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WEBCAST MAR 19 – The WTO’s Digital Trade Negotiations in the Wake of its 13th Ministerial Conference
by Joly MacFie 19 Mar '24

19 Mar '24

Underway. Real time text https://bit.ly/3TgmEF2 I was a little late joining and will get the full recording for the archive. [image: ISOC LIVE] <http://isoc.live/?action=user_content_redirect&uuid=f36e9a9883da28de7fdaed0…> On *Tuesday March 19, 2024*, at* 11:00-12:30 EDT* (15:00-16:30 UTC), the *Columbia Institute for Tele-Information <http://isoc.live/?action=user_content_redirect&uuid=ae5908f08d863ca9a8f58fa…>*, as part of its *Global Digital Governance series <http://isoc.live/?action=user_content_redirect&uuid=93e10c83ff2e634b13fa1ad…>*, presents a webinar '*The WTO’s Digital Trade Negotiations in the Wake of its 13th Ministerial Conference <http://isoc.live/?action=user_content_redirect&uuid=3590cd5c9d3c332b1fb61b6…>* '. The World Trade Organization is struggling to respond to the proliferation of national restrictions and trade barriers in the global digital economy. The largely failed *13th Ministerial Conference <http://isoc.live/?action=user_content_redirect&uuid=e1b9cecdffb35a828775325…>* that concluded on March 2, 2024 barely managed in its last hour to extend the moratorium on customs duties on electronic transmissions until 2026. The 90-member Joint Service Initiative launched in 2017 has been unable to finalize a negotiating text even after dropping or indefinitely pausing work on its most important but contentious issues. These include: barriers to cross-border data flows, forced data localization, forced disclosure of source code, the non-discriminatory treatment of digital products, and online platforms, among others. A key factor in this downsizing of ambitions was the US government’s extremely contentious October 2023 decision to reverse its longstanding push for strong disciplines on such items. If the negotiations ultimately produce a result, it may be more the kind of minimalist trade facilitation agreement favored by China rather than the sort of ambitious liberalization deal previously championed by the United States. What are the prospects for global digital trade negotiations in the years ahead? What would a minimalist outcome mean for the growth of territorial borders on global flows, and Internet fragmentation? Would the sidelining of inclusive multilateral institutions further strengthen the trend toward a spaghetti bowl of varying minilateral trade deals that exclude much of the developing world? Is a sharper geopolitical clash between diverging models of digital capitalism becoming likely? This webinar assembles a panel of leading experts on global digital trade policy to consider these and other questions. As always, the panelists’ conversation will be followed by an open dialogue among all webinar participants. The session is simulcast live under the auspices of the *Internet Society New York Chapter <http://isoc.live/?action=user_content_redirect&uuid=b823365139b660cf09d0d4e…>* (ISOC-NY). *INTRODUCTION* *Eli Noam*, Director, Columbia Institute for Tele-Information, Columbia Business School. *PANEL* *Mira Burri* - Professor of International Economic and Internet Law, Faculty of Law, University of Lucerne *Anupam Chander* - Scott K. Ginsburg, Professor of Law and Technology, Georgetown Law School *Martina F. Ferracane* - Research Fellow, European University Institute / Academic manager, Digital Trade Integration Project *MODERATOR* *William J. Drake*, Director of International Studies, Columbia Institute for Tele-Information *LIVESTREAM http://livestream.com/internetsociety3/citi-wto <http://isoc.live/?action=user_content_redirect&uuid=3c65e470643ae08684af0f7…>* *REAL TIME TEXT* https://bit.ly/3TgmEF2 *TWITTER #WTO #digitaltrade <http://isoc.live/?action=user_content_redirect&uuid=6d19db2d4567552554d0da6…> @wjdrake @Elinoam @Columbia_Biz @miraburri @UniLuzern @Martina__F @EUI_EU @AnupamChander @GeorgetownLaw @wto #digitaltrade #internetgovernance * *MASTODON #WTO <http://isoc.live/?action=user_content_redirect&uuid=a4a87fe2c6a94ad897337fc…>* *SIMULCASTS* *https://www.twitter.com/ISOC_Live/ <http://isoc.live/?action=user_content_redirect&uuid=e41c942f1d7cdcac93ba6ed…>* *https://www.twitch.tv/isoclive <http://isoc.live/?action=user_content_redirect&uuid=f8d1f076ae6e96731666947…>* *https://www.facebook.com/liveisoc/ <http://isoc.live/?action=user_content_redirect&uuid=87288011fbb250ded92e3a8…>* (AI Captions) *ARCHIVE* *https://archive.org/details/citi-wto <http://isoc.live/?action=user_content_redirect&uuid=b40e145e69106d2f8c75f12…>* *IMAGE: CC BY-SA WTO/Prime Vision <http://isoc.live/?action=user_content_redirect&uuid=040cbba5bfc1361fc7cb9a1…>* Permalink https://isoc.live/17462 -- -------------------------------------- Joly MacFie +12185659365 -------------------------------------- - -- -------------------------------------- Joly MacFie +12185659365 -------------------------------------- -

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CFP: Born-Digital Collections, Archives and Memory conference, 2-4 April 2025
by Naomi Wells 19 Mar '24

19 Mar '24

The Digital Humanities Research Hub at the School of Advanced Study, University of London, invites submissions for the inaugural Born-Digital Collections, Archives and Memory conference, to be hosted at the University of London from 2-4 April 2025 in collaboration with colleagues from Aarhus University, the British Library, and the Endangered Material Knowledge Programme at the British Museum. Key Information: * Dates: 2 - 4 April 2025 * Venue: University of London, London, UK & Online * CFP Deadline: 15 May 2024 * Notification of acceptance: late July 2024 * Submission link: https://easychair.org/cfp/borndigital2025 Digital research in the arts and humanities has traditionally focused on digitised objects and archives. However, born-digital cultural materials that originate and circulate across a range of formats and platforms are rapidly expanding and raising new opportunities and challenges for research, archiving and collecting communities. Collecting, accessing and sharing born-digital objects and data presents a range of complex technical, legal and ethical challenges that, if unaddressed, threaten the archival and research futures of these vital cultural materials and records of the 21st century. Moreover, the environments, contexts and formats through which born-digital records are mediated necessitate reconceptualising the materials and practices we associate with cultural heritage and memory. Research and practitioner communities working with born-digital materials are growing and their interests are varied, from digital cultures and intangible cultural heritage to web archives, electronic literatures and social media. This international conference seeks to further an interdisciplinary and cross-sectoral discussion on how the born-digital transforms what and how we research in the humanities. We invite contributions from researchers and practitioners involved in any way in accessing or developing born-digital collections and archives, and interested in exploring the novel and transformative effects of born-digital cultural heritage. More details can be found at the conference website<https://www.sas.ac.uk/borndigital2025> and the full CFP and submission portal is available here: https://easychair.org/cfp/borndigital2025 If you have any questions, please contact the Organising Committee at borndigital(a)sas.ac.uk<mailto:borndigital@sas.ac.uk>. Dr Naomi Wells Senior Lecturer in Italian and Spanish with Digital Humanities Acting Director of the Digital Humanities Research Hub/Associate Director of the Doctoral Centre Digital Humanities Research Hub<https://www.sas.ac.uk/digital-humanities>/Institute of Languages, Cultures and Societies<https://ilcs.sas.ac.uk/> School of Advanced Study | University of London Senate House | Malet Street | London WC1E 7HU | UK Email: naomi.wells(a)sas.ac.uk<mailto:naomi.wells@sas.ac.uk> Research profile: https://research.london.ac.uk/search/staff/1164/dr-naomi-wells/

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Cfp: pre-Egos workshop on Digital Methods for Studying Organizations and Work
by Alessandro Gandini 19 Mar '24

19 Mar '24

Apologies for cross posting Dear all, we are writing to remind you of the CfP for the upcoming pre-Egos workshop on Digital Methods for Studying Organizations and Work July 2nd 2024, 9am-4pm Location: Graduate School of Social and Political Sciences, University of Milan, via Pace 10 The purpose of the workshop is to introduce, review, and discuss the principles and potential of researching organizations and work using digital data and digital methods. The notion of digital methods refers here to examining phenomena online either by conducting “digitally native” research that "thinks along" with devices and services (Rogers, 2013) or by engaging in methods of computational social sciences (Lindgren, 2020; Nelimarkka 2023; Lazer et al., 2009), often in combination with more traditional methods in a mixed setting (e.g., Laaksonen et al., 2017; Tikka et al., 2023). Digital methods projects can be conducted either by using ready-made tools available (e.g., DMI Tools, Voyant, Tableau) or coding with Python or R. Such methods have been extensively used in fields of social sciences such as communication and politics, which typically work with social media data. Uses within organization and management studies are rare (cf. Hannigan et al., 2019; Aranda, 2021; Blaschke et al., 2012; Mohr, 2015). Yet, also studies of organization and organizing are increasingly working with large datasets that often require some digital or computational approaches to explore, filter, or analyze them. The workshop aims to develop the participants’ digital research thinking and mixed-method reasoning to create meaningful and feasible research strategies for digital research in organization studies. We will introduce a variety of tools and provide pathways to extend skills in engaging with them, including for participants with existing experience in computing. Furthermore, using participants’ data and collective analysis approaches we will engage in a collective, critical discussion about the methods and their feasibility and limitations in different contexts, exploring potential tensions both with regards to workplaces and modes of working as well as concerning ethical approaches to digital data collection and management. Finally, we hope to bring together scholars working in these fields with an interest in studying the digital and fostering future research collaboration to advance this combination. Submissions: This workshop invites submissions of 150-300 words that describe their (existing or potential) digital data and initial research problem. Data or idea submissions will be discussed in a round table format with small presentations only. In your submission, please describe your data or potential data and discuss what problems or questions you have encountered in your work. Please also include a brief description of your intended theoretical framework. For the actual workshop, we ask participants to provide a small excerpt of their data (a few pages) that other people can use to familiarize themselves with the data. Please submit your proposal by April 10 using the form: https://forms.gle/op3n4Uvixk5xVYno8 Notifications will be sent out by April 24th. Convenors: Salla-Maaria Laaksonen, University of Helsinki Jukka Huhtamaki, Tampere University Alessandro Gandini, University of Milan Sophie Del Fa, UCLouvain François Lambotte, UCLouvain Damien Renard, UCLouvain -- Alessandro Gandini Associate Professor of Cultural Sociology University of Milan, Department of Social and Political Sciences Via Conservatorio 7, 20122 Milan, Italy PI of the CRAFTWORK project – ERC Starting Grants 2020

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Job: Professor in Media & Comms/Digital Cultures, University of Sydney
by Jonathon Hutchinson 18 Mar '24

18 Mar '24

Dear Colleagues, Please consider applying for the Level E (Professor) role with us here at the University of Sydney in the Discipline of Media and Communication: https://usyd.wd3.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/USYD_EXTERNAL_CAREER_SITE/job/Prof… The role is part of the recently announced Sydney Horizon Educators grants, and attracts $30,000AUD support. Please note, this is an education focused role. Regards Jonathon. DR JONATHON HUTCHINSON Chair of Discipline, Media and Communication President of Australian and New Zealand Communication Association (ANZCA) Editor-in-Chief, Policy & Internet Journal [https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/journal/19442866] THE UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY Rm N233, John Woolley Building (A20) | The University of Sydney | NSW | 2006 T +61 2 9351 2821 | F +61 2 9351 2434 E jonathon.hutchinson(a)sydney.edu.au<mailto:jonathon.hutchinson@sydney.edu.au> | W sydney.edu.au<http://sydney.edu.au> | W jonathonhutchinson.com.au<http://www.jonathonhutchinson.com.au/> CRICOS 00026A This email plus any attachments to it are confidential. Any unauthorised use is strictly prohibited. If you receive this email in error, please delete it and any attachments.

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Call for Papers: The 11th International Conference on Internet of Things: Systems, Management and Security (IOTSMS 2024), Malmo, Sweden, September 2-5, 2024
by Fahed Alkhabbas 18 Mar '24

18 Mar '24

[Apologies if you got multiple copies of this invitation] The 11th International Conference on Internet of Things: Systems, Management and Security (IOTSMS 2024) https://emergingtechnet.org/IOTSMS2024/index.php <https://protect-au.mimecast.com/s/CyMJCq71jxf5MmwZfZFrIL?domain=emergingtec…> Malmo, Sweden. September 2-5, 2024 Technically Co-Sponsored by IEEE Sweden Section *IOTSMS 2024 CFP* The Internet of Things (IoT) technology offers unprecedented opportunities to interconnect human beings as well as Machine-to-Machine (M2M), whereby networks across the edge-cloud continuum allow all things to communicate and share vital information, allowing us to have an instrumented universe where accurate data is readily available to inform optimal decision making. Indeed, the IoT has opened up for the development of novel types of services and applications in various application domains. It has changed how people go about their lives. The number of heterogeneous objects connected to the Internet is growing very fast. Ericsson estimates the number will be close to 38 billion objects by 2029. Others believe the actual number will be even higher with the assumption that any object with a simple microcontroller and on-off switch will be connected to the Internet in the near future. The scale of the IoT is set to have major economic, social, and environmental impacts; the intersection of which forms the future sustainable growth. The international conference on Internet of Things: Systems, Management, and Security (IoTSMS) aims at soliciting original ideas on the broad area of IoT, including challenges and opportunities, concepts and applications, and future trends. The IoTSMS aims to facilitate discussions among academics and IoT practitioners and make positive contributions to the field. The topics of interest include (but are not limited to): * Emerging concepts of IoT Systems * Architectures of IoT systems * Machine-to-Machine Communication and IoT * Modelling of IoT applications * SDN and NFV support for IoT applications and Systems * Fog and Edge support for IoT Applications * 5G support for IoT Applications * IoT for Smart Cities * Energy management in IoT * Design methodologies for IoT * IoT for sustainable digitalization * IoT and Social benefits/impact * IoT Economics and Business Models * Emerging Internet of Things business models and process changes * Communication systems and network architectures for the IoT * IoT and Data Management * Security and privacy of IoT * Reliability of IoT * Trustworthy IoT systems * Disaster recovery in IoT * Applications of Internet of things * Emerging applications and interaction paradigms for everyday citizens * Big data and IoT * Self-organizing IoT * Cloud Computing and IoT * Smart IoT systems * Dynamic IoT systems * Simulations in IoT environments *Submissions Guidelines and Proceedings* Manuscripts should be prepared in 10-point font using the IEEE 8.5" x 11" two-column format (IEEE Templates <https://protect-au.mimecast.com/s/0FRWCr810kCvBLJEfz4LG3?domain=ieee.org>). All papers should be in PDF format, and submitted electronically at Paper Submission Link. A full paper must not exceed the stated length (including all figures, tables and references). Submitted papers must present original unpublished research that is not currently under review for any other conference or journal. Papers not following these guidelines may be rejected without review. Also submissions received after the due date, exceeding length limit, or not appropriately structured may also not be considered. Authors may contact the Program Chair for further information or clarification. All submissions are peer-reviewed by at least two reviewers. Accepted papers will appear in the IoTSMS Proceeding and to be submitted to IEEE Xplore for inclusion. The proceedings are also submitted for indexing to EI (Compendex), Scopus and other indexing services like DBLP. Submitted papers must include original work, and must not be under consideration for another conference or journal. Submission of regular papers must not exceed 8 pages and must follow the IEEE paper format. Please include up to 7 keywords, complete postal and e-mail address, and fax and phone numbers of the corresponding author. Authors of accepted papers are expected to present their work at the conference. Submitted papers that are deemed of good quality but that could not be accepted as regular papers will be accepted as short papers. *Important Dates* Submission Date: 1 June 2024 Notification to Authors: 15 July 2024 Camera Ready Submission: 1 August 2024 *Contact:* If you have any questions about IoTSMS, please send an email to Fahed Alkhabbas at: fahed.alkhabbas(a)mau.se ——— Dr. Fahed Alkhabbas Senior Lecturer in Software Engineering Internet of Things and People Research Center Faculty of Technology and Society Malmö University, Sweden Email: fahed.alkhabbas(a)mau.se Mobile: +46(0)7 027 28 950 <+46702728950> Skype: f.khabbas

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12 posts at King's College London
by Jonathan Gray 18 Mar '24

18 Mar '24

In case of interest, our department is recruiting for 12 full time, permanent posts across a range of areas. Further details and links can be found at: https://kingsdh.net/2024/03/06/12-new-posts/ https://www.jobs.ac.uk/enhanced/linking/kings-college-london-digital-humani… [- - - - - - - ✄ - - - snip - - - - - - - - - -] * Lecturer/Senior Lecturer in Cultural Computation (Education and Research)<https://www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DGF343/lecturer-senior-lecturer-in-cultural-comp…> * Lecturer/Senior Lecturer in Digital Culture & Technology (Education & Research)<https://www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DGF353/lecturer-senior-lecturer-in-digital-cultu…> * Lecturer/Senior Lecturer in Digital Curation and Computational Creativity (Education and Research)<https://www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DGF358/lecturer-senior-lecturer-in-digital-curat…> * Lecturer/Senior Lecturer – SE Asia programmes lead<https://www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DGF364/lecturer-senior-lecturer-se-asia-programm…> * Lecturer/Senior Lecturer in Digital Economy (Education & Research)<https://www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DGF328/lecturer-senior-lecturer-in-digital-econo…> * Lecturer/Senior Lecturer in Digital Infrastructures and Sustainability (Education and Research)<https://www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DGF333/lecturer-senior-lecturer-in-digital-infra…> * Lecturer/Senior Lecturer in Digital Labour and Marketing (Education & Research)<https://www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DGF345/lecturer-senior-lecturer-in-digital-labou…> * Lecturer/Senior Lecturer in Digital Media and Culture (Education & Research)<https://www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DGF351/lecturer-senior-lecturer-in-digital-media…> * Lecturer/Senior Lecturer in Digital Methods (Education & Research)<https://www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DGF363/lecturer-senior-lecturer-in-digital-metho…> * Lecturer/Senior Lecturer in Digital Products and Industries (Education & Research)<https://www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DGF380/lecturer-senior-lecturer-in-digital-produ…> * Lecturer/Senior Lecturer in Global Digital Politics (Education & Research)<https://www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DGF406/lecturer-senior-lecturer-in-global-digita…> * Lecturer/Senior Lecturer in Digital Platforms and Creative Work (Education & Research)<https://www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DGF370/lecturer-senior-lecturer-in-digital-platf…> [- - - - - - - ✄ - - - snip - - - - - - - - - -] -- jonathan w. y. gray (he/him) 🐼 jonathan.gray(a)kcl.ac.uk<mailto:jonathan.gray@kcl.ac.uk> jonathangray.org<http://jonathangray.org/> / @jwyg<https://post.lurk.org/@jwyg> Director, Centre for Digital Culture<https://www.kcl.ac.uk/research/cdc> Senior Lecturer<https://www.kcl.ac.uk/people/dr-jonathan-gray>, Department of Digital Humanities<https://www.kcl.ac.uk/ddh> King’s College London Co-Founder, Public Data Lab<http://publicdatalab.org/>

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Research Sabbaticals (Fellowships) and Working Groups at the Center for Advanced Internet Studies (CAIS)
by Esther Laufer 18 Mar '24

18 Mar '24

The Center for Advanced Internet Studies (CAIS) funds innovative projects that deal with the social opportunities and challenges of the digital transformation. We support individual researchers and groups. You want to spend a sabbatical in a vibrant interdisciplinary research community? Become a fellow at CAIS! A fellowship at the Center for Advanced Internet Studies (CAIS) releases you from your regular work obligations and opens up new perspectives. As a fellow, you can spend either six or three months in Bochum, Germany. During this period, we will finance your sabbatical leave from work through compensation (e.g. for a teaching substitute). Alternatively, we will pay grants of up to 2.000 € per month. You can invite guests for collaboration and will receive financial support for research expenses. Individual offices and meeting rooms with modern facilities offer optimal working conditions. In addition, we will provide comfortable apartments free of charge. Find out more at https://www.cais-research.de/en/cais-college/fellowships/ You want to boost your collaboration? Bring your group together at CAIS! Working groups bring together experts from different locations to work on joint projects in an inspiring environment. We provide catering and modern meeting facilities for working groups of up to twelve members. In addition, we will cover travel and accommodation expenses. You can spend up to three weeks in Bochum or get together for up to three shorter meetings. Find out more at https://www.cais-research.de/en/cais-college/working-groups/ Application The next deadline for applications is 30 April 2024. The earliest possible starting date for new fellowships is April 2025. The earliest possible starting date for new working groups is January 2025. You can also combine both programs. Please use the application forms provided on our website. The funding program is open to excellent scholars and practitioners, to all career stages, disciplines and areas of investigation, as well as to pure research and to projects that are more applied in orientation. Further questions? Please contact esther.laufer(a)cais-research.de mailto:esther.laufer@cais-research.de.

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Post-doctoral position open - Algofeed Project
by Alessandro Caliandro 18 Mar '24

18 Mar '24

Dear all, The call for applications for the post-doctoral research fellow position for the Algofeed project, focusing on recommendation algorithms on YouTube and TikTok, is now open - (the project is led by Alessandro Gandini, Massimo Airoldi, Gabriella Punziano and me, Alessandro Caliandro; detailed information available below). Some important information: a Ph.D. is not strictly necessary (master's degree is sufficient); the fellowship is for one year; possibility of smart working; Italian language proficiency is not essential; deadline by the end of March, but it will most likely be extended to the end of April. If you are interested, please do not hesitate to get in touch - ( alessandro.caliandro(a)unipv.it) Thank you very much! a ************************** At the Department of Political and Social Sciences, University of Pavia we are hiring a postdoctoral researcher with computational social science skills to work for 12 months on the new PRIN project “Algofeed”, financed by the Italian Ministry of University, with Alessandro Caliandro. The project studies algorithmic recommendations on YouTube and TikTok. Other research units involved in the project include the University of Milano, led by Alessandro Gandini and Massimo Airoldi, and the University Federico II of Naples, led by Gabriella Punziano. Proficiency in Italian is preferable but NOT essential. All application information can be found here: https://bandi.mur.gov.it/bandi.php/public/fellowship/id_fellow/255594 You can submit your application here (by the 29 March 2024, h. 12:00pm): https://pica.cineca.it/unipv/dsps-2023-b13/ Please circulate to anyone who you think might be interested. Many thanks, Alessandro P.S. Please do not hesitate to contact me for any question ( alessandro.caliandro(a)unipv.it) -- -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Alessandro Caliandro Associate Professor in Sociology of Culture and Communication Researcher V-DATA project (Surveillance Capitalism in Italy): https://vdataresearch.com/ Research Stream 3 Leader of ACTIVE-IT: https://ageingsocieties.unimib.it/active-it/ Member of Ageing Societies: https://ageingsocieties.unimib.it/ Università degli Studi di Pavia Dipartimento di Scienze Politiche e Sociali Strada Nuova 65 27100 Pavia phone: 0382 984325 e-mail: alessandro.caliandro(a)unipv.it Alessandro Caliandro's Personal Meeting Room (ZOOM) https://us02web.zoom.us/j/8629741587 *If you please, check out my most recent publications ; ) * Caliandro, A., Gandini, A., Bainotti, L., & Anselmi, G. (2024). The platformization of consumer culture: A theoretical framework. *Marketing Theory*, https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/14705931231225537 Audy Martínek, P., Caliandro, A., & Denegri-Knott, J. (2023). Digital practices tracing: studying consumer lurking in digital environments. *Journal of Marketing Management*, 39(3-4), 244-274. https://doi.org/10.1080/0267257X.2022.2105385

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International Symposium: Platform Work, Epistemologies, grey zones, North-South, Brazil, December
by Rafael Do Nascimento Grohmann 17 Mar '24

17 Mar '24

Hi AoIR, Circulating this call for an event in Brazil, in December. The message was sent by Donna Kesselman. Please find below and attached a Call for Papers that might interest you. Feel free to circulate if you wish and rendez-vous in São Carlos in December! All the best, Donna English, français, español, portugês (PDF attached) Call for Papers, International Symposium December 10-11, 2024 “Digital Platforms: The Epistemology of the North-South Comparison. An Analysis of Grey Zones” Institut d’architecture et d’urbanisme [Institute of Architecture and Urbanism] (IAU), Université de São Paulo [University of Sao Palo](USP) and Université fédérale de São Carlos [Federal University of São Carlos](UFSCar) How should we understand the ways that digital work, always increasingly elusive, transforms and recomposes employment norms? How can these phenomena be compared across distinct national contexts? While the binaries of the welfare state–employment and unemployment, for instance–have been undermined, they still inform the ideology and jurisdiction of existing labor institutions and criteria regulating access to social protection. In the absence of a theoretical consensus on the who or what the paradigmatic post-Fordist “worker” is, attempts at adapting either worker organization or state welfare often run aground in part because of this theoretical and strategic ambiguity (Valdez, 2023, Riesgo, 2023). These older norms still remain cognitive reference points in diverse locales, despite their geo-historical grounding in advanced Global North countries. This limitation is an obstacle to understanding emerging developments in work occurring in other national contexts and to developing a dynamic and comprehensive epistemology that would enhance our understanding of the recompositions underway. The blurring of legal distinctions between the canonic figures of Fordism–subordinated employee or independent worker (Supiot, 2000)–has given way to countless dynamics of grey zones from the core of the standard employment relationship to its outer borders. (Bureau, Corsani, Giraud, Rey 2019). These changes assume new significance with the advent of digital platforms that disrupt the responsibilities, hierarchies and rationales of subordination and power in the context of work (Carelli, Cingolani, Kesselman, 2022). Such blurring also exists in the Global South, where the social state emerged belatedly and brought with it genuine but fragile rights. We must also consider the impact of digital work on the situation of generalized informality in Global South countries where, depending on the period, the state and municipalities navigate between repressing and facilitating informal activities, while entertaining ambiguous relations with the platforms. Comparisons between the Global North and South will help us better assess what is common to employment standards globally, their regulations and underlining relationships, and–in a more comprehensive frame–the citizenship norms that they are tightly braided with. (For instance, citizenship is linked to the carteira de trabalho in the Brazilian case, even though informality affects half the workers in this country and therefore excludes them.) Rights have been progressively curtailed through labor market reforms (such as in France, 2016 and 2017 or in Brazil, 2017), which has contributed to a spawning of self-employed independent workers who became a captive workforce of platforms promoting themselves as “job creators”. In the case of the South, we have witnessed a naturalization and a recomposition of informality under the disguise of self-entrepreneurship—“be your own boss” Comparisons between the Global North and South will help us better assess what is common to employment standards globally, their regulations and underlining relationships, and the citizenship norms that they are tightly braided with. —and flexible work (Lim a, Bridi, 2019; Lima, Oliveira, 2022). Grey zones also emerge from sources other than the deterioration of the standard employment relationship’s institutional frameworks, with different dimensions in the North and South. The epistemology of the platforms’ economic models takes as its point of departure the decentralized organization of work between distinct clienteles in the two-sided market. Algorithmic and triangular management practices–platform-client-providerinvolve a series of centrifugal forces within ecosystems that organize the disarticulation of work from employment and its social protections. This is how they succeed in bypassing public regulation in the North and the particular forms of work regulation in the South, where informal work is managed in urban spaces (Dieuaide, 2024; Dieuaide, Azaïs, 2020; Minassian, 2011; Kiesling, 2018). In their own fashion, digital platforms thereby “modernize” work relations and bring about their recomposition. By setting up public management departments digital platforms have positioned themselves as “rule makers” in attempts to impose a “third figure of digital app worker” within every specific local context (Azaïs, Dieuaide, Kesselman, 2017). Such strategies muddy the waters and contribute to fuelling grey zones of work and of employment. What horizon for emancipation? Might one say that all these realities can be subsumed under the advent of “platform capitalism” (Leite, del Bono, Lima, 2023; Srnicek, 2016; Abdelnour, Bernard, 2018) or of the “gig economy” (Huws, Spencer, Syrdal, Holts , 2017; Vallas, Schor, 2020)? In any case, this ecompositions pose a challenge for any attempt at comprehensive regulation of work. The core issue always arises: is there a break or continuity between the standard employment relationship and the welfare state (Carelli, Dieuaide, Kesselman 2022)? Or, alternatively, is this a new mode of production altogether? Is there a “meta-category,” like “digital labor” or “platform workers,” or are there salient characteristics that distinguish these new kinds of laborers from each other? (Brodersen, Dufresne, Joukovsky, Vitali 2024; Casilli, 2019). Are the changes in platform work and its “ambivalent” nature in the North really comparable to these emerging regimes of labor in the South? (Rizek, Rangel, 2023; Machado, Zanoni 2022; Fioravanti, Rangel, Rizek, 2022; Abílio, 2020; Flichy, 2019)? Or is the digital “fourth industrial revolution” nothing more than just another new western-centred paradigm (Leterme, 2019)? What about the driving role of finance and of successive crises (Sauviat, 2019)? Is the proliferation of digital work by multinational platforms sufficient to lay the bases for a truly globalized world labor market? If not, what would be the necessary conditions to do so? Is emancipation through work and employment still a horizon that mobilizes digital workers in the Global North and in the Global South and between them? Today, most app drivers and food couriers are racialized workers, from the descendants of slaves in Brazil and the United States to the postcolonial immigrants in France. This now established statistical reality (Dablanc, Aguilera, Krier, Cognez, Chretien, Louvet, 2022; Santos, Carelli, 2022), interfaces with racialized representations of platform work associated with precarious, low-wage jobs (Van Doorn, Ferrari, Graham, 2023, Dubal, 2022). To what degree are these regimes of racialization driven by what some have called platform capitalism (Marchadour, 2024, Gebrial, 2022; Bernard, 2023)? This opens a discussion from the perspective of the margins concerning the very nature of platforms in capitalism. Santos’s approach (2022: 16) in terms of “tough areas” and “soft areas” which “structure the ‘invisible borders’ in the social space of social relations that impose constraints on undesired individuals or groups in particular places and contexts” echoes the notion of the grey zone. What analytical tools to use? We are interested in tools that can consider transformations and reconfigurations of work and of employment, in the wake of the development of digital platforms, and we propose to compare experiences rooted in the Global North and South. What are the interactions and limitations when transposing preconceived and Eurocentric notions such as the salaried workforce (le salariat) and legal subordination, the formal-informal duality (Archambault, Greffe, 1984), entrepreneurship, citizenship, the nation, etc.? What are the terms of “decentering comparative analysis”, those capable of analyzing similarities and differences within a global frame (Giraud, Lallement, 2022)? Are there developments that circulate to the heartlands of global capitalism from the South, whose less restrictive regulatory environments the platforms use as a laboratory for their technological and economic models, an example being accelerating informality? (Huws, Surie, 2023)? Their adaptability to local constraints is at the heart of these new business models: in the South, what are the conceptual tools that are needed to effectively interpret the “contextual otherness and endogenous causalities” that are specific to these national and cultural contexts (Soussi, Sadik, 2020)? Thus, the importance of epistemologies of the Souths. In short, how should one account for the tensions between micro and macro and, more generally, the definition of scales of analysis? How do the categories employed—both by actors and researchers—fit into and make sense of these scales? To renew paradigms for the investigate of platform work, there must also be reflection upon the geographical and symbolic meaning of physical and virtual territories. This is especially true for location-based platforms. Our proposal to compare situated micro-cases is aimed at avoiding the risk of essentializing a macro scale that posits the existence of a “Center” in balance with a “Periphery”, that is contrasted with a micro scale that confines the agency of actors to a local and immediate space, not accounting for more complex and historical social relations. (De Vito, 2019). While the cases are situated in diverse forms of territories and contexts, our privileged terrain of analysis for studying passenger app drivers and couriers–meals and food shopping–is the metropolis, which we believe should be studied from a “trans-urban approach” (Cuppini, Frapporti,2022). Thus, the urban space should be conceived of as a field of tensions where platforms directly invest in public affairs, announcing their role as actors of innovation and public planning. We are seeking to identify the connections and circulations of objects, norms, regulations, and practices of platform work which are, indeed, comparable and can be conceived of as part of a global totality (Douki, Minard, 2007). How can we compare the indigenous categories used by the actors to portray such notions as work, occupational status, remuneration, protections, benefits and rights, and the way workers appropriate their local communities and territories? How do the new synchronizations of time, work-life balance and workers’ embeddedness in territories interweave with the blurring of workers’ private lives due to the “colonization of daily life” by platforms (Cingolani, 2021)? What are the consequences of struggle waged by workers–either individually or collectively–to resist or adhere to these new models of work (Brugière, Kesselman, Vandewattyne, 2024; Dufresne, Leterne, 2021)? What is the impact of recent legal rulings concerning reclassification of bogus employment? And what is the nature of the prominent role taken by the courts in the absence of robust regulation of digital platform work? On a more general level, one observes the destabilization, displacement and instrumentalization of institutions by platforms. The ultimate ambition of this cross-cutting analysis is the development of concepts and categories that can effectively speak to and facilitate the comparison of diverse instances of platform work and its insertion into a broader reflection concerning “the future of work.” (Dujarier, Frayssé, 2024; Herzog, Zimmermann, 2023). An analysis of grey zones We draw upon the heuristic tool of “grey zones of work and of employment”. Grey zones are spaces where the dynamics of disembeddedness and recomposition of work and employment become the critical object of study. They are more or less defined and instituted as their content, extent and duration are in constant motion. As As these grey zones are defined in a constantly changing national environments, comparing how they they subsumes term-to-term juxtapositions and provides a more thorough understanding of the processes underway, tracking the complex interaction of different elements (Kesselman, Soussi 2024, Bureau, Dieuaide, 2018; Bureau, Corsani, Giraud, Rey 2019; Boulin, Kesselman, 2018, Azaïs, Carleial, 2017; Siino, Soussi, 2017). We rely on research that highlights the dynamics of grey zones in digital work. In all countries, grey zones constitute the heuristic tool that enables us to understand the “institutional instability”’ that is generated by neoliberalism and aggravated by the advent of platforms. This process considers the resistance of institutions, notably that of the judiciary, but which is often undermined by difficulties in setting precedent on which other judgements could rely (Carelli et al., 2021; Grillo, 2022/2024). Some governments participate actively in the construction of grey zones (Lehdonvirta, 2022; Bisom-Rapp, Coiquaud, 2017) via measures of self-regulation by the platforms or through the establishment of broad-based forums of social dialogue and of collective regulation which recognize new stake-holders as regulators, such as recently in France and in Brazil (Carelli, Kesselman, 2024). The same goes for the displacement of “orders and spaces of regulation” (Dirringer, 2022): platforms attempt to instrumentalize such transfers to their own advantage, notably at the time of their positioning as “rule makers” in the public space of regulation (Azaïs, Dieuaide, Kesselman, 2017). Platforms have been increasingly able to dictate public policy, thereby interfering with what was the jurisdiction of public powers. We perceive grey zones closest to the experience of work by focusing on its “hybridity” (Murgia, 2023) and “emerging figures in the grey zone” (Azaïs, 2019). The figures navigate within a “social work relationship” (RST), the enlarged space of relations of control, from which recompositions can be instituted in network firms, value chains or algorithmic management outside of any institutional frameworks (D’Amours, 2022; D'Amours, Briand, Bellemare, Hanin, Pogliaghi, 2023) Thus the grey zone is an approach that can help us parse the actual degree of “disruption” brought about by the new labor platform economy (Berins Collier, Dubal, Carter, 2018), separating the substantive changes from the ideological or catastrophist noises coming from all directions. Ultimately, the questioning which structures of this conference could be summed up by the following formula: Is there a need for a specific epistemology to the study of digital work? Contributions The symposium intends to compare the experience of platform workers through that of the emblematic figures of passenger app drivers and couriers–meals and food shopping. Contributions from interested parties would be welcome, amongst other angles, on: ● situated case studies exploring the epistemology of their approach to research in this area; ● the comparison and circulation of objects, norms, regulations and practices of platform work, as well as the evolution of platform business models from the perspective of their reception in national contexts, notably starting with experiences in the South; ● the nature of a “platform capitalism” including, to follow one hypothesis, the degree to which it should be understood from the angle of racialization and its articulation with other social relations (gender, class, etc.); ● the study of grey zones, the social spaces of work and employment transformations and recompositions that are brought about by platform work and their comparison of national experiences between North and South; ● the application of epistemologies of comparison, including a reflection on inter- and trans-disciplinarity, conceived in their “globality”. Theoretical contributions on paradigms to provide adequate concepts and categories for new or renewed conditions produced by platform work in the North and in the South are also welcome. What epistemplogy(ies) are necessary to study platform work? This symposium is organized by the ANR research projet Regreyz&Co « Grey zones and Territory: Transformation of work and the emerging figure of Platform Worker. A France-Brazil comparison » (CNRS/FAPESP), in partnership with l'Université Paris-Est Créteil and the Law Faculty at Universidade de Paraná, Curitiba. The Organization of the Symposium Please send proposals (of a maximum 3,000 signs, including spaces) for papers in English, Spanish, French or Portuguese, with a short bio to: col.zonascinzentas(a)gmail.com<mailto:col.zonascinzentas@gmail.com> with copies to Donna Kesselman donna.kesselman(a)u-pec.fr<mailto:donna.kesselman@u-pec.fr>, Cibele Saliba Rizek cibelesr(a)sc.usp.br<mailto:cibelesr@sc.usp.br> and Christian Azaïs christian.azais(a)lecnam.net<mailto:christian.azais@lecnam.net> Deadline for submission: April 30, 2024 Response: May 30, 2024 The symposium will be held in person and, for certain speakers, remotely. Please indicate whether you intend to attend the live symposium or prefer to participate remotely to enable us to ensure academic, scientific and geographical balance. Organizing Committee Donna Kesselman, Université Paris-Est Créteil (UPEC), Sidnei Machado Sidnei, Universidade Federal do Paraná (UFPR), Tomás Moreira, Instituto de Arquitetura e Urbanismo, Universidade de São Paulo (USP), João Pedro Perin, Universidade Federal de São Carlos (UFSCar), Aline Pires, Universidade Federal de São Carlos (UFSCar), Rangel Felipe, Universidade Federal de São Carlos (UFSCar) Scientific Committee Ludmilla C. Abílio, sociologie, Instituto de Estudos Avançados da USP (Brazil), Christian Azaïs, sociologie, LISE-CNAM (France), Adam Badger, economic geography, Newcastle University (Great Britain), Natacha Borgeaud-Garciandía, sociologia, Conicet (Argentine), Rodrigo Carelli, direito do trabalho, Universidade Federal de Rio de Janeiro (Brasil), Antonio Casilli, sociologie, Institut Polytechnique de Paris (France), Patrick Cingolani, sociologie, Université de Paris-Cité (France), Martine D’Amours, sociologie, Université Laval (Québec), Patrick Dieuaide, économie, Sorbonne Nouvelle (France), Olivier Giraud, sciences politiques CNRS/LISE-CNAM (France), Sayonara Grillo Coutinho, direito do trabalho, Universidade Federal de Rio de Janeiro (Brasil), Rafael Grohmann, media studies, University of Toronto (Canada), Lima Jacob Carlos, sociologia, Universidade Federal de São Carlos (Brasil), Machado Sidnei, direito do trabalho, Universidade Federal do Paraná (UFPR-Brasil), Guénolé Marchadour, sociologie, LISE-CNAM (France), Claire Marzo, droit du travail (Université Paris-Est Créteil), Sawmiya Rajaram, Jindal Global Law School, O.P Jindal Global University (India), Cibele Rizek, sociologia, Instituto de Arquitetura e Urbanismo, Universidade de São Paulo (USP) (Brasil), Maxime Schirrer, géographie, LIRSA CNAM (France),Roberto Véras de Oliveira, sociologia, Universidade Federal da Paraíba (Brasil), Cheolki Yoon, School of Social Communication, Saint-Paul University (Canada, South Korea). 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Reminder for April 1 - CFP Special Issue for New Media & Society on "Contextual Complexities of Violence on Digital Platforms"
by Tom Divon 17 Mar '24

17 Mar '24

Dear community members! A gentle reminder that our submission deadline is nearing - April 1! We eagerly await your contributions to our special issue in New Media & Society on "Contextual Complexities of Violence on Digital Platforms" Details below: *Context* The world now seems more fraught with violence than ever, intricately interwoven into the fabric of our contemporary digital ecosystem. The escalating accessibility and ubiquity of digital platforms across the globe have facilitated a corresponding rise in the frequency of violence perpetrated through diverse infrastructural channels. So far, studies have observed a growing prevalence of violence executed on and through digital platforms. For example, research has emphasized that platform affordances like Feeds and DMs provide perpetrators with new avenues to exert control, intimidate, surveil, and harass women (Dragiewicz et al., 2018; Jane, 2014). Others have shown how audiovisual memes can be manipulated to expand and reproduce hate speech (Matamoros-Fernández et al., 2023), along with studies exploring the distressing psychological repercussions experienced by users exposed to content featuring real-world violence (Stubbs et al., 2022). Undoubtedly, digital environments have emerged as spaces that simultaneously sustain and expand intersecting forms of symbolic violence, including racism (Jakubowicz, 2017) and gender inequality (Cepeda, 2018). They have also become battlegrounds for countering and contesting forms of material and cultural violence, such as anti-racist efforts and police accountability (Lamont-Hill, 2018), as well as digital mobilization to advocate for differently-abled individuals (Mann, 2018). Within this broad context, this special issue strives to enhance the understanding of the diverse forms, actors, and perceptions associated with online violence, serving as a crucial stride toward cultivating a healthier digital landscape. Specifically, as advocated by Dwyer (2017), we wish to emphasize the importance of contextualizing violent behavior and content within their respective cultural and historical frameworks. This call for contextualized understandings of violence arises at a time when addressing online harm necessitates a multifaceted approach, encompassing political, technical, and social dimensions, to effectively navigate the intricacies of local cultures. This significance is highlighted by Schoenebeck et al. (2023), underscoring the pivotal role of local culture as the foremost determinant of how individuals perceive violence on digital platforms. In this context, nuanced examinations of digital violence are indispensable for crafting fitting responses to the multifaceted ecologies of violence on social media. Therefore, our objective in this issue is to compile contributions that explore the impact, reach, and various manifestations of online violence as experienced and perceived within specific sociocultural contexts. Underlying the goal of this call for papers is a desire to engage with scholars who are exploring violence on digital platforms as a cultural experience (Cover, 2022) that reinforces or resists existing power structures (Marwick, 2021; McCosker, 2014). Our call welcomes scholars to delve into the stickiness of mediated violence (Zelinzer, 2023), encouraging contributions on how online harm can serve as vehicles for both productive and destructive forces within contemporary cultures. We especially encourage interdisciplinary contributions that go beyond definitional or methodological issues around violence on digital platforms and emphasize its social, political, and ethical implications (Jane, 2015) on a global scale, with a particular emphasis on non-Western contexts. Accordingly, we invite submissions that address topics including, but not limited to, the following: ● Perceptions, experiences, and actors involved in the symbiotic relationship of offline and digital violence within various sociocultural contexts. ● Perceptions, experiences, and actors involved in algorithmic violence enacted within specific communities and contextual settings. ● Perpetuation and amplification of symbolic violence through digital platforms. ● Networked violence centered around attacking and revealing the identity of digital personas (e.g., doxxing as a form of violence exacted on minoritized individuals). ● Collective mobilization and contestation to counter material and symbolic violence on digital platforms. ● Escalating endorsement of violence as a method for collective mobilization. ● Digital resistance of platform and algorithmic bias. *Information for authors* Potential contributors should submit a 1,200-word abstract (excluding references), a 100-word bio, and the corresponding author's contact information to the guest editors. Feel free to consult the special issue editors about your article ideas and potential angles or approaches. After the abstracts have been selected, authors will be invited to submit a full paper. Please note that acceptance of an abstract does not guarantee publication, given that all papers will go through the journal’s peer review process. *Abstract structure* The extended abstract should present a coherent narrative on online violence while highlighting how the authors respond to the special issue call. It must emphasize the distinctive contributions of the study and provide an introduction to the empirical case study being explored. Furthermore, the abstract should outline the research methods employed and provide a clear indication within the findings section of the current stage of the work, whether it is still to be completed, in development, or at the writing phase. Extended Abstract submission: April 1, 2024 Invited submission notification: May 1, 2024 Full paper submission: November 1, 2024 See the full CFP here: https://drive.google.com/drive/u/0/folders/1MxAt0j72EYvJZ-HnTDoM6-kkWNjF6jst For any inquiries, please feel free to contact the editorial team at violenceondigitalplatforms(a)gmail.com -- *Tom Divon* Media & Culture R*esearcher* Dept. of Communication & Journalism, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem Sammy Ofer School of Communications, IDC, Herzliya Tel: +972-547-532681 [image: Twitter] <https://twitter.com/TomDivon>[image: Instagram] <https://www.instagram.com/divon.tom/>[image: Facebook] <https://www.facebook.com/tom.divon> *Publications*: Playful Activism: Memetic Performances of Palestinian Resistance in TikTok #Challenges <https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/20563051231157607>. Playful Publics on TikTok: The Memetic Israeli-Palestinian War of #CHALLENGE <https://www.researchgate.net/publication/366530633_Playful_Publics_on_TikTo…> . #JewishTikTok: The JewToks' Fight against Antisemitism <https://www.researchgate.net/publication/359548581_JewishTikTok>. Serious TikTok: Can You Learn About the Holocaust in 60 seconds? <https://reframe.sussex.ac.uk/digitalholocaustmemory/2022/03/24/can-you-lear…> PERFORMING DEATH AND TRAUMA? PARTICIPATORY MEM(E)ORY AND THE HOLOCAUST IN TIKTOK# POVCHALLENGES <https://spir.aoir.org/ojs/index.php/spir/article/view/12995> visit my web! https://tomdivon.com/

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