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Vacancy: Assistant Professor Cultural AI & Computational Methods (1.0 FTE)
by Helmond, A. (Anne) 26 Apr '23

26 Apr '23

Hi everyone, We have a vacancy for an Assistant Professor Cultural AI & Computational Methods (1.0 FTE) at Utrecht University, the Netherlands, at the Department of Media and Culture Studies. We are looking for a new colleague specializing in cultural AI and computational methods. The candidate for this position combines computational skills with a critical perspective on how AI shapes transformations in media, art and culture (AI for culture) and how media, art and culture can shape AI (culture for AI), with special consideration for AI’s ethical implications. We invite applications from researchers with experience in teaching on critical data and algorithm studies, and with practical skills in machine learning practices, programming languages and recommender systems. The applicant has a background in media studies, communication studies or Digital Humanities. A successful candidate will contribute to interdisciplinary research and teaching within the Faculty of Humanities and beyond. Application deadline: 26 May 2023. More information: https://www.uu.nl/en/organisation/working-at-utrecht-university/jobs/assist…

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Creator Culture & Digital Ethnography reading lists
by Glatt,ZA (pgr) 26 Apr '23

26 Apr '23

Hi everyone! A lot of you already know about these already but for those of you who don’t, for the past three years I’ve curated and managed two open access reading lists that I hope you’ll find useful for your teaching and research: * Influencer Industries and Creator Culture reading list: https://t.co/Z8fbfmkojd * Digital Ethnography reading list (resource of The Digital Ethnography Collective): https://t.co/ggTw5zeVaR As is evidenced by the lovable eclecticism of their referencing styles, these reading lists are collaboratively produced! They’ve really taken on a life of their own and I’m so happy that people continue to use and grow them. If you have work that you’d like to share, then I invite you to please add it via the links at the top of each document. Many thanks and all the best, Zoe ________________________ Zoë Glatt www.zoeglatt.com<http://www.zoeglatt.com/> ESRC PhD Researcher in Media & Communications London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE) Incoming Postdoc: Microsoft’s Social Media Collective Co-Founder: The Digital Ethnography Collective @DigECollective<https://twitter.com/DigECollective> Twitter<https://twitter.com/ZoeGlatt> | YouTube channel<https://www.youtube.com/user/Zedstergal> | LSE bio<http://www.lse.ac.uk/media-and-communications/people/phd-researchers/zoe-gl…>

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Call for applications, PhD in Sociology and Methodology of Social Research - NASP (University of Milan - University of Turin)
by Alessandro Gandini 26 Apr '23

26 Apr '23

The SOMET (Sociology and Methodology of Social Research) PhD, jointly run by the University of Milan and the University of Turin, is now accepting applications for a.y 2023-24. Applicants will be admitted ONLY with a scholarship. There are 6 scholarships available for the upcoming cycle. SOMET is one of the leading sociological PhD Programmes in Italy. Entirely held in English, its courses, seminars and research activities are organised jointly by the University of Milan and the University of Turin. Its Faculty also includes sociologists from other Italian and international universities. The Ph.D. programme in Sociology has a longstanding tradition of excellence in Italy. It was one of the first to be established after the 1980 university reform and has provided a large number of outstanding academic sociologists who have gone on to make significant contributions to teaching and research in Italy and abroad. The aim of the programme is to provide structured and advanced training in theoretically-guided empirical research across a wide range of sociological fields and to introduce students to current international issues in both qualitative and quantitative social research. The course consists of a three-year programme made of 60 credits per year. The first year is devoted to basic training, in conjunction with the activities of the Faculty's interdisciplinary Graduate School in Social and Political Sciences. The second year is partly spent in a relevant university department abroad and is devoted to the initial drafting of the thesis. The third year is entirely spent completing the thesis. Graduates will be able to compete successfully for positions as researchers (in public and private universities and research centers), skilled professionals and consultants in sociology to public agencies and international organizations and institutions in Italy and elsewhere in Europe. Several of our recent graduates have obtained positions in important international universities (University of Amsterdam, King's College London, University of Essex, EmLyon Business school, Middlesex University, University of Birmingham). Since 2014-2015, the PhD programme in Sociology and Methodology of Social Research (SOMET) has been offering PhD positions for joint degrees with two LERU partner universities – *University of Amsterdam* and *Lund University*. From 2019-2020 a new partnership will be activated with *Vrije Universiteit Brussel*. Several joint-degrees are currently active also with several French Universities, among which the *Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales* (EHESS) in Paris. The research areas covered by the PhD Programme in Sociology and Methodology of Social Research (Universities of Milan and Turin) comprise: - Culture and consumption - Digital society and the media - Gender and sexuality - Migration studies, multicultural societies and citizenship - Science, technology, environment and urban studies - Social inequalities and socio-economic stratification - Social movements, collective action and civil society - Sociology of family - Sociology of health - Sociology of politics, public opinion and voting - Work and organizations Deadline: 5 May 2023 The Call for Applications is available here: https://www.unimi.it/en/education/postgraduate-and-continuing-education-pro… -- Alessandro Gandini Associate Professor of Sociology University of Milan, Department of Social and Political Sciences via Conservatorio 7, 20122 Milan @afrontiercity Zoom room: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/86220750830

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"James Carey & Media Studies" Colloquium--University of Illinois, Apr. 27-28
by Hay, James W 25 Apr '23

25 Apr '23

James Carey & Media Studies--The Past in the Present James Carey has had a profound impact on Communication & Media Studies, and in shaping the direction of Communication & Media Studies at the University of Illinois--as a professor, mentor, Dean of the College of Communication (now the College of Media), and Director of the Institute of Communications Research (ICR). He was, and remains, globally recognized for his wide-ranging contributions and interventions, including as an advocate for interdisciplinary studies of media and communications, as a historian of media, through his perspectives about Communication, Information, & Media Studies and their history, through his interests in the relation between Communication Studies, Media Studies, and Cultural Studies, through his attention to the technologies of communication and information, through his engagement with theories and histories of journalism, and as a contributor to theories and histories about the role of media in democratic forms of citizenship. To revisit and reconsider Carey’s impact on the field of Communication & Media Studies, and to highlight the recent launch of the James Carey Faculty Fellowship at the University of Illinois, the Institute of Communications Research is sponsoring a two-day colloquium on April 27 & 28. The event will take place at the University of Illinois. Room numbers are indicated on the attached flier. QR codes for accessing the event through Zoom are also included on the flier. For those who miss the event, we intend to make the recorded file available soon on the ICR website. * For more details on & flier for the Thursday panel, see: https://media.illinois.edu/node/1435 * For more details on & flier for the Friday panel, see: https://media.illinois.edu/node/1436 Also, Zoom addresses are as follows for each of the two parts of the event: For the Thursday meeting: https://illinois.zoom.us/j/82335808417?pwd=S094T3dFMTFXVTNva0ZPRkNoQUVnUT09 Meeting ID: 823 3580 8417 Password: 051933 For the Friday meeting: Join Zoom Meeting https://illinois.zoom.us/j/81496803120?pwd=Z0ZBdkJYbDVKRzY1c2d5VWZPdjN0UT09 Meeting ID: 814 9680 3120 Password: 109121 Questions about the event should be directed to Theresa Harris (tharris(a)illinois.edu) or Prof. James Hay (jameshay(a)illinois.edu) James Hay, Professor Institute of Communications Research & Department of Media & Cinema Studies Unit for Criticism & Interpretive Theory College of Media University of Illinois--Urbana-Champaign

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A Rosetta Stone for Erving Goffman: A Free Online Discussion, 5 May
by Park, David 24 Apr '23

24 Apr '23

Please join us for a free online discussion of Erving Goffman’s 1953 dissertation, “Communication Conduct in an Island Community”—newly published as an open access book. * A Rosetta Stone for Erving Goffman: An Online Discussion on Goffman’s Newly Published Dissertation (1953) * 5 May 2023, 15:00 UTC (11am EDT/4pm BST/5pm CET) [45 minutes] ## Registration link (free) https://muhlenberg.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_cgKzMgaGS7Ky5gwDrXIL-g ## Discussants: * Yves Winkin, *University of Liège* * Wendy Leeds-Hurwitz, *University of Wisconsin-Parkside* * Peter Lunt, *University of Leicester* * Greg Smith, *University of Salford* * Filipa Subtil, *Instituto Politécnico de Lisboa* ## Open access book https://www.mediastudies.press/communication-conduct-in-an-island-community ## More info https://www.mediastudies.press/goffman-discussion ## Description Join Yves Winkin, Wendy Leeds-Hurwitz, Peter Lunt, Greg Smith, and Filipa Subtil for a discussion of Erving Goffman’s 1953 dissertation, “Communication Conduct in an Island Community,” recently published as an open access book with a new introduction by Winkin. This free Zoom session, sponsored by mediastudies.press, marks the dissertation’s publication with a discussion of the work’s significance by Winkin and other leading Goffman scholars. Canadian-born Erving Goffman (1922–1982) was the twentieth century’s most important sociologist writing in English. His 1953 dissertation, based on fieldwork on a remote Scottish island, presents in embryonic form the full spread of Goffman’s thought. Framed as a “report on a study of conversational interaction,” the dissertation lingers on the modest talk of island “crofters.” It is trademark Goffman: ambitious, unconventional in form, and brimmed with big-picture insight. The thesis is that social order is made and re-made in communication—the “interaction order” he re-visited in a famous and final talk before his 1982 death. The dissertation is, as Winkin writes in the new introduction, the “Rosetta stone for his entire work.” It was here, in 360 dense pages, that Goffman revealed, quietly, his peerless sensitivity to the invisible wireframes of everyday life. mediastudies.press (https://mediastudies.press) is a scholar-led, nonprofit, no-fee open access publisher in the media, film, and communication studies fields. Questions? Email press(a)mediastudies.press<mailto:press@mediastudies.press>

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EN VIVO 24 ABR: Acceso digital: la agenda pendiente en clave de género y ruralidad
by Joly MacFie 24 Apr '23

24 Apr '23

El informe al que se hace referencia en la presentación - https://public.tableau.com/app/profile/da2i.reports/viz/DA2iRegionalReports… [image: ISOC LIVE] <https://isoc.live/16496>*El lunes 24 de abril* a las *14:00-16:00 ART* (17:00-19:00 UTC) el *Instituto Nacional de Tecnología Agropecuaria <https://inta.gob.ar/>* (INTA), junto con la *Universidad de Washington <http://tascha.uw.edu/>* (UW), *Internet Society (ISOC) Capítulo Argentina <http://www.isoc.org.ar/>*, y *Asuntos del Sur <https://asuntosdelsur.org/>* (ADS) presentan '*Acceso digital: la agenda pendiente en clave de género y ruralidad <https://inta.gob.ar/eventos/acceso-digital-la-agenda-pendiente-en-clave-de-…>*' en la sede del INTA en Buenos Aires. Este evento híbrido marca el *2023 Día Internacional de las Niñas en las Tecnologías de la Información y la Comunicación <https://www.itu.int/women-and-girls/girls-in-ict/es/>* (TIC) que convoca anualmente la Unión Internacional de las Telecomunicaciones (UIT). *DISERTANTE* *Dra. Maria Garrido*, Technology & Social Change Group (TASCHA), University of Washington. *LIVESTREAM http://livestream.com/internetsociety/acesso-digital <http://livestream.com/internetsociety/acesso-digital>* *PARTICIPAR VIA ZOOM https://bit.ly/accesogenero <https://bit.ly/accesogenero>* *TWITTER #GirlsinICT <https://bit.ly/3KUa7mw> #INTA @intaargentina @isoc_ar Maria Garrido @UW @AsuntosDelSur @ITU* *MASTODON #GirlsinICT <https://mastodon.social/tags/GirlsinICT>* *SIMULCASTS* *https://www.twitch.tv/isoclive <https://www.twitch.tv/isoclive>* *https://www.facebook.com/liveisoc/ <https://www.facebook.com/liveisoc/> (AI Captions)* *https://www.facebook.com/InternetSocietyAmericaLatinayCaribe <https://www.facebook.com/InternetSocietyAmericaLatinayCaribe>* Permalink https://isoc.live/16496 -- -------------------------------------- Joly MacFie +12185659365 -------------------------------------- -

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SIGCIS Mahoney Prize: Call for Nominations
by Kevin Driscoll 24 Apr '23

24 Apr '23

Dear AIR-L, Nominations are now open for the SIGCIS 2023 Mahoney Prize. The Mahoney Prize recognizes an outstanding article in the history of computing and information technology, broadly conceived. Ths prize is awarded by the Special Interest Group in Computers, Information, and Society (SIGCIS) and will be presented at the SIG’s annual meeting. The Mahoney Prize commemorates the late Princeton scholar Michael S. Mahoney, whose profound contributions to the history of computing came from his many articles and book chapters. The prize consists of a $500 award and a certificate. For the 2023 prize, articles published in the preceding three years (2020, 2021 and 2022) are eligible for nomination. We encourage self-nominations and do not require a cover letter. Please email a PDF of the article you would like to nominate to the 2023 Prize Committee by April 30, 2023. For committee email addresses and a list of previous winners, see: https://www.sigcis.org/mahoneyprize If you have any questions about the award or nomination process, please reply to me directly. Yours on behalf of the committee, Kevin Driscoll

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4S Open Panel: STS & Black Studies
by Seyi Olojo 24 Apr '23

24 Apr '23

Might be of interest to some! Please share within relevant networks!! ----------- *IYKYK: STS in Dialogue with Black Studies <https://4sonline.org/news_manager.php?page=31382>* Open Panel Description: Black Studies is a multidisciplinary academic discipline based on sociological, historical, critical, and literary exploration of the lived experiences of the African diaspora. Black Studies arose as the culmination of activist projects that threatened the university's privileged economic and cultural status by insisting that the material differences of race and class are foundational to knowledge production. Building on existing engagements between Black Studies and STS - Ruha Benjamin's formulation of carceral technoscience, for example-this call for submissions aims to continue the conversation between Black studies and STS. Rather than exploring what terms and concepts Black studies might contribute to STS, however, we aim to identify various points of theoretical departure and arrival that occur between these two disciplines. We invite scholars to consider questions such as these: What are the current political ambitions and commitments of STS? What are the political ambitions of Black Studies? Do they intersect? If so, how? Which STS methodologies might be employed to realize Black epistemologies? Additionally, how might STS practice its methods in such a manner as to pursue Black liberation? Submit HERE <https://www.4sonline.org/call_for_submissions.php>, Deadline: May 26, 2023 Panel Organizers: Dr. Roderic Crooks, Kinjal Dave, Lauren Chambers, Seyi Olojo We encourage you to consider submitting an abstract. If you have any questions, contact Seyi Olojo: oolojo(a)berkeley.edu. Best, Seyi -- *Seyi Olojo **(she/her) (hear my name <https://www.name-coach.com/seyi-olojo>)* PhD Student, School of Information <https://www.ischool.berkeley.edu/> University of California, Berkeley

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Call for proposals: Critical Meme Reader III: Breaking the meme
by Idil Galip 24 Apr '23

24 Apr '23

Hi everyone, I hope that you are all well. I would like to share the call for proposals for a reader that I am co-editing with Chloe Arkenbout from the Institute of Network Cultures in Amsterdam<https://networkcultures.org/>. We would like to invite thinkers and (meme) makers from a variety of disciplines and backgrounds to contribute manifestos, essays, interviews, fiction, poetry, artworks, memes and other yet-to-be-defined speculative interventions that aim to break and reassemble the ubiquitous concept of the meme. We are particularly interested in contributions from the Global South and marginalized communities and will prioritize radical perspectives. INC Reader #17 Critical Meme Reader III: Breaking the Meme edited by Chloë Arkenbout and Idil Galip. * Proposals/abstracts should be around 300-500 words. * Please send these to viralimageculture(a)networkcultures.org by the 15th of May 2023. * Final contributions should be 500-5000 words and submitted by the 4th of September 2023. * Contributors are welcome to join the conference in Amsterdam in April 2024 dedicated to the launch of the publication. For the complete call and submission details please visit: https://networkcultures.org/viralimageculture/2023/04/18/call-for-proposals… Thank you for reading this call. Dr İdil Galip Lecturer in New Media and Digital Culture University of Amsterdam The University of Edinburgh is a charitable body, registered in Scotland, with registration number SC005336. Is e buidheann carthannais a th' ann an Oilthigh Dhùn Èideann, clàraichte an Alba, àireamh clàraidh SC005336.

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Deadline approaching - Decentralized techno-social systems
by Julian Morgan 24 Apr '23

24 Apr '23

Internet Policy Review Glossary of Decentralised technosocial systems - Call for entries [25 April 2023] https://policyreview.info/node/1702 The glossary of decentralised technosocial systems launched in 2021 aimed to build a shared working vocabulary regarding specific aspects of decentralised techno-social systems among researchers in an interdisciplinary fashion. Indeed, a comprehensive understanding of the technical, economic, and political aspects of these types of technologies transcends traditional boundaries of scientific fields and demands an interdisciplinary approach that seeks to better conceptualise and critically evaluate specific mechanisms or processes inherent to distributed technologies. The objective of this new Call for contributions is to enable researchers and practitioners to engage with techno-social developments, relevant academic debates, and a normative appraisal of their ability and efficiency to resist the prevalent dynamics of centralisation and erosion of autonomy. In turn, the concept of decentralisation in the Glossary is understood to include the developments within the infrastructure and systems of information sharing and distribution of various types of content that seek to challenge and/or provide alternatives to the current organizational structures through distributed technologies. Additionally, the glossary aims to consolidate the current list of terms in a way that allows for broad engagement across academic communities to inform parallel research in different fields by broadening current theoretical frameworks through analysis of the processes, structures and societal outcomes of decentralisation. Important dates - 25 April 2023 - 200-word abstracts should be emailed to julian.morgan(a)hu-berlin.de - 10 May 2023 - Decisions will be communicated to the authors by - 10 July 2023 - Submission of full entries (between 1,000 and 2,000 words) - 1 October 2023 - Submission of the revised paper to the journal - December - Publication The initiative is led by The Blockchain and Society Policy Research Lab (University of Amsterdam), in collaboration with the P2P Models (Universidad Complutense de Madrid), Trust in Distributed Environments (Weizenbaum Institut, Berlin) and Blockchain Gov teams (Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Paris). -- Julian Morgan (He/Him) Humboldt-Univertity of Berlin -- Julian A. Morgan (He/Him) Ph.D. Researcher & Research Fellow Humboldt-University of Berlin Faculty of Law DFG Graduate School Dynamic Integration https://www.rewi.hu-berlin.de/en/lf/oe/rhp

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