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Digital Methods Summer School at the University of Manchester
by Lukasz Szulc 11 Apr '24

11 Apr '24

Dear colleagues, We invite you to participate in the Digital Methods Summer School which we organize at the University of Manchester in the UK between 1st and 5th July 2024 (in person only). It is an introductory course for anyone who would like to explore the benefits and limitations of innovative digital tools for analyzing a diverse range of data in humanities and social sciences. The participants will learn about mobile, geospatial and operational methods, algorithmic ethnography, text mining and data visualization, and they will reflect on pressing ethical questions arising when employing digital methods. For more information, please visit: https://new.express.adobe.com/webpage/PwU96KcXSNB3l or email me at lukasz.szulc(a)manchester.ac.uk We are pleased to be able to offer a limited number of bursaries for the applicants and the deadline to apply for them is the 22nd of April. Very best, Łukasz Dr Łukasz Szulc<https://research.manchester.ac.uk/en/persons/%C5%82ukasz-szulc> (he/him) Senior Lecturer in Digital Media and Culture School of Arts, Languages and Cultures University of Manchester UNITED KINGDOM RECENT PUBLICATIONS (2023) Culture is transnational. https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/13678779221131349 (2022) Uncanny Europe and Protective Europeanness: When European Identity Becomes a Queerly Viable Option. https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/00380385211024117 (2022) A Lot of Straddling and Squirming: Taking Queer Migrant Stories beyond the Academic and Digital Walls. https://academic.oup.com/ccc/article/15/2/276/6556263 (2020) Digital Gender Disidentifications: Beyond the Subversion Versus Hegemony Dichotomy and Toward Everyday Gender Practices. https://ijoc.org/index.php/ijoc/article/view/15396

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PhD studentship at BCU: Media Diversity project
by Panayiota Tsatsou 11 Apr '24

11 Apr '24

Apologies for cross-posting. Exciting full-funded PhD studentship at BCU! Media Diversity in the UK: Persistent Inequalities and Emerging Agendas | Birmingham City University (bcu.ac.uk)<https://www.bcu.ac.uk/student-info/types-of-study/postgraduate/staying-at-b…> Please circulate to your students and others who wish to study media diversity in the UK 😊 All the best Panayiota Prof. Panayiota Tsatsou (She/her) Professor in Media Diversity Senior Fellow of Higher Education Academy (SFHEA) 3.65A Office, Millenium Point Sir Lenny Henry Centre for Media Diversity College of English and Media Birmingham City University M: 0742 924990 E: panayiota.tsatsou(a)bcu.ac.uk<mailto:panayiota.tsatsou@bcu.ac.uk> W: https://www.bcu.ac.uk/media/research/research-staff/panayiota-tsatsou @PanayTsatsou @BCUMedia Disclaimer This email and any files transmitted with it are confidential and intended solely for the use of the individual or entity to whom they are addressed. If you have received this email in error, please notify the sender immediately, delete this email from your system and do not use, copy, or disclose the information contained in this message or in any attachment. Any views or opinions expressed are solely those of the author and do not necessarily represent those of Birmingham City University. Birmingham City University accepts no liability for any loss or damage caused by any virus transmitted by this email and the recipient must ensure that the email (and attachments) is virus free.

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Deadline extended for ICA Awards in Intercultural Communication!
by Seuferling,P 11 Apr '24

11 Apr '24

Dear colleagues, ICA’s Intercultural Communication Division is taking nominations for this year’s “Best Article Award” and “Outstanding Dissertation Award”! The deadline has been extended to 20 April 2024. Please find all relevant information here: “Best Article Award”: https://www.icahdq.org/blogpost/2013286/482996/Best-Article-Award “Outstanding Dissertation Award”: https://www.icahdq.org/blogpost/2013286/482997/Outstanding-PhD-Dissertation… Do take the chance to get your work on intercultural communication recognized at ICA 2024 in Gold Coast, Australia! Best wishes, ICC Division, ICA Philipp Seuferling Secretary

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[FlashLab seminar] Zelly Martin (UT Austin) 18/04/2024 “End-to-end encryption as sociotechnical process: How pro-choice activists construct security beyond material tools.”
by Assia 11 Apr '24

11 Apr '24

Dear all, The Flashlab seminar is thrilled to announce the first session of its new quarterly *“Bodies and Digital technologies” series* which will be held in hybrid format on* Thursday April 18, 2024* from *4pm to 5:30pm Central European Time (CET)*. We will welcome *Zelly Martin* (The University of Texas at Austin) for a presentation entitled: *“End-to-end encryption as sociotechnical process: How pro-choice activists construct security beyond material tools.”* *Abstract*: On June 24th, 2022, the United States Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade, and thus the federal right to abortion for people who can get pregnant in the United States. In the nearly two years since, 21 U.S. states have restricted or banned abortion, resulting in a cascade of suffering, including people forced to travel to access abortion care of even wanted pregnancies with fatal fetal abnormalities. Concurrently, our increasingly datafied society and related surveillance capitalism poses dire threats for people who use the internet to access abortion or do abortion-related work. Social media platforms share data with law enforcement that can–and has–negatively impact those seeking care, as in the infamous case of a Nebraska mother and daughter’s Facebook messages being used as evidence to criminalize the daughter’s self-managed abortion. As such, encrypted messaging apps, or chat apps which ensure only the sender and receiver of a message may view its content, have become crucial tools for abortion-seekers and abortion activists. Yet, there are potential harms associated with such a heavy reliance upon exclusively technical security. As part of my dissertation research, I conducted interviews with pro-choice activists, anti-abortion activists, pro-encryption activists, and Texas law enforcement to understand the sociotechnical processes of creating privacy and security in a post-Roe America. In this talk, I will explore the continued necessity for feminist community-building beyond mere technical security, and the need for reframing encryption ideology beyond its techno-libertarian, white, patriarchal roots. *Flashlab is an independent hybrid seminar led by and for early-stage social science researchers interested in digital technologies. Sessions are usually held in Paris, France and online.* Practical information are shared ahead of time on the seminar mailing list: flashlab(a)framalistes.org. Alternatively, feel free to request the connection link directly at flashlab.contact(a)gmail.com. Kind wishes, Valentin Goujon and Assia Wirth -- Assia WIRTH PhD Candidate @ Paris-Saclay University <http://www.universite-paris-saclay.fr> @AssiaWirth <https://twitter.com/AssiaWirth> <http://www.universite-paris-saclay.fr>

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Call for Nominations - Nancy Baym Annual Book Award
by Michelle, Association of Internet Researchers 10 Apr '24

10 Apr '24

We are pleased to call for nominations for the Nancy Baym Annual Book Award <https://aoir.org/awards/nancy-baym-annual-book-award/>. This award recognizes the best scholarship of the Association of Internet Researchers, and highlights the breadth of work relating to the social and cultural dimensions of networked media. To be eligible for the award: 1. The book must be authored or co-authored as a monograph and must explore a single topic (edited collections are not eligible). 2. All of the book’s authors must be current members of AoIR at the time of submission (May 10, 2024). Memberships may be purchased here: https://members.aoir.org/. 3. The book must have been published between January 1 and December 31, 2023. The books will be reviewed by a committee of Andrew Herman-Wilfrid Laurier University (Chair), Nancy Baym-Microsoft Research, Miriam Johnson-Oxford Brookes University, Catherine Knight Steele-University of Maryland, Jessa Lingel-University of Pennsylvania, Jun Liu-University of Copenhagen, John McNutt-University of Delaware. Each book should be accompanied by an emailed letter of nomination. Self-nominations are most certainly welcome. The letter of nomination, which must be written by a current member of AoIR, should outline: - How the book contributes to AoIR’s intellectual community. - The book’s unique contributions and overall strengths. - If not a self-nomination, the letter should also include a statement that the nominated author has been contacted prior to its submission and accepts the nomination. Books submitted without a meaningful nomination letter outlining both the strengths of the book and the book’s contribution to the AoIR community to AoIR will not be eligible. We are happy to accept books in either digital or hard copy. If digital, please send a PDF to bookaward [at] aoir.org or write to ask for individual email addresses. Additional nomination details available here: https://aoir.org/2024bookaward/ Please send in all nomination materials by May 10, 2024.

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WEBCAST APR 10 – TikTok AMA: IGP answers your questions about the TikTok ban
by Joly MacFie 10 Apr '24

10 Apr '24

** Since April 1 2024 - the ISOC Live community livestream service is no longer funded by the Internet Society - big thanks to our first monthly sustaining sponsor Vint Cerf for his support! ** Starts shortly. It's possible a legislator might also speak. REAL TIME TEXT https://bit.ly/3Jfp2HG ADD TO CALENDAR https://calndr.link/event/KBvmtfIDN3 Read on blog <https://isoc.live/17618/> or Reader <https://public-api.wordpress.com/bar/?stat=groovemails-events&bin=wpcom_ema…> [image: ISOC LIVE] <http://isoc.live/?action=user_content_redirect&uuid=f5690f693540e934768a5f2…> On *Wednesday April 10, 2024* at *15:00 EDT* (19:00 UTC) the *Internet Governance Project <http://isoc.live/?action=user_content_redirect&uuid=5612a9716b1e97b525d4a2d…>* (IGP) at Georgia Tech hosts a public dialogue '*TikTok AMA: IGP answers your questions about the TikTok ban <http://isoc.live/?action=user_content_redirect&uuid=4c81e56ce1de29c76ee7c3b…>*'. Experts will catch you up on the latest developments in the US government's drive to ban TikTok, and provide thoughtful and politically-neutral policy analysis on the second order effects of a potential ban. Significant time will be reseved for audience interaction. *SPEAKERS* *Jyoti Panday* - Researcher, Internet Governance Project *Milton Mueller* - Partner, Internet Governance Project *David Lieber* - Head, Privacy Public Policy for the Americas, TikTok *LIVESTREAM https://livestream.com/internetsociety/TikTokAMA <http://isoc.live/?action=user_content_redirect&uuid=04478155095172a2bdf45f5…>* *PARTICIPATE VIA ZOOM https://bit.ly/TikTokAMA <http://isoc.live/?action=user_content_redirect&uuid=96c480691673949b0b07bea…>* *REAL TIME TEXT https://bit.ly/3Jfp2HG <http://isoc.live/?action=user_content_redirect&uuid=2d415cc2ecbbcd61880e8b0…>* *TWITTER #TikTokAMA <http://isoc.live/?action=user_content_redirect&uuid=9d91a20d50aa4afdf44b122…> @IGPAlert @miltonmueller Jyoti Panday @DavidLieber* *MASTODON #TikTokAMA <http://isoc.live/?action=user_content_redirect&uuid=78b8bbf1545ea976f24169d…> * *SIMULCASTS* *https://twitter.com/ISOC_Live <http://isoc.live/?action=user_content_redirect&uuid=57f06cf2cd343e2949d11af…>* *https://www.twitch.tv/isoclive <http://isoc.live/?action=user_content_redirect&uuid=c3b6c0acc7c884c7df3b893…>* *https://www.facebook.com/liveisoc/ <http://isoc.live/?action=user_content_redirect&uuid=aef02322b372cb37d807b99…>* (AI Captions) *ARCHIVE* *https://archive.org/details/TikTokAMA <http://isoc.live/?action=user_content_redirect&uuid=b25b6565f393f3b5522b452…>* *ADD TO CALENDAR https://calndr.link/event/KBvmtfIDN3 <http://isoc.live/?action=user_content_redirect&uuid=358686ae37892977c7f9140…>* - -- -------------------------------------- Joly MacFie +12185659365 -------------------------------------- -

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C2i2 Summer Fellow Applications Due 4/30/24
by Stacy E. Wood 10 Apr '24

10 Apr '24

C2i2 Summer 2024 Fellowship Call: Internet Democracies We are interested in work on the intersections of democracy/democracies and the Internet, broadly conceived. We are open to a wide range of disciplines, methods, approaches, theoretical traditions and standpoints including but not limited to: critical Internet studies, critical data studies, science and technology studies, technology law and policy, equity and justice-oriented work on technology and or democratic processes and governance, etc. We are excited to welcome a diverse cohort working across local, regional and global scales. Applicants should have an approved prospectus by the start of the fellowship. This program is designed to release students from any employment obligations that might act as a barrier to dissertation work and awardees should consider it as their primary summer activity. Fellows will have the opportunity to meet with mentors associated with C2i2 in support of their projects. We aim to facilitate close working relationships between the C2i2 broader network and awardees to expand student networks during a crucial time in their graduate school career. Awardees are expected to meet monthly with their peers and mentors in order to present works-in-progress, receive feedback and address needs that might arise over the summer. All meetings for Summer 2022 will be virtual. Although the fellowship is confined to the summer (July-September), fellows will have access to the C2i2 network and C2i2 affiliation for the entirety of the academic year. All fellows will receive a stipend of $8,000.00. All meetings will be virtual. To apply, please submit your CV, a copy of your prospectus and a short cover letter to swood(a)c2i2.ucla.edu<mailto:swood@c2i2.ucla.edu> by April 30. We will respond to all applicants by May 10, 2023. This fellowship is made possible with the support of the Minderoo Foundation. Stacy E. Wood MLIS, PhD Director of Research and Programs UCLA Center for Critical Internet Inquiry stacyewood.com

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Rencontres « Droits et résistances numériques en contexte francophone » | 21 au 24 mai à Montréal
by Stéphane Couture 10 Apr '24

10 Apr '24

Dear colleagues, An event we organize in French, but that could be of interest for some of you. Stéphane Couture, Ph.D. Professeur agrégé Département de communication Université de Montréal --- [https://www.labdelta.ca/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/banniere_siteweb_3avril-…] Lancement du programme des Rencontres « Droits et résistances numériques en contexte francophone » | 21 au 24 mai à Montréal Le Laboratoire sur les droits en ligne et les technologies alternatives (Lab-Delta), avec le soutien du Conseil de recherches en sciences humaines du Canada et d’une vingtaine de groupes universitaires et organisations de la société civile, lance maintenant la programmation des Rencontres « Droits et résistances numériques en contexte francophone ». Sous forme de panels, d’ateliers pratiques et de tables rondes, ces Rencontres se dérouleront du 21 au 24 mai prochains à l’UQAM. Ce sont au total une cinquantaine de présentations de conférencier·ère·s provenant d'une douzaine de pays qui vous attendent ! L’inscription est gratuite mais obligatoire. L'événement sera en format hybride. Pour connaître le programme et vous inscrire, visitez : https://www.labdelta.ca/rencontres2024<https://www.labdelta.ca/rencontres2024%20/> Les « droits numériques » sont avant tout des droits humains. Les technologies numériques et les manières d’accéder et d’utiliser Internet ont une incidence directe sur nos libertés individuelles et collectives ; l'évolution rapide des technologies numériques créent de nouvelles possibilités pour surveiller, traquer, censurer et criminaliser les citoyen·ne·s, tout en générant aussi des formes de résistance, de contestation et d’émancipation. Alors que plusieurs rencontres et événements d’envergure internationale sont organisés en anglais ou en espagnol autour des concepts de « digital rights » ou « derechos digitales », les collaborations francophones sur ces questions, en particulier entre milieux universitaires et société civile, gagneraient à être renforcées. Notre événement cherche donc à mettre en lumière les différentes façons dont les droits et résistances numériques sont actuellement remis en cause ou, au contraire, défendus, et à faciliter les collaborations sur ces enjeux, en particulier dans les contextes associés à la francophonie. Les différentes interventions aborderont des sujets tels que la protection des droits de la personne, l'activisme féministe en contexte numérique, les communs numériques, les diverses alternatives aux plateformes des géants du numérique et les résistances de divers groupes minoritaires ou opprimés. Une séance est également consacrée aux projets et initiatives autochtones, qui méritent d'être davantage connus auprès des publics francophones. Vu la difficulté d’obtenir des visas pour certaines personnes présentatrices et pour permettre une présence internationale, la conférence sera entièrement hybride. Cependant, la participation en ligne sera limitée (en nombre de personnes et en possibilité d'interactions) : nous encourageons donc fortement la présence en personne. Au plaisir de vous accueillir en mai prochain ! L’équipe des Rencontres « Droits et résistances numériques en contexte francophone »

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GROUP 2025 - Second Wave Call for Research Papers
by Aal, Konstantin, Dr. 10 Apr '24

10 Apr '24

(Apologies for potential cross-postings) Call for Submissions GROUP 2025 ACM International Conference on Supporting Group Work, a PACMHCI Affiliated Conference January 12-15, 2025, at Hilton Head Island, South Carolina, USAJanuary 2025 - exact dates and location to be determined https://group.acm.org/conferences/group25 ** SecondFirst Wave Submissions Key Dates ** Abstract and Title Submission: May 1, 2024 Submission Deadline: May 8, 2024 1st Round Reviews and Notifications: July 24, 2024 Resubmit Contributions Invited for Revision: August 21, 2024 2nd Round Decisions: October 2, 2024Abstract and Title Submission: May 31, 2023 Submission Deadline: June 7, 2023 1st Round Reviews and Notifications: August 30, 2023 Resubmit Contributions Invited for Revision: October 4, 2023 2nd Round Decisions: November 15, 2023 The ACM International Conference on Supporting Group Work (GROUP) is a premier yet intimate and welcoming venue for research on Computer Supported Cooperative Work, Sociotechnical Studies, Practice-Centered Computing, Human-Computer Interaction, Computer Supported Collaborative Learning, Open Source Software, and related endeavors. Details about the conference organization and attendance are currently a work in progress and more information will be provided on demand and the conference website in the coming months. Key goals for the program are to encourage and facilitate researchers within CSCW, HCI for practice-centered computing, and sociotechnical studies to interact and present recent research contributions. We also encourage research contributions from interdisciplinary groups to present work that might be difficult to place within one simple category. We are open to diverse and innovative research methods and contributions across broad areas such as systems, societies, participation, critique, collaboration, and human interaction. GROUP 2025 in particular would like to encourage cross-disciplinary research across computing, social science, law, and algorithmic systems design, as well as researchers from industry, academia, government, and other interested groups to participate. Conference topics include (but are not limited to): * Theoretical, methodological, and/or conceptual contributions about key concepts relevant to CSCW and HCI, including critique. * Social, behavioral, and computational studies of collaboration and communication. * Technical architectures supporting collaboration. * New tools/toolkits for collaborative technologies. * Ethnographic studies of collaborative practices. * Coordination and workflow technology. * Social computing and contexts of collaboration. * Studies on Open Source Software. * Current work in, and future visions of, practice-centered computing. * Social justice, ethical dimensions, and related issues in CSCW, HCI, and/or sociotechnical systems. * Online communities, including issues of privacy, identity, trust, and participation. * Cooperative knowledge management. * Algorithmic decision-support systems, automation, and human-AI collaboration. * Civic technologies and their uses. * Organizational issues of technology design, use, or adaptation. * Strategies for the use of technology in business, government, and newer forms of organizations. * The ethical conduct of research studying group work and sociotechnical systems. * Emerging technologies and their design, use, or appropriation in work, home, leisure, entertainment, or education. * Learning at the workplace (CSCL at work, Technology-Enhanced Learning, TEL). * Co-located and geographically distributed teams, global collaboration. * Cultural and cross-cultural collaboration and communication. * Mobile and wearable technologies in collaboration. * Innovative forms of human-computer interaction for cooperative technologies. The main technical program at GROUP will welcome submissions in a variety of forms. Traditional Papers report on high-quality, rigorous research results. We will also continue the submission category of Design Fiction, which may use a variety of speculative methods to explore the futures toward which technology research and design are working. Finally, we explicitly encourage shorter Notes style submissions, which maintain a high level of quality and rigor while focusing on a more circumscribed result that can be presented succinctly. To help set expectations, authors will have the opportunity to indicate to reviewers that their submission should be reviewed as a paper, a note, or as a design fiction. All papers, design fictions, and notes will be published in the Group track of Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction (PACMHCI). ACM authoring templates and detailed instructions on formatting can be found at https://dl.acm.org/journal/pacmhci/submission-templates. Please note that some formatting details may change between acceptance and final submission due to the publisher’s requirements. Papers have no fixed minimum or maximum number of pages. Paper length should be commensurate with contribution, and typical submissions are: * Note: between 4,000 and 6,000 words * Full Paper: between 7,000 and 10,000 words * Design Fiction: between 4,000 and 10,000 words. Design fiction should clearly state that the paper is a design fiction in the abstract. Papers that are widely over the typical length (e.g., above 12,000 words) will be examined carefully to ensure that the size of the contribution warrants the length of the paper. Papers whose lengths are incommensurate with their contributions will be rejected. Papers are subject to anonymous review. Submissions must have authors’ names and affiliations removed, and avoid obvious identifying statements. Any grant information that identifies the author(s) and their institution should be removed as well. Citations to authors’ own relevant work should be done without identifying the authors. For example, “Prior work by [authors]” instead of “In our prior work.” If you for some very specific reasons have challenges with writing the paper in an anonymous way, please contact paper chairs and ask for advice, Papers that clearly violate the anonymization policy, including within the supplemental materials, will be desk rejected. Please check in particular the front page, headers and footers, and the Acknowledgement section. Also, check the meta information in papers prepared using word. GROUP does not have a policy against uploading preprints to SSRN or arXiv before they are submitted for review at the conference. In recognition that research happens more frequently than a biennial conference, GROUP 2025 will offer authors two waves of submission opportunities. Both waves will undergo a rigorous two-round review process, to guarantee that the accepted submissions comply with the quality standards of a journal submission. Initial submissions that are reviewed positively will be invited to be revised and resubmitted. The second wave submission deadline is May 8, 2024, and accepted submissions will appear in PACMHCI in early 2025. Submissions that are accepted after the revision process from both waves will be invited to present at the conference (likely to be held at Sanibel Island, FL, in January, 2025). It will be required that at least one author for each paper registers for the conference by the time the camera-ready version of the accepted paper is completed for each submission wave. Remote presentation will not be possible, authors who are not planning to attend the conference will be required to pay a publication fee (registration and publication fees will be indicated later on the conference website). See below for a list of important dates. All dates below are at 23:59 Anywhere on Earth (AoE). Main technical program submissions must be submitted online via the GROUP 2025 selection in Precision Conference Systems (PCS): https://new.precisionconference.com/submissions The track for submission can be selected with Society: Group > Conference/Journal: Group 2025 > Group 2025 SecondFirst Wave Research Papers ** Important Dates (First Wave Submissions) ** Abstract and Title Submission: May 31, 2023 Submission Deadline: June 7, 2023 1st Round Reviews and Notifications: August 30, 2023 Resubmit Contributions Invited for Revision: October 4, 2023 2nd Round Decisions: November 15, 2023 ** Important Dates (Second Wave Submissions) ** Abstract and Title Submission: May 1, 2024 Submission Deadline: May 8, 2024 1st Round Reviews and Notifications: July 24, 2024 Resubmit Contributions Invited for Revision: August 21, 2024 2nd Round Decisions: October 2, 2024 If you have questions, please contact the conference organizers at the emails noted below: General Chairs: chairs2025(a)group.acm.org<mailto:chairs2025@group.acm.org> Guo Freeman, Clemson University Technical Program Chairs: papers2025(a)group.acm.org<mailto:papers2025@group.acm.org> Maria Menendez-Blanco, Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, Italy Matthieu Tixer, University of Technology of Troyes, France Donghee Yvette Wohn, New Jersey Institute of Technology, USA

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Behind the Scenes Series with Prof Dr Eugenia Siapera
by Paloma Viejo Otero 10 Apr '24

10 Apr '24

Dear all, We are excited to announce that our upcoming session, “Behind the Scenes: Conversations on Empirical Platform Governance Research,” will be marking its on number 9th session on the 16th of April at 15:00 Berlin Time, hosted online. We are honored to have Professor Dr. Eugenia Siapera from University College Dublin as our distinguished guest. She will deliver an insightful talk entitled “Civil Society Organisations (CSOs) as Platform Governance Actors.” Please register here <https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdS4pNiyn21lHHxHbvhjjEEgRBbMqfKvJF…>here <https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdS4pNiyn21lHHxHbvhjjEEgRBbMqfKvJF…> <https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdS4pNiyn21lHHxHbvhjjEEgRBbMqfKvJF…>to secure your spot. We will send you the Zoom link from the day before the event up to one hour before the talk begins. Abstract: Civil society organisations (CSOs) have emerged as a key stakeholder/actor in platform governance and digital policy. This presentation looks to examine their role in both theoretical and empirical terms, through focusing on the European context, the DSA and digital rights CSOs. Theoretically, we locate CSOs within the paradigm of neoliberal governance, which aims to limit state power advancing a market-based rationality. Civil society is tasked with pushing against both state and markets, but in doing so ends up upholding the terms of neoliberal governance. In this context, we ask, how do CSOs participate in platform governance and to what extent can/are they engaged in what Foucault termed 'counter-conduct'? Empirically, we make use of a set of in depth interviews with key informants from five leading EU digital rights CSOs, supported by auto-ethnography and document analysis. Our findings indicate that CSOs operate across what we refer to as the ‘reform versus revolution’ continuum. While those closer to the ‘reform’ end aim to make incremental changes to improve platforms, those closer to the ‘revolution’ end take a more radical view aiming to dissolve platforms altogether. While this structuring division reflects positions that are critical in different ways, pragmatic issues around funding and the hegemonic role of platforms undermine CSOs’ ability to act altogether. Ideological differences, financial precarity, and tensions within the milieu of CSOs involved in platform governance, can undermine their ability to operate, let alone engage in a radical redefinition of the terms under which (platform) governance takes place. Bio: Eugenia Siapera is Professor of Information and Communication Studies and the co-Director of the UCD Centre for Digital Policy (with Elizabeth Farries). Her research interests are in the area of digital and social media, political communication and journalism, technology and social justice, platform governance and hate speech, racism and misogyny. She is currently working on the third edition of her book Understanding New Media and on an edited volume on Cancel Culture(with Paraic Kerrigan and Elizabeth Farries, under contract with Routledge). Dr. Paloma Viejo Otero YUFE Alliance Fellow Hate Speech and Platform Governance Platform Governance, Media and Technology Lab, ZeMKI, University of Bremen, Germany. Email: viejoote(a)uni-bremen.de <mailto:viejoote@uni-bremen.de>

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