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New Open Access Book: Social Media Use in Crisis and Risk Communication
by Sarah Broadley 02 Oct '18

02 Oct '18

+ Apologies for cross-posting + Hi all, Members of this list might be interested in this newly-published Open Access title. Please read and share within your wider networks. Social Media Use In Crisis and Risk Communication: Emergencies, Concerns and Awareness Edited by Harald Hornmoen, Oslo Metropolitan University, Norway, and Klas Backholm, Åbo Akademi University, Finland **The ebook edition of this title is Open Access and is freely available to read online.** https://www.emeraldinsight.com/doi/book/10.1108/9781787562691 Social Media use in Crisis and Risk Communication presents cutting-edge research on the use of social media in crisis communication and reporting. It gives recommendations about how different crisis communicators (information officers, crisis managers, journalists) can improve their ability to gather information, communicate and raise people's crisis awareness by using social media. Chapters address such questions by presenting new research-based knowledge on social media use during different crises: the terrorist attacks in Norway on 22 July 2011; the central European floods in Austria in 2013; and the West African Ebola-outbreak in 2014. The collection also presents research on the development of a tool for gathering social media information, based on a user-centered design. Best wishes, Sarah Sarah Broadley | Senior Marketing Manager Emerald Publishing, Howard House, Wagon Lane, Bingley, BD16 1WA | T: +44 (0) 1274 515671 Emeraldpublishing.com | @EmeraldSoc | @EmeraldEdu | @EmeraldPolSci Winner: 2018 IPG Academic and Professional Publisher of the Year Shortlisted: British Book Awards - Academic, Educational and Professional Publisher of the Year Emerald Publishing Limited, Registered Office: Howard House, Wagon Lane, Bingley, BD16 1WA United Kingdom. Registered in England No. 3080506, VAT No. GB 665 3593 06

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Update: Funded post-doc and 2 MA positions, University of Calgary
by ryan burns 01 Oct '18

01 Oct '18

Dear all, Victoria Fast and I are pleased to announce that our post-doctoral position, announced earlier, *has been expanded to a 2-year position*. We hope that you will consider applying. Please see the full call for positions here: https://geog.ucalgary.ca/opendata/node/9. Please feel free to reach out with questions. Best wishes, Ryan -- Ryan Burns, PhD Department of Geography Engaging Open Data Research O'Brien Institute for Public Health University of Calgary http://burnsr77.github.io

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3rd international Data Power conference, 12th/13th September 2019, Bremen, Germany
by Helen Kennedy 01 Oct '18

01 Oct '18

With increasingly globalized digital infrastructures and a global digital political economy, we face new concentrations of power, leading to new inequalities and insecurities with respect to data ownership, data geographies and different data-related practices. It is not only a concentration of power by a few corporations, but also a concentration of the availability of data in individual regions of the world. This includes (exerting) power about data (infra)structures and processes of data creation, data collection, data access, data processing, data interpretation, data storing, data visualisations. The *Global in/securities* theme of the 2019 Data Power conference attends to questions around these phenomena, asking: How does data power further or contest global in/securities? How are global in/securities constructed through or against data? How do civil society actors, government, people engage with societal and individual in/securities through and with data? What are appropriate ontologies to think about data and persons? How may we envisage a just data society? And what does decolonizing data in/securities look like? This conference creates a space to reflect on these and other critical issues relating to data’s in/security and its decolonizing. Confirmed keynote speakers are: - Virginia Eubanks, University at Albany, USA; - Jack Linchuan Qiu, Chinese University, Hongkong; - Seeta Peña Gangadaran, LSE, UK; - Nimmi Rangaswamy, Indian Institute of Information Technology, IIIT, Hyderabad, India. Papers and panels are invited on the following – and other – topics: - Big data and humanitarianism - ‘Good’ data, data justice and well-being - Data, discrimination and inequality - Data activism, citizen engagement, indigenous data sovereignty and open data - Critical, theoretical and feminist approaches to data in/securities - Data journalism and rhetorics of data visualization - Data-driven governance and open data - Securitization and militarization of data infrastructures - Emerging in/securities through algorithms and automated decision-making - Forensic data, human rights and refugees - Decolonizing data in/securities and data labor - Machine learning, developmentalism and human security *Information/details * - Please submit 250-word-paper proposals, using the online submission system at the conference webpage: https://www.uni-bremen.de/data-power-global-insecurities/ (to be opened soon). - The deadline for paper proposals is *31st January 2019.* - The conference fee is 200 Euro, and 100 Euro for students. There will be travel grants for participants from the global south and PhD student fee waivers (please indicate the need when applying). - The organising committee will select papers for a special theme proposal to be submitted to the peer reviewed journal Big Data & Society. - For information on travel visa, please visit the following web page: https://ec.europa.eu/home-affairs/what-we-do/policies/borders-and-visas/vis… . Letters of invitation will be sent by the conference organizers. -- Professor Helen Kennedy, Chair in Digital Society University of Sheffield T: 0114 2226488 E: h.kennedy(a)sheffield.ac.uk OUT NOW: 'Living with data: aligning data studies and data activism through a focus on everyday experiences of datafication', *Krisis, Journal for Contemporary Philosophy*, 2018, http://krisis.eu.

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Reflecting on Wikipedia at 20 (MIT Press, expected 2020)
by Joseph Reagle 01 Oct '18

01 Oct '18

Wikipedia at 20, MIT Press <https://reagle.org/joseph/2018/wp/at-20> Joseph Reagle (Northeastern University) Zachary McDowell (University of Illinois at Chicago) CALL FOR PARTICIPATION: We welcome essay proposals from all-comers toward a MIT Press collection about Wikipedia, to be developed via open review on MIT’s PubPub platform and resulting in a CC-BY-NC licensed book. Initial abstracts of 300-500 words are due 2018-Nov-01, details are below. DESRIPTION As Wikipedia’s twentieth year anniversary approaches, many of the site’s early peers have fallen by the wayside; those that survived have been overrun with ads and misinformation. Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia founded on radical collaboration and reliable sourcing, persists. What was once a scrappy experiment has become the world’s most popular reference work. Recently, Wikipedia was even enlisted by its peers—unknowingly—to counteract their problems with fake news. Yet, the online encyclopedia was not always looked to as the grownup of the web. Within its first ten years, some labeled the project a fad bound to fail, others claimed it as a harbinger of the Web’s future. Wikipedia did not fail, nor has the open collaboration it exemplifies become the template for most online platforms. Wikipedia’s legacy is an opportunity to reflect on this project and online communities more generally. To see what insights we can draw from _Wikipedia @ 20_, we are asking researchers, Wikipedians, and cultural critics _three questions_: 1. What initially attracted your attention to Wikipedia? 2. What has changed since then? 3. What do these changes portend for the future of Wikipedia, online community, and beyond? We hope that across the domains of _community_, _contributors_, _ecosystem_, and _meaning_ we’ll find compelling and accessible insights to more specific questions, such as: - How has Wikipedia changed? How much of this is unique to Wikipedia and how much is common across online communities? - Was its precipitous growth and plateauing of contributions the problem that it was thought to be at its midlife? - What has come of efforts to increase contributor diversity, increase its global reach, counter systemic bias, and recruit newcomers? - How did Wikipedia succeed or fail to meet the early expectations of proponents and critics alike? - Is Wikipedia the heart of a new data ecosystem or the lone survivor of an older and better web? Our audience will be a general one. Each contribution should be short (three-to-five thousand words) and accessible to anyone interested in Wikipedia. This will be a collection of thoughtful essays (expected 2020), rather than a venue for original research findings. Essays that make use of such research, of course, are welcome. SUBMISSION To participate, please send a 300-500 word abstract/proposal to wp20(a)reagle.org by 2018-NOV-01. Give us a sense of how the three questions above will lead you to a specific insight, argument, or explanation. (If you wish for more detail provocation, see the draft introduction.) Invitations for contributions will be sent by 2018-Dec-20, with submissions due 2019-MAY-15. Submissions will be made available for a two-month open review on MIT’s PubPub platform. Revised essays are due 2019-AUGUST-01 and those included in the printed collection will also be available under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International license.

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Re: [Air-L] Air-L Digest, Vol 170, Issue 32
by Janet Salmons, Ph.D. 01 Oct '18

01 Oct '18

Greetings everyone, This month I am curating a series of blog posts for SAGE Publications MethodSpace community on Research for Social Good <http://bit.ly/2Qj54y3>. If you would like to share something about your own research, including links to articles or resources for researchers/methods instructors, please contact me off-list. The series will run through the month of October. Then we will segue into an Academic Writing Month focus, which can also address social good as it relates to how and where we disseminate findings. Thanks- Janet *Janet Salmons PhD* Did you see this compilation of posts from MethodSpace and TAA Abstract? See Write with Purpose, Publish for Impact <https://www.methodspace.com/write-with-purpose-publish-for-impact/> Free-Range Scholar @ Vision2Lead Methods Guru, SAGE Methodspace Follow Twitter @einterview 2525 Arapahoe Avenue, Suite E4-198 Boulder, Colorado 80302 jsalmons(a)vision2lead.com 303-443-3075

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CALL: New Book Series From The MIT Press
by Joshua Braun 01 Oct '18

01 Oct '18

We are pleased to announce a new book series with The MIT Press, Distribution Matters. We welcome proposals and inquiries from scholars on this list and hope you will spread the word. For further information, please contact the series editors, Josh Braun and Ramon Lobato (details below and at https://distributionmatters.net) Many Thanks, Josh and Ramon DISTRIBUTION MATTERS A new MIT Press book series Distribution Matters explores how media content, ideas, and information move through the world — and to what effect. Distribution networks — from postal services to social media platforms — affect in essential ways who has access to cultural resources, and on what terms. The Distribution Matters book series explores the impact of strategies, business models, and infrastructures for distribution across the media industries, including screen, print, broadcast, and digital media. It seeks to publish cutting-edge, critical scholarship that offers new ways to understand the movement of media through time and space. The series is open to media scholars within a range of humanities and social science fields, including media studies, communication history, anthropology, sociology, science and technology studies, internet studies, and cultural studies. We welcome proposals from scholars whose work explores how access to cultural resources is variously enabled, constrained, choreographed, and contested in and through distribution. Potential topics include, but are not limited to: * the histories of media distribution networks, their path dependencies, and social consequences * distribution dynamics within particular sectors, such as games, video, publishing, and advertising * logics of digital distribution (platformization, aggregation, recommendation, filtering, blocking, etc.) * governance and regulation of distribution networks * theoretical debates about circulation, networks, mobility, virality, and other issues everyday working practices and cultures of distribution * informal distribution and piracy For further information, please contact the editors: Dr Joshua Braun (University of Massachusetts Amherst) - jabraun(a)journ.umass.edu Dr Ramon Lobato (RMIT University, Australia) - ramon.lobato(a)rmit.edu.au More information and a printable version of this flyer are available at <https://distributionmatters.net/>. -- Josh Braun, Ph.D. Associate Professor of Journalism Studies Journalism Department University of Massachusetts Amherst @josh_braun Skype: wideaperture http://wideaperture.net/ book: http://yalebooks.com/book/9780300197501/program-brought-you "Maybe the only gift is a chance to inquire, to know nothing for certain. An inheritance of wonder and nothing more." William Least Heat-Moon

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Hiring Senior Research Fellows at the Oxford Internet Institute
by Scott Hale 01 Oct '18

01 Oct '18

We are hiring two Senior Research Fellows at the Oxford Internet Institute, University of Oxford. https://www.oii.ox.ac.uk/people/new-positions/ Applicants from Social Data Science, Computational Social Science, Human-Computer Interaction, and similar disciplines are particularly encouraged. I've been at the OII for almost 10 years now and think it is a great, multidisciplinary department. It would be wonderful if you apply or pass this onto colleagues who could be interested. This is a particularly exciting time as we are starting a new master's and doctoral programme <https://www.oii.ox.ac.uk/study/msc-in-social-data-science> in Social Data Science, which has attracted huge interest. Best wishes, Scott -- Dr Scott A. Hale Senior Data Scientist and Research Fellow, Programme Director of the MSc in Social Data Science Oxford Internet Institute, University of Oxford Turing Fellow, Alan Turing Institute http://scott.hale.us/ scott.hale(a)oii.ox.ac.uk

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CASE 1+3 Studentship: "AI at Work" (University of Liverpool)
by Brooker, Phillip 01 Oct '18

01 Oct '18

Dear all Along with Michael Mair (University of Liverpool), Philippe Sormani (STS-Lab Lausanne), Will Dutton (Peak AI, Manchester) and Simon Maskell (PI for Big Hypotheses, University of Liverpool) I'm pleased to announce a new PhD opportunity in Sociology at the University of Liverpool. This is for a 1+3 (Masters and PhD) studentship project called "AI at Work: A Hybrid Study of Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning". As part of the project, the researcher will embed themselves in two AI/Machine Learning work sites and study them from within. The 4 year studentship is open to undergraduate applications but also those currently undertaking a masters degree in a relevant social science discpline (e.g. ethnomethodology/conversation analysis, Science and Technology Studies, Human-Computer Interaction, Computer-Supported Cooperative Work, etc) or in disciplines relevant to data science (e.g. statistics/mathematics). We welcome applications from international candidates, and further details on the project and how to apply can be found at: https://www.findaphd.com/search/ProjectDetails.aspx?PJID=100716 Many thanks! Phil Brooker <https://www.findaphd.com/search/ProjectDetails.aspx?PJID=100716> [https://www.findaphd.com/images/logo-square-200px.png]<https://www.findaphd.com/search/ProjectDetails.aspx?PJID=100716> AI at Work: A Hybrid Study of Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning ResearchCASE 1+3 Studentship (Masters and PhD) at University of Liverpool on FindAPhD.com<https://www.findaphd.com/search/ProjectDetails.aspx?PJID=100716> www.findaphd.com PhD Project - AI at Work: A Hybrid Study of Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning ResearchCASE 1+3 Studentship (Masters and PhD) at University of Liverpool, listed on FindAPhD.com

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Recruiting for a Research Fellow in Social Data Science
by Victoria Nash 01 Oct '18

01 Oct '18

Dear colleagues, We are looking to hire a Grade 8 Research Fellow with expertise in the social, behavioural and computational sciences or digital humanities to support teaching and research at the Oxford Internet Institute at the University of Oxford. More details are available at: https://www.recruit.ox.ac.uk/pls/hrisliverecruit/erq_jobspec_details_form.j… I'd be happy to field any questions, but do share with excellent potential candidates. Best Vicki Nash Dr Victoria Nash Deputy Director Senior Policy Fellow Oxford Internet Institute University of Oxford http://www.oii.ox.ac.uk/ Tel: 01865 287231 Tw: VickiNashOII

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Editorship of an impact factor journal
by Eileen Breen 01 Oct '18

01 Oct '18

Dear all 2018 conference exhibitor Emerald Publishing,<http://www.emeraldgrouppublishing.com/index.htm> is seeking expressions of interest in the editorship of an Information Research journal. Publisher Ms Eileen Breen will be at her exhibition table in the Montreal breaks to talk to interested parties. Library Hi Tech <http://www.emeraldgrouppublishing.com/products/journals/journals.htm?id=LHT> is concerned with technology-assisted information systems that support libraries & cultural memory, education & the academy, health & medicine, and government & citizenship. The journal has a 2017 Impact Factor of 0.759 and a 5-year Impact Factor of 1.014. Alternatively, e-mail Eileen on ebreen(a)emeraldgroup.com<mailto:ebreen@emeraldgroup.com> for details of what's involved in this role. Candidates must be well networked and have some experience of scholarly book or journals editorship. Thanks and best wishes Ms Eileen Breen Publisher | Emerald Publishing Tel: +44 (0) 1274 785172 | Fax: +44 (0)1274 785200 ebreen(a)emeraldgroup.com<mailto:ebreen@emeraldgroup.com> | emeraldpublishing.com | emeraldinsight.com<http://www.emeraldinsight.com/> Emerald Publishing Limited, Registered Office: Howard House, Wagon Lane, Bingley, BD16 1WA United Kingdom. Registered in England No. 3080506, VAT No. GB 665 3593 06

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