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panel on post-global internet concepts & histories
by Polina Kolozaridi 27 Feb '18

27 Feb '18

Dear all, I'd like to submit a panel proposal about how we can study local internet in terms of history of its development in different countries and cities. I suppose that it would be great to discuss it in comparative prospective and figure out what concepts can we use for it and how do we conduct this kind of studies. Would anyone be interesting in submitting something on this? If so, please e-mail me poli.kolozaridi(a)gmail.com best, Polina

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Possible AoiR roundtable? digital materialities and their environmental damage
by Adi Kuntsman 27 Feb '18

27 Feb '18

Dear AoiRs Its a last moment ... and a long shot. However, I will ask anyway: is there anyone interested in joining a roundtable on digital materialities and their environmental damages? The main aim of the roundtable is to bring together critical environmental studies and digital media studies, and to look into why on one hand, resaerch into digital cultures so rarely considers the environmental footprints of the technollgies we use; and why on the other hand, research into environmental sustainablity is adopting digital tools so uncritically There is a way ore articular sourntable abstract currently in the making :) Happy to provide more info. Please drop me a line by end of tomorrow (28th of Feb) if interested Adi Dr AdiKuntsman | SeniorLecturer | Department of Languages, Information and Communications |Manchester Metropolitan University | Room 437 Geoffrey Manton Building| OxfordRoad | Manchester | M15 6LL | Tel: +44 (0)161 247 6165 |Web: https://sites.google.com/site/adikuntsman/ Currentresearch https://sites.google.com/view/digitaldisengagementproject

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CFPs EGOV-CeDEM-ePart 2018 conference - digital collaboration and social media track
by Panagiotis Panagiotopoulos 27 Feb '18

27 Feb '18

*** IFIP 8.5 Information Systems in Public Administration – EGOV-CeDEM-ePart 2018 conference*** 3 -6 September 2018, Danube University Krems, Austria, http://depts.washington.edu/egcdep18/ Call For Papers: Digital Collaboration and Social Media Track Digital networking and information sharing applications have become an important interface between governments and their respective publics. Such applications have also reshaped the nature of digital collaborations within public organizations and across governance networks. We invite relevant studies that draw on conceptual, case study, survey, mixed or other suitable methods. Areas of focus and interest include but are not limited to the following topics: * New theoretical perspectives and critical analyses of digital interactions in the public sector; * Strategies and policies for the planning and implementation of social media in the public sector; * Use and significance of social analytics in public organizations; * New methods, challenges and opportunities of social media data; * Stakeholders and digital publics of government engagement on social media; * Social media in crisis and emergency management; * Mobilisation, social movements and other forms of digital engagement enabled by social media; * Enterprise/organizational networking and knowledge sharing applications in the public sector; * Internal and informal digital networks in public administration; * Crowdsourcing, citizen-sourcing, co-creation and other crowd-based models (e.g. in regulation, bottom-up initiatives, open source movements); * Design, user experience, media co-creation and demand-driven perspectives in digital collaboration; * Ethical, privacy, regulatory and policy issues related to social media in the public sector; Submission types (see conference website for details): full research papers, ongoing Research, projects, reflections & viewpoints, workshops, panel proposals, posters, PhD colloquium papers Proceedings All accepted completed research papers will be published by Springer Verlag (LNCS). Accepted submissions in all other categories will be published by Edition Donau-Universität Krems, available Open Access. Important Dates 17 March 2018: Submission of papers, workshop, panel, poster and PhD colloquium contributions 30 April 2018: Notification of decisions 1 June 2018: Camera-ready papers of all accepted contributions Track Chairs Mauri Kaipainen, Södertörn University, Sweden Ida Lindgren, Linköping University, Sweden Panos Panagiotopoulos, Queen Mary University of London, United Kingdom

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Digital Psychology and Emotional Design Training Weeks 2018
by AlterSpark ＠ Gmail 26 Feb '18

26 Feb '18

Hi. If you're a researcher with an applied focus, you may be interested in my upcoming courses, on using psychology and neuroscience, for technology and digital campaigns. The details are below. Best, Brian ----------------------------- Digital Psychology and Emotional Design Training Weeks 2018 Over 5-days we're running 3-workshops that cover the key skills in applying behavior science to websites, apps, and digital strategy. Each workshop covers different topics, that will take you from the beginner to advanced level, over the course of one intense week. Here's a description of each workshop: Psychology for Digital Behavior Change [DBC1] (2-Day) Learn how to recognize and apply over 40 principles of digital psychology. Develop new skills in auditing the psychology behind various technologies and learn new approaches to building human-centered technology. Upcoming DBC1 workshops: - Toronto: 23-24 Apr 2018 - Chicago: 7-8 May 2018 - Ottawa: 14-15 May 2018 - New York: 21-22 May 2018 LEARN ABOUT DBC1: https://www.alterspark.com/dbc1 Psychological Architectures of Digital Behavior Change [DBC2] (1-Day) Discover how to build psychological architectures—the larger design patterns that underpin landing pages, habit loops, gamification, and more. Plus, develop new skills in building persuasive user journeys, along with 10 new principles of interactive feedback psychology. Upcoming DBC2 workshops: - Toronto: 25 Apr 2018 - Chicago: 9 May 2018 - Ottawa: 16 May 2018 - New York: 23 May 2018 LEARN ABOUT DBC2: https://www.alterspark.com/dbc2 Emotional Design Psychology [ED] (2-Day) Discover how to build emotionally intelligent websites, apps, and campaigns by learning the psychology and neuroscience of user emotion, motivation, cognition, and behavior. Learn how to produce emotion-driven wireframes, empathetic content, emotional design audits, engaging visuals, and more. Upcoming ED workshops: - Toronto: 26-27 Apr 2018 - Chicago: 10-11 May 2018 - Ottawa: 17-18 May 2018 - New York: 24-25 May 2018 LEARN ABOUT ED: https://www.alterspark.com/ed ================== Brian Cugelman, PhD AlterSpark https://www.alterspark.com p: +1 (888) 977-2055 c: +1 (416) 858-2055 brian(a)alterspark.com http://linkedin.com/in/cugelman http://twitter.com/cugelman -------------------------------- Workshops on Digital Psychology & Emotional Design https://www.alterspark.com/training Personality platform and AI https://www.SPEARpersonality.com https://www.emotionalintelligence.ai

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Job: Two positions - Assistant Professor in Communication, University of Canberra, Australia
by Sora Park 26 Feb '18

26 Feb '18

Dear Colleagues Please circulate to you networks: We are hiring two new Assistant Professors in Communication (Level B/C). Successful candidates will be eligible to work with us in the UC News and Media Research Centre For more information go to: http://uctalent.canberra.e du.au/cw/en/job/492423/assistant-professor-in-communication-x-2 For further information contact: Prof Sally Burford, Head of School, Arts and Communication sally.burford(a)canberra.edu.au Kind regards, Sora Dr. Sora Park Director News & Media Research Centre University of Canberra Bruce, ACT 2601 O +61-2-6201-5423 M +61-448-556-269 @sorapark www.canberra.edu.au/nmrc

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CfC Edited Volume: Sensing Security. Sensors and the Making of Transnational Security Infrastructures
by Nikolaus Pöchhacker 26 Feb '18

26 Feb '18

Dear colleagues, please find below our call for contributions to the edited volume "sensing security". The calls can also be found on-line here: https://digiones.org/2018/01/13/cfp-edited-volume-sensing-security/ We are looking forward to your abstracts! Best, Nina, Nikolaus, & Geoffrey Call for Contributions Sensing Security: Sensors and the Making of Transnational Security Infrastructures Editors: Nina Witjes, (MCTS, Technical University of Munich) Nikolaus Pöchhacker (MCTS,Technical University of Munich) Geoffrey C. Bowker (Evoke Lab, University of California, Irvine) In outer-space, underwater, in cities, our homes, or on our bodies - there is no shortage of settings that we now find equipped, imagined and measured with sensors. Anything and anyone can become a sensor, gathering and transmitting data about our world in which “there are now more automated sensors perceiving our environment and the elements that constitute it than there are living human beings” (Tironi, 2017, p. 2). Invested with ideals ranging from ‘invisible computing’, the ‘Internet of Things’, ‘global transparency’ or ‘algorithmic governance’, sensing technologies have been in particular foregrounded in contemporary academic and policy debates about the relations between data, security and politics. Approaching sensors as socio-technical devices (Amichelle et al., 2012) we invite work that explores how they move into and out of the security sector over time that even co-produce novel security regimes (Witjes & Olbrich, 2017; Salter, 2008). The increasingly globalized socio-technical infrastructures in the making are often understood as creating an environment where the abundance of available data collections increasingly leads to the formation of regimes of ‘dataveillance’ (Amoore & de Goede, 2005). So far, much work on the role of sensors as security devices has mainly attended to their materialities and governance in national settings, providing valuable insights how sensors are shaping knowledge, policies, power relations (Suchman, Follis, & Weber, 2017). Building on and inviting work from a variety of fields, in particular STS, security studies, critical data studies, sociology and anthropology, this edited volume seeks to understand the role of sensors in the making of transnational security infrastructures. We are in particular interested in accounts that contribute to understand how sensing devices - from satellites and drones to environmental sensor networks and digital sensing infrastructures – become invested with global and socio-political significance. We seek both large-scale empirical accounts of historical and contemporary cases across the globe, and welcome papers that critically investigate sensors and sensory networks as situated practices of constructing security, shaping and shaped by changing local and global socio-technical environments. More specifically, we ask how collective actors, such as states or international institutions, are not only informed by these sensors, but co-constituted in heterogeneous networks (Passoth & Rowland, 2015). Contributing to the emerging intersections between STS and security studies, this volume will attend to questions of macro level security politics and micro level sensing practices as being enabled and mediated through boundary infrastructures (Bowker & Star, 2000). Expanding on Jennifer Gabry´s (2016) work on distributed sensor technologies as shifting the relations, entities, occasions, and interpretive registers of sensing, we argue the interplay of sensing and (algorithmic) sense-making marks an highly important, yet underexplored momentum in the social construction of security in digital societies. Sensory devices are thus not only co-producing multiple ontologies of the world (Jasanoff, 2004) but also mediate “macro-level” entities through information infrastructures in the making and vice versa (Mukerji, 2011; Pelizza, 2016). Going beyond established boundaries in academic publishing and following the tradition of STS as an engaged program (Sismondo, 2008), we also aim to establish an opportunity to bring together people who work on common topics, but seldomly cross paths due to their differing approaches. Therefore we are keen to invite cooperative chapters from practitioners/activists and social scientists who creatively discuss their work and experiences concerning the various interplays between techno-societies and (in)securities. The following questions shall guide the contributors: * Which 'infrastructural inversions' (Bowker & Star, 2000) occur when sensors become objects of international political controversy? How do sensors as security devices move in and out security discourses? * How do sensors embedded in smart borders or body scanners contribute to determine mobilities by co-constructing identities as well as novel forms of (criminological) knowledge through predictive analytics? * How do sensing practices and data infrastructures play out in different parts of the world? What are the various ways in which our electronic devices - and their leftovers - are connected to human rights violations, conflict and exclusion and how could a responsible governance of sensors look like? * How do sensors shape, shift and constitute domains of national and international security and policy-making? What is the role of sensor infrastructures in the constitution and mediation between state and non-state actors? Deadline for abstracts (max. 250 words):1 March, 2018,notification of acceptance will be given by 15 March, 2018. We have an initial expression of interest from Mattering Press (https://www.matteringpress.org) for this edited volume and will circulate updates regarding the publishing process as soon as possible. If you are interested in submitting a chapter we suggest to also consider our related panel at the EASST conference 2018 which can be found here: https://nomadit.co.uk/easst/easst2018/conferencesuite.php/panels/6250 Contact: sensingsecurity(a)mcts.tum.de <mailto:sensingsecurity@mcts.tum.de> References Amicelle, A., Aradau, C., & Jeandesboz, J. (2015). Questioning security devices: Performativity, resistance, politics. Security Dialogue, 46(4), 293–306. Amoore, L., & Goede, M. D. (2005). Governance, risk and dataveillance in the war on terror. Crime, Law and Social Change, 43(2–3), 149–173. Bowker, G. C., & Star, S. L. (2000). Sorting things out: classification and its consequences. Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press. Gabrys, J. (2016). Program Earth: Environmental Sensing Technology and the Making of a Computational Planet. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press. Jasanoff, S. (Ed.). (2004). States of Knowledge: The co-production of science and social order. Abingdon, UK: Taylor & Francis. Mukerji, C. (2011). Jurisdiction, inscription, and state formation: administrative modernism and knowledge regimes. Theory and Society, 40(3), 223–245. Passoth, J.-H., & Rowland, N. (2015). Acting in International Relations? The State Hypothesis, ANT, and Agency. In D. Jacobi & A. Freyberg-Inan (Eds.), Human Nature, Agency and Beyond. Reflecting on the Human Element in World Politics (pp. 286–304). Cambridge, MA: Cambridge University Press Pelizza, A. (2016). Developing the Vectorial Glance: Infrastructural Inversion for the New Agenda on Government Information Systems. Science, Technology, & Human Values, 41(2), 298–321. Salter, M. B. (Ed.). (2008).Politics at the Airport.Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press. Sismondo, S. (2008). Science and technology studies and an engaged program. In E. Hackett, O. Amsterdamska, M. Lynch, & J. Wajcman (Eds.), The handbook of science and technology studies (pp. 13–30). Cambridge, MA: MIT Press. Suchman, L., Follis, K., & Weber, J. (2017). Tracking and Targeting: Sociotechnologies of (In)security. Science, Technology, & Human Values, 42(6), 983–1002. Tironi, M. (2017). Regimes of Perceptibility and Cosmopolitical Sensing: The Earth and the Ontological Politics of Sensor Technologies. Science as Culture, 1–7. Witjes, N., & Olbrich, P. (2017). A fragile transparency: satellite imagery analysis, non-state actors, and visual representations of security. Science and Public Policy, 44(4), 524–534. Zureik, E., & Hindle, K. (2004). Governance, Security and Technology: the Case of Biometrics. Studies in Political Economy, 73(1), 113–137.

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CALL FOR PAPERS! TILL 28th February
by Pepa Fontal 26 Feb '18

26 Feb '18

*PETSymposium: Barcelona *(Spain) 23th to 28th July 2018 *Call for papers open until February 28th*: https://submit.petsymposium.org/2018.4/ The annual Privacy Enhancing Technologies Symposium (*PETS*) brings together privacy experts from around the world to present and discuss recent advances and new perspectives on research in privacy technologies. PETS/PoPETs is the premier venue for novel applied and/or theoretical research into the design, analysis, experimentation, or fielding of privacy-enhancing technologies. Hot PETs *Call For Talks* <https://petsymposium.org/2018/hotpets.php> is open until the 8th of May 2018 We hope to see you all! Pepa Fontal Eticas Research & Consulting Ferlandina 49 (08001 Barcelona) +34 936 005 400 - www.eticasconsulting.com <https://www.eticasconsulting.com/> <https://es.linkedin.com/company/eticas-research-&-consulting> <https://www.facebook.com/eticasconsult> <https://twitter.com/EticasConsult>

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CfP: Media Systems under Pressure: Recent Developments in Media Freedom in Central and Eastern Europe
by Mariëlle W. 26 Feb '18

26 Feb '18

Call for papers *Media Systems under Pressure* *Recent Developments in Media Freedom in Central and Eastern Europe* 18 May 2018, University of Amsterdam Organisers Sudha Rajagopalan, University of Amsterdam Mariëlle Wijermars, University of Helsinki *Abstract deadline*: 18 March 2018 Across Central and Eastern Europe, media systems are increasingly under pressure. The developments that place restrictions on the freedom of media, or threaten to do so in the near future, take various forms. On the one hand, (semi-)authoritarian regimes in, e.g., Russia strengthen their hold over media industries. Promoted under the banner of protecting national values and political stability, neoconservative tendencies are also being translated into strict media regulation in EU members states, such as Hungary and Poland. On the other hand, the reliability of news and information providers has been significantly compromised in recent years as a result of fake news and Russian disinformation campaigns. At the same time, European responses to these threats equally place pressure on the protection of fundamental human rights, such as the right to information, media freedom and privacy. To some extent, freedom of speech and information is perceived as a potential threat to national security (e.g., spread of extremist ideology, terrorism) or societal values (e.g., information concerning abortion, LGBT rights, pornography) The workshop aims to bring together international scholars and media professionals to discuss the following questions: How can we formulate effective responses to these manifold challenges that media systems in Central and Eastern Europe face today? To what extent are these developments country or region specific, or should they be seen as part of wider European and global trends? What is the role of governments, media, NGOs, and activists in shaping media and information spheres in the region (in both a negative and positive sense)? We invite contributions from academics and media professionals that explore, among others, the following topics: · Neoconservatism and media regulation · Policy responses to fake news, disinformation, ‘information warfare’ · The impact of anti-terrorism measures on media freedom and privacy · Conservative activism · Progressive activism To apply, please send a 300 word abstract and brief biographical statement to Mariëlle Wijermars (marielle.wijermars[at]helsinki.fi) by 18 March 2018. The organisers intend to publish revised versions of selected papers as part of a special issue. This workshop is organized by ARTES research group ‘Participatory Cultures: Post-Socialist New Media Practices’ (University of Amsterdam), the Center for Ukrainian Cultural Studies (University of Amsterdam) and the ‘Russian Media Lab: Freedom of Speech and Critical Journalism in Russia’ project (Aleksanteri Institute, University of Helsinki).

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WEBCAST TODAY: Artificial Intelligence: Implications for Governance and Public Policy
by Joly MacFie 26 Feb '18

26 Feb '18

I can't think of another time in NYC that we have heard the BRICS <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BRICS> point of view on policy issues aired, especially those on the cutting edge, thus this session was a blockbuster. Ably chaired and keynoted by Robin J. Lewis of the Russian Presidential Academy of National Economy and Public Administration, the Brazilian perspective was presented by Ronaldo Lemos of the Institute for Technology & Society of Rio de Janeiro, one of the movers behind the Marco Civil <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brazilian_Civil_Rights_Framework_for_the_Inte…>, China was represented by Professor Liangang Sun of Peking University, an out and out visionary artist, who nevertheless forcefully asserted, via a translator, that science via AI + blockchain would assuredly absolutely empower the common people. They would dispose of much if not all of government's traditional (and corrupt) functions. When one audience member enquired if he could say the same thing if our session were in Peking not NYC, he said yes, of course, but joked everybody who attended would immediately be arrested! This is a 2 hour session. <https://livestream.com/internetsociety/netneutrality18/edit> [image: Livestream] <https://livestream.com/internetsociety/ai>Today, *Monday February 26 2018* at *10am EST* (15:00 UTC) the* Internet Society Livestream Channel <https://livestream.com/internetsociety/ai>* will webcast *Artificial Intelligence:Implications for Governance and Public Policy <https://www.eventbrite.com/e/artificial-intelligenceimplications-for-govern…>* – a panel last Friday at the *School of International and Public Affairs <https://sipa.columbia.edu/>* (SIPA), Columbia University. Artificial Intelligence (AI) and its associated technologies offer enormous promise for future economic and social development, but also raise thorny ethical and public policy issues that are not easily resolved. Experts from the US, China, and Brazil provided varying perspectives on this very timely topic. Speakers: *Robin J. Lewis*, Co-Chair, Worldview Global Culture Alliance and former Associate Dean, SIPA; ** *Ronaldo Lemos*, Visiting Professor, SIPA; *Liangang Sun*, Professor, Peking University; Artificial Intelligence Innovation Strategist. Co-sponsors: *Columbia University BRIC Lab <http://cgeg.sipa.columbia.edu/briclab>, Center on Global Economic Governance* and *Worldview Global Culture Alliance* <https://www.worldviewglobal.com/> (WGCA). *View on Livestream*:* https://livestream.com/internetsociety/ai <https://livestream.com/internetsociety/ai>* (no captions) *Facebook event*: *https://www.facebook.com/events/399669357127287/* <https://www.facebook.com/events/399669357127287/> *Twitter*: @ColumbiaCGEG + #AI *http://bit.ly/CGEGAI* <http://bit.ly/CGEGAI> Comment <http://isoc-ny.org/p2/9947#respond> See all comments <http://isoc-ny.org/p2/9947#comments> *Permalink* http://isoc-ny.org/p2/9947 <https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0/%E2%80%8Bhttp://isoc-ny.org/p2/9947%E2%80%…> -- --------------------------------------------------------------- Joly MacFie 218 565 9365 Skype:punkcast -------------------------------------------------------------- -

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WEBCAST MON pm + WED am: Global Internet and Jurisdiction Conference in Ottawa, Canada
by Joly MacFie 26 Feb '18

26 Feb '18

This GIJT conference is just one step in a multiyear *transnational multistakeholder process <https://www.internetjurisdiction.net/news/towards-solutions-the-methodology…>.* Vint wrote a very concise advance framing of the issues for the Financial Times last week - *Rebuild internet governance before it is too late <https://www.ft.com/content/e1e6d1e0-156c-11e8-9c33-02f893d608c2> *(I bet some sub, not Vint, made up that headline!). Just yesterday the Washington Post announced that the Microsoft Ireland digital privacy case *will go to the supreme court* <https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/supreme-court-case-c…> (let us note the case originated in the Southern District of New York!). And then, the *GDPR* <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/General_Data_Protection_Regulation> looms. The webcast is just Monday afternoon and Wednesday morning. <https://livestream.com/internetsociety/netneutrality18/edit> [image: YouTube] <https://www.youtube.com/user/InternetJurisdiction/live>This week, *Monday-Wednesday February 26-28 2018*, the *Internet & Jurisdiction Policy Network <https://www.internetjurisdiction.net/>* and the *Government of Canada <https://www.canada.ca/>* host the 2nd *Global Internet and Jurisdiction Conference <https://conference.internetjurisdiction.net/>* in Ottawa, Canada. Representatives from a wide range of stakeholder groups will address one of the great global governance challenges of today: how to manage the coexistence of national laws on the internet and, at the same time, work toward the development of policy standards and operational solutions to fight abuses, protect human rights, and enable the global digital economy. Speakers: *Kathy Brown*, President & CEO, Internet Society, *Vint Cerf*, Co-Founder, Internet Society, *Nii Quaynor*, Internet Hall of Fame, *Rebecca MacKinnon*, Director of Ranking Digital Rights, New America Foundation, *Anriette Esterhuysen*, Director of Policy and Strategy, Association for Progressive Communications; *Joseph Cannataci*, UN Special Rapporteur on the Right to Privacy, plus senior representatives of many countries and corporations. Plenary sessions will be webcast live via *YouTube <https://www.youtube.com/user/InternetJurisdiction/live>*. Ottawa is on EST, same as NYC (UTC-5). *What: Global Internet and Jurisdiction Conference <https://conference.internetjurisdiction.net/>Where: Ottawa, CanadaWhen: Monday-Wednesday February 26-28 2018Program: https://conference.internetjurisdiction.net/program/ <https://conference.internetjurisdiction.net/program/>Webcast: https://www.youtube.com/user/InternetJurisdiction/live <https://www.youtube.com/user/InternetJurisdiction/live> (Mon pm + Wed am) (No captions)Twitter: #OttawaGIJC http://bit.ly/ottawaGIJC <http://bit.ly/ottawaGIJC>* Comment <http://isoc-ny.org/p2/9944#respond> See all comments <http://isoc-ny.org/p2/9944#comments> *Permalink* http://isoc-ny.org/p2/9944 <https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0/%E2%80%8Bhttp://isoc-ny.org/p2/9944%E2%80%…> -- --------------------------------------------------------------- Joly MacFie 218 565 9365 Skype:punkcast -------------------------------------------------------------- -

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