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NPR conversation about how smartphones have changed our lives
by Paul Levinson 09 Sep '22

09 Sep '22

50-minute conversation this morning on WDET Radio (NPR) in Detroit about how smartphones have changed our lives https://wdet.org/2022/09/09/how-cell-phones-affect-our-modern-lives/

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JOB - Senior Policy Counsel - Open Technology Institute (OTI)
by Joly MacFie 08 Sep '22

08 Sep '22

https://newamerica.applytojob.com/apply/noFYOwB2L6/ New America’s Open Technology Institute (OTI) seeks a dynamic senior legal counsel to develop and promote innovative policy initiatives that focus on broadband access and adoption, net neutrality, and competition issues. OTI works at the intersection of technology and policy to ensure that every community has equitable access to digital technology and its benefits. OTI’s staff includes noted experts on an array of tech policy issues who work closely with a diverse team of policy analysts, legal experts, technologists, and associates. OTI is housed within New America, a nonprofit, nonpartisan think tank that invests in new thinkers and new ideas to address the next generation of challenges facing the United States. The issue areas for OTI as a whole include surveillance, consumer privacy and security, freedom of expression online, platform accountability, transparency, net neutrality, broadband access, wireless spectrum, and more. In this position, you will participate directly in the development of and advocacy for OTI’s positions and strategies in current debates over funding and implementing internet access for unserved and underserved populations, advancing net neutrality principles, accountability for internet service providers, transparency for consumers, and related competition and privacy issues. You will report to OTI's Director and work alongside an enthusiastic team of other lawyers, policy analysts, associates, and technologists in OTI’s Washington, DC office. <snip> -- -------------------------------------- Joly MacFie +12185659365 -------------------------------------- -

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Senior Lecturer in Digital Media and Society at Cardiff University, UK
by Arne Hintz 08 Sep '22

08 Sep '22

Just a quick reminder of this vacancy, with application deadline 13 September: The School of Journalism, Media and Culture (JOMEC) at Cardiff University is looking to hire a Senior Lecturer in Digital Media and Society. This is a permanent, full-time position to deliver research-led teaching at both undergraduate and postgraduate level, conduct research and develop high-quality publications, supervise dissertations and research students, and take on administrative roles. The successful candidate will contribute to the School's research cluster in Digital Media and Society and the Data Justice Lab. While the School invites applications from candidates with expertise in various approaches to the field, we are particularly interested in a research focus on Critical Data Studies, Data Justice, and/or the social implications of AI. Please check the full job ad for more information on the position and required qualifications and experience: https://krb-sjobs.brassring.com/TGnewUI/Search/Home/HomeWithPreLoad?partner… ---------------- Dr Arne Hintz Reader | Director of Postgraduate Research | Co-Director Data Justice Lab School of Journalism, Media and Culture | Cardiff University Two Central Square | Cardiff CF10 1FS | Wales, UK Email: HintzA(a)cardiff.ac.uk | Tel: +44 (0)29 208 76281 | Twitter: @arne_hz

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ICDCN 2023 -- Call For Poster (Deadline: September 24, 2022)
by Eirini Eleni Tsiropoulou 08 Sep '22

08 Sep '22

CALL FOR POSTERS ICDCN 2023, the 24th International Conference on Distributed Computing and Networking, welcomes exciting posters showing promising early works on novel distributed computing and networking technologies and applications. We seek participation from both industry and academia. Selection posters will be based on a short abstract, evaluated based on technical merit and innovation as well as the potential to stimulate interesting discussions and exchange of ideas at the conference. The poster session is meant to introduce new or ongoing work and provide opportunities for authors to interact directly with attendees. Topics of Interest: We welcome all topics that align with the ICDCN main conference topics of interest. Poster Abstract: Poster abstracts should report on research work where at least some preliminary results are available, but they need not necessarily describe completed work. An easel will be provided for all posters. All poster abstract submissions must strictly adhere to the formatting guidelines specified below. Submission and Formatting Instructions: Poster submissions should be no more than 2 pages and must follow a double-column format. All figures, appendices, and references must fit within this limit. Paper reviewing is single-blind and submissions should list author names on the front page. Your submission must be in PDF format with all fonts embedded, and be formatted according to the official ACM Proceedings format. Submissions that do not meet the page limit, size, and formatting requirements will not be reviewed. Word and LaTeX templates are available here https://www.acm.org/publications/proceedings-template. Please note that ACM uses 9-pt fonts in all conference proceedings, and the style (both LaTeX and Word) implicitly define the font size to be 9- pt. Acceptance and Presentation Information: At least one author of each accepted poster must register for the conference and present the poster. Important Dates and Submission Link: ● Submission Deadline: September 24, 2022, 11:59:59pm AoE ● Notification of acceptance: October 14, 2022, 11:59:59pm AoE ● Camera-ready abstract: October 20, 2022, 11:59:59pm AoE ● Submission site: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=icdcn23 If you have any questions, please contact the poster chair: Surjya Ghosh (BITS Pilani K K Birla Goa Campus, INDIA: surjya.ghosh(a)gmail.com<mailto:surjya.ghosh@gmail.com>) and Sourav Kanti Addya (NITK Surathkal: souravkaddya(a)nitk.edu.in<mailto:souravkaddya@nitk.edu.in>) -------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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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Spend a Research Sabbatical at the Center for Advanced Internet Studies (CAIS)
by Esther Laufer 08 Sep '22

08 Sep '22

Are you researching the social, political, media-related or cultural effects of digitalization? Do you want more freedom for your project and are interested in interdisciplinary exchange? A fellowship at the Center for Advanced Internet Studies (CAIS) releases you from your regular work obligations and opens up new perspectives. As a fellow, you can spend either six or three months in Bochum, Germany. During this period, we will finance your sabbatical leave from work through compensation (e.g. for a substitute). Alternatively, we will pay grants of up to 2.000 € per month. You can invite guests for collaboration and will receive financial support for research expenses. Individual offices and meeting rooms with modern facilities offer optimal working conditions. In addition, we will provide comfortable apartments free of charge. Become a member of the vibrant interdisciplinary research community at CAIS. Apply until 31 October 2022 for fellowships starting from October 2023. The funding program is open to excellent scholars and practitioners, to all career stages, disciplines and areas of investigation, as well as to pure research and to projects that are more applied in orientation. Find out more athttp://www.cais-research.de/en/cais-college/fellowships/ . Further questions? Please contact esther.laufer(a)cais-research.de mailto:esther.laufer@cais-research.de.

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CfP CSCW2022 Workshop - Ethical Tensions, Norms, and Directions in the Extraction of Online Volunteer Work
by Sohyeon Hwang 07 Sep '22

07 Sep '22

Hello! I am sharing a CfP that I think will be of interest to this research community :) Apologies if you run into this cross-posted elsewhere. We are sharing a CfP for a workshop: "Ethical Tensions, Norms, and > Directions in the Extraction of Online Volunteer Work", to be held Nov 13 > during CSCW 2022 (virtual this year). > > This one-day workshop, broken up into two sessions to accommodate > international participation, will convene to reflect on and interrogate the > relationship between online volunteer work and the industries that rely on > and profit from them. Online volunteer work such as moderating forums and > participating in open source projects not only underpins today’s digital > infrastructures, but also helps companies generate immense profits. > However, there remains a lack of ethical norms around using volunteer labor > for corporate interests, opening opportunities for unchecked extraction of > online volunteer work at scale. Through a series of talks, a panel, and > small group discussions, this workshop makes a call for increased attention > to ethical issues in the extraction of online volunteer work. > > We invite individuals interested in presenting their work to submit a 2-4 > page extended abstract by Sept 21, 2022 to: > https://easychair.org/my/conference?conf=eeovw22 > > Accepted abstracts will be guaranteed a presentation slot. For individuals > interested in attending without presenting, we will later have an > application form (capped at 50 people) on our website so stay tuned! > -- sohyeon hwang www.sohyeonhwang.com Community Data Science Collective <https://communitydata.science/> Media, Technology, and Society <https://communication.northwestern.edu/programs/phd_media_technology_society> Northwestern University

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CFP: Cultural Representations of Machine Vision
by Jill Walker Rettberg 07 Sep '22

07 Sep '22

Call for Papers: Cultural Representations of Machine Vision Editors: Jill Walker Rettberg, Gabriele de Seta, Marianne Gunderson, Linda Kronman, (University of Bergen) The ERC project Machine Vision in Everyday Life<https://www.uib.no/en/machinevision> invites submissions to a collection of papers dedicated to the representation of machine vision technologies in cultural and creative works including fictional narratives, videogames, and artworks. The collection will be published in the Open Library of Humanities or a similar open access journal. As visual technologies are increasingly automated, using machine learning to interpret and generate images, societies around the globe face practical and ethical questions about how machine vision technologies should be implemented, evaluated and governed as they impact people’s everyday life. With their anticipatory and speculative potential, cultural representations of machine vision play a key role in answering these questions. Our premise is that cultural production – including literature, art, cinema, video games, science fiction, memes, fandom and more – is a rich source for understanding the impact of machine vision technologies on society, as well as their potential future trajectory. What can we learn from how machine vision is represented, used and discussed in digital art, video games, novels, movies, TV-series, fan fiction, electronic literature, popular culture, social media content and other aesthetically or culturally expressive genres? The Special Collection welcomes submissions engaging with the project’s dataset on machine vision in 500 creative works<https://doi.org/10.18710/2G0XKN> (see references below) as well as qualitative analyses, close readings and speculative studies of machine vision in fiction, art, games, social media narratives, and other forms of cultural production. Creative contributions such as artworks or short fictions are also welcome. Potential topics include: * Science fictional representations of machine vision * The use of machine vision technologies in contemporary art * Machine vision in videogames, board games or role-playing games * Cross-cultural comparisons of machine vision imaginaries * Corporate science fiction and the marketing of automated vision * Imaginations and figurations of the machine vision user * Surveillance assemblages and surveillant landscapes * Narratives of trust and distrust in machine vision * Machine vision and emotions * Analyses of the Database of Machine Vision in Art, Games and Narrative Submission guidelines: Send your 250-word abstract to jill.walker.rettberg(a)uib.no<mailto:jill.walker.rettberg@uib.no> by 1 October 2022. Invitations to contribute will be delivered by 15 October 2022, and full-length submissions will be due by 15 January 2023. The Open Library for Humanities offers Open Access publishing with no author-facing processing fees, and publishes submissions on a rolling basis as soon as they are accepted, so we are aiming at a speedy publication starting from February/March 2023. References: Contributors are encouraged to engage with the project dataset, available on DataverseNO: Rettberg JW, Kronman L, Solberg R, et al. (2022) A Dataset Documenting Representations of Machine Vision Technologies in Artworks, Games and Narratives. DataverseNO. DOI: 10.18710/2G0XKN<https://doi.org/10.18710/2G0XKN>. More information on the data is available in this Data in Brief article: Rettberg JW, Kronman L, Solberg R, et al. (2022) Representations of Machine Vision Technologies in Artworks, Games and Narratives: Documentation of a Dataset. Data in Brief. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.dib.2022.108319.

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Out now: Internet Histories double special issue 6 (1-2), Dead and Dying Platforms
by Muira McCammon 06 Sep '22

06 Sep '22

Hi, everyone: On behalf of my co-editor, Jessa Lingel, I wanted to share the exciting news that our double special issue on dead-and-dying platforms is now completed and available online. Full details are below. We owe a debt to many people on this listserv, who kindly offered their support in different ways along the way. We began this effort in 2020 <https://twitter.com/muira_mccammon/status/1262510666533023744> and benefited greatly as well from the editorial guidance of Niels Brügger, Ian Milligan, and others belonging to the editorial board at *Internet Histories*. We hope the contents inspire others, who are thinking and writing about endings, technological failure, infrastructural frailty, and the ethics of exhuming the web that was. All my best, Muira *Muira McCammon* *Ph.D. candidate, Annenberg School for Communication, University of Pennsylvania * *M.L., University of Pennsylvania Law School (2020)* *Twitter: @muira_mccammon* *** The journal Internet Histories Volume 6 Issue 1-2 has been completed and is available online. This is a special double issue "Dead and Dying Platforms" by guest editors Muira McCammon & Jessa Lingel. Two articles are Open Access, and one is Free Access for a limited time. The double issue may be accessed here: https://www.tandfonline.com/toc/rint20/6/1-2 < https://www.tandfonline.com/toc/rint20/6/1-2> Contents: Editorial Situating dead-and-dying platforms: technological failure, infrastructural precarity, and digital decline Muira McCammon & Jessa Lingel Interview Dead-and-dying platforms: a roundtable Muira McCammon, Diami Virgilio, Cody Ogden, Kevin Ackermann, Ethan Zuckerman, Robert Gehl, Saima Akhtar, Sultan Al-Azri, Catherine Knight Steele, Amber M. Hamilton, Anat Ben-David, Sarah Wasserman, Sara Namusoga-Kaale & Joy Lisi Rankin Articles Why does a platform die? Diagnosing platform death at Friendster’s end Frances Corry “Tom had us all doing front-end web development”: a nostalgic (re)imagining of Myspace | Open Access Kate M. Miltner & Ysabel Gerrard The four deaths of Couchsurfing and the changing ecology of the web Karolina Mikołajewska-Zając & Attila Márton Porn bans, purges, and rebirths: the biopolitics of platform death in queer fandoms Diana Floegel “Everything on the internet can be saved”: Archive Team, Tumblr and the cultural significance of web archiving | Open Access Jessica Ogden Forgotten passwords and Long-Gone exes: the life and death of Renren Lianrui Jia “They’re describing Yelp in 1992!”: revisiting the Blacksburg Electronic Village Tamara Kneese The rise and fall of MapQuest Rowan Wilken “Yakety yak: Don’t talk back”: An autopsy of anonymity gone awry Kathryn Montalbano r/WatchRedditDie and the politics of reddit’s bans and quarantines Julia R. DeCook A ‘lifetime of indentured servitude:’ rights, labor, and gender anxieties in a dead men’s rights newsgroup Alexis de Coning The death of GeoCities: seeking destruction and platform eulogies in Web archives Katie Mackinnon | Free Access Book Reviews Social Media and the Automatic Production of Memory: Classification, Ranking, and Sorting of the Past by Ben Jacobsen and David Beer, Bristol University Press, Bristol, 2021. Hardcover, pp. 116, ISBN: 978-1-5292-1815-2 Kira Allmann Wikipedia @ 20, stories of an incomplete revolution, edited by joseph reagle and jackie koerner, the MIT press (2020), cambridge, Massachusetts; london, England, U.S. $27.95 Helen Hockx-Yu

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Healthier Information Ecosystems Paper Development Workshop Submission Deadline Extension
by Brian McKernan 06 Sep '22

06 Sep '22

The deadline for submitting abstracts for the Healthier Information Ecosystems Paper Development Workshop has been extended to September 14, 2022. This online paper development workshop will provide an opportunity for those interested in submitting to the “Healthier Information Ecosystems” special issue of the Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology (JASIST) to present their in-progress papers and receive feedback and guidance from the guest editors on how to develop their research into papers suitable for the special issue. For those interested in participating in the workshop, please submit an extended abstract of up to 1,000 words by September 14, 2022 via the following form: https://forms.gle/D4d1TGVKQ6VYca1u7. Participation in the workshop is not required for submissions to the special issue, but we encourage those interested in submitting to the special issue to take advantage of this opportunity and receive feedback prior to submitting papers for consideration in the special issue. To learn more about the workshop and the special issue, please view the full CFP here: https://www.asist.org/2022/08/17/call-for-papers-jasist-special-issue-healt… -- Brian McKernan, Ph.D. Research Assistant Professor School of Information Studies Syracuse University Syracuse, New York 13244

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Post-doc at Oxford on trustworthy AI, law and policy - Oxford Internet Institute - Deadline 27 September
by Brent Mittelstadt 06 Sep '22

06 Sep '22

The Oxford Internet Institute<https://www.oii.ox.ac.uk/> is currently recruiting a postdoctoral researcher<https://my.corehr.com/pls/uoxrecruit/erq_jobspec_version_4.display_form?p_c…> to work on legal and policy aspects of interpretability & fairness in machine learning and AI. You'll be working with Prof Sandra Wachter<https://www.oii.ox.ac.uk/people/profiles/sandra-wachter/>, Prof Brent Mittelstadt<https://www.oii.ox.ac.uk/people/profiles/brent-mittelstadt/>, and Dr. Chris Russell<https://www.oii.ox.ac.uk/people/profiles/chris-russell/> at the University of Oxford on an exciting project on interpretability & fairness in machine learning and AI within our Governance of Emerging Technologies Research Programme<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__www.oii.ox.ac.uk_resea…>. The post is part of an exciting project<https://www.oii.ox.ac.uk/research/projects/trustworthiness-auditing-for-ai/> exploring the legal aspects of trustworthy AI in medicine, healthcare & open science focusing on fairness, accountability & transparency in AI and machine learning, as well as product liability and public sector technology procurement. Application deadline: 12.00 midday (BST) on 27 September 2022. If you have any questions, please do not hesitate to reach out to me (brent.mittelstadt(a)oii.ox.ac.uk<mailto:brent.mittelstadt@oii.ox.ac.uk>) or Prof. Sandra Wachter (sandra.wachter(a)oii.ox.ac.uk<mailto:sandra.wachter@oii.ox.ac.uk>). All the best, Brent --------------------------------------- Prof. Brent Mittelstadt Director of Research Associate Professor and Senior Research Fellow Oxford Internet Institute University of Oxford 1 St. Giles, Oxford, OX1 3JS @b_mittelstadt +44 (0)1865 287221 http://www.oii.ox.ac.uk/people/?id=365 PA: Sophie Cray, pa.sophiecray(a)oii.ox.ac.uk<mailto:pa.sophiecray@oii.ox.ac.uk>

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