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TT Media Studies position at Rutgers (please share job posting)
by Regina Marchi 28 Aug '23

28 Aug '23

Dear Colleagues, The Dept. of Journalism and Media Studies is seeking an assistant professor in Media Studies, so please share this posting with talented doctoral students who will graduate this spring, assistant professors or postdocs you know, and listservs you are a member of. Thank you for helping to spread the word! https://jobs.rutgers.edu/postings/209379 Best, Regina -- Regina Marchi, Ph.D. Professor, Department of Journalism and Media Studies RUTGERS UNIVERSITY School of Communication and Information Affiliated Professor, Dept. of Latino and Caribbean Studies and Rutgers Center for Latin American Studies Office: 4 Huntington St, Rm 104, New Brunswick, NJ, 08901 WEBSITE: https://comminfo.rutgers.edu/marchi-regina Regina Marchi is the author of: Day of the Dead in the USA: The Migration and Transformation of a Cultural Phenomenon, revised and expanded 2nd edition (Rutgers University Press 2022)<https://www.amazon.com/Day-Dead-Second-Transformation-Transnational/dp/1978…> <https://www.amazon.com/Day-Dead-Second-Transformation-Transnational/dp/1978…> 🏵 Young People and the Future of News: Social Media and the Rise of Connective Journalism Cambridge University Press 2017<https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/young-people-and-the-future-of-news/E7…> written with Lynn Schofield Clark.

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Book announcement: A SECOND CHANCE FOR YESTERDAY
by Aram Sinnreich 28 Aug '23

28 Aug '23

Hey fellow AoIRistas, Tomorrow (Tuesday, August 29th), my debut novel A SECOND CHANCE FOR YESTERDAY is out from Solaris Books, and distributed by Simon & Schuster. I wrote it with my sister, the historian Rachel Hope Cleves, under the joint pseudonym R.A. Sinn. It’s a time-travel sci fi story with a whole lot of themes that will be quite familiar to the AoIR crowd. It’s also got an LGBTQ romance subplot. Publishers Weekly gave us a starred review, and we got really positive advance reviews in Scientific American and Library Journal. It’s available in paper, ebook, and audiobook. More info is available here: https://www.simonandschuster.com/books/A-Second-Chance-for-Yesterday/R-A-Si… I really hope you’ll enjoy reading it as much as we enjoyed writing it. Thanks! Aram (apologies for cross-posting)

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CfP: A Toolbox of Feminist Wonder – Theories and methods that can make a difference
by Karin Hansson 28 Aug '23

28 Aug '23

Submit to our one-day workshop exploring feminist theoretical and methodological approaches in CSCW and HCI. In this hybrid workshop at CSCW 2023 (https://cscw.acm.org/2023/) October 15 in Minneapolis, MN, USA, we will revisit our feminist roots, where theory is a liberatory and creative practice, motivated by affect, curiosity, and wonder. The goal of this workshop is to; 1) create an inventory of feminist theories and concepts that have had an impact on our work as designers, educators, researchers, and activists; 2) develop a feminist toolbox for the CSCW community to strengthen our feminist literacy. To participate, submit a 2-4 pages position paper where you suggest one or more feminist theories and methods that have been useful in your previous research. Describe the theory/method and explain how you have used them. As this is a hybrid workshop, notify if you intend to participate online or offline. Use the templates found here: https://authors.acm.org/proceedings/production-information/taps-production-… E-mail your submission to: atoolboxofwonder(a)gmail.com<mailto:atoolboxofwonder@gmail.com> Deadline: September 22, 2023 (decision notification: September 28) Information: https://blogg.sh.se/a-toolbox-of-feminist-wonder/ For more information contact Karin Hansson (Karin.hansson(a)sh.se<mailto:Karin.hansson@sh.se>) or Adrian Petterson (a.petterson(a)mail.utoronto.ca<mailto:a.petterson@mail.utoronto.ca>)

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Workshop on Generative AI models
by ijwa dline.info 28 Aug '23

28 Aug '23

First Workshop on "Next-Generation Models for Generative AI" (In conjunction with the Third International Conference on Digital Data Processing 2023) University of Bedfordshire, Luton. UK. November 27-29, 2023 https://socio.org.uk/ddp/workshop (IEEE CPS will publish the proceedings, and papers should follow the IEEE template) AI models use billions of parameters to detect and retrieve text and images. The currently available LL models are experimented with for their efficiency, and at the same time, newer models are being developed. There are many challenges associated with generative AI. The pre-training volume and efficiency are a focus. To leverage the training set with comprehensiveness and accuracy, billions of parameters are injected into the LLM. Current GPTs face criticism, and governments issue a caution to their use. For example, Zhuang Rongwen, China’s cyberspace chief, raises concerns over the power of generative AI and pledges to make it ‘controllable'. The agenda for the future Generative AI is not clear. Improved generative tools should be capable of characterising extremist narratives in corpora to reveal different contexts, which may lead to building semantic-rich content for end-users. Testing the current models and their results may contribute to future research. Considering these issues, we framed a workshop to address the theme, Next Generation Models. The workshop themes include but are not limited to the following. Text, Image, Code, Video, 3D models Domain-specific models Compositional generative models Foundation models Energy-based models Deep equilibrium models Impact of Generative AI on Teaching and Learning Knowledge and Semantic Issues in Generative AI Future LLM AI Ethical Issues AI and NLP Embedding in AI Reinforcement learning Data Support and Datasets in AI Synthetic Training Datasets Training Synthetic data Standards and Benchmarks AI platforms Workshop Chairs Gloria Tengyue Li North China University of Technology Beijing China Simon Fong University of Macau Macau Hathairat Ketmaneechairat King Mongkut’s University of Technology North Bangkok, Thailand Important Dates Full Paper Submission: September 10, 2023 Notification of Acceptance/Rejection: October 10, 2023 Registration Due: November 10, 2023 Camera Ready Due: November 10, 2023 Workshops/Tutorials/Demos: November 28, 2023 Main conference: November 27-29, 2023 Post-conference proceedings: December 20, 2023 Paper Submission: http://socio.org.uk/ddp/paper-submission/ Contact: stm(a)socio.org.uk

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WEBCAST AUG 28 – Australian Internet Governance Forum (NetThing)
by Joly MacFie 28 Aug '23

28 Aug '23

This is a simulcast. NetThing's own livestream is available at https://youtu.be/db3DToFBf2A [image: isoc live] <https://isoc.live/16820>On *Monday 28 August 2023* the *Australian Internet Governance Forum <https://netthing.org.au/>* (NetThing) will be held in Brisbane as a Day O event of *APrIGF <https://www.aprigf.au/>*. The theme is "*Co-operation and Collaboration: Australia's commitment to supporting the future of Internet governance*." *PROGRAM https://netthing.org.au/program-1 <https://netthing.org.au/program-1> *(UTC+10) *01 Opening Session* *Welcome from the NetThing Chair* *Annaliese Williams* *Ministerial Address* *The Hon Michelle Rowland MP*, Minister for Communications *NetThing and Identity Digital Indigenous Leaders Internet Governance and Policy Fellowship launch* *Senator Jana Stewart*, Senator for Victoria *02 Keynote Address* *Brendon Dowling*, Ambassador for Cyber Affairs and Critical Technology *03 Forging our Future* *Aurelie Jacquet*, AI governance expert *David Masters*, Head of Global Policy, Atlassian *Brendon Dowling*, Ambassador for Cyber Affairs and Critical Technology *Professor Johanna Weaver*, Director, ANU Tech Policy Design Centre Moderator: *Dr Alexandra Caples*, Director, International Cyber Policy Centre, ASPI *04 Examining the social and economic value of the Internet* *Professor Julian Thomas*, Director, ARC Centre of Excellence for Automated Decision-Making and Society *Dr Greg Adamson*, Technical Activities Vice-President, IEEE Society on Social Implications of Technology *Ken Walliss*, Executive General Manager Products, NBNCo *Chandni Gupta*, Deputy CEO, The CPRC Moderator: *Keith Besgrove*, Chair auDA General Advisory Standing Committee *05 Meaningful Connectivity* *Daniel Featherstone*, Senior Research Fellow, RMIT *Andrew Williams*, CEO, ACCAN *Dr Paul Brooks*, Director, Internet Australia Moderator: *Holly Raiche*, Policy Chair, Internet Australia *06 Australia’s Internet Resilience Extends Beyond Its Borders* *Terry Sweetser*, Training Delivery Manager, APNIC *Robbie Mitchell*, Senior Communication and Technical Advisor, ISOC Moderator: *George Pongas*, Senior Director, International Registry Policy, GoDaddy *07 Multistakeholder governance for the future – where next and how to get there* *Anriette Esterhuysen*, Internet governance expert and former Chair, IGF Multistakeholder Advisory Group *Chris Buckridge*, Internet governance expert *Jordan Carter*, Internet Governance & Policy Director, auDA *Lise Fuhr*, UN Secretary-General’s IGF Leadership Panel Moderator: *Pablo Hinojosa*, Director, Strategic Engagement, APNIC *08 Co-operation and Collaboration: NetThing and our opportunity to support the future of Internet governance* *Sandra Davey*, auDA Board Member *Ian Sheldon*, Director, Internet Governance, DITRDCA *Cheryl Langdon-Orr*, Internet Australia *Paul Wilson*, Director General, APNIC Moderator: *Annaliese Williams*, NetThing Chair *LIVESTREAM http://livestream.com/internetsociety/netthing2023 <http://livestream.com/internetsociety/netthing2023>* *TWITTER #netthing2023 @NetThing_au @auda @isocapac @iaa_limited @aprigf_official #netgov * *ARCHIVE https://archive.org/details/pacigf2023 <https://bit.ly/3qP0teV>* Permalink https://isoc.live/16820 - -- -------------------------------------- Joly MacFie +12185659365 -------------------------------------- -

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JOB: Executive Director at the Center for Information, Technology, and Public Life at UNC Chapel Hill
by Alice E. Marwick 25 Aug '23

25 Aug '23

Hi all, We are recruiting a new ED for CITAP at UNC! We are an academic research center dedicated to the study of technology & democracy. Principals are me, Daniel Kreiss, Shannon McGregor, Tressie McMillan Cottom, and Francesca Tripodi, and we have a fantastic group of postdocs and PhD students. This is a great alt-ac job for people with top-notch ops/fundraising/strategy skills who want to make a strong public impact. (This is not a research job). Location is Chapel Hill, NC. https://citap.unc.edu/news/citap-is-hiring-executive-director/ Feel free to ping me with any questions and PLEASE disseminate to your networks! Warmly Alice Alice E. Marwick, PhD (she/her) Associate Professor, Department of Communication Principal Researcher, Center for Information, Technology and Public Life (CITAP) University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill amarwick(a)gmail.com http://www.tiara.org <http://www.tiara.org> http://citap.unc.edu <http://citap.unc.edu>

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Faculty Position in Ethnicity, Race, and Migration
by Posada, Julian 25 Aug '23

25 Aug '23

Dear colleagues, The Yale Program in Ethnicity, Race, and Migration is hiring an assistant or associate professor in Global Blackness and African Diaspora Studies. The program is seeking candidates with expertise in “the formations and lived experiences of Blackness, with emphasis on global, comparative, indigenous, or transnational perspectives drawn from African, Indigenous, Asian, Middle Eastern, European, or Latin American and Caribbean contexts.” Areas of interest for research include “historical formations of race, indigeneity, and Blackness; labor, formal/informal economies, and syndicalism; community building, politics, and social movements; visual and expressive cultures; critical ecologies, climate displacement, and environmental racism; comparative colonialisms and settler states; racial analysis of education, health, and wealth; comparative South-South mobility and solidarities; global anti-Blackness; and African/diasporic queer and feminist activism.” The committee welcomes applicants that will diversify the program's curriculum, including teaching in areas such as “critical and methodological approaches to ethnography, visual/digital technologies, transnational feminist and queer studies, textual and cultural analysis, archival research, and critical geography and demography.” For those interested in the position, you can contact my colleague Alicia Schmidt-Camacho <alicia.camacho(a)yale.edu>, chair of the search committee. The application portal can be accessed here: https://apply.interfolio.com/127951 ——— Julian Posada (he/him) Assistant Professor, American Studies Information Society Fellow, Yale Law School Yale University [https://posada.website/icons/web.png]<https://posada.website> [https://posada.website/icons/mastodon.png] <https://mastodon.social/@JulianPosada> [https://posada.website/icons/google.png] <https://scholar.google.ca/citations?user=mt3Aq1MAAAAJ&hl=en> [https://posada.website/icons/orcid.png] <https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3285-6503> 📆 Book time to meet with me<https://outlook.office.com/bookwithme/user/afcb718973bf4328b10ba4811b545222…>

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Upcoming events at Humlab, Umeå University
by Evelina Liliequist 25 Aug '23

25 Aug '23

Dear all, Welcome to attend our upcoming events at Humlab, Umeå University, on site or online: 14 Sept Humlab Talk: Exploring the silences of smart care<https://www.umu.se/en/events/humlab-talk-exploring-the-silences-of-smart-ca…> (online) Professor Christine Hine, Department of Sociology, University of Surrey This talk explores two methodological approaches to exploration of the selectivity and silences of smart care. 9 Nov Humlab Talk: Doing old-fashioned (field)work in new social spaces<https://www.umu.se/en/events/humlab-talk-doing-old-fashioned-fieldwork-in-n…> (hybrid) Ida Tolgensbakk, PhD in cultural history and senior curator at the Norwegian Museum of Cultural History This talk will discuss the advantages of taking old wisdoms with us when doing fieldwork online. 11–13 Dec Advancing Research Communication – the role of Humanities in the Digital Era<https://www.umu.se/humlab/advancing-research-communication/> (hybrid) The conference brings together scholars in the humanities and surrounding fields to discuss the relevance, challenges, and role of research communication in the age of AI, disinformation, hate speech, an ongoing climate crisis. What is the role of researchers, cultural heritage sites and scholars in responding to new societal circumstances, and how can we use our voices as humanists to speak about these issues? SAVE THE DATE: 1–2 feb Queer futures of AI? Possibilities, constraints and risks <https://www.umu.se/nyheter/beviljas-medel-for-ai-konferens_11815467/> (hybrid) The conference seek to gather scholars in AI, digital humanities and gender and queer studies, for an transdisciplinary dialogue about queer futures of AI and what possibilities, constraints and risk likely, and possible, AI futures may entail. More information to come. Contact: evelina.liliequist(a)umu.se<mailto:evelina.liliequist@umu.se> More information and events: https://www.umu.se/en/humlab/ Most welcome! Evelina, Associate Professor, Humlab, Umeå University

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Deadline for CFP: 2024 AoIR Flashpoint Symposium - 1 Sept 2023
by Michelle, Association of Internet Researchers 25 Aug '23

25 Aug '23

DEADLINE REMINDER: *Deadline for the submission of this proposal is 1 September 2023.* To supplement our annual October conference, the Association of Internet Researchers is seeking proposals for a one-day AoIR Flashpoint Symposium to take place before the end of August 2024. As the 2024 AoIR conference takes place in Sheffield, UK, only proposals for locations outside of Europe will be considered. An AoIR Flashpoint Symposium is a small event that provides an opportunity to deepen or foster conversations about internet research among regions, groups, and/or thematic research areas that have thus far been underrepresented in the Association of Internet Researchers and its conferences. The Association is making available one grant of up to US$8,000 for the purpose of supporting a one-day symposium that will contribute to the life and mission of AoIR and feed into its annual conference. Each symposium will be a standalone event to take place in a region of the world that differs from that of the 2024 annual conference (Sheffield, UK). Preference will be given to regions and locations where an AoIR conference has not yet been held, but where at least one active AoIR member, who will be on the Flashpoint Symposium planning committee, resides. We also require that the symposium makes a contribution to the main 2024 AoIR conference in some way (e.g., a panel, pre-conference workshop, or another format that presents key contributions and outcomes from the symposium). In addition to local participants, all AoIR members are invited to attend the Flashpoint Symposium. *Deadline for the submission of this proposal is 1 September 2023, with a decision returned by the end of October 2023.* Proposers are invited to engage in conversation with the AoIR symposium committee. Proposals should: - Be no more than 1-2 pages in length. - Outline a distinct issue or theme to be addressed by the symposium, and demonstrate how this theme has not been sufficiently addressed by AoIR conferences to date. - Include a proposed date (between 1 April and 31 August) and schedule for the one-day event, and identify potential keynote speakers (keeping in mind AoIR’s commitment to diversity and inclusivity). Note: the proposal should ideally not suggest parallel sessions but rather envision a day of consecutive sessions (i.e. a single stream only). - Include a brief description of the leadership team’s history with AoIR and their plans for future involvement. - Demonstrate how this Flashpoint Symposium will connect with AoIR more broadly. - Include a preliminary budget that demonstrates in-kind support and/or sponsorship from the host institution(s) and creates a preliminary plan for cost items. Please note that AoIR funding is not to be allocated for the funding of participant travel costs, staff costs in support of the symposium’s organization, or indirect costs (such costs must be borne by local sponsorship), but may include keynote honoraria, travel of keynote speakers, meals, venue or labor costs. - Indicate how regional and transnational graduate students will be encouraged to participate. - Include a discussion of projected outcomes from this symposium and its potential for ongoing benefit to AoIR more broadly (e.g., AoIR conference panel, special issue, etc.). A selection of organizers and delegates should make a firm commitment to present key contributions and outcomes from the Flashpoint Symposium at the year’s annual conference. AoIR’s commitment to the symposium will include: - Support for promotion and administration through our various channels and platforms (e.g. via organization social media accounts and email lists), as well as limited AoIR administrative support. - Up to $US8,000 disbursed in the form of reimbursements and invoices to cover costs related to organizing of the symposium. - Mentorship from members of AoIR Executive Committee related to the organization of the symposium and subsequent deliverables/outcomes. - Allocation of one session slot (panel, roundtable, fishbowl, experimental session, or pre-conference workshop) on the annual AoIR conference program to the symposium organizers. This session is invited and will be planned jointly by the symposium organizers, the AoIR Executive Committee, and the AoIR Conference organizers in order to present the symposium’s major themes and outcomes. It must involve several participants selected from among the organizers, keynote speakers, and/or other participants of the symposium in order to allow the symposium conversation to continue at the main annual conference. - An additional $US2,000 in travel awards to help bring a panel of Flashpoint participants to the AoIR conference in Philadelphia. (This cannot be reallocated for any other purpose.) Proposals will be ranked in relation to their ability to: - Advance AoIR’s goal of diversification of membership and the expansion of geographical presence at the annual AoIR conference. - Address a theme, topic, or issue not yet prominent in AoIR’s annual conferences. - Articulate a clear outcome that will foster conversation in the future. - Demonstrate a commitment to encouraging graduate student participation, particularly from those in the host region. - Demonstrate capacity for carrying out the symposium in a manner that contributes to the benefit of AoIR and the individual organizer(s). - Demonstrate a commitment to present outcomes at the annual AoIR conference. (This listing does not imply any ranking in the importance of these requirements.) AoIR will accept one symposium proposal for 2024. Submit your proposals to symposia @ aoir.org by 1 September, 2023.

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Sign up to run a Wikipedia assignment and make digital literacy a central part of your course!
by Helaine Blumenthal 24 Aug '23

24 Aug '23

Calls for applications: Ensure your spot by signing up today to run your Wikipedia assignment this fall! Find out how you and your students can change the world one word at a time by visiting teach.wikiedu.org <https://wikiedu.org/teach-with-wikipedia/>. Attend an upcoming workshop! Attend <https://wikiedu.org/webinars/>one of our upcoming workshops to learn more about this unique pedagogical opportunity. Click here <https://wikiedu.org/webinars/> to register for a session. The next one will be Tuesday, August 30 at 9:00 AM Pacific. Wiki Education's support is fully funded, and there are no fees to participate. The program is open to post-secondary institutions in the U.S. and Canada. Monthly Speaker Series: Ever wondered how other faculty are using Wikipedia in their courses? Join us for an exciting upcoming panel where you'll be able to hear from three long time instructors in the program! * What: How teaching with Wikipedia revolutionizes higher education classrooms * When: August 29 at 9:00 AM Pacific * Registration: Click here <https://wikiedu.org/speaker-series/>to register for the event. This program is part of a monthly speaker series being hosted by Wiki Education this year. Please check here <https://wikiedu.org/speaker-series/> for upcoming events. Empower your students to become public scholars this year! -- Helaine Blumenthal,Ph.D. (she/her) Senior Program Manager Wiki Education teach.wikiedu.org <https://wikiedu.org/teach-with-wikipedia/> Twitter <https://twitter.com/WikiEducation?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7C…>, Facebook <https://www.facebook.com/WikiEducationFoundation/>

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