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CFP: Media Aesthetics
by Zach McDowell 21 Sep '23

21 Sep '23

(apologies for cross-posting) communication +1 <https://scholarworks.umass.edu/cpo/>is seeking proposals for Volume 11, "Media Aesthetics" Co-edited by Hank Gerba and Zachary McDowell In our age of ubiquitous computation, “sense and the senses turn to eyewash.” Or so proclaimed Friedrich Kittler, fearing that the operationalization of boolean logic, materialized and ever-miniaturized in the transistor, would sever the connection between media and the human senses. Digital communication between machines would pass seamlessly below the threshold of perception, which would only ever be rendered in the strictest computational sense. Must theories of media and communication abdicate the body as a locus of theoretical inquiry? Despite the micro-temporality of computational media, this collection aims to reintroduce media of all kinds to the sensory by asking after the relationship between media and aesthetics. We understand aesthetics broadly, following M. Beatrice Fazi, who writes that “aesthetics is [here] understood in a manner that is more in keeping with its etymological roots––which lie in the term aisthesis––and it is thus conceptualized as a theory of sensory knowledge.” With this definition, the collection hopes to provide a space in which the sensory can refocus critical and political questions of embodiment, mediation, and subjectivation. This collection seeks engagement with and between the many existing species of media studies and communications. By focusing on the aesthetic, we also hope to expand the study of media and communication beyond their traditional institutional and methodological boundaries. We strongly encourage intersectional and interdisciplinary engagements with the aesthetic as it functions theoretically, methodologically, spatially, institutionally, historically, and in relation to the study of media and communication. Please submit short proposals of no more than 500 words by December 1, 2023 to communicationplusone(a)gmail.com. Upon invitation, full-text submissions will be due April 15, 2024, with expected publication in Fall 2024. About the Journal The aim of communication +1 <https://scholarworks.umass.edu/cpo/> is to promote new approaches and open new horizons in the study of communication from an interdisciplinary perspective. We are particularly committed to promoting research that seeks to constitute new areas of inquiry and to explore new frontiers of theoretical activities linking the study of communication to both established and emerging research programs in the humanities, social sciences, and arts. Other than the commitment to rigorous scholarship, communication +1 sets no specific agenda. Its primary objective is to create a space for thoughtful experiments and for communicating these experiments. Editors Briankle G. Chang, University of Massachusetts Amherst Zachary J. McDowell, University of Illinois at Chicago Advisory Board Sean Johnson Andrews, Columbia College Chicago Lisa Åkervall, University of Gothenburg, Sweden Nathalie Casemajor, University of Québec Outaouais Jimena Canales, University of Illinois Urbana Champaign Bernard Geoghegan, Kings College, London Lawrence Grossberg, University of North Carolina Chapel Hill David Gunkel, Northern Illinois University Peter Krapp, University of California Irvine Catherine Malabou, Kingston University, United Kingdom Jussi Parikka, Aarhus University, Denmark John Durham Peters, Yale University Amit Pinchevski,The Hebrew University of Jerusalem Florian Sprenger, Ruhr-University Bochum, Germany Jonathan Sterne, McGill University Ted Striphas, University of Colorado, Boulder Christina Vagt, University of California Santa Barbara Greg Wise, Arizona State University https://scholarworks.umass.edu/cpo/ live long and prosper, Zach -------------------- 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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Deadline Extended: Race in Games and Games Conference
by Gerald Voorhees 21 Sep '23

21 Sep '23

Dear Colleagues, Please note that the deadline for submission to the Race in Games and Game Studies <https://raceandgamesconf.uwaterloo.ca//openconf.php> conference (Dec 7-8) has been extended to end of day September 29. Race in Games and Game Studies will be a two day conference dedicated to exploring how race impacts games and game studies. The conference will be hosted online December 7-8, 2023 and registration is free. It will feature conventional paper panels as well as plenary discussion panels focused on future directions for research at the intersections of games and race. Additionally, I'm happy to announce that selected papers will be invited for revision and publication in an edited anthology or journal special issue, venue TBD. Best regards Gerald -- ------------------------------ Gerald Voorhees, Ph.D. (he/him) Associate Professor Department of Communication Arts University of Waterloo 257A ML, Waterloo ON, N2L 3G1 *I acknowledge that I live and work on the traditional territory of the Attawandaron (Neutral), Anishinaabeg and Haudenosaunee peoples. The University of Waterloo is situated on the Haldimand Tract, the land promised to the Six Nations that includes ten kilometers on each side of the Grand River. *

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IEEE GLOBECOM 2023 call for application for STG
by Eirini Eleni Tsiropoulou 21 Sep '23

21 Sep '23

IEEE GLOBECOM 2023 is pleased to announce the availability of competitive grants aimed at supporting students and individuals with limited financial resources. These grants are designed to promote inclusivity and encourage the participation of individuals who might otherwise face financial barriers to attending the conference. We invite eligible applicants to apply for these grants to facilitate their participation in the IEEE GLOBECOM 2023 conference. A new grant has been proposed by IEEE ComSoc which is open to anyone the IEEE Conference Travel Grant while the others are dedicated only to IEEE Student ComSoc Members. This year GC offers different Grant Categories: -IEEE ComSoc Grant: Supported by the IEEE Communications Society open only for students -US National Science Foundation (NSF) Grant: Supported by the NSF open only for students -Women in Communications Engineering (WICE) Grant: Focused on promoting women's participation in the field. Open only for students -IEEE Conference Travel Grant open to all. Eligibility Criteria: To be eligible for these grants, applicants must meet the following criteria: -Be registered for IEEE GLOBECOM 2023 and be IEEE COMSOC member. -Co-authored an accepted peer-reviewed paper for the conference. -Applicants from diverse backgrounds, including women, minorities, individuals from low GDP countries, beginning graduate students, and first-time GLOBECOM attendees, are strongly encouraged to apply. -Only one student or applicant per institution will be supported. -Postdocs, faculty, or other senior research personnel are not eligible for these grants. The grants will cover various expenses associated with attending IEEE GLOBECOM 2023, including registration fees, travel, and accommodation costs. These grants aim to create an inclusive environment and foster collaboration among students and individuals interested in communications and networking. Application Process: To apply for the grants, eligible individuals must complete the grant application form, which will be made available on the IEEE GLOBECOM 2023 conference website at https://edas.info/listAllTravelgrants.php?c=30585 The application deadline and submission details are also provided on the website at https://globecom2023.ieee-globecom.org/authors/call-symposium-papers/author… Important Dates: Grant Application Deadline: 15 October 2023 Grant Notification: 1 November 2023 Contact Information: For inquiries and further information, please contact the IEEE GLOBECOM 2023 Grants Committee at Jalel.benothman(a)centralesupelec.fr<mailto:Jalel.benothman@centralesupelec.fr>, zhan2(a)central.uh.edu<mailto:zhan2@central.uh.edu>, rose.hu(a)usu.edu<mailto:rose.hu@usu.edu>, linda.xie(a)charlotte.edu<mailto:linda.xie@charlotte.edu>, stefano.bregni(a)polimi.it<mailto:stefano.bregni@polimi.it>.

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Invitation to TikTok Creators and Digtial Economies symposium on October 6
by Zoetanya Sujon 21 Sep '23

21 Sep '23

Dear lovely AoIR colleagues We are delighted to invite you to the TikTok Creators and Digital Economies Symposium on October 6, 2023. This symposium is a satellite event of the TikTok Research Cultures Network <https://tiktokcultures.com/> in collaboration with the Digital Cultures and Economies Research Hub <https://www.arts.ac.uk/colleges/london-college-of-communication/research-at…> . - Date: October 6, 2023 - Times: - 8:00 - 16:40 (UK time / GMT) - 16:00 - 24:40 (AWST) - 4:00 - 12:40 (EDT) - Location: Online - Registration link: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/tiktok-creators-and-digital-economies-sympos… <https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/tiktok-creators-and-digital-economies-sympos…> Free and open to all. >From new dance challenges to instantly recognisable songs, TikTok is often attributed with producing new global trends. Merging short form video, popular and original music, hashtags, comments, and participatory features like stitching and duets, TikTok provides a platform for ordinary users to consume, create, play and participate in public conversations. Creators benefit from new kinds of visibility and affective economies, yet also complain of shadow bans, seemingly arbitrary limitations on views, and algorithmic personalisation and circulation of content. The intersection between TikTok culture and creator economies raise big questions about emerging features of platformed economies. While TikTok’s niche creator practices share common features across other social media and digital platforms (Hardy 2022, Sujon 2021), TikTok’s specific approaches to monetisation and affective entrepreneurialism raises questions about what is distinct on TikTok for creator economies. The plenary discussion features leading scholars in the field: - Thomas Poell <https://www.uva.nl/en/profile/p/o/t.poell/t.poell.html#Profile> (University of Amsterdam), Institutional Perspectives on TikTok and Cultural Production - Francesca Sobande <https://profiles.cardiff.ac.uk/staff/sobandef> (University of Cardiff), Racial Capitalism and Digital Economies of "Intersectionality" The symposium is a satellite event of the TikTok Research Cultures Network <https://tiktokcultures.com/>, in collaboration with the Digital Cultures and Economies Research Hub <https://www.arts.ac.uk/colleges/london-college-of-communication/research-at…>. It brings together current work which opens up these dynamics, examining emerging forms of cultural production and also their economic consequences for creators, citizens, consumers, advertisers, and platforms. Organized by: Zoetanya Sujon, Irida Ntalla, Jackie Raphael-Luu, Sevil Yesiloglu, Jonathan Hardy, Yue Qin, Yingwen Wang, and Fancheng MengContact: DCE(a)lcc.arts.ac.uk -- 'You are marvellous. The Gods wait to delight in you.' ('The Laughing Heart' by Charles Bukowski).

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Quora Questions based on the country of the person asking the question?
by Hashem Elassad 21 Sep '23

21 Sep '23

Hi there Hope you’re doing great. Is there a way to find Quora Questions based on the country of the person asking the question? The Most Regards You’ve Ever Been Sent 😊 Researcher / Content Creator & Curator/ Writer (Psychology, Career Choice & Development) Hashem ElAssad Follow me on LinkedIn <https://www.linkedin.com/in/hashemelassad/>

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Don't Buy the AI Hype: Guest Talk with Paris Marx in Toronto
by Rafael Grohmann 20 Sep '23

20 Sep '23

For those folks who are around Toronto! October 2, 11AM, at University of Toronto, I'll host Paris Marx for a guest talk "Don’t buy the AI hype: Why the ChatGPT revolution is another tech fantasy". The talk will focus on critical studies of artificial intelligence, and the relationships between generative AI and corporate power. Paris Marx is a technology writer. They host [1]Tech Wont' Save Us, an award-winning critical technology podcast, and the [2]Disconnect newsletter. They published the book[3] Road to Nowhere: What Silicon Valley Gets Wrong about the Future of Transportation (Verso). The y already published on TIME, Wired, Insider, NBC News, CBC News, Jacobin, among others. Their research interests are technology, cities, and the "future". The event is free, open and only in-person at University of Toronto Scarborough, room BV 260 (Bladen Wing) 1265 Military Trail Toronto, ON M1C 1A4. Register here: [4]https://clnx.utoronto.ca/home/utsceventaggregator.htm?eventId=58275 (for UofT community) [5]https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/dont-buy-the-ai-hype-why-the-chatgpt-rev olution-is-another-tech-fantasy-tickets-722973833197?aff=oddtdtcreator (for external guests) This guest talk is co-organized by the department of Arts, Culture and Media (University of Toronto), Critical Digital Methods Institute and DigiLabour. Please spread the word! best regards, Rafael -- dr. Rafael Grohmann Assistant Professor of Media Studies [6]Department of Arts, Culture and Media [7]Faculty of Information University of Toronto Leader, [8]DigiLabour Principal Investigator, [9]Fairwork[10] Brazil International Experts Coordinator, [11]Platform Work Inclusion Living Lab References 1. https://techwontsave.us/ 2. https://www.disconnect.blog/ 3. https://www.versobooks.com/en-ca/products/2795-road-to-nowhere 4. https://clnx.utoronto.ca/home/utsceventaggregator.htm?eventId=58275 5. https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/dont-buy-the-ai-hype-why-the-chatgpt-revolution… 6. https://www.utsc.utoronto.ca/acm/rafael-grohmann 7. https://ischool.utoronto.ca/profile/rafael-grohmann/ 8. https://digilabour.com.br/ 9. https://fair.work/ 10. https://fair.work/ 11. https://pwill.eu/

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WEBCAST SEP 20 – Celebrating 50 years of TCP / IP with Vint Cerf and Bob Kahn
by Joly MacFie 20 Sep '23

20 Sep '23

Half a century since the birth of the 'experiment' that escaped the lab to be come the little protocol that could. [image: isoc live] <http://isoc.live>On *Wednesday September 20 2023* at *7:30pm EDT* (23:30 UTC) *Google Global Networking <https://cloud.google.com/>* and the *American Institute of Physics Foundation <https://foundation.aip.org/> *are proud to honor *Vint Cerf* and *Bob Kahn* on the 50th anniversary of the *TCP/IP protocols <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_protocol_suite>*, the foundational technology of today's Internet. The format will be a virtual fireside chat, moderated by journalist and author *Katie Hafner*, followed by a Q&A session. *YOUTUBE: https://youtu.be/NPfm2OmHOoM <https://youtu.be/NPfm2OmHOoM>* *TWITTER: @AIP_HQ @GoogleCloud @vgcerf @katiehafner #InternetHistory <https://bit.ly/46j0cQx> @DARPA* *MASTODON #InternetHistory <https://mastodon.social/tags/InternetHistory>* Permalink https://isoc.live/16892/ - -- -------------------------------------- Joly MacFie +12185659365 -------------------------------------- -

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Assistant Professor(s) in Social Informatics: UT Austin iSchool
by Fleischmann, Kenneth R 20 Sep '23

20 Sep '23

Assistant Professor in Social Informatics, 2024<https://www.ischool.utexas.edu/about/jobs> The University of Texas at Austin: School of Information<https://www.ischool.utexas.edu/> <https://www.ischool.utexas.edu/>https://apply.interfolio.com/132375 The School of Information at the University of Texas at Austin invites applications for up to two tenure-track Assistant Professor positions to start in Fall 2024. Candidates will be expected to conduct innovative and impactful research and to teach at both the graduate and undergraduate levels in Social Informatics, one of the six concentrations in our new undergraduate informatics degree program<https://www.ischool.utexas.edu/programs/informatics> which has synergies with other concentrations, such as Social Justice Informatics, User Experience Design, and Health Informatics. We are particularly interested in outstanding scholars who have expertise that spans more than one concentration or focuses on the intersections of these concentrations with a specific focus on social behavior, organizations, and/or society. Successful candidates will address the human and/or societal implications of information and technology. Candidates focused on human-centered design and use of information technology for human benefit, social good, and/or social justice in local and global contexts will fit well within the culture of our school and are particularly encouraged to apply. Successful candidates will be expected to expand on one or more established and emerging areas related to Social Informatics within the school, including but not limited to and in no particular order: • Social, societal, and ethical dimensions of information and information technology, including emerging technologies (e.g., ethical and responsible computing) • Social computing, particularly the impacts of computing on organizations and society • The use of computing to study society (e.g., computational social science) • Legal and policy dimensions of information and information technology, including information security and privacy as well as data governance • Technology and society, including their mutual shaping (e.g., science and technology studies) • Socio-technical consideration of the roles of documents, data, information, and knowledge in society (e.g., document studies; big data and society; knowledge management; socio-technical systems) • The future of work, including developing the future workforce, crowdsourcing, gig work, and technology-enabled workplaces A range of methodological, disciplinary, and theoretical approaches are relevant to study of complex Social Informatics phenomena. We thus invite applications from scholars from diverse disciplines including but not limited to information studies, psychology, communication, anthropology, political science, sociology, and computer science. Our intent is to recruit scholars with compelling human-centric research agendas that fit with the mission of the iSchool regardless of disciplinary background. Applicants, especially those unfamiliar with Information Schools, are welcome to contact us via the email below prior to submitting their application to discuss how their research agenda connects to our school, as well as examining resources provided at www.ischools.org<https://www.ischools.org/>. For more information, please feel free to reach out to Search Committee Chair Prof. Ken Fleischmann at kfleisch(a)ischool.utexas.edu<mailto:kfleisch@ischool.utexas.edu>. Successful candidates will address the human and/or societal implications of information and technology. Candidates focused on human-centered design and use of information technology for human benefit, social good, and/or social justice in local and global contexts, including critical theory and perspectives, will fit well within the culture of our school and are particularly encouraged to apply. Tenure-track faculty at the School of Information at the University of Texas at Austin normally have a 2/1 teaching load. Salaries are competitive. Kenneth R. Fleischmann, Ph.D. | Professor Good Systems, a UT Grand Challenge<http://goodsystems.utexas.edu/> | Founding Chair, Executive Team B.S.I./B.A. in Informatics<https://ischool.utexas.edu/programs/informatics> | Founding Director of Undergraduate Studies, School of Information M.S. in Information Security and Privacy<https://msisp.ischool.utexas.edu/> | Chair, Graduate Studies Committee The University of Texas at Austin | School of Information Public Interest Technology University Network<https://pitcases.org/> | Chair, Working Group on PIT@NSF IEEE Intelligent Systems, Special Issue on AI Ethics and Trust<https://www.computer.org/digital-library/magazines/ex/cfp-ai-ethics-trust> | Guest Co-Editor ACM Journal on Responsible Computing<https://dl.acm.org/journal/jrc> | Founding Editor-in-Chief

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Memorial session for John Monberg at AoIR on Friday, 20 October
by Holly Kruse 20 Sep '23

20 Sep '23

If you were a friend, colleague, acquaintance, and/or admirer of John Monberg and his work, I hope that you will consider joining me and others at a very, very informal memorial session for John at the conference in Philadelphia at 5:00 p.m. on Friday the 20th of October. John was a brilliant scholar and a warm and kind person, and he was a frequent participant in AoIR conferences during the first decade of the association’s existence – starting with the second annual conference – and well into its second decade. He died earlier this year at age 59: https://wrac.msu.edu/2023/07/14/wrac-mourns-the-loss-of-professor-john-monb… <https://wrac.msu.edu/2023/07/14/wrac-mourns-the-loss-of-professor-john-monb…>. This year’s conference team gave me time and space on the program (https://www.conftool.org/aoir2023/index.php?page=browseSessions&form_sessio… <https://www.conftool.org/aoir2023/index.php?page=browseSessions&form_sessio…>): thank you, Adrienne and crew! John’s wife Terese and brother Matt will be there. A few people who won’t be at the conference but who want to participate will be doing so via Zoom. If you’d like to do that, please contact Laura Gurak at gurakL(a)umn.edu <mailto:gurakL@umn.edu>. Holly --- 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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AoIR-L undergraduate teaching pre-conference workshop
by Holly Kruse 20 Sep '23

20 Sep '23

There are still spaces available in our half-day AoIR pre-conference workshop on undergraduate teaching, which is now less than a month away. Here’s a summary of the workshop, which this year is being run by me and Kelly Boudreau of Harrisburg University of Science and Technology: Teaching is a big part of most of our academic lives, whether we are graduate teaching assistants or junior or senior faculty members; tenure-track, tenured, or contingent faculty; experienced educators or instructors relatively new to teaching. In the classroom (on campus or virtual), our students’ understandings of social media and internet use don’t always align with broader press or research narratives. This workshop brings educators together to discuss the difficulties and joys of teaching in, on, and around the internet. Questions for discussion will focus on (but not be limited to): What do we learn from our students about the internet, how are we using the internet to teach, and what’s the best way of bringing AoIR research into our classrooms? How do we use the internet in teaching when our students don’t have broadband access, aren’t digitally-savvy, and when our institutions do not offer robust technical infrastructures or support? As professors with teaching experience that spans types of institutions, student populations, and institutional support, we understand that there are no one-size fits all solutions to teaching in ever-changing technological and social contexts. Participation in the workshop helps us understand the Wass in which teaching loads, expectations of service to students and administration, and institutional terminologies differ around the world. Partly because of this, the workshop therefore discussion/conversation-based so we can all learn from and with one another. If you didn’t initially register for the workshop but would like to participate, please contact the AoIR association coordinator, Michelle, at ac(a)aoir.org <mailto:ac@aoir.org>. Holly —— 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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