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Job Announcement: Media Arts at UNT
by Jacqueline Vickery 08 Aug '18

08 Aug '18

The Department of Media Arts at the University of North Texas invites applications for an Assistant Professor of Media Industry Studies in a tenure-track position beginning September 1, 2019. We are looking for a dynamic and innovative scholar who can enrich and expand our existing strengths in Media Industry Studies. We welcome applications from scholars with a broad range of specializations and methodological approaches. We are interested in recruiting candidates who demonstrate commitment to the highest standards of scholarship, teaching, and professional activity consistent with a Research I/Tier I university. Media Arts is composed of an engaged and growing group of accomplished faculty scholars and creative professionals, and is committed to the development of a campus climate that supports diversity, equity, and inclusion. As one of the largest and most active programs in the College of Liberal Arts and Social Sciences, the Department of Media Arts offers B.A., M.A., and M.F.A. degrees. The department houses a PEG TV station and a 100,000-watt radio station. UNT is located in the Dallas-Fort Worth metroplex, which offers one of the fastest growing cultural and creative economies in the United States. Happy to answer any questions and please distribute widely. Thanks, Jacqueline *Dr. Jacqueline Ryan **Vickery, Ph.D.* Associate Professor Department of Media Arts College of Liberal Arts & Social Sciences University of North Texas http://jrvickery.com

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CFP Gig Economy book
by Michelle Rodino-Colocino 08 Aug '18

08 Aug '18

*Dear Colleagues:Call for PapersThe Gig Economy: Workers and Media in the Age of ConvergenceEditors: Brian Dolber (Cal State University, San Marcos), Chenjerai Kumanyika (Rutgers University) Michelle Rodino-colocino (Penn State University), Todd Wolfson (Rutgers University) In 2016 the US Department of Labor defined a “gig” as “a single project or task for which a worker is hired, often through a digital marketplace, to work on demand.” <https://www.bls.gov/careeroutlook/2016/article/what-is-the-gig-economy.htm> Although it is hard to measure how large the gig workforce is (by the US Bureau of Labor Statistics own admission), it is clear that a new way of working, managing, and profiting is rising on the backs of gig workers. The “gig economy”-- the colloquial name given to the constellation of app-based services that rely on contingent, “on-demand” labor-- is situated at the nexus of transformations in communication technology, economics, and culture. Companies like Uber, Lyft, and Amazon Flex, for example, promise drivers the chance to “get your side hustle on,” “fund your dreams,” enjoy “flexible hours” and “be your own boss.” For millions of workers, however, these promises ring hollow. Low wages and a complete lack of protections have left many struggling and desperate, in some cases prompting tragic worker suicides. As a global phenomenon, the gig economy is being embraced and challenged in a variety of ways in different countries by workers, labor movements, governments, and consumers. Media and new digital technologies play a key role in enabling and justifying the political economic and cultural effects of the gig economy. This volume draws together research that examines the experience of and resistance to exploitative aspects of the gig economy with a range of expertise in the communication discipline (critical/cultural studies, policy studies, technology studies), employing multiple theoretical perspectives (political economy, critical race, feminist) and methodologies (ethnography, history, discourse analysis, community-based participatory research) in a variety of national contexts. We consider the roles that media, policy, culture, and history play as well as gender, immigrant status, ethnic background, racial identity, ability, and sexual orientation in forging working conditions in the “gig economy.”List of possible topics:The political economy of gig companiesWho benefits from gig labor?Experiences of gig workersExploitative aspects of gig laborDeconstructing myths surrounding the gig economyGig worker organizing campaignsCorporate PR, advertising, and policy campaignsThe gig economy and consumer activismTechnologies of the gig economy Surveillance technology and the gig economyGlobal perspectives on the gig economyImmigration and app-based laborRacialization and app-based laborGendering of gig workSexual harassment, sexual assault and gig economySolidarity and divides among gig workersThe gig economy and the culture industryMedia representations and news coverage of the gig economyThe gig economy and the environmentUrban space and the gig economyGig and green economies Gamification Historical perspectives on gig workPlease submit abstracts of 350-500 words to gigeconomyproject(a)gmail.com <{gigeconomyproject(a)gmail.com> by September 15, 2018. Authors will be notified by October 15. Complete essays, between 5000 and 8000 words, will be due by January 15, 2019. * Michelle Rodino-Colocino, Ph.D. "Enjoy the process" --my mother, Associate Professor "Mangia" --my grandmother" "Say it" --my daughter Film/Video, Media Studies, Bellisario College of Communications, Department of Women's, Gender and Sexuality Studies Interim President, American Association of University Professors (AAUP), Penn State University Park Chapter Penn State University 115 Carnegie, University Park, 16802 *Twitter: @roc <http://www.democraticcommunications.net/>ofem* *Skype@rocofem* michelle(a)psu.edu

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Online survey about your social media data management practices, Amazon gift cards
by Libby Hemphill 08 Aug '18

08 Aug '18

We're surveying researchers who use social media data to gain insight about their data management practices, and we want to hear from you! Survey Link: https://umich.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_9ymE2Wep3D3v8Jn We are especially interested in the ways researchers are thinking and talking about what they do to collect and manage data sets from social media platforms. Your answers will help us understand how to support researchers using social media data and potentially inform the development of shared archives. We ask that if you use a data management plan that you upload a copy, so it may help to have that document ready before starting the survey. You must hold a university, government, or industry affiliation and use social media data in your research to qualify for the survey. As a thank you for participating, those who complete the survey will be entered to win one of three $100 Amazon gift cards. Please email the project's director, Libby Hemphill, PhD <*libbyh(a)umich.edu <libbyh(a)umich.edu>>*, or research assistant, Rebekah Small <*rebekasm(a)umich.edu <ebekasm(a)umich.edu>>* with questions or comments. Libby Hemphill Director, Resource Center for Minority Data <http://www.icpsr.umich.edu/RCMD>, ICPSR <http://www.icpsr.umich.edu/icpsrweb/> Research Associate Professor, Institute for Social Research <http://home.isr.umich.edu/> Associate Professor, School of Information <https://www.si.umich.edu/> University of Michigan

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Job Opportunity in Participatory Design at M-ITI (Post-doc -preferred- or Junior Researcher) - Deadline for Application, August 20th
by Maurizio 08 Aug '18

08 Aug '18

**apologies for crossposting** Dear colleagues The Grassroots Radio team, led by the Madeira Interactive Technologies Institute (Madeira-ITI), seeks a researcher with an interest in the participatory design of the interfaces for community governance of networked radio stations, with a particular focus on commons-based forms of governance and cooperative management. The hired person will be collaborating with the international partners of the consortium on the identified tasks, and will have the opportunity to produce original collaborative research and joint publications with other members of the network, as well as being afforded funding for travel to partner sites, and for attending conferences and workshops. While the emphasis of this work is on the participatory design of the governance of radio stations, a candidate with strong interdisciplinary skills would be able to learn many of the domain-specific approaches on the job. Grassroots Radio is creating a game-changing network of inclusive digital platforms for citizen engagement, community deliberation, and the free flow of information within, into, and out of geographic communities by piloting solutions for connected, inexpensive, community owned and operated radio across Europe. Building on the success of the existing RootIO platform ( www.rootio.org) – with its proven commons-oriented technology and catalytic capacities for promoting collective awareness and action, participatory innovation, community resilience, and media pluralism – we are deploying and testing a network of low-power community radio stations in Ireland, Portugal, and Romania as part of the Horizon 2020 Grassroot Wavelengths project (nº 780890), funded by the European Commission. The initial contract will be for a period of 12 months, for potential renewable up to a maximum of 24 months. More detailed info on the job and the application process: https://euraxess.ec.europa.eu/jobs/327868 Please, circulate it to whoever you think could be interested. Best Maurizio

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AoIR pre-conference workshop on Digital Research Ethics and Networked Intimate Publics is now inviting open registration.
by T.L. Cowan 07 Aug '18

07 Aug '18

Hello, I forgot to change the subject heading of my announcement! It is changed now. AoIR pre-conference workshop on Digital Research Ethics and Networked Intimate Publics is now inviting open registration. Workshop title: The Digital Research Ethics Collaboratory for Networked Intimate Publics: Storytelling, Materiality, Ethics & Praxis Facilitators: T.L. Cowan (UToronto), Jasmine Rault (UToronto), Veronica Paredes (UCLA) and Izetta Autumn Mobley (University of Maryland, College Park) In The Broken Earth trilogy, science fiction author N.K. Jemisin (2015, 2016, 2017) imagines a subterranean community called Castrima, a hidden place that is built and sustained by the energies and skills of the most powerful, reviled and thus most endangered specimens of humanity: the Oregens. From the surface, Castrima is invisible, buried below ruins. And underground, from the inside, Castrima looks cluttered, chaotic, disorienting: ?as if someone found an architect, made her build a city out of the most beautiful materials available, then threw those buildings into a box and jumbled them up for laughs? (2015: 338). Ykka, Castrima?s Head Woman, explains, ?This is what we?re trying to do here in Castrima: survive. Same as anyone. We?re just willing to innovate a little? (2015: 342). Jemisin?s speculative design of Castrima is a place made by and for minoritized subjects to protect their lives, to preserve their knowledge and cultural materials, and ensure their cultural survivance (Vizenor 2008; Tuck 2009). This workshop will be led by former co-facilitators of the Feminist Technology Network (FemTechNet), collaborators in the Center for Solution to Online Violence (CSOV) and lead investigators of the Digital Research Ethics Collaboratory (DREC). We use the term ?minoritized? from the scholarly fields of Indigenous, Critical Race and Ethnic Studies, Queer, Sexuality, Trans-, Gender and Feminist Studies, to speak of populations who may not be in the minority at all ? indeed, statistically form the majority population in most cases ? but whose knowledges, cultural practices, histories and socialities have been consistently undermined, dismissed and rendered insignificant or troubling to the imagined majority (Ferguson 2004; Gopinath 2005; Sedgwick 1990, 2003; Smith 2010; Soto 2010). The infrastructures and networks of intimacy and distributed publicity are central technologies for the sustenance, support, thriving and survivance of minoritized people, knowledges, cultural materials, and chosen communities. These network technologies are too often situated in academic literature and popular discourse as naïvely pre-digital or non-digital, naturally occurring or innate, rather than carefully and strategically constituted, tended-to and transformed with and as new media and communication infrastructures. In this workshop we invite participants to share stories and practices for the ethical research and engagement with minoritized materials and the networked intimate publics that create them. Workshop participants will take turns leading discussions from their own research experiences in attending to the innovations in labour, arts, organizing and research through which technologies for minoritized survivance manifest and mutate. Like so many researchers we have been caught by the fever to (digitally) archive precarious, precious, minoritized, invisibilized, intimate, forgotten knowledges, scenes, resistance cultures, materials and alternative futures. Bound by their beauty (Siberry 1989), we are also, however, bound by the institutional and platform logics that we hope these archives can transform, and by accountability to the ?the people whose belongings have become [our] ?collections?? (Nowviski 2016). Conventionalised research practices reflect longstanding and ongoing acquisitional, abductive, possessive, extractive practices that bolster these structures, especially the imperialist, settler colonial model of dehumanization, occupation, control, theft, and non-reciprocity (Kovach 2009; Moreton-Robinson 2015; Murphy 2014; Simpson 2014; Tuhiwai Smith 2012). This workshop comes from the perspectives that all research structures?not only those primarily oriented within or towards Indigenous communities?need to be reshaped in order to decolonize and unsettle the imperialist university and to dismantle the domination habits of academic knowledge production. Starting with the important work that AoIR collaborators have already contributed to the field of Digital Research Ethics (AoIR 2002; Markham and Buchanan 2012; Zimmer & Kinder-Kurlanda 2017), we invite AoIR-affiliated scholars?especially those of digital culture and researchers building online repositories, exhibitions and other forms of publication of minoritized materials?who are trying to break the habits of extractive and possessive research and publication logics and build-while-we-work-within epistemic infrastructures that acknowledge and jumble existing hiearchives of compensation, credit, value, precarity, security and exposure. Following Jemison?s fictional Castrima, the challenge might be to defend against openness and exposure even in opposition to the institutional logics of our disciplines. This workshop will gather researchers who attend to, and attempt to translate into online information practice, the carefully cultivated tactics and cultures of privacy and counter-surveillance which were, and continue to be, necessary to the survival, and survivance, of minoritized people and cultures. 1. This is a half-day workshop. We will begin with 1 hour of presentations by the co-facilitators, followed by 1.5 hours of group workshopping current, past and future projects that participants bring to discuss, and a concluding 30 minutes drafting protocols, manifestos, best-practices and other collaborative (and future) possibilities. 2. AoIR participants can register for this workshop when they register for the conference; please come prepared to either workshop your own project or pitch in to workshop projects that other participants bring. If you have already registered for the conference and would like to add this workshop please email ac [at] aoir [dot] org . For further information, please contact workshop organizers T.L. Cowan & Jas Rault at drecollab(a)gmail.com. Thanks very much! T.L. Cowan -- T.L. Cowan, Ph.D. Assistant Professor Media Studies Department of Arts, Culture and Media (UTSC) Office: 411A Humanities Wing Faculty of Information (iSchool) Office: 649 Bissell Building University of Toronto <http://tlcowan.net/> T.L. Cowan<http://tlcowan.net/> tlcowan.net Mixed Methods. I am a writer, performer, activist and professor living in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. I am currently an Assistant Professor of Media Studies in the Department of Arts, Culture & Media and the Faculty of Education at the University of Toronto. -- T.L. Cowan, Ph.D. Assistant Professor Media Studies Department of Arts, Culture and Media (UTSC) Office: 411A Humanities Wing Faculty of Information (iSchool) Office: 649 Bissell Building University of Toronto <http://tlcowan.net/>

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Job Ad: Assistant Professor in Urban Futures & Communication at UMass Amherst
by Dr Jonathan Corpus Ong 07 Aug '18

07 Aug '18

Dear colleagues, I’m sharing this job ad for a tenure-track position in the Department of Communication at UMass. For information about our department and the post, the link is here: https://www.umass.edu/communication/node/1787 <https://www.umass.edu/communication/node/1787> . Job Ad: Assistant Professor in Urban Futures and Communication The Department of Communication at the University of Massachusetts Amherst seeks a communication scholar whose research and teaching focus on urban communication, environmental communication, and/or civics and governance in 'smart cities'. We seek theoretical and methodological innovation in researching the constitutive role of communication and information infrastructures in people's experience of the built environment. We seek a colleague whose work complements and extends the traditions in the department, which include digital media and public participation, cultural production and social inequality, and postcoloniality. Additionally, the Department is interested in candidates who have demonstrated ability to contribute to the inclusive excellence and diversity mission of the department, college and university in research, teaching, and/or outreach. The rank will be at the Assistant Professor level. The position will begin Sept. 1, 2019 and will include responsibilities for teaching and supervision at the undergraduate and graduate levels. The ability to collaborate on and eventually lead interdisciplinary, grant-funded projects is desirable. Review of applications will begin on October 15, 2018 and will continue until the position is filled. Applications should include a letter of interest, a CV, evidence of teaching effectiveness, and one article-length example of research, and names and contact information for three references. All materials should be submitted through the online website <http://careers.massachusetts.edu/cw/en-us/job/494748?lApplicationSubSourceI…>. A completed PhD in Communication or closely allied field is required by the start of the appointment. The university is committed to active recruitment of a diverse faculty and student body. The University of Massachusetts Amherst is an Affirmative Action/Equal Opportunity Employer of women, minorities, protected veterans, and individuals with disabilities and encourages applications from these and other protected group members. Because broad diversity is essential to an inclusive climate and critical to the University’s goals of achieving excellence in all areas, we will holistically assess the many qualifications of each applicant and favorably consider an individual’s record working with students and colleagues with broadly diverse perspectives, experiences, and backgrounds in educational, research or other work activities. We will also favorably consider experience overcoming or helping others overcome barriers to an academic degree and career. Best, Jonathan ===== Jonathan Corpus Ong, PhD Associate Professor in Global Digital Media Co-Editor-in-Chief, Television & New Media University of Massachusetts Amherst N354 Integrative Learning Center 650 North Pleasant Street Amherst, MA 01003-1100 USA Email: jcong(a)umass.edu <mailto:jcong@umass.edu> Webpage: https://www.umass.edu/communication/node/1525 <https://www.umass.edu/communication/node/1525> Twitter: @jonathan_c_ong Data & Society Guest Blog “Architects of Networked Disinformation”: https://medium.com/@MediaManipulation/architects-of-networked-disinformatio… <https://medium.com/@MediaManipulation/architects-of-networked-disinformatio…>

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ACM IUI 2019 - SIGCHI Student Travel Grant - Deadline: Aug 15
by Axel Soto 07 Aug '18

07 Aug '18

We are pleased to announce that the SIGCHI Student Travel Grant (SSTG) program is offering support opportunities to attend ACM IUI 2019 (http://iui.acm.org/2019/) as well as other SIGCHI sponsored or co-sponsored conferences. This grant is for students who lack other support opportunities and whose intention is to present work at the conference (not for those that just plan to attend the conference). Deadline: August 15th Notification of pre-approval: August 31st More information at: https://sigchi.org/conferences/student-travel-grants/student-travel-grant/

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Digital Existence: new book
by Amanda Lagerkvist 07 Aug '18

07 Aug '18

Dear all, Allow me to announce the publication of Digital Existence: Ontology, Ethics and Transcendence in Digital Culture. Edited by Amanda Lagerkvist, Stockholm University and with a foreword by John Durham Peters, Yale University. (Series: Routledge Studies in Religion and Digital Culture edited by Heidi Campbell, Mia Lövheim and Gregory Price Grieve). Digital Existence: Ontology, Ethics and Transcendence in Digital Culture advances debates on digital culture and digital religion in two complementary ways. First, by focalizing the themes ‘ontology,’ ‘ethics’ and ‘transcendence,’ it builds on insights from research on digital religion in order to reframe the field and pursue an existential media analysis that further pushes beyond the mandatory focus in mainstream media studies on the social, cultural, political and economic dimensions of digitalization. Second, the collection also implies a broadening of the scope of the debate in the field of media, religion and culture – and digital religion in particular – beyond ‘religion,’ to include the wider existential dimensions of digital media. It is the first volume on our digital existence in the budding field of existential media studies. https://www.routledge.com/Digital-Existence-Ontology-Ethics-and-Transcenden… Also: If you happen to be at the ISMRC conference at the University of Colorado Boulder, on Thursday, August 9, come to our panel and book launch! Panel Session 3: “Existential Media Studies: Probing Technologies of Life, Death and Beyond”, in Multipurpose Room A (9:00-10:30am). Paper presentations by Amanda Lagerkvist, Tamara Kneese & Ben Peters, Johanna Sumiala and Charles M. Ess. Respondent: John D. Peters. Best wishes, Amanda Lagerkvist Amanda Lagerkvist PhD Associate Professor Wallenberg Academy Fellow Head of Programme: http://et.ims.su.se<http://et.ims.su.se/> lagerkvist<https://research.ims.su.se/en/profiles/13-amanda-lagerkvist> http://www.wallenbergacademyfellows.se<http://www.wallenbergacademyfellows.se/>

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Postdoc opportunity in the Centre for Information Technology and National Development in Africa to focus on Fair Work in the gig economy
by Mark Graham 07 Aug '18

07 Aug '18

[[Apologies for cross-posting]] Dear colleagues, The Fairwork Foundation <http://fair.work/> is about to launch a new phase <https://www.oii.ox.ac.uk/news/releases/fairwork-foundation-begins-new-proje…> of its work in South Africa. As part of that new work, we are hiring a full-time 29-month Postdoc to work directly with Professor Jean-Paul van Belle <http://www.commerce.uct.ac.za/informationsystems/StaffProfile/Jean-PaulVanB…>(UCT) along with Professor Richard Heeks <https://www.research.manchester.ac.uk/portal/richard.heeks.html> (Manchester), Jamie Woodcock <https://www.oii.ox.ac.uk/people/dr-jamie-woodcock/> (Oxford), and myself (Mark Graham <https://www.oii.ox.ac.uk/people/mark-graham/>, Oxford). The full job description is pasted below, and available at the following link < http://fair.work/2018/08/03/were-hiring-postdoc-to-focus-on-fair-work-on-di…>. Please feel free to share widely. ------------------------------------------ Mark Graham Professor of Internet Geography Oxford Internet Institute University of Oxford Turing Fellow The Alan Turing Institute Research Affiliate School of Geography and the Environment University of Oxford markgraham.space | @geoplace <http://twitter.com/geoplace> POSTDOCTORAL RESEARCH FELLOWSHIP: EVALUATING DIGITAL WORK PLATFORMS IN SOUTH AFRICA AGAINST DECENT WORK STANDARDS Closing Date: 31 August 2018 The Centre for Information Technology and National Development in Africa (CITANDA) wishes to appoint a Postdoctoral Research Fellow (PDRF) in the evaluation of digital work platforms (Uber, SweepSouth, Upwork, etc.) in South Africa against decent work standards. The PDRF will conduct research for a multi-disciplinary research project supported by the UK Economic and Social Research Council as part of its GCRF New Models of Sustainable Development programme. The research project aims to (i) improve working conditions for digital platform-workers in low- and middle-income countries; (ii) develop a certification scheme designed to set minimum standards for decent work and actively certify platforms through a newly-created “Fairwork Foundation”; and (iii) create a Code of Practice for South African platforms. The PDRF will be responsible for a discrete area of research that seeks to understand key structural and individual-level concerns relating to platform work in South Africa; the key issues and obstacles experienced by South African platform workers; and the differentiation of such issues for particularly disadvantaged or vulnerable sub-groups. This will involve both desk and primary field research, most likely conducted in Cape Town and Johannesburg. The PDRF role is an exciting opportunity to undertake cutting-edge research on a topic that is central to the future of work and to the harnessing of digital technologies for socio-economic development. Working within CITANDA, you will be part of a well-resourced, culturally-diverse and friendly research unit. More broadly, you will be working as part of a collaborative and multi-disciplinary team of world-leading academics from the University of Cape Town (Prof. JP van Belle), University of the Western Cape (Prof. Darcy du Toit), University of Oxford (Prof. Sandy Fredman, Prof. Mark Graham) and University of Manchester (Prof. Richard Heeks) spanning internet studies, law, information systems and development studies. *Academic/experience criteria:* *Required* • A PhD, awarded within the previous five years, in a relevant field which could include – but is not limited to – internet studies, information systems, development studies, or work and employment. • Strong skills in the planning, implementation, software-based analysis and write-up of primary field data. • Practical experience of qualitative fieldwork in a global South context. • Demonstrated ability to undertake desk-based evidence reviews. • Demonstrated capacity to produce peer-reviewed research articles. • Excellent written and verbal communication skills in English. • Ability to work independently within a research team and to meet deadlines. *Desirable* • Knowledge and experience of field research in South Africa. • Knowledge of South African official languages other than English. • Specific expertise relating to digital platform work. • Prior experience of working on research projects. *Conditions of award:* • Applicants must have completed their doctoral degrees within the past 5 years and may not previously have held a full-time *permanent* professional or academic post. • No benefits or allowances are included in the Fellowship but the fellowship stipend is tax free. • As part of their professional development, the successful candidate may be required to participate in a limited capacity in other CITANDA activities such as teaching and/or student supervision. • The successful applicant will be required to register as a Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Cape Town immediately and *will not be considered a UCT employee*. • The successful applicant will be required to comply with the university’s approved policies, procedures and practices for the postdoctoral sector. *Value and tenure:* • The value of the fellowship is ZAR 260,000 pa and is tenable for up to 29 months. A performance review will happen after the first year. Any further extension would be dependent on performance, and sourcing of additional funding for the post. *Application requirements:* Applicants should submit (i) an application letter that includes a short description of their expertise and research interests, and how these relate to the position, specifically addressing the required and desirable criteria listed, (ii) a CV including a publication list, iii) a copy of their PhD thesis and up to two published or submitted papers, (iv) copies of academic transcripts and/or certificates, and (v) email addresses of at least two referees directly involved in their PhD and/or previous postdoctoral research. Applications should be emailed *before noon on 31 August 2018 *to *freda.parker(a)uct.ac.za <freda.parker(a)uct.ac.za>** with cc to jean-paul.vanbelle(a)uct.ac.za <jean-paul.vanbelle(a)uct.ac.za>*. *Selection process:* • Only eligible and complete applications will be considered by the selection committee. • Interviews are likely to take place in September 2018 and the successful candidate is expected to start as soon as possible thereafter. *Closing date:* Applications received before *31 August* are guaranteed to be considered. Applications received thereafter may be considered if the position has not been filled. *Contact details for submission of applications: Freda Parker at **freda.parker(a)uct.ac.za <freda.parker(a)uct.ac.za>* *Contact details for enquiries about the fellowship topic:* Jean-Paul.VanBelle(a)uct.ac.za *Additional information on CITANDA and UCT can be found at: * www.citanda.uct.ac.za <http://www.acdi.uct.ac.za/>/ www.uct.ac.za *The University of Cape Town reserves the right to disqualify ineligible, incomplete and/or inappropriate applications. The University of Cape Town also reserves the right to change the conditions of the award or to make no award at all.* <http://twitter.com/geoplace>

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Re: [Air-L] Air-L Digest, Vol 169, Issue 7
by T.L. Cowan 07 Aug '18

07 Aug '18

Hello, Will you please post this in the next several AoIR newsletters: AoIR pre-conference workshop on Digital Research Ethics and Networked Intimate Publics is now inviting open registration. Workshop title: The Digital Research Ethics Collaboratory for Networked Intimate Publics: Storytelling, Materiality, Ethics & Praxis Facilitators: T.L. Cowan (UToronto), Jasmine Rault (UToronto), Veronica Paredes (UCLA) and Izetta Autumn Mobley (University of Maryland, College Park) In The Broken Earth trilogy, science fiction author N.K. Jemisin (2015, 2016, 2017) imagines a subterranean community called Castrima, a hidden place that is built and sustained by the energies and skills of the most powerful, reviled and thus most endangered specimens of humanity: the Oregens. From the surface, Castrima is invisible, buried below ruins. And underground, from the inside, Castrima looks cluttered, chaotic, disorienting: “as if someone found an architect, made her build a city out of the most beautiful materials available, then threw those buildings into a box and jumbled them up for laughs” (2015: 338). Ykka, Castrima’s Head Woman, explains, “This is what we’re trying to do here in Castrima: survive. Same as anyone. We’re just willing to innovate a little” (2015: 342). Jemisin’s speculative design of Castrima is a place made by and for minoritized subjects to protect their lives, to preserve their knowledge and cultural materials, and ensure their cultural survivance (Vizenor 2008; Tuck 2009). This workshop will be led by former co-facilitators of the Feminist Technology Network (FemTechNet), collaborators in the Center for Solution to Online Violence (CSOV) and lead investigators of the Digital Research Ethics Collaboratory (DREC). We use the term “minoritized” from the scholarly fields of Indigenous, Critical Race and Ethnic Studies, Queer, Sexuality, Trans-, Gender and Feminist Studies, to speak of populations who may not be in the minority at all – indeed, statistically form the majority population in most cases – but whose knowledges, cultural practices, histories and socialities have been consistently undermined, dismissed and rendered insignificant or troubling to the imagined majority (Ferguson 2004; Gopinath 2005; Sedgwick 1990, 2003; Smith 2010; Soto 2010). The infrastructures and networks of intimacy and distributed publicity are central technologies for the sustenance, support, thriving and survivance of minoritized people, knowledges, cultural materials, and chosen communities. These network technologies are too often situated in academic literature and popular discourse as naïvely pre-digital or non-digital, naturally occurring or innate, rather than carefully and strategically constituted, tended-to and transformed with and as new media and communication infrastructures. In this workshop we invite participants to share stories and practices for the ethical research and engagement with minoritized materials and the networked intimate publics that create them. Workshop participants will take turns leading discussions from their own research experiences in attending to the innovations in labour, arts, organizing and research through which technologies for minoritized survivance manifest and mutate. Like so many researchers we have been caught by the fever to (digitally) archive precarious, precious, minoritized, invisibilized, intimate, forgotten knowledges, scenes, resistance cultures, materials and alternative futures. Bound by their beauty (Siberry 1989), we are also, however, bound by the institutional and platform logics that we hope these archives can transform, and by accountability to the “the people whose belongings have become [our] ‘collections’” (Nowviski 2016). Conventionalised research practices reflect longstanding and ongoing acquisitional, abductive, possessive, extractive practices that bolster these structures, especially the imperialist, settler colonial model of dehumanization, occupation, control, theft, and non-reciprocity (Kovach 2009; Moreton-Robinson 2015; Murphy 2014; Simpson 2014; Tuhiwai Smith 2012). This workshop comes from the perspectives that all research structures–not only those primarily oriented within or towards Indigenous communities–need to be reshaped in order to decolonize and unsettle the imperialist university and to dismantle the domination habits of academic knowledge production. Starting with the important work that AoIR collaborators have already contributed to the field of Digital Research Ethics (AoIR 2002; Markham and Buchanan 2012; Zimmer & Kinder-Kurlanda 2017), we invite AoIR-affiliated scholars–especially those of digital culture and researchers building online repositories, exhibitions and other forms of publication of minoritized materials–who are trying to break the habits of extractive and possessive research and publication logics and build-while-we-work-within epistemic infrastructures that acknowledge and jumble existing hiearchives of compensation, credit, value, precarity, security and exposure. Following Jemison’s fictional Castrima, the challenge might be to defend against openness and exposure even in opposition to the institutional logics of our disciplines. This workshop will gather researchers who attend to, and attempt to translate into online information practice, the carefully cultivated tactics and cultures of privacy and counter-surveillance which were, and continue to be, necessary to the survival, and survivance, of minoritized people and cultures. 1. This is a half-day workshop. We will begin with 1 hour of presentations by the co-facilitators, followed by 1.5 hours of group workshopping current, past and future projects that participants bring to discuss, and a concluding 30 minutes drafting protocols, manifestos, best-practices and other collaborative (and future) possibilities. 2. AoIR participants can register for this workshop when they register for the conference; please come prepared to either workshop your own project or pitch in to workshop projects that other participants bring. If you have already registered for the conference and would like to add this workshop please email ac [at] aoir [dot] org . For further information, please contact workshop organizers T.L. Cowan & Jas Rault at drecollab(a)gmail.com. -- Thanks very much! T.L. Cowan -- T.L. Cowan, Ph.D. Assistant Professor Media Studies Department of Arts, Culture and Media (UTSC) Office: 411A Humanities Wing Faculty of Information (iSchool) Office: 649 Bissell Building University of Toronto <http://tlcowan.net/> ________________________________ From: Air-L <air-l-bounces(a)listserv.aoir.org> on behalf of air-l-request(a)listserv.aoir.org <air-l-request(a)listserv.aoir.org> Sent: Monday, August 6, 2018 4:35:06 PM To: air-l(a)listserv.aoir.org Subject: Air-L Digest, Vol 169, Issue 7 Send Air-L mailing list submissions to air-l(a)listserv.aoir.org To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit http://listserv.aoir.org/listinfo.cgi/air-l-aoir.org or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to air-l-request(a)listserv.aoir.org You can reach the person managing the list at air-l-owner(a)listserv.aoir.org When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific than "Re: Contents of Air-L digest..." Today's Topics: 1. Re: Country specific social media data (Gohar F. Khan) 2. Re: WhatsApp methodologies and platform frameworks (Cherry Mathew Philipose) 3. 2018 European Conference on Ambient Intelligence (AmI 2018): Last Call for Workshop Papers (Announce Announcements) 4. The ethics of artificial intelligence (Jill Walker Rettberg) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Message: 1 Date: Mon, 6 Aug 2018 12:06:41 +1200 From: "Gohar F. Khan" <gohar.feroz(a)gmail.com> To: Arkaitz Zubiaga <arkaitz(a)zubiaga.org>, "Shulman, Stu" <stu(a)texifter.com> Cc: air-l(a)listserv.aoir.org Subject: Re: [Air-L] Country specific social media data Message-ID: <CAERGarR_nn6+jJ=Nmk1RRtO9zYS5hAnS-YTBnDAusSF6sNGJxQ(a)mail.gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Thank you for comments and suggestions Stu and Arkaitz. I am currently experimenting with Discovertext, which certainly looks like a very comprehensive tool. Thank you, Khan On Sat, Aug 4, 2018 at 12:06 AM, Arkaitz Zubiaga <arkaitz(a)zubiaga.org> wrote: > On Fri, 3 Aug 2018 at 13:00, Shulman, Stu <stu(a)texifter.com> wrote: > > > > > Finally, Twitter. It is the best bet, but filtering by location data > means > > (not insignificantly) that you exclude the vast majority of Tweets from > > your data. > > > For Twitter you may want to check the country-level classifier we > developed: https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/7913605/ > > Code available here: > https://github.com/azubiaga/tweet-country-classification > > This generalises very well to infer the country of origin on Twitter > timelines with no/limited geolocation data. > > Arkaitz > _______________________________________________ > The Air-L(a)listserv.aoir.org mailing list > is provided by the Association of Internet Researchers http://aoir.org > Subscribe, change options or unsubscribe at: > http://listserv.aoir.org/listinfo.cgi/air-l-aoir.org > > Join the Association of Internet Researchers: > http://www.aoir.org/ > -- *Khan, Gohar PhD **/ **Senior Lecturer Digital Business /* *Undergraduate and Graduate Convenor for Digital Business* *Waikato Management School **/** University of Waikato* *Private Bag 3105* */* *Hamilton 3240* *Ph: + 64 7 838 4233 **/* *gohar.khan(a)waikato.ac.nz <gohar.khan(a)waikato.ac.nz> **/ *Office: MSB.2.32D */* Web: gfkhan. wordpress.com Check out my book on social media analytics <http://7layersanalytics.com/> and digital marketing analytics <https://www.routledge.com/Digital-Analytics-for-Marketing/Sponder-Khan/p/bo…> ----------- Social Identities: || Blog <http://gfkhan.wordpress.com/> || Twitter <https://twitter.com/gfkhan> || LinkedIn <https://www.linkedin.com/pub/gohar-feroz-khan/7/62b/42> || Research Centre <http://centreforsocialtech.com/>|| ------------------------------ Message: 2 Date: Mon, 6 Aug 2018 09:12:07 +0530 From: Cherry Mathew Philipose <cherrymp(a)gmail.com> To: p.raymurray(a)srishti.ac.in Cc: AoIR-L <air-l(a)listserv.aoir.org>, pk(a)iiitd.ac.in Subject: Re: [Air-L] WhatsApp methodologies and platform frameworks Message-ID: <CA+kmkjZO3aQMtvrcMJeHsrNit2r=RNTWB8fXjjw-xVU=tDSE9g(a)mail.gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Hi Padmini Recently I attended a talk by Dr. Ponnurangam Kumaraguru <https://www.iiitd.ac.in/pk> (PK) of IIIT, Delhi. He had/has a couple of interesting Online Social Network (OSN) Projects and the latest in the list I think is the problem of WhatsApp forwards. In India particularly, the forwards have revealed their potential to instigate mob violence and even lynching. He displayed a WhatsApp number to which he said if people forward those messages which they think are fake, then PK's team will analyse and get back. I tweeted about it and you can see it by clicking here <https://twitter.com/cherrymp/status/1021991328572493826>. PK's research group keeps a web resource page for sharing all the OSN study resources that they use which can be seen by clicking here <http://precog.iiitd.edu.in/resources.html>. I am marking a copy of this mail to PK as well so that in case you or he can get in touch with each other and take this forward. One of the challenges of getting hold of WhatsApp messages is the end-to-end encryption that the platform uses. Unless your data respondents are willing to share the forwards with you, I don't think you will be able to get any. Like PK you can also think of a WhatsApp number to which your participants can forward the messages. That's my suggestion. Thanks for listening. Best, Cherry Mathew Philipose Assistant Professor of English SSN College of Engineering Kalavakkam - 603 110 On Fri, 3 Aug 2018 at 19:25, Padmini Ray Murray <p.raymurray(a)srishti.ac.in> wrote: > Hi everyone, > > I have two queries: > a. Has anyone had success with studying WhatsApp -- especially what > motivates users to share and forward content? If so, what sort of > methodologies worked? > b. I am working on a research project looking at ethics frameworks for > digital platforms - if you have any suggestions for examples of existing > platforms and open source communities, consultancies (business and > developmental), research institutes or social enterprises that have > demonstrated best practice in governance models and foundational > principles, I'd love to know. > > Thanks so much, > > All best, > Padmini. > --- > Padmini Ray Murray, PhD > Digital Humanities, > Srishti Institute of Art, Design and Technology, > Bangalore. > _______________________________________________ > The Air-L(a)listserv.aoir.org mailing list > is provided by the Association of Internet Researchers http://aoir.org > Subscribe, change options or unsubscribe at: > http://listserv.aoir.org/listinfo.cgi/air-l-aoir.org > > Join the Association of Internet Researchers: > http://www.aoir.org/ > -- *best regards* Cherry Mathew Philipose, PhD ------------------------------ Message: 3 Date: Mon, 6 Aug 2018 15:31:01 +0300 From: Announce Announcements <announce(a)cs.ucy.ac.cy> To: air-L <air-L(a)listserv.aoir.org> Subject: [Air-L] 2018 European Conference on Ambient Intelligence (AmI 2018): Last Call for Workshop Papers Message-ID: <SPV3PAES-40IF-C8K0-KV5L-7XSD8NVF6TI4(a)cs.ucy.ac.cy> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1; format=flowed *** LAST CALL FOR WORKSHOP PAPERS *** 2018 European Conference on Ambient Intelligence (AmI 2018) Golden Bay Beach Hotel, Larnaca, Cyprus, 12-14 November, 2018 http://www.cs.ucy.ac.cy/~george/lm/lm.php?tk=YWlyLUwJCQlhaXItTEBsaXN0c2Vydi… *** Submission Deadline: 10th August 2018 *** Ambient intelligence refers to normal working and living environments being surrounded by embedded devices that can merge unobtrusively and in natural ways using information and intelligence hidden in the network connecting these devices (e.g. The Internet of Things). Such devices, each specialised in one or more capabilities, are intended to work together based on an infrastructure of intelligent systems, to provide a variety of services improving safety, security and the quality of life in ordinary living, travelling and working environments. Accompanying the main conference, the following two workshops will be organized: WS-AFFIN 2nd Workshop On Affective Interaction With Avatars and Robots http://www.cs.ucy.ac.cy/~george/lm/lm.php?tk=YWlyLUwJCQlhaXItTEBsaXN0c2Vydi… BRAINS Behavioral Change and Ambient Intelligence for Sustainability http://www.cs.ucy.ac.cy/~george/lm/lm.php?tk=YWlyLUwJCQlhaXItTEBsaXN0c2Vydi… SUBMISSION AND PROCEEDINGS Both workshops invite full-papers, work-in progress and position papers that address one or more of the topics of interest. All submitted papers will be peer-reviewed by at least three Program Committee members from the corresponding workshop. All accepted full papers and posters will appear in the conference proceedings published by Elsevier under the ENTCS Journal series. Papers must be submitted in PDF format adhering to the ELSEVIER Journal format and should follow the publication policies of ENTCS. The macros can be obtained on the ENTCS Macro Web Site http://www.cs.ucy.ac.cy/~george/lm/lm.php?tk=YWlyLUwJCQlhaXItTEBsaXN0c2Vydi… along with detailed instructions about preparing the papers for the series. IMPORTANT DATES ? Paper Submissions Due: 10 August, 2018 ? Notification of Acceptance/Rejection: 10 September, 2018 ? Camera Ready Versions Due: 25 September, 2018 ? Author (of workshop papers) Registration: 25 September, 2018 JOURNAL SPECIAL ISSUE A few papers from each workshop will be selected by the workshop chairs and invited for submission to a special issue of MDPI Applied Sciences (http://www.mdpi.com/journal/applsci/special_issues/intelligent_environments ). The final paper should have at least 30% extra material and will be reviewed as any MDPI submission. ORGANIZING COMMITTEE General Chair ? George Roussos, Birkbeck, University of London, UK Program Chairs ? Achilleas D. Kameas, Hellenic Open University, Greece ? Kostas Stathis, Royal Holloway, University of London, UK Workshops Chairs ? Ioannis Chatzigiannakis, University of Rome, Italy ? Fariba Sadri, Imperial College, UK Local Organization Chair ? George Angelos Papadopoulos, University of Cyprus, Cyprus ------------------------------ Message: 4 Date: Mon, 6 Aug 2018 12:43:12 +0000 From: Jill Walker Rettberg <Jill.Walker.Rettberg(a)uib.no> To: "air-l(a)listserv.aoir.org" <air-l(a)listserv.aoir.org> Subject: [Air-L] The ethics of artificial intelligence Message-ID: <56F9799F-CEA8-4342-893B-DB2037E10C0D(a)uib.no> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" I have been asked to contribute to my university?s response to a call from the Norwegian research ethics committee for the natural sciences and technology (NENT) ? they are working on ethical guidelines for research on artificial intelligence and machine learning. I think a lot of the discussions we've had about algorithmic cultures and bias at AoIR are very relevant to this, but that this is also perhaps a more fundamental question: what sort of AI research is ethical? What should be banned? What kinds of ethical considerations should be made? I am familiar with the debates about algorithmic culture and bias and the many excellent recent books discussing the impact of AI/algorithms/machine learning on society, including Taina Bucher?s If-Then: Algorithmic Power and Politics, Tarleton Gillespie?s Custodians of the Internet, Safiya Noble's Algorithms of Oppression, Virginia Eubanks' Automating Inequality, etc. I also know about FAT* (Fairness, Accountability and Transparency, e.g. https://fatconference.org) and These are fabulous and clearly relevant to the question, but I am wondering if there is something even more specific to the actual tech development and research out there - or perhaps there are already lots of examples of ethical guidelines for AI research?. There is clearly a need for it - just today I heard a computer science professor saying that they do research on the methods that underlie the systems and so ethics isn't relevant. I have also seen that the EU is planning to develop a strategy for AI in 2019, and that they are positioning ethical considerations as central in that, at the same time as it's ultimately about being competitive globally of course. (https://ec.europa.eu/digital-single-market/en/artificial-intelligence#usefu…) If you're in Norway and interested in the topic, see https://www.etikkom.no/Aktuelt/Nyheter/2018/ber-om-innspill-om-kunstig-inte… - they are asking for feedback and comments from everyone until 10 September. I assume other European countries have parallel processes that will feed into the EU strategy in 2019. Perhaps the US, China and other countries already have strategies? Jill Jill Walker Rettberg Professor of Digital Culture University of Bergen http://jilltxt.net ------------------------------ Subject: Digest Footer _______________________________________________ The Air-L(a)listserv.aoir.org mailing list is provided by the Association of Internet Researchers http://aoir.org Subscribe, change options or unsubscribe at: http://listserv.aoir.org/listinfo.cgi/air-l-aoir.org Join the Association of Internet Researchers: http://www.aoir.org/ ------------------------------ End of Air-L Digest, Vol 169, Issue 7 *************************************

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