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E-waste exhibit in Philadelphia during AoIR 2023
by Cooper, Zane Griffin Talley 20 Oct '23

20 Oct '23

Hello friends, Wanna see some trash while in beautiful Philly for AoIR 2023? Well you're in luck! We are proud to announce the premiere of our multi-sited, collaborative exhibit funded by the Internet Society Foundation, Geographies of Digital Wasting: Electronic Waste From Mine to Discard and Back Again! It runs from October 16-25 at the Annenberg School for Communication (3620 Walnut St, the forum, 1st floor), and there will be a public reception with the research team on October 20th from 5-7pm. Please come join us! The broader questions raised through this long gestating collaboration also inspired the topic and form of this year's plenary panel on possible imaginaries of a "green revolution" for the internet - a conversation I, for one, am extremely excited about. What does a green internet even mean in the first place? Let's talk about it. It's gonna be good. Here is a short description of the exhibit and a link to more info. We hope to see you there and look forward to many fruitful discussions! https://www.asc.upenn.edu/news-events/events/geographies-digital-wasting-el… This exhibit brings together a transnational team of researchers, funded by the Internet Society Foundation and supported by the Center for Advanced Research in Global Communication at Annenberg, to present findings from a two-year-long study on the global flows of e-waste. The exhibit draws connections between the four primary sites that underpin the research project, each related to a section of the tech supply chain, including: extraction of rare earth minerals in South Greenland, waste produced in silicon chip manufacturing in Taiwan and Silicon Valley, waste produced by logistics and industrial cloud computing in the United States, to the environmental and health-related impacts of e-waste processing and dumping sites in Zimbabwe. The exhibit includes photography from each site, video essays, activist media such as zines, and traditional scholarly research posters. Because e-waste is the fastest waste stream on the planet and because there are known global inequities in where and how it accumulates and how it flows through and between global sites, it is imperative that we address this issue through a transnational perspective. The implications of connection-making across contexts in our research cannot be overstated: as climate change continues to shape life on our planet, we know that its effects will be distributed disproportionately along political, racial, and economic lines. This exhibit tells the story of the global processes of digital wasting with the aim of informing policy and practices to combat the climate injustices associated with e-waste. All the best, Zane Cooper and Lauren Bridges

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Aloha!
by Alena Feeney 20 Oct '23

20 Oct '23

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Assist. Prof. of Communication and Technology, University of Arkansas (due 11/15/23)
by Stephanie Schulte 19 Oct '23

19 Oct '23

Hello AoIR Folks! I hope one of you will come by my new colleague. Let me know if you have any questions about the department, institution, or state. Best, Steph (Schulte) Summary of Job Duties:The Department of Communication in the Fulbright College of Arts and Sciences at the University of Arkansas invites applications for a tenure-track Assistant Professor of Communication and Technology to start in August 2024. This is a standard nine-month faculty appointment. We seek a candidate whose research and teaching focus on areas pertaining to Communication and Technology. The ideal candidate will exhibit strengths in quantitative and/or qualitative research methods, with research that contributes to one or more areas, including interpersonal communication, mediated communication, organizational communication, and health communication. Competitive applicants will also demonstrate an ability to provide strategic direction and collaboration with our Center for Communication Research, as well as success in working with interdisciplinary research teams, mentoring undergraduate and graduate students, and engaging regional, state, and national funding agencies. Regular, reliable, and non-disruptive attendance is an essential job duty, as is the ability to create and maintain collegial, harmonious working relationships with others. About the Department The Department of Communication is committed to excellence in scholarship, instruction, and expression of human communication. We nurture a thriving intellectual community by bridging the humanities and social sciences. Discovery, learning, diversity, and engagement are the hallmarks of this community. Visit https://communication.uark.edu/ The Department hosts the Center for Communication Research (CCR) which facilitates collaborative, interdisciplinary social research within the University of Arkansas, Northwest Arkansas region, and broader intellectual community. The CCR seeks to stimulate and support interdisciplinary collaborations; provide opportunities for undergraduate and graduate participation; engage regional, state, and national funding agencies; and acquire and maintain the equipment necessary to support research endeavors. The CCR manages a research lab space that includes state-of-the-art technology for studying all facets of communication. The Department is committed to hiring faculty and staff who support the missions of the Fulbright College and the University of Arkansas to promote a diverse and inclusive culture. We welcome applications from candidates whose scholarship, research and/or teaching is related to social justice, civic engagement, and the representation of marginalized people and ideas. We strongly encourage applicants to provide evidence of how their research, teaching, and/or service contributes to equity efforts in their application materials. Duties will include: 40% Teaching / 40% Research / 20% Service Minimum Qualifications: - Terminal degree in Communication or a closely related field from an accredited institution of higher education conferred by the date of initial appointment - An active research agenda in Communication - Demonstrated competency in the classroom Preferred Qualifications: - Research commensurate with institutions holding the highest Carnegie classification and with the level of appointment - Evidence of an interdisciplinary research program - Evidence of potential to work in a lab-based setting - Experience with externally funded research - Demonstrated success working with underrepresented communities and diverse populations. Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities (KSAs): - Knowledge of and participation in contemporary scholarly conversations regarding communication and technology - Ability to engage with funded research teams Additional Information: APPLICATION INSTRUCTIONS Completed applications received by 11/15/2023, will be assured full consideration. Late applications will be reviewed as necessary to fill the position. For additional inquiries, please contact the search committee chairs Abe Khan at abrahamk(a)uark.edu or Ringo Jones at rej025(a)uark.edu. Applicants must submit - a curriculum vitae, - a cover letter/letter of application, - a list of three professional references (name, title, email address, and phone number) willing to provide letters of recommendation if requested during the application process. Letters of recommendation will be requested only for candidates selected for interviews. *All application materials must be uploaded to the University of Arkansas System Career Site https://uasys.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com/UASYS <https://uasys.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com/UASYS> * *Stephanie Ricker Schulte* Associate Dean | Fulbright College of Arts and Sciences Professor | Department of Communication

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New special issue on the Platformization of the public sphere (EJC)
by Nikos Smyrnaios 18 Oct '23

18 Oct '23

Dear coleagues I'm happy to inform you that a new special issue edited by Olivier Baisnée and me has just been published by the European Journal of Communication. best regards Nikos - Apologies for crossposting- New issue: EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF COMMUNICATION https://journals.sagepub.com/toc/EJC/current olume 38 Issue 5, October 2023 Special Issue: Critically understanding the platformization of the public sphereSpecial Issue: Critically understanding the platformization of the public sphere Guest Editors: Nikos Smyrnaios & Olivier Baisnée Introduction: Critically understanding the platformization of the public sphere Nikos Smyrnaios Olivier Baisnée Free access: https://filesender.renater.fr/?s=download&token=c178cd9a-42f5-460f-8ece-a6f… Alt Tech and the public sphere: Exploring Bitchute as a political media infrastructure Eugenia Siapera Open access: https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/02673231231189041 ‘The non-interference principle’: Debating online platforms’ treatment of editorial content in the European Union's Digital Services Act Charis Papaevangelou Open access: https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/02673231231189036 Comparing the platformization of news media systems: A cross-country analysis Rasmus Kleis Nielsen Richard Fletcher Open access: https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/02673231231189036 A method for time-varying analysis of YouTube search results and related videos: The case of the war in Ukraine João Guilherme Bastos dos Santos A method for time-varying analysis of YouTube search results and related videos: The case of the war in Ukraine<https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/02673231231190762>

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Still openings in tomorrow afternoon's undergraduate teaching pre-conference workshop
by Holly Kruse 17 Oct '23

17 Oct '23

Hi all, I’ve had a few people contact me to let me know that, due to traveling or scheduling issues, they won’t be able to attend the undergraduate teaching pre-conference workshop tomorrow afternoon. So we definitely have openings. If you might be interested in joining us, please let Association Coordinator Michelle know at ac(a)aoir.org <mailto:ac@aoir.org> so that she can add you. If you registered and haven’t yet added your info to the Google doc for the workshop – either because you didn’t see the I shared the doc with you or because you added after I shared the link with participants – please do so. This is the link: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1CZHIen3d757pdPJ2bLn4W2YYw460pxNbfsGBB9u… <https://docs.google.com/document/d/1CZHIen3d757pdPJ2bLn4W2YYw460pxNbfsGBB9u…>. Kelly and I hope to see as many of you as possible tomorrow afternoon at Temple! Holly Kruse, Ph.D. Professor Department of Communications Rogers State University 1701 W. Will Rogers Blvd. Claremore, Oklahoma 74017 holly.kruse(a)gmail.com or hkruse(a)rsu.edu

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WEBCAST OCT 17 – PGP* (Pretty Good Policy) for Crypto GLOBAL ENCRYPTION DAY Briefing and Panel Discussion
by Joly MacFie 17 Oct '23

17 Oct '23

Coming up at Noon EDT today. This is actually pretty high powered, considering the Republican House Chief Whip is speaking. Anyone in DC, you could still register to attend in person. <http://isoc.live/?action=user_content_redirect&uuid=4958f0d89f43501c90ce3ce…> On *Tuesday October 17 2023* at *12:10 EDT* (16:10 UTC), in recognition of *Global Encryption Day 2023 <http://isoc.live/?action=user_content_redirect&uuid=1a2fa18cad520968e11803c…>*, P*GP* (Pretty Good Policy) for Crypto <http://isoc.live/?action=user_content_redirect&uuid=64fb202a69825870c8e8e2b…> *will hold *a briefing <http://isoc.live/?action=user_content_redirect&uuid=ea2890bc75f04b10e83820e…>* at the US Capitol Visitors Center in Washington DC. Speakers will discuss the significance of encryption technologies in safeguarding national security, business assets, and individual privacy, and how strong encryption is the standard that keeps billions of people safe in their digital interactions every day. *OPENING REMARKS* *Paul Brigner*, Head of U.S. Policy and Strategic Advocacy, Electric Coin Co. *Nick Carr*, Chief Strategist, Stand with Crypto Alliance *Dave Grimaldi*, Executive Vice President and Head of Government Relations, Blockchain Association *Congressman Tom Emmer* (MN-06), House Majority Whip *PANEL* *Marta Belcher*, President and Chair, Filecoin Foundation *Henry Holtzman*, Chief Technology Officer, MobileCoin *Philip Martin*, Chief Security Officer, Coinbase *Zooko Wilcox*, Chief Executive Officer, Electric Coin Co. *MODERATOR*: *Dr. Eric Burger*, NextG Security / Commonwealth Cyber Initiative *LIVESTREAM https://youtu.be/9O4-jk5nvA0 <http://isoc.live/?action=user_content_redirect&uuid=b390e367ed1eb3ebff626f9…>* *ATTEND IN PERSON / REGISTER https://pgp-geday2023.rsvpify.com/ <http://isoc.live/?action=user_content_redirect&uuid=ea2890bc75f04b10e83820e…>* *REAL TIME TEXT* (see *ISOC.LIVE <http://isoc.live/?action=user_content_redirect&uuid=4958f0d89f43501c90ce3ce…>* ) *TWITTER #GlobalEncryptionDay <http://isoc.live/?action=user_content_redirect&uuid=a519e77f5ca2df318740ed9…> #encryption @pgpforcrypto @ElectricCoinCo @paulbrigner @ItsReallyNick @dfgrimaldi @GOPMajorityWhip @MartaBelcher @mobilecoin @SecurityGuyPhil @zooko* *MASTODON #GlobalEncryptionDay <http://isoc.live/?action=user_content_redirect&uuid=296614a748b5e5805751fcc…>* *ARCHIVE* *https://archive.org/details/pgp-geday2023 <http://isoc.live/?action=user_content_redirect&uuid=a162eeac4a5951b88bd8004…>* -- -------------------------------------- Joly MacFie +12185659365 -------------------------------------- -

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Stefanie Duguay's new book
by Ilana Gershon 16 Oct '23

16 Oct '23

Dear Colleagues, CaMP anthropology is pleased to post an author interview with Stefanie Duguay, conducted by Elias Alexander. You can read about her new book, *Personal is Not Private *here: https://campanthropology.org/ Best, Ilana Press blurb: - Explores how queer women share and maintain their identities across Tinder, Instagram, and Vine despite overlapping technological, social, economic, and political concerns - Introduces the term "identity modulation" to describe how queer women and other individuals adjust or modify their personal information on digital platforms - Combines personal interviews with novel empirical research, including the walkthrough method

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Free Datasets and Tools for Teaching and Collaborative Research Using Twitter Data
by Shulman, Stu 16 Oct '23

16 Oct '23

These are the 50 largest of the more than 1,000 historical Twitter datasets available via DiscoverText for teaching and research. All software and data is free for academic researchers. For authenticity and compliance, Tweets are displayed using the Twitter display. Deleted Tweets and suspended accounts are not displayed. There is a significant amount of understudied historical data. Signing up does not get you access to all 300,000,000 Tweets in 1,200 projects. It does start a process where we can talk about your research or teaching needs and the best way to meet them using the collaborative architecture of DiscoverText. Sharing web-based access to a single copy of the data, rather than making copies for every user, is another one of the measures that makes this ToS compliant. We have user-friendly methods for sampling to make the very large sets more manageable and focused, including search, filtering, clustering, duplicate detection, crowdsource annotation, and machine-learning. For example, if you need to separate Tweets about human migration from Tweets about non-human migration, that data cleaning method using humans and machines is in our wheelhouse. If you want to measure and report inter-rater reliability, we started doing that in 2007 at Pitt and it is a core feature. If you want to adjudicate annotator disagreements to create gold standard training sets, while improving and measuring annotator awareness, it is the most powerful (least used) piece of the research platform. DiscoverText is an NSF-funded scientific instrument. https://tinyurl.com/dtarchives Topics in the 50 largest include: COVID, Trump, Brexit, Biden, Bots, Suicide, Policing, Elections, Racism, and Gettr. Date ranges in the 50 largest: 2017-2022 Archive size in the 50 largest: 1.2 million - 11.5 million Topics in the most recent smaller 2023 collections (10,000 - 1,200,000) include: BLM, "Pureblood" ideology, #voice (Australia), digital soldiers, LGBTQ+ advocacy, vaping, the Lahaina fire, QAnon's return, anti-Semitism, AmericaFirst, and a range of other events or trends where we suspect Tweets, whether we like it or not, seem to play an outsized role in the public perception of events. If you are studying a current event, at least for now, we can still create a custom dataset from the last 12 months of Twitter. This may not be an option in the future, but it is one now. Free sign up: https://app.discovertext.com/Home/SignupContactTrialView Free consultation: https://calendly.com/discovertext Scholarly mentions (DT literature review in a box): https://discovertext.com/mentions/ Stu -- Dr. Stuart W. Shulman Founder and CEO, Texifter Editor Emeritus, *Journal of Information Technology & Politics*

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WEBCAST OCT 12 – IGF 2023 WS #307 Data Governance in Broadband Satellite Services
by Joly MacFie 16 Oct '23

16 Oct '23

Jane Coffin referred to this session during the Core Internet Values <https://isoc.live/16944/> last Tuesday, so I made a point of recording and transcribing. Streaming now, but also archived at https://archive.org/details/igf2023-ws307 where there are captions in the 6 UN languages. TRANSCRIPT: https://archive.org/download/igf2023-ws307/igf2023-ws307_TRANSCRIPT.pdf [image: isoc live] <http://isoc.live?action=user_content_redirect&uuid=964fe732d7b0e14684291083…>On *Thursday October 12 2023* the *Internet Society <http://isoc.live?action=user_content_redirect&uuid=2ca62c4cf5d0d695f0771287…>* co-organized an *IGF 2023 <http://isoc.live?action=user_content_redirect&uuid=ac886018eda48f0ab0f34538…>* workshop session '*Data Governance in Broadband Satellite Services <http://isoc.live?action=user_content_redirect&uuid=3404ed0f4a623fcf6b6896d4…>*'. A panel assessed the potential advantages and disadvantages of satellite-dependent internet access, recognizing the significance of global governance of outer space in ensuring peaceful exploration and use. Through an examination of the current legal framework and the identification of its shortcomings, the panel aimed to support the implementation and use of this new technology to further global connectivity while addressing concerns related to sustainability, privacy, and cybersecurity, with a particular emphasis on transboundary data flows *SPEAKERS* *Dan York*, Internet Society *Berna Akcali Gur*, Queen Mary University of London *Peter Micek*, Access Now * Larry Press*, California State University, Dominguez Hills * Dr. Uta Meier-Hahn*, Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) GmbH *MODERATORS* *Joanna Kulesza*, University of Lodz *Berna Akcali Gur*, Queen Mary University of London *LIVESTREAM https://livestream.com/internetsociety/igf2023-ws307 <http://isoc.live?action=user_content_redirect&uuid=32e58b2f97383a92cd49e9ab…>* (open captions) *TRANSCRIPT* https://archive.org/download/igf2023-ws307/igf2023-ws307_TRANSCRIPT.pdf *TWITTER #DCAD #LEODATAGOV #LEOs <http://isoc.live?action=user_content_redirect&uuid=28ecf0a89672a98dd49bad7c…> #igf #IGF2023 @zielwasser @larrypress @KuleszaJ @BernaAkcaliGur @lawyerpants @InternetSociety* *MASTODON* *#LEOs <http://isoc.live?action=user_content_redirect&uuid=3dd9f3a09f3714237a65b08b…>* @danyork@mastodon.social *SIMULCASTS* (open captions) *https://youtu.be/SYz-Wsv_OgU?t=8260* <http://isoc.live?action=user_content_redirect&uuid=65f5bb2cca729d30f166970b…> (IGF YouTube) *https://twitter.com/ISOC_Live <http://isoc.live?action=user_content_redirect&uuid=5e923dcdb1364bb9ebb63b3c…>* *https://www.twitch.tv/isoclive <http://isoc.live?action=user_content_redirect&uuid=bc5335a46204e6d0af66a4c1…>* *https://www.facebook.com/liveisoc/ <http://isoc.live?action=user_content_redirect&uuid=8d241b3ef4369f605842f378…>* *ARCHIVE* (closed captions) *https://archive.org/details/igf2023-ws307* <http://isoc.live?action=user_content_redirect&uuid=93134b36248ed43f8842274b…> *REPORTS* *Perspectives on LEO Satellites <http://isoc.live?action=user_content_redirect&uuid=2222a3b3e44b86854d2424ea…> *(ISOC, 2022) *Policy Paper - Governments <http://isoc.live?action=user_content_redirect&uuid=f2d572c4bfc94010f233f477…>* (cyber.uni.lodz, 2023) *Policy Paper - Civil Society/End Users <http://isoc.live?action=user_content_redirect&uuid=13916fda8cebeb719bb33d47…>*(cyber.uni.lodz, 2023) Permalink https://isoc.live/16960 - -- -------------------------------------- Joly MacFie +12185659365 -------------------------------------- -

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PhD Opportunity: Advancing Policy on Technology-Facilitated Domestic Abuse
by Leonie Tanczer 16 Oct '23

16 Oct '23

Dear AoIR-Community, This is an exciting opportunity for anyone interested in technology-facilitated domestic abuse and intimate partner violence. Some key facts: * You will join the growing “Gender and Tech” Lab embedded in UCL Computer Science’s Information Security Research Group. * For this project, you will map the policy dimensions around tech abuse in the UK (e.g., domestic abuse, online harms, and cybercrime legislation). * The exact remit of the studentship is defined and shaped in exchange with the UK Domestic Abuse Commissioner’s Office, where the successful applicant will also spend a three-month-long placement. More information about the PhD post: https://ucl-epsrc-dtp.github.io/2024-25-project-catalogue/projects/2228cd12… More Information about UCL EPSRC DTP studentships: https://www.ucl.ac.uk/epsrc-doctoral-training/prospective-students/apply-uc… Please help spread the word! - Thank you! Best wishes Leonie ________________________________________________________________ Dr Leonie Maria Tanczer Associate Professor in International Security and Emerging Technologies Department of Computer Science University College London Twitter: @leotanczt<https://twitter.com/leotanczt> Website: http://www.leonietanczer.net/ Key Fingerprint: 9F21 A6A6 913E 1393 1BC6 73DA EBEF 07A4 F61F 79DA

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