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Extended deadline: Call for Participation: Symposium on Media, Communication, and Film Studies Programs at Liberal Arts Colleges
by Jeff Pooley 18 Feb '17

18 Feb '17

Call for Participation: Symposium on Media, Communication, and Film Studies Programs at Liberal Arts Colleges May 23 & 24, 2017 Colby College, Waterville ME Deadline for submissions: March 3rd, 2017 Media, Communication, and Film Studies Programs at Liberal Arts Colleges (MCFLAC) invites proposals for papers, panels, and exhibits for a two-day symposium, to be held at Colby College in Waterville, Maine. The symposium will bring together faculty engaged in the scholarly and pedagogical praxis of media, communication, and film studies in the liberal arts context for two days of resource sharing, student-work showcases, workshops, and panel sessions. Building off the momentum of last year’s inaugural symposium, at Muhlenberg College, this year’s theme is “Revolutions.” We have chosen this theme in keeping with Colby College’s Center for the Arts and Humanities year-long focus, which is broadly conceived to encompass revolutions in the “political, literary, artistic, cultural, social, scientific, … conceptual,” and, we suggest, pedagogical and institutional realms. Our keynote speaker this year will be Patricia R. Zimmermann, professor of Screen Studies at Ithaca College, where the nationally recognized program of teaching screen studies in the Roy H. Park School of Communication includes the Mellon Foundation commended Introduction to Film Aesthetic and Analysis course. She is the author of Reel Families: A Social History of Amateur Film (IUP, 1995) and Open Spaces: Openings, Closings, and Thresholds of International Public Media, among many other titles, and serves as a Film Envoy for the US State Department. Professor Zimmermann is also the co-director of the Finger Lakes Environmental Film Festival, which integrates film, music, new media, activism, literature, art, scholarly research and distribution within a four-year institution to provide meaningful interfaces between academia, art, and the public. We invite proposals (250 to 500 words) that engage with our theme, including: Revolutionary approaches to teaching Teaching about revolutions–past and present Revolutionizing the (increasingly neoliberal) institutional structures in which we are located Mobilizing theory and pedagogy to facilitate revolutionary thinking Analyzing the impact of ongoing revolutionary changes (sociocultural, economic, epistemological) upon our work in liberal education, including ideas for redirecting, capitalizing and/or adapting. Interrogating the “revolutionary” rhetoric around higher education, with the liberal arts college said to be ripe for “disruption” Responding to the Trump “revolution” and its reverberations on our campuses Preference will be given to submissions that fit the symposium theme, but we welcome submissions on all topics reflecting MCFLAC’s unique emphasis on praxis in liberal arts settings. We seek to bring together a diverse group of teachers, scholars, and students, from different backgrounds with various life experiences, teaching styles, and intellectual orientations. Presentation formats include: individual paper abstracts panel session abstracts (identifying three to four participants) student-work showcases (featuring scholarship, media work, and/or hybrids in digital or other formats) pedagogy workshops (on core assignments, capstone courses, and/or pedagogical techniques) research workshops (on projects, strategies, publishing models, and/or research/exhibit and tools) Additional formats considered *** In addition to these formats, we invite submissions for 3-minute short cuts: lightning fast presentations in which participants give a quick run-down of innovative or useful tech tools, assignments, teaching strategies etc. The presentations are three minutes long and we ask you to use one slide per minute. Please label your “short cut” submissions accordingly. Please include a brief bio and note any technology requirements with your proposal. Include your bio, proposal, and tech needs in one PDF document and attach to an email addressed to Beth Corzo-Duchardt, at bcorzo-duchardt(a)muhlenberg.edu. If you are submitting a short cut proposal in addition to another proposal, please attach as a separate document. Deadline for submissions: March 3rd, 2017 Questions? Contact Beth Corzo Duchardt, at bcorzo-duchardt(a)muhlenberg.edu

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Published: IEEE ToE special issue on Maker Learning in Computer Science and Engineering Education
by Lee, Mark 17 Feb '17

17 Feb '17

Dear colleagues, Late last year, I shared with you information about the release of a special issue of the IEEE Transactions on Learning Technologies (TLT) on Learning through Wearable Technologies and the Internet of Things. I am pleased to announce that a special "sister" issue of the IEEE Transactions on Education (ToE) on Maker Learning in Computer Science and Engineering Education has now also been published. My guest editorial preface to the ToE special issue is free to download at http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/TE.2016.2637738 and provides an overview of the three articles that constitute the issue. The full issue is available through IEEE Xplore at http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpl/RecentIssue.jsp?punumber=13 (Click on the "Current Issue" link, then scroll down—the special issue begins after the five regular articles of the journal's February 2017 issue.) Unfortunately, other than editorials, ToE content is available only to those with individual or institutional subscriptions, and to members of the IEEE Education Society. Hopefully you will have access through your university’s or college’s library. For your convenience, a listing of the issue's contents is appended below. Also, in case you previously missed it, the TLT issue is at http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpl/tocresult.jsp?isnumber=7782803 . (The guest editorial of that issue is also free/open access.) Please feel free to share this message widely with others who might be interested, both individually and through the networks and associations of which you are a part. Happy reading! Kind regards, Mark J. W. Lee Adjunct Senior Lecturer, School of Education, Charles Sturt University, Australia Honorary Senior Research Fellow, School of Engineering and IT, Federation University, Australia Visiting Faculty, Entertainment Technology Center, Carnegie Mellon University, USA *** IEEE Transactions on Education Special Issue on Maker Learning in Computer Science and Engineering Education *** Guest Editorial: Special Issue on Maker Learning in Computer Science and Engineering Education (FREE ACCESS) Mark J. W. Lee http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/TE.2016.2637738 Training Engineers for the Ambient Intelligence Challenge Fulvio Corno and Luigi De Russis http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/TE.2016.2608785 An IoT and Wearable Technology Hackathon for Promoting Careers in Computer Science Jake Rowan Byrne, Katriona O'Sullivan, and Kevin Sullivan http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/TE.2016.2626252 All Roads Lead to Computing: Making, Participatory Simulations, and Social Computing as Pathways to Computer Science Corey Brady, Kai Orton, David Weintrop, Gabriella Anton, Sebastian Rodriguez, and Uri Wilensky http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/TE.2016.2622680

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Research on Terrorism Media Coverage
by Hayes, Rebecca M 17 Feb '17

17 Feb '17

Hello All, I am writing a chapter on crime media myths. One of the myths is about immigrants/migrants as criminal. Part of my argument to refute includes discussion on the coverage of terrorists events in Western media, and the tendency for them to ignore these events in non-Western (read: predominately Muslim) countries. Does anyone have some suggested resources regarding Western media coverage of terrorist events in non-Western nations? Any help would be appreciated. Also, hello to all! I enjoy this group very much and this is my first time posting. I am a media criminologist in the U.S. All the best, Becky Rebecca Hayes, Ph.D. Sociology, Anthropology & Social Work

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CfP: Streaming, Binge-Watching & Second Screening: Online Social Television in Perspective
by Jacob Groshek 17 Feb '17

17 Feb '17

Dear Colleagues, Please share widely: The Division of Emerging Media Studies at Boston University is hosting a two-day conference to address the most pressing issues related to streaming television, binge-watching and television's growing intersection with social media. We hope this event, which is scheduled to take place in The Castle, one of the most historic and intimate meeting halls on the Boston University campus fromApril 20th - 21st, will provide a platform to make an impact unique to the field. The call for papers follows below -- abstracts are due March 13 -- and we especially welcome submissions from emerging scholars. Please visit http://sites.bu.edu/cmcs/april-2017-conference/ for more information, and feel free to reach out to me with any questions. Thanks much, Jacob Boston University – CALL FOR ABSTRACTS Streaming, Binge-Watching & Second Screening: Online Social Television in Perspective Highlights • Aim: Television itself is almost indistinguishable in its form, distribution, content, and uses from earlier network and cable/satellite modes. This workshop thus considers what the most pressing social, political, and health issues related to streaming television, binge-watching, and television's growing intersection with social media are. Research here will help clarify what to expect for television as a medium, and how we as users and researchers of television can best navigate a path forward in better understanding the transformational role of television in society, and indeed, television itself. • Call for papers: Research-based perspectives invited, especially from younger scholars. Send abstracts by email to conference coordinator Jessica Bonner jbonner(a)bu.edu • Workshop format: Brief papers and in-depth discussion, built on research and scholarly perspectives. Event will have an in-person audience and also be live-streamed. Papers and live-stream will be archived on our website. Key dates March 13 Extended abstracts (~500 words) due to organizers. Send abstracts to jbonner(a)bu.edu March 20 Notification of acceptance decision. April 13 Completed papers (~2,500 – 9,000 words) due to discussants. April 20-21 Workshop held at Boston University. Program & informational updates will be posted at: http://sites.bu.edu/cmcs/april-2017-conference/ Overview Television has been transformed. It is not a just fixed, flickering screen in living rooms and public spaces around the world anymore. In the contemporary sense, television has literally cut the cord to become a mobile, always-on, and personalized experience that is informed by recommendations and algorithms. Seeing “what’s on” TV from a hierarchical schedule provided by a handful of dominant media producers and distribution systems is fading into memory or no longer exists for billions of television viewers around the world. Previous work in on streaming television and social media has suggested that “While the process of storytelling is technologically agnostic, each communication vehicle offers specific affordances that encourage certain behaviors and interactions” (Groshek & Krongard, 2016, p. 3). However, there is still only a relatively limited body of research about streaming television, binge-watching, and the use of television in combination with other social media platforms across a wide range of social, political, personal, emotional, and health areas. Thus, the Division of Emerging Media Studies at Boston University is hosting a two-day conference to address the most pressing issues related to streaming television, binge-watching and television's growing intersection with social media. We hope this event, which is scheduled to take place in The Castle, one of the most historic and intimate meeting halls on the Boston University campus from April 20th - 21st, will provide a platform for the collective expertise of International Scientific Advisory Board members as well as other researchers working in the area to make an impact unique to the field. As conference organizers, we do not want to place parameters on contributions, which can be empirical, theoretical, thought exercises, essays, reflections, analyses, qualitative, quantitative, observations – any scholarly approach is welcome. In terms of topics, we ask prospective contributors to feel free to draw on their expertise and vision, but of course there are a wide range of topics that relate to streaming television and second screening in terms of adoption, use, or content, such as (but not limited to): • mobile devices • life satisfaction • human relationships • health communication • civility and elections • political and civic participation • television platforms • social networks • artificial intelligence • algorithms • metadata and meta-analyses • academic performance At this stage, abstracts should be approximately 500 words, including references and figures, and can be submitted by email to conference coordinator Jessica Bonner (jbonner(a)bu.edu) no later than March 13, 2017. There are no specific author guidelines, but we do ask that authors be consistent in using the referencing style of their choice. Full papers (from approximately 2,5000 - 9,000 words) will be due to discussants one week before the conference. For those interested, we will be pursuing options for a special issue of these proceedings with a leading journal. Practitioners and subject-matter experts will be invited to give brief papers on selected topics which will then be followed by interrogative discussion. In addition, drawing on an open, peer-reviewed “call for papers,” additional scholars and practitioners will be included in the sessions. The format of the talks will be to organize them into panels. In each panel there will be a brief presentation by the paper author followed by an extended commentary from among panelists. Audiences, both attending in-person and participating via live-streaming sessions, will have an opportunity to raise questions and contribute viewpoints. Ample time is also scheduled for informal discussion so that discrete ideas can be explored in depth and serendipitous interpersonal connections can be forged. Following the conference, selected papers will be published online and in special issues of peer-reviewed journals so that the ideas developed and expressed during the conference can receive wide circulation. Some talks and interview excerpts will also be posted online to further the event’s impact. International Scientific Advisory Committee* Ahmed al-Rawi (Concordia University) Luca Barra (University of Bologna) Britt Christensen (Zayed University) Pedro Ferreira (Carnegie Mellon University) Homero Gil de Zúñiga (University of Vienna) Mareike Jenner (Anglia Ruskin University) Sarah Krongard (Boston University) Elana Levine (University of Wisconsin – Milwaukee) Seth Lewis (University of Oregon) Amanda Lotz (University of Michigan) Grant McCracken (Berkman Center, Harvard University) Peppino Ortoleva (University of Torino) Matthew Pittman (University of Oregon) Mark Stewart (University of Amsterdam) Chuck Tryon (Fayetteville State University) * Institutional affiliations are for identification purposes and do not imply endorsement. Abstract submission Please submit abstracts, as well as interest in serving as panel chairs or discussants, to conference coordinator Jessica Bonner no later than March 13, 2017: jbonner(a)bu.edu Please contact me for information regarding the workshop -- thanks! Jacob -- Dr. Jacob Groshek Assistant Professor of Emerging Media Studies Communication Research Center <http://sites.bu.edu/crc/about-crc/> Fellow Hariri Institute <http://www.bu.edu/hic/> Junior Faculty Fellow Boston University jgroshek.org <http://www.jgroshek.org/> Founding Editor, *Journal of Communication and Technology* Boston Civic Media Consortium <http://bostoncivic.media/> Founding Member Previously: Research Fellow, Erasmus Uni <http://www.eshcc.eur.nl/english/research/research_centres/erasmus_research_…> | Full Member, NeSCoR <http://nescor.socsci.uva.nl/>| Visiting Scholar, IAST <http://www.iast.fr/> @jgroshek <https://twitter.com/jgroshek> | google scholar <https://scholar.google.nl/citations?user=G1XXhccAAAAJ&hl=en>

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Social media educational toolkit
by Evan Light 17 Feb '17

17 Feb '17

Hi all - longtime lurker, first-time poster, I'm teaching a social media class this term. Many of my students are taking it because they want to be able to help younger generations better navigate the worlds of social media than they were capable of. I've proposed developing an educational toolkit for kids and they're interested. Has anybody out there developed a similar sort of toolkit in a class? Have you developed one outside of class? Thanks! Evan -- Evan Light, PhD Assistant Professor - Professeur adjoint Organizations and Communication - Organisations et communication School of Translation - École de Traduction Glendon College, York University - Collège universitaire Glendon, Université York 2275 Bayview Ave. Toronto ON, Canada M4N 3M6 elight(a)glendon.yorku.ca +1 416.736.2100 ext: 88596 PGP Key: 5BD64CF

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CFP Diaspora, migration and the media ECREA section workshop, Bilbao 2-3 November 2017
by Leurs, K.H.A. (Koen) 17 Feb '17

17 Feb '17

Dear colleagues, Apologies for cross-posting. We are looking forward to receive your submissions for the ECREA Diaspora, migration and the media section workshop taking place in Bilbao 2-3 November 2017. We will also have a productive session aimed at young researchers (PhD students and postdocs) to share knowledge, to get feedback about their research and to network for future collaboration. Submit your abstracts by April 16. Do not hesitate to get in touch with us if you have any questions. Kindly circulate to anyone who might be interested, Best wishes, Koen Leurs, also on behalf of Irati Agirreazkuenaga, Kevin Smets and Melis Mevsimler ***** CALL FOR PAPERS ECREA Diaspora, migration and the media section University of the Basque Country, Bilbao “MIGRATION AND COMMUNICATION FLOWS: RETHINKING BORDERS, CONFLICT AND IDENTITY THROUGH THE DIGITAL” “We are faced with a crisis of humanity, and the only exit from this crisis is to recognize our growing interdependence as a species and to find new ways to live together in solidarity and cooperation, amidst strangers who may hold opinions and preferences different from our own.” Zygmunt Bauman, Strangers at our door (Polity, 2016) ECREA’s ‘Diaspora, Migration and Media’ and ‘Intercultural and International Communication’ sections will organize a joint conference at the University of Basque Country in Bilbao on 2-3 November 2017 that will focus on how research on migration and communication flows can help rethinking key notions like ‘borders’, ‘conflict’, ‘solidarity’, ‘identity’ and ‘culture’. RATIONALE:   Migration, cultural diversity and the media are increasingly problematized. Europe appears to be crumbling down in the current moment as a result of the Brexit vote, the election of Donald Trump and the so-called ‘European Refugee Crisis’. This is illustrated by hoaxes and fake news messages on these themes that serve as popular clickbait on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. As media outlets seek to address these ‘post-Truth’ conditions, populist, xenophobic, Islamophobic, racist and neo-nationalist rhetoric and sentiments have grown excessively across social media. Meanwhile, the number of internal and external European borders proliferates, and digital data are used for surveillance and migration management. Therefore, mediated encounters with diversity, the humanitarianism-securitization nexus and the role of communication flows urgently deserve further academic exploration to advance understanding of some of the major societal challenges of our time. The continuous re-appropriation of Anas Modamani’s selfie with the German chancellor Angela Merkel on Facebook is an illustrative case in point. He took his selfie in September 2015, when Merkel visited the Berlin shelter where he was then living. Modamani is a Syrian refugee who fled from Darayya. After posting the selfie online, he has repeatedly been falsely linked to terrorism. On the basis of physically resemblance, he was for example wrongly accused to be involved in the bombings in Brussel (March 2016) and the recent attack at a Berlin Christmas market (December 2016), see seehttp://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-38599385. The conference aims to cover a broad range of conflict-related themes such as media production and regulation of information on forced migrants in a ‘post-Truth’ era; fake news; the humanitarianism-securitization nexus, migration management, social and political conflicts related to migrant and diaspora communities, radicalization and online counter-terrorism, hate speech and racism, but also solidarities, activism and protest. Digital technologies and innovations constantly offer new ways to approach these issues, both theoretically and methodologically. The organizers invite papers that explore the complexity of migration and communication flows through conceptual interventions as well as qualitative and quantitative studies. PRELIMINARY PROGRAMME The conference will include: • Keynote lectures by Marie Gillespie and Pedro Oiarzabal.   *Marie Gillespie is Professor of Sociology, The Open University, coordinator of the Mapping Refuge Media Journey project (2016-2018). “The "Mapping Refugee Media Journeys" project investigates the parallel tracks of the physical and digital journeys of Syrian and Iraqi refugees. It documents the media and informational resources that refugees use from the point of departure, during their journeys across different borders and states, and upon arrival (if they reach their desired destination)”. For more information, see http://www.open.ac.uk/ccig/research/projects/mapping-refugee-media-journeys    *Pedro Oiarzabal is an Internet and Basque studies scholar, and a migration and diaspora researcher. His research examines diaspora creation and diaspora interaction with information and communication technologies as well as the meaning of identity in both homeland and diaspora realities, with particular emphasis on the Basque case. • A roundtable to establish bridges of dialogue between academics studying the coverage of migrants and journalists reporting on various conflicts in Europe, addressing methodological and ethical challenges. • A YECREA event dedicated to young scholars (PhD and postdoc level): see below for more information. • A joint panel organized with the ECREA ‘Intercultural and International Communication’ division to broaden the empirical, conceptual and methodological scope of the conference and to explore future collaborations. • An elaborate social programme, including a conference dinner and boat tour, allowing participants to enjoy the city of Bilbao. Call for panel and paper proposals To explore the issue of migration and communication flows in an informal and stimulating atmosphere, we invite participants to submit paper and panel proposals to the 2017 ECREA Diaspora, Migration & Media conference. We particularly welcome proposals on the following topics: • Rethinking the category of the migrant: forced migrants, guest-laborers, postsocialist, postcolonial, expatriates • ‘Bottom-up’ digitally mediated processes, such as transnational and local networking and connectivity, diaspora organizations, identity construction, urban communications • ‘Top down’ digitally mediated processes of migrant management: border control, surveillance & control systems for population movements, migrant detention centres, express flights, arrests at the street, lack of public information • The humanitarianism-securitization nexus, human/communication rights, border management, express flights, street arrests, surveillance and political economy • Migrants, media and language: the impact of migrants on linguistic dynamics (particularly in the context of natively bilingual societies), building resilience for new and local minority media structures • Intersectional analyses of migration and communication flows: how do axes of difference, including race, gender, sexuality, nation, location, generation religion, class together co-constitute subordination and identity • Methodological considerations in media and migration studies, including, but not limited to digital migration studies We encourage scholars whose abstracts have been accepted, to submit full papers by 1 October 2017 in order to compete for the first ECREA Diaspora, Migration & Media Paper Awards. There will be one award for junior scholars and one for senior scholars. TIMELINE: Abstract deadline: April 16, 2017 Notification of acceptance: May 16, 2017 Full-paper submission: October 1, 2017 Registration deadline: October 1, 2017 SUBMISSION GUIDELINES: Please send 200-300 word abstracts by 31 March 2017. Please include a short biography (max 100 words) Indicate in your submission whether you are interested:  -in the YECREA event -sessions jointly organized with ICC -being considered for the special issue “Migration and communication flows: rethinking borders, conflict and identity through the digital” Submit your abstract + bio to ecreadmm(a)gmail.com, indicate in your email header [Submission last name + paper title] ORGANIZING TEAM:  Irati Agirreazkuenaga, PhD ECREA Diaspora, Migration and the Media Vice Chair Assistant professor information genres, radio speech & corporate communication Graduate Social Communication Programme, Department of Journalism University of the Basque Country, Bilbao, Spain Koen Leurs, PhD ECREA Diaspora, Migration and the Media Chair Assistant professor gender & postcolonial studies Graduate Gender Programme, Department of Media & Culture Utrecht University, the Netherlands Kevin Smets, PhD ECREA Diaspora, Migration and the Media Vice Chair Assistant professor in media and culture Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium  Postdoctoral fellow, Research Foundation Flanders, University of Antwerp, Belgium Melis Mevsimler, MA ECREA Diaspora, Migration and the Media Young Scholar Representative PhD student Digital Crossings in Europe. Gender, Diaspora and Belonging  Utrecht University, the Netherlands

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mobileGov World Summit and Global mobileGov Awards 2017: Draft Program Posted
by emre＠mgovernment.net 17 Feb '17

17 Feb '17

Dear Colleagues, --- apologies for cross postings ---- This year The mobileGov World Summit and Global mobileGov Awards 2017 is featuring Various Governments' Use of mobile Technologies and Global mobileGov Awards. The draft program is posted on the web site and will be updated regularly as more speakers from the public sector and private sector join in. The core of the program constitutes a discussion of various governments' experiences, needs and requirements in using mobile technologies to transform public sector organisations and to offer mobile services to citizens. A forum to help other governments and solutions providers to have deeper insights on actual implementation. There are also a number of pre-conference Tutorials and Workshops as well as talks by experts in key areas. There are still opportunities for speaking, exhibiting, sponsoring and sending nominations for the Global mobileGov Awards 2017. The draft program can be accessed here: http://www.m4life.org/conferences/mgovsummit2016/program/ and the registration to the Summit is open. Please feel free to circulate this information to those who may be interested in mobileGov World Summit and Global mobileGov Awards 2017. Best Regards, -- Emre Simsek Researcher MobileGov UK http://www.mgovernment.net/ emre(a)mgovernment.org

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Call for panelists – Ontology and the Internet – AoIR, Tartu, 19-21 Oct '17
by Andrew Iliadis 16 Feb '17

16 Feb '17

?Hi all, Call for panelists – Ontology and the Internet – AoIR, Tartu, 19-21 Oct '17? We’re looking for one or two more individuals to round out our panel on ontology, data labeling/sharing, taxonomy, etc. on the Internet. Please send questions or short messages of interest describing your proposed contribution to Andrew at andrew.iliadis(a)uoit.ca. thanks, Andrew ............................... Andrew Iliadis, PhD Postdoctoral Fellow in Digital Media, Data, and Culture Faculty of Social Science and Humanities University of Ontario Institute of Technology ............................... starting fall 2017 Assistant Professor Department of Media Studies and Production School of Media and Communication Temple University

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4S open panel invitation - Feelings and Doubt in Technoscience
by Monika Sengul-Jones 16 Feb '17

16 Feb '17

Dear Association of Internet Researchers: I'd like to invite you to consider submitting a paper abstract to the panel I'm co-convening for 4S in Boston this year. Abstracts are due March 1. It would be great to have critical internet/digital media studies folks working with STS to speak to the themes of this panel. Rich, timely topic! We need your good work! Thanks for your consideration ~ Monika Sengul-Jones & Amanda Menking *89. Feelings and Doubt in Technoscience* *Organized by:* Monika Sengul-Jones, UC San Diego; Amanda Menking, University of Washington “Post-truth” was the Oxford Dictionary’s word of the year in 2016. This neologism refers to how appeals to emotion—and even deliberate deception—influence the ignorance of, or rejection of facts. Feelings, and subjectivities more generally, have long been a focus of STS work. STS scholars have sought to mete out the complex relationships between positionality, affects, and networks that lead to knowledge-making claims and their role in truth-regimes. This panel seeks to address our contemporary moment’s crises about “truth” in critical retrospective: to use the methodological tools of STS to offer a nuanced examination of the longstanding, complex relationships between feelings and doubts about technoscience historically and today. This panel invites papers that speak to a range of topics including: feelings of morality and postcolonialism (see Schiebinger 2004); the feelings that engender the spread of ignorance (see Proctor 2016); gender, feelings, and science (Harding 1991; Keller 1983); entanglements of affects and biology (Wilson, 2015); commercial industries and doubt about scientific consensus (Oreskes and Conway 2011); and gender and attachments to personal beliefs, such as vaccinations (see Reich 2014). This panel will facilitate inter-generational conversations around an important topic harmonized with the theme of 4S in 2017. “Feelings and Doubt in Technoscience” will interrogate thoughtfully and reflectively the conference’s call to bring attention to “(in)sensibilities of contemporary technoscience,” by addressing the technological and cultural means by which feelings about technoscience lead to it being ridiculed as nonsense, marshaled to incense, and/or make sense. On Wed, Feb 15, 2017 at 3:00 PM, <air-l-request(a)listserv.aoir.org> wrote: > Send Air-L mailing list submissions to > air-l(a)listserv.aoir.org > > To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit > http://listserv.aoir.org/listinfo.cgi/air-l-aoir.org > or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to > air-l-request(a)listserv.aoir.org > > You can reach the person managing the list at > air-l-owner(a)listserv.aoir.org > > When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific > than "Re: Contents of Air-L digest..." > > > Today's Topics: > > 1. Re: student guide to IP, internet architecture, proxy > servers, etc.? (Azfar Adib) > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Message: 1 > Date: Thu, 16 Feb 2017 00:03:10 +0600 > From: Azfar Adib <azfar.adib.eee(a)gmail.com> > To: Charles Ess <charles.ess(a)gmail.com> > Cc: aoir list <air-l(a)aoir.org> > Subject: Re: [Air-L] student guide to IP, internet architecture, proxy > servers, etc.? > Message-ID: > <CA+80n=cPAdHt-R4v7nwQQfdOUQkQzbswJm2zC01CLjY > SMvEZLw(a)mail.gmail.com> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 > > Dear Professor Charles > > The below video shows a simple demonstration of basic internet traffic flow > , which can be helpful: > > https://youtu.be/PBWhzz_Gn10 > > Thanks and Regards > Azfar Adib > Dhaka,Bangladesh > > > On Wednesday, February 15, 2017, Charles Ess <charles.ess(a)gmail.com> > wrote: > > > Hi all, > > > > I'm teaching an MA-level course on freedom of expression online, > including > > somewhat technical analyses of early claims that the internet "interprets > > censorship as damage and routes around it" through contemporary > censorship > > and surveillance efforts, tools for circumventing such efforts (Tor, > Walid > > Al-Saqaf's al-kazir tool, and so on), tools for circumventing the > > circumvention (thank you, NSA ... as well as some approaches to Big Data, > > etc.) > > What I'm encountering is, I think, a common issue for which there must > be a > > good set of available responses. That is, many of my students, however > > gifted, skilled, and well-informed they may be on other matters, seem to > > lack a basic understanding of how information gets passed along on the > > internet; what a proxy server is and why / how it works, and so on. > While > > I'm not expecting great depths of technical knowledge, it does seem to me > > that some rudimentary level of knowing how these technologies work is > > necessary, both for a kind of basic information literacy and certainly > for > > more considered analyses of censorship, freedom of expression, etc. > > So: suggestions for accessible, student-friendly resources that I can > > recommend and perhaps partly explore with my students that could help > begin > > to fill in some of these more technical gaps in their / my knowledge? > > > > Many thanks in advance, > > - charles ess > > == > > Professor in Media Studies > > Department of Media and Communication > > University of Oslo > > <http://www.hf.uio.no/imk/english/people/aca/charlees/index.html> > > > > Editor, The Journal of Media Innovations > > <https://www.journals.uio.no/index.php/TJMI/> > > > > Postboks 1093 > > Blindern 0317 > > Oslo, Norway > > c.m.ess(a)media.uio.no <javascript:;> > > _______________________________________________ > > The Air-L(a)listserv.aoir.org <javascript:;> mailing list > > is provided by the Association of Internet Researchers http://aoir.org > > Subscribe, change options or unsubscribe at: http://listserv.aoir.org/ > > listinfo.cgi/air-l-aoir.org > > > > Join the Association of Internet Researchers: > > http://www.aoir.org/ > > > ------------------------------ > > Subject: Digest Footer > > _______________________________________________ > The Air-L(a)listserv.aoir.org mailing list > is provided by the Association of Internet Researchers http://aoir.org > Subscribe, change options or unsubscribe at: http://listserv.aoir.org/ > listinfo.cgi/air-l-aoir.org > > Join the Association of Internet Researchers: > http://www.aoir.org/ > > ------------------------------ > > End of Air-L Digest, Vol 151, Issue 15 > ************************************** > -- Monika Sengul-Jones Doctoral Candidate Communication & Science Studies University of California, San Diego Visiting Graduate Researcher, 2014-16 Communication University of Washington, Seattle www.monikasengul.com (206) 715-2320

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WEBCAST TONIGHT: The Future of Digital Rights Is A Library Card
by Joly MacFie 16 Feb '17

16 Feb '17

This is a great topic, combining as it does access, education, & privacy, We so easily take for granted the most basic understanding of such matters, but we were all newbies once! [image: Livestream] <https://livestream.com/internetsociety/nanyc>Today *Thursday February 16 2017* *New America NYC* <https://www.newamerica.org/nyc/> will present *The Future of Digital Rights Is A Library Card* <https://www.newamerica.org/nyc/events/future-digital-rights-library-card/> - a panel of leaders of New York's public library systems will have a conversation on the unique opportunity public libraries have in preparing individuals and communities for the challenges of always-on, digitally networked, and easily surveilled lifestyles. Speakers: *Jaime L. Anno*, Manager of Organizational Assessment, Queens Library; *William Marden* (@MardenBill), Director, Data Privacy and Compliance, New York Public Library;* Story Bellows* (@storybellows), Chief Innovation and Performance Officer, Brooklyn Public Library; *Seeta Peña Gangadharan*, Assistant Professor, Department of Media and Communications, London School of Economics & Fellow, New America's Open Technology Institute. Moderator: *Joshua Breitbart* (@joshdotfm), Senior Advisor for Broadband, Office of the Mayor of New York City. The event will be webcast live on the *Internet Society Livestream Channel <https://livestream.com/internetsociety/nanyc>*. *What: The Future of Digital Rights Is A Library Card <https://www.newamerica.org/nyc/events/future-digital-rights-library-card/> Where: Interface NYC When: Thursday February 16, 2017, 6:30 pm - 8:30 pm (23:00-01:00 UTC) Webcast: https://livestream.com/internetsociety/nanyc <https://livestream.com/internetsociety/nanyc> Twitter: #LibraryData https://twitter.com/hashtag/librarydata <https://twitter.com/hashtag/librarydata>* Comment <http://isoc-ny.org/p2/8986#respond> See all comments <http://isoc-ny.org/p2/8986#comments> *Permalink* http://isoc-ny.org/p2/8986 -- --------------------------------------------------------------- Joly MacFie 218 565 9365 Skype:punkcast -------------------------------------------------------------- -

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