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WEBCAST 11-14 OCT – 2025 Asia-Pacific Internet Governance Forum (APrIGF)
by Joly MacFie 12 Oct '25

12 Oct '25

[image: ISOC.LIVE] <https://isoc.live/19750>*YOUTUBE PLAYLIST <https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL0BWwBA9kNFfIzcCFN7bfK5so8rBZuqhj> * | *PERMALINK <https://isoc.live/19750>* On *Saturday-Tuesday 11-14 October 2025* the *Asia-Pacific Internet Governance Forum <https://ap.rigf.asia/>* (APrIGF) is being convened as a virtual event. APrIGF serves as a platform for discussion, exchange and collaboration at a regional level, and also where possible to aggregate national IGF discussions, ultimately advance the Internet governance development in the Asia Pacific region. Remote participation is available via Zoom, The event will be simulcast by ISOC>LIVE. PROGRAM <https://ap.rigf.asia/2025-program-schedule/> (All times UTC)Day 0 – October 11, 202504:00–06:00 APrIGF Day 0 Capacity Building for Fellows and Newcomers | YOUTUBE <https://youtube.com/live/GH88DT8rqQg> *Swaran Ravendra* *Ashirwad Tripathy* Breakout Group Facilitators: *Dr. Ghimire* (Sustainability) *Adrian Wan* (Resilience) *Syed Kazi* (Access & Inclusion) *Maureen Hilyard* (Security & Trust) *Cheryl* (Innovation & Emerging Tech) 07:00–07:10 Introduction of Asia Pacific yIGF | YOUTUBE <https://youtube.com/live/qye7rdxUsFE>07:10–07:30 Idea Wall | YOUTUBE <https://youtube.com/live/-s5YpQkXr3g>07:30–08:15 Designing Equal Futures: Youth, AI, and the Path to Digital Inclusion | YOUTUBE <https://youtube.com/live/IXPOMRTABHc> *Athena Tong* – Visiting Researcher, University of Tokyo & Researcher and Program Lead, China Strategic Risks Institute *Karlina Octaviany* – AI Advisor for the “Fair Forward – Artificial Intelligence for All ” at GIZ *Muhammad Asad Ul Rehman* – Cybersecurity Consultant *Surabhi Srivastava* – Media Innovation Director, RNW Media *Aristheo Lacuna* – Co-chair, National Association of Social Enterprise Educators and Administrators *Rex Wallen Tan* – General Manager, Princeton Assessments and Training, Inc. Moderators: *Bea Guevarra* – Head of Program Development, NetMission.Asia *Rupam Barui* – Asia Pacific yIGF 2025 Organizing Committee Member Breakout Group Facilitators: *Ankita Rathi* *Nawal Munir* *Dean Mark M. Molde* *Bea Guevarra* *Rupam Barui* 08:15–09:15 APAC Youth Leaders Dialogue – Co-Creating Safe Digital Future Through Intergenerational Action | YOUTUBE <https://youtube.com/live/X1uHobamIxA> *Dikchya Raut* – Advocacy Lead in Internet Safety Programme, World Association of Girl Guides and Girl Scouts *Amisha Mittal* – Research Analyst, Pranava Institute Moderator: *Jenna Fung* – Head Coordinator, Asia Pacific Youth IGF 09:25–10:25 APAC Youth WSIS+20 Statement: Live Discussion & Editing | YOUTUBE <https://youtube.com/live/jdvcSNSSsaQ> https://netmission.asia/2025/07/28/have-a-say-in-wsis20-apac-youth-in-actio… 10:25–11:25 IGF 2025 Youth Track Workshop III – Age Verification and Social Media Regulation | YOUTUBE <https://youtube.com/live/xkKEsq7RFuE> *Sølve Kuraas Karlsen* – Leder Tenk, Skoleavdelingen til Faktisk.no *Samik Kharel* – Independent Journalist Moderators: *Herman Johansen* – UN IGF Secretariat *Bea Guevarra* – Asia Pacific yIGF Local Hub (Manila) *Jenna Fung* – Asia Pacific yIGF 2025 Breakout Group Facilitators: *Nawal Munir* – Asia Pacific yIGF Local Hub (Islamabad) *Dean Mark Molde* – Asia Pacific yIGF Local Hub (Manila) *Sanjina Kshetri* – Nepal YIGF *Ankita Rathi* – Asia Pacific yIGF 11:25–12:25 Panel – Power, Platforms, and Participation: Reclaiming Our Digital Selves | YOUTUBE <https://youtube.com/live/NEGbrV0oQGU> *Andy Piper* – Head of Communications, Mastodon *Archit Lohani* – AI Safety, Online Harms & Platform Governance Researcher *Dmitry Kuznetsov* – Researcher at Critical Infrastructure Lab & NetMission Advisory Board member *Dr. Nur Adlin Hanisah Shahul Ikram* – PhD in Data Privacy Moderator: *Nawal Munir* – Strategic Content & Research Manager, NetMission.Asia 12:25–12:45 Way Forward and Preview | YOUTUBE <https://youtube.com/live/kUyKFxqJ4l4>Day 1 – October 12, 202504:00–05:30 APrIGF 2025 Opening Ceremony | *YOUTUBE <https://youtube.com/live/JhYuEn24K1s?feature=share>* *Dr. Bhoj Raj Ghimire* – Co-Convenor, Program Committee, APrIGF (Emcee) *Edmon Chung* – APrIGF Secretariat (Opening Remarks) *Amrita Choudhury* – Chair, Multistakeholder Steering Group (MSG) of APrIGF (Welcome) *Sally Wentworth* – President & CEO, Internet Society (Keynote) *Babu Ram Aryal* – Chair, Host Steering Committee (Remarks) Opening Plenary – Platform Governance in Asia Pacific *Maria Tessa* – IGF Leadersip Panel (video) *Sumana Shrestha* – Former Minister of Education, Science & Technology, Nepal *Ferdous Mottakin* – Head, Government Affairs and Public Policy for South Asia, TikTok *Jaco Du Toit* – Head of Nepal Office, UNESCO *Shita Laksmi* – Consultant / Southeast Asia Representative, Diplo *Wathshlah Naidu* – Executive Director, CIJ Malaysia Moderator: *Yasmine Bhattarai* – Head of Information Security Unit, Ncell 05:45–06:45 AI4Justice: Bridging the Access Gap or Deepening the Digital Divide in the Asia-Pacific? | *YOUTUBE <https://youtube.com/live/2ZHELz_gq6I?feature=share>* *Justice Nahakul Subedi* – Judge, Supreme Court of Nepal *Gayatri Raman* – Managing Director, LexisNexis South East Asia *Prateek Sibal* – Programme Specialist, UNESCO HQ *Prof. D.A Patel* – Dean, Kirit P. Mehta School of Law, Mumbai Moderator: *Amit Upreti* – Joint Registrar, Supreme Court of Nepal 05:45–06:45 Disasters, Data, and Digital Rights | *YOUTUBE <https://youtube.com/live/ZLTyEKZAsck?feature=share>* *Prem Awasthi* – Planning Officer, United Nations (Nepal) *Thein Myint Khine* – Founder and CEO, Myanmar Internet Exchange (MMIX) (Myanmar) *Dr. Amreesh Phokeer* – Internet Measurement and Data Expert, Internet Society (Mauritius) *Hon. Sumana Shrestha* – Member of Parliament, Nepal Parliament (Nepal) Moderator: *Yug Desai* – Doctoral Candidate, South Asian University (India) Facilitator: *Pavel Farhan* – Internet Governance Officer, The IO Foundation (Thailand) 07:15–08:15 Multistakeholderism and meaningful participation in DPI Governance: What should it actually look like? | *YOUTUBE <https://youtube.com/live/HUTlRoCQWvw?feature=share>* *Disha Verma* – Program Manager, Asia Pacific, Tech Global Institute (India) *Mila T. Samdub* – Coalition Member, HR4ID (India) 07:15–07:45 Rethinking Universal Service Funds in South Asia: Challenges, Impact, and the Road Ahead | *YOUTUBE <https://youtube.com/live/tciHLqMlPQY?feature=share>* *Dr. Mahesh Uppal* – Director, ComFirst Pvt Ltd (India) Moderator: *Omar Ansari* – Digital Leap – South Asia Project Lead, APNIC Foundation (Australia) 08:00–08:20 Social AI, Youth and Digital Vulnerability: A call for multi-stakeholder action in the APAC | *YOUTUBE <https://youtube.com/live/ddSPKVt8o5w?feature=share>* *Sriya Sridhar* – Research Fellow, The Pranava Institute (India) 08:30–09:30 “Which Animal Are You?” Take a Quiz, Learn More | *YOUTUBE <https://youtube.com/live/0uZSReINvlQ?feature=share>* *Monika* – Executive Director, Body & Data (Nepal) *Nuva Rai* – Sr. Program Officer, Body & Data (Nepal) 08:30–09:30 Not Just Participants: Youth as Co-Governors of the Internet | *YOUTUBE <https://youtube.com/live/WZwmQJFZXrk?feature=share>* *Amrita Choudhury* – Director, CCAOI (India) *Bea Guevarra* – Head of Program Development, NetMission.Asia (Philippines) Moderator: *Ashirwad Tripathy* – Co-Founder & Executive Director, Educating Nepal (Nepal) Facilitator: *Socheata Sokhachan* – Head of Community Engagement, NetMission.Asia (Cambodia) 09:45–11:00 WSIS+20 High-Level Main Session and WSIS+20 Town Hall | YOUTUBE <https://youtube.com/live/C5Kk18WC63U?feature=share> *Plenary Roundtable:* H. E. Suela Janina – Co-facilitator of WSIS+20, Representative of the Republic of Albania to the United Nations H.E Ekitela Lokaale – Co-facilitator of WSIS+20, Permanent Representative of the Republic of Kenya to the United Nations *Sally Wentworth* – President & CEO, Internet Society & Internet Society Foundation *William Lee* – Assistant Director, Department of Infrastructure, Transport, Regional Development and Communications, Australia *Anita Gurumurthy* – Executive Director, IT For Change Moderators: *Alban Kwan* – Co-Chair, APrIGF 2025 Drafting Committee *Syed Kazi* – Co-Chair, APrIGF 2025 Drafting Committee *Yien Chyn Tan* – Co-Chair, APrIGF 2025 Drafting Committee WSIS+20 Town Hall Session Moderators: *Alban Kwan* – Co-Chair, APrIGF 2025 Drafting Committee *Syed Kazi* – Co-Chair, APrIGF 2025 Drafting Committee *Yien Chyn Tan* – Co-Chair, APrIGF 2025 Drafting Committee Day 2 – October 13, 202503:15–04:15 Nothing About Us Without Us: Advancing Inclusive Digital Governance for Persons with Disabilities in Asia-Pacific *Rahma Utami* – Founder & Knowledge/Accessibility Director, Suarise (Indonesia) *T B Dinesh* – Community Media Activist & Technologist, Janastu (India) *Dr. Birendra Raj Pokhrel* – Disability Rights Leader, Abilis Nepal Network (Nepal) *Dr. Baburam Bhattarai* – Former Prime Minister, Government of Nepal (Nepal) *Dr. Ashim Khadka* – Assistant Professor, Nepal College of Information Technology (Nepal) *Sarita Lamichhane* – Accessibility Advocate (Nepal) Moderator: *Krishna Maharjan* – Secretary General, Disability Empowerment Society Nepal (Nepal) Facilitator: *Roji Maharjan* – Member, Disability Empowerment Society Nepal (Nepal) 03:15–04:15 Regulating AI Beyond the Hype: Evidence, Equity, and Policy Priorities for the Asia-Pacific *Aadhesh Khadka* – Joint Secretary, Ministry of Communication & IT, Government of Nepal (Nepal) *Aishwarya Salvi* – AI Policy Advisor, FAIR Forward – Artificial Intelligence for All, GIZ (India) *Sunil Abraham* – Public Policy Director, Data Economy & Emerging Tech, Meta India (India) *Shita Laksmi* – Digital Government Consultant (Indonesia) Moderator: *Shradhanjali Sarma* – Legal and Policy Consultant, CCAOI (India) Facilitator: *Swati Shinde* – Consultant, CCAOI (India) 04:30–05:00 Local Bots, Global Norms: Discussing content moderation and chatbots in the APAC region *Aliya Bhatia* – Senior Policy Analyst, Centre for Democracy and Technology (USA) Moderator: *Torsha Sarkar* – Project Manager, Centre for Communication Governance (India) 04:30–05:30 Internet Governance at a Crossroads: Asia-Pacific Priorities for WSIS+20 and Beyond *Joyce Chen* – Senior Advisor for Strategic Engagement, APNIC *Veronica Deutrom* – Department of Infrastructure, Transport, Regional Development, Communications and the Arts, Australian Government *Angela Wibawa* – Government and IGO Engagement Director, APAC, ICANN *Adrian Wan* – Senior Manager, Policy & Advocacy, Internet Society Moderator: *Amrita Choudhury* – Director, CCAOI 05:15–05:35 Digital Dilemmas in Just Transitions: Lessons from India’s Coal Heartland *Maitri Singh* – Senior Officer & Researcher (Just Transition), Digital Empowerment Foundation (India) *Rishi Kishore* – Fellow (Energy Transition & Climate Policy), Swaniti Global (India) Moderator: *Deeksha Pande* – Associate Fellow, Swaniti Global (India) 05:45–06:45 Smart, Safe, Strong: Youth Innovations for Online Child Protection *Down To Zero Alliance Indonesia* (Indonesia) *Gazipur Bangladesh Youth Group* (Bangladesh) *Youth Voices for Change Philippines* (Philippines) *Thailand CRC Youth Voice for Change Coalition* (Thailand) Moderator: *Maxenne Anne Delos Reyes* – SUFASEC Youth Facilitator, Plan International Pilipinas (Philippines) Facilitator: *Itsaraporn Daoram* – Regional Coordinator for East Asia, Southeast Asia and the Pacific, ECPAT International (Thailand) 05:45–06:45 Prioritising Digital Gender Inclusion in Asia: From Token Mentions to Transformative Action *Amrita Choudhury* – Director, CCAOI (India) *Bea Guevarra* – Head of Program Development, NetMission.Asia (Philippines) Moderator: *Ashirwad Tripathy* – Co-Founder & Executive Director, Educating Nepal (Nepal) Facilitator: *Socheata Sokhachan* – Head of Community Engagement, NetMission.Asia (Cambodia) 07:15–07:35 Powering Sustainable Connectivity: curveIQ’s Low-Cost Solution for Remote Telecom Sites *Matthew J* – Managing Director, Distant Curve (Australia) 07:15–08:15 AI as Public Good: Analysing the interplay of Private Investments, Public Infrastructure and Public Accountability *Suruchi Kumari* – Research and Communication Consultant, Digital Empowerment Foundation (India) Moderator: *Megha Garg* – Communication and Marketing Manager(India) Facilitator: *Varun Ramdas* – Senior Manager (India) 07:45–08:15 Experience of Co-designing Digital Justice and Inclusion Initiatives with Communities in Bangladesh *Umme Humayra* – Programme Officer, Oxfam in Bangladesh (Bangladesh) Moderator: *Nafisa Tasnim Khan* – Senior Programme Officer, Oxfam in Bangladesh (Bangladesh) Facilitator: *Tausif Uddin Ahmed* – Senior Software Developer, Oxfam in Bangladesh (Bangladesh) 08:30–09:30 Bridging the Digital Divide: Youth Access to Knowledge, Policy, and Power *Muh Rifai Sahida* – Founder, Garis Hitam Indonesia & Turun Tangan Mamuju (Indonesia) *Minh Trung Doan* – Research Coordinator, Basic Income Earth Network; Student, Eötvös Loránd University 08:30–09:30 Inclusive Digital Policies in Asia-Pacific *Aadesh Khadka* – Joint Secretary & Head of ICT Division, Ministry of Communication and Information Technology (Nepal) *Sriganesh Lokanathan* – Digital Transformation Specialist, UNDP (Sri Lanka) *Parinita Upadhyay* – Head, ITU Area Office & Innovation Center, New Delhi (India) *Waqas Hassan* – Regional Lead for Asia, Global Digital Inclusion Partnership (Pakistan) *Tatevik Grigoryan* – Associate Programme Specialist, UNESCO (Armenia) Moderator: *Nirjana Sharma* – Programme Officer, UNESCO (Nepal) Facilitator: *Maaly Hazaz* – South Asia Regional Advisor, UNESCO (Jordan) 09:45–11:00 APrIGF Town Hall SessionDay 3 – October 14, 202504:00–05:00 Beyond Connection: Fostering Digital Literacy and Accessibility for All Ages and Abilities *Mohammad Shabbir Awan* – Executive Chief, Path Finder Solutions (Private) Limited (Pakistan) *Gunela Astbrink* – Member, UN IGF MAG (Australia) *Satish Babu* – Co-Founder, InApp (India) *Prof. Dr. Bal Krishna Bala* – Professor, Department of Computer Engineering, Kathmandu University (Nepal) Moderator: *Susmeera Aryal* – Executive Director, Women’s Group for Disability Rights (Nepal) Facilitator: *Aakriti Gautam* – Policy Associate, Internet Governance Institute (Nepal) 04:00–05:00 From Oversight to Overlooked: Ethics in AI Governance *Jocellin Lee* – Founder, AI Safety Lab (South Korea) *Dr. Musab Alrawi* – Director, ICESCO Chair for AI Ethics, University of Technology and Applied Sciences (Oman) *Supriya Kulkarni* – Founder, The Ethics Company (Indonesia) *Muhammad Umair Ali* – Digital Consultant/Project Manager, ADDO AI (Pvt) Ltd (Pakistan) Moderator: *Tayyaba Iftikhar* – Assistant Director, Pakistan Telecom Authority (Pakistan) Facilitator: *Harisa Shahid* – Information Security Engineer, Strategic Systems International (Pvt) Ltd (Pakistan) 05:15–06:15 APrIGF 2025 Fellowship Presentation05:15–06:15 Building Rights-Centric Digital Infrastructure: A Collaborative Workshop on the Data-Centric Digital Rights (DCDR) Framework *Jean F. Queralt* — Founder & CEO, The IO Foundation (Malaysia) *Svetlana Zens* — Program Manager, Engage Tech for Internet Freedoms, ASIA *Sadichchha Silwal* — Program Officer, Digital Rights Nepal (Nepal) *Adrian Wan* — Senior Manager, Policy & Advocacy, Internet Society (Singapore) *Prapasiri Suttisom* — Digital Rights Project Coordinator, EngageMedia (Thailand) Moderator: *Pavel Farhan* — Internet Governance Officer, The IO Foundation (Thailand) Facilitator: *Yug Desai* — Doctoral Candidate, South Asia University (India) 06:30–07:00 A Garden of Connectivity: Visualizing the Internet Connectivity Landscape *Ezmieralda Melissa* — Associate Lecturer Specialist, Binus University (Indonesia) *Brandon Chong Kian Hua* — Student, University of Technology Sarawak (Malaysia) Moderator: *Tariq Zaman* — Professor, University of Technology Sarawak (Malaysia) Facilitator: *Ram Naresh Kumar* — Assistant Professor, Food and Agri Business School (FABS), Sagar Group of Institutes (India) 06:30–07:30 Empowering Data for All: Unlocking Trust and Transparency using Open Data Editor Moderator: *Nikesh Balami* — Co-founder & CEO, Open Knowledge Nepal (Nepal) Facilitator: *James Shrestha* — Chief Operating Officer, Open Knowledge Nepal (Nepal) 07:15–07:30 The Growing Threat of Personal Liability in Platform Regulation: A Necessary Measure or Overreach? *Angela Thomas* — Counsel, SFLC.in (India) 09:00–10:15 APrIGF – Town Hall10:30–12:15 APrIGF – Closing Plenary *Roundtable: Bridging the Digital Divide: Strategies for Inclusive and Sustainable Connectivity in the Asia-Pacific Region* *Binay Bohra* – Managing Director, Vianet Communications *Dr. Devesh Tyagi* – Chief Executive Officer, NIXI *Marie Lisa M. Dacanay* – President, Institute for Social Entrepreneurship in Asia (ISEA) *Sarai F. Tevita* – Information and Communication Technology Director, National University of Samoa *Toshiaki Tateishi* – Vice Chairman, Japan Internet Providers Association Moderator: *Suman Basnet* – Regional Director, AMARC-Asia Pacific *Closing Ceremony* *Babu Ram Aryal* – Chair, Host Steering Committee *Edmon Chung*– APrIGF Secretariat *Closing Keynote Speech*: TBC *Bea Guevarra* – Co-chair of Asia Pacific yIGF 2025 *Ashirwad Tripathy* – Vice-Chair, APrIGF Multistakeholder Steering Group (MSG) O*fficial Appointment for the next Chair & Vice-Chair* (2026-2028) -- -------------------------------------- Joly MacFie +12185659365 -------------------------------------- -

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ICA26 Panelists Needed: Disability & Inequalities in Communication
by E. S. Gray 12 Oct '25

12 Oct '25

Dear scholars! I am organising a panel for ICA26, and would like to invite interested panelists. Please see details below if you would be interested. *Panel: Addressing Inequalities in Inter-Ability Communication: Explorations of Practice, Performance, and Presentation* *Topic Description: *This panel will explore how disabled individuals, scholars, performers, and artists center their narratives through communication that incorporates or conveys their perceptions, navigation of the world, or sense of reality. The common social scripts for communication require communicators to be matched within "norms" of ability and access. This expectation creates pressure to conform with conventions of delivery that effectively marginalize any expression that does not fit the culturally sanctioned scripts, whether due to necessity (e.g., bodily or neurological limitations) or comfort (e.g., what feels natural within a particular body). This panel explores what happens when that pressure to conform is relaxed, and disabled individuals find or create space to freely to express themselves according to what they can do very well, their lived and embodied experiences, and what feels natural for their bodies or minds. *Looking for panelists who feel their work intersects with this topic including:* research, practice, presentation, art, humor, or performance --- *About me: *My Name is Emmanuel-Sathya Gray. My interdisciplinary work in communication and community psychology currently focuses on what performers and artists teach us about breaking patterns of deference to dominant narratives, and bringing our realities from the margins to the center stage. I have published on activism, climate justice, and resilience, and am working on a book chapter (under review) and paper (in progress) related to the disruptive use of humor by disabled comedians on social media. --- If you are interested in joining me on this adventure to make this panel happen, please reach me at grayea(a)mail.uc.edu and send me some information about the work you'd like to discuss. Looking forward to corresponding with folks!

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More on the Anthropic deal for academic authors
by Janet Salmons 11 Oct '25

11 Oct '25

Thanks, danah for mentioning the deal with Anthropic to (minimally) compensate authors whose books were pirated. First, before you start eyeing a new yacht, keep in mind that the promised $3K per book settlement is split between authors and publishers. They are recommending a 50/50 split but that will be up to the publisher. I'm trying to find out what academic publishers plan to do and will share that information if/when I get it. Also, the fact that they ripped off your books is not enough: the "list" represents a narrow time frame. In my case, 6 books are in the database of stolen books but only one was taken during the time period covered by the settlement. The process is a little different for authors of textbooks, monographs, or books published by university presses. FYI educational/textbook and university press/academic authors represent almost half of the close to 500,000 works infringed in the class! The Textbook and Academic Authors Association collaborated with the Authors Guild to make sure our special issues were addressed. TAA's Kim Pawlak was in the hearing room and is actively involved in getting correct information to all of us. She asked me to share this on my Substack newsletter: Info for Educational and University Press Authors Filing Claims in Bartz v. Anthropic The Textbook & Academic Authors Association provides trustworthy guidance https://janetsalmons.substack.com/p/info-for-educational-and-university By the way, it is a good time to join TAA and/or the Authors Guild! On other topics, this month my newsletter is focused on qualitative diary and narrative methods (https://janetsalmons.substack.com/p/narratives-and-diaries-in-online) The newsletter is free (with a paid subscription for those who want more resources and interactivity.) I'm also open to featuring your publications or events, message me off list. Take care, Janet Free-Range Scholar and Creative Boulder, Colorado USA janet(a)salmons.blog "When the Field is Online" free newsletter about qualitative research and writing in a connected world: http://tinyurl.com/qualnews

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Pro-anorexia content on Usenet
by default friend 11 Oct '25

11 Oct '25

Hi — I'm doing research on pro-anorexia content on Usenet and the early Internet more generally. Has anyone here written on this? KD Sent via Superhuman ( https://sprh.mn/?vip=defaultefriend@gmail.com )

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Book authors: See if you deserve money
by danah boyd 10 Oct '25

10 Oct '25

The Anthropic settlement was annnounced. The company has to pay authors a total of 1.5 BILLION dollars. This will be distributed to impacted authors who file claims. If you’ve written a book, I strongly recommend that you look up whether or not you’re impacted. Go here: https://secure.anthropiccopyrightsettlement.com/ and click on “Works List Lookup.” If you’re impacted, file a claim. You could get $3K/book. I know a lot of you on this list are impacted… danah

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Digital Technology for Democracy Postdoctoral Research Fellowship, UVA
by Jess Reia 10 Oct '25

10 Oct '25

Dear colleagues, [Apologies for cross-posting] The University of Virginia’s Digital Technology for Democracy (DTD) Lab invites applications for 2-year postdoctoral fellowships. The fellowships will begin in August of 2026 and run through August 2028. At the DTD Lab, which is part of the Karsh Institute of Democracy, our understandings of democracy and technology, and their intersections, are broad and interdisciplinary. We expect candidates to be creative in their approaches and, at the same time, to clearly articulate their personal understanding of technology and democracy in their project proposal. We are particularly interested in transdisciplinary research that addresses key topics at the intersection of digital technology and democracy, and we are eager to bring in a cohort that addresses these issues at global, regional, and local levels. We seek a broad range of viewpoints, perspectives, and experiences and welcome applications from all over the world. The Lab will work with the UVA International Studies Office to sponsor visas as needed. The annual salary for each position is $65,000, with additional research funding of $5,000 per year. In addition to salary and research funding, standard UVA resources will be provided, including healthcare, computing resources, and access to library support and VIVA-negotiated collective agreements that lower or eliminate APCs with select publishers. More information and the application link are available here: https://jobs.virginia.edu/us/en/job/R0077062/Digital-Technology-for-Democra… Application Deadline: December 15, 2025; notifications will be sent in March 2026. Interested in learning more? Join us for a Zoom info session. October session: https://dtdlab.virginia.edu/event/dtd-lab-postdoctoral-fellow-information-s… November session: https://dtdlab.virginia.edu/event/dtd-lab-postdoctoral-fellow-information-s… Please get in touch with Amy Tackitt for additional support: nzz7ca(a)virginia.edu Thank you, J. Jess Reia, Ph.D. (they/them) Andrew Carnegie Fellow <https://www.carnegie.org/awards/honoree/jess-reia/> Assistant Professor of Data Science Faculty co-lead, Digital Technology for Democracy Lab <https://karshinstitute.virginia.edu/digital-technology-democracy-lab>, University of Virginia Visiting Scholar, Institute for Global Public Policy <https://igpp.fudan.edu.cn/igppen/main.htm>, Fudan University 2024-2025 Non-Resident Fellow at the Center for Democracy & Technology <https://cdt.org/> <https://karshinstitute.virginia.edu/> New book: Urban Music Governance <https://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/distributed/U/bo245009492.html> <https://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/distributed/U/bo245009492.html> reia(a)virginia.edu | https://datascience.virginia.edu/

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Help Shape a Mentorship Program for the Workshop on Online Abuse and Harms (WOAH)
by Agostina Calabrese 10 Oct '25

10 Oct '25

Hi everyone, We’re exploring the creation of a mentorship program for next year’s Workshop on Online Abuse and Harms (WOAH)<https://www.workshopononlineabuse.com/>. Our goal is to make WOAH a more welcoming and accessible venue for researchers and practitioners from a wide range of disciplines - not just core NLP or computer science, but also fields such as social sciences, law, psychology, policy, and beyond. To help us design a program that truly supports this diversity, we’d love your input. Whether you might be interested in joining as a mentor, mentee, or just want to share your perspective, please take a minute to fill out this short survey: 👉 WOAH Mentorship Interest Survey<https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1kgC1QFL91-uzTl0B5sRQVh9j0zzvgSpu1zdT-zrghP…> Your feedback will help us shape a mentorship initiative that lowers barriers to participation and builds stronger interdisciplinary connections within the WOAH community. Thanks so much for your time and insights! Best, Agostina on behalf of the WOAH organizing team The University of Edinburgh is a charitable body, registered in Scotland, with registration number SC005336. Is e buidheann carthannais a th’ ann an Oilthigh Dhùn Èideann, clàraichte an Alba, àireamh clàraidh SC005336.

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"After the Future of Work" - PhD opportunity
by Luke Munn 10 Oct '25

10 Oct '25

Hey folks, Brief email to let you know that the HDR attached to my Future Fellowship has just been advertised. "This project addresses an intertwined challenge facing Australian workers: platformisation and climate-driven heat. Traditional work is giving way to informal and on-demand forms managed by digital technologies. Yet these models ignore the climate, placing workers in danger and enacting a heavy toll on the planet. The project will support an HDR candidate to investigate this growing confrontation. Rather than any specific background, our ideal candidate will excel at working across domains (technical, ecological, anthropological) to construct critical and incisive accounts of the contemporary conditions facing Australian workers and the world more broadly." https://study.uq.edu.au/study-options/phd-mphil-professional-doctorate/proj… ngā mihi / best, Luke Meanjin/Brisbane, University of Queensland

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Call for Papers: Political economy of digital platforms: transformations in capitalism and responses from different countries
by Helena Martins 09 Oct '25

09 Oct '25

*Call for Papers: Political economy of digital platforms: transformations in capitalism and responses from different countries * EPTIC Journal invites interested parties to submit papers for the Thematic Dossier “Political economy of digital platforms: transformations in capitalism and responses from different countries,” which will be coordinated by Helena Martins (UFC) and Rodrigo Moreno Marques (UFMG). The publication will inaugurate a series of three special dossiers related to the project "The economic governance of digital networks: for an analysis of markets, internet competition, and their impact on user rights," developed by the Observatory of Economics and Communication (Obscom) at the Federal University of Sergipe (UFS), with funding from Fapesp (21/06992-1). Texts must be submitted by November 15, 2025. The issue is expected to be published in March 2026. The Political Economy of Information, Communication, and Culture has linked the process of platformization and the emergence of digital platforms to the structural crisis in capitalism, which involves monopolization, concentration, and centralization of capital, stagnant growth in core countries, growing inequalities, financial instability, ecological crisis, and disputes over national sovereignty. As part of this context, technological transformations, from the microelectronic revolution to artificial intelligence, are not just autonomous phenomena, but constitute an attempt by capital to respond to this set of crises and maintain its accumulation process. As instruments of monopolistic economic agents, platforms do not act only as central intermediaries between producers, citizens treated as consumers, advertisers, and other groups. In fact, they act as vectors for the reorganization of capital, enabling data capture and control, monetization of attention, intermediation of exchanges, intensification of work, and value capture in sectors in which they operate, reproducing old relations of national dependence and creating new relations of dependence at the macroeconomic level. Specifically with regard to the cultural industry, they also reorganize the structure of social mediation, with significant power to control the production and circulation of content associated with new forms of manipulation. This general situation affects different countries in different ways, given the unequal international division of labor. We are interested in discussing how the capitalist structural crisis and the actions of platforms manifest themselves in Latin American countries, given the historical technological dependence, the appropriation of wealth, and the exploitation of labor and natural resources by large global corporations, which increases the risks to already fragile national sovereignties and regulatory regimes. This is evident in Donald Trump's threats against countries, including Brazil, that have debated or proposed new regulations on platforms, artificial intelligence, and other technologies. The reactions and national policies of countries such as China and Russia in the face of this complex reality are also emblematic. The impacts of this reconfiguration are diverse, ranging from forms of accumulation to the very organization of the political regime of democracy. Therefore, the dossier hopes to receive texts on: - The relevance and mobilization of classical concepts (value, commodity, labor, and others) for the observation of digital transformations; - Characterization of the current stage of capitalism and its relationship with information and communication technologies; - Geopolitics, wars, genocide, and the role of digital platforms; - Transformations in the world of work associated with platform mediation; - Data sovereignty, digital sovereignty, technological sovereignty, and popular sovereignty; - Regulation of platforms and digital services; - Digital monopolies and monopolization of digital markets. Information: https://periodicos.ufs.br/eptic/announcement/view/535 -- *Helena Martins* Professora da Universidade Federal do Ceará (UFC) Editora da Revista Eptic <http://revistaeptic.net.br> Líder do Telas - Laboratório de Pesquisa em Economia, Tecnologia e Políticas da Comunicaçã <http://dgp.cnpq.br/dgp/espelhogrupo/570544>o <http://dgp.cnpq.br/dgp/espelhogrupo/570544> <http://dgp.cnpq.br/dgp/espelhogrupo/570544> -- *Helena Martins* Professora da Universidade Federal do Ceará (UFC) Editora da Revista Eptic <http://revistaeptic.net.br> Líder do Telas - Laboratório de Pesquisa em Economia, Tecnologia e Políticas da Comunicaçã <http://dgp.cnpq.br/dgp/espelhogrupo/570544>o <http://dgp.cnpq.br/dgp/espelhogrupo/570544> <http://dgp.cnpq.br/dgp/espelhogrupo/570544>

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Call for Participation: ACM Creativity and Cognition 2026 conference, 13-16 July 2026
by Joana Chicau 09 Oct '25

09 Oct '25

Hi everyone, please find our call info below. We are pleased to invite submissions for papers to the ACM Creativity and Cognition 2026 conference, which will be held at Central Saint Martins, University of the Arts London (UK) 13-16 July 2026. We encourage submissions that contribute with knowledge on various forms of creativity with topics ranging from designing or evaluating creativity-support environments and technologies to studying or reflecting on the experiences, practices, and cognitive processes in art, craft and design. Conference website: https://cc.acm.org/2026/ This year’s theme, “Creativity for Change,” responds to the rapid pace of change in our world and emphasizes the power of creativity in driving positive transformations. Our conference will explore how creativity can inspire and enable sustainable approaches for societal transformation, addressing decolonization, tackle climate action, preservation of cultural heritage and support place-making and peace-making in urban and cultural contexts. We aim to weave the theme of making a better world through creativity throughout the conference program. We invite submissions across a range of categories that examine how interactive systems, design, and creative processes can foster positive change and respond to global challenges. Creativity will be the lens through which we view societal issues, showcasing how creative approaches can open up new possibilities. Creativity and Cognition 2026 will be an in-person conference. Accepted submissions will be expected to have at least one author registered and present at the main part of the conference on July 14-16 July 2026. Accepted full and short papers will be included in the Proceedings of the ACM Creativity and Cognition 2026 conference, and will be made available in the ACM Digital Library. Authors of accepted full papers from Creativity and Cognition 2025 also have the opportunity to join ACM Creativity and Cognition 2026 in London for poster or full presentations (for best papers). Starting January 2026, ACM will fully transition to Open Access. All ACM publications, including those from ACM Creativity and Cognition 2026, will be 100% Open Access. See the conference website for more details. Important Dates All deadlines are specified as Anywhere on Earth<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anywhere_on_Earth> time (11:59 PM UTC-12) Dates for Papers, Pictorials, and Artworks * Abstract Submission Deadline: 29 January 2026 * Final Submission Deadline: 5 February 2026 * Notifications: 30 March 2026 * Camera-Ready Deadline: 27 April 2026 Dates for Workshops and Tutorials * Submission Deadline: 19 February 2026 * Notifications: 5 March 2026 * Camera-Ready Deadline: 2 April 2026 Dates for Posters and Technical Demonstrations * Submission Deadline: 16 April 2026 * Notifications: 7 May 2026 * Camera-Ready Deadline: 21 May 2026 Dates for Graduate Student Symposium and Undergraduate Research * Submission Deadline: 19 February 2026 * Notifications: 5 March 2026 * Camera-Ready Deadline: 2 April 2026 Warmly, Joana Chicau s/her / ela associate lecturer (FHEA) designer, researcher, performer {[(joanachicau.com<https://joanachicau.com/>)]} University of the Arts London Creative Computing Institute www.arts.ac.uk/cci<http://www.arts.ac.uk/cci> This email and any attachments are intended solely for the addressee and may contain confidential information. If you are not the intended recipient of this email and/or its attachments you must not take any action based upon them and you must not copy or show them to anyone. Please send the email back to us and immediately and permanently delete it and its attachments. Where this email is unrelated to the business of University of the Arts London or of any of its group companies the opinions expressed in it are the opinions of the sender and do not necessarily constitute those of University of the Arts London (or the relevant group company). Where the sender's signature indicates that the email is sent on behalf of UAL Short Courses Limited the following also applies: UAL Short Courses Limited is a company registered in England and Wales under company number 02361261. Registered Office: University of the Arts London, 272 High Holborn, London WC1V 7EY

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