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WEBCAST MAR 2 – ICANN and Current Challenges on the Internet
by Joly MacFie 04 Mar '23

04 Mar '23

This is underway. It is in English. REAL TIME TEXT https://bit.ly/3KS7fs4 [image: isoc.live] <https://isoc.live/16383>On *March 2 2023* at *16:00-18:30 CET* (15:00-17:30 UTC) the *Internet Society Norway Chapter <https://isoc.no/>* (ISOC Norway), in association with the *Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers <https://icann.org/>* (ICANN), the *Norwegian Association for Law & IT <https://nfje.no/>*, and *iQ Global <https://iq.global/>*, hosts an evening workshop '*ICANN and Current Challenges on the Internet <https://isoc.no/news/evening-workshop-icann-and-current-challenges-on-the-i…>*' at REBEL, Oslo. *AGENDA* *Introduction to ICANN* *Christopher Mondini*, VP Stakeholder Engagement, Europe / MD Europe, ICANN *Cybersecurity and the EU's NIS2 Directive* *Lise Fuhr*, Director General, European Telecommunications Network Operators’ Association (ETNO) *Elena Plexida*, ICANN Vice President for Government and IGO Engagement, ICANN *Håkon Styri*, Senior adviser, The Norwegian National Security Authority (NSM) MOD: *Professor Tobias Mahler*, Norwegian Research Center for Computers and Law, University of Oslo *DNS Abuse* '*DNS abuse mitigation in the gTLD context*' *Siôn Lloyd*, Lead Security, Stability & Resiliency Specialist, ICANN '*There is something we do not like on the Interne*t' *Hilde Thunem*, Managing Director, Norid '*A toolbox for DNS Abuse monitoring and mitigation for Registries, Registrars, hosting companies and Internet users in general*' *Michael B. Halvorsen*, CEO, iQ Global MOD: *Sebastian Felix Schwemer*, Associate Professor/Head of Centre for Information and Innovation Law (CIIR), UCPH *LIVESTREAM http://livestream.com/internetsociety/isoc-no-icann <http://livestream.com/internetsociety/isoc-no-icann>* *PARTICIPATE VIA ZOOM https://bit.ly/3J1zPFQ <https://bit.ly/3J1zPFQ>* *REAL TIME TEXT* (see *ISOC.LIVE <https://isoc.live/16383>*) *TWITTER @ISOCNorway #ICANN <https://bit.ly/3J4z8LZ> @ICANN @iQGlobalAS #NJFE @NSM_no @ETNOAssociation @norid_no #cybersecurity #NIS2 #DNSAbuse* *MASTODON #icann <https://mastodon.social/tags/icann> @isocnorway@mastodon.social* *SIMULCASTS* *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/InternetSocietyNorwayChapter <https://www.facebook.com/InternetSocietyNorwayChapter>* (AI Captions) *ARCHIVE* *https://archive.org/details/isoc-no-icann <https://archive.org/details/isoc-no-icann>* * Permalink https://isoc.live/16383 <https://isoc.live/16383>* - -- -------------------------------------- Joly MacFie +12185659365 -------------------------------------- -

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WEBCAST FEB 23 – Centring Children’s Rights in the Debate about Encryption in the UK Online Safety Bill
by Joly MacFie 04 Mar '23

04 Mar '23

Coming up in a couple of hours. The 'new, groundbreaking report' mentioned can be found at https://home.crin.org/readlistenwatch/stories/privacy-and-protection. Real time text link is https://bit.ly/3lTPWw1 [image: isoc live] <https://isoc.live/16335>On *Thursday February 23rd 2023* at *08:00-09:00 EST* (13:00-14:00 UTC) the *Global Encryption Coalition <https://www.globalencryption.org/>* presents a webinar '*Centring Children’s Rights in the Debate about Encryption In the UK Online Safety Bill <https://www.eventbrite.com/e/centring-childrens-rights-in-the-debate-about-…>* '. In the contentious debate about protecting children and protecting the privacy and security of communications through encryption, the rights of children are too often neglected. A new, groundbreaking report puts the rights of children at the center of this debate. It suggests a path forward for policy makers who are grappling with these issues in legislative proposals, including the *Online Safety Bill <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Online_Safety_Bill>* pending in Parliament in the UK. In this webinar experts on children’s rights and privacy will explain this new approach and analyze the Online Safety Bill through the lens of children’s rights. *SPEAKERS* *Diana Gheorghiu*, Legal and Policy Officer, Child Rights International Network *Caroline Wilson Palow*, Legal Director and General Counsel, Privacy International *Jen Persson*, Director and Founder, Defend Digital Me *Jun Pang*, Policy and Campaigns Officer, Liberty *MODERATOR* *Greg Nojeim*, Steering Committee, Global Encryption Coalition *LIVESTREAM http://livestream.com/internetsociety/gec-children <http://livestream.com/internetsociety/gec-children>* *PARTICIPATE VIA ZOOM https://bit.ly/3SmRXwQ <https://bit.ly/3SmRXwQ>* *REAL TIME TEXT* (See *ISOC.LIVE <https://isoc.live/16335>*) *TWITTER #GlobalEncryption <https://bit.ly/globalencryption> #OnlineSafetyBill @GlobalEncrypt @GlobalPartnersD @cendemtech @InternetSociety @CRINwire @privacyint @defenddigitalme @libertyhq* *MASTODON #GlobalEncryption <https://mastodon.social/tags/globalencryption>* *SIMULCASTS* *https://www.pscp.tv/ISOC_Live/ <https://www.pscp.tv/ISOC_Live/>* *https://www.twitch.tv/isoclive <https://www.twitch.tv/isoclive>* *https://www.facebook.com/InternetSociety/live <https://www.facebook.com/InternetSociety/live>* (AI captions) *https://www.facebook.com/isocny/live* <https://www.facebook.com/isocny/live> (AI captions) *ARCHIVE* *https://archive.org/details/gec-children <https://archive.org/details/gec-children>* *Permalink https://isoc.live/16335/ <https://isoc.live/16335/>* -- -------------------------------------- Joly MacFie +12185659365 -------------------------------------- - -- -------------------------------------- Joly MacFie +12185659365 -------------------------------------- -

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CFP: Critical and Ethical Studies of Digital and Social Media minitrack of HICSS
by Nicholas Proferes 03 Mar '23

03 Mar '23

Hello all, Along with my colleagues Dr. Britt Paris and Dr. Amelia Acker, I invite you to submit to the HICSS 57 Digital Social Media minitrack panel on Critical and Ethical Studies of Digital and Social Media (paper deadline is June 15, 2023, with the conference set to take place January 3-6, 2024). More information about paper submission and the conference itself can be found at: https://hicss.hawaii.edu/ The minitrack focuses on two themes: a) research that critically interrogates how and when digital and social media reify or challenge existing power structures, and b) research that addresses applied ethical issues associated with doing research on digital and social media. The minitrack seeks both conceptual and empirical approaches to these two themes; early results and innovative methods are welcome. Potential paper topics could explore (but are not limited to) the following themes: ● studies of the values and worldviews embedded within specific hardware and software technologies; ● studies that explore the social responses to platforms from a critical or ethics-based perspective; ● studies that look at the political economies or labor conditions of digital content creation, digital work, and the consequences of sharing economy platforms; ● studies that explore the political community and civic participation in digital spaces; ● studies of the perpetuation of gender, race, ethno-nationalist, and faith-based hostility and bullying found in a range of online environments; ● studies that examine digital power relations between individuals, collectives, and societal institutions; ● case studies that grapple with the challenges and opportunities of unequal data access among actors, including users, researchers, and journalists; ● studies that explore the situated ethics of social media research in different organization contexts; ● studies of the environmental impact that digital and social media researchers have on the planet; ● studies that mobilize non-traditional or experimental research methods developed for the specificities of digital and social media; ● studies that explore issues around the intersections between ethics and privacy, such as quantitative, qualitative, and computational studies on digital and social media privacy ● studies that explore the privacy behavior of users and the mitigation of sensitive and private information on digital and social media platforms, or novel privacy solutions using explainable AI, transparent ML algorithms, or any interdisciplinary methods. We welcome all researchers to submit, and particularly encourage research contributions from graduate students, early career researchers, as well as collaborative teams. If you have questions about whether your research would be an acceptable contribution to this CFP, or to learn more about the HICSS conference, please reach out to Nicholas at nicholas.proferes(a)asu.edu Minitrack Co-Chairs: Nicholas Proferes | Arizona State University | nicholas.proferes(a)asu.edu Britt Paris | Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey | britt.paris(a)rutgers.edu Amelia Acker | University of Texas at Austin | aacker(a)ischool.utexas.edu Nicholas Proferes, PhD Assistant Professor School of Social and Behavioral Sciences New College of Interdisciplinary Arts and Sciences Arizona State University

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IEEE HPSR 2023: paper submission deadline [March 7, 2023, firm]
by Eirini Eleni Tsiropoulou 03 Mar '23

03 Mar '23

------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- IEEE International Conference on High Performance Switching and Routing Artificial Intelligent Next Generation (NextG) Integrated Communications and Computing Systems 5-7 June 2023 @ Albuquerque, New Mexico https://hpsr2023.ieee-hpsr.org/ https://twitter.com/ieeehpsr2023 *IEEE HPSR 2023 Organizing Committee is planning for an in-person conference and encourages the authors to participate physically; however, we understand that the pandemic situation is not over yet. Therefore, depending on the situation during the conference time, remote participation and online presentation may be allowed under special circumstances. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Next Generation (NextG) Integrated Communications and Computing Systems are envisioned to be characterized by resiliency, security, robustness, adaptability, and autonomy, while being supported by modern communication devices, computing solutions, networks, and systems. New networking technologies and intelligent techniques are needed to efficiently and effectively cope with the intricacy in traffic demands, as well as the heterogeneity of the services and applications requested by the end-users. In parallel, the advent of the Digital Continuum, i.e., device-to-edge-to-fog-to-Cloud continuum, promises to offer low-latency and ubiquitous computation to heterogeneous mobile and Internet of Things devices. A rich array of network services is expected to emerge seeking to realize greater synergy across the various component subsystems of the NextG Integrated Communications and Computing Systems. The main focus of the HPSR 2023 - the 24th edition of HPSR conference - will be to assess how breakthrough changes occurring to NextG Integrated Communications and Computing Systems are affecting areas related to switching and routing, and NextG networks and systems in general. We are soliciting original and thought-provoking works on big data, data analytics, cloud and edge services, and artificial intelligent techniques applied to networking and switching and routing. Works on autonomous networks, 5G/6G, Industry 4.0, social networks, network, cybersecurity, virtualization, and other advanced topics are also welcome. Papers describing original, previously unpublished research, experimental efforts, practical experiences, as well as visionary roadmaps, in all aspects of switching and routing, and NextG networks and systems are solicited. Research works on the following topics, but not limited to, are welcome for submission through the following symposia: Track A: NextG Integrated Communications and Computing Systems Symposium Application of data analytics to switching and routing Artificial intelligent routing and resource-allocation algorithms Behavior-aware human-centric NextG networks and systems Deep-learning technologies for NextG networks Digital Continuum -- device-to-edge-to-fog-to-Cloud continuum Dynamic bandwidth access and management for smart-factory/Industry 4.0 applications Experimental measurements and testbed implementations Game theory enabling resource allocation and routing High performance, programmable networks for the Internet of Things Integrated access and backhaul technologies Integrated caching, computation, and communications Positioning, Navigation, and Timing techniques Quality of Experience resulting from intelligent routing Quality of Service Optimization and resource allocation Reconfigurable Intelligent Surfaces-enabled switching and routing Switching architectures for NextG applications Traffic monitoring and modeling applied to switching and routing Traffic predictions in routing and resource assignment Track B: High-Performance High Functionality Architectures Symposium Address lookup algorithms, packet classification, scheduling, and dropping Applications of data science and analysis on high-performance networks Applications of GPU on network functions Efficient data structures for networking applications Future technologies for IoT High-speed packet processors ICT enabling technologies for e-health systems Multiprocessor networks Nano-communication networks Network management Network traffic characterization and measurements Optical switching and routing Power-aware switching, bridging, and routing protocols Routing and resource allocation for Tactile Internet Switching, bridging, and routing protocols whether wide-area or data centers Switching support to Extended reality (including virtual, augmented, and mixed reality) Traffic characterization and engineering Standardization activities of emerging high performance switching and routing Track C: Autonomous Networks Symposium Architectures of high-performance switches and routers, with a focus towards reconfigurable pipelines (P4, OpenFlow, etc.) Blockchain technologies Computation offloading Decentralized applications (DApps) Decentralized autonomous organizations (DAOs) Economics and pricing Energy harvesting, storage, recycling, wireless power transfer Green network monitoring and routing Intelligent and connected vehicular networks Medium access control, routing, and path selection Middleware services for wireless, mobile and multimedia networks Mobile social networks and routing Multi-access edge computing (MEC) Network and switch slicing Network performance for Human-Agent-Robot Teamwork (HART) Physical-layer aspects of switching and routing Software-defined networking Space-air-ground integrated networks (SAGIN) Track D: Network Security Symposium Adversarial machine learning Applied cryptography for cyber, information, and network security Attack prediction, detection, response, and prevention Authentication protocols and key management Blockchain security Cloud, data center, and distributed systems security Future Internet Architecture (FIA) security and privacy Intrusion detection with artificial intelligent techniques Malware detection and damage recovery Network security and privacy protection NextG networks and Internet security Security in SDN and networking slicing Security aspects of social networks Security in smart grid communications Security in virtualized network functions built or managed using software-defined networks Security and privacy in the Age of Information Trust management in networks through emerging technologies Virtual Private WANs Zero Trust Architecture Important Dates: Paper Submission Due: March 7, 2023 (firm deadline) Acceptance Notifications: April 3, 2023 Author Registration Deadline: April 24, 2023 Final Version Submission Due: May 1, 2023 General Chair Eirini Eleni Tsiropoulou, University of New Mexico, USA General Co-chair Abdelhamid Mellouk, L'Université Paris-Est Créteil, France TPC Co-chairs Dimitrios Koutsonikolas, Northeastern University, USA Carla Fabiana Chiasserini, Politecnico di Torino, Italy Gang Li, Deakin University, Australia ------------------------------------------------------------- Eirini Eleni Tsiropoulou Assistant Professor Computer Engineering Chair Director of Recruiting and Admissions Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering University of New Mexico Albuquerque, NM, 87131 Office: 326B Tel.: (505)-277-5501 Email: eirini(a)unm.edu<mailto:eirini@unm.edu> "Those who know, do. Those that understand, teach." ~ Aristotle

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Creators for Change ICA pre-conference | Registration open!
by Glatt,ZA (pgr) 03 Mar '23

03 Mar '23

Hello all, I’m delighted to announce, on behalf of David Craig, the ICA pre-conference ‘Creators for Change’ that we’re hosting on Wednesday 24th May. This pre-conference, in affiliation with the ICA Media Industry Studies Interest Group and Popular Media & Culture Division, will explore the ways that online creators harness platforms to catalyse social change, featuring a keynote from Brooke Erin Duffy (“Creators, Platforms, and the New Politics of Visibility”) and panel sessions with platform cultural producer researchers and creative practitioners. You can see the schedule and register to attend HERE: https://creators4change.com/ The term “creators for change” (C4C) refers broadly to all the individuals, groups, and movements concerned with social justice that harness platforms to creatively agitate and advocate for social change. With C4C, we foreground Michel de Certeau’s (1980) distinction between “strategies” and “tactics” when exploring the opportunities and costs of using platforms owned by the largest corporations in the world for the pursuit of social change. When probing how creators are making media with the goal of making history, pre-conference participants will intervene in the space between corporate structure and creative agency; between platform infrastructures, business models, and algorithms; between performance and box-ticking, and meaningful representation and the advancement of diversity, equity, inclusion, and access, that extends on and off camera, throughout corridors of corporate and legacy media power, and also within narratives in streaming and community formations across social media platforms. C4C brings together the research agendas of critical media industries, alternative and activist media, and platformisation. I hope to see some of you there! 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) 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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ESRC Digital Good Network launch & opportunities
by Helen Kennedy 03 Mar '23

03 Mar '23

Hello! The ESRC Digital Good Network <https://digitalgood.net/> is a new, £4 million research network focused on what a good digital society should look like and how we get there. It will build an interdisciplinary research community by: bringing disciplines and sectors together, supporting and funding interdisciplinary research, internships, fellowships; providing training; hosting events; and engaging policy, industry, practitioners, communities and civil society. On 7 March we will be launching the *Digital Good Research Fund* which will fund small-scale, pilot and scoping projects on how digital technologies can work for people and society. We invite proposals for projects that: - connect researchers with communities and organisations external to academic research to address challenges relating to the digital good, - explore how the digital good is defined and the terms we use to discuss it, - test methodological innovations for the digital good, - explore how to evaluate the digital good across different technologies, dimensions and perspectives. We will fund multiple projects in the range of £20,000 to £50,000. The deadline for applications is 28 April 2023. We will be holding an application sandpit event in late March, please sign up to our mailing list <http://eepurl.com/idhmon> if this would be of interest. We will also be opening applications for our first *Digital Good Network Summer School* for PhD students on 7 March. The summer school is a fully funded opportunity for PhD researchers to engage with a range of theoretical, methodological and professional development topics relating to the digital good. It will take place in Sheffield on 22 & 23 June 2023. Application details will be on our website <https://digitalgood.net/>, the deadline will be 24 March. As part of the launch of the research fund, we will be holding a series of *lunchtime events*: - Tues 7 March at 13:00, we ask our panel of experts, ‘What is the digital good?’ with Helen Kennedy, Gina Neff and Ros Williams. Sign up here <https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/digital-good-network-what-is-the-digital-goo…> . - Weds 8 March at 13:00, we will share more about the network and what we are looking for in funded projects. Sign <https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/digital-good-network-our-funding-opportuniti…> up here <https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/digital-good-network-our-funding-opportuniti…> . - Thurs 9 March at 13:00, we ask successful early career applicants what makes a good application. Sign up here <https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/digital-good-network-qa-with-successful-earl…>. Everyone is welcome, come along to find out more. To keep updated: Sign up to our mailing list: http://eepurl.com/idhmon Contact us: info(a)digitalgood.net Twitter: https://twitter.com/digitalgoodnet LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/digital-good-network/ Mastodon: https://mastodon.world/@digitalgoodnet Best wishes Helen -- Helen Kennedy, Director, ESRC Digital Good Network <https://digitalgood.net/>, @digitalgoodnet Professor of Digital Society, @hmtk, Living With Data <https://livingwithdata.org/>, she/her *LATEST PUBLICATION: * Generic visuals of Covid-19 in the news: Invoking banal belonging through symbolic reiteration <https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/13678779211061415>(2022, w/Giorgia Aiello, Chris W Anderson, Camilla Mørk Røstvik, *I**nternational Journal of Cultural Studies*.

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Open positions at the University of Oulu
by Rosanna Guadagno 02 Mar '23

02 Mar '23

HI all, I am writing to share links to open positions at the University of Oulu. I've been here 8 months and love the university and this country. My family does too. It has been a bit of an adjustment from the US but mostly in good ways! Please share: SENIOR RESEARCH FELLOW IN ETHICS IN ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE <https://oulunyliopisto.varbi.com/en/what:job/jobID:595263/type:job/where:4/…> TENURE TRACK ASSISTANT OR ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR OR FULL PROFESSOR IN TENURE IN AUGMENTED, MIXED, AND/OR VIRTUAL REALITY TECHNOLOGIES <https://oulunyliopisto.varbi.com/en/what:job/jobID:595110/type:job/where:4/…> TENURE TRACK ASSISTANT OR ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR IN LEARNING PROCESS DATA ANALYTICS <https://oulunyliopisto.varbi.com/en/what:job/jobID:595133/type:job/where:4/…> TENURE TRACK ASSISTANT OR ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR IN EMOTION AND COGNITION AI BASED ON COMPUTER VISION AND MACHINE LEARNING <https://oulunyliopisto.varbi.com/en/what:job/jobID:594947/type:job/where:4/…> Best, Rosanna --- Rosanna E. Guadagno, Ph.D. Associate Professor, Persuasive Information Systems University of Oulu Google Scholar Profile <https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=-_0SgvoAAAAJ&hl=en> cell/text: +358-41-492-6976 Twitter: @Rosannaeg <https://twitter.com/RosannaEG> Lab: OSIL <https://osilab.eu> Specialty Chief Editor in Media Psychology, Frontiers in Psychology <https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/psychology/sections/media-psychology> Associate Editor, Frontiers in Psychology, Personality and Social Psychology <https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/psychology/sections/personality-and-so…>

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15 March @ Concordia University, Evan Light, Obscured Terrain: Researching and Regulating State Surveillance in Canada
by Evan Light 02 Mar '23

02 Mar '23

Hi everybody - please come join us either in-person or virtually. 15 March 2023 @ the Milieux Institute, Concordia University, Montreal 12 noon - 13h30 (lunch time seminar) The scoop: In recent years, calls for “surveillance reform” have been voiced by activist and academics alike. What, however, are the surveillance capabilities of the Canadian state? How can we speak of reform and regulation if we do not know what it is we want to change? In this talk, Professor Evan Light (Glendon College, York University) discusses his efforts to document the surveillance capabilities of the Canadian state from municipal to national. Through filing hundreds of access-to-information requests and extensive legal research, the Deobfuscating State Surveillance in Canada project aims to build the foundation for changing the ways we are policed, building up activist, academic and journalistic research tools along the way. https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/lunch-time-seminar-with-evan-light-tickets-5272… -- -- Evan Light, PhD Associate Professor - Professeur agrégé Communications program - Programme de communications Glendon College, York University - Collège universitaire Glendon, Université York 2275 Bayview Ave. Toronto ON, Canada M4N 3M6 elight(a)glendon.yorku.ca +1 416.736.2100 ext: 88596

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Social Media + Society Special Issue CFP: Platform Economies in Digital Asia
by Yuan, Jingyan Elaine 01 Mar '23

01 Mar '23

Social Media + Society Special Issue Call For Paper Platform Economies in Digital Asia https://journals.sagepub.com/page/sms/collections/cfp Editors Elaine Jingyan Yuan, University of Illinois at Chicago Lin Zhang, University of New Hampshire Call The “platform turn” across many disciplines around 2010s thrusted to the forefront a new framework for understanding a distinct set of technological, economic, discursive practices of post-industrial digital economy. Early works in a fast-growing area of platform studies focused on the role of digital technology in organizing production and constructing (thereby distorting) the market in a growing range of social economic sectors. Silicon Valley platforms such as Facebook, Google, and Amazon often serve as the poster boys for how the platform exerts its power of algorithmic control, datafication, and financialization in shaping new organizational forms. The understanding of platforms as the new frontiers of the globalized digital economy has only gained further depth and nuances when situated outside the epicenter of Silicon Valley in other parts of the world, especially Asia, the world’s fastest growing region. Researchers, for example, traced the origins of the concept to the Japanese car industry and delineated an East Asian genealogy of platformization embedded in the historical trajectory towards post-Fordist flexible accumulation (Steinberg, 2019). The broad political economic approach to platform economy as a new form of social contract between the state, capital, and labor is being mapped out in, for instance, India and China, two economic powerhouses in the region. Indeed, empirical evidence from these countries informs us that, instead of being paradigmatically new, digital platforms often graft themselves onto existing regimes of production and exchange (e.g. Zhang, 2021) and reinvent local and traditional forms of the marketplace (e.g. Athique, 2019). Additionally, the thesis of infrastructuralization of platforms takes on concrete forms as governments in the region work with private platforms to provide infrastructures necessary for realizing their social projects, be it efficient governance, poverty reduction, or economic restructuring. Here capitalist tendencies of monopoly through network externalities and the impetus toward commodification of informal service markets and gray economies are likely subject to regulatory regimes serving different social imaginaries. The distinction between an infrastructure for public interests and a platform for private profits often manifests in the concrete interactions of state policy, corporate initiatives, and citizen participation in diverse local contexts (e.g. Mukherjee, 2019; Plantin & Punathambekar, 2019). Meanwhile, the informal labor regimes of the platforms prove to rely as much on the technical process of datafication and algorithmic control as on specific local dynamics, such as an energized urban middle-class consumers and impoverished rural economies after decades of economic liberalization in the region (e.g. Chen & Qiu, 2019; Yasih, 2022). The variegated local experiences, dynamism and heterogeneity of platform economies in Asia both complement and challenge Silicon Valley-centered narratives. They interrogate assumptions underpinning the mainstream platform studies while firmly situating “platform capitalism” in the extension and convergence of long-term tendencies in the history of global capitalism and in diverse local social and cultural contexts. At the same time, the engagement with the interdisciplinary conversation of platform studies carries the promise of re-energizing Asian studies to better grapple with some of its major challenges in Anglophone academia. Post-Cold-War Asian Studies has been driven by various agenda to shake off its orientalist and Cold War origins and their tenacious influences on how we produce knowledge about Asia (Schneider and Goto-Jones, 2015; Ludden, 1997). While much of the new Asian studies was folded into new discourses of globalization and post-colonial hybridity, others found ethical urgency in deploying “Asia as method,” calling for critical engagement with the “heterogenous Asian situation,” recognition of continued external and internal forces of colonialism and imperialism, and multiplication of “frames of references in our subjectivity and understanding” (Chen, 223; Anderson, 448). Commenting on what he calls the “new area studies,” South Asianist David Ludden observed that it constitutes some of “the most creative venues for studies of imperialism and imperial aspects of globalization,” as well as “a necessary counterweight to the decontextualizing force of universal globalism” (2003, p. 136) This “politics of imagining Asia” (Wang, 2011) has only become more contested recently with a surge in Anti-Asian sentiments during the Covid-19 pandemic and the intensification of a “new Cold War” centered around the US and China. Digital platforms and technologies are at the center of these new confrontations: from supply chain disruption and restructuring, inter-regional flows of capital, goods, technologies, and labor, new restrictions of foreign capital and businesses, to discursive battles over racism and xenophobia, and debates about different models of political governance and economic development. Indeed, Asia at the current conjuncture is fraught with tensions as the Post-Cold-War US-led global order is destabilized amid the contested rise of China and the growing interdependence of regional economies regardless of on-going US-China decoupling. Situated at the confluence of platform studies and Asian studies, this special issue intends to bring scholars working at the intersection of these two lines of scholarship together for productive dialogue. What could we gain by rethinking platform studies in and with Asia? How could our engagement with platforms help advance Asian studies at the new conjuncture? We invite contributors to ruminate on the following questions: Questions to think with * How do we reconcile the tension between exploring transnational and regional linkages and delineating local (regional, national, etc) path dependency? * How could we find a balance between close analysis of platform technological affordances/properties and thick description of locale/cultural/industry specificities and complexities? * How do we historicize and contextualize externally generated theories and problematizations rather than mechanically applying them in the study of “Asian cases,” thereby reinforcing a biased distinction between theory and its empirical application. * How could we de-provincialize platformization in Asia and/or provincialize existing theories of digital platforms produced based on Euro-American experiences to rethink platform studies in and with Asia without perpetuating existing binaries such as West vs. Asia? * How could we go beyond American-centrism and Sinocentrism or Sinophobia to re-imagine a more equitable and collaborative regional/global order? * In what ways does an engagement with digital platforms and digital tools contribute to methodological innovations in Asian studies? What are the epistemological implications of these new methods for our understanding of Asia? Potential Topics We welcome contributions in the form of either a full-length paper (8,000 words) or a short reflection essay (3-4,000 words), to address one or more of the following topics in relation to platforms/infrastructures * Histories and geopolitics * Transborder flows of technologies, ideas, people, capital, and goods * Local and indigenous knowledge as well as internal complexities, contradictions, heterogeneity and variegations * Racial, ethnic, gender, class/caste, and rural-urban inequalities, and national and regional imbalances * Decolonization and de-imperialization, legacies of colonialism, imperialism or neo-imperialism, both external and internal * The contested role of the state in governing platform economies, technoscientific nationalism * Tensions between development, equity, nationalism, and globalization * The impact of China’s contested rise and US-China decoupling on the region. * Exchanges and encounters between Asia and other Global South nations/regions (Africa, Latin America etc.) * Subject making and institutional formation * Comparative perspectives on digital technologies: continuities and ruptures from economic and social traditions Publication Timeline * June 1, 2023 Abstract due: * 800 to 1000-word for the full paper. The abstract should specify the issues or research questions to be discussed, the methodological or critical framework used, the expected findings and key concept(s) the paper engages with, and five key references. * 300 words for the commentary essay. It should outline a conceptual or methodological intervention that challenges existing scholarship on the topics * All abstracts should be sent to elainejyuan(a)gmail.com with the subject line “Social Media + Society special issue” * July 19, 2023 Notification of accepted abstracts * February 1, 2024. Full manuscript Due * Dec 31, 2024 Final revisions due (after two rounds of reviews) Elaine Jingyan Yuan Associate Professor & Director of Graduate Studies Department of Communication University of Illinois at Chicago The Web of Meaning: the Internet in a changing Chinese society (Toronto UP). 2022 NCA APAC Outstanding Book Award

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WEBCAST MAR 1 – IPNSIG Academy Talk 11: Space Policy, Perspective on IPN Governance – Scott Pace
by Joly MacFie 01 Mar '23

01 Mar '23

Whether the future of Interplanetary Networking governance will be multilateral or multistakeholder is yet to be determined. If anyone knows which way the (solar) wind is blowing it's Dr Pace. REAL TIME TEXT https://bit.ly/41Euc7O [image: isoc live] <https://isoc.live/16378>On *Wednesday March 1 2023* at *5pm-6pm EST* (22:00-23:00 UTC) the *Interplanetary Networking Special Interest Group <https://ipnsig.org/>* (IPNSIG) presents the 11th *IPNSIG Academy <https://ipnsig.org/ipnsig-academy-events/>* presentation. '*Space Policy, Perspective on IPN Governance <https://ipnsig.org/2023/02/24/speaker-moderator-bios-for-march-ipnsig-acade…>* '. When humans last visited the lunar surface, the internet did not exist and all communications and navigation functions were under the control of a single country (the United States). This presentation briefly covers primary governance issues, from numbering conventions and spectrum allocations, to time standards and domain definitions. The issues are broader than those covered by the Internet Engineering Task Force, and builders of the interplanetary internet will have to navigate among multiple organizations, including the United Nations, and Artemis Accord signatories. There are no fundamental barriers, but it is important to think about governance issues early so as to prioritize technical and political resources while avoiding delays and unnecessary frictions. *SPEAKER* *Dr. Scott Pace*, Director, *Space Policy Institute <https://ipnsig.org/ipnsig-academy-events/>* / Institute for International Science and Technology Policy / MA International Science and Technology Policy, Elliott School of International Affairs, George Washington University *MODERATOR* *Dr. Vint Cerf,* Vice President / Chief Internet Evangelist, Google *LIVESTREAM http://livestream.com/internetsociety/ipnsigacademy11 <http://livestream.com/internetsociety/ipnsigacademy11>* *PARTICIPATE VIA ZOOM https://bit.ly/3y7HbRP <https://bit.ly/3y7HbRP>* *REAL TIME TEXT* (see isoc.live <https://isoc.live/16378>) *TWITTER #IPNSIGacademy <https://bit.ly/3wkSJBq> #DTN #netgov @IPNSIG Scott Pace @Space_Policy @ElliottSchoolGW @vgcerf #space * *MASTODON #IPNSIGacademy <https://mastodon.social/tags/IPNSIGacademy> * *SIMULCASTS* *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) *ARCHIVE* *https://archive.org/details/ipnsigacademy11 <https://archive.org/details/ipnsigacademy11>* *Permalink https://isoc.live/16378 <https://isoc.live/16378>* -

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