidden realities of human content moderators. Skop and Hansen’s paper likewise, and as one of our reviewers put it, “makes visible the opaque labour conditions and sociotechnical assemblages within the 3PFC program”. The award-winning paper makes a unique and vital contribution to internet research, carries strong potential for wider social impact, and would certainly attract public interest in addition to that of the AoIR audience. You will be able to hear this paper being presented at 11am on Thursday, 31 October. <https://www.conftool.org/aoir2024/index.php?page=browseSessions&form_sessio…> *Guanqin He and Yijia Zhang’*s paper offers a timely and invaluable response to the conference’s consideration of ‘industry’, building upon the growing body of research into labour and the gig economy to highlight how previously-identified strategies of resistance and collaboration are not universally available. The authors use the conceptual framework of frictions to highlight controls facing women working as food delivery workers in China, within the platform and its labour context but also externally and structurally, and how these serve to marginalise and exclude them. Drawing on eight months of fieldwork and interviews with food delivery riders, the paper stands out for its reflections on both gender and labour within the platform economy, with the paper’s reviewers highlighting the insights from a participant population that is both under-represented and hard to recruit. The paper provides findings and considerations that are important additions to our understanding of digital labour and the gig economy, and which push to advance the scope of research in this field. You will be able to hear this paper being presented at 13:30 on Thursday, 31 October. <https://www.conftool.org/aoir2024/index.php?page=browseSessions&form_sessio…> As well as these two winners, a special mention goes to those on our shortlist (alphabetically by surname): - Alexandria Arrieta: “The Limits of Virality: Music Creators and Platform Negotiation in Later Stage TikTok”. - Annina Claesson: “Influencer Creep in Parliament: Platform Pressures in the Visibility Labour of French MPs”. - Rohan Grover: “Unpacking Expertise in the Privacy Tech Industry”. - Deanna Holroyd: “Content Creators vs The Healthcare Industry: A Case Study of the Techno-Cultural Authority of ADHD TikTok”. We extend tremendous congratulations to the authors and look forward to hearing their presentations at #AoIR2024! The AoIR 2024 Conference Committee

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TT Assistant Professor in Game Studies, University of Toronto
by julie yujie Chen 09 Sep '24

09 Sep '24

Hi all, My department - The Institute of Communication, Culture, Information, and Technology (ICCIT) at the University of Toronto Mississauga (UTM) - is hiring a TT assistant professor in *Game Studies*. Application materials are due *Nov. 6, 2024*. Details and submission portal can be found here: https://jobs.utoronto.ca/job/Mississauga-Assistant-Professor-Game-Studies-O… Wonderful department and university to work at. I am happy to answer your questions. -julie ____________________________ Julie Yujie Chen, Ph.D. Assistant Professor Institute of Communication, Culture, Information & Technology (ICCIT) | iSchool University of Toronto, Canada Co-editor, *Platforms & Society <https://journals.sagepub.com/home/PNS>* *Latest Publications [*Equal contributions]:* · *Chen, J. Y., van Doorn, N., Grohmann, R., Pollio, A., & Soriano, C. (2024). Introducing Platforms & Society. *Platforms & Society*, *1* https://doi.org/10.1177/29768624241235492 · Chen, J. Y., & Sun, P. (2023). *Digital labour platforms and national employment policies in China : studying the case of food delivery platforms*. ILO. https://doi.org/10.54394/KHET8772 · Chen, J.Y., Delfanti, A., Phan, M. (2023). “Worker Resistance in Digital Capitalism—Introduction <https://can01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fijoc.org%…>.” Special Section in *International Journal of Communication *17: *3891–3898*

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great job at AU--critical communications and AI!!
by Patricia Aufderheide 09 Sep '24

09 Sep '24

My friends, please tell all your colleagues about this great job--American University, set in the heart of Washington, DC, a collegial private university; our program, concerned with policies in media and communication that promote the public good, open societies, and democratic structures; and colleagues throughout this public-purpose university and in nonprofit, public-interest organizations throughout the city. The window is closing!! https://american.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/AU/job/Assistant-Professor--Ar… Patricia Aufderheide, University Professor, School of Communication (she/they) * New book! Kartemquin Films: Documentaries on the Frontlines of Democracy --30% off! <https://indiepubs.com/cart> Buy it here<https://www.ucpress.edu/books/kartemquin-films/paper>, and use source code UCPSAVE30 from U of Chicago Press at checkout ($19 total!) Living and working on unceded lands of Nacotchtank and Piscataway peoples Founder and Senior Research Fellow, Center for Media & Social Impact American University, 4400 Massachusetts Av., NW, Washington, DC 20016-8017, McKinley Hall 323 paufder(a)american.edu<mailto:paufder@american.edu> 202-885-2069 office/ 240-643-4805 mobile Zoom: https://american.zoom.us/j/96788556467?pwd=eFNpa2JMWlZQRm5pT1Z0b3RVUlRXQT09

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