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From Global Justice to Occupy and Podemos: Mapping Three Stages of Contemporary Activism - TripleC journal special issue
by Gerbaudo, Paolo 14 Jun '17

14 Jun '17

Dear Colleagues, We are delighted to announce the publication of the TripleC special issue ">From Global Justice to Occupy and Podemos: Mapping Three Stages of Contemporary Activism" edited by Todd Wolfson, Emiliano Treré, Paolo Gerbaudo, and Peter N. Funke: http://triple-c.at/index.php/tripleC/issue/view/36 Vol 15, No 2 (2017)<http://triple-c.at/index.php/tripleC/issue/view/36> triple-c.at International Peer Reviewed Open Access Journal for a Global Sustainable Information Society kumpulan berita terkini hari ini The special issue explores the transformation of digital activism across a number of recent waves of protest and radical politics, from the global justice protests around the turn of the millennium to the 2011 Occupy Wall Street protests and the rise of new left parties such as Podemos. Table of contents Multiple Temporalities of the Movements / Michael Hardt >From Global Justice to Occupy and Podemos: Mapping Three Stages of Contemporary Activism / Peter N. Funke, Todd Wolfson Comparing Digital Protest Media Imaginaries: Anti-Austerity Movements in Greece, Italy & Spain / Emiliano Treré, Sandra Jeppesen, Alice Mattoni Social Reproduction in the Live Stream / Elise Thorburn Technopopulism: The Emergence of a Discursive Formation / Marco Deseriis The Alternative to Occupy: Radical Politics Between Protest and Parliament / Emil Husted, Allan Dreyer Hansen >From Cyber-Autonomism to Cyber-Populism: An Ideological Analysis of the Evolution of Digital Activism / Paolo Gerbaudo Occupy and the Temporal Politics of Prefigurative Democracy / Kamilla Petrick (Digital) Activism at the Interstices: Anarchist and Self-Organizing Movements in Greece / Eugenia Siapera, Michael Theodosiadis Student Protests. Three Periods of University Governance / Joan Ramon Rodriguez-Amat, Bob Jeffery ----------------- best, Paolo Gerbaudo [https://ssl.gstatic.com/ui/v1/icons/mail/images/cleardot.gif] Dr Paolo Gerbaudo, Lecturer in Digital Culture and Society, Department of Digital Humanities Director of the Centre for Digital Culture King's College London, Room 224, 2nd Floor, 26-29 Drury Lane London WC2, England Phone: +44 (0)20 78481576

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AoIR preconference on Metaphors of Internet: June 20 deadline coming up.
by Annette Markham 14 Jun '17

14 Jun '17

Hi Colleagues, Note the upcoming June 20 deadline for this AoIR 2017 Tartu Pre-conference on "Understanding and Distorting the Internet, Metaphors of Experience in 2017" This AoIR Preconference (Tartu, 18 October 2017) invites participants to submit abstracts for a workshop exploring contemporary metaphorical frameworks for making sense of lived experience in/of networked publics. Almost 20 years ago Annette Markham (1998, 2003) proposed a framework of the internet as a tool, as a place and as a way of being. Though not mutually exclusive, these three metaphors invoke and foster divergent ways of making sense of networked and technologically-mediated communication. This full day preconference workshop invites internet researchers to engage with these metaphors to discuss, extend, build on or challenge Markham’s framework We invite colleagues to a discussion of the (changing) metaphors of everything internet. This includes, but is not limited to metaphors of internet as used by or in various networked publics, metaphors of publics and publicness as used in various discourse, and metaphorical analysis of the concept of (networked) publics itself. Your own abstract might focus on such things as: *study of contemporary lived experiences of the internet through the lens of metaphors – in particular, Markham’s (1998, 2003) framework; *conceptual, historical and theoretical visions of the shifts in dominant metaphors of “the internet”; *extensions or challenges to existing frameworks; *theoretical implications of engaging with metaphors to conceptually describe experience and sensemaking; or *something else relevant to the CFP Deadline to submit a short abstract for consideration to one of the 20 reserved seats: June 20, 2017: See more at https://aoir.org/aoir2017/preconworkshop/#UDI <https://aoir.org/aoir2017/preconworkshop/#UDI> Best Regards, and looking forward to seeing you in Tartu! Annette Markham (along with my co-facilitators Katrin Tiidenberg, Nancy Baym, Cindy Tekobbe, and Terri Senft)

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Seeking literature to inform workplace policy around OH &S implications of social media moderation
by Kath Albury 14 Jun '17

14 Jun '17

Hello all, I'm trying to find literature to support a friend who is responsible for running (and moderating) his employer's Twitter account. He is required to 'log' all material from accounts that @ his employer - and is consequently becoming increasingly distressed by the volume of graphic images he encounters. I know there is some good literature on digital labour & content moderation - but I'm having a hard time finding work that links also explores the implication for workplace policies. Any tips would be most welcome. Cheers, Kath Kath Albury, PhD Associate Professor School of Arts and Media UNSW Australia CRICOS Provider Code: 00098G

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UPDATE AND REMINDER - Gender, sexuality and digital culture: A half day symposium at City, University of London, 20 June 2017
by Ehrstein, Yvonne 13 Jun '17

13 Jun '17

***Update and reminder*** GENDER, SEXUALITY AND DIGITAL CULTURE A half day symposium at City, University of London, University Building B200, Northampton Square, EC1V 0HB June 20th 2.00-7.30pm //// Wine reception @7.30PM Keynotes: Winnie M Li and Rowan Ellis New and established scholars and activists reflect on old questions and new challenges. Please join us for an afternoon of talks and discussion at City, in central London, to be followed by drinks and refreshments. Sue Jackson (VUW, New Zealand) talks about her work with girls on feminism Samantha Mannix (Melbourne, Australia) discusses ‘healthy’ relationships and gender (in)equality in postfeminist times Roisin Ryan Flood (Essex) reports on her interviews about internet dating Josie Reade (Melbourne, Australia) opens up new ways of thinking about ‘fitspo’ Maree Martinussen (Auckland, New Zealand) explores practices of intimacy in female friendships. Anastasia Powell (RMIT, Australia) talks about her new book Sexual Violence in a Digital Age Laura Thompson (City, London) explores sexual harassment on mobile dating apps Celiya Koster (activist/student, London) discusses co-founding a new intersectional feminist magazine, Typical Girls We are delighted that the symposium will be followed by two very special keynote presentations by Winnie M Li and Rowan Ellis (6-7.30PM) Winnie M Li, author, activist, researcher (LSE) will talk about her extraordinary new novel Dark Chapter, discussing ‘Narrating Lived Experiences of Sexual Violence through Crime Fiction’ @Winniemli Rowan Ellis, an advocate for women’s rights and LGBT+ issues, will discuss her phenomenal campaign to get YouTube to lift their LGBTQ+ restrictions: '"We Are Not Inappropriate" - YouTube's Restricted Mode in LGBTQ+ History' @HeyRowanEllis Followed by a wine reception at 7.30PM Free and open to all but booking essential. Book here: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/gender-sexuality-and-digital-culture-a-half-… Organised by the Gender and Sexuality Research Forum at City and supported by the Department of Sociology https://blogs.city.ac.uk/gsrf/ http://www.city.ac.uk/arts-social-sciences/sociology

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Fully-Funded PhD at the University of Abertay (Dundee, Scotland)
by Xavier Bellekens 13 Jun '17

13 Jun '17

Dear colleagues, [apologies for cross-posting] I have a scholarship to look at Deep Learning Intrusion Detection Systems for IoT https://www.hirewire.co.uk/HE/1061263/MS_JobDetails.aspx?JobID=77223 I would be grateful if you circulate the position to potentially suitable candidates. The scholarship is fully funded for a period normally expected to be three-and-a-half years. The deadline for applications is the 10th of July 2017 You can redirected all informal inquiries to me. Kind Regards, Xavier. — Dr Xavier Bellekens Lecturer in Computer Security & Privacy Division of Computing and Mathematics University of Abertay, Kydd Building Bell Street, Dundee DD1 1HG Scotland, UK Tel : +44 (0) 1382 30 8482 Mobile: +44 (0) 7548 71 7049 email : x.bellekens(a)abertay.ac.uk<mailto:x.bellekens@abertay.ac.uk> The University of Abertay is a charitable body, registered in Scotland number SC016040 This email and any attachements may be confidential and are intended solely for the use of the intended recipient. If you are not the intended recipient, you must take no action based on the email or its attachements, nor must you copy them to anyone. Please contact the sender if you believe you have received this email in error.

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Persona Studies: New Journal Issue and Call for Papers
by Kim Barbour 13 Jun '17

13 Jun '17

Apologies for Cross-posting: *Persona Studies**: New Issue and Call for Papers and Creative Work * *Persona Studies* is soliciting papers and creative works for TWO issues: an open call for 2017 and a 2018 special issue on Scientific Persona. Details listed below. The editorial board is also pleased to announce the launch of another issue of *Persona Studies*—a rich compendium of work on digital persona productions from autobiographical games to lifestyle blogging, and celebrity persona performances of the Antichrist (Marilyn Manson) and Irish-Americanness (Aidan Quinn) In this issue: *Editorial: “5 Dimensions of the Online Persona” * Chris Moore, Kim Barbour, and Katja Lee unpack five constituent elements of online persona production and performance: https://ojs.deakin.edu.au/index.php/ps/article/view/658 *“‘Get Off My Internets’: How Anti-Fans Deconstruct Lifestyle Bloggers’ Authenticity Work”* Sarah McRae examines how communities of ‘anti-fans’ coalesce in online forums and actively monitor how bloggers perform authenticity according to ever shifting constructions of legitimacy: https://ojs.deakin.edu.au/index.php/ps/article/view/640 *“The Persona in Autobiographical Game-making as a Playful Performance of the Self”* Stefan Werning examines how autobiographical games make quite literal the *playful* possibilities of persona construction and performance within the constraints and affordances of the technologies and platforms: https://ojs.deakin.edu.au/index.php/ps/article/view/650 *“Constructing the Antichrist as Superstar: Marilyn Manson and the Mechanics of Eschatological Narrative”* Patrick William Osborne’s article focuses on construction of Manson’s controversial persona as an ‘Antichrist’ in the 1990s and the crucial role that Christian organizations and ideological frameworks played in not only crafting that persona, but infusing it with meaning and value: https://ojs.deakin.edu.au/index.php/ps/article/view/651 *“The Hyphenated Persona: Aidan Quinn’s Irish-American Performances”* Loretta Goff guides us through how ‘Irish-Americanness’ has been performed across the twentieth century, and how it continues to be performed in American contexts today using Aidan Quinn as a case study: https://ojs.deakin.edu.au/index.php/ps/article/view/64: *“ALT-RIGHT: CTRL+A;DEL”* Anastasia Salter and Bridget Blodgett’s creative practice contribution is a work of hypertext literature – part social media experience, part game, part choose your own adventure – and embeds us in the US Twittersphere during the final months of 2016 and January 2017: https://ojs.deakin.edu.au/index.php/ps/article/view/656 *CALL FOR PAPERS: 2017 & 2018* *OPEN ISSUE: 3.2 (2017)* In this issue of *Persona Studies*, we are soliciting a wide variety of creative and critical works on persona. Topics of interest might include (but are not limited to) treatments of persona and: · Consumerism · Marketing · Online & digital Identities · Life Writing · Celebrity · Print Media · War &Terrorism · Death & Mourning · Bodies · Surveillance · Children & Family · Arts & Crafts For both creative and critical works, please submit a 250-300 word abstract or proposal to personastudies [at] gmail [dot] com by 14 July 2017. Artists and authors will be notified of initial acceptance by 21 July 2017. Please note that official acceptance of the work is contingent upon peer review. Full papers (5,000-8,000 words) and projects are due 8 Sept. 2017. For creative submissions where peer review or critical response is not desired, a full submission will be required by 8 Sept. 2017. Please advise in your initial proposal if you would a creative arts review. *SPECIAL ISSUE: Scientific Persona 4.1 (2018)* The concept of “scientific persona” has been developed to understand the ways in which science is embodied and performed in a convincing way, and how this performance becomes part of what science is. It induces questions about the relation between the personal and the social, between the scientist, or scholar, as a person and the content of science. We are calling for submissions that will approach contemporary expressions and the history of scientific persona while focusing on the impact of the wider social and cultural context of gender, race and class. Themes and issues include but are not limited to: - Intersectionality and scientific persona - Bodily expressions of scientific persona - Internalization of science and scientific personas - Scientific persona in colonial settings - Artistic expressions of scientific personas - Americanization of science and scientific persona - Celebrity and scientific personas - Comparative studies of scientific persona - The relationship between scientific institutions and personas - Pre-modern historical studies on scientific personas Guest editors: Prof. Mineke Bosch, Groningen University, the Netherlands Prof. Kirsti Niskanen, Stockholm University, Sweden Prof. Kaat Wils, KU Leuven, Belgium Timeline - In the first instance, submit your abstract by 03 July 2017 by email to Kirsti Niskanen: kirsti [dot] niskanen [at] historia [dot] su [dot] se. - Full paper requests will be issued by 21 July 2017. - Full papers submissions due 27 October 2017 to the *Persona Studies* website. - Publication of Scientific Persona Special Issue scheduled for April 2018.

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Podcasting trends research? Experiments in podcast discovery?
by Steven Clift 12 Jun '17

12 Jun '17

If you are interested in trends related to podcasting, I want to invite you to my new niche Local Podcasting Facebook Group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/localpodcasting If you know of podcast or media discovery researchers who might engage the group on how to make the podcasting ecology more effective for those producing locally focused audio content to make geographic interest a more of an organic discovery process, please invite them along. In short, Facebook has figured out how to share "Groups near you" ... how about "Podcasts near you"? Thanks, Steven Clift

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doctoral students and early career scholars Digital Society Research Methods Workshop 10-11 Sept
by Dariusz Jemielniak 12 Jun '17

12 Jun '17

The New Research on Digital Societies (NeRDS) Research Group at Kozminski University invites applications from PhD students and early career scholars to a Digital Society Research Methods Workshop: “Interpreting Social Activites Online”, held at Kozminski University in *Warsaw on 10-11.09.2017.* The 5 mini-courses conducted during the workshop oscillate around the broad theme of social scientific interpretation of social actors’ activities online. What methods and theories can be applied to reach beyond the surface of the Internet content and digital traces, and enhance our understanding of social behavior in the digitized society? More details: http://nerds.kozminski.edu.pl/digital-society-research-methods-workshop/ I will be most grateful for your kind help in distributing this info and passing the call to anyone potentially interested. best, Dariusz

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Future of BigData 2017
by ijwa＠dline.info 12 Jun '17

12 Jun '17

Call for Workshop Papers Third International Workshop on 'Future Big Data' (FBD 2017) In Conjunction with the Twelfth Eleventh International Conference on Digital Information Management (ICDIM 2017) http://www.icdim.org/workshop.php Kyushu University, Fukuoka, Japan September 12-14, 2017 Technically co-sponsored by the IEEE Technology Management Council Accepted workshop papers will be published in the proceedings indexed by IEEE Xplore. About the Workshop Big Data concern large-volume, complex, growing data sets with multiple, autonomous sources. The developments in the Big Data research lead to almost the birth of a new domain. With the fast development of networking, data storage, and the data collection capacity, Big Data are now rapidly expanding in all science and engineering domains, including physical, biological and biomedical sciences. This workshop will address the features of the Big Data revolution, Big Data processing model, data driven models, big data standards, and so on. Topics to be addressed in the workshop, but not limited to: - Big Data models and architectures - Big data architecture and design - Security, privacy, and trust - Data protection and integrity - Big Data mining, analytics and metrics - Data representation and structures - Data capturing and acquisition - Tools and technologies - QoS of big data - Social networks analysis - Big Data searching and mining - Visualisation of data - Personal data logging and quantified-self - Context-aware data - Big Data Visualization - Personalisation of data - Data contextualisation - Data Querying - Applications of open and linked data - Data-intensive computing, - Methodologies and cases studies - Data Usability issues - Storages and network requirements - Bigdata Network models and protocols - Big data in cloud and IoT - Big data processing large-scale datasets on clusters - Smart and connected communities - Big Data and Urban Data Analytics - Cloud Computing and Network Infrastructure for Smart Cities - Intelligent Transport Systems and Traffic Management - Big data for Internet of Things Submissions Submissions should provide original and unpublished research results or ongoing research with simulations. The papers should be between 6 to 8 pages total in length in the IEEE format. * All the accepted papers will appear in the proceedings published by IEEE and fully indexed by IEEE Xplore. All the ICDIM papers are indexed by DBLP (http://www.informatik.uni-trier.de/~ley/db/conf/icdim/index.html) * Modified version of the selected papers will appear in the special issues of the following peer reviewed and indexed journals. (Indexed in Scopus, Thomson Reuters, Journal Citation Reports, dblp, Engineering Index and many other databases) Important Dates Full Paper Submission July 08, 2017 Notification of Acceptance/Rejection August -03, 2017 Registration Due September -01, 2017 Camera Ready Due September -01, 2017 Workshops/Tutorials/Demos September 13, 2017 Main conference September 12-14, 2017 Organizers Simon Fong, University of Macau, Macau Submissions at http://www.icdim.org/submission.html For additional inquiries, please contact - conference at icdim.org ---------------------

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Critical Theory in the Digital Context: Search Engine Labour and Creative Production
by Christian Fuchs 12 Jun '17

12 Jun '17

Critical Theory in the Digital Context: Search Engine Labour and Creative Production Wed, June 28, 2017, 18:00 WIAS Seminar University of Westminster 309 Regent St, Room UG.04 Registration: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/critical-theory-in-the-digital-context-searc… How are major search algorithms produced? How is their global relevance sustained and promoted? What is the role of creativity in digital games production? How do creative producers cope with contradictions in their precarious workplaces? Focusing on search engines and the digital games industry, Ergin Bulut and Paško Bilić will in two talks explore various angles of critical theory. Concepts such as technological rationality, alienation, bio-political production and exploitation will be evoked to understand the specifics of labour processes in digital contexts. Paško Bilić is Research Associate at the Department for Culture and Communication, Institute for Development and International Relations in Zagreb, Croatia. Ergin Bulut is Assistant Professor at the Department of Media and Visual Arts at Koc University, Istanbul.

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