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New book announcement: Full-Throttle Franchise
by Christopher John Olson 13 Feb '23

13 Feb '23

This new collection of essays examining the Fast & Furious franchise, edited by Joshua Gulam, Fraser Elliot, and Sarah Feinstein, is out now from Bloomsbury: https://www.bloomsbury.com/us/fullthrottle-franchise-9781501378904/ >From the publisher's website: Full-Throttle Franchise is the first book to offer an in-depth analysis of the Fast & Furious, bringing together a range of scholars to explore not only the style and themes of the franchise, but also its broader cultural impact and legacy. The collected essays establish the franchise's importance in cinematic and ideological terms, linking their discussions to wider issues of genre, representation, adaptation, and industry. Topics range from stardom and performance, focusing on key actors Vin Diesel and Dwayne Johnson, to the way in which Fast & Furious intersects with dominant ideas of racial, gender, and sexual identity. Aimed at both scholars and fans, Full-Throttle Franchise seeks to uncover just what has made Fast & Furious so enduringly popular, mapping its outrageous set pieces, ever-expanding universe, and growing cast of global megastars in terms of wider cultural and industrial forces. Table of Contents 1. Researching Fast & Furious in the franchise era of Hollywood Joshua Gulam (Liverpool Hope University, UK), Sarah Feinstein (University of Leeds, UK), and Fraser Elliott (University of Edinburgh, UK) 2. From Mission Impossible to Mission Insanity: A longitudinal analysis of action sequences in the Fast & Furious franchise Lennart Soberon (Ghent University, Belgium) 3. 'For those ten seconds, I'm free': Temporality, affect and spectacle in the Fast & Furious franchise Naja Later (Swinburne University, Australia) 4. A critical quantitative analysis of race and representation in the Fast Saga films Pete Jones (University of Melbourne, Australia) and Joshua Gulam (Liverpool Hope University, UK) 5. Vin Diesel as franchise auteur: Intersectional authorship and the cuddly hardbody in Los Bandeleros CarrieLynn D. Reinhard (Dominican University, USA) and Christopher J. Olson (University of Wisconsin, USA) 6. Fast, Furious, and Free of Sex: Dom, Brian, and hetero male affection Aaron Hunter (Trinity College Dublin, Ireland) 7. 'What's real is family': Maternal bodies, paternal labour and parenting roles in Fast & Furious Bianca Batti (Georgia Institute of Technology, USA) 8. 'I never want to lose a fight': Masculinity, machismo and high-octane action in the Fast & Furious franchise Rebecca Feasey (Bath Spa University, UK) 9. The on- and off-screen bromances of Fast & Furious Jackie Raphael (Curtin University, Australia) and Celia Lam (University of Nottingham in China) 10. 'It's so so so so so so important': China's role in shaping the Fast & Furious franchise Fraser Elliott (University of Edinburgh, UK) 11. Fun for all the family: Adapting the Fast & Furious as animated children's television Sam Summers (Middlesex University, UK) 12. 'Zero tolerance for candy asses': World Wrestling Entertainment and Fast & Furious as transmedia storytelling Robert Watts (University of Manchester, UK) Christopher John Olson PhD candidate: Media, Cinema, and Digital Studies University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee Office: Curtin 388 Email: olson429(a)uwm.edu<mailto:olson429@uwm.edu> Reviews Editor, The Popular Culture Studies Journal<http://mpcaaca.org/the-popular-culture-studies-journal/> Author/Co-Author/Co-Editor Normalizing Mental Illness and Neurodiversity in Entertainment Media<https://www.routledge.com/Normalizing-Mental-Illness-and-Neurodiversity-in-…> (Routledge, 2021) The Greatest Cult Television Shows of All Time<https://rowman.com/ISBN/9781538122556/The-Greatest-Cult-Television-Shows-of…> (Rowman & Littlefield, 2020) Convergent Wrestling<https://www.routledge.com/Convergent-Wrestling-Participatory-Culture-Transm…> (Routledge, 2019) 100 Greatest Cult Films<https://rowman.com/ISBN/9781442208223/100-Greatest-Cult-Films> (Rowman & Littlefield, 2018) Heroes, Heroines, and Everything in Between<https://rowman.com/ISBN/9781498539579/Heroes-Heroines-and-Everything-in-Bet…> (Lexington, 2017) Possessed Women, Haunted States<https://rowman.com/ISBN/9781498519083/Possessed-Women-Haunted-States-Cultur…> (Lexington, 2016) Making Sense of Cinema <https://www.bloomsbury.com/us/making-sense-of-cinema-9781501320217/> (Bloomsbury, 2016)

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Invitación: Deadline - CALL FOR CHAPTERS: Drone art and creative prac... vie 17 feb 2023 10:00 - 11:00 (ART) (air-l@listserv.aoir.org)
by sebagustorrez＠gmail.com 13 Feb '23

13 Feb '23

Deadline - CALL FOR CHAPTERS: Drone art and creative practices viernes 17 feb 2023 ⋅ 10:00 – 11:00 Hora estándar de Argentina - Buenos Aires Únete con Google Meet https://meet.google.com/gae-wiwi-sap?hs=224 *CALL FOR SHORT CHAPTERS* *Drones in Society: New Visual Aesthetics * *Palgrave PIVOT edited collection* We are securing additional chapters for the current book (*In progress) **Drones in Society: New Visual Aesthetics* due for publication in 2023. In the form of an edited collection, it will extend and innovate current theoretical understandings of and approaches to digital art, visual media, new technologies, digital culture and society. It will do so by exploring the implementation of drones from different socio-cultural perspectives. The content of this book is organised into four thematic areas entitled: 1) Drones in cinema, films and storytelling, 2) Drone aesthetics, sensing and mapping, 3) *Drone art and creative practices*, and 4) Drone uses and new practices. Currently, we have 10 accepted chapters in relation to these themes but are seeking to extend the... Organizador sebagustorrez(a)gmail.com sebagustorrez(a)gmail.com Responder por air-l(a)listserv.aoir.org y ver más detalles https://calendar.google.com/calendar/event?action=VIEW&eid=MnNicDNsZ2tycW81… Tu asistencia es opcional. ~~//~~ Invitación de Calendario de Google: https://calendar.google.com/calendar/ Recibiste este correo electrónico porque figuras entre los asistentes al evento. Si quieres dejar de recibir actualizaciones sobre este evento, recházalo. Si reenvías esta invitación, los destinatarios podrán enviar una respuesta al organizador, ser agregados a la lista de invitados, invitar a otras personas independientemente del estado de su propia invitación o modificar tu confirmación de asistencia. Más información https://support.google.com/calendar/answer/37135#forwarding

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Evento cancelado: Deadline - CALL FOR CHAPTERS: Drone art and creative prac... vie 17 feb 2023 10:00 - 11:00 (ART) (air-l@listserv.aoir.org)
by sebagustorrez＠gmail.com 13 Feb '23

13 Feb '23

Se canceló este evento. Deadline - CALL FOR CHAPTERS: Drone art and creative practices viernes 17 feb 2023 ⋅ 10:00 – 11:00 Hora estándar de Argentina - Buenos Aires Únete con Google Meet https://meet.google.com/gae-wiwi-sap?hs=224 *CALL FOR SHORT CHAPTERS* *Drones in Society: New Visual Aesthetics * *Palgrave PIVOT edited collection* We are securing additional chapters for the current book (*In progress) **Drones in Society: New Visual Aesthetics* due for publication in 2023. In the form of an edited collection, it will extend and innovate current theoretical understandings of and approaches to digital art, visual media, new technologies, digital culture and society. It will do so by exploring the implementation of drones from different socio-cultural perspectives. The content of this book is organised into four thematic areas entitled: 1) Drones in cinema, films and storytelling, 2) Drone aesthetics, sensing and mapping, 3) *Drone art and creative practices*, and 4) Drone uses and new practices. Currently, we have 10 accepted chapters in relation to these themes but are seeking to extend the... Organizador sebagustorrez(a)gmail.com sebagustorrez(a)gmail.com ~~//~~ Invitación de Calendario de Google: https://calendar.google.com/calendar/ Recibiste este correo electrónico porque figuras entre los asistentes al evento. Si quieres dejar de recibir actualizaciones sobre este evento, recházalo. Si reenvías esta invitación, los destinatarios podrán enviar una respuesta al organizador, ser agregados a la lista de invitados, invitar a otras personas independientemente del estado de su propia invitación o modificar tu confirmación de asistencia. Más información https://support.google.com/calendar/answer/37135#forwarding

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Symposium Social Justice and Tech Futures Germany
by Schelenz, Laura 13 Feb '23

13 Feb '23

📢 Save the date! 2 & 3 May in Tübingen, Germany! We are hosting a symposium on "Social Justice and Technological Futures" in person at the University of Tübingen and it will be amazing! 👉 www.uni-tuebingen.de/social-just-tech-future<http://www.uni-tuebingen.de/social-just-tech-future> <https://lnkd.in/eYKzSskq> We are bringing together the brightest minds who are at the same time truly dedicated to social justice and creating a better future with (or without) technology! Speakers are among others: Lecia Brooks, Christopher Lafayette, Fereshteh Forough, Sheena E., Koliwe Majama, Sofía Scasserra, Ivana Feldfeber. There are many more: www.uni-tuebingen.de/social-just-tech-future<http://www.uni-tuebingen.de/social-just-tech-future> Registration is free! You can register to attend the conference with me via email at laura.schelenz(a)uni-tuebingen.de<mailto:laura.schelenz@uni-tuebingen.de>. “Social justice theories are crucial instruments to meet the challenges of emerging technologies such as Artificial Intelligence. These challenges include algorithmic bias and discrimination, profit-driven innovation, and technology imaginaries around convenience, optimization, and neutrality. The works of Black feminists and critical race theorists as well as decolonial and Global South scholars and activists render visible the interlockings of societal, economic, cultural, and political injustice in the design, production, and distribution of technology. In thinking about the future and its daunting challenges, including the transformation of work, climate change, migration, and overall precarity, what should be the role of technology? What do technological futures look like from a social justice perspective? The Tübingen Symposium will bring together critiques of unsettling trajectories as well as visions for alternative pathways. We will question the canonical values in technology creation – scale, efficiency, and (big) data aggregation – while also exploring diverse and potentially competing social justice concepts. The Tübingen Symposium will give invited speakers the opportunity to connect and share views on the topics of the symposium. The audience will benefit from interactive panels including discussions of case studies of harmful contemporary or visionary alternative technologies. The topics cover science fiction, Afrofuturism, tech governance, policy and regulation, design approaches for social justice, digital activism, responsible research and innovation, decolonial approaches to technology development, and more!” Laura Schelenz Researcher International Center for Ethics in the Sciences and Humanities (IZEW) University of Tübingen Wilhelmstr. 19 72074 Tübingen Germany

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Request for publishing a book on Digital change applications
by Mergen 13 Feb '23

13 Feb '23

Dear Community members, I have completed a new trimester teaching Change Management for IT Management undergraduate students at Astana IT University, Kazakhstan. They are now in the process of submitting their final projects that mostly focus on various IT change management case studies (e.g. Google, IBM, Microsoft etc.) grounded on theoretical models and frameworks along with critical analysis. If there is an opportunity to publish a book, e.g. a collection of IT change management cases, let me know. Alternatively, I might try to publish some works at international research journals and some at local Kazakh journals. I believe publishing a book would be interesting. Thanks, and I look forward to hearing from you! Sincerely -- Regards, Mergen Dyussenov, *(full-time) Assistant Professor, Astana IT University (Astana)* *(part-time) Associate Professor, the Academy of Civil Aviation (Almaty)* *Former advisor to the Minister of culture and sports, Republic of Kazakhstan* PhD Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy (NUS 2019), Singapore Cell phone: +7 707 1539833 *Web of Science ResearcherID AAA-7692-2022* *Scopus ID: 57190342068* [image: image.png] [image: image.png]

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Deadline approaching: 3 x Full Professor Posts at Goldsmiths, University of London (including Critical Data / AI studies)
by Mirca Madianou 13 Feb '23

13 Feb '23

A reminder that the deadline for applications for the following three jobs is Friday 17 February 2023. The Department of Media, Communications and Cultural Studies at Goldsmiths, University of London is hiring three Full Professors (including one on Critical Data and AI studies - although all posts will be of interest to AoIR members). Professor of Media, Communications and Cultural Studies (Critical Data and AI Studies)<https://jobs.gold.ac.uk/internal/vacancy/professor-of-media-comms-and-cultu…> Professor of Media, Communications and Cultural Studies (Critical Race/Feminist Studies)<https://jobs.gold.ac.uk/internal/vacancy/professor-of-media-comms-and-cultu…> Professor of Media, Communications and Cultural Studies (Promotional Media)<https://jobs.gold.ac.uk/internal/vacancy/professor-of-media-communications-…> All the above are permanent positions: start date 1 September 2023 (or as soon as possible) Closing date for above applications: Friday 17 February 2023 Interview date: week beginning 27 March 2023 For further information including job descriptions, person specifications and who to contact for informal discussions about each role, please use the above links or visit https://jobs.gold.ac.uk/job-search.html Professor Mirca Madianou Department of Media, Communications and Cultural Studies Goldsmiths, University of London New Cross, London SE14 6NW UK email: m.madianou(a)gold.ac.uk<mailto:m.madianou@gold.ac.uk> @madianou @madianou@mastodon.social http://www.gold.ac.uk/media-communications/staff/madianou/

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WEBCAST FEB 13-15 – Effective Legal Frameworks for Building the Digital Economy
by Joly MacFie 13 Feb '23

13 Feb '23

Digital economy is a prime function of the Internet, and regional relationships are key. This 3 day workshop should set an example for all areas. [image: isoc live] <https://isoc.live/16312>On *Monday - Wednesday February 13-15 2023* the *Caribbean Telecommunications Union <https://ctu.int/>* (CTU), in collaboration with the *Commonwealth Secretariat <https://thecommonwealth.org/>*, will hold a training workshop '*Effective Legal Frameworks for Building the Digital Economy <https://bit.ly/40HfEUu>*' in Barbados. The *Commonwealth Connectivity Agenda <https://thecommonwealth.org/connectivity-agenda>* (CCA) was adopted in 2018 with with a view to boosting trade and investment links across the Commonwealth and raising intra-Commonwealth trade to US$2 trillion by 2030. This workshop has been organized in light of the growing importance of creating strong and resilient digital economies, and the correlative need to create an adequate enabling environment through the creation of effective and cohesive legal frameworks, *AGENDA https://bit.ly/40HfEUu <https://bit.ly/40HfEUu>* *DAY 1 - FEB 13 (AST = UTC-4)* *09:00 Opening Session* *Francola John*- Stakeholder Engagement and Event Management Specialist, CTU *Rodney Taylor*, Secretary-General, CTU *Paulo Kautoke*, Senior Director, Trade Oceans and Natural Resources Directorate, Commonwealth Secretariat *Hon. Dale Marshall Q.C. M.P,* Attorney General and Minister of Legal Affairs, Barbados *09:35 Measuring digital economies and creating an enabling regulatory environment for financial innovation* *Mark Wensley*, Digital Advisor to the UN Capital Development Fund *Helen Gradstein*, Regional Digital Finance Specialist, Caribbean *10:15 Intellectual Property* *Regan Asgarali*, Controller of Intellectual Property, Intellectual Property Office of Trinidad and Tobago *11:00 Fintech & Regulatory Sandboxing* *Felicity Jaforktuk*, Country Manager, Zeemoney, Barbados *John Outridge*, CEO, Trinidad & Tobago International Financial Centre *Warrick Ward*, CEO, Financial Services Commission, Barbados MOD: *Chris Southworth*, SG, International Chamber of Commerce, UK *13:00 Data Protection & Cross Border Data Flows* *Vashti Maharaj*-Adviser Digital Trade Policy, Commonwealth Connectivity Agenda (CCA) *13:35 Consumer Protection & Competition/Fair Trading Legislation to Bolster the Digital Economy* *Nievia Ramsundar*, Executive Director/CEO, CARICOM Competition Commission *14:30 Bridging the Digital Divide: Telecommunications Legislative Frameworks* *Annie Baldeo*, Executive Officer Policy, Planning and Economics, Telecommunications Authority of Trinidad and Tobago *15:15 The Role of Cybersecurity in Building Trust & Confidence in the Digital Economy* *Anselm Charles*, Information and Communications Technology Manager, CARICOM IMPACS *15:45 Wrap Up* *Rodney Taylor*, Secretary-General, CTU *DAY 2 - FEB 14 (AST = UTC-4)* *09:00 The Role of Standardization in Legal Frameworks for Building the Digital Economy* *Cindy Parokkil* – International Policy Manager – BSI *09:35 Bridging Borders: ICC Standards Toolkit for Cross-Border Paperless Trade* *Chris Southworth*, Secretary General, International Chamber of Commerce, UK *10:20 Bringing the Pieces Together, The Importance of Regional Harmonization* *Sofie Maddens*, Head of the Regulatory and Market Environment, ITU *11:00 Caribbean Harmonization* *Sofie Maddens*, Head of the Regulatory and Market Environment, ITU *Dr. Chantal Ononaiwu*, Director (Trade), CARICOM Single Market and Trade MOD: *Rodney Taylor,* Secretary-General, CTU *13:00 Role of Legal Harmonization In Bolstering The Digital Economy: The Contribution of the UNCITRAL Model Laws on Electronic Transferable Records and The Use and Cross-border Recognition of Identity Management and Trust Services* *Dr. Luca Castellani*, Legal Officer, Secretary of Working Group IV (Electronic Commerce), UN Commission on International Trade Law (UNCITRAL) *13:35 International Perspective: Trade Facilitation Agreements & International Cooperation* *Mohammed Owais Khan*, Adviser, Regulatory Framework, Commonwealth Connectivity Agenda, The Commonwealth Secretariat *14:30 Group Work Assignment* (no webcast) *DAY 3 - FEB 15 (AST = UTC-4)* *09:00 Review of Day 2 Findings and Key Takeaways* (no webcast) *09:15 Group Assignment Discussion* (no webcast) *11:00 Presentation by Groups + Q&A* *13:30 Partner Presentation(s)* *14:15 Key Workshop Takeaways and Next Steps* *15:00 Vote of Thanks and Close of Proceedings* *Kirk Haywood*, Head Commonwealth Connectivity Agenda, Trade Oceans and Natural Resources Directorate, The Commonwealth Secretariat *Rodney Taylor*, Secretary-General, Caribbean Telecommunications Union *LIVESTREAM http://livestream.com/internetsociety/ctu-cca-legal <http://livestream.com/internetsociety/ctu-cca-legal>* *PARTICIPATE VIA ZOOM https://bit.ly/412QD6D <https://bit.ly/412QD6D>* *REAL TIME TEXT* (see *ISOC.LIVE <https://isoc.live/>*) *TWITTER #ConnectivityAgenda <https://bit.ly/40NGLxf> @CTUnion @commonwealthsec #Caribbean* *MASTODON #ConnectivityAgenda <https://mastodon.social/tags/ConnectivityAgenda> #Caribbean* *SIMULCASTS* *https://bit.ly/connectivityagenda <https://bit.ly/connectivityagenda>* (CTU YouTube) *https://www.twitter.com/ISOC_Live/ <https://www.twitter.com/ISOC_Live/>* *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/CaribbeanTelecommunicationsUnion <https://www.facebook.com/CaribbeanTelecommunicationsUnion> *(AI Captions) *ARCHIVE* *https://archive.org/details/ctu-cca-legal <https://archive.org/details/ctu-cca-legal>* *Permalink https://isoc.live/16312 <https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0/%E2%80%8Bhttps://isoc.live/16312>* - -- -------------------------------------- Joly MacFie +12185659365 -------------------------------------- -

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PhD Candidate in Science, Technology, and Society Studies, with a focus on researching diversity and bias in AI
by Richterich, Annika (LK) 13 Feb '23

13 Feb '23

Dear All, Please help spread the word – or consider applying yourself: we offer a fully funded PhD position at Maastricht University’s Faculty of Arts & Social Sciences, in Science, Technology, and Society Studies. The PhD candidate will research diversity and bias in artificial intelligence. Deadline 16 March. More information here: https://www.academictransfer.com/en/323654/phd-candidate-in-science-technol… Kind regards, Annika Dr Annika Richterich Assistant Professor in Digital Culture Maastricht University Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences Grote Gracht 90-92 6221SZ Maastricht, NL I 💜 feminist hackerspaces<https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/17439884.2021.2018604> …tl;dr? Listen to my podcast episode on hacktivism<https://podcasts.apple.com/nl/podcast/episode-6-2022-annika-richterich-chao…> instead.

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Newspaper articles about AI in The Times in 1949
by Jill Walker Rettberg 11 Feb '23

11 Feb '23

I’m hoping somebody here subscribes to The Times (in the UK) and is willing to search The Times’s online archives for me to find two articles related to Alan Turing and AI that I am insanely curious to read, because they seem extremely pertinent to current debates about ChatGPT. Probably many insitutions in the UK would also subscribe to Gale (https://www.gale.com/intl/c/the-times-digital-archive) which also has The Times’s archives. The articles are: • "No mind for mechanical man", 10 June 1949, p. 2 This is apparently a report from a symposium where Jefferson claimed that a computer would need to create and feel art in order to be intelligent. • A response from Turing on June 11, 1949 I don’t know the title of this article but it was published the following day, and a journalist interviewed Turing about the previous day’s report. Turing said "I do not think you can even draw the line about sonnets, though the comparison is perhaps a little bit unfair because a sonnet written by a machine will be better appreciated by another machine." These two articles are cited in lots of articles online but I can’t find the originals anywhere. Even my university library has given up, which kind of shocks me. Surely old NEWSPAPERS shouldn’t be that hard to get? Did all the libraries throw out their microfiches and now The Times and Gale have monopolies? Like Getty digitized all those public domain images and film reels and locks them up behind paywalls? Shouldn’t a newspaper article published 73 years ago be in the public domain by now, anyway? I read about the newspaper articles in this paper, which I very much enjoyed: Gonçalves, Bernardo. 2022. “Can Machines Think? The Controversy That Led to the Turing Test.” __AI & SOCIETY__, January. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00146-021-01318-6. Gonçalves argues that Turing switched from designing programs to beat a human at chess to arguing that language models (like, uh, GPT) are a better test of “intelligence” because Jefferson said chess is just rule-based therefore easy, and you need ART to prove intelligence. Gonçalves also explains the Turing test’s weird gender framework by Turing addressing Jefferson’s idea that “another animal of the same species wanting to mate with a mechanical creature” would be a good test of “passing” as not mechanical. Thank you so much! Jill

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POST - Communication and Critical Disability Studies - Canada Research Chair, Tier 2 – Journalism and Communication - Ottawa, Canada
by Tracey P. Lauriault 10 Feb '23

10 Feb '23

Please circulate and if you qualify please apply! Professorial Ranks and Canada Research Chair, Tier 2 – Journalism and Communication (Communication and Critical Disability Studies) https://carleton.ca/deputyprovost/2023/assistant-associate-professor-and-ca… -- Tracey P. Lauriault Associate Professor, Critical Media and Big Data Communication and Media Studies School of Journalism and Communication https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1847-2738

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