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DATA-PSST! event - Tackling Transparency Beyond the Nation-State (travel bursaries)
by Andrew McStay 14 Mar '16

14 Mar '16

Hi all, Offering not selling... There are limited places and travel bursaries left at the next DATA-PSST!<http://data-psst.bangor.ac.uk/index.php.en> event (Debating and Assessing Transparency Arrangements - Privacy, Security, Surveillance, Trust). This seminar is on Tackling Transparency Beyond the Nation-State. This inter-disciplinary and multi-end user seminar will be held at Cardiff University on 31 Mar 2016, 10-5pm. If you'd like to participate, please mail Vian Bakir asap (v.bakir(a)bangor.ac.uk<mailto:v.bakir@bangor.ac.uk>). You will need to provide a short Position Statement, that will we host on our blog<http://data-psst.blogspot.co.uk/>. Places and travel bursaries will be allocated according to strength of Position Statement and under-represented positions. The full seminar advert follows. This is the fifth of six seminars in the ESRC-funded DATA-PSST! seminar series. Advanced technologies and the increased inter-connectedness of state and private actors across borders allow for a constant flow of data around the globe. This provides opportunities for law enforcement and intelligence authorities to monitor terrorist suspects and criminals - but also the ordinary citizen. In the context of counter-terrorism, this kind of surveillance often also involves cooperation between states but also with private enterprises, such as banks and other financial authorities, as well as companies like Google and Facebook. Given the cross-border and cross-sector nature of these practices, questions arise about the utility of trying to regulate and control data-sharing at the national level only. In addition, tensions emerge between expectations of sovereign rights and responsibilities on one hand and regional and global cooperation on the other hand. increasingly, regional actors, such as the EU and the Council of Europe, and also the UN are involved in regulating data-sharing, protecting privacy and challenging excessive surveillance by security authorities. This seminar will focus on the ongoing attempts at the European and international level to regulate, confine and oversee the global flow of information. To do so, it brings together scholars and practitioners of international relations, political science, international law and human rights to examine key debates, analyse strengths and weaknesses of existing mechanisms of regulation and oversight and explore questions about which political level is best suited to such a demanding mandate. Some of the subsidiary questions that will frame this seminar include: - How are concepts of borders, states and territory relevant in the practice of safeguarding human rights online? - What are the key regional and global mechanisms in place for regulating data- sharing, protecting privacy and challenging excessive surveillance by security authorities? How are these being adhered to, negotiated and/or contested? - What tensions have emerged in the UK and the EU in the context of attempts to impose international controls on data-sharing and privacy safeguards? The seminar will be organized around these key questions and all participants will be able to actively contribute to the debate. In addition to short keynote talks, the seminar will function by means of position statements and roundtable discussions. Cheers, Andy Andrew McStay Reader in Advertising and Digital Media Director of Media and Persuasive Communication Network (MPC) School of Creative Studies and Media Bangor University Recent book: Privacy and Philosophy: New Media and Affective Protocol<http://www.peterlang.com/index.cfm?event=cmp.ccc.seitenstruktur.detailseite…> Other books and papers: here<https://bangor.academia.edu/AndrewMcStay> T. +44 (0)1248 382740 Tw. @digi-ad<https://twitter.com/digi_ad> Rhif Elusen Gofrestredig 1141565 - Registered Charity No. 1141565 Gall y neges e-bost hon, ac unrhyw atodiadau a anfonwyd gyda hi, gynnwys deunydd cyfrinachol ac wedi eu bwriadu i'w defnyddio'n unig gan y sawl y cawsant eu cyfeirio ato (atynt). Os ydych wedi derbyn y neges e-bost hon trwy gamgymeriad, rhowch wybod i'r anfonwr ar unwaith a dilewch y neges. Os na fwriadwyd anfon y neges atoch chi, rhaid i chi beidio a defnyddio, cadw neu ddatgelu unrhyw wybodaeth a gynhwysir ynddi. 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Faculty position in civic media
by Mike Lyons 12 Mar '16

12 Mar '16

Dear Colleagues, The Saint Joseph's University Department of Communication Studies and Digital Media in Philadelphia is hiring a non-tenure track visiting professor in civic media with particular interests in: • communication and social change • race, gender, and ethnicity • networked social movements • transmedia activism • community literacy • collaborative design • democracy and the web. The Department of Communication Studies focuses both on critical approaches and creative production of digital media. For more information about the program, please visit http://www.sju.edu/academics/cas/commstudies See the full ad at http://tinyurl.com/sjujob Best regards, Mike Lyons, Ph.D. Assistant Professor Department of Communication Studies and Digital Media Saint Joseph's University Bronstein Hall jlyons(a)sju.edu ___________ Mike Lyons, Ph.D. Assistant Professor Department of Communication Studies Saint Joseph's University Bronstein Hall www.jmikelyons.com twitter: @jmikelyons

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Join our Digital Living Masters Programme in Aarhus Denmark. Deadline Soon!
by Annette Markham 12 Mar '16

12 Mar '16

****Final call**** ****please pass along to interested students*** We have a few more seats in our fabulous (if i might say) International Masters Program so if you're interested and you've been waiting until the last possible moment to apply, here's your last chance! International student deadline for applications: March 15, 2016 Digital Living: An interdisciplinary MS degree programme Aarhus University, Faculty of Arts, Department of Communication & Culture Application deadline: March 15 (April 1 for Danish residents) Notification of Acceptance: early May 2016 Start Date: 1 September 2016 This MS focuses on how digital technologies are used in everyday life and offers students the opportunity to consider how we might design better futures by exploring the intersection of networked sociality, organizational practices, and IT design. Discuss cutting edge knowledge about the social impact of digital technologies with internationally established professors. Learn from computer scientists how digital forms of communication and interaction are designed and programmed. Work with professors from information and media studies to build a strong grounding in the political, social, and economic structures of 21st Century organizations and institutions. In addition to theoretically-grounded classroom discussions, students design and build interfaces, engage in empirical studies of digital contexts, and explore how new eBusiness models work. This well-rounded Masters Programme provides solid grounding for analyzing contemporary social media practices and developing sustainable and ethical digital futures. Digital Living is an interdisciplinary Masters Programme within Information Studies at Aarhus University. Curriculum taught in English. If applying from a Danish University, a BA in Arts or Social Sciences is required for admission to the programme (exceptions may be granted). International students with a BA or BS in any degree programme are encouraged to apply, particularly if their background or specific interests align with this Masters Programme. Deadline is March 15 for international students or April 1 for Danish residents. Learn more at: http://kandidat.au.dk/en/information-studies/ For deadlines and important information and links here: http://kandidat.au.dk/en/admission/application-deadlines-and-important-date… For specific questions about the application process, contact the Study Center Arts in Aarhus: studiecenter.arts.aarhus(a)au.dk or call +45 87 16 10 87 Monday through Friday: 10:00 - 14:00 For specific questions about programme content, contact: Associate Professor Claus Bossen imvcb [at] dac {dot} au {dot} dk Professor Annette Markham amarkham [at] dac {dot} au {dot} dk ***************************************************** Annette N. Markham, Ph.D. Professor MSO, School of Communication & Culture, Aarhus University Affiliate Professor, School of Communication, Loyola University, Chicago amarkham(a)gmail.com http://markham.internetinquiry.org/ Twitter: annettemarkham

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CFP: International rhetoric workshop (IRW) “Crossing Traditions: Reimagining the Political”
by Erik Bengtson 12 Mar '16

12 Mar '16

I am in the panel of the workshop presented below and with this e-mail I hope to reach researcher in the borderlands between internet research and the field of rhetorical research. The workshop will include discussions on contemporary political rhetoric, the formation of social movements and the international rhetoric of terror organisations. To understand these areas it is (of course) of key importance to understand the function of internet and social media in relation to these areas . I hope to reach PhD-students and emerging scholars (dissertation no earlier than 2014) that are interested in contributing to this discussion. /Erik Bengtson, Uppsala University CALL FOR PAPERS “Crossing Traditions: Reimagining the Political” International Rhetoric Workshop Uppsala University, Sweden 17-19 August 2016 The International Rhetoric Workshop (IRW) invites PhD students and emerging scholars to participate in developing the study of political rhetoric and its theoretical traditions. At beautiful Uppsala University, Sweden, we will meet in the last days of summer to advance rhetorical scholarship on “Crossing Traditions: Reimagining the Political”. The theme seeks to engage with questions of how various traditions of rhetorical theory meet and merge within global rhetorical practices, and how these crossings can change and develop the concept of the political. The IRW seeks to bring the diverse global community of rhetoric scholars together in a collaborative setting. Contemporary rhetorical studies include the study and criticism of contemporary persuasive practices, theoretical discussions on the conditions for communal meaning-making, and historical studies of rhetorical practices and rhetorical thinking in different times and places. The emphasis rhetorical studies places on cross-fertilization between these different forms of inquiry opens opportunities to take on the challenges posed by contemporary politics. The workshop theme seeks to be true to this characteristic of rhetorical studies, and focuses on the crossings of various rhetorical traditions and how global rhetorical practices can change and develop our conception of the political and its possibilities. The concept of the political has been a keystone in rhetorical thought since its instigation in ancient Greece. With world-wide communication and instant circulation, recurring crises and ever-increasing risk, environmental global challenges, and the racializing, sexualizing, and gendering of bodies, the importance of rhetoric at its intersection with the political continues to increase. It is simply not possible to imagine the political without also taking into consideration rhetorical practices that negotiate all of these issues. Examinations of the political and its materialization in particular contexts and advances in theoretical models that better fit today’s world are therefore much needed. Suggested themes or questions to be furthered at the workshop: Geographically structured traditions of rhetorical practices: their local, regional, and national contestations. How these traditions crosses boundaries: how they are compared, merged or intersected with other specific practices globally. How various rhetorical scholarships on political practices and political theories change and merge across academic traditions. Rhetorical conditions of possibility for the political to emerge. How rhetoric’s multifaceted, transnational intellectual history has crossed borders: its ancient heritage, its Arabic-European transformations, its mutation into post-colonial settings and histories of thought. How rhetoric’s continuous engagement with political, philosophical, and aesthetic thought is played out in global political settings. Format and participants The format consists of a three-day workshop at Uppsala with an opening keynote address on each day; breakout sessions in which workshop participants review and discuss drafts of ongoing research with faculty; and faculty discussion panels on topics relevant to the theme. IRW will include three keynote addresses from internationally recognized scholars working in the intersection of rhetorical and political thought: Debra Hawhee (Penn State University, USA), Kari Palonen (University of Jyväskylä, Finland), and Philippe-Joseph Salazar (University of Cape Town, South Africa). The core activity of the workshop will be engaged discussion and development of participants’ work-in-progress. Papers will be pre-circulated to a small group of about 5-6 workshop participants and one member of the invited faculty and everybody is expected to have constructive suggestions and comments on each other’s work. IRW will also have panel sessions, led by the invited faculty, on methodological and theoretical topics relating to the theme. The invited faculty consists of: Mats Rosengren (Uppsala University, Sweden), María Alejandra Vitale (University of Buenos Aires, Argentina), Jiyeon Kang (University of Iowa, USA), Jairos Kangira (University of Namibia), Dilip Gaonkar (Northwestern University, USA), Anne Ulrich (University of Tübingen, Germany), Alan Finlayson (University of East Anglia, UK) and our three keynote speakers. They work in the fields of postcolonial intellectual history, securitization, neo-liberal forms of governmentality, the changing forms of protest movements, the challenge of the political to continental thought, and national political rhetoric at the intersection of geopolitical rhetorical practices. In keeping with the small and informal setting, IRW will accept 50-60 participants based on quality of research, geographical spread, and relevance to the workshop theme. Abstracts should be no longer than 300 words and submitted through the form below. Abstract submission is open to PhD students and emerging scholars who have received their PhD no earlier than January 2014. How to apply Deadline for abstract submission: 30 March 2016. Please note that if an abstract is accepted for the conference, a full draft paper of your work-in-progress should be submitted by 30 June 2016. Final papers should be 4000-6000 words in length, excluding notes and references. Letter of acceptance will be sent no later than 20 April 2016. Registration fee (includes participation in the workshop with pre-circulated paper, one informal dinner, as well as breakfast and lunch for three days): 100 EUR To submit your abstract, please visit http://www.internationalrhetoric.com - - - Erik Bengtson Doktorand / Ph.D Fellow Avdelningen för retorik / Section of Rhetoric Litteraturvetenskapliga institutionen / Department of Literature Uppsala universitet / Uppsala University Thunbergsvägen 3 P Box 632, SE-751 26 Uppsala Sverige / Sweden erik.bengtson(a)littvet.uu.se<mailto:erik.bengtson@littvet.uu.se>

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WEBCAST TODAY: Princeton CITP Conference on Global Internet Interconnection
by Joly MacFie 11 Mar '16

11 Mar '16

Apologies for the late notice on this. While the morning is done, there is still one more session to come on pricing. The whole thing should be posted on CITP's YouTube in a day or three, and I'll send out a reminder when it is. Peering and interconnection, without which there would be no Internet, is one of the great under-discussed topics of our time! joly posted: "Today, Friday March 11 2016, the Center for Internet Policy at Princeton University (CITP) presents A Conference on Global Internet Interconnection. The ways that content and Internet service providers interconnect on the Internet are playing an increasin" [image: CITP]Today, *Friday March 11 2016*, the *Center for Internet Policy at Princeton University <https://citp.princeton.edu> *(CITP) presents *A Conference on Global Internet Interconnection <https://citp.princeton.edu/event/interconnection/>*. The ways that content and Internet service providers interconnect on the Internet are playing an increasingly important role in the nature of the Internet. Interconnection affects many aspects of the Internet experience, including user quality of experience for streaming video, the costs that consumers bear for Internet access, and the security and privacy of consumer data. This CITP conference will present a mix of technical and policy perspectives on interconnection. We will explore the ongoing (and forthcoming) technical developments in Internet interconnection and explore how these and other developments relate to the increasingly colorful and nuanced regulatory and policy questions in this space. It is being livestreamed and recorded. *What: CITP Conference on Global Internet Interconnection <https://citp.princeton.edu/event/interconnection/> Where: Princeton University, NJ Agenda: https://citp.princeton.edu/event/interconnection/ <https://citp.princeton.edu/event/interconnection/> Webcast: http://media central live.princeton.edu Twitter: #interconnection <https://twitter.com/hashtag/interconnection>* Comment <http://isoc-ny.org/p2/8352#respond> See all comments <http://isoc-ny.org/p2/8352#comments> *Permalink* http://isoc-ny.org/p2/8352 -- --------------------------------------------------------------- Joly MacFie 218 565 9365 Skype:punkcast -------------------------------------------------------------- -

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CFP: Book Chapters for "The Internet and the 2016 Presidential Campaign"
by T. Towner 11 Mar '16

11 Mar '16

CFP: Book Chapters for Edited Volume “The Internet and the 2016 Presidential Campaign” (Edited by Jody C. Baumgartner and Terri L. Towner) Proposal Deadline: Chapter manuscripts due by January 1, 2017. A completed book manuscript delivered by April 1, 2017. Virtually all aspects of political campaigns have been dramatically changed as the result of the Internet. The increased centrality of the Internet in citizens’ lives has had an effect on how we learn about, view, and interact with campaigns and candidates. The online campaign has now evolved into an extensive, sophisticated, and integral part of presidential electioneering. Although many developments surrounding the Internet campaign are now considered to be standard fare, there will no doubt be a number of new developments in 2016. This is inevitable, given the rapid rate of technological change and the ability of citizens, news organizations, candidates, parties and interest groups adapting to these changes. “The Internet and the 2016 Presidential Campaign” will examine these changes, exploring the continued evolution of the Internet’s role in presidential campaigns. Because the Internet has affected virtually all aspects of modern presidential campaigns, the book will be divided into four sections. Each will contain approximately 4-5 chapters. Proposals for each section will be considered: Section I. Campaign Organizations and Political Networks. Section II. Citizen Involvement: Participation and Engagement Section III. Citizen Involvement: Knowledge and Learning. Section IV. Political Newsmaking: Production, Delivery, and Consumption If you are interested in submitting, please contact Jody C. Baumgartner (jodyb(a)jodyb.net) or Terri L. Towner (towner(a)oakland.edu) with any questions or possible topics. -- Associate Professor Pi Sigma Alpha Faculty Advisor Oakland University Department of Political Science

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New open access book: Social Media in an English Village
by Major, Alison 11 Mar '16

11 Mar '16

***************Apologies for any cross-posting*************** UCL Press is delighted to announce the publication of an open access book that may be of interest to members of this list: Social Media in an English Village Download Free: http://bit.ly/1QpYbaB This title available in both free open access http://bit.ly/1QpYbaB and print editions (paperback, £15.00, http://bit.ly/1QpYbaB | hardback, £35.00 http://bit.ly/1QpYbaB) Daniel Miller spent 18 months undertaking an ethnographic study with the residents of an English village, tracking their use of the different social media platforms. Following his study, he argues that a focus on platforms such as Facebook, Twitter and Instagram does little to explain what we post on social media. Instead, the key to understanding how people in an English village use social media is to appreciate just how 'English' their usage has become. He introduces the 'Goldilocks Strategy': how villagers use social media to calibrate precise levels of interaction ensuring that each relationship is neither too cold nor too hot, but 'just right'. He explores the consequences of social media for groups ranging from schoolchildren through to the patients of a hospice, and he compares these connections to more traditional forms of association such as the church and the neighbourhood. Above all, Miller finds an extraordinary clash between new social media that bridges the private and the public domains, and an English sensibility that is all about keeping these two domains separate Download free: http://bit.ly/1QpYbaB About the Why We Post Why do we post on social media? Is it true that we are replacing face-to-face relationships with on-screen life? Are we becoming more narcissistic with the rise of selfies? Does social media create or suppress political action, destroy privacy or become the only way to sell something? And are these claims equally true for a factory worker in China and an IT professional in India? With these questions in mind, nine anthropologists each spent 15 months living in communities in China, Brazil, Turkey, Chile, India, England, Italy and Trinidad. They studied not only platforms but the content of social media to understand both why we post and the consequences of social media on our lives. Their findings indicate that social media is more than communication - it is also a place where we now live. This series explores and compares the results in a collection of ground-breaking and accessible ethnographic studies. To find out more, visit http://www.ucl.ac.uk/why-we-post

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Re: [Air-L] "Threading(?)" of messages in Whatsapp
by Daria Dayter 11 Mar '16

11 Mar '16

Dear Rich disrupted turn adjacency is a well-reswarched phenomenon in the linguistics of CMC, have a look, for example, at Susan Herring's 1999 paper DOI: 10.1111/j.1083-6101.1999.tb00106.x I hope this helps. best Daria Dayter Daria Dayter Department of English - University of Basel Postdoctoral Assistant Nadelberg 6, room 15 CH-4051 Basel / Switzerland Tel: 0041 - 61 - 2 67 27 82 Email: daria.dayter(a)unibas.ch https://engsem.unibas.ch/department/people/staff/profile/profile/person/day…

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"Threading(?)" of messages in Whatsapp
by Agnese Sampietro 11 Mar '16

11 Mar '16

Dear Rich, I dont know if it this phenomenon has a specific name. Im not working exactly on this topic, but I have worked on WhatsApp in my doctoral dissertation and (from a linguistic point of view) I have considered this phenomenon as the disrupted turn adjacency observed in chats: in order to maintain coherence, in my corpus users normally use addressivity (repeat the name of the user theyre writing to), topicalizations and repetitions (for example, they repeat the noun instead of using a pronoun), as in chats. I hope it helps. -- Agnese Sampietro Universitat de València Facultad de Filología, Traducción y Comunicación Avda. Blasco Ibáñez, 32 Tel. (+34) 963 86 41 00 Ext.51106 CLAUSULA DE CONFIDENCIALIDAD (ACGUV 227/2014: Art. 7.1)

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CFP EXTENDED: Cunning Knowledge and Media Technologies - abstracts due 19th March
by Christopher O'Neill 11 Mar '16

11 Mar '16

Call for Papers: Cunning Knowledge and Media Technologies *Platform: Journal of Media and Communication* http://platformjmc.com An interdisciplinary journal for early career researchers and graduate students Volume editor: Christopher O’Neill Abstract submissions due: *19th of March, 2016* Full paper submissions due: *20th of May, 2016* Everyone is on the side of the cunning. Media, communications, and cultural studies scholars have increasingly come to identify resistance with the alacrity of Michel de Certeau’s walker, with the trickster whose clever ‘tactics’ always outwit the lumbering stupidities of state power and its ‘strategies’. Cunning knowledge comes from below, it is popular, it resists codification and iteration, it responds to a given exigency *in the moment*, it is defined by a certain *disposition*. Cunning belongs to those who, in a state of lack, are driven to subvert majoritarian institutions and ways of thinking. Theorists including Michel de Certeau, Guy Debord, Sarah Kofman, Carlo Ginzburg, Donna Haraway, Marcel Detienne, Jean-Pierre Vernant, Gilbert Simondon, and François Jullien have celebrated the capacity for cunning to undermine instrumental or otherwise reductive conceptions of knowledge. But what happens when even the largest organs of state and corporate power self-consciously seek to recuperate the power of the cunning for their own ends? In Hesiod we read that Zeus swallowed the Greek goddess of cunning Metis, for “fear that she might bring forth a thunderbolt stronger than his own”. Analogously, Google has produced “a kind of cunning world-wide-web-weaving”, Dan Mellamphy has argued in a previous issue of *Platform*, it has “swallowed-up the ruse and intelligence of the internet” by crafting a powerful, emergent, yet unstable archive, a bottom-up form of administrative knowledge. Furthermore, the distinction Certeau makes between the prescriptive spatial grammar of urban strategists, and the colloquial *détournements* made by walkers, seems less secure today, as pattern-of-life spatial analytics attempt to grasp the movement of the city *in motion*, with all its associated rhythms and cadences. This issue of *Platform* seeks papers which engage with the question: What does ‘cunning’ signify today in the technological realm? Does cunning still belong to those who lack power, or are the powerful today so powerful that they lack not even lack? As the qualities associated with cunning, such as adaptation, induction, speed, and resilience become adopted as normative values in finance and statecraft, does cunning still possess the capacity to disrupt (disruption itself perhaps now holding dubious critical efficacy), or is there a need to consider new modes of critique, ‘new weapons’, perhaps a reappraisal of the neglected virtues of slowness, deliberation, even stasis? *Platform* seeks papers on all aspects related to cunning and media & technology, including but not limited to: -Hunting techniques (the venatic) & (state) surveillance, drones, etc. -The relation between witchcraft, alchemy, sorcery, and modern technoscience -Cunning as a gendered knowledge -Cunning as an aspect of neo-liberal subjectivity -Cunning and lack, aporia, poverty -Cunning and medical technologies (e.g., health tracking technologies) -Cunning as an embodied knowledge, its relation to gesture -The relation between mimesis, trickery, and online self-identity and self-representation -The relation between haptic media and cunning techniques of sleight-of-hand (prestidigitation) -Cross cultural conceptions of cunning (e.g., comparing *metis*, *zhi*, etc.) -The relation between fortune-telling, soothsaying techniques, and predictive analytics -Cunning and design/craft -Cunning and approaches to ‘queering’ normative knowledge practices -Cunning and its relation to temporality and speed -The relation between cunning and other forms of knowledge (e.g., *phronesis*, *sophia*, etc.) Please send all enquiries and submissions to platformjmc(a)gmail.com. Abstracts must be accompanied by a brief curriculum vitae and biographical note, and should not exceed 350 words. Abstracts are to be submitted no later than 19th of March, 2016. Full papers will be due by 20th of May 2016; please be aware that acceptance of abstracts does not guarantee publication. All submissions should be from early career researchers (defined as being within a few years of completing their PhD.) or current graduate students undertaking their Masters, PhD. or international equivalent. All eligible submissions will be sent for double-blind peer-review. Early submission is highly encouraged as the review process will commence on submission. Note: Please read the submission guidelines before submitting work <http://platformjmc.com/make-a-submission/guidelines/>. Submissions received not in house style will not be accepted and authors will be asked to resubmit their work with the correct formatting before it is sent for review. *Platform: Journal of Media and Communication* is a fully refereed, open-access online graduate journal. Founded and published by the School of Culture and Communication at the University of Melbourne (Australia), *Platform* was launched in November 2008. *Platform* is refereed by an international board of established and emerging scholars working across diverse fields in media and communication studies, and is edited by graduate students at the University of Melbourne.

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