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CFP Special Issue for New Media & Society: "Contextual Complexities of Violence on Digital Platforms"
by Tom Divon 10 Jan '24

10 Jan '24

Dear community members! We are thrilled to share with you this CFP for our Special Issue with New Media & Society devoted to "Contextual Complexities of Violence on Digital Platforms" *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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36th International Conference on Advanced Information Systems Engineering: First Call for DC Papers
by Announce 10 Jan '24

10 Jan '24

*** First Call for Doctoral Consortium Papers *** 36th International Conference on Advanced Information Systems Engineering (CAiSE'24) June 3-7, 2024, 5* St. Raphael Resort and Marina, Limassol, Cyprus https://cyprusconferences.org/caise2024/ (*** Submission Deadline: 8th March, 2024 AoE ***) The CAiSE conference series has a proud track record of running an international Doctoral Consortium affiliated with the event. The CAiSE'24 Doctoral Consortium aims to attract PhD students working on foundations, techniques, tools and applications in the Information Systems Engineering field. At the Doctoral Consortium, the participating PhD students will have the opportunity to present their research and to get feedback from an audience of peers and senior faculty in a supportive environment. There will also be discussions tailored to the needs and interests of PhD students. The goals of the Doctoral Consortium are to ensure that participating PhD students: • receive constructive and personalized feedback and advice on their research program by dedicated Doctoral Consortium mentors, • provide an opportunity to meet, interact with and learn from established researchers and practitioners in the Information Systems Engineering community, • develop a supportive community of peer scholars and a spirit of collaborative research, • discuss broader opportunities and concerns related to a PhD study and post-PhD pathways. To be eligible for the Doctoral Consortium, the candidate must be a current PhD student within a recognized research institution. We welcome submissions of both late-stage PhD students (having at least 6 months of work after the conference and before their expected completion), and early-stage PhD students (with at least 6 months of work already performed prior to the submission date). WHY SUBMITTING TO THE CAiSE'24 DOCTORAL CONSORTIUM? The CAiSE'24 Doctoral Consortium will be attended by renowned academics from the Information Systems Engineering field who will actively participate as mentors for the PhD students accepted to the Doctoral Consortium. The participating PhD students will receive constructive reviews on their submission, as well as personalized guidance by Doctoral Consortium mentors regarding their research program and presentation at the Consortium event. Accepted papers will be published in the CEUR proceedings (https://ceur-ws.org/) which are indexed in DBLP. Participants of the CAiSE Doctoral Consortium will be subsequently eligible to submit their PhD thesis (after the degree is granted) for a CAiSE PhD Award. SUBMISSION PROCESS Submissions must be made electronically by the stated deadline via the EasyChair conference system at https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=caise2024 . Each submission should contain (i) a recommendation letter from the student’s PhD advisor, and (ii) a paper describing the research plans and the current status of progress (see more details in the Paper Submission Guidelines section). Submissions must have a single author, but the name of the PhD advisors should be mentioned in the paper (usually in the Acknowledgments section). Submissions should concern original research. All submitted materials must be in English. Attendees must have sufficient proficiency in English for being allowed to participate in the academic discussions of the Consortium. Submissions of both early and late-stage PhD students are welcome. Submissions of early-stage PhD students should concentrate on the selection of the research methods to apply, the realization and contextualization of the relevant literature, the expected pitfalls and ways to mitigate them. Submissions of late-stage PhD students should also include preliminary research results and discuss to some extent conclusions and threats. The recommendation letter from the PhD advisor should include an assessment of the current status of the research, an expected date for the completion of the dissertation, a delineation of the anticipated benefits for the student's participation at the Consortium and details of any submissions associated with the research. PAPER CONTENT AND FORMAT The paper must: • clearly formulate the research questions investigated in the thesis, • identify a significant problem in the field of Information System Engineering, • outline the current status of the problem domain and related solutions, • describe the research methods that are applied or proposed and the expected artifacts, • outline the contributions of the applicant’s work to the problem domain and highlight their uniqueness, • present any preliminary results achieved so far (mainly relevant for late-stage PhD students), • conform to the CEURART template using the 1-column layout format (thus, NOT the Springer LNCS format and NOT in multiple column layouts); the most recent template (including Word and LaTeX) can be downloaded from http://ceur-ws.org/Vol-XXX/index.html, • contain up to 4,000 words (including everything, e.g., references, tables, figures). REVIEW PROCESS Each submission will be reviewed by two members of the Doctoral Consortium Mentoring Board. The main evaluation criteria are: relevance, originality, significance, technical soundness, accuracy, clarity and the expected benefits to the student from participating in the Doctoral Consortium. Acceptance is based on the review outcomes. ATTENDANCE AND REGISTRATION FEE The Doctoral Consortium is held in parallel with the main CAiSE conference on 5-7 June 2024. The presentations and decisions are expected to take place in person, so attendance in the entire Doctoral Consortium is required. To facilitate detailed feedback to the participants, attendance to the Doctoral Consortium is by invitation only, limited to the participants and the Mentoring Board. There is no separate registration fee for participants in the Doctoral Consortium. Participants should register to the main conference by selecting either the “Main conference” option or another option that includes the main conference. IMPORTANT DATES • Paper Submission: 8th March 2024 (AoE) • Notification of Acceptance: 19th April 2024 • Camera-ready Copy: 26th April 2024 • Doctoral Consortium: 5th-7th June 2024 QUESTIONS AND INQUIRIES Questions about eligibility and other inquiries can be sent to the CAiSE’24 Doctoral Consortium chairs at caise2024_dc(a)easychair.org . MENTORING BOARD • Raimundas Matulevičius, University of Tartu, Estonia • Massimo Mecella, Sapienza University of Rome, Italy • Barbara Pernici, Politecnico di Milano, Italy • Jolita Ralyte, University of Geneva, Switzerland • Hajo Reijers, Utrecht University, the Netherlands • Monique Snoeck, KU Leuven, Belgium • Barbara Weber, University of St. Gallen, Switzerland • Jelena Zdravkovic, Stockholm University, Sweden DOCTORAL CONSORTIUM CHAIRS • Iris Reinhartz-Berger, University of Haifa, Israel • Chiara Di Francescomarino, University of Trento, Italy • Aggeliki Tsohou, Ionian University, Greece

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*Invitation to VOX-Pol workshop on 'Tackling Online Extremism in Southern Asia'
by Miraji Hassan Mohamed 09 Jan '24

09 Jan '24

Dear AoIR colleagues, I trust you are doing well. On behalf of VOX-Pol <https://voxpol.eu/> I would like to invite all interested colleagues and your students to join us in our upcoming VOX-Pol workshop on '*Tackling Online Extremism in Southern Asia <https://eur03.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fvoxpol.eu…>*', which will be held online via Zoom Webinar on 15 January 2024 from *13:00 - 14:30 (GMT)*. Our panellists: Ms Munira Mustaffa, Mr. Janeen Fernando and Mr. Hari Prasad will share their insights on the digital extremist landscape in South and Southeast Asia and the challenges and responses to tackling online extremism. To register for the workshop, please email m.h.mohamed(a)swansea.ac.uk and you will receive a zoom link. Please feel free to reach out should you have any questions. Kind regards, Miraj -- Dr. Miraji Mohamed Postdoctoral Researcher - Tech Against Terrorism Europe (TATE) project School of Law and Government Dublin City University Dublin 9 -- * *Séanadh Ríomhphoist/Email Disclaimer* *Tá an ríomhphost seo agus aon chomhad a sheoltar leis faoi rún agus is lena úsáid ag an seolaí agus sin amháin é. Is féidir tuilleadh a léamh anseo. <https://sites.google.com/view/seanadh-riomhphoist>* *This e-mail and any files transmitted with it are confidential and are intended solely for use by the addressee. Read more here. <https://sites.google.com/view/dcu-email-disclaimer>* * -- <https://www.facebook.com/DCU/> <https://twitter.com/DCU> <https://www.linkedin.com/company/dublin-city-university> <https://www.instagram.com/dublincityuniversity/?hl=en> <https://www.youtube.com/user/DublinCityUniversity>

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EAST/4S 2024 Open Panel - Teaching STS and Critical Science Beyond "The Controversy"
by Zach McDowell 09 Jan '24

09 Jan '24

Now accepting papers for an open panel on teaching STS and Critical Science in July in Amsterdam: Beyond "The Controversy": Making and doing within and beyond for positive transformations. Critical Science and Technology Studies teaching has taught "The Controversy" as a method for learning about the truths and myths around science and technology in our world. This panel seeks to go beyond the controversy model and bring forth papers that discuss the radical, foundational, and productive modes of STS teaching. How do you engage, for instance, processual-relational technologies? How do you make your classroom constructivist or pragmatist? How do you move into producing and doing in the classroom in a manner consistent with the stories that STS tells? How do you incorporate alternative narratives, fictums, or life-worlds into your classrooms? How do we challenge the traditional classroom models through STS? How do we challenge the bureaucratic constructs surrounding that classroom and its developments? We propose a combined panel, uniting papers and discussion into a productive dialogue. We seek papers and presentations from those who wish to speak STS to the power of the university/college classroom in the name of constructive and positive change. We hope to have a panel or two of papers and then a fishbowl discussion including those presenters and the audience, discussing and challenging the STS classroom as the locus of positive transformations spoken of in the CFP. submit here: https://nomadit.co.uk/conference/easst-4s2024/panel/14256 (you may have to login or create an acct. in the upper right corner) Thank you and hope to see you in Amsterdam Zach McDowell and Jeremy Hunsinger -------------------- Zachary J. McDowell, PhD www.zachmcdowell.com New Book out: Wikipedia and the Representation of Reality Read online or on Kindle for free <https://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/oa-mono/10.4324/9781003094081/wikipedia…>

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36th International Conference on Advanced Information Systems Engineering: Second Call for Workshop Papers
by Announce 09 Jan '24

09 Jan '24

*** Second Call for Workshop Papers *** 36th International Conference on Advanced Information Systems Engineering (CAiSE'24) June 3-7, 2024, 5* St. Raphael Resort and Marina, Limassol, Cyprus https://cyprusconferences.org/caise2024/ (*** Submission Deadline: 26th February, 2024 AoE ***) CAiSE is a well-established, highly visible conference series on Advanced Information Systems (IS) Engineering. It covers all relevant topics in the area, including methodologies and approaches for IS engineering, innovative platforms, architectures and technologies, and engineering of specific kinds of IS. CAiSE conferences also have the tradition of hosting workshops in related fields. Workshops are intended to focus on particular topics and provide ample room for discussions of new ideas and developments. CAiSE'24, the 36th edition of the CAiSE series, will host the following workshops. For more information for each workshop please visit the workshops' web sites. CAiSE'24 Workshops • 3rd International Workshop on Agile Methods for Information Systems Engineering (Agil-ISE) https://agilise.github.io/2024/index.html • International Workshop on Blockchain for Information Systems (BC4IS24) and Blockchain for Trusted Data Sharing (B4TDS) https://pros.unicam.it/bc4isb4tds/ • 2nd International Workshop on Hybrid Artificial Intelligence and Enterprise Modelling for Intelligent Information Systems (HybridAIMS) https://hybridaims.com/ • 2nd Workshop on Knowledge Graphs for Semantics-driven Systems Engineering https://www.omilab.org/activities/events/caise2024_kg4sdse/ • 16th International Workshop on Enterprise & Organizational Modeling and Simulation (EOMAS 2024) https://eomas2024.fel.cvut.cz/ • Digital Transformation with Business Process Mining (DigPro2024) https://digpro.iiita.ac.in/ IMPORTANT DATES • Paper Submission Deadline: 26th February, 2024 (AoE) • Notification of Acceptance: 27th March, 2024 • Camera-ready Deadline: 5th April, 2024 • Author Registration Deadline: 5th April, 2024 Workshop Chairs • João Paulo A. Almeida, Federal University of Espírito Santo, Brazil • Claudio di Ciccio, Sapienza University of Rome, Italy • Christos Kalloniatis, University of the Aegean, Greece

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New open access book: Epistemic Rights in the Era of Digital Disruption
by Minna Aslama 09 Jan '24

09 Jan '24

Dear Colleagues, This new open-access volume may interest you: Epistemic Rights in the Era of Digital Disruption (Horowitz, Nieminen, Lehtisaari & D'Arma, eds. 2024, Palgrave/Springer) This open-access volume argues that in a functioning democracy, citizens should be equally capable of making informed choices about matters of social importance. This includes citizens accessing all relevant information and knowledge necessary for informed will formation. In today's complex era of digital disruption, it is not enough to simply speak about communication or even digital rights. The starting point for this volume is the need for 'epistemic equality'. The contributors seek to showcase the history and diversity of current debates around communication and digital rights, as precursors for the need for epistemic rights; both as a theoretical concept and an empirically assessed benchmark. The book highlights scholarship via academic case studies from around the world to feature different issues and methodological approaches, as well as similarities in academic and policy challenges across the globe. The goal is to provide an overview of issues that depict challenges to epistemic rights, extract both academic and applied policy implications of different approaches, and end with a set of recommendations for advancing policy-relevant scholarship on epistemic rights. This volume is intended as the first holistic response to an urgent need to address epistemic rights of communication as a central public policy issue, as an academic analytical concept, as well as a central theme for informed public debate. Download your copy here: https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-031-45976-4 -- Dr. Minna Aslama Horowitz @aslama https://minnahorowitz.net/

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Report Disinformation and the Brazilian Election of 2022
by Raquel Recuero 09 Jan '24

09 Jan '24

Hi all, Recently, I co-authored a research paper on Disinformation and the Brazilian Election of 2022 with colleagues Rafael Grohmann (U of Toronto), Camilla Tavares (UFMA), and Marcelo Alves (PUCRJ). The results were presented at a conference and also published in a report available in both English and Portuguese. We would appreciate it if you could share it with potentially interested groups. English version - https://inctdsi.uff.br/wp-content/uploads/sites/699/2023/11/Disinformation-… and Portuguese version- https://inctdsi.uff.br/wp-content/uploads/sites/699/2024/01/Desinformacao-E… Thanks, Raquel -- Raquel Recuero -------------------------------------- Universidade Federal de Pelotas (UFPEL) Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul (UFRGS) MIDIARS (Laboratório de Pesquisa em Mídia, Discurso e Análise de Redes)

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CFP Critiquing Big Tech conference (Tilburg, Netherlands, 6-7 June)
by Niels 09 Jan '24

09 Jan '24

CFP Critiquing Big Tech: A Humanities Perspective (Conference) 6 and 7 June 2024, Tilburg (Netherlands) Organizers: Niels Niessen (Tilburg University), Nuno Atalaia (Radboud University, Nijmegen), Rianne Riemens (Radboud University) Keynote speaker: Tiziana Terranova (author of After the Internet) Proposals due by February 9 via [this form](https://cryptpad.fr/form/#/2/form/view/H-8AnSFOUBAa5xr17f4MLwF-QTa5AQXpQB-Olfw1Vys/) See CFP also [here](https://www.nica-institute.com/call-for-papers-critiquing-big-tech-a-… Conference description This conference brings together critiques of how Big Tech invades all domains of public and private life, transforming those domains in the process. The conference explores how the humanities can contribute to a better understanding of this development. At the same time, we are interested in how humanities research changes in relation to this development. While critiquing Big Tech, it is important to acknowledge that for many, platforms like Instagram, Tumblr, and X (Twitter) are places of consciousness building and activism. It is also safe to say that without these platforms, movements like MeToo, Trans Liberation, and Black Lives Matter would not have happened the way they did. Yet while these platforms help liberate personal and collective life in some respects, ultimately they are not designed for emancipation, but to maximize user engagement. The conference examines the ways in which Big Tech interpellates people as users, through its technologies and its discourses. We will also discuss potential forms of resistance against this interpellation. In proposing a humanities perspective on Big Tech, we tackle what we perceive as a crisis of the human form in the age of large-scale platforms, personalized AI, and the algorithmic condition. Theorists including Patricia Ticineto Clough (The User Unconscious), Nick Couldry & Ulises Mejias (Costs of Connection), and McKenzie Wark (Capitalism Is Dead) have argued that Big Tech threatens the very integrity and sovereignty of individual and collective human existence. At the same time, the existence of both humans and non-humans is threatened by climate change and the continuous appropriation of the environment for the benefits of Big Tech and economic growth (as argues for example Mél Hogan in “Big Data Ecologies”). What does it mean to practice the Humanities in algorithmic societies facing political and ecological crises? How to understand the human subject and its relation to technology and the environment in light of these conditions? How to critique Big Tech’s understanding of the human subject, its extractive economic model and continuous infrastructural and spatial expansion, and its visions of the future? How to work towards alternatives? Interested in participating? The conference somewhat changes up the traditional conference format, creating more space for conversation and workshops. We ask for short 10-minute individual presentations. During the workshops hosted by the conference organizers, participants are invited to critically engage with the methodological, epistemic, and ecological implications of studying Big Tech. If you are interested in participating in the conference, please fill out the form on: https://cryptpad.fr/form/#/2/form/view/H-8AnSFOUBAa5xr17f4MLwF-QTa5AQXpQB-O… We ask you to briefly describe (1) the topic of your presentation and ideally also your object of focus (if your paper is mostly theoretical, still provide an example of an object you connect to); (2) your intervention (the argument you plan to develop, or how you envision your contribution); (3) a brief reflection on methodology and how your contribution speaks to the changing humanities. In addition, please indicate your preference for the workshop you would like to attend on day 2 of the conference (How to design a user?; How to study big data ecologies?; How to de-Google Learning?). Finally, we ask participants to ideally participate in the full conference. On the evening before the conference (June 5) we will have an informal dinner (paid for by the organization) in the center of Tilburg. The conference itself will take place in De Nieuwe Vorst theater, also in the Tilburg city center. So to apply, please fill out the form on https://cryptpad.fr/form/#/2/form/view/H-8AnSFOUBAa5xr17f4MLwF-QTa5AQXpQB-O… For questions, please email bigtechconference(a)protonmail.com Deadline for submission: 9 February, 2024. We aim to send out conference invitations by the end of February. I am switching email addresses. My new email address is nielsniessen(a)pm.me

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JOBS - Digital Futures and AI posts at University of Bristol
by Jessica Ogden 09 Jan '24

09 Jan '24

Hi all I wanted to bring to everyone’s attention that the University of Bristol (UK) is currently advertising for a number of digital social sciences posts off the back of major strategic investment in AI and interdisciplinary digital futures research. Please consider applying and following up for more information – I’m happy to field questions where appropriate and/or put you in touch with the relevant folks. The School of Sociology, Politics and International Studies (SPAIS)<https://www.bristol.ac.uk/spais/> is seeking a Lecturer in Politics and/or International Relations with emphasis in the political implications of AI technologies: https://www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DEY997/lecturer-in-politics-and-international-re… (Post closes 5th Feb 2024) The Bristol Digital Futures Institute (BDFI)<https://www.bristol.ac.uk/bristol-digital-futures-institute/> is seeking to appoint four new posts across career stages – 2 Lecturers in Digital Futures, 1 Senior Lecture/Associate Professor in Digital Futures and AI, and 1 Professor in Digital Futures. These are fantastic posts centred around interdisciplinary and partnership collaboration, and will be based in Schools/Departments across the social sciences, arts and humanities. (Please see adverts for research areas we are particularly interested in) These posts all close 4th Feb 2024. * Lecturer in Digital Futures: https://www.bristol.ac.uk/jobs/find/details/?nPostingId=163037&nPostingTarg…<https://www.bristol.ac.uk/jobs/find/details/?nPostingId=163037&nPostingTarg…> * Senior Lecturer/Associate Professor in Digital Futures and AI: https://www.bristol.ac.uk/jobs/find/details/?jobId=332044 * Professor in Digital Futures: https://www.bristol.ac.uk/jobs/find/details/?nPostingId=163034&nPostingTarg…<https://www.bristol.ac.uk/jobs/find/details/?nPostingId=163034&nPostingTarg…> All the best Jess ---- Dr Jessica Ogden Lecturer in Digital Futures Bristol Digital Futures Institute // School of Sociology, Politics and International Studies University of Bristol Twitter: @jessogden<http://twitter.com/jessogden> // Web Profile: https://research-information.bris.ac.uk/en/persons/jessica-ogden Latest publications: Ogden, Summers & Walker (2023). Know(ing) Infrastructure: The Wayback Machine as object and instrument of digital research<https://doi.org/10.1177/13548565231164759>. Convergence: The International Journal of Research into New Media Technologies Ogden (2022). “Everything on the internet can be saved”: Archive Team, Tumblr and the cultural significance of web archiving<https://doi.org/10.1080/24701475.2021.1985835>. Internet Histories: Digital Technologies, Culture and Society. Shah & Ogden (2021). Immigration, Race, and Nation in the UK: The Politics of Belonging on Twitter<https://doi.org/10.1177/13607804211029968>. Sociological Research Online.

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'Behind the Scenes', Session 7: Fernando van der Vlist & Anne Helmond
by J.C. Vieira Magalhaes 09 Jan '24

09 Jan '24

Hello all, 'Behind the Scenes', our online talk series on the making of empirical work about platform governance, will resume on January 23rd from 3-4 pm (CET). We are excited to feature a discussion by Fernando van der Vlist (University of Amsterdam) and Anne Helmond (Utrecht University). They will delve into their groundbreaking research on the material conditions of platform governance, in particular, the evolution of Facebook’s APIs. More info on the talk and how to register for it can be found here <https://platform-governance.org/online-talk-series/session-7-anne-helmond-f…> and below. -- Behind the Scenes – Conversations on Empirical Platform Governance Research, Session 7: The material conditions of platform governance In this talk, we present a methodological outlook for empirical and historical studies of platforms, emphasizing their unique characteristics like programmability and multisidedness. We explore how web archives play a critical role in preserving bits of their past. Despite the challenges posed by the ephemerality and continuous updates of platforms, we show how web archives manage to save valuable information about their historical development and past states of operations. These archived pages are key sources for crafting the life stories of technological artifacts, including platforms and apps. We then turn our focus to a case study of the evolution of Facebook’s (now Meta’s) platform interfaces (APIs), tracing their trajectory from data access points to complex governance structures. This deep dive into Facebook’s technical governance sheds light on how such platforms command influence over their digital ecosystems, a critical aspect for understanding the broader impact of these platforms in both app and business development and linked socio-economic processes. This study underscores the importance of understanding the technical dimensions and evolutionary dynamics of platform governance, providing insights into the material conditions of governance of and by platforms through their APIs. Fernando van der Vlist (@fvandervlist) is Assistant Professor of Cultural Data & AI in the Department of Media Studies at the University of Amsterdam. He is actively involved in the App Studies Initiative (ASI), the Digital Methods Initiative (DMI), and the Public Data Lab. His research focuses on the study of digital media ecosystems, platforms and apps, data, and artificial intelligence (AI) in culture and society. Anne Helmond (@silvertje) is Associate Professor of Media, Data & Society at Utrecht University. She is part of the focus area ‘Governing the Digital Society’ where she examines the processes of platformization, algorithmization, and datafication from an empirical and historical perspective by focusing on the material and programmable (data) infrastructures underpinning these processes. Registration Please register via this form <https://forms.gle/xq2irQb4mnHkLUcD6> shortly with an email-address for the full series or this event only, so that we can share the meeting link with you. About the Series This talk is part of the series Behind the Scenes – Conversations on Empirical Platform Governance Research <https://platform-governance.org/online-talk-series/> that invites scholars in this field to share their experiences and views, fostering community exchange about how we can study platform governance in this challenging context. It is hosted by the Lab “Platform Governance, Media, and Technology” (PGMT) at the Centre for Media, Communication and Information Research (ZeMKI), <https://www.uni-bremen.de/en/zemki> University of Bremen, and the Centre for Media and Journalism Studies <https://www.rug.nl/research/icog/research/research-centres/centre-for-journ…>, University of Groningen. -- João C. Magalhães <https://jcmagalhaes.com/> Assistant Professor in Media, Politics and Democracy University of Groningen | Centre for Media and Journalism Studies Selected publications: A history of objectionability in Twitter’s moderation practices <https://academic.oup.com/joc/advance-article/doi/10.1093/joc/jqad015/720476…>, 2023 (Journal of Communication, w/ Emillie de Keulenaar, Bharath Ganesh) | Social media, social unfreedom <https://www.degruyter.com/document/doi/10.1515/commun-2022-0040/html>, 2022 (Communications, w/ Jun Yu) | Big Tech, data colonialism and the reconfiguration of social good <https://ijoc.org/index.php/ijoc/article/view/15995>, 2021(International Journal of Communication, w/ Nick Couldry) | Algorithmic visibility and bottom-up authoritarianism in the Brazilian crisis <http://etheses.lse.ac.uk/4042/>, 2019 (PhD, LSE) | Considering algorithmic ethical subjectivation <https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/2056305118768301>, 2018 (Social Media + Society)

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