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Funded PhD position at University of South Australia
by Mamello Thinyane 04 Oct '23

04 Oct '23

Dear Colleagues We have a funded PhD position at the University of South Australia for domestic candidates to undertake research at the intersection of cybersecurity and collective intelligence. Details of this project are at https://www.unisa.edu.au/research/degrees/assemblies-for-cyber-resilience The PhD scholarship provides a living allowance of AUD $32,500 per annum. Australian Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander applicants will be eligible to receive an increased stipend rate of AUD $46,653 per annum. The candidate will be based within the UniSA STEM unit working within a growing, diverse, and multidisciplinary cybersecurity and CI research group. There will be opportunities for engagement with collaborators and cybersecurity industry partners through the Australia Cyber Collaborative Centre<https://www.cybercollaboration.org.au/> at the Lot14 Precinct<https://lotfourteen.com.au/>, an innovation district in the heart of Adelaide dedicated to solving complex global challenges. Please share with your students and colleagues who might be interested in this opportunity. Applications close on the 24th of October 2023. For any questions or clarifications, don't hesitate to get in touch with me at mamello.thinyane @ unisa.edu.au Kind regards, -- Mamello Thinyane | Optus Chair of Cybersecurity and Data Science UniSA STEM | University of South Australia Mawson Lakes Campus, Mawson Lakes Blvd, Mawson Lakes | SA 5095 Tel +61 8 8302 3255 mamello.thinyane(a)unisa.edu.au<mailto:mamello.thinyane@unisa.edu.au> | www.unisa.edu.au<http://www.unisa.edu.au/> This email is intended for the addressee(s) only. Should this email be received in error by a person or company other than those intended, the contents of this email are confidential and must not be released or used by a person or company not authorised to do so. CRICOS No. 00121B

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Online Book Talk, In Defense of Solidarity and Pleasure: Feminist Technopolitics from the Global South
by Rafael Grohmann 04 Oct '23

04 Oct '23

Hello AoiRers, Nov 10, 2PM ET, I'll host an online book talk with Firuzeh Shokooh Valle, author of "In Defense of Solidarity and Pleasure: Feminist Technopolitics from the Global South" (Stanford University Press, 2023). This will happen via DigiLabour YouTube channel: [1]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t5su09ILfgQ Check your time zone, especially due of the end of daylight saving time. About the book: Including women in the global South as users, producers, consumers, designers, and developers of technology has become a mantra against inequality, prompting movements to train individuals in information and communication technologies and foster the participation and retention of women in science and technology fields. In this book, Firuzeh Shokooh Valle argues that these efforts have given rise to an idealized, female economic figure that combines technological dexterity and keen entrepreneurial instinct with gendered stereotypes of care and selflessness. Narratives about the "equalizing" potential of digital technologies spotlight these women's capacity to overcome inequality using said technologies, ignoring the barriers and circumstances that create such inequality in the first place as well as the potentially violent role of technology in their lives. In Defense of Solidarity and Pleasure examines how women in the Global South experience and resist the coopting and depoliticizing nature of these scripts. Drawing on fieldwork in Costa Rica and a transnational feminist digital organization, Shokooh Valle explores the ways that feminist activists, using digital technologies as well as a collective politics that prioritize solidarity and pleasure, advance a new feminist technopolitics. About the author: Firuzeh Shokooh Valle is Assistant Professor of Sociology at Franklin and Marshall College. Previously, she was a journalist in Puerto Rico covering violence against women, the LGBTQI+ community, migration, racism, and social movements, and earned numerous national awards for her investigative work. -- dr. Rafael Grohmann Assistant Professor of Media Studies [2]Department of Arts, Culture and Media [3]Faculty of Information University of Toronto Leader, [4]DigiLabour Principal Investigator, [5]Fairwork[6] Brazil International Experts Coordinator, [7]Platform Work Inclusion Living Lab References 1. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t5su09ILfgQ 2. https://www.utsc.utoronto.ca/acm/rafael-grohmann 3. https://ischool.utoronto.ca/profile/rafael-grohmann/ 4. https://digilabour.com.br/ 5. https://fair.work/ 6. https://fair.work/ 7. https://pwill.eu/

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Faculty opening at Marquette University
by Zimmer, Michael 04 Oct '23

04 Oct '23

Come work with me at Marquette University's Department of Computer Science. We invite applications for an Assistant Professor (tenure-track) position to begin in August 2024. We are particularly interested in candidates with expertise in computer and network security, cybersecurity education, distributed systems, data science, and related computational fields. Candidates with research in other areas will be considered and are encouraged to apply. Details here: https://employment.marquette.edu/postings/20347 ~ Michael -- Michael Zimmer, PhD Director, Center for Data, Ethics, and Society Professor & Vice-Chair, Department of Computer Science Marquette University michael.zimmer(a)marquette.edu<mailto:michael.zimmer@marquette.edu> www.michaelzimmer.org<http://www.michaelzimmer.org/> :: www.zuckerbergfiles.org<http://www.zuckerbergfiles.org/> Schedule a meeting with me: https://calendly.com/michael-zimmer

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Jobs at City, University of London | Deadline 12 October
by Devina Sarwatay 04 Oct '23

04 Oct '23

Dear all, City, University of London is continuing a strategic expansion of its Department of Media, Culture and Creative Industries with TWO new job postings | Closing date: 12 October 2023 at 11:59pm 1. Lecturer/Senior Lecturer in Media Production: https://www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DCX954/lecturer-senior-lecturer-in-media-product… 2. Lecturer/Senior Lecturer in Strategic Communication: https://www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DCZ819/lecturer-senior-lecturer-in-strategic-com… For more information on the courses and modules we currently provide please see our website: https://www.city.ac.uk/about/schools/communication-creativity/media-cultura… In case of questions, please contact Prof. Mattias Frey, Head of the Department of Media, Culture and Creative Industries at City, University of London on Mattias.Frey(a)city.ac.uk Warm Regards, Devina Sarwatay <http://linkedin.com/in/devinasarwatay> PhD in Communication and Senior Research Fellow (UGC-NET), Department of Communication <https://snschool.uohyd.ac.in/comm/>, University of Hyderabad <https://uohyd.ac.in/>, India Webinar Series Manager <https://mediaeducationlab.com/about/devina-sarwatay>, Media Education Lab <https://mediaeducationlab.com/>, USA Research Associate <https://femlab.co/team/>, FemLab <https://femlab.co/> ---------- Latest Publications *2023* - Journal of Autoethnography: Introduction to Autoethnographies of Care <https://doi.org/10.1525/joae.2023.4.2.275> - Journal of Autoethnography: From the Self to the Community <https://doi.org/10.1525/joae.2023.4.2.298> - Media International Australia: Exploring children’s TikTok cultures in India <https://doi.org/10.1177/1329878X221127037> *2022* - 🏆Information, Communication & Society: Young People and Social Media in India <https://doi.org/10.1080/1369118X.2021.1988129> (ICA <https://www.icahdq.org/> CAM <https://ica-cam.org/in-the-spotlight/ica-2023-award-winners/> *Best Published Article 2023*) - CO:RE Methods Handbook: Foregrounding young people’s social media practices and experiences <https://core-evidence.eu/methods-toolkit/handbook-part2/handbook-in-their-v…> - The Routledge Handbook of Media Education Futures Post-Pandemic: Teaching and learning media practice in India during distanced times <https://www.taylorfrancis.com/chapters/edit/10.4324/9781003283737-34/teachi…> *2021* - Journal of Communication: Decolonizing Open Science <https://doi.org/10.1093/joc/jqab027> - Frontiers in Human Dynamics: Media Literacy, Social Connectedness, and Digital Citizenship in India <https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fhumd.2021.601239/full> - LSE Blog parenting.digital: The digital lives of young people in India <https://blogs.lse.ac.uk/parenting4digitalfuture/2021/10/27/digital-citizens…> - AoIR SPIR: Critical Internet Studies <https://doi.org/10.5210/spir.v2021i0.12116> *2020* - Wiley-Blackwell: Young People's Meme Cultures in India <https://doi.org/10.1002/9781119166900.ch6> ---------- [image: FEMLAB] ---------- Please reply to all my mails on devina.sarwatay(a)gmail.com Detailed Profile: LinkedIn <http://linkedin.com/in/devinasarwatay> ---------- CONFIDENTIALITY NOTICE This message (including any attachments) contains information that may be confidential. Unless you are the intended recipient (or authorised to receive for the intended recipient), you may not read, print, retain, use, copy, distribute or disclose to anyone the message or any information contained in the message. If you have received the message in error, please advise the sender by e-mail, and destroy all copies of the original message (including any attachments). Thank you.

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CFP: ICA 2024 Panel on Digital Queer Cultures, Intimacies, and Movements in the Asia-Pacific | Deadline: October 15
by Han, Woori 03 Oct '23

03 Oct '23

Call for Presenters: ICA 2024 Panel on Digital Queer Cultures, Intimacies, and Movements in the Asia-Pacific | Deadline: October 15 We invite presenters to submit paper abstracts for a panel for the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender & Queer Studies Interest Group<https://www.icahdq.org/mpage/LGBTQ_CFP> at the International Communication Association (ICA) Annual Conference<https://www.icahdq.org/mpage/ica24> held on June 20-24, 2024 in Gold Coast, Australia. Digital Queer Cultures, Intimacies, and Movements in the Asia-Pacific Chairs/Organizers: Woori Han, Exeter University and Michelle Ho, National University of Singapore Digital media in the Asia Pacific region are a contested site for local expressions of global cultural and political flows, troubling and rewriting the narratives of modernity and development, the nation-state, and gendered and sexual norms. Especially in recent years, we have witnessed, for example, the cases of digital counterpublics, proliferation of LGBTQ media representations, digital intimacies, and the advent of trans-exclusionary feminisms. This panel bridges queer digital studies with queer Asian studies and queer Pacific studies, to explore how media and technology intersect with and change the ways in which gendered and sexed bodies, practices, and desires in the Asia-Pacific have been constructed. Possible topics may include but aren’t limited to: * Digital queer and transgender activism, resistance, and solidarity * Digital queer and trans communities and intimacies on gaming, dating apps, and social media platforms * LGBTQ representation in media * Digital embodiment and gendered bodies and their intersections with queerness, race/ethnicity, and disability * Technology-facilitated (sexual) violence, (gender-based) abuse, and other forms of digital harms experienced by LGBTQ persons * Anti-LGBTQ hate, backlash, and discourse on social media platforms * Queer and trans indigenous virtual world-building and online cultures, such as in the Pacific Islands Interested presenters should email a 400-word abstract, including a working title for your paper, and short author bio to Woori Han (W.Han(a)exeter.ac.uk<mailto:W.Han@exeter.ac.uk>) by Sunday October 15, 2023. Graduate students and junior scholars are especially welcome to join us. There may also be an opportunity for a special issue or edited volume to come out of this conference. Woori Han Ph.D. (office hours: Thursday 11:30-12:30 pm and Friday 12:30-1:30pm) Lecturer in Media and Communications Department of Communications, Drama and Film Faculty of Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences University of Exeter

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Undergraduate Summer Workshop at Syracuse University’s iSchool
by Jeff Hemsley 03 Oct '23

03 Oct '23

Please share this widely. Syracuse University's School of Information Studies (iSchool) invites interested undergraduates to apply to our nine-week residential research experience in 2024, funded by the National Science Foundation. Undergraduates from all social science disciplines are welcome to apply to this summer 2024 experience at the Syracuse campus in beautiful upstate New York. Successful applicants will receive $6,000 in stipend funding plus free meals and housing. Syracuse University's iSchool has excelled for more than 25 years at providing education for students interested in technology and its impacts on industry, education, health, the environment, and other sectors. The research experience includes learning about text analysis, conducting a social science research project using data provided by professors, and opportunities for professional development and mentoring. Successful applicants will receive $6000 in stipend funding plus free meals and housing. Undergraduate students from colleges and universities other that Syracuse University are eligible for this funding.  Applicants can not yet have graduated by Summer of 2024. Visit our website for more information and to fill out the online application form: https://ischool.syr.edu/paid-research-experience Jeff Hemsley

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Call for Abstracts, Law & Society Association: Translating human rights in the digital age
by Sara Leila Margaret Davis 03 Oct '23

03 Oct '23

Dear colleagues, We invite abstracts for our proposed session for the Law and Society Association annual meeting in 2024. Abstracts must be in clear, simple English, max 2000 characters. More info on the conference is here <https://www.lawandsociety.org>. best Meg * *Call for Abstracts* *Translating human rights in the digital age * *Law and Society Association Annual Meetings, Denver, June 6 - 9, 2024* *Sara (Meg) Davis (University of Warwick) and Matt Canfield (Leiden Law School) * Digitization and datafication are at the forefront of expanding inequalities. Scholars have described how they produce new forms of colonialism and capitalism through data extractivism and surveillance (Cohen 2019, Zuboff 2019, Couldry and Mejias 2020); impose barriers to social rights (UN Special Rapporteur on the Right to Health 2023), and amplify racial discrimination (Eubanks 2018, Benjamin 2019). At the same time, digitization is sparking transformative social movements. It is creating new agential capacities for women (Maslen and Lupton 2018) and new forms of solidarity, for instance around women’s rights, sexual orientation and gender identity, and health (Waldman et al 2018; Davis et al 2023) as well as new spaces for mobilization and advocacy (Niezen 2020). This panel invites papers that explore how activists in diverse contexts are mobilizing human rights in relation to data and the digital transformation. While some have critiqued the continuing viability of human rights as a frame for social justice (Billaud 2017, Moyn 2018, Whyte 2019), anthropologists see a new vitality in the diverse ways that human rights are “appropriated, adapted and redefined” to fit a variety of contexts (Merry 2018, Canfield 2022, Goodale 2022). Drawing on diverse field sites and conceptual lenses, including ethnographic (and digital ethnographic) research in and from the Majority and Minority worlds, we seek to understand how activists respond to challenges of digital access, datafication, discrimination, and platform capitalism given increasingly diffuse notions of accountability, privacy, and equality by translating human rights. We ask: How are activists redefining and applying human rights in a rapidly shifting realm where the role of the state, as primary duty-bearer, is frequently nebulous, and where the private sector dominates? What can anthropology and ethnographic methods offer to understanding human rights in the digital age? Please submit abstracts by October 13th to m.c.canfield(a)law.leidenuniv.nl and sara.davis(a)warwick.ac.uk -- *Sara (Meg) Davis, Ph.D.* *Research Associate, *Global Governance Centre, Geneva Graduate Institute *Professor,* Digital Health and Rights, University of Warwick Digital Health and Rights Project <https://warwick.ac.uk/fac/cross_fac/cim/research/research-projects/digital-…> Book: *The Uncounted: Politics of Data in Global Health <https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/uncounted/C0CC81C0F03D1822D05C13EE31FA…>* Ted talk: The Uncounted: The people left out of health data <https://www.ted.com/talks/sara_meg_davis_the_uncounted_the_people_left_out_…>

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CFP: Handbook of Critical Data Studies
by Jasmine McNealy 03 Oct '23

03 Oct '23

Please consider contributing to our Handbook of Critical Data Studies<https://critical-data-handbook.info/>, to be published by De Gruyter in 2026. This volume will present a comprehensive review of the current state of critical data studies, a field that looks at data as a site of contested meanings and politics. With your help, we aim to bring together a truly global and interdisciplinary set of perspectives from fields including sociology, science and technology studies, information science, human computer interaction, media studies, postcolonial studies, digital humanities, and beyond. The goal is to center the perspectives of critical and marginalized voices, ensuring that issues like race, gender, class and the environment reverberate across the entire handbook. We invite you to submit a 500-700 word abstract proposal of your chapter by Dec 31, 2023. Possible topics include: * Grounding concepts in critical data studies. * Methodologies: what is ‘critical’ about critical data studies? * Critical political economy of data: theories of extraction, production and prediction. * Case studies: looking at specific sectors, locations and examples from daily life. * A critical approach to laws, policies and regulations concerning data. * How to frame resistance from a critical data studies perspective. For more details, see https://critical-data-handbook.info/. To receive updates about this project, please fill out this form.<https://oswego.az1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_39H86oYiyrr5IsS>

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Social Network Analysis: merging tradition with modern tools and methods
by Alessandro Zonin 03 Oct '23

03 Oct '23

🗓️* Upcoming webinar. Wed, Oct 18 · 5 - 7pm CEST* 👉 In an age where technology is evolving at a rapid pace, the tools and methodologies we use to understand and interpret the vast digital landscape are crucial. Traditional ways of analyzing social interactions with the lenses of network analysis are being complemented—and in some cases, replaced—by innovative approaches. 📘 This webinar aims to bridge the gap between traditional and cutting-edge methodologies. We will dive deep into online conversation analysis, spotlighting the synergy of *social media scraping*, *generative AI tools* like ChatGPT, and the comprehensive capabilities of *Gephi* for *network* *visualization*. 🔗 Enroll Here: https://www.eventbrite.it/e/social-network-analysis-merging-tradition-with-… <https://www.eventbrite.it/e/social-network-analysis-merging-tradition-with-…> *Please apply the discount code AIRONLY to enroll with a 10% discount. I hope to e-meet you soon.* Cheers -- Alessandro Zonin Digital Data Stories <https://digitaldatastories.it>

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21st International Conference on Software and Systems Reuse (ICSR 2024): First Call for Papers
by Announce 03 Oct '23

03 Oct '23

*** First Call for Papers *** 21st International Conference on Software and Systems Reuse (ICSR 2024) June 10-12, 2024, 5* St. Raphael Resort and Marina, Limassol, Cyprus https://cyprusconferences.org/icsr2024/ (*** Submission Deadline: 12th February, 2024 AoE ***) The International Conference on Software and Systems Reuse (ICSR) is a biannual conference in the field of software reuse research and technology. ICSR is a premier event aiming to present the most recent advances and breakthroughs in the area of software reuse and to promote an intensive and continuous exchange among researchers and practitioners. The guiding theme of this edition is Sustainable Software Reuse. We invite submissions on new and innovative research results and industrial experience reports dealing with all aspects of software reuse within the context of the modern software development landscape. Topics include but are not limited to the following. 1 Technical aspects of reuse, including • Reuse in/for Quality Assurance (QA) techniques, testing, verification, etc. • Domain ontologies and Model-Driven Development • Variability management and software product lines • Context-aware and Dynamic Reuse • Reuse in and for Machine Learning • Domain-specific languages (DSLs) • New language abstractions for software reuse • Generative Development • COTS-based development and reuse of open source assets • Retrieval and recommendation of reusable assets • Reuse of non-code artefacts • Architecture-centric reuse approaches • Service-oriented architectures and microservices • Software composition and modularization • Sustainability and software reuse • Economic models of reuse • Benefit and risk analysis, scoping • Legal and managerial aspects of reuse • Reuse adoption and transition to software reuse • Lightweight reuse approaches • Reuse in agile projects • Technical debt and software reuse 2 Software reuse in industry and in emerging domains • Reuse success stories • Reuse failures, and lessons learned • Reuse obstacles and success factors • Return on Investment (ROI) studies • Reuse in hot topic domains (Artificial Intelligence, Internet of Things, Virtualization, Network functions, Quantum Computing, etc.) We welcome research (16 pages) and industry papers (12 pages) following the Springer Lecture Notes in Computer Science format. Submissions will be handled via EasyChair (https://easychair.org/my/conference?conf=icsr2024) Submissions will be **double-blindly** reviewed, meaning that authors should: • Omit all authors’ names and affiliations from the title page • Do not include the acknowledgement section, if you have any, in the submitted paper • Refer to your own work in the third person • Use anonymous GitHub, Zenondo, FigShare or equivalent to provide access to artefacts without disclosing your identity Both research and industry papers will be reviewed by members of the same program committee (check the website for details). Proceedings will be published by Springer in their Lecture Notes for Computer Science (LNCS) series. An award will be given to the best research and the best industry papers. The authors of selected papers from the conference will be invited to submit an extended version (containing at least 30% new material) to a special issue in the Journal of Systems and Software (Elsevier). More details will follow. IMPORTANT DATES • Abstract submission: January 22, 2024, AoE • Full paper submission: January 29, 2024, AoE • Notification: March 8, 2024, AoE • Camera Ready: March 22, 2024, AoE • Author Registration: March 22, 2024 AoE ORGANISATION Steering Committee • Eduardo Almeida, Federal University of Bahia, Brazil • Goetz Botterweck, Lero, University of Limerick, Ireland • Rafael Capilla Sevilla, Universidad Rey Juan Carlos, Spain • John Favaro, Trust-IT, Italy • William B. Frakes, IEEE TCSE committee on software reuse, USA • Martin L. Griss, Carnegie Mellon University, USA • Oliver Hummel, University of Applied Sciences, Germany • Hafedh Mili, Université du Québec à Montréal, Canada • Nan Niu, University of Cincinnati, USA • George Angelos Papadopoulos, University of Cyprus, Cyprus • Claudia M.L. Werner, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil General Chair • George A. Papadopoulos, University of Cyprus, Cyprus Program Co-Chairs • Achilleas Achilleos, Frederick University, Cyprus • Lidia Fuentes, University of Malaga, Spain

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