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Definitions of Social Media
by Julian Hopkins 20 Oct '17

20 Oct '17

Hi all, following the useful sharing of definitions of social media a few weeks ago, I compiled them and put them on a blog post for myself and for my students. If anyone is interested, it's here: http://julianhopkins.com/how-to-define-social-media-an-academic-summary/ I also noted that Miller et al.'s more anthropological, 'culture as text' approach was not mentioned: "Social media should not be seen primarily as the platforms upon which people post, but rather as the contents that are posted on these platforms." (Miller et al. 2016: 61) MILLER, D., E. COSTA, N. HAYNES, ET AL. 2016. How the World Changed Social Media. London: UCL Press (available on-line: https://www.ucl.ac.uk/ucl-press/browse-books/how-world-changed-social-media, accessed 15 April 2016). --- *DR JULIAN HOPKINS* Lecturer in Communication School of Arts & Social Sciences Building 2, Level 6, Room 16 (2-6-16) Monash University Malaysia Jalan Lagoon Selatan 47500 Bandar Sunway Selangor Darul Ehsan Malaysia T: +60 3 5514 4920 E: julian.hopkins(a)monash.edu W: sass.monash.edu.my <http://www.sass.monash.edu.my/> *Your reaction is more important than who is right.*

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CfP: Repositioning CoDesign in the age of platform capitalism: from sharing to caring
by Maurizio 19 Oct '17

19 Oct '17

Dear all I share this call for paper related to a CoDesign special issue I am co-editing with Gabriela Avram, Jaz Choi, Stefano De Paoli, Ann Light, and Peter Lyle. I am sure it will be of interest for some. Apologies for cross-posting Best Maurizio --- Special Issue Repositioning CoDesign in the age of platform capitalism: from sharing to caring Please visit: http://explore.tandfonline.com/cfp/est/jmi02301-nsdn-si-sept-2017/ Guest Editors Gabriela Avram, University of Limerick Jaz Hee-jeong Choi, Queensland University of Technology Stefano De Paoli, Abertay University Ann Light, University of Sussex Peter Lyle, Madeira Interactive Technologies Institute Maurizio Teli, Madeira Interactive Technologies Institute Scope In this special issue <http://explore.tandfonline.com/cfp/est/jmi02301-nsdn-si-sept-2017/>, we are calling for contributions which discuss how co-design is positioning itself in the age of “platform capitalism” (Snricek, 2016). We are looking for both theoretical reflections on the position of co-design and empirical cases of co-design which can shed better light on these dynamics. Digital platforms, often labelled as part of the ”sharing economy”, are becoming increasingly relevant to both the daily lives of private individuals and to the direction and operation of social and political systems. As these tools transform various communities (of interest, place, practice, and circumstance) to establish new forms of connection, welfare, labour, and service, there emerge fundamental questions around the perils of their design and use and the possibilities for thinking about fair alternatives. Two narratives on the sharing economy tend to dominate the current discourse. One group of accounts focuses on social innovation, creating more sustainable economic and environmental models in which sharing access to goods and services allows for a more efficient and sustainable utilisation of resources. The second group centres on the idea of market-focused digital innovation radically changing business models and generating economic activity, often threatening the working conditions of other social groups (e.g. Uber and the taxi drivers) or the texture of local communities (e.g. the effect of AirBnB on the rental market) . In both cases, a prominent role is played by platforms that seek to quantify collaborations for purposes of profit, labelled as platform capitalism by Snricek (2016). For example, likes and other emoticon-based responses to a Facebook post are often used as quantitative measure of the post's impact and success of engagement. Through algorithmic filtering, these become the measure of our affective, political, and cultural identities and guides for further design of our experiences on the platform. In fact, digital platforms are in essence connective and collaborative, creating a digital action point where multiple networks meet. These qualities have been enhanced through the development of on-site collaborative features. However, with the impact of venture capital in the market and increasingly driven by financial motives, many platforms have been adjusting their algorithms in order to commodify collaboration. Hence, novel forms of exploitation (of social relations as well as labour) have been established (van Dijck, 2013). Co-design, as well as other related domains of research and practice, such as Participatory Design and Computer Supported Cooperative Work, starts from a perspective where collaboration is valued for both its politics and what it can deliver, for instance, supporting emancipation of workers from the capitalist production process (Ehn, 1989). These approaches stress the importance of collaborative design and production of technologies, places, and services with a hopeful speculation that designing collaboratively will increase the impact and use value of the designed things and the quality of life for the people using them, in what is called “design for future use” (Ehn, 2008). It thus become relevant to ask how these approaches position themselves with regard to the challenges posed by platform capitalism, associated with commodification and quantification of collaboration. A possible direction could be placing attention on the commons (Ostrom, 1990; Hess and Ostrom, 2007) as collectively managed and shared resources, or the common (Hardt and Negri, 2009; Dardot and Laval, 2014) as the ensemble of the material and symbolic resources tieing together human beings. These concepts may be indeed central for the positioning of co-design and participatory design in the age of platform capitalism, especially for connecting with the original emancipatory intent of these design and research practices (Teli et al., 2017). Another direction may be the relationship that exists between the subjects involved in co-designing, and the object of the action. When this relationship manifests itself as structuring social relations, these relations can be referred to as a kind of care (Light and Akama, 2014). With this perspective, highly networked economic relations could leave behind the misleading narratives on the “sharing economy” promoted by platform capitalism, and engage in structuring a caring economy, oriented toward nurturing respectful and ever-transforming collaboration (Mol, Moser and Pols, 2010). The tension between commodification of collaboration and collaboration as productive in itself, considered as a basis for design and production, offers fertile ground to scholars, practitioners, and activists interested in co-designing practices of care for the common/s on different aspects. Possible directions may include be: What role could co-design play in establishing new and different commons-based forms of economic activities and systems? Theoretical relations between co-design and commons-based peer production Empirical cases of co-design in the context of commons-based peer production How does the collaborative character of co-design interrelate with the commodification of digital social relations? Critical analysis of co-design in the context of platform capitalism Co-design and commons-based peer production as forms of activism How might co-design be interrogated, redefined, and evaluated as a means to encourage care and social collaboration? Theoretical elaboration of criteria for evaluation of co-design activities promoting social collaboration Empirical discussions of evaluation of co-design activities promoting social collaboration Timeline 22nd December 2017: Submissions deadline for intentions to contribute 28th February 2018: Notification of relevance sent to authors 31st May 2018: submission of full papers 7th September 2018: post-review notification of accept / reject / revisions to authors 7th December 2018: Deadline for submission of revised papers 8th February 2019: Final selected papers to production September 2019: Publication of the Special Issue References Dardot, Pierre, and Christian Laval. 2014. Commun: Essai sur la révolution au XXIe siècle. La Decouverte. Dijck, José van. 2013. The Culture of Connectivity: A Critical History of Social Media. Oxford University Press. Ehn, Pelle. 1989. Work-Oriented Design of Computer Artifacts. Arbetslivscentrum. ———. 2008. ‘Participation in Design Things’. In Proceedings of the Tenth Anniversary Conference on Participatory Design 2008, 92–101. PDC ’08. Indianapolis, IN, USA: Indiana University. http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=1795234.1795248. Hardt, Michael, and Antonio Negri. 2009. Commonwealth. 1 edition. Cambridge, Mass: Belknap Press. Hess, Charlotte, and Elinor Ostrom, eds. 2007. Understanding Knowledge as a Commons: From Theory to Practice. 1 edition. Cambridge, Mass: The MIT Press. Light, Ann, and Yoko Akama. 2014. ‘Structuring Future Social Relations: The Politics of Care in Participatory Practice’. In Proceedings of the 13th Participatory Design Conference: Research Papers - Volume 1, 151–160. PDC ’14. New York, NY, USA: ACM. doi:10.1145/2661435.2661438. Mol, Annemarie, Ingunn Moser, and Jeannette Pols. 2015. Care in Practice: On Tinkering in Clinics, Homes and Farms. Bielefeld: Transcript Publishers. Ostrom, Elinor. 1990. Governing the Commons: The Evolution of Institutions for Collective Action. Cambridge University Press. Srnicek, Nick. 2016. Platform Capitalism. John Wiley & Sons. Teli, Maurizio, Angela Di Fiore, and Vincenzo D’Andrea. 2017. ‘Computing and the Common: A Case of Participatory Design with Think Tanks’. CoDesign 13 (2): 83–95. doi:10.1080/15710882.2017.1309439. Instructions for Authors Potential contributors should send an intention to contribute (deadline 22nd December 2017) of 1000 – 1500 words that outlines the content of the paper and a concise summary of the article’s research contributions. This document should also make it clear how the authors intended submission relates to the overall scope and specific themes and issues of this special issue. The document should be sent by email to codesignsharingcaring(a)m-iti.org in pdf format. The special issue editorial team will provide a short review of the intention to contribute and will notify authors whether their work is in scope of the special issue call (notifications by 28th February 2018). Submissions within scope and with a potentially strong research contribution will be invited to submit a full paper. Submissions of full papers (for invited authors) Those authors who proceed past the intention to contribute phase will be invited to submit a full paper (maximum 7000 words including tables, references, captions, footnotes and endnotes) that will be subjected to the normal double-blind peer review process of the CoDesign journal. Manuscripts should be prepared according to guidelines which can be found on the journal website (http://www.tandf.co.uk/journals/ncdn - link “Instructions for Authors”). The deadline for full paper submissions is 31st May 2018. All full paper submissions should be made online at the CoDesign Manuscript Central site at: http://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/ncdn. Authors should select submission to Special Issue “Repositioning Co-Design in the age of platform capitalism: from sharing to caring” when uploading manuscripts. New users will need to create an account. Instructions on how to do this can be found on the same website. All published articles will undergo rigorous peer review, based on initial guest editors screening and anonymous refereeing by independent expert referees. Potential authors should contact the guest editors at codesignsharingcaring(a)m-iti.org with any questions about the Special Issue. For further Information about CoDesign go to: http://www.tandf.co.uk/journals/ncdn

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Call for Papers: "Research Synthesis" and "Big Data in Psychology"
by Timo Gnambs 19 Oct '17

19 Oct '17

Dear colleagues, I would like to renew our call for papers for two special issues in the "Zeitschrift für Psychologie". The deadline for submitting structured abstracts is November 15, 2017. 1) For "Hotspots in Psychology 2019" (guest editors: Michael Bosnjak & Timo Gnambs) we are looking für meta-analyses and systematic reviews (including methodological studies) from all areas of psychology: https://conferences.leibniz-psychology.org/documents/zfp_a000294.pdf 2) For "Big Data in Psychology: Methods and Applications" (guest editors: Mike Cheung & Suzanne Jak) we are looking for applications of how to use Big Data in psychological research as well as methodological contributions on collecting and analyzing Big Data in psychology: https://conferences.leibniz-psychology.org/documents/zfp_a000295.pdf These special issues will be accompanied by two international conferences on »Big Data in Psychology« (June 7-9, 2018) and »Research Synthesis« (June 10-12, 2018) in Trier (Germany) next year: http://researchsynthesis2018.leibniz-psychology.org/ http://bigdata2018.leibniz-psychology.org As of today, the following keynote speakers have confirmed their participation for these events: Frank Bosco (Virginia Commonwealth University) Andreas Brandmaier (Max Planck Institute for Human Development) Mike Cheung (National University of Singapore) Katrijn van Deun (Tilburg University) Daniel Lakens (Eindhoven University of Technology) Michael Neale (Virginia Commonwealth University) Fred Oswald (Rice University) Wolfgang Viechtbauer (Maastricht University) I am looking forward to receiving your abstracts and meeting you at the conferences. Best wishes, Timo Gnambs --- PD Dr. Timo Gnambs Educational Measurement (Head of research unit) Phone: +49 951 863-3420 Fax: +49 951 863-3411 E-Mail: timo.gnambs(a)lifbi.de Internet: http://timo.gnambs.at Leibniz Institute for Educational Trajectories Department: Data Center and Method Development Wilhelmsplatz 3 96047 Bamberg Germany www.lifbi.de

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CfP: Co-design Special Issue - Repositioning CoDesign in the age of platform capitalism: from sharing to caring
by Jaz Choi 18 Oct '17

18 Oct '17

CoDesign: International Journal of CoCreation in Design and the Arts Contribute to our special issue on “Repositioning Codesign in the Age of Platform Capitalism: From Sharing to Caring” http://explore.tandfonline.com/cfp/est/jmi02301-nsdn-si-sept-2017/ Potential authors should contact the guest editors at codesignsharingcaring(a)m-iti.org<mailto:codesignsharingcaring@m-iti.org> with any questions about the Special Issue. In this special issue, we are calling for contributions which discuss how co-design is positioning itself in the age of “platform capitalism” (Snricek, 2016). We are looking for both theoretical reflections on the position of co-design and empirical cases of co-design which can shed better light on these dynamics. Digital platforms, often labelled as part of the “sharing economy”, are becoming increasingly relevant to both the daily lives of private individuals and to the direction and operation of social and political systems. As these tools transform various communities (of interest, place, practice, and circumstance) to establish new forms of connection, welfare, labour, and service, there emerge fundamental questions around the perils of their design and use and the possibilities for thinking about fair alternatives. Two narratives on the sharing economy tend to dominate the current discourse. One group of accounts focuses on social innovation, creating more sustainable economic and environmental models in which sharing access to goods and services allows for a more efficient and sustainable utilisation of resources. The second group centres on the idea of market-focused digital innovation radically changing business models and generating economic activity, often threatening the working conditions of other social groups (e.g. Uber and the taxi drivers) or the texture of local communities (e.g. the effect of AirBnB on the rental market). In both cases, a prominent role is played by platforms that seek to quantify collaborations for purposes of profit, labelled as platform capitalism by Snricek (2016). For example, likes and other emoticon-based responses to a Facebook post are often used as quantitative measure of the post's impact and success of engagement. Through algorithmic filtering, these become the measure of our affective, political, and cultural identities and guides for further design of our experiences on the platform. In fact, digital platforms are connective and collaborative, creating a digital action point where multiple networks meet. These qualities have been enhanced through the development of on-site collaborative features. However, with the impact of venture capital in the market and increasingly driven by financial motives, many platforms have been adjusting their algorithms in order to commodify collaboration. Hence, novel forms of exploitation (of social relations as well as labour) have been established (van Dijck, 2013). Co-design, as well as other related domains of research and practice, such as Participatory Design and Computer Supported Cooperative Work, starts from a perspective where collaboration is valued for both its politics and what it can deliver, for instance, supporting emancipation of workers from the capitalist production process (Ehn, 1989). These approaches stress the importance of collaborative design and production of technologies, places, and services with a hopeful speculation that designing collaboratively will increase the impact and use value of the designed things and the quality of life for the people using them, in what is called “design for future use” (Ehn, 2008). It thus become relevant to ask how these approaches position themselves with regard to the challenges posed by platform capitalism, associated with commodification and quantification of collaboration. A possible direction might be placing attention on the commons (Ostrom, 1990; Hess and Ostrom, 2007) as collectively managed and shared resources, or the common (Hardt and Negri, 2009; Dardot and Laval, 2014) as the ensemble of the material and symbolic resources tying together human beings. These concepts may be indeed central for the positioning of co-design and participatory design in the age of platform capitalism, especially for connecting with the original emancipatory intent of these design and research practices (Teli et al., 2017). Another direction may be the relationship that exists between the subjects involved in co-designing, and the object of the action. When this relationship manifests itself as structuring social relations, these relations can be referred to as a kind of care (Light and Akama, 2014). With this perspective, highly networked economic relations could leave behind the misleading narratives on the “sharing economy” promoted by platform capitalism, and engage in structuring a caring economy, oriented toward nurturing respectful and ever-transforming collaboration (Mol, Moser and Pols, 2010). The tension between commodification of collaboration and collaboration as productive considered as a basis for design and production, offers fertile ground to scholars, practitioners, and activists interested in co-designing practices of care for the common/s on different aspects. Possible directions may include: The tension between commodification of collaboration and collaboration as productive in itself, considered as a basis for design and production, offers fertile ground to scholars, practitioners, and activists interested in co-designing practices of care for the common/s on different aspects. What can I contribute? What role might co-design play in establishing new and different commons-based forms of economic activities and systems? • Theoretical relations between co-design and commons-based peer production • Empirical cases of co-design in the context of commons-based peer production How does the collaborative character of co-design interrelate with the commodification of digital social relations? • Critical analysis of co-design in the context of platform capitalism • Co-design and commons-based peer production as forms of activism How might co-design be interrogated, redefined, and evaluated as a means to encourage care and social collaboration? • Theoretical elaboration of criteria for evaluation of co-design activities promoting social collaboration • Empirical discussions of evaluation of co-design activities promoting social collaboration Why contribute to Co-Design? • Your article will be published in a widely read and cited journal which is part of the design society giving you exposure across all our members. • Your research will be validated by a robust single-blind peer review process • You can share you research using our open access options • You can follow the impact of your research using My Authored Works Dates for your diary 22nd December 2017: Submissions deadline for intentions to contribute 28th February 2018: Notification of relevance sent to authors 31st May 2018: submission of full papers 7th September 2018: post-review notification of accept / reject / revisions to authors 7th December 2018: Deadline for submission of revised papers 8th February 2019: Final selected papers to production September 2019: Publication of the Special Issue Instructions for authors Potential contributors should send an intention to contribute (deadline 22nd December 2017) of 1000 – 1500 words that outlines the content of the paper and a concise summary of the article’s research contributions. This document should also make it clear how the authors’ intended submission relates to the overall scope and specific themes and issues of this special issue. The document should be sent by email to codesignsharingcaring(a)m-iti.org<mailto:codesignsharingcaring@m-iti.org> in pdf format. The special issue editorial team will provide a short review of the intention to contribute and will notify authors whether their work is in scope of the special issue call (notifications by 28th February 2018). Submissions within scope and with a potentially strong research contribution will be invited to submit a full paper. Submissions of full papers (for invited authors) Those authors who proceed past the intention to contribute phase will be invited to submit a full paper (maximum 7000 words including tables, references, captions, footnotes and endnotes) that will be subjected to the normal double-blind peer review process of the CoDesign journal. Manuscripts should be prepared according to guidelines which can be found on the journal website (http://www.tandf.co.uk/journals/ncdn - link “Instructions for Authors”). The deadline for full paper submissions is 31st May 2018. All full paper submissions should be made online at the CoDesign Manuscript Central site at: http://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/ncdn. Authors should select submission to Special Issue “Repositioning Co-Design in the age of platform capitalism: from sharing to caring” when uploading manuscripts. New users will need to create an account. Instructions on how to do this can be found on the same website. All published articles will undergo rigorous peer review, based on initial guest editors screening and anonymous refereeing by independent expert referees. Potential authors should contact the guest editors at codesignsharingcaring(a)m-iti.org<mailto:codesignsharingcaring@m-iti.org> with any questions about the Special Issue. For further Information about CoDesign go to: http://www.tandf.co.uk/journals/ncdn Dardot, Pierre, and Christian Laval. 2014. Commun: Essai sur la révolution au XXIe siècle. La Decouverte. Dijck, José van. 2013. The Culture of Connectivity: A Critical History of Social Media. Oxford University Press. Ehn, Pelle. 1989. Work-Oriented Design of Computer Artifacts. Arbetslivscentrum. ———. 2008. ‘Participation in Design Things’. In Proceedings of the Tenth Anniversary Conference on Participatory Design 2008, 92–101. PDC ’08. Indianapolis, IN, USA: Indiana University. http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=1795234.1795248. Hardt, Michael, and Antonio Negri. 2009. Commonwealth. 1 edition. Cambridge, Mass: Belknap Press. Hess, Charlotte, and Elinor Ostrom, eds. 2007. Understanding Knowledge as a Commons: From Theory to Practice. 1 edition. Cambridge, Mass: The MIT Press. Light, Ann, and Yoko Akama. 2014. ‘Structuring Future Social Relations: The Politics of Care in Participatory Practice’. In Proceedings of the 13th Participatory Design Conference: Research Papers - Volume 1, 151–160. PDC ’14. New York, NY, USA: ACM. doi:10.1145/2661435.2661438. Mol, Annemarie, Ingunn Moser, and Jeannette Pols. 2015. Care in Practice: On Tinkering in Clinics, Homes and Farms. Bielefeld: Transcript Publishers. Ostrom, Elinor. 1990. Governing the Commons: The Evolution of Institutions for Collective Action. Cambridge University Press. Srnicek, Nick. 2016. Platform Capitalism. John Wiley & Sons. Teli, Maurizio, Angela Di Fiore, and Vincenzo D’Andrea. 2017. ‘Computing and the Common: A Case of Participatory Design with Think Tanks’. CoDesign 13 (2): 83–95. doi:10.1080/15710882.2017.1309439. Editorial information • Guest Editor: Gabriela Avram, University of Limerick • Guest Editor: Jaz Hee-jeong Choi, Queensland University of Technology • Guest Editor: Stefano De Paoli, Abertay University • Guest Editor: Ann Light, University of Sussex • Guest Editor: Peter Lyle, Madeira Interactive Technologies Institute • Guest Editor: Maurizio Teli, Madeira Interactive Technologies Institute -- Dr. Jaz Hee-jeong Choi Visiting Professor, Data Science Lab @ Graduate School of Culture Technology, KAIST Director, Urban Informatics Research Lab Program Leader, Social Entrepreneurship, QUT Design Lab Associate, Digital Media Research Centre Senior Lecturer, School of Design, Creative Industries Faculty Queensland University of Technology -- e: h.choi(a)qut.edu.au<mailto:h.choi@qut.edu.au> -- w: urbaninformatics.net<http://urbaninformatics.net> -- p: +617 3138 7657 -- m: +61 433 167 151

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CfP for sessions at GCEG: Digital Economies, Digital Connectivity, Digital Margins
by Mark Graham 18 Oct '17

18 Oct '17

Digital Economies, Digital Connectivity, Digital Margins *Paper Sessions for the 5th Global Conference of Economic Geography in Cologne* <http://geonet.oii.ox.ac.uk/blog/cfp-for-sessions-at-gceg-digital-economies-…> (July 24-28, 2018) Mark Graham, Nicolas Friederici, Mohammad Amir Anwar, Sanna Ojanperä, Michel Wahome (Oxford Internet Institute, University of Oxford) People, places, and processes are becoming digital, digitised, and digitally-mediated at an astonishing pace. A majority of the world’s wealthy have long been connected, but it is the world’s poor and economically marginal that have only relatively recently been enrolled into digital networks. In 2017, for the first time in human history, over half of the humanity can be considered to be internet users. At the same time, hugely transformative changes are occurring in the global economy. First, an ever-increasing amount of economic value creation is affected by the digitisation of goods, processes and services. Second, places in every corner of the planet aspire to become centres of digital production and entrepreneurship. Our two sessions seek to bring together scholarship that directly addresses issues of changing connectivities and the effects that those changes have on, and in, economic margins (i.e., across the Global South or economic peripheries within the North). They seek to move beyond over-simplified narratives about whether digital tools and technologies are a panacea for development. Session I: Development, Entrepreneurship, and Inequality The first session hopes to bring together papers that explore the nuanced ways in which digital technology shapes opportunity and value creation in economic peripheries. In other words, the session wants to unpack the complex economic changes that digital connectivity has inflicted upon economic actors (people, organizations) and contexts (institutions, infrastructures, etc.) at global margins. Papers could address some of the following themes: - The contribution of digital connectivity to economic inequality (at any level) - Innovative ways to measure digital economies, especially local development effects - Changes to rural and urban economic geographies arising from digital connectivity - How value creation and digital production processes are anchored in peripheries - Interplay between analog and digital in value creation and entrepreneurship processes - Effects of digital technologies on clustering in peripheries - Processes and practices of digital entrepreneurship and entrepreneurial ecosystems - The nature, origins, and roles of human capital and skills for digital entrepreneurship and production - Demographies and biographies of digital entrepreneurs and highly skilled freelancers Session II: Digital Labor and Production Networks Our second session seeks to bring together scholarship that directly addresses issues of changing connectivities and its effects on digital labour and production networks. We are defining digital labour to include a wide variety of work practices, which, both at individual and organisation-level, can be outsourced through the internet including but not limited to web development, graphic designs, software development, transcription, editing, article writing, proof-reading, data entry, virtual assistant, customer support, etc. This session hopes to bring together papers from a variety of theoretical and empirical perspectives that explore the nuanced ways in which digital labour in economic margins is incorporated into the global production networks. In doing so, it aims to explore what the changing connectivities mean for economic geography of work and its implications on labour in economic margins, particularly for economic inclusion, exclusion, upgrading, downgrading, etc. Papers could address: - Divides and positionalities in digital or digitized value chains and production networks (incl. digital production and online labor) - The nature, origins, roles and formation of human capital and skills in digital labour - Demographies and biographies of digital workers, entrepreneurs, and freelancers - Articulation of previously disconnected labour forces into the global markets - Development implications of digital economies and connectivities on digital labour - New labour market segmentation, regulation, institutions, rural-urban [re]structuring of labour markets - Labour standards, social upgrading, labour control, alienation, workers’ agency, collective organisations and collective actions, etc. in new digital production networks Please submit your abstract directly through the GCEG website, any time between 15 November 2017 and 15 March 2018: https://www.gceg2018.com. If you have questions, feel free to contact Mark Graham ( mark.graham(a)oii.ox.ac.uk) Nicolas Friederici (nicolas.friederici(a)oii.ox.ac. uk), Mohammad Amir Anwar (mohammad.anwar(a)oii.ox.ac.uk) or Sanna Ojanperä ( sanna.ojanpera(a)oii.ox.ac.uk ------------------------------------------ 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> <http://twitter.com/geoplace>

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Lynn St. Amour, Guy Berger, Joseph Nasongo - meet them at FoME Symposium “Power Shifts”, Nov. 16-17, Berlin
by Matthias Spielkamp | iRights.info 18 Oct '17

18 Oct '17

Dear all, we are excited to announce additional confirmed speakers for the upcoming 2017 Symposium "Power Shifts. Media Freedom and the Internet": - Lynn St. Amour, Chair of the Multistakeholder Advisory Group of the Internet Governance Forum - Guy Berger, Director of Division Freedom of Expression and Media Development, UNESCO - Joseph Nasongo, Commissioner, National Cohesion and Integration Commission, Kenya They will join an already high-level group of experts in the symposium, including Chinmayi Arun (Centre for Communication Governance, Delhi), William Bird (Media Monitoring Africa, Johannesburg), Harlem Désir (OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media, Paris), Helani Galpaya (CEO LIRNEasia, Colombo), Mark Nelson (CIMA, Washington, D.C.), Nanjira Sambuli (World Wide Web Foundation, Nairobi) and many others: <http://fome.info/events/symposium-2017/programme> The symposium is organised and hosted by iRights.international (<http://irights.international/>) in cooperation with Konrad Adenauer Stiftung and will take place November 16-17, 2017 in Berlin. Please register here: <http://fome.info/events/symposium-2017/registration> ATTENTION: online registration ends November 8th; on-site registration will NOT be available. About the Symposium: In many countries, not only in the developing world, governments are pushing for more control over the Internet. Censoring content is a growth industry, and Internet and social network shutdowns in response to civil protest and unrest are on the rise. Online surveillance is exploding and people are being increasingly intimidated or detained because of their online activities. Therefore it is vital for civil society and the media to work together in order to shape the Internet of the future and ensure it remains in the service of democracy. And the role of international media assistance needs to be reconsidered in this context. At the 2017 Symposium of the Forum Media and Development (FoME) in Berlin, journalists, media managers, media development specialists, activists, academics and representatives from government and private companies from around the world will discuss recent developments, strategies and next steps with a range of international experts in the fields of media development and Internet governance. At the core of the symposium will be the following questions: - How to address Internet filtering and blocking in authoritarian regimes? - How to counter "fake news" without stifling freedom of expression? - How to minimize risks emerging from cyber security initiatives? - Should the media development community engage more in the Internet Governance Forum (IGF) processes? - Should media development focus its attention more to international digital media enterprises? - How to regulate or control the expansion of digital surveillance programs? - Should digital information literacy be more prominent on the media development agenda? FoME is an initiative of 20 organisations from German-speaking countries active in international media development, including iRights, CAMECO, Deutsche Welle Akademie, ECPMF, Friedrich Ebert Stiftung, Friedrich Naumann Stiftung, Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit, IDEM, Konrad Adenauer Stiftung, Reporters without Borders and others. For inquiries please contact fome(a)iRights.international All the best Lorena, Matthias and Martin from iRights.international

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CFP: International Conference on Social Media and Society: Copenhagen
by Jeffery Joe Hemsley 18 Oct '17

18 Oct '17

INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON SOCIAL MEDIA AND SOCIETY COPENHAGEN, DENMARK (JULY 18-20, 2018) 2018 #SMSOCIETY CFP: NETWORKED INFLUENCE AND VIRALITY-REVISITED CFP: http://socialmediaandsociety.org/2017/2018-smsociety-cfp-networked-influenc… IMPORTANT DATES: Full & WIP Papers Due: Jan. 29, 2018 Panels, Workshops, & Posters Due: Mar. 19, 2018 Join us on July 18-20, 2018 for the 9th annual International Conference on Social Media and Society (#SMSociety). The conference is an interdisciplinary gathering of social media researchers, practitioners, and analysts from around the world. The 2018 conference is hosted by the Centre for Business Data Analytics at the Copenhagen Business School. In 2012, in the wake of Occupy and the Arab Spring, the #SMSociety community explored networked influence and virality, and saw social media and viral events as a democratizing force. Fast forward five years and we find ourselves in quite a different, some would argue, darker social media landscape where those same democratizing forces are now being exploited in ways we could not foresee. With the rapid change on social media platforms and their affordances, the heightened emphasis on mobile and visual communication, the rise of bots, and the increased participation of state actors, we believe it is time to revisit the ideas of Networked Influence and Virality once more! Powered by networked influence and made possible by privately owned social media platforms, we are said to be in a sharing economy. We are now owning less and sharing more, giving and receiving crowdsourced content, adapting, innovating, remaking, and re-sharing original and remixed materials. New attitudes, practices, and legal precedents about ownership, rights, and information evaluation are emerging with the growing use of social media. The joys of sharing and connecting through social media-as amateur music videos inspire responses and the sharing of cute animal videos brings joy to millions-are tempered with concerns about the manipulation and exploitation of social media platforms. Hateful, anti-social speech, coordinated misinformation campaigns (i.e. "fake news") and "false flag" operation by actors unknown now dominate the news cycle and compete for an opportunity to "go viral." Considering the rapid changes in social media environments, use, and users, the conference organizers invite scholarly and original submissions that relate to the 2018 theme of "Networked Influence and Virality." We welcome both quantitative and qualitative work which crosses interdisciplinary boundaries and expands our understanding of the current and future trends in social media research. ABOUT THE CONFERENCE: >From its inception, the International Conference on Social Media & Society Conference (#SMSociety) has focused on the best practices for studying the impact and implications of social media on society. Organized by the Social Media Lab at Ted Rogers School of Management at Ryerson University, the conference provides participants with opportunities to exchange ideas, present original research, learn about recent and ongoing studies, and network with peers. The conference's intensive three-day program features workshops, full papers, work-in-progress papers, panels, and posters. The wide-ranging topics in social media showcase research from scholars working in many fields including Communication, Computer Science, Education, Journalism, Information Science, Management, Political Science, Sociology, Social Work, etc. SUBMISSION DETAILS: See online at http://socialmediaandsociety.org/submit/ PUBLISHING OPPORTUNITIES: Full and WIP (short) papers presented at the Conference will be published in the conference proceedings by ACM International Conference Proceeding Series (ICPS) and will be available in the ACM Digital Library. All conference presenters will be invited to submit their work as a full paper to the special issue of the Social Media + Society journal (published by SAGE). ORGANIZING COMMITTEE: Anatoliy Gruzd, Ryerson University, Canada - Conference Chair Ravi Vatrapu, Copenhagen Business School, Denmark - Host Chair Philip Mai, Ryerson University, Canada - Conference Chair Jenna Jacobson, Ryerson University, Canada - Conference Chair Hazel Kwon, Arizona State University, USA - WIP Chair Jeff Hemsley, Syracuse University, USA - WIP Chair Anabel Quan-Haase, Western University, Canada - Panel Chair Luke Sloan, Cardiff University, UK - Panel Chair Jaigris Hodson, Royal Roads University, Canada - Poster Chair ADVISORY BOARD: William H. Dutton, Michigan State University, USA Susan Halford, University of Southampton, UK Zizi Papacharissi, University of Illinois at Chicago, USA Barry Wellman, INSNA Founder, The Netlab Network, Canada

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Lecturer position at RMIT University, Digital Design
by Adam Nash 18 Oct '17

18 Oct '17

Dear Colleagues, RMIT University, Melbourne, Australia, is currently advertising for a full time, ongoing, Lecturer position in Digital Design. Please distribute this call through your networks. Prospective applicants are welcome to contact me, as Program Manager, to discuss. See details at the following link: http://yourcareer.rmit.edu.au/caw/en/job/558586/lecturer-digital-media RMIT is Australia's premier art and design university, and of course Melbourne has been awarded "the world's most liveable city" several years running. RMIT Melbourne is a superb place to work and live. *The Role and Your Responsibilities* The position requires demonstrated ability to teach into the Bachelor of Design (Digital Media). The preferred candidate should be skilled as a teacher, and demonstrate an ability to work at industry standard and integrate their creative practice with teaching and research. The position requires a demonstrated commitment to research and a collaborative work ethic. *Skills & Experience Required* Applicants will need to have recent experience in some or all of the following: web and app prototyping; wireframing; user testing and deployment; interaction or user interface design; user research; responsive design. Additionally applicants should have significant practice in these fields of professional digital design practice, or have a significant track record of practice-based research in these fields. They should also be able to demonstrate significant networks in the industry or research contexts, related to these fields of UX and digital design. Candidates should have a completed doctorate or PhD within a related field, and they will be required to undertake activities in line with the university’s research strategy that emphasises relevant and applied research to advance scholarship and professional engagement. *Our Organisation* RMIT is a global university of technology, design and enterprise. Our mission is to help shape the world through research, innovation, teaching and engagement, and to create transformative experiences for our students, getting them ready for life and work. The School of Design is a new school comprising the disciplines of Industrial Design, Digital Design (including Animation & Interactive Media) and Communication Design. The School will build on RMIT’s leading national and international reputation in design education by creating a specific focus on emerging areas such as UX and service design, design strategy and virtual and augmented reality. http://yourcareer.rmit.edu.au/caw/en/job/558586/lecturer-digital-media Kind regards, Adam -- -- Dr Adam Nash Senior Lecturer Program Manager, B.Design (Digital Media) School of Media and Communication RMIT University | City Campus | Australia M: GPO Box 2476, Melbourne, Victoria 3001 T: (03)9925-2598 | E: adam.nash(a)rmit.edu.au W: www.rmit.edu.au/mediacommunication CRICOS Provider Code: 00122A

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Re: [Air-L] dark web recruitment
by Renata Aquino Ribeiro 17 Oct '17

17 Oct '17

Hi I haven't yet quite understood what do you want to do but you don't need to go to the dark web yourself to collect stories, imho I think hackerspaces would be a good place to find people to interview as well as spaces which discuss free speech online. I have recently participated in a v. good discussion about this in Ekospace Buenos Aires and there was a researcher from UESPI there involved w/ Tor Project who may help. Now, if you're looking for commercial illegal activity on the dark web, that's a whole other side of things. In any web you'd be vulnerable anyway. You should also not be billing all illegalism in the world to it, you can get illegal stuff on ebay. Best, Renata

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Jobs at Loughborough University
by Andrew Chadwick 17 Oct '17

17 Oct '17

Friends and Colleagues, May I draw your attention to some new positions here at Loughborough University. We are hiring under the rubric of the "Excellence 100" campaign to recruit up to a hundred new outstanding research-oriented faculty over the next two years. As part of the university research "Beacon" in communication and culture, the social and political implications of media and communication is a priority field and sits within the Centre for Research in Communication and Culture and the Department of Social Sciences. The next phase of recruitment is for Lecturers (Assistant Professors in U.S. currency) or Senior Lecturers/Readers (Associate Professors). Details here: http://www.lboro.ac.uk/join-us/excellence100 (Scroll down and click on Social, Political, and Geographical Sciences). If you know of anyone who might be interested in applying do please forward this message to them. Yours, Andy ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Professor Andrew Chadwick, Professor of Political Communication, Centre for Research in Communication and Culture, Department of Social Sciences, Loughborough University, Loughborough, Leicestershire, United Kingdom. (e) a.chadwick(a)lboro.ac.uk (w) www.lboro.ac.uk/research/crcc (w) www.andrewchadwick.com (t) www.twitter.com/andrew_chadwick ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Out now: The Hybrid Media System, 2nd Edition: www.hybridmediasystem.org ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

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