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Authoritarian Practices in the Digital Age - IJoC Special Section
by Michaelsen, Marcus 20 Sep '18

20 Sep '18

Dear all, I am happy to share with you this announcement of a Special Section on 'Authoritarian Practices in the Digital Age', just published in the International Journal of Communication: There is increasing concern about how digital technologies contribute to a decline of democracy and the rise of authoritarian tendencies. The Special Section breaks new ground by systematically examining how digital authoritarian practices are diffused between states, co-produced by states and corporate actors, legitimized in multilateral settings, and experienced by citizens. Digital authoritarian practices describe threats to the democratic process, sabotaging accountability by disrupting access to information or disabling communication. Edited by Marlies Glasius and Marcus Michaelsen, University of Amsterdam, the Special Section brings together nine papers that extend our understanding of the relationship between contemporary forms of authoritarianism and digital communication technologies. The contributions investigate Internet control and censorship, surveillance, and disinformation, presenting insights from China, Russia and Central Asia, Iran, Pakistan, Sub-Saharan Africa, and Western Europe. To access the papers, please go to http://ijoc.org/index.php/ijoc. We look forward to your feedback! This publication is a result of the 5-year research project 'Authoritarianism in a Global Age' at the University of Amsterdam. Our project has also just released an animation to share some of our messages with a broader audience: https://youtu.be/n1tXjJobjfs. _____________________________________________________________ Authoritarian Practices in the Digital Age — Introduction Marcus Michaelsen, Marlies Glasius Illiberal and Authoritarian Practices in the Digital Sphere — Prologue Marlies Glasius, Marcus Michaelsen Information, Security, and Authoritarian Stability: Internet Policy Diffusion and Coordination in the Former Soviet Region Jaclyn A. Kerr The Contestation and Shaping of Cyber Norms through China's Internet Sovereignty Agenda Sarah McKune, Shazeda Ahmed Transforming Threats to Power: The International Politics of Authoritarian Internet Control in Iran Marcus Michaelsen Asymmetrical Power Between Internet Giants and Users in China Aofei Lv, Ting Luo Blocking the Bottleneck: Internet Shutdowns and Ownership at Election Times in Sub-Saharan Africa Tina Freyburg, Lisa Garbe Understanding Internet Shutdowns: A Case Study from Pakistan Ben Wagner Through a Glass, Darkly: Everyday Acts of Authoritarianism in the Liberal West Stefania Milan, Arne Hintz Best wishes, Marcus Michaelsen Dr. Marcus Michaelsen Postdoctoral Researcher │Department of Political Sciences University of Amsterdam PO.Box 15578, 1001 NB Amsterdam – The Netherlands UvA-Profile<http://www.uva.nl/en/contact/staff/item/m.michaelsen.html?f=michaelsen> http://www.authoritarianism-global.uva.nl/

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Interdiscursive Readings in Cultural Consumer Research
by george rossolatos 20 Sep '18

20 Sep '18

Announcing the newly released monograph 'Interdiscursive Readings in Cultural Consumer Research', of direct relevance to new media researchers. *Title: *Interdiscursive Readings in Cultural Consumer Research *Publishing house: *Cambridge Scholars Publishing *ISBN (print): *978-1-5275-1372-3 *Author: *George Rossolatos *Release date: *August 2018 *Pages: *350 The cultural consumption research landscape of the 21st century is marked by an increasing cross-disciplinary fermentation. At the same time, cultural theory and analysis have been marked by successive ‘inter-’ turns, most notably with regard to the Big Four: multimodality (or intermodality), interdiscursivity, transmediality (or intermediality), and intertextuality. This book offers an outline of interdiscursivity as an integrative platform for accommodating these notions. To this end, a call for a return to Foucault is issued via a critical engagement with the so-called practice-turn. This re-turn does not seek to reconstitute venerably Foucauldianism, but to theorize ‘inters-’ as vanishing points that challenge the integrity of discrete cultural orders in non-convergent manners. The propounded interdiscursivity approach is offered as a reading strategy that permeates the contemporary cultural consumption phenomena that are scrutinized in this book, against a pan-consumptivist framework. By drawing on qualitative and mixed methods research designs, facilitated by CAQDAS software, the empirical studies that are hosted here span a vivid array of topics that are directly relevant to both traditional and new media researchers, such as the consumption of ideologies in Web 2.0 social movements, the ability of micro-celebrities to act as cultural game-changers, the post-loyalty abjective consumption ethos. The theoretically novel approaches on offer are coupled with methodological innovations in areas such as user-generated content, artists’ branding, and experiential consumption. https://www.cambridgescholars.com/download/sample/64776 http://www.cambridgescholars.com/interdiscursive-readings-in-cultural-consu… <http://www.cambridgescholars.com/interdiscursive-readings-in-cultural-consu…> https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3163301 *Table of contents* *Chapter* *page* 1. Inter-everything: resuming the discursive turn in cultural consumer research *2* *Consuming experiences, practices and spectacles* 2. Taking the ‘multimodal turn’ in interpreting consumption experiences *48* 3. Mapping cultural consumer engagement in user-generated advertising *70* 4. Consuming thanghood: dancing to brand image with Miley Cyrus *111* *Consuming oneself and others* 5. Consuming the limit: Furious Pete and the re-evaluation of all values *159* 6. Consuming antinatalism in social media *179* *Consuming the Impossible* 7. Consuming the Beauty Ideal: a critical argumentation approach to skin-care advertising *213* 8. Consumed by the Real: on abjective consumption and its freaky vicissitudes *248* *Chapter 1* *Inter-everything: resuming the discursive turn in cultural consumer research* *Abstract * This chapter sets the introductory stage for the entire book by putting forward an integrative approach to interdiscursivity whereby the successive ‘inter’ turns are viewed as modes-of-interdiscursivity. To this end, a call for a return to Foucault is issued, not in order to venerably reconstitute archeological epistemology in a dogmatic fashion, but with a view to eschewing the dogmatizing effect of the naively realist assumptions that buttress the so-called ‘practice-turn’. As extensively argued, this turn had already been taken by Foucault. The evoked re-turn is historically situated in a terrain where praxiologists are increasingly challenging Foucault’s discursivity in favor of a paradigmatic shift that views the sociocultural domain as a nexus of self-subsistent social practices where meaning has been reduced to a fuzzy ‘element’ of practices. However, approaching cultural consumer phenomena, analyzing, interpreting them, but also, on the reverse, facilitating culturally informed marketing planning entails effectively dimensionalizing the cultural context that shelters consumption practices. In a sense, this perspectival take on interdiscursivity resembles the deconstructionist program of philosophizing at the limits of a tradition as repetition of master-signifiers and master-signifieds by pointing to the fissures in an arhi-text that threaten it with irreparable dissemination (aporias, tropes, contrived oppositions and exemplarities, axiomatic sublimations). However, this approach to interdiscursivity does not assume as its main field of application seminal texts in a philosophical tradition that have inseminated a plethora of texts, cultural practices and genres. Its orientation is not arhi-textual, but ultra-mundane, whence stems the need for engaging critically with the praxiological turn. Second, its focus does not revolve around the discernment of regularities that may account en masse for social order, as assumed by praxiologists, but around vanishing points as random guerilla-like rhizomatic intrusions, both commonalities and discrepancies in the seemingly neatly woven edifice of social practices. It is by dint of such random intrusions that the cultural, only thinly conceived as system and far from being organized as an arborescent structure, continues to operate as the force that animates repetitive, mechanistic patterns as encountered in monolithic, automated social practices, as well as why a turn away from the cultural is untenable. *Consuming experiences, practices and spectacles* *Chapter 2* *Taking the ‘multimodal turn’ in interpreting consumption experiences* *Abstract * This chapter addresses the potential contributions of sociosemiotically informed multimodal analysis to framing and systematically interpreting experiential consumption phenomena. By dint of tried and tested sociosemiotic methods, cultural consumer researchers may benefit considerably from the modal segmentation of cultural practices, with a view to yielding stratified accounts of experiences in terms of discursive configurations comprising metafunctions, modes and semiotic resources. The adoption of a multimodal approach in cultural consumer research allows for comparisons across studies, of seamlessness and of maximal integration along different analytical/interpretive levels, thus constituting a potentially indispensable device for modeling consumption experiences. *Chapter 3* *Mapping cultural consumer engagement in user-generated advertising* *Abstract* User-generated advertising (UGA) has been blossoming over the past few years as marketers are actively seeking to tighten bonds with consumers through engagement methods. Despite the rampant availability of listening technologies and the ever more nuanced mining of social media through Big Data applications, our understanding of the implications and the potential of UGA from a digital humanities point of view remains limited. This study ventures into mapping the interdiscursive cultural terrain of UGA with a view to furnishing a systematic account of how it affords to flesh out co-creatively a brand vision. To this end, a sociosemiotic approach is adopted that dimensionalizes the cultural resources employed in UGA as a nested structure that combines macrocultural aspects of cultural order/type with microcultural ones, such as genre and concrete cultural representations. The conceptual model is exemplified by recourse to a UGA corpus from the 10th and final wave of Doritos’ Crash the Super Bowl promotion, undergirded by a mixed methods research design that features a grounded theoretical procedure, facilitated by quantitative analyses. *Chapter 4* *Consuming thanghood: dancing to brand image with Miley Cyrus* *Abstract* This chapter scrutinizes how Miley Cyrus’s brand values are projected through the multimodal semiotic structure of the live performance of the song “Do my thang” (from the *Bangerz* album [2013]). It is shown how a brand image is enscripted in Cyrus’s spectacle as ‘script within script’ in various modes (other than the verbal and sonic ones that are defining of the recorded song), as well as in the interaction among modes, with an emphasis on the dance mode (as composite mode made up of the kinesic and haptic ones). A sociosemiotic conceptual framework is adopted in conjunction with an interpretive videographic method of analysis, facilitated by the multimodal qualitative discourse analytic software atlas.ti. Attending to structural couplings between signs and modes in the context of bespoke artists’ brand languages constitutes a priority for managing an artist as brand, and, concomitantly, for safeguarding relevance for a fandom. A multimodal reading grid is offered to this end. Furthermore, it is shown how Cyrus construes an imaginary, neo-burlesque brand space of hyperdifferentiation, narcissistic play and polymorphous sexuality that she and her dancing crew project onto an evoked audience. This is the first study that theorizes the live show spectacle as the manifest discourse whereupon brand image and brand values are edified, with an emphasis on the dance mode, over and above the verbal/ visual modes that prevail in the advertising/branding literatures. *Consuming oneself and others* *Chapter 5* *Consuming the limit: Furious Pete and the re-evaluation of all values* *Abstract* Micro-celebrities have been proliferating alongside the increasing importance of social media as avenues for self branding in a participatory cultural predicament. This chapter adopts a storytelling approach for canvassing how the brand identity of Furious Pete, a competitive speed-eating icon, is shaped coherently through the micro-narratives that populate his vlogs. By drawing on the social positioning perspective on storytelling that emphasizes how a persona, others and culture at large are discursively produced through situated positionings, enhanced by psychoanalytic insights (cf. De Fina, 2015, p.382), it is shown how this micro-celebrity may constitute a game-changer with regard to entrenched consumptive mores. This is achieved by adopting a narrative strategy of re-evaluation of all cultural values according to the ethos of speed-eating or, as tagged here, ‘limeating’ as ‘consuming (to) the limit’, and by delivering consumptive desire to an unbound orality whereby differentially valorized gastronomic offerings are annihilated in the face of cannibalistic drives. *Chapter 6* *Consuming antinatalism in social media* *Abstract* Antinatalism, a relatively recent moral philosophical perspective and ideology that avows ‘it is better not to have ever existed’, has spawned a new social movement with an active presence in social media. This study draws on the discourse historical approach (DHA) to critical discourse analysis for offering a firm understanding as to how the collective identity of the Facebook antinatalist NSM is formed. By focusing narrowly on how this ideology is consumed in the situated interaction among the NSM’s members it is shown that collective identity is a dynamic schema, rather than a uniform construct, enshrouding a plethora of micro-interactions. Individuals constantly negotiate its meaning in context, as they seek to streamline interdiscursively the antinatalist system of ideas with their lifeworld through a web of interlocking schemata, discursive and rhetorical strategies. Finally, antinatalism is identified as a peculiar case of post-modern metanarrative and conceptually elaborated as a new type of ‘metametanarrative’. *Consuming the Impossible* *Chapter 7* *Consuming the Beauty Ideal: * *A critical argumentation approach to skin-care advertising* *Abstract * This chapter introduces critical argumentation theory and analysis to cultural consumer research with a view to affording a cultural understanding of advertising discourse. Although rhetorical figures and rhetorical appeals have been amply scrutinized in the marketing discipline, argumentation schemes remain as yet untapped as regards their potential for offering nuanced insights about advertising claims by attending to the multiple layers of ad texts’ argumentative structuration. In order to illustrate the areas of contribution of critical argumentation, a corpus of print ads from the anti-ageing product category is drawn upon. The analysis unearths layers of argumentation by attending to latent statements, hidden premises and logical fallacies. The implications for critical marketing and for policy-making are highlighted amidst an external marketing environment where anti-ageing claims are attracting heavy criticism. *Chapter 8* *Consumed by the Real: * *on abjective consumption and its freaky vicissitudes* *Abstract * In this chapter the concept of abjection is extended to cultural consumer research by offering a conceptual framework of abjective consumption that rests on three pillars, namely irrationality, meaninglessness, dissolution of selfhood. By critically reflecting on Kristeva’s psychoanalytic insights, it is argued that abjective consumption constitutes more than a peculiar case of uncontrollable desire, far removed from an affirmative quest for (sub)alternative cultural identities. The existentially affirmative phenomenon of abjective consumption and its cultural ramifications are interpreted by pursuing a psychoanalytically informed discourse analytic route. Its modus operandi is illustrated by drawing on a corpus of 50 documentary episodes from the TV series “My Strange Addiction” and “Freaky Eaters.” The findings from this analysis point to different, simultaneously operative discursive complexes (e.g. moralizing, medical), none of which is commensurate to abjective consumption. George Rossolatos MSc, MBA, PhD http://uni-kassel.academia.edu/georgerossolatos www.ijmarketingsemiotics.com *https://www.researchgate.net/profile/George_Rossolatos/publications <https://www.researchgate.net/profile/George_Rossolatos/publications>* http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/cf_dev/AbsByAuth.cfm?per_id=1784311 //disruptiVesemiOtics// <http://grossolatos.blogspot.com/>

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NYT story on US connectedness using FB friend data
by Joly MacFie 19 Sep '18

19 Sep '18

ICYMI https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2018/09/19/upshot/facebook-county-frien… -- --------------------------------------------------------------- Joly MacFie 218 565 9365 Skype:punkcast -------------------------------------------------------------- -

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tt job opening in information/data ethics at asst prof level
by Colin Koopman 19 Sep '18

19 Sep '18

The job opening below may be of interest to junior-level PhDs involved in the AoIR community. Note that PhDs from *any relevant discipline* are strongly encouraged to apply. We are looking for an interdisciplinary research who can develop (or is already involved in) collaborative engagements with data science researchers. For the purposes of this search, "ethics" is construed in a broad sense to be inclusive of social, cultural, and political inquiry. https://academicjobsonline.org/ajo/jobs/11549 *** The University of Oregon’s Department of Philosophy and Presidential Initiative in Data Science invite applications for a tenure-track position at the Assistant Professor level with a specialization in Data/Information Ethics, to begin in fall 2019. The Philosophy Department construes ethics in a broad sense as pertaining to a wide range of moral, social, and cultural issues arising in connection with burgeoning data technologies. Competitive applicants will be capable of outstanding research and teaching at the graduate and undergraduate levels. The position will be located in the Philosophy Department ( philosophy.uoregon.edu) with potential affiliations with other campus units (and a possibility for a split appointment depending on the research trajectory of the successful candidate). The Philosophy Department is a diverse and growing unit with an expansive view of the discipline, a broad understanding of the multiple theoretical traditions that constitute philosophical work, an intellectual climate conducive to interdisciplinary work, a commitment to engaged scholarship, and a strong commitment to faculty and graduate student diversity. This search is one of nearly a dozen associated with the Presidential Initiative in Data Science (provost.uoregon.edu/data-science) This initiative is focused on the development of advanced computational and quantitative tools and training programs for gathering and analyzing large amounts of data and associated metadata, as well as interpreting and communicating the findings and social and ethical implications of data science research. It will spur intentional growth in research and education, using big data and cutting-edge analytics across the entire campus. We are building a cross-disciplinary data science program on a foundation of strong interdisciplinary research and innovative education at a liberal arts research university. We seek scholars prepared to contribute to the program’s growth through excellence in a specific academic focus, as well as through interdisciplinary collaborations across data science writ large. Data Science is supported by the university’s multi-million-dollar investment in the recently launched Talapas supercomputing cluster ( hpcf.uoregon.edu) The Data Science Initiative will also have synergies with the newly-launched Knight Campus for Accelerating Impact ( accelerate.uoregon.edu) Minimum Requirements: AOS in Data/Information Ethics; record of research excellence with evidence of publication trajectory in AOS; evidence of commitment to collaborative intellectual inquiry with data science researchers; Ph.D. by time of appointment required; Ph.D. in Philosophy preferred (but applicants with a strong philosophical background from any relevant discipline are encouraged to apply). Salary is competitive. Required Application Materials: letter of application, c.v., research statement, writing sample of up to 20 pages focused on the area of specialization, teaching statement, sample syllabi for up to three relevant courses, and three to five letters of reference. Applications accepted until October 21, 2018 6:00 p.m. PST. Expectations for interdisciplinary collaboration associated with this position are informed by a university goal of furthering ethical inquiry in research contexts developing next-generation data science techniques and methodologies. Competitive applicants will be both successful collaborators and interdisciplinary thinkers. Potential clusters of collaboration include but are not limited to the following areas of data science research: machine learning and artificial intelligence, data-driven analysis (and related “Big Data” and unstructured data research), predictive analytics, bioinformatics, measurement and psychometrics, assessment (in multiple disciplinary contexts), human-computer interaction, and dataveillance/privacy. Specific contexts for research and teaching collaboration in the data sciences include the UO Presidential Initiative in Data Science (provost.uoregon.edu/data-science) the UO Knight Campus for Accelerating Scientific Impact (around.uoregon.edu/accelerate) and numerous departments and centers across campus. Research expectations include publication, conference presentation, collaborative interdisciplinary inquiry with the goal of joint grant applications and co-authored publications, and other impactful research. Teaching expectations include graduate teaching (including data ethics curriculum geared to graduate students across a range of disciplines), undergraduate teaching from introductory to advanced levels (including standard philosophy courses and undergraduate-specific data ethics curriculum), and mentoring and thesis advisement at graduate and undergraduate levels. UO is on the academic quarter system and the standard teaching load in the Philosophy Department is five courses across three terms per year, with numerous opportunities for course-load reductions. The University of Oregon is dedicated to the goal of building a culturally diverse and pluralistic faculty and strongly encourages applications from members of underrepresented groups. Applicants are encouraged to include in their cover letter a statement about how they will further this goal. *** Applications and information at: https://academicjobsonline.org/ajo/jobs/11549. -- Colin Koopman Associate Professor, Philosophy Director, New Media & Culture University of Oregon Mail: 1295 U of O - 1431 Johnson Ln. (Susan Campbell Hall) - Eugene, OR 97403 Web: http://www.uoregon.edu/~koopman/

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Collecting data from Facebook account of deceased people
by Sergent, Julie 19 Sep '18

19 Sep '18

Hello, I am looking for literature pertaining to the ethics of research involving data from Facebook account of deceased people (data left by the deceased and on going data posted on their wall). Any information will be welcome. Thanks a lot, Julie Sergent Conseillère en éthique de la recherche pour les projets étudiants (CERPÉ) Faculté des sciences humaines Université du Québec à Montréal

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The 34th ACM Symposium on Applied Computing (SAC 2019): Combined Call for Papers - Last Mile
by Announce Announcements 19 Sep '18

19 Sep '18

*** COMBINED CALL FOR PAPERS - LAST MILE *** The 34th ACM Symposium on Applied Computing (SAC 2019) St. Raphael Resort, Limassol, Cyprus, April 8-12, 2019 http://www.cs.ucy.ac.cy/~george/lm/lm.php?tk=YWlyLUwJCQlhaXItTEBsaXN0c2Vydi… *** Submission Deadline: September 24, 2018 *** For the past thirty-three years the ACM Symposium on Applied Computing (SAC) has been a primary and international forum for applied computer scientists, computer engineers and application developers to gather, interact and present their work. The ACM Special Interest Group on Applied Computing (SIGAPP) is the sole sponsor of SAC. The conference proceedings are published by ACM and are also available online through ACM's Digital Library. The 34th Annual SAC meeting will be held in April 2019 in Limassol, Cyprus, and is hosted by the University of Cyprus. The conference features the following tracks: · Intelligent Robotics and Multi-Agent Systems (IRMAS) · Knowledge Representation and Reasoning (KRR) · Information Access and Retrieval (IAR) · Software Verification and Testing (SVT) · Computational Intelligence and Video & Image Analysis (CIVIA) · Social Network and Media Analysis (SONAMA) · Selected Areas of Wireless Communications and Networking (WCN) · Recommender Systems: Theory and Applications (RS) · Computer Security (SEC) · Web-based Technologies for Interactive Computing Education (WICE) · Data Mining (DM) · Usability Engineering (UE) · Cloud Computing (CC) · Privacy by Design in Practice (PDP) · Advances in COMputational Biomedical Imaging (COMBI) · Operating Systems (OS) · Software Platforms (SP) · Decentralized Applications (DAPP) with Blockchain, DLT and Crypto-Currencies (DAPP) · Databases and Big Data Management (DBDM) · Requirements Engineering (RE) · Cyber-Physical Systems (CPS) · Software Architecture: Theory, Technology, and Applications (SA-TTA) · Internet of Things (IoT) · Sustainability of Fog/Edge Computing Systems (SFECS) · Software-intensive Systems-of-Systems (SiSoS) · Data Streams (DS) · Programming Languages (PL) · Business Process Management & Enterprise Architecture (BPMEA) · Microservices, DevOps, and Service-Oriented Architecture (MiDOS) · Health Informatics (HI) · Dependable, Adaptive, and Secure Distributed Systems (DADS) · GeoInformation Analytics (GIA) · Knowledge and Language Processing (KLP) · KomIS: Knowledge Discovery meets Information Systems (KomIS) · Next Generation Programming Paradigms and Systems (NGPS) · Communication, Computing and Networking in Internet of Vehicles (CCNIV) · Bioinformatics (BIO) · Embedded Systems (EMBS) · Digital Life for Human Well-being (DLHWB) · Networking (NET) · Semantic Web and Applications (SWA) · Mobile Computing and Applications (MCA) · Software Engineering (SE) · Variability and Software Product Line Engineering (VSPLE) · Smart Human Computer Interaction (HCI) · Web Technologies (WT) · Machine Learning and its Applications (MLA) More information about the topics covered by each track and submission instructions are available on the conference web site and the web sites of the tracks themselves (accessible from the conference web site). Important Dates · Sept 24, 2018: Submission of papers · Nov 10, 2018: Author notification · Nov 25, 2018: Camera-ready copies · Dec 10, 2018: Author registration Committees http://www.cs.ucy.ac.cy/~george/lm/lm.php?tk=YWlyLUwJCQlhaXItTEBsaXN0c2Vydi…

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The Journal of Interactive Technology and Pedagogy Call for Submissions: Nov. 15, 2018
by Communication ＠JITP 19 Sep '18

19 Sep '18

*The Journal of Interactive Technology and Pedagogy* *General Issue* *Issue Editors:* * Luke Waltzer, The Graduate Center, CUNY* * Lisa Brundage, Macaulay Honors College, CUNY* *Editorial Associate:* * Teresa Ober, The Graduate Center, CUNY* The Journal of Interactive Technology and Pedagogy (JITP) seeks scholarly work that explores the intersection of technology with teaching, learning, and research. We are interested in contributions that take advantage of the affordances of digital platforms in creative ways. We invite both textual and multimedia submissions employing interdisciplinary and creative approaches in the humanities, sciences, and social sciences. Besides scholarly papers, the submissions can consist of audio or visual presentations and interviews, dialogues, or conversations; creative/artistic works; manifestos; or other scholarly materials, including work that addresses the labor and care considerations of academic technology projects. All work appearing in the Issues section of JITP is reviewed by the issue editors and independently by two scholars in the field, who provide formative feedback to the author(s) during the review process. We practice signed, as opposed to blind, peer review. We intend that the journal itself—both in our process and in our digital product—serve as an opportunity to reveal, reflect on, and revise academic publication and classroom practices. Additionally, all submissions will be considered for our “Behind the Seams” feature, in which we publish dynamic representations of the revision and editorial processes, including reflections from the authorial and editorial participants. Research-based submissions should include discussions of approach, method, and analysis. When possible, research data should be made publicly available and accessible via the Web and/or other digital mechanisms, a process that JITP can and will support as necessary. Successes and interesting failures are equally welcome. Submissions that focus on pedagogy should balance theoretical frameworks with practical considerations of how new technologies play out in both formal and informal educational settings. Discipline-specific submissions should be written for non-specialists. As a courtesy to our reviewers, we will not consider simultaneous submissions, but we will do our best to reply to you within three months of the submission deadline. The expected length for finished manuscripts is under 5,000 words. All work should be original and previously unpublished. Essays or presentations posted on a personal blog may be accepted, provided they are substantially revised; please contact us with any questions at editors(a)jitpedagogy.org. For further information on style and formatting, accessibility requirements, and multimedia submissions, consult JITP’s accessibility guidelines <https://jitp.commons.gc.cuny.edu/submit/#accessibility>, style guide <https://jitp.commons.gc.cuny.edu/submit/#style-guide> and multimedia submission guidelines <https://jitp.commons.gc.cuny.edu/multimedia-submission-guidelines-and-best-…> . *Important Dates* Submission deadline for full manuscripts is November 15, 2018. Please view our submission guidelines <https://jitp.commons.gc.cuny.edu/submit/> for information about submitting to the Journal. Source: https://jitp.commons.gc.cuny.edu/call-for-submissions/

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Funded post-doc and 2 MA positions at University of Calgary
by ryan burns 17 Sep '18

17 Sep '18

Dr. Victoria Fast & Dr. Ryan Burns are pleased to announce three fully funded positions in the Department of Geography at the University of Calgary. We are recruiting emerging researchers to fill one Post-Doctoral Fellowship and two MA opportunities. *Post-Doctoral Fellowship* As cities across the world turn to information and communication technologies to overcome social, environmental, and economic challenges, new questions are arising around whose interests are served, who is left out, and how we might strive for greater social justice in this new context. We seek a post-doctoral scholar who specializes in research related to digital geographies, social justice, and smart cities to take a leading role in a project designed to deepen understanding of how assemblages of technologies, data flows, policies, actors, and systems of governance across geographic contexts influence the differential implications of smart cities. In this project we are particularly interested in struggles around competing notions of social justice: how particular conceptions are operationalized, (re)produced, and contested in new socio-technical milieu. The ideal candidate will be able to place these considerations into the broader context of the developing research agenda of digital geographies: the interdisciplinary study of the implications of society, space, and technology’s mutual imbrications. The ideal candidate will be a scholar with a PhD (ABD will be considered) in geography, urban studies, communications, sociology, or a related field, who will maintain a high degree of research productivity and extend existing capacities of the growing UC Cities <http://uccities.ca/>research group. They will demonstrate a high degree of self-direction and creativity, and will ideally be familiar with the Canadian funding landscape. They will be expected to apply for further funding. This position is initially for one year, with the possibility of renewal pending successful funding applications. We especially encourage applications from scholars representing First Nations-majority areas and cities in the Global South. We will give special consideration to minorities with regard to race, national or ethnic origin, gender, sexual orientation, class, and disability. By October 19, Please send your CV, a cover letter outlining broad research interests and contributions, and a one-page research proposal pertaining to the themes above, to Victoria.Fast(a)ucalgary.ca and Ryan.Burns1(a)ucalgary.ca. Successful applicants will be required to provide letters of reference. *Fall 2019 MA opportunity: the politics of open data* The successful candidate will join the Engaging Open Data Research <https://geog.ucalgary.ca/opendata/> project, headed by Dr. Ryan Burns <https://geog.ucalgary.ca/profiles/ryan-burns>, to study struggles around how data are produced, circulated, and acted upon in smart cities. In close collaboration with non-profit organizations and community associations in Calgary, this project seeks to deepen our understanding of the growing, yet uneven and complex, impacts of open data platforms and policies within smart cities. The ideal candidate will play a leading role in this project’s efforts to advance debates in digital geographies and the social implications of new technologies. The ideal candidate should demonstrate a record of strong, proactive, and independent intellectual growth and contributions to their local communities (broadly defined). They should demonstrate excellence in their endeavors to date, suggesting the ability to develop creative insights into the research goals. They would ideally have broad methodological training, but be ready to engage with primarily qualitative methods. They will be expected to provide a complementary tack to this research, for the successful completion of their master’s program. The successful candidate will begin their master’s program September 2019, with research assistant opportunity starting summer 2019. Formal applications to the master’s program are due January 5th, 2019. By October 19, please send your CV, statement of interest, and transcripts (unofficial accepted) to Ryan.Burns1(a)ucalgary.ca. Successful applicants will be required to provide letters of reference. *Fall 2019 MA opportunity: Accessible Mobility in the Smart City* The successful candidate will join the Urban Participation Lab of Digital Geographies, headed by Dr. Victoria Fast <https://geog.ucalgary.ca/profiles/victoria-fast>, to study barrier-free mobility. Drawing on participatory GIS, smart cities, and critical disability studies, the funded project will focus on crowdsourcing spatial data on barriers and aids to accessibility mobility for people with disabilities. The ideal candidate will be able to spatially analyze the data while also developing a critical understanding of the physical, political, and social barriers to a more accessible urban and digital environment. The ideal candidate must demonstrate a record of scholarly achievement and contributions to their local communities (broadly defined). They would ideally have a strong GIS background, and a demonstrated interested in social/disability advocacy. I especially encourage applications with disability/ies to apply. The successful candidate will begin their master’s program September 2019, with research assistant opportunity starting summer 2019. Formal applications to the master’s program are due January 5th, 2019. By October 19, please send your CV, statement of interest, and transcripts (unofficial accepted) to Victoria.fast(a)ucalgary.ca. Successful applicants will be required to provide letters of reference. *About the University of Calgary / the City of Calgary:* The University of Calgary is in the Top 10 universities in Canada, offering ample opportunities for professional and personal development. The City of Calgary is often ranked one of the most livable cities in the world (Economist ranked #4 in 2018), with an extensive urban pathway and bike system, and only an hour from the Rocky Mountains. With 1.2 million inhabitants, the city is dynamic, diverse, safe, sunny (333 days of sunshine annually), and family-friendly. Find more information here: https://www.ucalgary.ca Join our 9th-floor corner research space with a 180-degree view of campus and the Rockies! Sincerely, Ryan Burns -- 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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Project Manager (postdoctoral position) open at Tampere University
by Elena-Simona Lohan 17 Sep '18

17 Sep '18

Dear colleagues, Tampere University of Technology (soon to become Tampere University), Finland, is currently seeking a project and training manager at postdoctoral level for the recently accepted H2020 European Joint Doctorate program A-WEAR. We are looking for candidates with experience in project management, a doctoral degree in a technical field relevant to the project with a good publication record, and good web-programming skills. More information about the position and its requirements, and the link to the application form is found from Tampere University of Technology open positions page (www.tut.fi/openpositions<http://www.tut.fi/openpositions> -> Project Manager) or directly, through this link https://tut.rekrytointi.com/paikat/?o=A_A&jid=43 Please feel free to distribute this information to anyone potentially interested. Thank you and best regards Simona Lohan -- Associate Professor (tenure track), Dr. Tech. Lab. of Electronics and Comm. Engineering Tampere University of Technology http://www.cs.tut.fi/tlt/pos

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digest, don't separate?
by Barry Wellman 17 Sep '18

17 Sep '18

I get AoIR as a digiest once or twice a day, and then I can just scroll on by the messages that are not relevant. But job ads do give me a sense of trends in our area. PS: I won't be at the MTL AGM. But if any of you are passing thru (downtown) Toronto, love to do lunch or coffee. Barry Wellman Step by step, link by link, putting it together--Streisand/Sondheim The earth to be spannd, connected by network--Walt Whitman It's Always Something--Roseanne Roseannadanna _______________________________________________________________________ NetLab Network FRSC Distinguished Visiting Scholar Social Media Lab Ryerson University Founder, International Network for Social Network Analysis NETWORKED: The New Social Operating System Lee Rainie & Barry Wellman http://www.chass.utoronto.ca/~wellman http://amzn.to/zXZg39 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barry_Wellman _______________________________________________________________________

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