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CFP: “Streaming Diversity?" Journal of Convergence special issue
by Maura Edmond 17 Jul '23

17 Jul '23

Call For Papers: “Streaming Diversity? On and off-screen diversity in an era of automated media culture” Abstracts due 22 Sept 2023 Special Issue of Convergence: The International Journal of Research Into New Media Technologies Guest editors: Dr Maura Edmond, Dr Olivia Khoo, Dr Claire Perkins and Dr Verity Trott, from @Gender&MediaLab <https://twitter.com/gendermedialab> in the School of Media, Film and Journalism at Monash University, Australia. Deadline for abstracts: *22 September 2023* | Expected publication date: August 2024 The unprecedented growth of video-on-demand streaming platforms has brought both new optimism and new complications to concerns around screen ‘diversity’. Without the limitations of linear television, streaming services have far greater capacity for producing and distributing more diverse screen content. Many of the streaming platforms have made high profile public commitments to diversity, such as Netflix’s ‘Inclusion Report’, introducing new policies and commissioning processes intended to support culturally diverse representation and content production. Large global SVODs and smaller region-specific and genre-specific platforms have also launched original series and commissioned content that has been widely marketed as and celebrated for its diverse representations. Together, this has created a popular impression that streaming platforms are improving diversity in terms of both representation and practical opportunities for screen creatives. This special issue of Convergence will critically explore the impacts of video streaming platforms on different dimensions of ‘diversity’. Existing studies on diversity in the screen sector have consistently demonstrated long standing and entrenched inequality regimes affecting women and non-dominant groups, but there remains limited research on how this plays out at the streaming services specifically. Research on SVOD-related impacts have focused instead on understanding how major global companies like Netflix have interacted with existing local screen industries and production ecosystems, affected global distribution and content flows, and created overall regulatory imbalances. We are calling for papers that will examine the impacts of video streaming platforms that extend our understanding of diversity in an era of automated, on-demand video. In keeping with the themes of this issue, we welcome proposals looking at streaming services and experiences outside US contexts. Questions of interest include, but are not limited to: - How is diversity represented and made discoverable via platform features such as the image tiles and categories used in catalogues? - How do recommendation systems understand and operationalise ‘diversity’? - What values and messages about diversity are being communicated by the content commissioned by streaming services? - What are we to make of existing policies and practices intended to support diversity, equity and inclusion at the streaming platforms? - What policy options are there for regulating ‘diversity’? - How do audiences, users and communities engage with streaming platforms to discover, view or value ‘diverse’ content? Please submit a 500-word abstract & 100 word bio by 22 September 2023 to: streamingdiversity(a)gmail.com Authors of accepted abstracts will be notified by 20 October 2023. Full articles will be due 01 March 2024 No payment from the authors will be required Dr Maura Edmond Senior Lecturer School of Media, Film and Journalism Building B, Room B4.31 Monash University Caulfield East VIC 3145 Australia t: +61 3 990 34119 e: maura.edmond(a)monash.edu

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Participate in CrisisFACTS track at TREC-2023
by Hemant Purohit 16 Jul '23

16 Jul '23

CFP: CrisisFACTS at TREC-2023 - http://crisisfacts.github.io You are invited to participate in the second year of the CrisisFACTS crisis summarization and fact extraction track at TREC. This year, we have expanded the track’s event set with ten new crises, for a total of 18 crisis events<https://crisisfacts.github.io/#events>. We invite you to participate by submitting a collection of facts, extracted from data we provide across Twitter, Reddit, Facebook, and news articles, for each day of these crisis events. These facts provide daily summaries of crises, as described in the online information space. Submissions are due 1 September (see “Important Dates” for more information), so you have the summer to participate. See http://crisisfacts.github.io for more information on data access and registering with TREC. If you’re looking for a way to apply ChatGPT and related LLMs to a novel problem, look no further, as synthesizing daily summaries of crises from multiple social media streams is an important research topic. Methods developed and evaluated in this context could also be used in other spaces, from news summaries to describing disinformation campaigns, public health campaigns, and a variety of other information tasks. Participants from prior years of CrisisFACTS and its predecessor, TREC-IS, have had good success in getting papers describing their approaches published at the annual Information Systems for Crisis Response And Management<https://iscram.org/> conference. To facilitate participation, we have provided a baseline implementation on GitHub<https://github.com/crisisfacts/utilities/tree/main/01-Baselines>, so you can get started right away! Important Dates Milestone Date Guidelines released 10 May 2023 Submissions Due 1 September 2023 NIST-Assessor Evaluation 5-22 September 2023 Scores returned to participants 29 September 2022 TREC Notebook Drafts Due 7 November 2023 (Tentative) TREC Conference 15-17 November 2023 (Tentative) -- Hemant Purohit, Ph.D. Associate Professor, Information Sciences & Technology Department Director, Humanitarian Informatics Lab School of Computing, George Mason University Office: 5348 Nguyen Engineering Building https://mason.gmu.edu/~hpurohit

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Ethics of analyzing reader comments to newspaper articles
by Regina Tuma 16 Jul '23

16 Jul '23

Hello dear AOIR colleagues, What are the ethical guidelines for analyzing reader comments to newspaper articles for newspapers behind a paywall? An example would be The New York Times. Reader comments are not accessible unless one is a paid subscriber or unless an article is gifted. Is this similar to Facebook where groups are not public? For context, I have a couple of articles where I want to analyze the reader comments. Hoping to get some insight. Thanks, Regina Sent from [1]Mail for Windows References 1. https://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=550986

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Sign up this weekend to run your Wikipedia assignment this Fall!
by Helaine Blumenthal 14 Jul '23

14 Jul '23

Deadline almost here! The deadline to run a Wikipedia assignment in Fall 2023 is this Monday, July 17! Find out how you can invigorate your course this fall with real world work by visiting teach.wikiedu.org <https://wikiedu.org/teach-with-wikipedia/>. Attend an upcoming workshop! Attend one of our upcoming workshops to learn more about this unique pedagogical experience. Click here <https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZApdeCupzwtEtNVaIWYtWTV6d-frza2C8…> to register for a session. The next one will be this Tuesday, July 18 at 12 PM 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. Go beyond the term paper this fall and engage your students in truly impactful work! -- 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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ethical considerations for a publicly-shared Twitter dataset?
by Jodi Schneider 13 Jul '23

13 Jul '23

I am writing the list for ethics guidance on reusing a publicly-shared Twitter dataset I found <https://github.com/DrMassie/Covid_tweets/> for academic research. The data contains "four variables are in each dataset: created_at (i.e., the date of the tweet), username (i.e., the handle of the user), text (i.e,. *the tweet itself*), and location (i.e., information on user profile that the user put as his/her location)." In particular, has the data has been shared properly? As far as I can tell, "properly" would mean "in accordance with the Twitter ToS". After reading the current Twitter ToS <https://twitter.com/en/tos> and developer agreements <https://developer.twitter.com/en/developer-terms/agreement> I am still unsure. (I would ask our copyright librarian - but she is on sabbatical until January!) The associated paper - which is quite interesting - is: Fogarty, B., Massie, K., and Svistova, J. (2024). Unmasking Twitter discourse: An infodemiology study of Covid-19 mitigation practices. *The Atlantic Journal of Communication*. http://doi.org/10.1080/15456870.2023.2220855 They say "*The data and files that we have generated are freely available for public and academic use as long as our original work is sited *(sic) *as the source*." The dataset is described as "Keyword "coronavirus" tweets from March to May 2020 before covid or covid19 became popular". Thoughts? Thanks! -Jodi http://jodischneider.com/jodi.html

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Join the Waitlist: Community+Coffee: Spotlight on Youth Leadership and Voice in the Connected Wellbeing Impact Studio
by Cindy Hau 13 Jul '23

13 Jul '23

<https://connectedwellbeing.org> [image: July Event] Community+Coffee: Spotlight on Youth Leadership and Voice in the Connected Wellbeing Impact Studio <https://connectedwellbeing.org/eventcalendar/communitycoffee-spotlight-on-y…> A vital part of Connected Wellbeing are solutions designed, led, and implemented by youth. Join us for a panel discussion with youth who are part of ongoing Connected Wellbeing initiatives to learn more about their experiences, perspectives, and expertise. July 25, 2023 1:00pm – 2:30pm Eastern/ 10:00 – 11:30 am Pacific This is the first of two special community gatherings the Connected Wellbeing Coalition will host in July and August 2023, focused on the innovative teams in our Impact Studio. Chat with the teams, get inspired by their work, and compare notes on how you approach similar work. These events have limited capacity, so sign up for the waitlist here <https://airtable.com/shrItwH0CtNO7Vy9L> *before it closes on July 20th!* We will contact you if space opens up for you. About the Connected Wellbeing Initiative The Connected Wellbeing Initiative brings together researchers, designers, educators, and funders to accelerate youth and community-powered innovations for fostering wellbeing in a digitally connected world. We build shared approaches and purpose through an Impact Studio for innovators, and free Workshops to build capacity and community. View Our Workshop Calendar <https://connectedwellbeing.org/events/> <https://clalliance.org.>

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WEBCAST JUL 13 – topDNS Best Practice Series: Standards and Frameworks for Evidencing Abuse Online
by Joly MacFie 13 Jul '23

13 Jul '23

Before bad actors can be addressed, they must be properly identified. That is the topic of today's session. Real Time Text https://bit.ly/3XMq9VD [image: isoc live] <https://isoc.live/16719%20>On *Thursday July 13 2023* at *17:00 CEST* (15:00 UTC) *CleanDNS <https://cleandns.com/>* and *eco's topDNS Initiative <https://international.eco.de/topics/names-numbers/topdns/>* host a webinar '*topDNS Best Practice Series: Standards and Frameworks for Evidencing Abuse Online <https://international.eco.de/event/topdns-best-practice-series-standards-an…>*'. This is the second in a series of topDNS best practice webinars to showcase what the domain name industry is doing to fight DNS abuse. Fighting abuse online is first and foremost a matter of taking appropriate action, taken by the appropriate party, taken at the appropriate time. Speaking of time, reducing the uptime of maliciously used domain names is crucial. But how can the decision-making process be standardized to make clear decisions, make the decision-making process scalable and also balance the expectations between the sender and the receiver of abuse reports? *Jeffrey Bedser*, CEO of CleanDNS will explain how standardized evidencing allows for rapid correlation and mitigation of abused domains by the appropriate party, how evidencing thresholds can be established and how online harms can be addressed via standardized evidence packages. *SPEAKER* *Jeffrey Bedser*, CEO of CleanDNS *HOST* *Lars Steffen*, Director International, eco – Association of the Internet Industry *LIVESTREAM http://livestream.com/internetsociety/topdns-evidencing <http://livestream.com/internetsociety/topdns-evidencing>* *PARTICIPATE VIA GOTOWEBINAR https://bit.ly/3pOF7Oj <https://bit.ly/3pOF7Oj>* *REAL TIME TEXT* (see *ISOC.LIVE <https://isoc.live/16719>*) *TWITTER #topDNS <https://bit.ly/3WTJqnn> #evidencing @eco_EN Jeffrey Bedser @BedserJ #CleanDNS #DNS* *MASTODON #topDNS <https://mastodon.social/tags/topDNS>* *SIMULCAST CHANNELS* *https://twitter.com/ISOC_Live <https://twitter.com/ISOC_Live>* *https://www.twitch.tv/isoclive <https://www.twitch.tv/isoclive>* *https://www.facebook.com/liveisoc/ <https://www.facebook.com/liveisoc/>* *ARCHIVE* *https://archive.org/details/topdns-evidencing <https://archive.org/details/topdns-evidencing>* *Permalink https://isoc.live/16719 <https://isoc.live/16719> * - -- -------------------------------------- Joly MacFie +12185659365 -------------------------------------- -

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Fw: CFP // The Post-API Conference: Social media data acquisition after Twitter
by Deen Freelon 13 Jul '23

13 Jul '23

Hi, just bumping... submission deadline is Mon Jul 17. Just enough time to get that last-minute Threads proposal in, and with 1-pg submission, why not? Also, travel funding is available for grad students and non-TT researchers. LMK if you have questions. Thx, //DEEN *********************** Deen Freelon, Ph.D. Allan Randall Freelon Sr. <https://twitter.com/dfreelon/status/1650870540725256194> Professor of Communication Annenberg School for Communication University of Pennsylvania Senior researcher, Center for Information, Technology, and Public Life (CITAP) <https://citap.unc.edu> dfreelon.org | github <https://github.com/dfreelon> | twitter <https://twitter.com/dfreelon> ------ Forwarded Message ------ >From "Deen Freelon" <dfreelon(a)gmail.com> To air-l(a)listserv.aoir.org Cc "Josephine Lukito" <jlukito(a)utexas.edu>; "Bree McEwan" <bree.mcewan(a)utoronto.ca>; "Josh Pasek" <jpasek(a)umich.edu> Date 6/1/2023 10:55:33 AM Subject CFP // The Post-API Conference: Social media data acquisition after Twitter The Post-API Conference: Social media data acquisition after Twitter Conference details Sunday, October 22, 2023 (the day after AOIR ends) Annenberg Public Policy Center 202 S 36th St, Philadelphia, PA 19104 8:30am - 4:30pm Organizing committee Deen Freelon, University of Pennsylvania Josephine Lukito, University of Texas at Austin Bree McEwan, University of Toronto Mississauga Josh Pasek, University of Michigan If you use social media data in your research, you’re going to want to listen up, because we’ve reached a crisis point. Digital data access has survived in an uncomfortable and unpredictable flux for years, but the most recent wave of policy changes may well be existential. Consider the following developments from the past 12 months: Elon Musk has eliminated free access to Twitter’s API, and the only academically useful paid tiers far exceed most researchers’ budgets. <https://www.theverge.com/2023/3/30/23662832/twitter-api-tiers-free-bot-nove…> Musk has also demanded that Decahose users delete all Twitter data acquired under previous agreements <https://inews.co.uk/news/twitter-researchers-delete-data-unless-pay-2364535>–whether this demand will be extended to Academic API users is currently unknown. Reddit has denied access to its API for Pushshift <https://www.reddit.com/r/modnews/comments/134tjpe/reddit_data_api_update_ch…>, a popular service used by researchers to collect Reddit data. Popular Reddit app Apollo is facing API charges of $1.7M per month <https://www.reddit.com/r/apolloapp/comments/13ws4w3/had_a_call_with_reddit_…> to continue operating. TikTok released a new API for researchers, which among other things requires them “to regularly refresh TikTok Research API Data at least every fifteen (15) days, and delete data that is not available from the TikTok Research API at the time of each refresh." <https://www.tiktok.com/legal/page/global/terms-of-service-research-api/en> Crowdtangle, Meta’s researcher tool for acquiring data from Facebook and Instagram, still exists as of this writing. But rumors of its imminent demise have been reported in multiple <https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-06-23/meta-pulls-support-for-t…>reputable <https://www.theverge.com/2022/6/23/23180357/meta-crowdtangle-shut-down-face…>outlets <https://www.abc.net.au/news/science/2022-08-16/facebook-crowdtangle-meta-di…>. If your research pipeline has been caught in the crossfire of these and similar developments, this one-day Post-API Conference is for you. We’re looking to convene some of the brightest minds working on these issues across disciplines to help identify the most viable solutions and alternatives. To encourage informal conversation between participants, the conference will adopt a nontraditional structure. Participants will be organized into four informal plenary panels–two in the morning and two in the afternoon–each of which will begin with a series of four 5-minute lightning talks. However, most of the time will be spent in large-scale moderated discussions between participants and panelists. Each of the four panels will focus on one of the following topics: Gaps. What tools/software/workflows/perspectives are missing from our research toolkits? How can we stay nimble and responsive to a constantly changing data ecosystem? Education. What tools/software/workflows/perspectives have you developed or used that you’d like to showcase? What broad types of education do people in this area need (e.g. does everyone need to learn to code)? Storage and access. How can we overcome challenges in post-acquisition data storage and access, especially across institutions? Ethics. What ethical considerations should we bear in mind as we plow forward? Would it be worth the effort to create a broad, interdisciplinary ethical framework? Submission Information Applicants interested in giving a lightning talk should submit a memo (no more than 1 page single spaced) describing their topic. We encourage participants to think broadly here: for example, you could discuss a project that failed because you could not gather the data, impending concerns about studying a particular platform, concerns regarding non-traditional data collection methods, or new data collection software you developed. In your proposal, please indicate which panel you feel best fits your talk. You may also apply to attend the conference without submitting a lightning talk proposal, but preference will be given to those who submit proposals. Submissions are due by Monday,July 17, 2023 at midnight Pacific Daylight Time/PDT (UTC -700). Please submit your proposal in MS Word or PDF format by clicking the following link: Post-API conference submission form <https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfvztMyqjUUMFrTQEyIOJyLwCM6zL9Yc3m…> Author teams for which multiple authors wish to attend the conference should designate one team member to submit their proposal.Every individual who wishes to attend must submit their own separate application. Please send any questions to post.api.conf(a)gmail.com. Travel Funding We are currently working on obtaining need-based travel funding for graduate students, non-tenure track faculty, and independent researchers. If you are interested in being considered for funding, please complete the relevant section of the application. Preference will be given to applicants who demonstrate a lack of institutional funds (e.g. via a link to your department’s travel policy or a letter from your chair, dean, or relevant administrative staff confirming your lack of travel funds). Stable link to CFP: https://tinyurl.com/post-api-conf-cfp Stable link to submission form: https://tinyurl.com/post-api-conf-submit -- Deen Freelon, Ph.D. Associate Professor | Hussman School of Journalism and Media Principal Researcher | Center for Information, Technology, and Public Life University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill http://dfreelon.org | @dfreelon <https://twitter.com/dfreelon> | https://github.com/dfreelon | https://citap.unc.edu/ Schedule an appointment with me <https://doodle.com/bp/deenfreelon/book-a-time>

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AoIR 2023 Volunteers
by Christina Pearl Walker 13 Jul '23

13 Jul '23

Hi Michelle, I was wondering if you were still looking for volunteers for AoIR 2023? I am presenting on one panel, but would be interested in volunteering to help with registration costs. Thank you in advance, Christina

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Deadline 15 August for extended abstracts to the workshop - The ‘Surveillant Assemblage’ In the Age of AI - 14 November 2023, Malmö, Sweden
by Marie Eneman 13 Jul '23

13 Jul '23

Dear all, We are very excited to announce a call for extended abstracts for the pre-conference workshop - The ‘Surveillant Assemblage’ In the Age of AI - 14 November 2023 in Malmö Sweden and deadline to submit extended abstract of 1000-1200 words (excluding the reference list) is 15 August. We will have a very interesting key speaker Professor Bernd Carsten Stahl, Professor of Critical Research in Technology at the School of Computer Science of the University of Nottingham and former Director of the Centre for Computing and Social Responsibility at De Montfort University, Leicester, UK. Link to the pre-conference workshop: https://wasp-hs.org/the-surveillant-assemblage-in-the-age-of-ai/ Link to the main conference - Living with AI – Critical Questions for the Social Sciences and Humanities 14-15 November in Malmö Sweden: https://wasp-hs.org/events/ai-for-humanity-and-society-2023/ Please feel free to contact me if you have any questions. There is no cost to participate in the workshop and conference, apart from possible travel and accommodation costs. WASP-HS is considering publishing a collection of papers from the workshops as a joint volume. We look forward your extended abstract! Organizing Committee: Marie Eneman, Mikael Gustavsson & Jan Ljungberg Department of Applied Information Technology University of Gothenburg, Sweden Best Wishes/Marie Marie Eneman (Docent/Associate Professor) University of Gothenburg Department of Applied IT 412 96 Gothenburg Switch Board: 0046 31 7860000 Mobile Phone: 0046 709758844 Note: I sometimes send emails outside of office hours for my convenience but please reply at your convenience during your usual working hours.

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