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FINAL REMINDER: LIS-Bibliometrics Conference 2025 is TOMORROW!
by Behrooz Rasuli 25 Nov '25

25 Nov '25

Hello everybody, This is the very last call! The LIS-Bibliometrics Conference 2025 begins tomorrow, Wednesday, 26 November 2025, at *St Martin’s House Conference Centre in Leicester*. If you are joining us in person, please ensure you have planned your travel (details are available via the Plan Your Visit <https://lisbibliometrics.wordpress.com/c-2025-visit> link on our site <https://lisbibliometrics.wordpress.com/c-2025>). Registration opens at *8:30*. Don't miss out on our exceptional lineup of expert keynotes <https://lisbibliometrics.wordpress.com/c-2025-program/>, aligned with our theme, *Bibliometrics in Action*: *+ Dr. Leslie D. McIntosh* (Digital Science, UK): Delivering the opening keynote, "Crimeless Whispers: The Forensics of Deceit in Modern Science." (09:15). *+ Amélie Church* (Sorbonne University, France): Sharing her insights as a member of the Barcelona Declaration on Open Research Information Steering Committee. (10:45). *+ Dr. Juan Gorraiz* (University of Vienna, Austria): Closing the day with, "When Libraries Meet Metrics: Towards Responsible Bibliometric Services." (16:00). The day also features valuable presentations, here is the full programme <https://lisbibliometrics.wordpress.com/c-2025-program/>: *08.30-09:00* Registration and Tea/Coffee *09:00-09:15* Welcome to the conference *09:15-10:00* Keynote: Crimeless Whispers: The Forensics of Deceit in Modern Science / Dr Leslie D McIntosh, Digital Science *10:00-10:30* Sponsor presentation: Scientometrics in the Age of AI: Practical Applications / Valentin Bogorov *10:30-10:45* Refreshments/Posters *10:45-11:30* Keynote: Amelie Church, Sorbonne University *11:30-12:00* Presentation: Using OpenAlex to Map International Collaborations James Wilson, University of Bristol *12:00-13:00* Lunch *13:00-14:00* Workshop: Strengthening research integrity through bibliometric skills Barbara S Lancho Barrantes, University of Brighton *14:00-14:30* Sponsor Presentation: From Bibliometrics to Action: Taking Scientometrics Beyond the Library to Inform Research Strategy *14:30-15:00* Refreshments/Posters *15:00-15:55* Rising Items: an app to find items gaining popularity in Loughborough University’s Research Repository / Lara Skelly; Combining Traditional and New Metrics for Research Assessment: Lessons from the University of Bath / Junjie Shen and Sarah Ormes; Coconut Libtool: brief workflows for librarians and LIS practitioners / Faizhal Arif Santosa; Understanding Impact: How Patient and Public Involvement (PPI) Accelerates Research Application / Rhian Davies, Gavin Reddick, Angela McGuire *16:00-16:45* Keynote: When Libraries Meet Metrics: Towards Responsible Bibliometric Services / Dr. Juan Gorraiz *16:45-17:00* Closing remarks If you cannot attend in person, we are pleased to offer *online streaming* for the entire event. Watch the full conference live here: https://www.youtube.com/@lis-bibliometricscommunity5722 We look forward to sharing ideas and experiences with all academics and practitioners tomorrow! Best, *Organizing Committee* Amir Reza Asnafi, Shahid Beheshti University Andy Herzog, University of Minnesota Behrooz Rasuli, Iranian Research Institute for Information Science and Technology (IranDoc) Jenny Coombs, De Montfort University Merinne Whitton, University of Leicester Michelle O’Hara, University of Glasgow Nicola Wylie, Lancaster University Robyn Price, Elsevier Yusuf Ozkan, Imperial College London -- *Behrooz Rasuli* Ph.D. in Information Science *Department of **Society and Information* *Iranian Research Institute for Information Science and Technology <http://irandoc.ac.ir/irandoc-english/irandoc-english.html>*

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'Digital Storytelling: An Introduction' Book Publication Announcement
by Leah Henrickson 25 Nov '25

25 Nov '25

Just dropping in to let you all know that my latest book is now out (in the UK - Americans and e-book readers will need to wait until November)! 🎉 Digital Storytelling: An Introduction is my effort to historicise and expand the field. It's a textbook that teachers can build upon for their own digital storytelling and media courses, but it's also a reflection on the world's chaos and the meanings we make from it. Professor Hanna Meretoja has called the book 'a lucid guide to what is at stake when we engage in and with digital storytelling. It offers valuable critical tools, and its historically informed and intellectually rigorous yet accessible approach is much needed.' Professor Jay David Bolter has said that the book 'brings to bear a wide range of work from media studies to the cognitive and social sciences to develop [a] framework for creative expression in the medium of the digital. This concise and readable text is sure to be an indispensable resource for beginning and advanced students as well as creative practitioners.' Whether you're a student, teacher, researcher, or lifelong learner, I hope you enjoy reading this book as much as I enjoyed writing it. For more information about the book, and to order a copy (exam copies available), please visit https://www.politybooks.com/bookdetail?book_slug=digital-storytelling-an-in…. ______________________________ Dr Leah Henrickson (she/her) Lecturer in Digital Media and Cultures School of Communication and Arts University of Queensland | St Lucia QLD 4072 | Australia Room 302 | Joyce Ackroyd (37) +61 (0)7 334 68255

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Interdisciplinary Post-doc and PhD positions at the University of Tübingen
by alina.wernick＠uni-tuebingen.de 24 Nov '25

24 Nov '25

Dear colleagues, The following interdisciplinary positions interfacing AI are open at the University of Tübingen (detailed descriptions in the PDF): 1. Several open 6-year post-doc positions available at the Norms and Practices Lab of the Cluster of Excellence for Machine Learning in Science. The Norms & Practices Lab explores how transformative machine learning and AI technologies are reshaping the norms and practices of science. It takes an interdisciplinary approach, combining philosophy, digital anthropology, science and technology studies, and law. 1. https://uni-tuebingen.de/en/128980#c2393172 1. 1. A PhD position in Machine Learning at the Computational Law Lab at the CZS Institute for AI and Law and Tübingen AI Center. The Position is funded by the Horizon Project ELLIOT<https://www.elliot-ai.eu/>, which aims to advance the protection and enhancement of privacy in the training and deployment of next-generation multimodal models 2. Thank you for sharing the announcements in your networks! Best wishes, Alina Wernick -- Best wishes, Mit freundlichen Grüßen, Dr. Alina Wernick, LL.M. Independent Research Group Lead - Law, AI and Society Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen CZS Institute for Artificial Intelligence and Law Maria-von-Linden-Str. 6 · 72076 Tübingen · Germany https://lawaisociety.com/ https://ailawinstitute.de/ alina.wernick(a)wsii.uni-tuebingen.de<mailto:alina.wernick@wsii.uni-tuebingen.de> +49 7071 29 707 98 https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3231-1797

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New CDT report - "What Kids and Parents Want: Policy Insights for Social Media Safety Features."
by Dhanaraj Thakur 24 Nov '25

24 Nov '25

Hi everyone, The Center for Democracy & Technology recently published a new research report led by my colleagues Michal Luria and Aliya Bhatia called "What Kids and Parents Want: Policy Insights for Social Media Safety Features <https://cdt.org/insights/what-kids-and-parents-want-policy-insights-for-soc…>." It goes a long way in helping us understand what parents and their children think about policy proposals in the U.S. to keep children safe online and how they work in practice. Based on research with 45 parents and their children they found: ➡️ Age Verification: ID-based and face scanning methods were viewed as invasive and unreliable. Participants favored parent-centered approaches which enabled parents to declare their children’s age and consent to which apps their children downloaded. This finding emphasized parents’ desire for choice and flexibility when approaching age verification, in part to address privacy and security concerns. ➡️ Algorithmic Feed Controls: Teens expressed trust in algorithmic feeds and little interest in chronological alternatives. They preferred lightweight controls such as “not interested” functions over disruptive pop-ups, while parents expressed a desire for more tools to set content boundaries. ➡️ Screen-Time Features: Teens and parents valued reminders and parent-led limits, but opposed app-enforced, peer-enforced or content-based restrictions. Strict curfews were considered intrusive and impractical, suggesting more flexibility could be built into screen-time features. ➡️ Parental Access: Teens were mostly open to parental visibility but strongly opposed parental ability to delete content or apps without their explicit consent. Parents agreed, and both also said that parental approval for significant actions (e.g., downloading a new social media platform) is appropriate, while everyday approvals (e.g., adding a contact or joining a group) seem excessive and unnecessary. The employed a qualitative design research approach called speed dating with storyboards. They used a set of storyboard illustrations to depict how child digital safety policy proposals might work in practice. This allowed participants to think through how the proposed interventions would impact their own lives and experiences. You can find the report here: https://cdt.org/insights/what-kids-and-parents-want-policy-insights-for-soc… take care, Dhanaraj -- *Dhanaraj Thakur* (he/him) | Research Director Center for Democracy & Technology |*cdt.org <https://cdt.org/>* **dthakur(a)cdt.org | **+1 202 407 8849

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Book Announcement - Researching Digital Society
by Harry Dyer (EDU - Staff) 24 Nov '25

24 Nov '25

Dear AoIR community, I'm very proud to announce that my new book 'Researching Digital Society - An Introduction' is now available for purchase with SAGE. Details of the book, along with a preview, are available here (https://uk.sagepub.com/en-gb/eur/researching-digital-society/book281472) It's a comprehensive textbook that explores current research, methods, and theories for understanding digital technologies & their impacts on society. If you know anyone beginning a journey into digital research, this is the book for them! It's a broad introduction to digital research that covers a range of exciting topics and foundational issues, like: * Ethics in digital research * Emerging methods and traditional methods in digital research * Choosing participants and the importance of critically resisting how 'big tech' companies define digital platforms * Emerging areas of research like platformisation and datafication of daily life, digital materiality and touch, the role of social media in amplifying and minimising different social realities in tension with users, and digital inequalities through GenAI and other new technologies * Key topics for digital research including digital communities, digital identities, and digital intimacies, and digital activism * Pathways for future research that position digital research as an inherently political act of praxis And much more! I'm really excited to see it out in the world and I would love to give some book talks and whatever else might seem appropriate - please get in touch if you're interested! Best wishes, Harry

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New book: #Barbie and Social Media
by Rebecca Hains 24 Nov '25

24 Nov '25

Colleagues, I'm pleased to announce the release of my new book, #Barbie and Social Media: Digital Discourses and Mattel's Celebrity Doll. Some information for your consideration, including a book launch discount code: About #Barbie and Social Media This collection, edited by Rebecca C. Hains and Emily R. Aguiló-Pérez, delves into Barbie’s transformation from doll to global cultural icon–one that is deeply embedded in contemporary social media discourse. It explores how digital platforms have given rise to a dynamic, participatory culture that both celebrates and critiques doll and brand. From Mattel’s strategic branding of Barbie as a symbol of diversity and empowerment, to individuals' use of social media to reimagine Barbie’s identity and significance, #Barbie and Social Media offers a comprehensive examination of Barbie in the digital age. Overview: * Explores the rise, development, and status of Barbie representation and discourses on various social media platforms * Focuses on adult and older teen engagement with Barbie online, going beyond traditional analyses of the doll * Chapters explore topics such as gender identity, racial representation, feminism, LGBTQ+ rights, and more Library acquisitions and book launch coupon code We hope you will ask your libraries to acquire this text, to help ensure equitable access for diverse scholars. It's available for acquisition in a digital format, as well -- ideal for assigning chapters as class readings. The collection can be purchased at 20% off at https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-031-95611-9 with book launch coupon PALAUT. Please note that a "sister volume," Barbie in the Media: The Transmedia Presence of Mattel's Celebrity Doll, is also newly available from Palgrave. The book launch coupon code above also applies. Reviews of #Barbie and Social Media “Hains and Aguiló-Pérez are two of the leading voices on children’s culture. In #Barbie and Social Media they have assembled a fresh yet timeless exploration of the famous doll as a brand, activist icon, site of critique, and so much more. With implications for areas as diverse as marketing, gender and identity studies, and online activism, this volume is essential reading for anyone thinking about culture and social media today.” (Brooke Foucault Welles, Ph.D., Professor of Communication Studies, Northeastern University and co-author of “#HashtagActivism: Networks of Race and Gender Justice”) “As Barbie herself has evolved, so too has the public discourse surrounding the 11.5-inch-tall cultural icon. With this thoughtfully-curated collection, Rebecca Hains and Emily Aguiló-Pérez have added a valuable and timely contribution to that discourse, offering scholars, collectors, and fans alike a compelling volume encompassing all things #Barbie and Social Media.” (Sharon R. Mazzarella, Ph.D., Professor of Communication Studies, James Madison University and Author of “Girls, Moral Panic, and News Media: Troublesome Bodies”) “Since the 2023 release of Greta Gerwig’s film, Barbie, there has been renewed interest in the impact of the Barbie doll on generations of women and young girls. Advancing this conversation, Hains and Aguiló-Pérez have assembled a superb collection of essays that examine how Barbie enters and informs the cultural imagination through social media. Recognizing that the Barbie doll signifies for adults as much as it does for young people, this highly accessible volume will appeal to academics and non-academics of all ages.” (Claire Katz, Ph.D., Professor of Philosophy and Education, Texas A&M University and co-editor, with Anna Gotlib, of “In a Barbie World: Barbie as Narrative, Symbol, and Cipher”) “#Barbie and Social Media offers a richly nuanced exploration of how a legacy brand like Barbie is being reimagined in the digital age. This timely and engaging collection is essential reading for anyone interested in youth culture, gender, and the politics of play.” (Sarah M. Coyne, Ph.D., Brigham Young University) “Editors Hains and Aguiló-Pérez have compiled a Malibu Barbie Dreambook! The volume adeptly and holistically examines Barbie as a social-media presence, highlighting the push-pull of ideological contradictions, top-down and bottom-up meaning making, and intersectional identity constructions that include gender, of course, but also race, sexuality, nationality, and religion, among others. #Barbie and Social Media: Digital Discourses and Mattel’s Celebrity Doll is must-read for Barbie studies, leisure studies, social-media scholarship, and consumer-culture and branding research.” (Matthew P. McAllister, Ph.D., Penn State University) -- Rebecca Hains, Ph.D. Professor, Media and Communication Salem State University, Salem, Massachusetts Pronouns: she/her ORCID<https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9801-3376> LinkedIn<https://www.linkedin.com/in/rebeccahains> ResearchGate<https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Rebecca_Hains> Google Scholar<https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=t34Zv4AAAAAJ&hl=en&oi=ao>

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The AI Matrix - out open access!
by Vali Stan 24 Nov '25

24 Nov '25

Dear colleagues, News of the US government trying to bend states’ regulatory autonomy over AI-related harms – both at home and globally – accrue alongside reports of record gains and market concentration across the Silicon Valley dominated AI stack. Critical analysis of the economic, political and social (re-)distribution of power in the context of AI technology innovation and deployment remain essential for unpacking grand claims of AI transforming the world for better or worse. In this critically-minded spirit we announce the publication of our [“The AI Matrix: Profits, Power, Politics”](https://www.agendapub.com/page/detail/the-ai-matrix/?k=978178821…. The book is available as open access pdf, with a pre-order option for the hard copy that is coming out mid December. The book addresses a number questions which are often left on the wayside in the perceived urge to innovate and adopt AI: How do first mover advantages on the AI First market play out globally? How does the diffusion of AI tech transform different economic sectors and labour relations? Where does the race to AI and to tech regulation leave economies and societies outside the US, China and Europe? What do we make of local forms of resistance to a US- or Chinese-dominated AI world? And what could a more inclusive and equitable tech future look like? Allison Pugh, Professor of Sociology at Johns Hopkins University and author of The Last Human Job, describes reading the book as "like walking with a knowledgeable guide holding a comprehensive map to a new and sometimes bewildering world". We hope you agree with the verdict 😊 We certainly look forward to any feedback, reviews, and continued conversations with this crowd. Best wishes, Daniel (Mügge), Regine (Paul) and Vali

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3 postdocs in Manchester
by João C. Magalhães 24 Nov '25

24 Nov '25

Dear all, The AI Trust and Security Cluster at the University of Manchester is hiring three postdoctoral research fellows! Fellows will need to work with a named mentor or mentoring team and propose a project addressing a major challenge linked to AI Trust and Security. We particularly welcome projects that critically examine the practices and discourses at the intersections of AI and society. Relevant angles include democracy, politics, and government; affective and everyday life; and political economy, markets, and corporations. These are three-year positions at a truly interdisciplinary group of researchers. The deadline for submission is 31 Jan 2026. More at https://www.jobs.manchester.ac.uk/Job/JobDetail?JobId=33836&source=JobTrain… Best, Joao -- João C. Magalhães Senior Lecturer in AI Trust and Security | School of Arts, Languages and Cultures Head of the AI Trust and Security Cluster | Centre for Digital Trust and Society University of Manchester https://jcmagalhaes.com/ Selected publications: Socially blind engineering in Facebook's foundational technologies, 2025<https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s13347-025-00971-9> (Philosophy & Technology, w/ Nick Couldry) | Open-ended technological inevitability in journalistic discourses about AI, 2025<http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/21670811.2025.2522281#d1e238> (Digital Journalism, w/ Rik Smit) | The emergence of platform illiberalism, 2025 <https://osf.io/preprints/socarxiv/6grbc_v1> (pre-print, w/ Clara Iglesias Keller and Rob Gorwa) | A history of objectionability in Twitter’s moderation practices, 2023<https://academic.oup.com/joc/advance-article/doi/10.1093/joc/jqad015/720476…> (Journal of Communication, w/ Emillie de Keulenaar, Bharath Ganesh) | Social media, social unfreedom, 2022 <https://www.degruyter.com/document/doi/10.1515/commun-2022-0040/html> (Communications, w/ Jun Yu) | Big Tech, data colonialism and the reconfiguration of social good, 2021<https://ijoc.org/index.php/ijoc/article/view/15995> (International Journal of Communication, w/ Nick Couldry) | Considering algorithmic ethical subjectivation, 2018<https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/2056305118768301> (Social Media + Society)

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Influencer Creep, Online Book Talk with Sophie Bishop
by Rafael Do Nascimento Grohmann 24 Nov '25

24 Nov '25

Hi AoIR DigiLabour<https://www.instagram.com/digilabour/> <https://www.instagram.com/digilabour/> and Creative Labour & Critical Futures (CLCF)<https://creativelabourcriticalfutures.ca/> invite you to an online book talk with Sophie Bishop (University of Leeds) on Influencer Creep: How Optimization, Authenticity, and Self-Branding Transform Creative Culture, published by University of California Press. This will take place tomorrow 11am ET, on the DigiLabour YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pu7GwNQ3WqE After the talk, there will be a conversation with Arturo Arriagada<https://pure.uai.cl/en/persons/arturo-arriagada/>(Universidad Adolfo Ibanez) and Jul Parke<https://creativelabourcriticalfutures.ca/people/julia-parke/> <https://creativelabourcriticalfutures.ca/people/julia-parke/> (University of Toronto). The activity will be moderated by Rafael Grohmann<https://www.utsc.utoronto.ca/acm/rafael-grohmann> <https://www.utsc.utoronto.ca/acm/rafael-grohmann> (University of Toronto). About the book A look at how the rise of influencer culture has changed creative work. A sculptor works while wearing a GoPro camera to capture Instagram content. A painter decides whether to make pieces that she won't be able to share on Instagram, after her account was blocked for sharing "sexualized" content. An artist finds that her portraits of light-skinned women get an algorithmic boost over those featuring dark-skinned models. These creative workers are now using the content-generation skills and promotional strategies pioneered by influencers to compete for visibility online. Influencer Creep explores what happens when creative workers must go beyond their work to build a comprehensive online presence. Creator studies expert Sophie Bishop delineates how the tactics of professional influencers affect the ways creative workers navigate social media platforms. They must optimize their content to win the favor of opaque algorithms they do not control. They must engage in relentless self-branding, creating a compelling, consistent, and platform-ready image. And that image, in spite of being carefully manufactured, must be perceived as authentic. Taking seriously the motivations that drive more and more people into the contest for online visibility, Influencer Creep documents a creative workforce nervously conforming to the monopoly power of social media platforms—and occasionally resisting it. See you there! Rafael -- dr. Rafael Grohmann Assistant Professor of Media Studies Department of Arts, Culture and Media<https://www.utsc.utoronto.ca/acm/rafael-grohmann> Faculty of Information<https://ischool.utoronto.ca/profile/rafael-grohmann/> University of Toronto Leader, DigiLabour<https://digilabour.com.br/> Research Associate, University of Oxford<https://www.oii.ox.ac.uk/people/profiles/rafael-grohmann/> Founding Editor, Platforms & Society<https://journals.sagepub.com/home/PNS> Principal Investigator, Worker-Owned Intersectional Platforms (WOIP)<https://digilabour.com.br/worker-owned-intersectional-platforms-woip/> Co-Lead, Creative Labour and Critical Futures (CLCF)<https://criticaldigitalmethods.ca/creative-labour-critical-futures/> Researcher, AI Policy Observatory for the World of Work<https://www.essex.ac.uk/research-projects/ai-policy-observatory-for-the-wor…> Faculty Affiliate, Schwartz Reisman Institute for Technology and Society<https://srinstitute.utoronto.ca/> <https://srinstitute.utoronto.ca/>

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Postdoctoral researcher opportunity - platform work
by Kylie Jarrett 24 Nov '25

24 Nov '25

Hi all, I am hiring a Senior Researcher - equivalent to a senior Postdoctoral Fellow - to work with me on the ERC funded LivePlatforms: Livelihoods in the Platform Economy Ecosystem project. This is a 5 year, full-time post working with a team to develop a holistic understanding of the platform economy in Ireland by identifying and critiquing key actors involved in how or whether people make livelihoods in that sector. This is a post for someone with at least 2 years postdoctoral research experience. More detail are here: https://universityvacancies.com/university-college-dublin/senior-researcher… Do apply and share with your networks. Thanks, Kylie _________________ Prof. Kylie Jarrett School of Information and Communication Studies University College Dublin She/her Editor-in-chief: *Dialogues on Digital Society* Author: *Digital Labor *(Polity 2022)*;* *Feminism, Labour, and D**igital Media: The Digital Housewife *(Routledge 2016) Co-author*: NSFW: Sex, Humor and Risk in Social Media *(MIT Press 2019) *Google and the Culture of Search *(Routledge 2013)

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