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Social Media and Society in India
by Joyojeet Pal 10 Mar '24

10 Mar '24

The Social Media & Society in India symposium takes place Apr 8-9, 2024 at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, and is free to attend online or in person and brings together a great line-up of speakers. Registration is free for both online and in-person. Registered attendees can view all the talks and also sign up for office hours with the speakers. This year’s line up includes a variety of topics including political and electoral social media use, platform governance, brand management, finance, healthcare, and hate speech. Details and registration info here: https://influencers.conference.si.umich.edu · *From Babar Ki Aulaad to K2A: The vocabulary of anti-Muslim hate speeches and everyday slurs*, *Hussain Haidry*, Poet · *The Use of Social Media for Activism and Social Justice and its impact*, *Rajshri Deshpande*, Actor · *Escalations and platform policies on political content*, *Shilpa Kannan*, Tech Executive *Digital Journalism and Social Media Spaces in South India*, *Dhanya Rajendran*, Editor · *H-Pop Stars and The Ecology Of Hate Pop Culture on YouTube*, *Kunal Purohit*, Author · *Branding and marketing YouTube Shorts in India*, *Gunjan Arya*, Brand Executive · *The contrasts in the censorship of abusive language on streaming and social media platforms in India*, *Shephali Bhatt*, Reporter · *The Expressive Function of Social Media - Navigating Free Speech Concerns in the Digital Domain*, *Disha Wadekar*, Lawyer · *Social Media and Surveillance of Muslims in Rural India, and the changing landscape of Indian villages*, *Parth MN*, Journalist · *Large-scale political campaigns on Social Media*, *Amitabh Dubey*, Policy Analyst · *The articulation of women’s professional lives on Indian Social Media: A view from the skies*, *Hana Mohsin Khan*, Aviator · *Social Media and Blind and Low Vision People in India*, *Venkatesh Potluri*, Accessibility Researcher · *Building a Hindi-language YouTube News Channel from the Ground Up*, *Sanjay Sharma*, Anchor · *Building Political Narratives on Social Media: Differences between Local, State and National Campaigns*, *Talha Rashid*, Political Strategist · *The X thread as a genre: the social media offerings of a vascular surgeon*, *Ambarish Satwik*, Surgeon · *Monetization as a Short Form Content Creator: Personal Finance Influencing on Instagram*, *Anushka Rathod*, Finance Influencer · *Social Media and In-Person Mass Campaigns: Evidence from State Elections in North India*, *Shahana Sheikh*, Researcher · *Decoding Mumbai's Hidden Stories: Bringing Urban working class stories online*, *Balram Vishwakarma*, Storyteller · *The Queer Muslim Project: Manifesting Queer Joy on Social Media*, *Rafiul Rahman*, Activist The conference is the largest of its kind, and there is also a great student submission section, papers are archived in conference proceedings. Call for submissions and a link to last year’s proceedings <https://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/handle/2027.42/177147> incl talks on finance, family vlogs, travel, politics, and brand management on social media. To submit original work, please look at the Call for Papers <https://joyojeet.people.si.umich.edu/smsi-cfp.html>. Thanks, Joyojeet Pal

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Special Issue: "Methods in Visual Politics and Protest: Mixed Methods, Data Curation & Anti-Publics"
by Tom Divon 09 Mar '24

09 Mar '24

Dear community members, We are delighted to share the publication of our special issue - "Methods in Visual Politics and Protest: Mixed Methods, Data Curation & Anti-Publics" - in the Journal of Digital Social Research. This publication marks the first installment of a double-special issue dedicated to the exploration of methods in visual politics and protest, with the anticipation of the second part to be released in the coming months. This issue assembles five pioneering articles that confront three pivotal methodological challenges encountered throughout the research process - from data access and collection to analysis and visualization. The contributions within this issue notably advance mixed visual methods approaches to the exploration of topics such as Memes, Far-Right mobilization, Political Bots, and Political Feminism, while introducing novel techniques for constructing and curating visual datasets, and methodological explorations of visual anti-publics. This first issue includes the following papers and is available here: https://www.jdsr.io/vol-6-no-1-2024 --> (Intro to) Special Issue on Methods in Visual Politics and Protest: mixed methods, data curation & anti-publics \ Suay Melisa Özkula, Tom Divon, Hadas Schlussel, & Danka Ninković Slavnić --> Analyzing Radical Visuals at Scale: How Far-Right Groups Mobilize on TikTok \ Julian Hohner, Azade Kakavand, & Sophia Rothut --> The contingent macro: The ephemerality of memes as discursive devices \ Giulia Giorgi & Ilir Rama --> Quali-quanti visual methods and political bots: A cross-platform study of pro- & anti-bolsobots \ Janna Joceli Omena, Thais Lobo, Giulia Tucci, Elias Bitencourt, Emillie de Keulenaar, Francisco W. Kerche, Jason Chao, Marius Liedtke, Mengying Li, Maria Luiza Paschoal, & Ilya Lavrov --> Exploring feminisms on Instagram: Reflections on the challenges and possibilities of incorporating digital methods strategies in feminist social media research \ Sofia Caldeira --> Networked masterplots: Music, pro-Russian sentiment, and participatory propaganda on TikTok \ Marloes Geboers & Elena Pilipets -- *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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CFP "Big Data Audiences" Special Issue of Convergence (Due: March 31)
by Jennifer Hessler 09 Mar '24

09 Mar '24

Deadline for Abstracts: 31st March 2024 Deadline for Full Papers: 31st July 2024 Expected date of publication: August 2025 *Big Data Audiences* *Special Issue of Convergence: The International Journal of Research into New Media Technologies <https://journals.sagepub.com/home/con>* Guest Editors: Jennifer Hessler (North Carolina State University, US) and Elliot Montpellier (Kwantlen Polytechnic University, CA) Media ecosystems increasingly use big data audience insights to shape their distribution models, content production and curation, and marketing strategies, even while these developments are happening at different paces and with varied cultural and political implications from country to country. Existing scholarship on audience datafication largely takes a media economics approach, focusing on how data is informed by and shapes the actions of media industry stakeholders. This often elides the cultural stakes of audience datafication. Crucially, this issue brings together analysis of institutional structures with insights from critical sociologies of data to grapple how the big datafication of audiences converges with issues of cultural identity and exchange. This issue contends with the way big audience data practices are changing entertainment media ecosystems. Proposals might engage with how the implications of audience datafication are playing out differently in state-run, public, and commercial television systems, or how the increasing reliance on big data audience insights impacts the distribution of capital among creatives. At the same time, the issue engages with how big data is changing the way audiences are imagined and attributed value. Media distributors often spin the addressability afforded by big data as an opportunity to personalize content more effectively for globally diverse viewers. However, proposals might engage with how big data can limit the audience experience, or how the vastly scaled and real-time-actioned ways of addressing audiences also reify the distortions via which racial, gendered, national, and other inequalities manifest. We are especially interested in proposals that focus on the global south, and those that ground data in specific uses or consider data across sites from political, industrial, ethnographic, STS, anticolonial, or other approaches. Possible topics could include, but are not limited to: • How relationships between industry stakeholders are reconfigured via new practices of audience datafication. • The way that policies or funding models shape how audience data is collected or used. • Theoretical treatments of data colonialism, surveillance, and platform capitalism in relation to big data audiences. • The computational methods that are being used to imagine audience communities, or the conceptual frameworks that can be used to understand how big data addresses audiences. • The impacts that big data audience analytics have on national, gendered, LGBTQ, ethnic, linguistic, religious, and other communities. Please send a 500-word abstract and a 100-word bio for each author to the guest editors at *bigdataaudiences.cnmt(a)gmail.com <bigdataaudiences.cnmt(a)gmail.com> *by* March 31st 2024.* Authors of accepted abstracts will be contacted by the guest editors and will be invited to submit full paper contributions (8000-9000 words) by July 31st 2024, with a target publication date of August 2025. Link to CFP here: https://journals.sagepub.com/pb-assets/cmscontent/con/Final_Big%20Data%20Au… CFP%20Convergence%20(4)%20(1)-1709697529.pdf <https://journals.sagepub.com/pb-assets/cmscontent/con/Final_Big%20Data%20Au…>

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Job posting: Contract Editor for MediaWell at SSRC
by Dannah Dennis 09 Mar '24

09 Mar '24

Hello, The Social Science Research Council is currently seeking to hire an editor for the MediaWell platform. As part of the SSRC’s technology portfolio, MediaWell seeks to highlight the different streams of scholarship on the evolving relationship between media, technology, and politics. Our work supports research and outreach that deepens the historical, cultural, and political contexts for understanding mis- and disinformation, with a particular focus on how power structures dynamically shape information. The work will take place at the SSRC offices in Brooklyn, New York, though remote work is possible. This is a one-year, contract position with an hourly wage of $30/hr, not a staff position. Expected hours would be about 5-10 hours per week. Applicants will need to have legal status to work in the United States, as SSRC cannot sponsor visas for this position. Please see the attached job ad for more details, and feel free to reach out to mediawell(a)ssrc.org<mailto:mediawell@ssrc.org> with any questions. Applications are due by April 1. Best regards, Dannah Dennis -- Dannah Dennis, PhD Program Officer and Postdoctoral Fellow | Data Fluencies dennis(a)ssrc.org| Twitter<https://twitter.com/dannahdennis> Social Science Research Council<https://www.ssrc.org/programs/view/just-tech/#overview> One Pierrepont Plaza (300 Cadman Plaza West), 15th Fl. Brooklyn, NY 11201

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Lisa Messeri's new book, In the Land of the Unreal
by Ilana Gershon 08 Mar '24

08 Mar '24

Dear Colleagues, CaMP anthropology blog is so pleased to announce that Lisa Messeri's book has just been released. We are celebrating In the Land of the Unreal: Virtual and Other Realities in Los Angeles with an interview conducted by Stefan Helmreich. You can find the interview here: campanthropology.org Best, Ilana Press blurb: In the mid-2010s, a passionate community of Los Angeles-based storytellers, media artists, and tech innovators formed around virtual reality (VR), believing that it could remedy society’s ills. Lisa Messeri offers an ethnographic exploration of this community, which conceptualized VR as an “empathy machine” that could provide glimpses into diverse social realities. She outlines how, in the aftermath of #MeToo, the backlash against Silicon Valley, and the turmoil of the Trump administration, it was imagined that VR—if led by women and other marginalized voices—could bring about a better world. Messeri delves into the fantasies that allowed this vision to flourish, exposing the paradox of attempting to use a singular VR experience to mend a fractured reality full of multiple, conflicting social truths. She theorizes this dynamic as unreal, noting how dreams of empathy collide with reality’s irreducibility to a “common” good. With *In the Land of the Unreal*, Messeri navigates the intersection of place, technology, and social change to show that technology alone cannot upend systemic forces attached to gender and race.

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WEBCAST MAR 8 – ISOC Alumni International Women’s Day Virtual Workshop – Pioneering Routes: Inspiring Stories of Women on the Internet
by Joly MacFie 08 Mar '24

08 Mar '24

Happy International Women's Day! REAL TIME TEXT https://bit.ly/3TsIkza [image: ISOC LIVE] <http://isoc.live/?action=user_content_redirect&uuid=20a707e1e0e1cb386fc5eb4…> On *Friday March 8 2024* at *14:00 UTC* the *Internet Society Alumni Network <http://isoc.live/?action=user_content_redirect&uuid=aa4153dfe64814705f24334…>* will celebrate *International Women's Day <http://isoc.live/?action=user_content_redirect&uuid=d3eb8c26c7e268895baff69…>* with a Virtual Workshop "*Pioneering Routes: Inspiring Stories of Women on the Internet <http://isoc.live/?action=user_content_redirect&uuid=221f96df5ad90d8f7e9a06a…>*" where *Internet Hall of Fame <http://isoc.live/?action=user_content_redirect&uuid=6ff252600a0b1095079811c…>* inductees Elise Gerich, Yvonne Marie Andres, and Jean Armour Polly will seek to inspire and empower young women from the Alumni Network through their experiences as Internet pioneers, personal anecdotes that highlight their journey, challenges and successes in the Internet sector. *SPEAKERS* *Elise Gerich -* Director Of Business Development, NoviFlow Inc / Co-founder, NANOG *Yvonne Marie Andres* - Founding Executive Director, Global SchoolNet *Jean Armour Polly* - Net-mom *LIVESTREAM https://livestream.com/internetsociety/isoc-alumni-womens-day-2024 <http://isoc.live/?action=user_content_redirect&uuid=d425060d0bcc8a70701e9ec…>* *PARTICIPATE VIA ZOOM https://bit.ly/48KBb1t <http://isoc.live/?action=user_content_redirect&uuid=221f96df5ad90d8f7e9a06a…>* *REAL TIME TEXT https://bit.ly/3TsIkza <http://isoc.live/?action=user_content_redirect&uuid=e8c3fd46c5ff09ebee49674…>* *TWITTER #IWD2024 #ISOCAlumni <http://isoc.live/?action=user_content_redirect&uuid=1a90cbb1e5340f8a31995cf…> #InspireInclusion @ISOC_Community @Internet_HOF* *MASTODON #ISOCAlumni <http://isoc.live/?action=user_content_redirect&uuid=94d991d97c56ea628badf9d…>* *SIMULCASTS* *https://twitter.com/ISOC_Live <http://isoc.live/?action=user_content_redirect&uuid=80cc784ff3f24e92b3d5ac6…>* *https://www.twitch.tv/isoclive <http://isoc.live/?action=user_content_redirect&uuid=2773d9ad8ffd5cdf574679c…>* *https://www.facebook.com/liveisoc/* <http://isoc.live/?action=user_content_redirect&uuid=506d9326f1a8a3650a31946…> (AI Captions) *ARCHIVE* *https://archive.org/details/isoc-alumni-womens-day-2024 <http://isoc.live/?action=user_content_redirect&uuid=4ed8810ced76070d0e1e293…>* *ISOC Alumni Virtual Workshops* The Alumni Virtual workshops aim to provide an opportunity for attendees to network and connect with other professionals in the field, fostering collaboration and the sharing of ideas. Overall, the goal of the ISOC Alumni Network is to empower community with knowledge and resources to better understand and navigate the complex landscape of internet governance. Permalink https://isoc.live/17412 - -- -------------------------------------- Joly MacFie +12185659365 -------------------------------------- -

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CfP - The Failed Epistemologies of AI? Making Sense of AI Errors, Failures and their Impacts on Society
by Philip Di Salvo 08 Mar '24

08 Mar '24

Dear colleagues, I’m happy to share this CfP for a special issues in the Italian journal *Annals of the Fondazione Luigi Einaudi. <https://www.annalsfondazioneluigieinaudi.it> *I believe it could be of interest for many Internet studies scholars. *CfP: The Failed Epistemologies of AI? Making Sense of AI Errors, Failures and their Impacts on Society – Annals of the Fondazione Luigi Einaudi* *Editors:* - Prof. *Veronica Barassi* (veronica.barassi(a)unisg.ch) - Dr. *Philip Di Salvo* (philip.disalvo(a)unisg.ch) School of Humanities and Social Sciences University of St. Gallen Generative artificial intelligence tools and large language models are gaining a prominent space in our society. Probably for the first time in history, humans have now to relate and interact with technological systems capable of producing and generating new content and knowledge mimicking humans’ imagination, speech, and behaviors in ways that was not possible before. This new state of things brings inevitably profound consequences and potential sea changes for numerous social, scientific, and cultural fields raising epistemological, ethical, political economical and philosophical questions about the epistemologies of AI and the processes of knowledge production of these systems. The race for AI innovation is being framed with reference to the ‘superintelligence’ of our machines, their processing power, their ability to learn and generate knowledge. In public debate, AI technologies are admired for their powers, and feared for their threats. Yet, *we are increasingly confronted with the fact that these machines make errors and mistakes, they are fallible and inaccurate, and they are often culturally biased*. From Generative AI technologies that ‘hallucinate’ and invent facts to predictive policing technologies that lead to wrongful arrests, our world is quickly coming to terms with the fact that the AI we are building is not only astonishing and incredibly powerful, but often unable to understand the complexity of our human experience and our cultural worlds. Research has shown that AI errors and their problematic outcomes can’t be considered as mere coding glitches, but as the direct expression of the structural inequalities of our societies and they confront us with critical questions about our supposed anthropocentric position as knowledge-creators. The aim of this special issue is to gather scholars coming from different fields of the social sciences and humanities to investigate *how artificial intelligence systems are challenging epistemological assumptions in various societal areas* and *how the failures of such systems are impacting on knowledge creation and diffusion in their areas of interest.* Overall, the special issue aims at overcoming dominant and hyped takes and narratives around AI and its supposed (super)powers, and critically reflect on how we can identify and learn how to coexist with the limitations of AI driven knowledge production. *Possible topics* include, but are not restricted to: - Impacts of AI Errors and Failures: Exploring the ways in which AI failures, inaccuracies and errors in AI impact human understanding, decision-making, and interpersonal relationships. - Cultural Limitations of AI Knowledge: Investigating how AI systems intersect with cultural norms, values, and belief systems, and assessing the limits to cultural diversity and inclusivity of these technologies. - Fake News and DeepFakes: Generative AI, democracy, disinformation, and the public sphere - Social Construction of AI Truth: Investigating how AI systems construct and perpetuate particular truths, shaping public perceptions and influencing social narratives. - Bias and Discrimination in AI: Analyzing how inherent biases in training data, algorithms, and decision-making processes contribute to perpetuating social inequalities and reinforcing existing power structures. *Submission procedure* - We invite interested scholars to submit an *abstract* (300 words, 3 to 5 keywords) by *24th of April*, 2024 to editors(a)annalsfondazioneluigieinaudi.it, veronica.barassi(a)unisg.ch; philip.disalvo(a)unisg.ch. - The issue’s editors will review the abstracts and send *notifications* of acceptance or rejection by the *8th of June*, 2024. - The special issue will include up to 8 contributions among those received through the call for papers. *Final papers* (about 8000 words) will be due on *8th of December* 2024. Please note that acceptance of abstracts does not necessarily imply acceptance of the paper for the special issue. For further information (including the aim and scope of the Journal), please refer to the Journal’s website. Best regards and thanks for your attention, -- *Philip Di Salvo, PhD* Researcher <https://mcm.unisg.ch/en/personenverzeichnis/9479a240-e20b-4b1e-aaa4-249f2ca…> | journalist <https://twitter.com/philipdisalvo> Zürich

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Job in Digital Culture, University of Bergen
by Jill Walker Rettberg 08 Mar '24

08 Mar '24

We are hiring an Associate Professor in Digital Culture at the University of Bergen and are looking for a person with research expertise in digital methods and ethnographic approaches for researching contemporary digital culture. We strongly encourage early and mid-career scholars to apply – you need a PhD and progress in publication and research beyond your PhD but when evaluating applications the emphasis will be on the last five years to make it more fair for early career scholars. Application deadline April 1st, 2024. More info here: https://www.jobbnorge.no/en/available-jobs/job/258621/associate-professor-i… Last year we launched the Center for Digital Narrative<http://uib.no/en/cdn> (CDN), a ten year Norwegian Centre of Research Excellence. This position is a permanent position with a balanced research/teaching load (46% of each and 8% admin), so the candidate doesn’t have to do research related to digital narrative, but will be invited to have an office in the CDN building and participate in all CDN events if their research interests intersect with the centre. In addition to lots of interesting colleagues CDN researchers will have extra support for developing research ideas and grant applications and so on. Please share this with anyone you think would be interested! Jill New book in print and open access! Machine Vision: How Algorithms are Changing the Way We See the World<https://www.politybooks.com/bookdetail?book_slug=machine-vision-how-algorit…> Polity Press, 2023 Jill Walker Rettberg Professor, Co-Director Center for Digital Narrative<http://uib.no/en/cdn> Leader of Machine Vision in Everyday Life<https://www.uib.no/en/machinevision/> (ERC-CoG) University of Bergen https://www.uib.no/en/persons/Jill.Walker.Rettberg

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New Book: Podcasting in a Platform Age
by John Sullivan 07 Mar '24

07 Mar '24

Dear Colleagues, With apologies for cross-posting, I am pleased to announce the publication of my new book, “Podcasting in a Platform Age: From an Amateur to a Professional Medium” (Bloomsbury Academic, 2024). The book is now available for order and you can use the code GLR AT5 for 20% off when purchasing directly from the publisher’s website: https://www.bloomsbury.com/podcasting-in-a-platform-age-9781501380693/ // Description // Podcasting in a Platform Age explores the transition underway in podcasting by considering how the influx of legacy and new media interest in the medium is injecting professional and corporate logics into what had been largely an amateur media form. Many of the most high-profile podcasts today, however, are produced by highly-skilled media professionals, some of whom are employees of media corporations. Legacy radio and new media platform giants like Google, Apple, Amazon, and Spotify are also making big (and expensive) moves in the medium by acquiring content producers and hosting platforms. This book focuses on three major aspects of this transformation: formalization, professionalization, and monetization. Through a close read of online and press discourse, analysis of podcasts themselves, participant observations at podcast trade shows and conventions, and interviews with industry professionals and individual podcasters, John Sullivan outlines how the efforts of industry players to transform podcasting into a profitable medium are beginning to challenge the very definition of podcasting itself. // Table of Contents // 1. Introduction: Podcasting in Transition 2. Podcasting as a 21st Century Cultural Industry 3. Institutional Formalization: Mapping a New Cultural Industry 4. Distribution and Exhibition Shifts: The Platformization of Podcasting 5. Professionalism and the Myth of Meritocracy 6. Podcast Production: Fostering Communities of Practice 7. Market Information Regimes in Podcasting: Formalization and Audience Metrics 8. "This Podcast Was Brought to you By...": Advertising and Brands in Podcasting 9. Podcast Conventions and the Entrepreneurial Dream 10. Conclusion: Platformization and Podcasting’s Third Decade // Reviews // “This is the book we need, but didn't deserve. 20 years after the invention of podcasting, John Sullivan provides one of the first comprehensive accounts of the changing digital structures that podcasting exists within. Clearly written and with great attention to details, it lays out the ever fascinating interplays between the cultural, social, and economic dynamics of podcasting in the age of platforms. This is an important book, and it is essential for everyone who wants to understand the third decade of podcasting.” - Aske Kammer, Associate Professor of Journalism Studies, Roskilde University, Denmark “Sullivan unravels the captivating journey of podcasting, from its grassroots origins evolving into dynamics of media and cultural industries. With keen insights, Sullivan navigates the core of its evolution, unveiling the tension between preserving podcasting’s open essence and the pull towards centralization driven by a platform-centered scenario. This book offers a concise yet enlightening exploration of podcasting's history, present, and future, revealing why podcasting becomes relevant in the current digital landscape.” - Toni Sellas, Course Leader Bachelor of Journalism, University of Vic-Central University of Catalonia, Spain ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Dr. John L. Sullivan Professor & Interim Chair, Media & Communication Muhlenberg College, 2400 Chew Street Allentown, PA 18104 USA 484/664-3481 (phone); 484/664-3993 (fax) Pronouns: He/Him/His NEW: Podcasting in a Platform Age <https://www.bloomsbury.com/us/podcasting-in-a-platform-age-9781501380679/> (Bloomsbury, 2024) Author of Media Audiences <https://us.sagepub.com/en-us/nam/media-audiences/book258868>, 2nd edition (Sage, 2019) ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

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CFP "10th Political Theory Graduate Conference at Sciences Po Paris"
by Charles CORVAL 07 Mar '24

07 Mar '24

Dear AoIR colleagues, The deadline for submitting a proposal for the 10th Political Theory Graduate Conference at Sciences Po Paris is extended until March 15th. All Ph.D. students and junior researchers working at the crossroads of political theory, political science, and new technologies, are invited to submit a proposal. The conferences will be delivered on May 22nd and 23rd in person. The topic this year is "Metamorphosis of the Self: Technology, Identity, and Power in Late Modernity". Harvard’s Professor Shoshana Zuboff is our honored guest this year. She will deliver an opening lecture and participate in the discussions with the Ph.D. students. We are accepting paper abstracts of 500-750 words until March 15th. Selected participants will be notified by March 25th at the latest. Lunch and dinner will be offered for the two days of the conference. Communications can be in French or in English. More information can be found in the call for proposal, available on the political theory website of Sciences Po : https://theoriespo.wordpress.com/graduate-confernece/sciences-po-paris-10th… Sincerely yours, Charles Corval, Georges Mercier & Guilhem Mevel Conference Co-Chairs.

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