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Vacancy: PhD Platformisation of Education (1.0 FTE)
by Niels Kerssens 27 Sep '22

27 Sep '22

Vacancy: PhD Platformisation of Education (1.0 FTE) UTRECHT UNIVERSITY, the Netherlands HOURS PER WEEK: 38 to 40 FACULTY: Faculty of Humanities DEPARTMENT: Media & Culture Studies at Utrecht University APPLICATION DEADLINE: 15 November 2022 Job description The department of Media & Culture Studies at Utrecht University recruits a PhD student for a research project on “Platform infrastructures and the shaping of public education” which is part of the larger Spinoza-funded research program Governing the Digital Society, chaired by prof. dr. José van Dijck. Platformisation of education—the embedding of digital platforms into educational practices—unfolds through increasingly complex integrations of local European educational technology (‘edtech’) companies and global American providers of platform infrastructures like Google (Alphabet), Amazon, and Microsoft. This project will critically investigate how these integrations are shaping and governing public education and use its findings for furthering our understanding of the power of platforms and how they should be governed. In the project, you will 1) map and analyse technological and organizational integrations of big and local (ed)tech in The Netherlands and/or other European countries); 2) study how big tech cloud infrastructures and strategic partnerships shape the functions and services that third-party companies provide to educational institutions; and 3) contribute methods and/or theories to the field of platform studies based on the empirical findings. In the second and/or third year of the project you are expected to teach a few classes at the BA-level at the department of Media & Culture studies at a rate of 10 percent of the total workload. Qualifications We are looking for an enthusiastic PhD student who: - has an (R)MA degree in (new) media studies, communications, or a similar research area; - has excellent research skills, as demonstrated in the (R)MA thesis or any publications assessed as such; - has an academic interest in and thorough knowledge of platform studies; - has affinity with the use and development of digital methods (experience is recommended but not a prerequisite, can also be acquired during the PhD trajectory); - has an excellent command of English (an additional command of Dutch is preferred). For more information, please see: https://www.uu.nl/en/organisation/working-at-utrecht-university/jobs/phd-pl… <https://www.uu.nl/en/organisation/working-at-utrecht-university/jobs/phd-pl…>

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CFP DDP 2022
by ijwa dline.info 27 Sep '22

27 Sep '22

Second International Conference on Digital Data Processing University of Bedfordshire Luton. UK December 07-09, 2022 www.socio.org.uk/ddp (IEEE Xplore. Papers should follow the IEEE template) Data grows voluminously and exponentially with heterogeneity and complexity. A single organization or industry processes more than a few million transactions hourly and stores several petabytes of data. We live in a world of tremendous pressure to analyze and process data more efficiently where the Data analytics can reflect hidden patterns, incomprehensible relationships, intrinsic information relations, and segmentation. The data applications have introduced cutting-edge possibilities in every activity in our life. Thus, studying data and its underlying structure, dynamics of data relations, and newer data technologies are a never-ending process. The literature and research on data management are enormous; they do not sufficiently solve the data processing requirements. Currently, the use of technology and interrelations among information pieces generate gargantuan amounts of data. Many studies tend to develop models and systems to analyse the voluminous datasets. Analysing the impact of data leads to application domains on decisions that have a systematic influence. Knowledge generated from the data analysis can enable the production of critical information for several domains. Hence this conference reviews and discusses the recent trends, opportunities, and pitfalls of data management and how it has impacted organizations to create successful business and technology strategies and remain updated in data technology. This conference also highlights the current open research directions of data analytics that require further consideration/ The proposed conference will discuss topics not limited to Data applications in various domains and activities Data in cloud Real-world data processing Data inaccuracy and reliability issues Data Ecosystem Business Analytics New data analytics techniques Physical and management challenges Privacy and Security Crowdsourcing and Sensing Data modelling Deep learning techniques Data fusion Descriptive analytics, Diagnostic analytics, Predictive Analytics, and Prescriptive analytics Machine learning Network optimization Data in Biomedical Engineering Data in Materials science and mechanics Data handling and applications in domains Wireless Networking Data Management Data of Electronic & Embedded Systems Multi-media Systems Data Artificial intelligence Models and Systems Data E-Computing Data Renewable Energies Data Publications DDP is technically supported by IEEE CPS. The DDP papers will be submitted for publication and indexing in IEEE Xplore. Besides, modified versions of the papers will appear in the following journals. 1. Journal on Data Semantics 2. Technologies 3. Data Technologies and Applications 4. Webology 5. Journal of Digital Information Management 6. International Journal of Computational Linguistics 7. Journal of Optimization 8. International Journal of Distributed Systems and Technologies Important Dates Full Paper Submission: October 01, 2022 Notification of Acceptance/Rejection: November 01, 2022 Registration Due: November 25, 2022 Camera Ready Due: December 01-09, 2022 Workshops/Tutorials/Demos: December 08-09, 2022 Main conference December 07-09, 2022 Keynote Speakers Eleni (Helen) Karatza, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece Maria Fasli, University of Essex, UK Program Committee General Chair Ezendu Ariwa, Chair UK& RI IEEE TEMS, UK Program Chairs Ramiro Smano Robles, Instituto Superior de Engenharia do Porto Rua, Portugal Simon Fong, University of Macau, Macau - Program Co-Chairs Ricardo Rodriguez Jorge, Autonomous University of Ciudad Juarez, Mexico - Dion Goh, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore Publicity Chair Mohsin Beniysa, Abdelmalek Essaâdi University, Morocco Paper Submission: http://socio.org.uk/ddp/paper-submission/ Contact: ddp(a)socio.org.uk

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CFP: Global Perspectives on Surveillance (Jump Cut)
by Gary Kafer 26 Sep '22

26 Sep '22

Dear colleagues, For a special section of a forthcoming issue of *Jump Cut <https://www.ejumpcut.org/home.html>*, we invite submissions for articles and review essays on the topic of "Global Perspectives on Surveillance." The deadline for submissions is January 15, 2023. Please circulate widely! --- *Global Perspectives on Surveillance* Call for Papers Special Section of Jump Cut: A Review of Contemporary Media Full Paper Submission Deadline: January 15, 2023 Editor: Gary Kafer (University of Chicago) Description This special section of Jump Cut seeks original research and review essays that examine the global circuits of surveillance that increasingly mark contemporary social and political life. Towards the end of the twentieth century, surveillance studies scholars proclaimed the arrival of a “surveillance society” (Marx 1985; Gandy 1989; Lyon 1994), which soon became global by the turn of the century following the attacks on 9/11 and the War on Terror (Lyon 2004; Murakami 2009; Ström 2020). In many ways indebted to the emergence of novel digital and communication tools, such critiques called attention to increasing levels of tracking practices by national governments and corporations to preempt threats and safeguard capital. No doubt, the global parameters of surveillance were put on full display with the Snowden leaks of 2014 as the world became cognizant of The Five Eyes intelligence alliance (Australia, Canada, New Zealand, the United Kingdom, and the United States), which was soon followed by media coverage of China’s vast social credit system and internment camps. And yet, even as such developments exposed the globality of surveillance systems, such frameworks tend to maintain the ‘global’ as simply a reference point for the ‘Global North’ and its centers of data accumulation and exchange. Such narratives are troublesome, not in the least for the way that they ignore how surveillance has historically always been transnational in scope, such as in the development of biometrics and identification documents in chattel slavery and penal colonies across colonial and imperial regimes (Browne 2015; Heynen and van der Meulen 2019). At the same time, some global frameworks ignore how many surveillance devices are first developed and tested in sites of settler colonial and capitalist violence – often in the Global South – before being sold on the global market, such as in Israel’s occupation of Palestine (Halper 2015) or the repression of indigenous communities at the borders of settler states (Schaeffer 2022). Building on such debates in surveillance studies, this special section of Jump Cut explores how the global remains a fraught, if not necessary, framework to grapple with how surveillance is inextricable from racial violence, capital accumulation, and settler colonial rule. In particular, we invite research that approaches such issues from the fields of media studies, film studies, visual studies, communication studies, and related disciplines to consider how surveillance technologies – whether data-based or otherwise – are used, viewed, and resisted in particular geographic contexts. To sure, scholars of these fields have already taken stock of the global formations of infrastructure and labor through which surveillance is made possible, such as in the case of transpacific fiber-optic cable systems (Starosielski 2015), lithium mining (Crawford 2021), and outsourced content moderation (Gray and Suri 2019). They have also examined the emergent visual regimes of global surveillance within satellites (Parks 2018) and drones (Shaw 2016), as well as have interrogated the transnational politics of logistical systems (Hockenberry, Starosielski, and Zieger 2021). At the same time, many others have considered how entertainment media produce public imaginaries in the Global North about the exercise of surveillance elsewhere, such as in televisual and filmic depictions of border security (Fojas 2021) and video games about war and counterterrorism (Payne 2016). Finally, many activist communities are actively developing media counter-practices for resisting digital state surveillance within sites of social unrest and rebellion around the world (Choudry 2019). For this special section of Jump Cut, we invite contributions that examine how surveillance is a global process located within specific cultural, political, and social practices of power. Such research might address (but is not limited to) the following topics: • Technologies of border security • Biometrics – past, present, future • Internet infrastructures • Ecologies of resource extraction • Platforms and outsourced labor • Militarization of police • Counter-practices to surveillance • Global surveillance and documentary aesthetics • Representations of global surveillance in entertainment media • Networked global cities • Social media in the Global South • Algorithms and discrimination • Public policy and regulation of surveillance • Transnational security regimes Submission Information: We welcome a range of submissions including article length essays, short reflection papers, opinion pieces, book reviews, and film reviews. Submissions will undergo a peer-review and revision process prior to publication. Submissions should be original work, neither previously published nor under consideration for publication elsewhere. All references to previous work by contributors should be masked in the text (e.g., “Author 2015”). Please submit your document in a MS Word-compatible format. Timeline Submissions should be emailed to gkafer(a)uchicago.edu by January 15, 2023. Please put “JC – Global Surveillance” in the subject line. Decisions will be communicated by the end of March 2023. Final revisions will be due May 1, 2023. The special section will be published in a forthcoming issue of Jump Cut in the winter of 2023. -- Gary Kafer PhD Candidate, Dept. of Cinema and Media Studies University of Chicago gkafer(a)uchicago.edu

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WEBCAST SEP 26 - From the Ground Up: Broadband Mapping By and For Communities
by Joly MacFie 26 Sep '22

26 Sep '22

[image: YouTube] <https://isoc.live/15797>[Just starting - real time text https://bit.ly/3CbC1al ] On *Monday September 26 2022* at *3-4:15pm EDT* (19:00-20:15 UTC) the *Benton Institute for Broadband & Society <https://www.benton.org/>* and the *National Broadband Mapping Coalition <https://broadbandmappingcoalition.org/>* host a panel ‘*From the Ground Up: Broadband Mapping By and For Communities <https://bit.ly/3BMF07N>*‘. United States communities and states are collecting data on local broadband availability as the Federal Communications Commission rolls out the *Broadband Data Collection <https://www.fcc.gov/BroadbandData>* (BDC) program. BDC data will be used to determine the allocation and distribution of funding to states under the $42.5 billion *Broadband Access Equity and Deployment <https://broadbandusa.ntia.doc.gov/resources/grant-programs/broadband-equity…>* (BEAD) program. Panelists will discuss these community data collection and mapping efforts, highlighting promising approaches for collaboration and best practices for speed test surveys. We will also discuss how states and communities can be best prepared for the challenge process to ensure they have access to the federal funds they need to address broadband availability. *PANEL* *Eduard Bartholme*, Senior Outreach Director, Broadband Data Task Force, Federal Communications Commission *Shayna Englin*, Director, California Community Foundation Digital Equity Initiative *Lonnie Hamilton III*, Broadband Planner, Office of Broadband, Virginia Department of Housing and Community Development (DHCD) *Sarah Morris*, Senior Advisor, Office of the Assistant Secretary, NTIA *Lai Yi Ohlsen*, Data Scientist, Measurement Lab *Brian Whitacre*, Professor, Department of Agricultural Economics, Oklahoma State University *MODERATOR* *Dustin Loup*, Program Manager,National Broadband Mapping Coalition *LIVESTREAM https://youtu.be/_9oSq09WeXo <https://youtu.be/_9oSq09WeXo>* *REGISTER https://bit.ly/3BMF07N <https://bit.ly/3BMF07N>* *REAL TIME TEXT https://bit.ly/3CbC1al <https://bit.ly/3CbC1al>* *TWITTER #broadbandmapping <https://bit.ly/broadbandmapping> @FCC @MeasurementLab @okstate @calfund @VADHCD @MarconiSociety @DustinRLoup * *SIMULCAST* *https://twitter.com/Benton_Inst <https://twitter.com/Benton_Inst>* -- -------------------------------------- Joly MacFie +12185659365 -------------------------------------- - -- -------------------------------------- Joly MacFie +12185659365 -------------------------------------- -

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CFP - Special Issue: Digital Influencers and Creative Industries
by Issaaf Karhawi 26 Sep '22

26 Sep '22

Dear colleagues, I would like to invite you to submit full papers for the Brazilian Creative Industries Journal, an open-access journal from the University Feevale, in Brazil. I am the guest editor of the special issue "Digital Influencers and Creative Industries" and we are very interested in works from around the globe, from Communication scholars. Submissions are opened until 20th November, 2022. And we expect to have the issue published in January, 2023. All the details are available at the journal website <https://periodicos.feevale.br/seer/index.php/braziliancreativeindustries/an…>. But if you have any questions, you can address the editor-in-chief, Vanessa Valiati at vanessavaliati(a)feevale.br Best, Issaaf Karhawi *Special Issue: Digital Influencers and Creative Industries* Studies about digital influencers—commonly called creators today—have consolidated along different theoretical-methodological perspectives: studies on celebrities (ABIDIN, 2018; ABIDIN, 2022), platformization (POELL, NIEBORG, DUFFY, 2022; ARRIAGADA, BISHOP, 2021), communication and media (KARHAWI, 2020), and digital labor (DUFFY, 2017). This plurality has also shaped a supposed discipline (CUNNINGHAM, CRAIG, 2021; ABIDIN, KARHAWI, 2021) demonstrated by the fertile discussion arising from the topic, which we intend to highlight in this dossier for the Brazilian Creative Industries Journal: Digital Influencers and Creative Industries. For the scope of this dossier, digital influencers and/or creators are understood as different content producers who act—for professional and commercial reasons—on platforms such as Instagram, YouTube, TikTok, Twitch and others. The creative industry, in turn, is characterized as having intellectual capital and creativity among its core values and includes activities like the arts, games, communication, design, audiovisual, information technology, and technology. Thus, bearing in mind the professional activities of digital influencers in the field of communication and the creative industries, this dossier aims to bring together multidisciplinary works that examine aspects such as: - Digital influencers and creative industries; - Digital influencers and business models; - Digital influencers and sociabilities; - Digital influencers and creativity; - Digital influencers and content strategies and production; - Digital influencers and relations with distinct markets; - Digital influencers, entrepreneurship and management; - Digital influencers, consumption and brands; - Digital influencers, pop culture and fans; - Digital influencers, platforms and platformization; - Digital influencers and labor relations; - Digital influencers and disinformation. Works that articulate broader questions like methodological perspectives and conceptual approaches will also be considered. Works by national and foreign authors (written in Portuguese and/or English) are welcomed to be submitted for publication, as well as various types of content that contribute to the development of the field. The journal accepts works by authors holding a graduate degree and master’s students in co-authorship with PhDs. Articles must be submitted by 20/11/2022 directly on the journal’s website: https://periodicos.feevale.br/seer/index.php/braziliancreativeindustries/an… *The journal has no Article Processing Charges. No payment from the authors will be required. Guest Editor: Dra. Issaaf Karhawi (Unip/Brazil) [issaaf(a)gmail.com] Editor in chief: Dra. Vanessa Amalia Dalpizol Valiati (Feevale/Brazil) [ vanessavaliati(a)feevale.br] Submission deadline: November 20, 2022 Publication date: January 30, 2023 *References *ABIDIN, Crystal. Internet celebrity: Understanding fame online. United Kingdom: Emerald Publishing, 2018. ABIDIN, Crystal. Mapeando celebridades da Internet no TikTok: Explorando Economias da Atenção e Trabalhos de Visibilidade. Pauta Geral - Estudos em Jornalismo, v. 8, n. 2, p. 1–50, 2021. DOI: 10.5212/19881. ABIDIN, Crystal; KARHAWI, Issaaf. Influenciadores digitais, celebridades da internet e "blogueirinhas": uma entrevista com Crystal Abidin. Intercom: Revista Brasileira de Ciências da Comunicação, São Paulo, v. 44, n. 1, 2021. ARRIAGADA, Arturo; BISHOP, Sophie. Between Commerciality and Authenticity: The Imaginary of Social Media Influencers in the Platform Economy, Communication, Culture and Critique, v. 14, n. 4, 2021. CUNNINGHAM, Stuart; CRAIG, David. Creator Culture: An Introduction to Global Social Media Entertainment. New York: New York University Press, 2021. DUFFY, Brooke Erin. (Not) Getting Paid to Do What You Love: gender, social media and aspirational work. New Haven & London: Yale University Press, 2017. KARHAWI, Issaaf. De blogueira a influenciadora: etapas de profissionalização da blogosfera de moda brasileira. Porto Alegre: Sulina, 2020. POELL, Thomas; NIEBORG, David; DUFFY, Brooke Erin. Platforms and cultural production. Cambridge: Polity Press, 2022.

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IEEE WoWMoM 2023, June 12-15, 2023, Boston, Massachusetts, Deadline: December 15, 2022
by Eirini Eleni Tsiropoulou 26 Sep '22

26 Sep '22

----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 24th IEEE International Symposium on a World of Wireless, Mobile and Multimedia Networks (WoWMoM) June 12-15, 2023, Boston, Massachusetts, USA https://coe.northeastern.edu/Groups/wowmom2023/index.html Deadline: December 15, 2022 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ SCOPE AND OVERVIEW IEEE WoWMoM 2023 is soliciting original and previously unpublished papers addressing research challenges and advances in the areas of wireless, mobile, and multimedia networking as well as ubiquitous and pervasive systems and applications. Wireless networking technologies are continuously evolving and have become a critical part of modern life, be it for communication services, media distribution, or sensing and actuation services within the Internet of Things (IoT) context. Appropriate resource management, application design, and architectural networking paradigms are necessary to provide users with high quality experience in multimedia communication and services. Edge computing, machine learning and artificial intelligence (AI) techniques are becoming essential tools to cope with the increasing diversity of connected devices and the plethora of new data-intensive and latency-sensitive applications. At the same time, the interoperability among IoT environments (including wearable computing and sensors), the network edge, and the cloud are evolving towards an fog-edge-cloud continuum that is expected to support a wide range of application domains and services in a more smooth and efficient manner. In this context, providing rich sets of measurements for characterizing, and understanding the behavior of such complex systems is of paramount importance. IEEE WoWMoM 2023 takes a broad view and seeks papers describing innovative research contributions to the field of mobile and wireless networking and applications. We solicit papers that present original work, validated by experimentation, simulation, or analysis. We also welcome practical experiences and experimental efforts from both industry and academia, duly documenting the lessons learned from testbeds, field trials, or real deployments. SPECIFIC AREAS OF INTEREST * 5G/ 6G networks for mobile and multimedia services * AI-assisted and data-driven networking in wireless, mobile, and multimedia networks * Authentication, authorization, accounting for wireless, mobile, and multimedia networks * Behavior-aware human-centric multimedia networks * Content-centric architectures for wireless, mobile, and multimedia networks * Context-awareness in wireless, mobile, and multimedia networks * Integrated Access and Backhaul (IAB) multimedia networks * Resource management and QoS/QoE provisioning * Reconfigurable Intelligent Surfaces (RIS) enabled multimedia networks * Seamless inter-networking and self-organization * Software-Defined Networking, Network Function Virtualization, and slicing for wireless and mobile networks * IoT-edge-cloud continuum for wireless, mobile, and multimedia networking and services * Communication technologies and services for MTC * Dependability and survivability issues for wireless, mobile, and multimedia networks * Energy characterisation and efficiency for wireless, mobile, and multimedia networks * Localization, tracking, and mobility management and services * Trust and privacy issues for wireless, mobile, and multimedia networks * Modeling, analysis, and performance evaluation of wireless, mobile, and multimedia networks * Network traffic characterization and measurements * System prototypes, measurements, real-world deployment, and experiences * Mobile social networks * Connected mobility, including vehicles, vulnerable road users, etc: networking issues and services * Participatory, mobile, and urban sensing * Wearable Computing PAPER SUBMISSION AND PUBLICATION Authors are invited to submit papers describing original, previously unpublished work not currently under review by another conference, workshop, or journal. Only PDF files will be accepted for the review process, and all submissions must be made electronically through EDAS. <https://edas.info/newPaper.php?c=28898> Click here to register your paper now! Authors can submit regular or work-in-progress papers (appropriate category to be selected upon submission). REGULAR PAPERS Regular papers submissions may be up to 10 pages in length (including figures and references), formatted in two-column IEEE conference style with font size 10 points or greater. See IEEE Manuscript Templates for Conference Proceedings<https://www.ieee.org/conferences/publishing/templates.html>. WORK IN PROGRESS PAPERS WIP (Work-in-progress) papers provide a peer-reviewed forum for late-breaking or preliminary research results, giving an opportunity for researchers and practitioners to present and demonstrate their recent research and obtain feedback from their peers in a poster session. Work-in-progress papers submissions may be up to 4 pages in length (including figures and references) and must have the prefix "WIP:" in the paper's title. IMPORTANT DATES Papers due: December 15, 2022 Acceptance notification: February 20, 2023 Camera-ready version: April 15, 2023 ACCEPTED PAPERS An author of an accepted paper is required to register for the conference at the full (member or non-member) rate. The paper must be presented by an author of that paper at the conference. Exceptions can be granted if compelling reasons are sent to the TPC Co-Chairs with a written request indicating an adequate substitute presenter before the conference. Accepted papers (both regular and WIP) will be included in the proceedings of IEEE WoWMoM 2023 which will be published through the IEEE Xplore digital library. All conference proceedings must meet IEEE's quality standards, and IEEE reserves the right not to publish any proceedings that do not meet these standards. Furthermore, IEEE reserves the right to remove papers from IEEE Xplore that are not presented at the conference, for unjustified reasons. BEST PAPER AWARD All accepted regular papers will be considered for the Best Paper Award. A committee will select three best paper candidates based on the reviews received and also the quality of presentation. The winner will be announced during the conference. For any additional information, please contact the PC Co-chairs. JOURNAL FAST TRACK Extended versions of selected papers from IEEE WoWMoM 2023 will be invited for possible publication in the Elsevier journals: * Computer Communications<https://www.journals.elsevier.com/computer-communications> (Impact factor 3.167) * Pervasive Mobile Computing<https://www.journals.elsevier.com/pervasive-and-mobile-computing> (Impact factor 3.453) PC CO-CHAIRS Eylem Ekici, The Ohio State University, USA Ana Aguiar, University of Porto, Portugal -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Eirini Eleni Tsiropoulou, Assistant Professor Computer Engineering Vice 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> Website: PROTON Lab<http://ece-research.unm.edu/tsiropoulou/index.html> PROTON Lab's News: @Tsiropoulou_EE<https://twitter.com/Tsiropoulou_EE> "Those who know, do. Those that understand, teach." ~ Aristotle

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Data Literacies CFP for Information and Learning Sciences journal
by Amelia Acker 26 Sep '22

26 Sep '22

Dear colleagues, Apologies for cross posting this call for papers. My colleagues Dr. Leanne Bowler and Dr. Luci Pangrazio, and I invite you to submit to a special issue on Data Literacies for the journal of Information and Learning Sciences <https://www.emeraldgrouppublishing.com/journal/ils>. I’ve excerpted the CFP below, for the full description please see: https://www.emeraldgrouppublishing.com/calls-for-papers/perspectives-data-l… For this Special Issue, we invite papers exploring current perspectives in learning and information research and teaching on data literacies among learners, addressing the growing need for a data literate society. Future job prospects hinge on the ability to participate and use datafied systems and processes, which requires the ability to read, analyze, reason with, and argue with multiple forms of data. But equally, people are themselves subjects of data, being thoroughly measured, tracked, and analyzed through their personal digital data created with everyday information and communication technologies. Contemporary data subjectivity, built on data traces and their near constant collection, affects people’s most basic sense of autonomy and agency in life. As well, there is a wide disconnect between the data practices of government and corporations and the data skills, knowledge, and level of awareness of the general public (Deahl, 2014; Qlik, 2019). Scope: The guest editors invite research addressing teaching and learning related to data literacies in primary and secondary school (K-12) and at the undergraduate level, as well as informal spaces of learning such as libraries and after-school programs, and among learners and publics of all ages. Submissions from a broad range of disciplines, including information science, the learning sciences, and science and technology studies, among others are welcome. We welcome work offering new data literacy theory / frameworks / definitions, design and implementation research, practice theories, and well-contextualized cross-sectional research exploring data literacy levels among groups / publics / contexts, perhaps addressing inequality. Justice-oriented frameworks, sociotechnical lenses, and other approaches appropriate to the topic of data literacies in varying information and learning contexts are invited. Submissions are due 31 May 2023. For more information and author instructions, please see: https://www.emeraldgrouppublishing.com/journal/ils Please share this CFP with interested colleagues as you can. If you have any questions, please don’t hesitate to reach out! Sincerely, Amelia -- Dr. Amelia Acker Associate Professor School of Information University of Texas at Austin http://www.ameliaacker.com/

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Vacancy: Film and TV data analytics research fellow
by Indrek Ibrus 26 Sep '22

26 Sep '22

Tallinn University’s Baltic Film, Media and Arts School is hiring a research fellow (postdoc) to work on film and TV industry public value creation processes using data science or network science methods. The fellow will be part of the research project Public Value of Open Cultural Data (https://publicvalueofdata.tlu.ee) and soon to be launched Horizon Europe project titled CresCine. The latter will focus on cross-sectional analysis of film industry data from multiple international databases aimed that discovering trends affecting film production and consumption in Europe. This work will be carried out together with Europe's leading film industry institutions and universities. The fellow will be also closely collaborating with our Cultural Data Analytics Open Lab (https://cudan.tlu.ee) team. Salary and other conditions are internationally competitive, please contact prof. Indrek Ibrus (indrek.ibrus(a)tlu.ee) for details. If agreed, the initial 2-year contract period can be extended by at least one year. More info about the position can be found here: https://www.tlu.ee/en/taxonomy/term/84/academic-competition-0 Indrek Ibrus ———— Professor of media innovation, Baltic Film, Media and Arts School (BFM), Tallinn University Tel: +37256978885 Email: indrek.ibrus(a)tlu.ee RECENT ARTICLES: Ojamaa, Maarja, and Indrek Ibrus. 2021. "Hotspots for textual dynamics: Cultural semiotic approach to digital archives." Semiotica Online First. https://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.1515/sem-2019-0001. Ibrus, Indrek, Maximilian Schich, and Marek Tamm. 2021. "Cultural Science Meets Cultural Data Analytics." Cultural Science Journal 13 (1). https://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.1515/sem-2019-0001. Hartley, John, Indrek Ibrus, and Maarja Ojamaa. 2021. "Emergent self-mediating classes in the digital semiosphere: Coronavirus conspiracies and the climate justice movement." Nordic Journal of Media Studies 3. Järvekülg, Madis, and Indrek Ibrus. 2021. "Auto-communicative reconstruction of meaningfulness in musical randomness: reclaiming musical order on Facebook." Media, Culture & Society 0 (0): 01634437211045513. https://doi.org/10.1177/01634437211045513. https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/01634437211045513.

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2022 Policy & Internet Conference, 28-29 September – Last Chance to Register
by Jonathon Hutchinson 26 Sep '22

26 Sep '22

With apologies for cross-posting. Dear Colleagues, There’s only two days left to register for the 2022 Policy & Internet Conference, to be held at the University of Sydney, September 28 and 29. Registrations will close Tuesday (27 September) for catering purposes. https://internet-policy-meco.sydney.edu.au/datafication-platformization-met… The conference theme, Datafication. Platformization. Metaverse. The state of global internet policy, explores how the current developments within digital media spaces has a regulatory impact. This conference is hybrid, so if you can’t make it to Sydney for the live event, please consider registering for the streaming online alternative. We also have a preconference, free of charge, on the Tuesday 27. We invite all interested to a pre-conference event on the 27th of September, between 1pm and 4pm, on the topic of Strategic Storytelling in Digital Media. Strategic storytelling is a practice being used by actors as diverse as the far-right, climate justice activists, proponents of the "circular economy", First Nations peoples in Australia and beyond, those campaigning for recognition of intersectional relations and identity difference, and resistant narratives in warfare. This pre-conference will bring together leading scholars whose research touches on these diverse themes and topics to examine the practice, and generate dialogue and potential new research directions alongside Professor John Hartley, who has recently joined the University of Sydney's Discipline of Media and Communications. Please consider registering here: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/strategic-storytelling-in-digital-media-rese… The conference will feature the following Keynote presentations: Professor Rohan Samarajiva, Chair of LIRNEasia Associate Professor Tanya Lokot, Dublin City University Professor John Hartley, A.M., University of Sydney Associate Professor Crystal Abidin, Curtin University With a series of specialist panels featuring the work of: Dr Damar Juniarto, Executive Director of Southeast Asia Freedom of Expression Network Dr Matthew Nguyen, Tony Blair Institute Dr Jay Daniel Thompson, RMIT University Professor Terry Flew, University of Sydney Professor Julian Thomas, Director, ARC Centre of Excellence for Automated Decision-Making & Society, RMIT University Dr Joanne Gray, University of Sydney Associate Professor Diana Bossio, Swinburne University Professor Kim Weatherall, University of Sydney Professor Gerard Goggin, University of Sydney Professor Katie Ellis, Curtin University Dr Wayne Hawkins, Director of Inclusion, ACCAN Dr Natasha Layton, Monash University Associate Professor Paul Harpur, University of Queensland Looking forward to seeing you there, and for any further information, please contact Dr Jonathon Hutchinson [jonathon.hutchinson(a)sydney.edu.au] or Milica Stilinovic [millica.stilinovic(a)sydney.edu.au] DR JONATHON HUTCHINSON | Senior Lecturer Online Communication and Media Department of Media and Communication | Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences Postgraduate Research Coordinator Editor-in-Chief, Policy & Internet Journal [https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/journal/19442866] Treasurer of Australian and New Zealand Communication Association (ANZCA) Faculty of Arts and Design Distinguished Fellow 2022, University of Canberra THE UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY Rm N233, John Woolley Building (A20) | The University of Sydney | NSW | 2006 T +61 2 9351 2821 | F +61 2 9351 2434 | M +61 421 178 971 E jonathon.hutchinson(a)sydney.edu.au<mailto:jonathon.hutchinson@sydney.edu.au> | W sydney.edu.au<http://sydney.edu.au> | W jonathonhutchinson.com.au<http://www.jonathonhutchinson.com.au/> A globally ranked university <https://www.sydney.edu.au/about-us/our-world-rankings.html> 4th for graduate employability* *QS Graduate Employability rankings 2022 Giving today. Changing tomorrow. See the impact<https://sydney.edu.au/alumni-giving/gifts-with-impact.html> CRICOS 00026A This email plus any attachments to it are confidential. Any unauthorised use is strictly prohibited. If you receive this email in error, please delete it and any attachments.

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WEBCAST SEP 22 – Report launch: Financing mechanisms for locally-owned internet infrastructure
by Joly MacFie 24 Sep '22

24 Sep '22

As they say in the USA, it's all about the Benjamins... REAL TIME TEXT https://bit.ly/3UHYvr1 [image: isoc live] <https://isoc.live/15765%20>On *Thursday September 22 2022* at *14:00 UTC*, partners the *Association for Progressive Communications <https://www.apc.org/>* (APC), *Connect Humanity <https://connecthumanity.fund/>*, *Connectivity Capital <https://www.connectivitycap.com/>*, and the *Internet Society <https://internetsociety.org/>* will host a report launch webinar '*Financing mechanisms for locally-owned internet infrastructure <https://bit.ly/3d5t34M>*'. This new study documents and analyzes the operating models and financing mechanisms that can enable community connectivity providers to expand internet access and build digital equity. The online launch will bring together experts and network builders to discuss the report and strategies that can fund community-centred internet networks. It will also be an opportunity to learn more about successful case studies and discuss recommendations for policymakers, funders and network builders. *SPEAKERS* *Jochai Ben-Avie *(Connect Humanity) *Ben Matranga* (Connectivity Capital) *Jane Coffin* (Connect Humanity) *Bruce Patterson* (EntryPoint Networks) *Carlos Rey-Moreno* (Association for Progressive Communications) *Shaun Pather* (Zenzeleni) *Anoop Nagendra* (Connectivity Capital) *Chris Conder MBE *(B4RN) *Juan Peirano* (Internet Society *LIVESTREAM http://livestream.com/internetsociety/cnfinancing <http://livestream.com/internetsociety/cnfinancing>* *PARTICIPATE VIA ZOOM https://bit.ly/3d5t34M <https://bit.ly/3d5t34M>* *REAL TIME TEXT* (see* ISOC.LIVE <https://isoc.live/15765>*) *TWITTER @apc @Connect_Fund @ConnectivityCap @InternetSociety #communitynetworks* *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/cnfinancing <https://archive.org/details/cnfinancing>* -- -------------------------------------- Joly MacFie +12185659365 -------------------------------------- -

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