- Air-L - lists.aoir.org

"Threading(?)" of messages in Whatsapp
by Rich Ling 10 Mar '16

10 Mar '16

Dear all, I am working on a piece where I want to talk about the problem of following a discussion in, for example, a Whatsapp group on a smartphone. If there are too many people contributing to the discussion and there are several themes in play, the messages get jumbled. First of all, is this called threading? I thought it was, but that term does not turn up any relevant literature. Is there a better term? Second, if anyone knows of work in this area, I would be happy to hear about it. Thanks Rich L.

2 1

NCA Game Studies Division 2016 Call for Submissions
by Rosa Mikeal Martey 09 Mar '16

09 Mar '16

Greetings, AoIR folks: Below is the call for submissions for the *NEW* National Communication Association division for Games Studies. ------------------------------ National Communication Association <http://www.natcom.org/> - Game Studies Division Submission Deadline Dates: Mon, 1/18 2016 12:00 AM - Thu, 3/31 2016 3:00 AM EDT Submission info and link: http://www.natcom.org/convention/ The purpose of the Games Studies Division is to promote scholarship that highlights communicative behavior in video games, simulators, virtual environments, and massive online worlds. Members are concerned with video game use and exposure effects, motivations for playing, games as a social laboratory and serious games, and the rhetorical, critical, and feminist dimensions of this widely popular but still controversial technology. The Game Studies Division encourages creative submissions that describe and analyze innovative approaches to video game-related issues as well as ones that foster opportunities for collaboration between attendees. We also seek submissions that portray, research, or enhance the convention theme, “Communication’s civic calling.” The Game Studies Division will only accept Individual Papers for the time being. Unfortunately we do not yet have enough sessions to accommodate Paper Sessions and Panel Discussions. All submissions must be made via NCA Convention Central. Emailed or mailed submissions will not be accepted. For a definition of submission types, please refer to the step-by-step “How to Submit” Instructions provided in the Convention Library. http://www.natcom.org/conventionresources/ Individual Papers Requirements: Submissions must include a 30-page, double-spaced, Times New Roman or Arial 12 point font, and with 1” margins uploaded copy of the paper. The 30-page limit will be enforced and it includes the title page along with references, tables, and figures. Copies must be uploaded into NCA Convention Central and must not include identifying information. Instructions on how to prepare an anonymous submission are provided in the Convention Library. We will recognize the Top Paper in our division. Submission should include title, paper description, keywords, and AV requests. Submitters should indicate their willingness to present in Scholar to Scholar on the appropriate form. All submitters are encouraged to review the Professional Standards for Convention Participants prior to submission. Helpful resources, including live and recorded step-by-step instructions on how to submit, are available in the Convention Library. Questions? Contact Jorge Peña, Game Studies Division Planner (530) 754-0977, jpena(a)ucdavis.edu -- Rosa Mikeal Martey Associate Professor Journalism and Technical Communication Women's Studies Affiliated Faculty Clark C-218, CD 1785 Colorado State University Fort Collins, CO 80523 970-491-6469 rosa.martey @ colostate.edu

1 0

CFP for Special Isse of Social Media + Society on Ethics as Methods in the Era of Big Data
by Andrew Herman 09 Mar '16

09 Mar '16

Ethic as method in an era of big data Special Issue of Social Media + Society We invite contributions to a special issue of Social Media + Society devoted to a critical examination of the future of Internet research practices in the era of computational or big data analytics, with particular focus on how ethics can be configured through methodological approaches. Although we are promiscuously catholic as far as theoretical approaches are concerned, we are especially interested in contributions that pay specific attention to the socio-technical and political economic dimensions of "platform politics" and their ethical implications for research practice, as elaborated in the following questions. These questions constitute only some of the possible entry points into the discussion and we welcome other ideas: * Ethics have been traditionally situated as prior to methods; that is, as philosophical groundings that guide practice. If we situate method in the same time/space as ethics, would a different set of practices emerge? This question becomes relevant in an era when ethics are being reconfigured to better meet the contingencies of particular digital situations. For example, in situations wherein algorithms function with similar agency to humans, our methodological choices for deciding what counts as data or what might be considered a participant in a social interaction have ethical consequences. If every method decision is an ethics decision and vice versa, how might we rethink the relationship between the methodological and axiological? * Ethics are a series of activities that follow from a particular ethos. Etymologically, ethos is about emplacement and orientation. If we take this as a starting point, where is the place from which ethics emerge? What are the ethics of abstraction within this broader understanding of ethos as place? What ontological and more particularly, methodological premises currently guide inquiry practices in the beginning of the 21st century? Are these being transformed in some ways? What levels of abstraction and reconfiguration are involved in the collection of humans (and their data) as data? * How do processes of mediation constitute an ethos of methodological emplacement? All social research entails a particular assemblage of media forms and practices that lay the foundation for methodology. In addition, all practices are situated in particular social, economic, institutional, and disciplinary frameworks. All methodologies, therefore, are situated and mediated. How do ethics get played out over multiple layers of mediation? For example, qualitative researchers commonly abstract lived experience in multiple ways, through inscription of observations, recording of interviews, and often qualitative data analysis software. Quantitative social science likewise depends on methods that extract particular data from the context; sample through variable selection, survey instruments and statistical software packages; and so on. Each assemblage of mediation produces different objects and subjects of research, as well as different definitions of validity, reliability, and so on. What kind of mediations and situations envelop social media platforms and big data analytics? What kinds of research subjects and objects do they suppose and/or propose? What ethical practices do these mediations facilitate, constrain, or require? * If social computing research entails a different configuration of epistemology, ontology and methodology than other modes of empirical research in the human sciences, what are the implications for the model of "informed consent" that is currently the litmus test of the ethics of human subject research? How are we to understand the ethical implications of the power relationship between a corporate entity that is legally construed to be a sovereign subject with the rights of a person (in the US) and the "subjects" of research who are disarticulated from their personhood through a cloud of data analytics? * Should we revisit the old epistemological debates between quantitative and qualitative social science? The discussion of corporate research ethics, particularly since Facebook's "emotional contagion" experiments of 2014, exposed many rifts between on the one hand social media platforms and the teams that perform analytics on automatically-generated large data sets; and on the other hand, qualitative oriented social scientists in internet studies. One participant in the debates described the latter group as being comprised of 'those whose research is primarily rhetorical,' in contrast to the social computing researchers whose work is more 'objective' because of its reliance on data driven experimentation. To what extent is the popularity of data- and evidence-driven models returning to modernist criteria for quality such as validity, reliability and generalizability? What might be the ethical consequences of privileging certain kinds of validity? Of particular salience here would be the social computing emphasis on the extremely large number of cases afforded by social media platforms. Does the comparatively huge number of 'cases' in big data analytics necessarily entail a higher degree of validity, however defined? Further, does the employment of A/B experimental models also enhance validity and rigour? Other thematically resonant topics include (by are no means limited to): * Discussion of epistemological sticking points that might help explain the particular, and some might say peculiar, transformation of human activity to data points that can be analyzed separate from the temporal, textural, and emplaced lived experience. * Emergent ideas of ethics and labor practices involved in the exchange of personal data for platform and interface services. * Discussion or problematization of regulatory driven models of ethical practice that create pre-formed boundaries and regulatory norms; privilege particular activities and methods according to specific definitions of such concepts as informed consent, definition of human subjects, and protection of privacy; and fail to address the complexities of contemporary socio-technical relations of social media platforms. Primary Editors of the Special Issue: Andrew Herman, Wilfrid Laurier University, Canada Annette Markham, Aarhus University, Denmark Timeline: Submit 750 word abstract for consideration: May 15, 2016 Receive Invitation to contribute: June 15, 2016 Submit full paper for peer review: November 1, 2016 Receive results of peer review: January 15, 2016 Submit revised manuscript: March 1, 2017 Style/Form of Paper We encourage a range of style for papers. You might choose to make a position statement, defend a manifesto, or develop new models and tools for thinking. You might choose a creative reporting of an empirical study. We are as promiscuous in style as we are in theory, and seek to make a critical intervention with this special issue. The paper length is somewhat shorter than is typical to compel contributors to make strong but precise arguments or critical analyses that might provoke debate and further conversation among readers. Abstracts (submit by May 15, 2016) should be no longer than 750 words, not including references. Please submit abstracts via email to ethicasmethod(a)gmail.com<mailto:ethicasmethod@gmail.com>. Attach the submission as a PDF file. Please include proposed title, author name(s), 750 word abstract, and references. Full papers (submit by November 1, 2016) should be no longer than 6,000 words, including references. Manuscripts should follow the SM+S guidelines which are available at https://us.sagepub.com/en-us/nam/social-media-society/journal202332#submiss… Authors should cite their own work as they would any other author, both in text and in the Reference section, being careful not to indicate that the work they are citing is their own. Manuscripts that use (Author) will be returned. SM+S uses APA style citation. Guidelines at: http://www.apastyle.org/ Accepted manuscripts will not incur any open access fees. To submit your manuscript you will need to make an account at https://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/smas You will then login to this account, select Author Center, and then under Author Resources, you will click where it says "Click here to submit a new manuscript." This will begin the submission process. The system will guide you through the submission process, but here are some instructions for specific questions: It is imperative that in Step One of the submission page you select "SI: Ethics As Method" for submission type. In Step Four of the submission process, you will answer "No" to the question "Has this manuscript been submitted previously to this journal?" If you have any questions, ideas, or want to discuss this in advance, please feel free to contact either of the editors: amarkham [at] dac [dot] au {dot} dk or aherman [at] wlu {dot} ca.

1 0

CfP 3er Encuentro de Humanistas Digitales
by igalina 09 Mar '16

09 Mar '16

Convocatoria para el envío de ponencias para el 3er Encuentro de Humanistas Digitales (English version below) El comité organizador del 3er Encuentro de Humanistas Digitales les informo que el nuevo límite para la fecha de envío de propuestas es el 3 de abril. Fechas: 12 al 14 de septiembre 2016 Sede: El Colegio de México, Ciudad de México Convocan: Red de Humanidades Digitales (RedHD) El Colegio de México Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM) Página web del Encuentro: http://www.humanidadesdigitales.net/index.php/eventos/encuentro2016 La RedHD, en colaboración con El Colegio de México y la Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México convocan al 3er Encuentro de Humanistas Digitales, que se llevará a cabo del 12 al 14 de septiembre del 2016 en la Biblioteca Daniel Cosío Villegas de El Colegio de México. Este Tercer Encuentro busca explorar el avance en las discusiones, los proyectos y las iniciativas que combinan estudios en las áreas de las humanidades o la ciencias sociales, que utilizan o bien analizan los medios digitales, con especial interés en aquellas que se orientan hacia las culturas locales en el espacio latinoamericano. Fecha límite para el envío de propuestas es el 3 de abril. Más información en: http://www.humanidadesdigitales.net/index.php/eventos/encuentro2016 y en archivo anexo. - *Please note that deadline has been extended to 3rd April* Call for Papers 3rd Meeting of Humanistas Digitales Dates: 12th - 14th of September 2016 Venue: El Colegio de México, Mexico City Red de Humanidades Digitales (RedHD) El Colegio de México Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM) http://www.humanidadesdigitales.net/index.php/eventos/encuentro2016 The RedHD, in collaboration with El Colegio de México and the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM) is pleased to announce the 3rd Meeting of Humanistas Digitales to be held from the 12th to the 14th of September 2016 at the Biblioteca Daniel Cosío Villegas, El Colegio de México in Mexico City. This 3rd Meeting aims to discuss developments in the discussions, projects and initiatives that combine research in the Humanities and the Social Sciences, that either use or analyze the digital medium, in particular those focused on local cultures in the Latin American region. Deadline for abstracts: 3rd April 2016 For more information: http://www.humanidadesdigitales.net/index.php/eventos/encuentro2016 ---------- Dra. Isabel Galina Russell Instituto de Investigaciones Bibliográficas, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM) igalina(a)unam.mx @igalina ---------- Dra. Isabel Galina Russell Instituto de Investigaciones Bibliográficas, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM) igalina(a)unam.mx @igalina

1 0

New Open Access Book: How the World Changed Social Media
by Major, Alison 09 Mar '16

09 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: How the World Changed Social Media Download Free: http://bit.ly/1WTmdvh This title available in both free open access http://bit.ly/1WTmdvh and print editions (paperback, £15.00, http://bit.ly/1WTmdvh | hardback, £35.00 http://bit.ly/1WTmdvh) How the World Changed Social Media is the first book in Why We Post, a book series that investigates the findings of anthropologists who each spent 15 months living in communities across the world. This book offers a comparative analysis summarising the results of the research and explores the impact of social media on politics and gender, education and commerce. What is the result of the increased emphasis on visual communication? Are we becoming more individual or more social? Why is public social media so conservative? Why does equality online fail to shift inequality offline? How did memes become the moral police of the internet? Supported by an introduction to the project's academic framework and theoretical terms that help to account for the findings, the book argues that the only way to appreciate and understand something as intimate and ubiquitous as social media is to be immersed in the lives of the people who post. Only then can we discover how people all around the world have already transformed social media in such unexpected ways and assess the consequences. Download a free open access copy: http://bit.ly/1WTmdvh About 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

1 0

Call for Participation: Archives Unleashed 2.0 - Web Archive Hackathon
by Matthew Weber 09 Mar '16

09 Mar '16

All, Please see the CFP below this message for information regarding an upcoming datathon. This is a great opportunity to engage with Web archive research, and to learn more about working with large-scale data. Funding is available for graduate students at US institutions. Regards, Matt ***Call for Participation*** Archives Unleashed 2.0: Web Archive Datahon Library of Congress, Washington DC 14 – 15 June 2016 Travel grants available for US-based graduate students; additional funding may be available for international participants Applications due 15 March 2016 http://www.archivesunleashed.com **This event is a follow-up to the Archives Unleashed datathon held in March at the University of Toronto Library. With generous funding from the National Science Foundation and the Social Science and Humanities Research Council (Canada), we’ve been able to extend the datathon program, and are excited to bring this program to the Library of Congress.** The World Wide Web has a profound impact on how we research and understand the past. The sheer amount of cultural information that is generated and, crucially, preserved every day in electronic form, presents exciting new opportunities for researchers. Much of this information is captured within web archives. Web archives often contain hundreds of billions of web pages, ranging from individual homepages and social media posts, to institutional websites. These archives offer tremendous potential for social scientists and humanists, and the questions research may pose stretch across a multitude of fields. Scholars broaching topics dating back to the mid-1990s will find their projects enhanced by web data. Moreover, scholars hoping to study the evolution of cultural and societal phenomena will find a treasure trove of data in web archives. In short, web archives offer the ability to reconstruct large-scale traces of the relatively recent past. While there has been considerable discussion about web archive tools and datasets, few forums or mechanisms for coordinated, mutually informing development efforts have been created. This hackathon presents an opportunity to collaboratively unleash our web collections, exploring cutting-edge research tools while fostering a broad-based consensus on future directions in web archive analysis. This hackathon will bring together a small group of 20-30 participants to collaboratively develop new open-source tools and approaches to hackathon, and to kick-off collaboratively inspired research projects. Researchers should be comfortable with command line interactions, and knowledge of a scripting language such as Python strongly desired. By bringing together a group of like-minded scholars and programmers, we hope to begin building unified analytic production effort and to continue coalescing this nascent research community. At this event, we hope to converge on a shared vision of future directions in the use of web archives for inquiry in the humanities and social sciences in order to build a community of practice around various web archive analytics platforms and tools. Thanks to the generous support of the National Science Foundation, the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada, the University of Waterloo’s Department of History, the David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science and the University of Waterloo, and the School of Communication and Information at Rutgers University, we will cover all meals and refreshments for attendees. We are also providing sample datasets for people to work on during the hackathon, or they are happy to use their own. Included datasets are: • the .gov web archive covering the American government domain • Canadian Political Parties and Political Interest Groups collection Those interested in participating should send a 250-word expression of interest and a CV to Matthew Weber (matthew.weber(a)rutgers.edu <mailto:matthew.weber@rutgers.edu>) by 15 March 2016 with “Archives Unleashed” in the subject line. This expression of interest should address the scholarly questions that you will be bringing to the hackathon, and what datasets you might be interested in either working with or bringing to the event. Applicants will be notified by 25 March 2016. We have a limited number of travel grants available for graduate students; preference will be given to those who have not participated in the Archives Unleashed program in the past, although we welcome returning participants. These grants can cover up to $750 in expenses. If you are in an eligible position, please indicate in your statement of interest that you would like to be considered for the travel grant. A letter of support from your graduate supervisor will also strengthen your application. On behalf of the organizers, Matthew Weber (Rutgers University), Ian Milligan (University of Waterloo), Jimmy Lin (University of Waterloo) Matthew S. Weber Assistant Professor School of Communication and Information http://www.matthewsweber.com <http://www.matthewsweber.com/> Co-Director NetSci Network Science Lab http://netsci.rutgers.edu <http://netsci.rutgers.edu/> Rutgers University (ph): 848-932-8718

1 0

REMINDER: CfP special edition of Internet Policy Review on Australian Internet Policy - abstract submission deadline 14 March
by Angela Daly 09 Mar '16

09 Mar '16

*Special issue on ‘Australian internet policy’* *Call for papers of the **Internet Policy Review* supported by the *Swinburne Institute for Social Research* and *.au Domain Administration (auDA)* TOPIC & RELEVANCE Australia is a country in which there have been various interesting developments in internet policy over the last decade. The ambitious government-led National Broadband Network gained international attention in internet policy circles, although its actual trajectory has proved different from initial plans. While in many ways internet access and use in Australia’s large cities is similar to that experienced by European users, it is also a vast country with many rural and remote populations, for whom the internet is more difficult to access and use. Australia has also not been immune from international trends regarding internet policy, such as an increased emphasis of intellectual property enforcement in the online space, the clash between individual privacy and counter-terrorism measures and the disruption brought to various economic sectors by apps such as Uber. Furthermore, Australia itself is one nation participating in international trade negotiations which are likely to have an effect on internet policy globally, including the recently-signed Trans Pacific Partnership, and the Trade in Services Agreement which is still being discussed. SCOPE OF THE SPECIAL ISSUE The aim of the special issue in the *Internet Policy Review* is to explore these recent developments in Australian internet policy and how they relate to internet policy developments internationally. Australia is in many ways a country similar to European states, but also with many differences: both the similarities and differences can be seen playing out in the internet policy field. Accordingly, we welcome proposals that address policy developments and debates so long as they relate to the governance of the Australian internet in some way, or Australian internet policy in regional or international fora. Comparative analyses, especially with European societies and jurisdictions, are particularly welcome (but such comparison is not necessary for inclusion in the special edition). Papers can have both a theoretical or empirical focus, and if empirical can be qualitative, quantitative or employing mixed methods. This call for papers is open to researchers from the fields of policy studies, sociology, law, philosophy, data, information and technology studies, economics and management and, related fields. FOCUS OF THE PAPERS We are particularly interested to receive proposals on the following themes in Australian internet policy: · *Intellectual property and the internet:* definition, enforcement, consequences · *The internet economy:* emerging markets; Uberisation and disruption · *The National Broadband Network; net neutrality* · *Data retention, surveillance and privacy* · *Internet governance; domain name policy* · *The interaction of trade and internet policy:* TPP; TiSA · *Australia’s internet policy regionally/internationally:* intersections with development, migration and security policy · *Digital inclusion:* providing internet access to all Australians BEST PAPER AWARD A best paper award will be issued to the paper accepted for publication that the editorial team judges as being of the highest quality and provoking the most interesting arguments. SPECIAL EDITION EDITORS - Dr Angela Daly, Queensland University of Technology ( angela.daly(a)qut.edu.au) - Professor Julian Thomas, Swinburne Institute for Social Research ( jthomas(a)swin.edu.au) IMPORTANT DATES *14 March 2016:* Deadline for expression of interest and abstract submissions (500 word abstracts). *4 April 2016:* Authors informed of decision on abstracts *2 June 2016:* Deadline for full text submissions (max. 30,000 characters spaces included). All details on text submissions can be found under: http://policyreview.info/authors *October 2016:* Publication of the special issue *Submission of abstracts via online form: http://policyreview.info/node/392 <http://policyreview.info/node/392>*

1 0

Final call for abstracts on "Future Making" for Danish STS Conference. Deadline March 15
by Annette Markham 08 Mar '16

08 Mar '16

**apologies for any cross listing*** Dear AoIR Colleagues, Please note the March 15 deadline. It's only 300 word abstracts, so that's plenty of time :) Join me and many other STS colleagues in June, 2015 at the Danish STS (DASTS) Conference in Aarhus, June 2-3, 2015. http://sts.au.dk/dasts16/ You can submit papers in many different sessions. I'm organizing a panel called Future Making: Methods, 'Data', and Social Change." See below for session details. Session 6: FUTURE MAKING: METHODS, ‘DATA,’ AND SOCIAL CHANGE Organizer: Annette Markham, Aarhus University. Please submit Title and 300 word abstract before the end of March 15, 2015 via the webform: http://sts.au.dk/dasts16/submit/ . For questions, contact sessions organizer: amarkham [at] dac [dot] au [dot] dk Session Description: How do people make sense of intensely local but digitally mediated and heavily networked life in the 21st Century? How do individuals deal with the enormous amounts of data they generate and accumulate in their everyday digital lives? What stories are told through this data? How much of the story does an individual actually control? What stories are automatically generated by how we organize our files (or not), switch computers, use multiple storage devices, both in the cloud and in our pockets? These questions are well suited to an STS approach, especially if we embrace the challenge to move beyond description to intervention. Within a proactive stance of ethical future making, what creative practices can we offer to developers, citizens, and policy makers to critically interrogate the situations constituted through automation and datafication? How might our well-honed STS methods help people grapple with, manage, or make sense of the complexity of the personal big data they produce as they live their everyday lives in a digital era? This track invites contributions that address these questions and build a case for intervention; modes and attitudes of inquiry that contribute research expertise to collaborative and participatory social change. Format can be traditional paper presentations, but track participants are particularly encouraged to consider how their ideas can be conveyed through workshops, creative presentations, exhibitions, interactive discussions, or other ‘unconference’ activities. These experimental formats are useful for thinking through practices other than academic discourse, while being grounded firmly in robust academic methodologies, to develop models for inquiry that are oriented more toward social change than scholarly description. More specific to the topic of building better digital futures, this track is designed to provoke energetic discussions of how STS scholarship can transform findings into interventions, raise consciousness about the automated and algorithmic processes increasingly curating our memories, and help people develop personally meaningful methods for documenting, archiving, and later re-exhibiting lived experience, whether individually or as part of larger groups and municipalities. The focus of individual submissions should connect to this track theme. Proposals are not limited to the following, but could be focused on one or more of these well known problems of contemporary digital culture: *Datafication*. This term marks the growing tendency to digitize, quantify, and transform human experience into data; this process increasingly directs personal and professional activities. When used as part of big data calculations, our experiences are equalized and flattened into data points, giving the illusion that all experiences are equally meaningful and ultimately accessible. Our digital traces are stored in large government and privately held data centers, bought and sold for marketing, personalization of apps, or just to keep track of us. Data are simultaneously invisible and everywhere. They assume an “itness,” making their qualities seem concrete and incontrovertible. *Algorithmic interpellation*. Algorithms manipulate data and feed us information about ourselves. Future norms and structures are emerging through current designs and frameworks for thinking about social media platforms; the automated and corporatized features of these platforms do not necessarily operate in the best interest of people. *Locus of control*. As information becomes digitized, such as family photos, letters, and other everyday artifacts, information that helps individuals remember gets lost in deep file structures and outdated devices. Although there are many apps and programs to help us sort through these datasets, the digitizing processes has not significantly improved our ability to seamlessly retrieve and make sense of past events. At a broader structural level, similar question can be raised: What is the role of social media platforms in creating our memories? How much does the automated Facebook curation of our Year in Review exhibit, for example, dictate the stories that will eventually be understood as individual memory, generational history, and cultural heritage? *Hegemonic culturing*. Whatever we define as a case, a situation, or a phenomenon is at least a complex play of negotiations, alignments and realignments within society. How do these structures and processes function hegemonically, neutralizing and naturalizing certain ways of being while obscuring other alternatives? This question is important particularly when and if people don’t think of datafication or algorithmic processing as problems at all. A subtle shift in the discourse over the past 20 years indicates a growing acceptance of the ‘fact’ of constant surveillance and mass data collection by companies that provide users with applications, platforms, and devices. At the same time, individuals are increasingly held personally responsible for actions online, while the platforms and infrastructures are portrayed as natural carriers and neutral collectors of data. submit session abstract for consideration by March 15 here: http://sts.au.dk/dasts16/submit/ ***************************************************** 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

1 0

Re: [Air-L] gender
by Baker, Andrea 08 Mar '16

08 Mar '16

David Banks, thank you so very much for this citation below. I wish I had seen it sooner. In any event, I hope the article and its recommendations can help any person or institution subject to gender inequalities in promotions to full professorships. "The "13+ Club" touches on gender and tenure more broadly. Might be helpful here: http://muse.jhu.edu/login?auth=0&type=summary&url=/journals/nwsa_journal/v0…" cheers, andee

2 1

DataONE Users Group Meeting: Registration Open
by Robert Sandusky 08 Mar '16

08 Mar '16

Friends Join us at the annual DataONE Users Group (DUG) Meeting in Chapel Hill this summer to learn more about DataONE and contribute to a community of data managers, librarians, researchers and others that are changing the way we discover and use open data. Co-located with the ESIP Summer meeting, the DUG meeting is 2 days of plenary talks, community led sessions and break-out discussions focussed on "Expanding Data Networks". Registration is free and we are accepting submissions for talks and posters until April 15th. Summary details are provided below. For more comprehensive information go to: https://www.dataone.org/dataone-users-group/2016-meeting. We look forward to seeing you there. Bob Sandusky University of Illinois at Chicago Meeting Dates: July 17th-18th Meeting Location: Friday Center, Chapel Hill, NC Meeting Theme: Expanding Data Networks Registration Link: https://www.dataone.org/dataone-users-group-meeting-registration-2016 Hotel Room Block: Courtyard Chapel Hill Meeting Page: https://www.dataone.org/dataone-users-group/2016-meeting

1 0