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WEBCAST FEB 6 – Internet Fragmentation, Reconsidered w/ Andrew Sullivan
by Joly MacFie 06 Feb '23

06 Feb '23

Starts shortly. Host is ITS Chair Stephen Schmidt of TELUS Communications REAL TIME TEXT https://bit.ly/3X8RjnN [image: ISOC LIVE] <https://isoc.live/16296>On *Monday 6 February 2023* at *7:00-8:00 MST* (*14:00-15:00 UTC*) the *International Telecommunications Society <https://www.itsworld.org/>* presents a webinar '*Internet Fragmentation, Reconsidered <https://bit.ly/3JNeelz>*'. There is a lot of talk these days about "fragmenting" the Internet, and different parts of the world having "local internet". What does that mean? Should we be worried? Supportive? Dismayed? What happens to us if the Internet fragments into different parts? Is there anything we can or ought to do about Internet fragmentation? *Andrew Sullivan <https://www.internetsociety.org/author/sullivan/>*, President and CEO of the Internet Society, will explore these questions, and open a conversation among attendees about the dangers facing the Internet today. *LIVESTREAM http://livestream.com/internetsociety/its-fragmentation <http://livestream.com/internetsociety/its-fragmentation>* *PARTICIPATE VIA ZOOM https://bit.ly/3JNeelz <https://bit.ly/3JNeelz>* *REAL TIME TEXT (see ISOC.LIVE <https://isoc.live/16296>)* *TWITTER #fragmentation <https://bit.ly/3YsEs0O> @IntTlcSoc @SullivanISOC @InternetSociety @TELUS @iveybusiness* *MASTODON #fragmentation <https://mastodon.social/tags/fragmentation> @internetsociety@mastodon.cloud* *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/its-fragmentation <https://archive.org/details/its-fragmentation>* *SPONSORS* *Ivey Business School, Western University <https://www.ivey.uwo.ca/>* | *TELUS Communications <https://www.telus.com/>* Permalink https://isoc.live/16296 - -- -------------------------------------- Joly MacFie +12185659365 -------------------------------------- -

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29th International European Conference on Parallel and Distributed Computing (Euro-Par 2023): Last Call for Papers
by Announce Announcements 06 Feb '23

06 Feb '23

*** Last Call for Papers *** 29th International European Conference on Parallel and Distributed Computing (Euro-Par 2023) August 28 - September 1, 2023, St. Raphael Resort, Limassol, Cyprus http://2023.euro-par.org *** Recipient of the Euro-Par Achievement Award 2023: Professor Enrique S. Quintana Ortí *** SCOPE Euro-Par is the prime European conference covering all aspects of parallel and distributed processing, ranging from theory to practice, from small to the largest parallel and distributed systems and infrastructures, from fundamental computational problems to applications, from architecture, compiler, language and interface design and implementation, to tools, support infrastructures, and application performance aspects. The main audience of Euro-Par are researchers in academic institutions, government laboratories and industrial organisations. Euro-Par aims to be the primary choice of such professionals for the presentation of new results in their specific areas. Euro-Par provides an excellent forum for focused technical discussion, as well as interaction with a large, broad and diverse audience. In addition, Euro-Par conferences provide a platform for a number of accompanying, technical workshops for smaller and emerging communities. VENUE AND ORGANIZATION Euro-Par 2023 will be held as a primarily in-person event (although remote presentation and participation will be supported, if needed). The venue place is the 5* St. Raphael Resort, in Limassol, Cyprus. Euro-Par 2023 is organised by the Department of Computer Science of the University of Cyprus. The General Chair is George A. Papadopoulos and the Program Chairs are Marios D. Dikaiakos and Rizos Sakellariou. The Organizing Committee is listed on the web site: https://2023.euro-par.org/conference/committees/ . SUBMISSION GUIDELINES The Euro-Par 2023 proceedings will be published by Springer in the LNCS series. • Papers must be in PDF format and should not exceed 14 pages (including references) • Papers must be formatted in the Springer LNCS style: https://www.springer.com/gp/computer-science/lncs/conference-proceedings-gu… • Papers that don’t meet these requirements might be rejected without a review • Contributions submitted elsewhere or currently under review will not be considered • All submitted papers will be checked for originality by Springer iThenticate; papers which show an insufficient originality might be rejected without a review • Paper submissions are made through EasyChair using the link: https://easychair.org/my/conference?conf=europar2023 IMPORTANT DATES • Abstract Submission: February 24, 2023 (AoE) • Paper Submission: March 3, 2023 (AoE) • Author Notification: April 30, 2023 • Camera-Ready Papers: June 2, 2023 • Author Registration: June 2, 2023 ARTEFACTS Authors of accepted papers will be invited to submit an artefact that will be evaluated separately. Accepted Artefacts will be considered for the Euro-Par 2023 Artefact Special Issue in the Journal of Open Source Software (https://joss.theoj.org) TOPICS We invite submissions of high-quality, novel and original research results in areas of parallel and distributed computing covered by the following list of tracks. More information on the tracks can be found on the conference web page: https://2023.euro-par.org/submission-of-papers/call-for-papers/ Track 1. Programming, Compilers and Performance Chairs: • Biagio Cosenza, University of Salerno, Italy • Thomas Fahringer, University of Innsbruck, Austria Track 2. Scheduling, Resource Management, Cloud, Edge Computing, and Workflows Chairs: • Marco Aldinucci, University of Torino, Italy • Ivona Brandic, Vienna University of Technology, Austria Track 3. Architectures and Accelerators Chairs: • Jesus Carretero, University Carlos III of Madrid, Spain • Leonel Sousa, University of Lisbon, Portugal Track 4. Data Analytics, AI, and Computational Science Chairs: • Maciej Malawski, AGH University of Science and Technology, Poland • Radu Prodan, University of Klagenfurt, Austria Track 5. Theory and Algorithms Chairs: • Chryssis Georgiou, University of Cyprus, Cyprus • Christos Kaklamanis, University of Patras, Greece Track 6. Multidisciplinary, Domain-specific and Applied Parallel and Distributed Computing Chairs: • Francisco F. Rivera, University of Santiago de Compostela, Spain • Domenico Talia, University of Calabria, Italy

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Online interviews with participants in China
by Cristina Costa 06 Feb '23

06 Feb '23

Dear fellow researchers, I hope this email finds you well. I am emailing you because I am working with a PhD researcher who is preparing to conduct her field work. She is aiming to conduct BNIM interviews with participants' in China, but was hoping to do them online. Apparently, Zoom is no longer accessible in China without VPN. Do you know of any video/audio call software that works in China and is GDPR compliant? best wishes, Cristina *Dr Cristina Costa* Associate Professor Co-Director (MA in Research Methods) in the *Durham Research Methods Centre* <https://www.dur.ac.uk/researchmethodscentre/> SoE Student Recruitment, Marketing & Internationalisation Coordinator Durham University School of Education Office: Ed 213a Leazes Road Durham DH1 1TA Email: cristina.costa(a)durham.ac.uk Twitter: @cristinacost Website: www.socialtheoryapplied.com Staff Profile <https://www.dur.ac.uk/directory/profile/?id=18517>

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[Deadline Extended] CySoc 2023 Workshop at the ACM Web Conference
by Ugur Kursuncu 06 Feb '23

06 Feb '23

Deadline: February 6, 2023, February 13, 2023 Website: https://cy-soc.github.io/2023/ <https://cy-soc.github.io/2023/> Submissions: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=thewebconf2023iwpd <https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=thewebconf2023iwpd> The International Workshop on Cyber Social Threats, CySoc 2023, will be held in conjunction with the ACM Web Conference (formerly WWW Conference) in Austin, Texas, USA on April 30 2023. The workshop will be held in a hybrid format (both in person in Austin, Texas and online). The accepted papers will be presented in-person at the CySoc 2023 workshop and published as in the companion volume of the conference proceedings. This workshop will bring together researchers and practitioners in computer and social sciences from both academia and industry to exchange ideas on understanding the multi-faceted social, psychological, cultural, emotional, communicative, and, linguistic aspects of harmful content while leading the discussion on building novel computational methods to reliably detect, derive meaning from, interpret, understand, and counter them. We welcome papers that employ quantitative and/or qualitative, analytical, and theoretical approaches to examine a diverse range of issues related to harmful online communications. Papers that discuss resources, data, or tools are also welcome as either demos or short/regular talks. This year we offer a spotlight topic on “Information Integrity During Crises” and special consideration will be given to submissions that focus on this timely and important topic. Topics for research and discussions include (but not limited to): Spotlight topic: Information Integrity During Crises. Online extremism Harassment and cyberbullying Hate speech Misinformation and disinformation (e.g., epidemics of fake news, images, and videos, during a disaster, health issues and elections) Gender-based violence Human trafficking Illicit drug trafficking Mental health implications of social media Ethical considerations on privacy-preserving social media analytics Emotional and psychological support Trust relationship and community dynamics Relationship of the social web and mainstream news media Cultural implications of social web usage Influencer identification and community detection for movements For more information, you may visit our website: https://cy-soc.github.io/2023/ <https://cy-soc.github.io/2023/> Co-organizers: Ugur Kursuncu, Georgia State University, GA, USA. Kaicheng Yang, Indiana University, IN, USA. Matthew DeVerna, Indiana University, IN, USA. Francesco Pierri, Politecnico di Milano, Milano, Italy. Yelena Mejova, ISI Foundation, Turin, Italy. Jeremy Blackburn, The State University of New York at Binghamton, NY, USA. — Ugur Kursuncu, Ph.D. Assistant Professor Georgia State University

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Twitter API change announcement - mutual aid and response letter invitation
by Libby Hemphill 05 Feb '23

05 Feb '23

Hi y'all, Here's a note from the Coalition for Independent Technology Research <https://independenttechresearch.org/about-us/>: Last week, the Twitter Development team announced dramatic restrictions <https://twitter.com/TwitterDev/status/1621026986784337922> to API access. These changes will disrupt critical projects from thousands of journalists, academics, and civil society actors worldwide who study some of the most important issues impacting our societies today. Is your work affected by this? Even if you are not directly impacted, will you stand up for the people who use this vital information resource for the common good? The Coalition for Independent Technology Research <https://independenttechresearch.org/about-us/> and allies have drafted *an open letter <https://docs.google.com/document/d/1AtzYcBaFvcx8-EHGXpPx0qzc5lOAaw95eqUZHi1…>* that will be under press embargo until we publish it at *11am ET on Monday*. We are also *organizing mutual aid for threatened research*. We invite you to: - To receive/give mutual aid, please complete our intake form <https://forms.gle/jH4V6LhfBn38eEhJA>. You do not need to be a letter-signer or coalition member to receive support - Sign the letter <https://forms.gle/jH4V6LhfBn38eEhJA> for yourself and/or your organization (read the letter here <https://docs.google.com/document/d/1AtzYcBaFvcx8-EHGXpPx0qzc5lOAaw95eqUZHi1…> ) Please do not share the letter or invitation publicly on social media before 11am ET on Monday, but do *please circulate this privately* to communities that would sign, that need help, or can offer it. If you have questions, please direct them to Bit Meehan <bit.coalition(a)gmail.com>. - Libby -- Libby Hemphill pronouns: she/her/hers Director, Resource Center for Minority Data <http://www.icpsr.umich.edu/RCMD>, ICPSR <http://www.icpsr.umich.edu/icpsrweb/> Director, Social Media Archive <http://socialmediaarchive.org/>, ICPSR <http://www.icpsr.umich.edu/icpsrweb/> Associate Director, Center for Social Media Responsibility <http://csmr.umich.edu/> Research Associate Professor, Institute for Social Research <http://home.isr.umich.edu/> Associate Professor, School of Information <https://www.si.umich.edu/> University of Michigan

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Sample Syllabus for "Intro to Digital Humanities" Course Proposal?
by Cristina Migliaccio 04 Feb '23

04 Feb '23

Dear Colleagues: I am proposing an "Intro to DH" course in our small, liberal arts college and hoping some of you might share your own as models I might refer to. Thanks in advance for your help! Cristina

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ISP 2023 Call for participation
by Jo PIERSON 03 Feb '23

03 Feb '23

Dear all, Please find below the Call for Participation of our 5th Interdisciplinary Summer school on Privacy (ISP 2023<https://isp.cs.ru.nl/>) from June 25-30, Berg en Dal / Nijmegen (The Netherlands). Thanks in advance for spreading the word. Also to be found on Linked-in<https://www.linkedin.com/posts/jaap-henk-hoepman_the-5th-interdisciplinary-…> and Twitter<https://twitter.com/xotoxot/status/1618140523470131200>. Best regards, Jo Pierson, PhD Full Professor of Responsible Digitalisation Hasselt University School of Social Sciences Professor Media & Communication Studies Vrije Universiteit Brussel imec-SMIT - Studies on Media, Innovation & Technology =========================================================================== Call for Participation 5th Interdisciplinary Summer school on Privacy (ISP 2023) June 25-30, 2023, Berg en Dal / Nijmegen (The Netherlands) Theme: "Assessing and mitigating privacy risks in the Internet of Things" https://isp.cs.ru.nl<https://isp.cs.ru.nl/> ============================================================================ We invite doctoral researchers working on privacy, data protection, security, surveillance and ethics to participate in the fifth Interdisciplinary Summer school on Privacy (ISP 2023) to be held from September June 25-30, 2023 in Berg en Dal (The Netherlands), close to Radboud University (Nijmegen). # Teachers We are extremely happy to offer the following team of teachers for this year's summerschool. - Aphra Kerr (Maynooth University, Ireland) - Didem Ozkul (Bilkent University, Ankara, Turkey) - Michael Veale (UCL, London, UK) - Bart Preneel (KU Leuven, Belgium) - Ana-Maria Cretu (Imperial College, London, UK) - Marc Langheinrich (Università della Svizzera italiana (USI), Lugano, Switzerland) - James Stewart (University of Edinburgh, UK) (with two more teachers to be announced soon) # Background of the summerschool The interdisciplinary summerschool on privacy (ISP) provides an intensive one week academic post-graduate programme teaching privacy from a technical, legal and social perspective. The goal of the summerschool is to provide students with a solid background in the theory of privacy construction, modelling and protection from these three different perspectives. It also aims to help them to establish a first international network with peers and senior academics across these disparate disciplines. Participants of the summerschool are awarded two ECTS (study credits) and receive a certificate of attendance issued by the Radboud University attesting this. For more information [click here<https://isp.cs.ru.nl/>] # Theme: Assessing and mitigating privacy risks in the Internet of Things As a concept, the Internet of Things is perhaps already an anachronism. Already back in 1991 Marc Weiser, in his famous paper on the Computer for the 21st Century wrote: The most profound technologies are those that disappear. They weave themselves into the fabric of everyday life until they are indistinguishable from it. 'Ubiquitous computing' (ubicomp) or the disappearance of the infrastructure in the background, as predicted by Mark Weiser (1991), through the ubiquitous presence of sensing IoT devices (Dourish & Bell, 2011), is not fulfilled. And yet here we are, well into the 21st century, and the internet of things is getting real: cars are networked supercomputers on wheels, we wear smart watches or fitness trackers, even our fridges are smart and connected, and the virtual and real world are starting to converge as the technology is indeed disappearing and mediating our lives. These technological changes in ubicomp and autonomous systems also fit in with recent scholarly thinking in social sciences. According to Deuze (2012) the key challenge of media and communication studies in the ‘media life’ of the 21st century is, or will be, the disappearance of media, where people increasingly are living ‘in’ media instead of living ‘with’ media. However one of the first ways to conceptualise the merger between media technology and the everyday life can be found with Roger Silverstone, Eric Hirsch and David Morley (1990) proposing the notion of ‘domestication’. Through that process the domesticated digital media technologies disappear into the daily practices. They are not perceived as (savage) technologies anymore but offer ‘ontological security’ as natural extensions of personal interactions and social communication (Giddens, 1990). This gradual shift of people becoming one with their digital environment has later also been highlighted by other scholars in social sciences, through notions like ‘media life’ (Deuze, 2012), ‘mediatization’ (Couldry and Hepp, 2017), the ‘digital condition’ (Stalder, 2018), and ‘liquid surveillance’ (Bauman and Lyon, 2013). A key socio-technical question is then how trust in and dependence of these ubiquitous platforms for mediated communication is configured and the kind of consequences this has for user (dis)empowerment and public values (Pierson, 2021). This steady technology push, perhaps partly made invisible by new hypes like the metaverse, does raise fundamental privacy and autonomy issuers, that will be explored in the summerschool. # Format The summer school is interdisciplinary, involving the following disciplines: computer science, law and social sciences / media and communication studies. The school lasts one week, with nine scheduled lectures (five morning lectures and four afternoon lectures) of two hours each. These nine lectures are equally distributed over the three disciplines, with top-notch lectures from each of the disciplines. The lectures will lay the grounds for an interdisciplinary conversation among students and lecturers coming from a variety of backgrounds. The remaining time is used for hands on working group sessions to study practical cases. The cases will be offered by businesses, governments, government related institutions (like DPAs) and civil society/NGOs. Groups of six students, ideally two from each discipline, are formed to tackle the cases and report back on their results in a plenary session. The school is held in a location that encourages dialogue and social interactions between both the staff and the students, both during lectures and in the evening. Staff (i.e. lecturers) are encouraged to stay at the summer school for the whole length of the school. The summer school is foremost aimed at PhD students from computer science, law and social sciences. # Practical Information The summer school is held at Hotel Erica<http://www.hotelerica.nl/>, Berg en Dal, The Netherlands. The hotel is well equipped and ideally situated in the woods close to Nijmegen, and easily reached by bus from Nijmegen train station. Nijmegen has direct train connections with Schiphol, the Dutch national airport. ## Registration Visit the following web page to register: https://isp.cs.ru.nl/2023/registration.php We offer the following options. - Single room: € 1,229 (late: € 1,429) - Shared room: € 899 (late: € 1,099) - No room (lunch/diner/school only): € 635 (late: € 835) (for local people who do not need accommodation) Payment by credit card accepted. Early registration fees expire on May 1. Admission after May 1 subject to availability. Registration may close earlier if the maximum number of participants (40) is reached. ## Stipends A limited number of stipends is available. To see whether you would qualify for a stipend, and to start the application process, see https://isp.cs.ru.nl/2023/stipends.php ## Contact For further information please consult our website https://isp.cs.ru.nl<https://isp.cs.ru.nl/> or contact us by email at dis-secr(a)cs.ru.nl<mailto:dis-secr@cs.ru.nl> ## Organiser - Jaap-Henk Hoepman (Radboud University /PI.lab) ## Steering Committee - Seda Gürses (TU Delft / KU Leuven) - Eleni Kosta (TILT-Tilburg University / Privacy & Identity Lab) - Jo Pierson (Hasselt University / Vrije Universiteit Brussel) - Thorsten Strufe (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology / TU Dresden) ## Supported by - PI.lab - The Privacy & Identity Lab. - iHub / Radboud University

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ISOC Foundation 2022 Research Grantees
by Joly MacFie 03 Feb '23

03 Feb '23

https://www.isocfoundation.org/2023/02/announcing-our-2022-research-grantee… We’re thrilled to announce the diverse group of researchers who joined the Internet Society Foundation’s Research Program <https://www.isocfoundation.org/2022/01/third-round-of-grant-funding-awarded…> in 2022. Established in 2020, this program awards funding to researchers around the world who are examining the future and sustainability of the Internet Representing 18 organizations and 12 countries, these researchers are collectively generating solutions today to meet the Internet challenges of tomorrow. Through these grants, the Internet Society Foundation continues to advance new research on the future of the Internet, research that will influence policy and industry decisions and ultimately help shape a more equitable and sustainable future for the Internet and the people it serves. Learn more about each awardee in the list below. Projects are grouped by the Research Program’s four themes: A Trustworthy Internet, Decolonizing the Internet, Greening the Internet, and the Internet Economy. Decolonizing the Internet *Awardee *– Francis Saa-Dittoh – Ghana – $99,950.00 *Research Question* – How can decentralized digital information systems promote decolonizing of the Internet in developing countries? *Awardee* – Stichting Digital Freedom Fund <https://digitalfreedomfund.org/> — Netherlands – $100,000 *Research Question* – How can a decolonizing program for the European digital rights field be designed and implemented? Greening the Internet *Awardee* – Chomora Mikeka – Malawi – $81,314.00 *Research Question *– Can Internet of Things (IoT) be green powered using ambient radio frequency energy harvesting? *Awardee *– The Green Web Foundation <https://www.thegreenwebfoundation.org/> – Netherlands – $550,000 *Research Question* – How do we accelerate the transition of the Internet off of fossil fuels? *Awardee* – ISOC Kyrgyzstan Chapter <https://isoc.kg/> – Kyrgyzstan – $200,000 *Research Question* – Can we use the Internet of Things in a rough environment to detect landslides and other threats while developing an open and secure infrastructure? *Awardee *– German Informatics Society <https://gi.de/> – Germany – $196,788.00 *Research Question* – What concepts of programming software in an environmentally friendly way (“Green Coding”) exist for software development? *Awardee* – University of Amsterdam <https://www.uva.nl/> – Netherlands – $250,000 *Research Question* – How does Internet infrastructure reconfigure power relationships and resource dependencies, and how could it better serve the public interest? An Internet Economy *Awardee *– Data & Society Research Institute <https://datasociety.net/> – US – $499,926.00 *Research Question* – How is the work of mental health professionals changing as they increasingly provide services through online digital platforms, and how do such shifts impact therapeutic expertise, therapeutic labor, and professional practice? *Awardee* – David Johnson – South Africa – $200,000 *Research Question* – Can a decentralized mutual credit-based community voucher combined with a community network and localized services incentivize (i) custodianship of commons infrastructure, (ii) creation of more locally generated digital content , and (iii) act as a catalyst to the stability and expansion of a local market? *Awardee *– Fradkin Foundation for Economic Research <https://andreyfradkin.com/> – US – $150,550.00 *Research Question* – What is the economic impact of dark patterns on consumers? *Awardee* – World Data Lab <https://worlddata.io/> – Austria – $485,375.00 *Research Question* – Who is most affected by Internet poverty and which countries are making the greatest progress in reducing it? How can we promote greater access and use of the Internet to benefit the poor? A Trustworthy Internet *Awardee* – Centro Latam Digital <https://centrolatam.digital/> – Mexico – $249,550.00 *Research Question* – What kind of interactions do migrants in transit have with the Internet based on their perception of digital vulnerability? How does this perception impact their decision making and strategies in using the Internet along their transit? *Awardee* – DNS Research Foundation <https://dnsrf.org/> – UK – $250,000 *Research Question* – To establish an Internet Standards Observatory, what innovative research methodologies and policy research questions should we explore relating to the development of Internet standards? *Awardee* – The Distributed AI Research Institute <https://www.dair-institute.org/> in partnership with Code for Science & Society <https://www.codeforsociety.org/> – US – $500,000 *Research Question* – What is the impact of social media platforms in countries and diaspora communities that are not considered important by the companies who own these platforms? *Awardee* – Evidence and Methods Lab <https://evidenceandmethodslab.org/> in partnership with the Internet Society Uganda Chapter <https://isoc.ug/> – Uganda – $550,000 *Research Question* – What are the capacity gaps hindering the utilization of the Internet by government agencies in the effort to improve transparency and accountability in service delivery? *Awardee* – Georgia Institute of Technology <http://gatech.edu/> – US – $149,945.00 *Research Question *– How can we improve our understanding of the way private sector governance mechanisms interact with technology to produce trust and security on the Internet? *Awardee* – Internet Security Research Group <https://www.abetterinternet.org/> – US – $350,000 *Research Question* – How can we enforce the promises made in a privacy policy through technology that is ubiquitous and affordable? *Awardee* – Reset Tech Australia <https://au.reset.tech/> – Australia – $140,130.00 *Research Question* – What does trustworthy tech, from young people’s perspectives, look like in practice? If you’d like to know more, you can see full details of our Research Grant Program <https://www.isocfoundation.org/grant-programme/research-grant-programme/>. To be notified of upcoming grant opportunities, sign up to our newsletter https://www.isocfoundation.org/ -- -------------------------------------- Joly MacFie +12185659365 -------------------------------------- -

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CFP **extended!!** TECHMONEY workshop
by M.R.Sauter 03 Feb '23

03 Feb '23

We've extended the deadline for the Tech/Money workshop! If you thought you missed your chance, you have another one! ____ *!ABSTRACTS DEADLINE EXTENDED!* CFP: TECH/MONEY Workshop Date+Time: 22 May 2023 (Monday), all day commencing at 9AM Venue: Center for Social Innovation Annex Garage, 720 Bathurst St, Toronto, Canada Organizer: M. R. Sauter, Assistant Professor, University of Maryland, College of Information Studies Sponsor: STRATLab, University of Maryland College of Information Studies Description: The goal of this workshop is to bring together scholars who are working on the topic of money, finance, and funding in high technology, “innovation,” and the digital. We are specifically interested in work that approaches this topic using critical theory, communication theory, political theory, and cultural studies perspectives rather than economic approaches. We hope to draw from a wide variety of sub-disciplines, time periods, and geographic regions of focus. Works-in-progress by pre-tenure and junior scholars are particularly sought after for this workshop. A secondary goal is to gauge interest in a special issue or collected volume on the topic of TECH/MONEY at some point in the future. Potential topics might include: -how and why different funding models are promoted or encouraged by industry, finance, and government actors -alternate currency systems using fungible or other non-monetary assets -professionalized influencer economies, markets, and businesses -studies of funding models for “innovation” spaces and projects -studies of digital financial platforms like RobinHood or the rise of meme stocks -corruption in the tech/money world -ethico-moral-financial ideologies and philosophies as they appear in the high technology space -how changing funding practices or financial/tax regulations impacted communication technology development Please submit your *abstract of *max* 500 words *using *this form: https://forms.gle/ZgLEk817PWoUHt1V9 <https://forms.gle/ZgLEk817PWoUHt1V9>* by January 31 2023 -> *FEBRUARY 6* Important dates: January 31 > *EXTENDED DEADLINE* *FEBRUARY 6 *: abstracts due *March 3*: notification of acceptances *May 22*: workshop date Organizer contact info for any questions, comments, or concerns: mrsauter(a)umd.edu -- m.r. sauter oddletters http://oddletters.com/

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Postdoctoral Fellowship in Critical and Intersectional Approaches to Data Security, Privacy and Surveillance
by Zeffiro, Andrea 03 Feb '23

03 Feb '23

The Lewis & Ruth Sherman Centre for Digital Scholarship, located in Mills Memorial Library at McMaster University in Hamilton, Ontario, invites candidates to apply for a two-year postdoctoral fellowship. Please find more information below and share it with your networks. The posting closes on March 21, 2023. Job Summary Founded in 2012, the Sherman Centre is an incubator and catalyst of digital scholarship (DS) and digital humanities (DH) activity at McMaster University. A critical need that has become apparent in the Centreâ€™s work is the inclusion of critical data and data justice competencies training. From the vantage point of the Sherman Centre, we see a clear opportunity to increasingly introduce undergraduate and graduate students, faculty and staff, and members of broader communities to critical considerations of data-driven approaches and outcomes while improving their general data fluency. Working under the direction of the Academic and Administrative Directors of the Sherman Centre, the postdoctoral fellow will support the general outreach and curricular activities of the Sherman Centre, with a specific focus on critical and intersectional approaches to data security, privacy and surveillance. The research program undertaken by the postdoctoral fellow will result in knowledge development and dissemination as well as resource creation and training in these areas for undergraduate and graduate students, faculty and staff, and members of broader communities. In alignment with their own DS/DH research agenda, the postdoctoral fellow will, in close collaboration with other Sherman Centre staff: * offer training and support for general and selected specific tools and techniques that support data security and digital privacy broadly * assess faculty and graduate student needs, and goals with relation to research data security, privacy and management * offer consultation to faculty and graduate students to enable them to begin including critical data and data justice competencies in their teaching and research * support the further development of workshops, talks, and events at the Sherman Centre * prepare and deliver an undergraduate digital scholarship introductory course annually, and * connect and engage with other data justice, digital scholarship, and digital humanities initiatives in the region and beyond. Beyond these responsibilities, the postdoc will participate actively in the life and activities of the Sherman Centre and represent it at key DS/DH events, such as the Digital Humanities Summer Institute (DHSI) and the annual Digital Humanities conference at the institutionâ€™s expense. Details * Term: August 1, 2023 â€“ July 31, 2025 * Supervisor: Dr. Andrea Zeffiro * Renumeration: $55,000 CAD per year For the complete job posting, please follow [1]this link. Please contact Dr. Andrea Zeffiro ([2]zeffiroa(a)mcmaster.ca) for any general questions about the position. -- Andrea Zeffiro, Ph.D. Assistant Professor, Department of Communication Studies and Media Arts Academic Director, Lewis & Ruth Sherman Centre for Digital Scholarship McMaster University 1280 Main St. W Hamilton, ON L8S 4L8 (905) 525-9140 ext. 21901 [3]zeffiroa(a)mcmaster.ca McMaster University sits on the territories of the Mississauga and Haudenosaunee Nations, and within the lands protected by the Dish With One Spoon wampum, an agreement amongst all allied Nations to peaceably share and care for the resources around the Great Lakes. References 1. https://u.mcmaster.ca/scds-postdoc-2023 2. mailto:zeffiroa@mcmaster.ca 3. mailto:zeffiroa@mcmaster.ca

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